It is always normal for an overbought market to be sold and then this is where you get to see a correction to some extent. The problem with a lot of people is that they tend to not understand how to allow market develop, monitor trend and movement, before either buying or selling a market.

Moreover, you have sold during the run, and you have made some profit, live with that, and do not rush into FOMO as the market is always bound to reverse in most cases to the downside, but in this case, you want to be taking a look at the price actions and if you really do not know how to take note of some of these things, I wonder why you are trading then in the first place without knowledge of what to always do.

A lot of people always love the idea of speculating for no reason. If the market wants to rise, it will rise before or after the hard fork. The thing now is that no one can actually tell how things would turn out and the likelihood of seeing huge bounce before a fork is there, but have you considered what happens after? It is understandable to see people buying in with respect to the fork anyway, but as time goes on, we will most definitely get to see what happens and if peradventure, we get to see a pretty good rise, well, it is still not a bad thing for most of us that have been holding the dips all along.

No one can actually tell exactly how far the Siacoin market would go before then, but really, I would not be surprised to see some pretty huge rise anyway, and most especially if the condition of the market favors it. Whichever way, I guess the only thing we can do now is to see the way the market would be moving in the short term before then, and possibly a dump after the fork as the case may be, but for what it is worth, it is still a good hold for one of the coins with great potentials in the long run.

I still can't believe how lucky we are to have this crypto currency world in our lives. Some people have lost money because they were investing at the wrong time and I am really sorry about that but in general if you look at the fact that bitcoin was introduced as electronic money instead of "investment option for you to make more fiat" than you can see that the ones who use bitcoin as a payment option instead of investment option are the ones who always win.

I am really grateful for satoshi to give us this amazing new currency that became global and helped us connect to each other in a massive economic scale and ever since he started all of this we have been really a big huge nation together and even doing much better than most others. We are still dealing with somet troubles but 10 years is so new, hopefully many more decades to come!

2020 seems like it will be a big year for bitcoin and cryptocurrency. With the halving and the upcoming ETF decisions and improvements that keep saying "180 million dollar was sent for 5 cents" type of stuff and now this, we are going to have a really bright future. The longer we wait and hold the better crypto gets.

If we actually manage to wait out a bit more the next 2 years will be amazing for all of us, it will create a huge wave of new interested people and we will become probably more than a trillion dollars in market cap easily and possible even reach to 2 trillion dollars in market cap which would be a great threshold. All we need is time and hope that all these amazing news actually have the reaction on the price as we hope it should. If it does, we are going to be doing amazing in 2 years, if not, well I don't know about that part but I hope it won't be too bad.

Even though we can't really ever know what the market will do and if the bear is over or bull is coming I still kind of agree with this sentiment. First of all I agree because we haven't been in a bear market for over 5 months now, bear market means the prices going down and for the past 5 months the prices haven't fallen down, it has stayed the same and even increased a bit time to time but never really fell down.

It means "bear market" is already over to me. Second reason is that after a bear market when a stagnant market comes than usually a bull market follows, it rarely ever goes from bear to stable to bear, it almost always goes bear to stable to bull. Which tells me that the prices must go up for the next movement whenever that is. I am optimist about the future of bitcoin, I feel like it will be at least x5 by 2020.

Thank me later : 2019 will be one of the best years bitcoin's life .

It all depends on what you want and where you live. If you want to trade on hundreds of coins than I would suggest binance because it is the biggest exchange that allows that type of trading and it has proved that it is a greatly secured trustworthy website that you can use without a worry, there you can buy and sell any coin you want and honestly if the coin you want to trade is not there it is probably not a big important coin anyway.

If you want to trade from fiat to crypto or vice versa I could suggest coinbase for Americans, it is one of the known ones in fiat to crypto exchange world and it has been the unicorn of crypto world in silicon valley even opened a new office in Ireland probably for tax reasons. However if you are not from USA I am pretty sure you have a website in your country that allows you to sell bitcoin easily to your own fiat and even if not you can use localbitcoin to exchange.

