Almost every crypto investor is feeling the heat my friend, and I must say that it is not looking good for some altcoins in my arsenal now, they are losing, while those that were bought at a very low level have dropped some sizable profits that are not comfortable truly. Had it been it was another asset class, I would have managed them better because I always know when the market is making a retracement or reversal. But the fact that we are still in the long-term bull run was why I left them with a high level of doubts though. I will continue to look at the situation, however, if the truly cryptocurrency stands true to its past, the true bearish season should start in 2025, this one is just a peripheral.

And yes, buying the dip could be a very good idea and will help you to make more money in the end. But we should pray that everything works fine, otherwise, it will be an issue. Also, the chart is the best to tell us when this selling will stop, and when the time comes, we will all know just like now (bullish time). As for the altcoin season, I hope such a thing still exists in the crypto world, things are changing, and I hope it doesn't include that.

Hahaha...Your advice is so funny to me and it is highly unprofessional, to say the least. Are you telling me that we should buy Bitcoin at both favourable and unfotable prices? That's the way I see it with your advice. If I may ask you, do you know the reason why Bitcoin has not pushed its current ATH of about $73,850 through ever since despite the high adoption and awareness about it? The reason is simple, the high net worth individuals and companies that will commit their money to it at a very high level are rare.

This is because it is risky at this time and it is against their principle of investment, which is very reasonable. You see, investment has its own guidelines and principles for effective productivity so we should not due to Bitcoin ignore it. If we did, then it may become an issue over time. Fine, Bitcoin might have reached a very high price in the next 10 years, but how sure are you? This is why we need to be cautious no matter how we are trusting about it. For this, continuous buying of Bitcoin at any price as you said is so faulty, however, what I know in investment is DCA, and if done rightly, we will not regret it. But this should not be done without extra viable plans.

First, the blogger who wrote that Bitcoin may drop to $60,000 could be right, at least, the speculation is within a reasonable range. But you should know that this is a speculation, it is not necessarily going to be so, and the same goes for anyone advising you here, no one is perfect about this.

That said, Bitcoin is bearish in trend now and might move lower truly unless there's a bullish hope. However, the bullish hope can only start if Bitcoin can claim back a bullish price action on at least the 4H and 1D charts, but unfortunately, that is not forthcoming yet. Also, I see more trouble for the coin with the TrendMagic indicator changing negatively on the daily chart, and so long as Bitcoin holds below the resistance of the indicator at $68,678, it may fall further.

Furthermore, in a bid to calm some nerves, I can see strong 1W support levels at $62,120 and $59,940. Let's see how it goes!

If you are looking for the best trading strategies, I advise you not to go for indicators that will be pointing towards the trend of the market directly in one way or the other, but go for the ones that will reveal the market pattern or act as support and resistance. In addition, a simple price action goes a long way in delivering the best results to traders but will do better if such can be combined with support and resistance strategies.

By using the trendline, Fibonacci, Elliot waves theory and many more, I am sure that the trader can't miss anything here. Notwithstanding, no trader should rely on their trading strategy alone but also on a very good risk-to-reward ratio.

That's true, the DCA strategy has lived for so long in the world of investment and it can't fail unless the asset itself fails. It is summarily a means to average the income of the investor by averaging the striking price, but in the end, this can't amount to regret because, during the investment, some will be missed at a best favourable price, while many others will be saved at the best favourable price, which is reasonable in all ramifications.

Nonetheless, I do not support this strategy at all times, and anytime the market has fallen so well to the point that you feel sorry for it...lol, you can commit your money to it without thinking twice. You will only miss out on a great opportunity by DCAing at that time. However, if the price of the market has risen to some doubtful level, yes, that is the right time to DCA to make sure that you do not lose/miss much due to FUD.

Bro, there is no shame on you, stop that! Let me tell you this, no one is perfect in the world of speculation and gambling, and many who you thought were the heroes of earning in trading and investment could at times do that due to guesswork, gambling and daring. However, this is all about risks, so no need to curse ourselves just for missing an opportunity, another may come next time. But still, be careful as it may not play the same way and that is when you will know the beauty of being careful which you thought was a shame.

