For someone with such a limited time to trade and monitor the situation of things, the best is to just hold and come back later on or based on the news in the market to check his trade.

Secondly, irrespective of the time frame, there is no way anyone can do well in trading without at least some knowledge of technical analysis. This is the only way one can make quality decision and is able to get the best of the market; otherwise, people like the OP will keep buying at the top thinking it is the dip.

It is no longer a suspicion, as it is glaring unless for those who have decided not to see it.
This market has been behaving in different ways lately that is definitely subject to manipulation and from all the characteristics of a manipulated market, I am sure whoever is smart or vigilant enough to notice would have noticed.

I have never been a fan of regulation but it seems we just cannot do without it as this would help with huge growth and diminish all these form of market manipulations.

Yeah, that would really be a very bad decision as it is not even a good thing to start selling when you should be buying. The idea is always to do the opposite of what others are doing. We are in a bear market and I see bear markets as bonus time to stash up for the future and when that future comes and we get to see the FOMO, then we may actually consider that as sweet time to sell. For now, I believe we are in a time to buy up rather than opt out.

Sometimes, I actually use ICOBench as a guide to see some new ICOs on the block but that is it as I do not make use of their platform to make final decisions whatsoever since I can no longer trust it. However, you cannot know which ICO platform is going to be giving you a certain amount of profit in short term and it is better you just focus straight on the long term of whatever you are investing in.

If you want to invest in real ICOs with working product, then do your own diligence, use some of the rating platform as a guide to filter out the ICOs you want to do research on and DYOR.

Bithumb is being professional pretty fast about this since they are working the means of giving what has been stolen back to users from their reserve. It is not really something too much for an exchange of that capacity anyway, so let's hope this will be sorted out.

In the case of the news creating huge FUD, it is going to be hard to tell even though we go down now since the market is forming a bear flag anyway and technically, there is a huge chance of going down the more even without this news coming into play in the first place.

Regulation itself will not reduce volatility as it will still remain a decentralized market, but it would usher in some policies that would help to curb some activities that can at least limit some of the things we get to see today. Some of those things such as scam, manipulations, and all sort of things, will start diminishing.

Plus, for most part of it, it will then become pretty easy for a lot of investors to see it as a space they can at least invest in without any fear or doubt of the future.

Anyone who does not even believe that at the moment is obviously not ready to invest. This is a currency that has shown it to have a great support and a real life value and even though it is not being used to its fullest, that does not mean it is not there or it won't still end up being used.

As long as this is in play, there is nothing to worry about in the short term and the focus on the long term will it even make it so easy when investing in the dips that the market brings.

Well we all know as someone is getting disadvantaged, someone is getting the advantage and that brings me to the question of who has the greatest advantage in this whole picture  .

Yes in a way, it helps the economy but in another sense, how about those who are getting ruined in the process ?
I feel we are tending to overlook what it brings and discarding the number of people that is has turned penniless and a liability to the government itself unless of course the government is happy about that.

It would surely grow but why are you happy for the statement? The fact remains that those who own the gambling platforms are the ones making the money and its growth will definitely product more level of insanity in the long run because people tend to do it for the wrong reasons.

Gambling should be fun or attached to things you see as fun, rather than focusing entirely on the winning. Sports betting for instance make you do your thing by analyzing matches and believing in possibilities of seeing your prediction come to play which sometimes you can use that prediction to make yourself some bucks without having to experience any tag down by the government whatsoever.

Yes, it is always written boldly on the wall when a project is a scam and when a project is a great one. You have said it all, and most especially for me, I focus more on the team first as with that alone, you can quickly deduce all you need to know about the project authenticity and prospect before even deciding to go through all the technicalities which sometimes can be boring.

Give me a good team and a good product to invest in, and that is all that it takes. If those things are not available then staying away from ICO contribution and bounty participation is highly recommended. Instead of wasting our resources with random projects, just staying away and watching for a complete package must be a wise idea to be followed by all the crypto hunters.

As long as you have been able to buy at a very good value and you are holding a very solid coin from a good project, then long time holding is not a bad idea, but at the same time, rather than holding, over the years, I have noticed there is always season for altcoins to grow hugely which makes it a very good time to also know when to be out of them to take advantage of their volatility instead of just holding for so many years when you would have make so much more or acquire more position trading them.

If you start studying how traders are making money compared to the long term holder, I am sure only those long term holders must be making more returns for their investment. The living proof must be Mr. Satoshi Nakamotto and his one million bitcoin holding. Do we need any other example to show the power of long term holding ?