I prefer during the day, because when you do something at around afternoon hours you are getting a risk, you are betting that when everyone comes from their work you are going to see a rise in the trade. Of course, this is for my own countries national exchange, it is purely fiat to crypto and doesn't really work out on places like binance where you can trade hundreds of coins and everyone around the world can also use which would result with all kinds of time zones.

Since, I do this on my own national currency it is much easier, I just buy at around afternoon and when people comeback home they either buy as well which will make me profit or they will sell which will make me lose. It is a bet you have to really care about and know for sure or at least hope it would. I do not think it has any backing, I just made this up but it has worked more than not.

Whales are the biggest cause. The price falls down when more people sell than the number of people who buy.
For that to happen we need to have couple stuff, when for example whales buy shorts they need the price to go down which means we will have the price going down from all the pressure sell from whales.

Another one is miners, miners do sell their coins to cover the expenses and frankly just take more profit however if they stopped selling the price would go up. This is the reason why people believe during 2020 halving the price will be really high because miners will not be making that much money. Basically if the sellers have a reason to sell than the price will go down, if we can keep the sellers from selling for a reason than we can get the price higher.

I have always defended that the token should have not been used for so long. I think tether was printed out of thin air and spent on buying coins creating a false pump and than was sold by people to create a cushion for them to fall back down to with their printed tether.

What is the purpose of it when we are trying to run away from the central banks that print money out of thin air and make certain people richer, tether is absolutely the same.

There is no logic that we can accept the fact that we are using bitcoin because it is decentralized and running away from the fiat currency where only some people become rich whereas we will create our own USDT that makes couple people rich from printing it ? That is stupid and I am really glad people are getting out of tether and moving back to bitcoin for their exchanges.

The thing with this world that we are in today is that people are too lazy mentally, emotionally, and every -ally you can think of.

It is still the same thing we are seeing even in the crypto space today as people want to get rich but they do not want to work, they do not want to learn and they do not want to know. That is something pretty bad.

Money don't just drop from the sky, people need to learn to be creative. Sometimes, all you need is just to create something, and you will be amazed as how that little thing can bring about some good stuff for you. But like I said, people are too lazy to do that, which is the reason why we have few rich ones anyway.

If it is about usage, even bitcoin as it is now is already being used globally as long as it is not only limited to one country alone. I am sure what the OP is trying to point out is having a single unified currency that everyone in the whole world is making use of without an alternative. That is one thing I believe it would be hard to come by as far as I am concerned.

Just like you said in the last sentence, when we do not even speak the same language globally, a lot of countries are independent of each other and can make their own decisions, I wonder how that would really work out to come together to have something in common such as a unified currency.

It is not even the worst value at all. People tend to say whatever they simply want to say just because they have some level of thinking with which they are looking for ways to get rich fast and does not even understand how a market works in most cases.

One thing they do not understand is that this is not the first time there would be a huge market correction after being over sold, and this would not be the last time, and in fact as old as stock market is, correction is still ongoing, so what makes the cryptocurrency market any different.

Yes, not everyone understands that since we have a lot of novice in the market, but at least people should know the essence here is to be picking the bottom, because the same way that a bull market usually do not last before a correction is the same way a bear market will always switch back to an uptrend at some point.

Spectrecoin has been really trying hard to make a name for itself in the privacy coin market, there has been some stuff like monero that has been in the market for a long time and they have been making a killing from it however spectre has been too idle for too long which caused the price to drop a lot and the volume to be really low.

More or less, right now with the newsletter they stated they will be working towards hiring a development team and a marketing agency, with the upcoming new features and new improvements plus the marketing agency getting their names heard I am really hoping it to go up.

Plus, gvt has been staying high for a while now, it was just 8k satoshi recently and now it is around 19k levels and even with the recent bitcoin increase where almost all coins dropped in price GVT stayed high which tells great thinks for an altcoin.

For what it is worth and the way things are going now, I would not be surprised at the way things are beginning to change pretty fast which makes me believe that the possibility of seeing those era pop in is there.

We have been seeing news lately about the ETF, the idea behind Bakkt and so many more, shows the fact that the big institutions want to have a huge part to play in this space, and once you see the market becoming a regulated environment in which investors feel the ease to want to invest, the more you will understand that growth is something definite and why you will want to invest no matter how little you think you are investing now.