What if you left Notcoin and now the $40 is $4, how will you feel? Do you think this is not happening? Oh, boy, it happens daily. It is the missed opportunity we often talk about, we don't appreciate the missed causality.

There is no guarantee in that, which is why you will always see some stablecoins quoting a little less than the value of a USD or a little higher than the value of a USD. Most claim that they have their stablecoin backed by the USD, but this is truly not so, and it is due to many factors including their selfish gain in rate manipulation and what you just explained above.

I can only believe that a Stablecoin will always be equal to $1 if the stablecoin has its own blockchain and is truly backed by the USD.

As per your query, Bitcoin is good but not perfect and I have written about many reasons why Bitcoin should be careful of it over time. Just like any other asset, we have to be the friend of our trading chart for the most effectual guide and not rely on the past histories as you claimed, it will NEVER, I repeat, it will NEVER continue to replicate it. If Bitcoin replicates history all the time, then it is useless, because it is a very good reason to say that it is not dynamic. The dynamism of thing is a very good characteristic of all assets listed in the financial market, this is why they are not always predictable.

Fine, in the past, Bitcoin had some high degree of replications of its history in cycles, yet, are you not sensing that things are changing? Look at what happened in the later part of 2023 to till March 2024, had it ever been witnessed in the history of the market where it would have such a huge movement in just some months to halving? A situation that made it hit its former ATH of about $69,000 and even moved past it to settle at about $73,850, which it has not been able to reach again even after the halving.

Also, a very good consideration is that all the time that Bitcoin was buying in multiples and replicating the past histories in cycles, don't you think that the price was still low? Which is also applicable to its liquidity. By then, it has fewer adopters compared to the present statistics, most people have already known it, so who are the new adopters (in millions) to push it higher so significantly in a short time? If at all Bitcoin will rise so well, it will take time.

Besides, in the past, whales with a few million bucks might buy it and go to social media and talk of it, and by that, many followers would do as he said as well which often caused the market to move as they predicted (manipulation). But that is gone. This can only continue with a thin liquidity market and not what Bitcoin represents now. An end has come to such bullish speculation without a basis for it, and this is particularly true as the market is now being controlled by institutional money and not the so-called whales. If at all, they (institutions) are interested in buying Bitcoin, they would have bought it very low, that's the way they operate. It's risky for them to buy it high, so where is the liquidity coming from to push Bitcoin so high in a short space of time? I really don't have confidence in that.

Notwithstanding, these are my personal views, they are not automatic things that will happen.

To be honest, Bitcointalk made me adopt Bitcoin eventually and it was possible because of the earning opportunity of the coin. I've known Bitcoin since 2013 (if I remember correctly), but I never adopted it then. By adoption, I mean buying and keeping it. But for usage, yes, I used it since then or a year after. But it was all about the buying and selling of the coin so that I could deposit it where it was accepted and withdraw it when needed.

However, Bitcointalk changed the narrative in 2022 when I started buying and HODLing it.

I stayed because the earning expectation which I adopted the coin for is positive.

It is not flawed my friend but a well-thought-out point. Fine, Windows Defender and others from other operating systems can be viable, but I've seen many flaws when researching them. Needless to say, good anti-virus these days do more than the work of antivirus as the name denotes but also have the function of VPN and many more. Some will be light in such a way that the casino will know it is an antivirus, but will protect your identity which could be the reason why some people are using VPN, even if they do not want to use the VPN for obvious reasons.

Wait a minute, if we are sincere to ourselves, you who are using a VPN to secure your identity with a casino but have registered and completed the KYC with, what are you still securing? In this case, no need to protect who you are from them with a VPN anymore. Thus, the antivirus can do the remaining protection for you if need be to avoid the VPN issue with the casino.

It's clear you understand what I wrote and I must say also that I understand the extra you added to it. Giving some of the casinos that advertise here or that are active on the forum in one way or another the benefits of the doubt is a very good way to go by. It has guided many and will continue to do so because this is where you can get the most unbiased review of casinos and sportsbooks better than anywhere on the internet.