Where are the thousands of bots or you just felt like saying something ?
This is one platform that makes it so easy for the team to easily detect bots and they do not even take it with levity as they blacklist the social media account immediately. Also, this is an automated platform and if you have really used it, then you will know better how transparent they are which is by far better than other platforms such as bounty hive. At least get your facts straight first before condemning a good platform.

They definitely will as none of them will want to lag behind. Cryptocurrencies will enforce the human in the future to adopt it or die hard. I guess in some industry it is already happening. Some industries not at all accepting fiats, to transact with them, we must need digital way of payments alone.

Moreover, I am not sure there is any government that is totally against blockchain technology as a whole bunch of them actually see it as the future, but what a lot of them are against is the idea of decentralization that cryptocurrency brings which brought about the ban and even at that, a time will come when they will not have a choice than to mainly accept it anyway as the market keeps growing and evolving and they see they are missing great opportunities to benefit from it.

Is it that simple to follow. Probably you are misguiding innocent newbies/traders. Because finding smaller coins which are currently being pumped is not a simple task for anyone. People may sell easily their big coins but moving those investment into currently hot coins is the task where they may get struck. I never recommend any one to get into smaller shitcoins. It is highly riskier than anything else.

A perfect plan for downmarket must be, simply holding what we are already having and buying more those highly established coins for cheaper prices. Buying more and continuing holding those big coins will not hurt anyone. But it definitely will fetch them big profits when market will be finding up-market.

Be very careful when looking at reviews though because most of them are paid reviews and most of those doing those review usually do not care about you even if they know the information they are dishing out is false as long as they have been paid for it. It is the world we are living in, where some people will have to think about themselves first without taking a look at the community or those around them. The best is just to know how to do some due diligence on your own so you do not get caught up in a scam project. One another way must be not depending on only project but participating into multiple bounties also will help anyone not to get disappointments.

That depends if the token you are trying to sell is on any of the exchanges. The first thing to do is to find where the token is listed and be sure it is a reputable exchange so you do not end up jeopardizing your investment by sending to a shit exchange and that can easily be found on coinmarketcap. As long as it is in a market, then it is just to open an account on such exchange and send it straight there for any other transaction you want to make.

Other than exchanges, we may buy and sell tokens and coins within our community. Because, it will be an easier and decentralized way of dealing but people look for quicker exchange that is the reason they are not going for such transaction. Only not-listed coins/tokens are being transacted through this forum as of now.

Losing money with ICOs is actually very rare except if you ended up investing in ICOs that sucks with no real life value or product. I have had several successful ICOs from last year and not much from this year due to the downtrend we have experienced for a short while now which I believe will not last for long anyway.

As long as you can have the patience attribute and you are able to know how to play your card pretty well when there is a bull rally for most of the alts with your ICO involved, then it is a sure thing to always get the best from them. In recent times, my contribution with medical transaction token ICO have paid me off very handsome amount of returns. But, honestly it must be once an year kind of opportunity.

At that stage, the only thing left is actually patience or simply if you are holding a shit coin during those time, find a way to sell it and then get into a much better coin to at least be certain you are going to end up getting the best from the profit when the market recovers at the end of the day. It is always better to either know what to do as a trader to stop losses or to at least see how to get an upper hand in the market during times like this and in cases where I have already missed a good stop loss opportunity, I simply buy more when the market is showing sign of uptrend at a huge dip.

Obviously when it comes to store of value, we all know fiat is the last place you want to be keeping your funds at all as we all know how that has been over the years in the case of fiat itself losing so much value. Gold and silver have always been the best store of value over the years and pretty secured when it at least comes to not having to sweat in your pants wondering what is happening to your asset.

Banks should be the last place you want to be storing your cash for a long time and it is either you are investing it in other stuff, or at least invest in gold. I guess wise people have forgot gold and silver to get good returns as they are all must be engaging with cryptos.

Being smart actually covers it all because only those who are smart will know they need to read first to be able to master the art of trading well and also those who are smart will know that even after reading, they need to start practicing with so little until they are very sure they are emotionally ready for trading with a bigger amount which a lot of trader always skip all in the name of quickly hitting big bucks.

Losing is part of the trade but not profiting more and losing a little less is what makes one a good trader. mastering the trading will be feasible for anyone when they look for opportunities to learn on their failures. It means we should not repeat the same mistake at the same time, we should foresee things to avoid similar mistakes too.