Alot of people are actually expecting some optimistic move before the end of the year, and probably, we may end up getting to see some possible move upward with a lot of it depending on how bitcoin gets to move anyway. Most of the markets are consolidating at the moment, and what we are all waiting for is to see how things would pan out before the year runs out. I am optimistic, a lot of traders and investors are optimistic, but we only need the bulls to really make some statement at this point in time now and then we will very much see participation in the market.

Well, the likelihood of having a huge rally for altcoins may be there, but I am not sure if this is something we may get to see with bitcoin. I may be wrong, but at this point, all I just want to see is to see bitcoin break out upward as this would give the altcoins chance to breathe and do well in the market as we keep seeing a huge growth in a whole lot of them. How far they get is only something we will just have to wait and see. However, it is, ETH among other altcoins, have greater chance of growing and hitting its previous ATH, but time will tell how things would end up eventually.

I wouldn't have guess I would miss even $7k prices at this point but the price has been incredibly boring for the longest time and people are getting out of bitcoin and into other sutff because the price of bitcoin has been really stable and people are yearning for a bull run. However, I believe as soon as there is a legit price change and the people see the price breaking $7k - $8k - $9k and so forth levels one by one they will come back and what happens when everyone joins into it once again ?

The price starts to go high faster. That's what happened when going to $20k, when it was going from $3k to $4k it was harder but once the price reached like $8k than everyone started to buy thinking they are missing out on a great chance and the price jumped to $20k easier than it went from $3k to $4k. Which means price may hit $7k-$8k or whatever now but may go down however if it reaches 10-11 type of levels than I am sure its going to get easier to jump in price.

There has been a lot of good news and not just recently but as far as couple months now.

All the talks about ETF getting "rejected" is actually a plus for us. Nobody realizes this but the news stations made news about how bitcoin was a drug money and the dangerous type of people and hackers and people who hire killers used bitcoin and all that bad news, right now even with a "rejection" the ETF proves that bitcoin is becoming more of a common thing than those people thought it would.

It is a legit investment option. There has been more and more real financial institutes getting into bitcoin, back in the day only "financial institute" we had was winklevoss twins, right now there are trillions of dollars worth of hedge funds getting into bitcoin.

Hence, if you think there has been couple good news recently you are wrong, there has been A TON of good news recently. It will take time but it is going green again, I can see it.

We are in an age where people are so much in a haste to start making money and would not want to go through the proper channel of learning and once they do so, the chances of failing is definite as there is absolutely no way they can hide from it.

Trading is complex and you cannot finish learning in a whole day and even professional traders are still learning every single day which is what makes them successful. After learning, it is always a necessary thing to try out your skills, take your time to be sure you are ready for the real market and that is how you are able to overcome any emotional reaction when it comes to trading the market.

Failure is something that can happen most of the time to a whole lot of people, but what you do after failing is what counts the most. Do you end up failing and backing out immediately, or do you pick up from your mistakes, learn from it and get better over time. This is something that makes the difference between someone that ended up doing well in the long run and someone who did not.

Absolutely, learning phase is actually one of the things that we really take for granted most of the time in our early days of trading. Sometimes we tend to do some rush learning just because we simply want to end up taking advantage of the market quickly to start making money, and instead we ended up seeing things the other way round and quickly getting frustrated.

Trading cryptocurrency and making profit from it, requires, knowledge, skills, confidence in those skills and discipline and if all these things are lacking, it would be a hard thing to ever come by profit and if you do not end up getting to learn the hard way, you may just chicken out and consider trading not to be your thing.

Yeah, it is not cheap and that also involves having to raise a family. About marriages, it is the fact that you have to be prepared and you have to know it is an institution you are getting into which is meant to be a lifetime, even though some now have avenues of easily dropping out in some part of the world and see divorce as nothing.

Nevertheless, it is all about you knowing you can provide for all the things necessary. I have seen young couples marry and do well in the long run and they were able to quickly grow together and I have seen even old ones who married late for some reasons, still not doing well. So it is not really by age as long as you are old enough to make decisions on your own, and you have a clear thought about the decision you are making.