Nonetheless, one should be very careful because we've seen good casinos/sportsbooks that later turned bad, also in some cases, the casinos/sportsbooks will not turn bad as such but a certain user will still fall victim of certain interests. One or two of what is causing that is when the player is doing so well with the establishment or trying to withdraw his money, which in most cases is big enough to make some less liquid casinos/sportsbooks greedy.

What am I saying? We should not use the advertisement here as a yardstick for an entire endorsement, there must be some factors of safety where thorough research by the person is needed.

Honestly, I don't have. I won't pretend I know it all like others since it is difficult to know what the market is saying, otherwise, I will be gambling. Nevertheless, what I can say is that NEAR is a very good coin with good prospects in the future, and judging by the old and recent performances, I believe it will still rise so well. Give or take, if the entire cryptocurrency market could still perform brilliantly well before the end of the H2 of 2025, it might still achieve over 5-7 of its current price of 4.8+.

It's also favourable for the buyers now since it has retraced sizably. I prefer buying it cheap now for it could soon start rising again if a viable support is reached or a true bullish reversal is activated.

Stupidity could be truly fitting for what some governments of many nations are doing, but to what end? If not poverty, corruption, no regard for the rule of law, control of court, laggingness and worse. For this, it pains me with what is happening in those countries. That is what we all have to pay for selecting the wrong leaders for such sensitive positions.

However, the clandestinity relating to cryptocurrency did not just start today and crypto by most nature also naturally gives room to that, it is the government that needs to be up and doing in this regard. But instead for many countries of the world to beat the technology or catch up with it, they will either turn a blind eye, clamp down on it or underregulate if at all they want to regulate. This is wrong and with this approach, there is no way those operating online won't be cheating the government.

Now, cheating aside, there should be some rules that will make everyone accountable (casinos/sportsbooks and customers). But depositing using physical cash, cryptocurrency and other online alternatives without strict regulation like what the central banks do with banks, then they are only wasting their time. The governneet may only see what the casino/sportsbook wants them to see. And it gets worse elsewhere where the governmenet official will take bribe to look away. That is the world we live in.

I know it is difficult to side with the continuous keeping of one's money in the gambling account or waging it after winnings, this could cause some losses and it could be painful. But if I were anyone, I would remain fervent in my betting if it were to be on the sports games, it is on the casino betting that I have that reservation. This is because you will always rely mostly on luck in casino games and no matter how good you think you are, you might only realise that you were deceiving yourself when all the money is gone. This is more reason why I have resolved to have fun with casino betting and have a real business with sports betting.

Talking about sports betting, unless I do not trust the sportsbooks am using, there is nothing pursuing me to warrant withdrawing my money so fast. The money may be in the account for more than 6 months and I will continue utilizing it. The times I like to withdraw from my sports betting account are when I just feel like I want to have the taste of the money I have been gambling with for this long, or I want to deposit into a new gambling account, or I just have a need for money that I wanted to take from an extra purse which is passive rather than the main to avoiding feeling wasteful. This is the beauty of it, and with this approach alone, I do not have any pressure gambling at all. Thanks to extra income.

Regardless of my own approach, if your emotions cannot take it, please withdraw your money immediately after winning.

Although I don't speak for all, as always, in this forum as a community, you will always find the good, bad and ugly bettors, so the answers to expect will reflect the same.

Regardless, whether we are using percentages to measure it or wager randomly, what matters is for us to avoid gambling addiction and be so responsible in our finances. That said, my answer in this context is No and Yes, and I don't intend to change that any time soon. This is because it is not by using any percentage to judge it perfectly but for me to only gamble with a plan. And for me, my plan varies and this mainly depends on whether I am betting on sports or casinos.

Besides, insomuch the amount is affordable by me, I gamble it in a way that will not hurt me if I lose. I could be fixed or random about it but will ensure that I keep to a reasonable budget and management based on the plan I opted for at that time.

Betting against the club I support is the easiest thing for me to do and I will do it again. It's your choice to add sentiments to your gambling, but in real gambling, it is certainly not about sentiment, so you dissociate yourself from the love, bias, or affiliation whatsoever so that they will not cloud your judgment. The truth is that when it is "betting," you are actually committing your money to it, do you want to lose your money for sentiment/love's sake? That is the truth. For this, those who are taking betting seriously will never think twice about betting against their clubs when it is obvious that the opponent will win. This is unless you just want to lose deliberately which I do not see much wisdom him.

