true but i think most of these big bullish predictions are be cause of ETF.
it is such a hyped up news that has even made a lot of the big players think it can push the price up ridiculously high like this one prediction here.
although i think it is partly true but i don't think we can see such a huge rise because of it.

well depending on which altcoin you are looking at the charts can be very logical or very confusing. for example there are small altcoins that got pumped and had their bubbles and their dumps also. which means they have come down to their real prices and for about 3 months now they have been rising instead.
but there are big altcoins that had their pump, went in a bubble but never got dumped. the charts of these altcoins is confusing because you see the drop happening but it seems like there are road blocks slowing its speed down drastically.

you can't find any reason for the drop because a small drop doesn't really need a reason. they happen in any market and they are called fluctuations. going from $8000 to $7300 is just a 8% drop, not a big deal and that took a couple of days. and we have not yet broken any major buy support so that is another reason for this not being a big deal.

it seems to me that there are many people who wish the bear market to continue possibly because they either missed the chance to buy cheap coins or they sold too late at the bottom and have lost a lot of money. because i don't really see any valid analysis here! it is just wishes of the author justified by something he calls analysis.

it is not butcoin it is bitcoin and it didn't have a huge drop. it is a small one and we are still above $7k so there is no point in talking about it.

what is next?
same thing as before, more adoption, more people investing in bitcoin and more merchants accepting it, and higher prices as always.
we just need to put ETF behind us  for all that to continue happening.

do a quick search about "what happens when all the bitcoins were mined" and you will find this question which has the same answer as yours has been answered at least once every week for at least the past 3 years.

that is the biggest threat that has been threatening newbies for some time now.
they have been misled into believing that they have missed the chance to invest in bitcoin so their only option is shitcoins. which is why we see so many losses among newbies who invest in these altcoins. because they are not "bitcoin rivals" they are tricks for older members to earn money from newbies.

NANO is one of the projects that i like and i rarely like any altcoins out tehre. but as an investment right now i don't consider any altcoins a good investment in general and NANO is not an exception because they are all getting dumped most of the times and the newbie migration is a real thing these days!

shitcoins do not represent cryptocurrencies that is why they are called shitcoins. no matter how big a market capitalization they have, they will always end up getting dumped hard. and their dumps doesn't mean cryptocurrency is going to end! it just means the life that shitcoin is coming to an end because the pumpers are done with it and want to move on to the next shitcoin to pump.

it seems like they are delaying their decision making as much as they can in a way so that there is at least 1 ETF for rejection per month and at that rate they may be hoping to keep the bitcoin price down with their decisions!

i wonder how long would it take before people wake up and start talking about how pointless it is to wait for SEC to approve something that doesn't need their approval!

no it can not. and your friend was most probably trolling you.

people aren't just going to sell bitcoin (a decentralized currency with scarce supply) just because McDonal coin may be created (a centralized coin with limited usability and unlimited ontrolled supply).

the risks you take in cryptocurrency market doesn't have to be high so you don't have to be a "die hard risk taker" as OP is trying to say.

for example by investing a reasonable amount (not all your life savings) in bitcoin while staying away from altcoins you can benefit from that investment while taking smaller risks.

of course when you want higher risks you go to altcoins and pay the price of that higher risk with bigger losses when they get dumped on you.

2018 has been a very good year so far in my opinion!

we have had the very necessary bitcoin correction which corrected the whole market. bitcoin price corrected and it also helped the pumped shitcoins come down to their more realistic values which is still ongoing since they are mostly overpriced right now.
and also we have had the long awaited opportunity to buy cheaper bitcoins.

practically yes. but there is always a small chance of going lower. i have not forgotten that i am talking about bitcoin and it has certain unpredictability about it.
thinking back to $900 time, the situation was very similar to now. there were some people who kept posting 2013 charts + that famous bubble chart where it shows stages and kept saying $1000-$1200 is the end of the "bull run" that we had so far to that point and price will go down back to $200. then there were others who were posting that logarithmic chart showing the rise and the prediction about $10k by the end of 2017.
the Futures FOMO came in December and when price was nearly $9000 and pushed the price to $20k with its FOMO.

and i am not saying ETF is not going to do anything. i am saying even without it price will rise and even without its hype we would have been nearly where we are now. maybe not $8k but certainly not $6k either.
we had the same rise in April but it failed to break $10k so it came back down. there was no ETF news then.

if ETF is rejected we will see a drop but price will pick up again and go back up. not just because we touched bottom but because bitcoin's survival and growth doesn't rely on ETF...

the real question is, what are you going to do about all these hacking incidents that keep on happening to some exchanges out there?
just being alarmed is not enough anymore. you need to do something. and that can be beginning to move to decentralized exchanges. they won't become any better if you don't start using them. as more people join, these exchanges will grow bigger and have more volume and also the bugs would be found faster and the platforms would become stronger. and eventually we can stop seeing hacks like this.

the answer is no. and nothing else matters, it doesn't matter what "now" is, or what the "market looks like" at that moment, the answer is no. because if you can't answer this question yourself then you shouldn't be buying altcoins in first place. it is like the first rule of investment, you should come up with what to do on your own not rely on others to tell you which altcoin they are bag holding to buy...

nowadays everyone is turning into a bitcoin expert all of a sudden and they insist on giving their opinion about it also which is the weird part because they usually don't know what they are talking about and sites like the on OP is advertising love quoting them and call it "analysis".

i say the reason is the same as before. why did price rise from $900 to $20k from Jan 2017 till January 2018? or why did price went up from $6k to $9k twice before in the past 6 months?

it is the same thing now too. we have reached the bottom price which bitcoin could go and it reversed up.

if price went up with every little news that comes out then bitcoin price should have been at $10 trillion already! because there are lots of news coming out specially during the drop there has been lots of them. and meetings like this aren't going to determine bitcoin price in first place.

all i know is that these ICO review sites were made with making money in mind. not helping people make better choice so they can make money, but instead they create a website so that they can get traffic and earn money, then they can grow big enough so that they can ask money from the ICO scammers to post positive reviews about them. and of course as always to publish positive crap about the coins they have a stake in.