As for an employee as well, the same thing applies and I do not think it has anything to do with the work over there. I can be judged by my conscience only if I am being paid but not delivering what I was paying for. But so far I bet by using my money, our contract has nothing to do with betting on you or not, it is now my money. Well, in the end, if this guy sues the club for reinstatement or damages, I don't think the club will win because they do not have the solid ground to sack him under the law. It's his money so he can use it the way he wants and he is not responsible for the poor performance of the club which they refused to change for years.

Truly, you may be hearing people saying they are gambling for fun, but in practice, only a few of them are actually doing it, others are merely lying. This is because they would say they were gambling for fun but their ways of gambling will not support that. This is why I do not believe all that I read unless there is an iota of truth through the construction of their claims.

For me, no one will gamble for fun and will be wagering so hugely, even your example of having $10,000 and gambling with $1,000 is too expensive, the risk is too much my friend and this can still ruin the fun. Just think about it, if someone has the $10,000 and risked the $1,000, if the person loses, don't you think he will try again to recover the money? We are humans. Through this, it may get worse to the point that he could try it 3 good times and lose the money.

This means that he would have gambled $3,000 with this risk. So it is still risky. The best way to gamble for fun is to have the $10,000 and wager between $5 and $10 per bet. By this, you are wagering with the amount that means nothing to you so it will never be able to ruin the fun.

Thank goodness that you mentioned the violation of the terms and conditions. If this is truly the case, then the casino is exonerated here, but in most cases, when scam or cheating is mentioned, the casinos could deliberately do it. And if we are talking about the terms and conditions, you should know that it is only binding when the gambler signs up for such. However, when it is updated, there are extant rules that could bind the updated ones which include the receipt of the same by the gambler upon the update or the continued usage of their service.

But still, it's subject to the acknowledgement by the gambler that he has read the updated version, so it is not as automatic as you guys often thought. Only that many are not taking it up with casinos, which is why they continue to cheat them with some updated Ts&Cs without their knowledge, and anything that is not recognised by the law could technically be a scam.

For this, what you said is highly relative.

I love your encouragement and I've shared it many times and still sharing the same with challenged traders, but the truth is that if we share it from now till eternity, most traders, or should I call them most attempted traders will fail. It is good to motivate but to actually preserve the motivation into actualization is the issue. Trading is very risky and the market is cunning, so it is not something that fits the same approach all the time. This is why I advise people that they should be dynamic just the way the market is dynamic. Thinking you can use the same approach for the same result all the time may not always work.

I've been trading for 20 years (that's if the demo trading years are added), but I tell you, my brother, there are still scary moments in my trading till today. Although, overall, I am positive and I can vouch for a very high winning percentage, nevertheless, it is not on a platter of gold, how many people can withstand that?

I must also commend the psychological part you tried to motivate them upon, because the issue with it is the reason why many traders are losing. Most traders are busy focusing and trying to better their trading strategies but the issues may not lie there. The issue could be psychological, managerial or lack of proper coordination ( plan). If one or some of these are the case, no amount of strategy building will help such a trader. Above all, trading is so challenging, it requires huge preparedness, wisdom and smartness to overcome.

@Charles-Tim...hahaha, this is so funny, many are falling victim to what we see as little as this, and if the casino can't simply say the truth about being centralised or decentralised, how can anyone trust them with their money? I hope people can run for their money to avoid coming back later to cry foul. Seeing the site itself and how it operates shows it is centralised.

@PX-Z, I hope you are not falling so fast for their KYC exception, if you do, they might do you some film tricks. This is why I do tell people, to let the casino in which they will be relaxed with to be a no-KYC casino and not the one that doesn't preach it but states it only in the terms
and conditions. Little time, they will ask you for it if you are doing really well with them or you want to withdraw a sizable amount of money. Even no-KYC casinos may still later ask for it, we've seen instances like that not to talk of the ones like this.