Well, we can as well just consider last year as the year of ICO boom, all because a lot of newbies hit the market, some really had no understanding of how to even deal with the market and they just started buying everything they see because they wanted to get rich, which is something we are beginning to see differently right now.

For now, even though we have some that will never learn, a lot of people have, and because of that, they have either mellowed when it comes to investing in ICOs, or probably now know what to look out for before deciding to put their funds into it. If it is not worth investing, then there is no need risking it.

I would say the thing for me is that a lot of my perspective when it comes to the financial institution, exposure to how things have been done in the past, and the rate at which I have been liberated and looking forward to more liberation when it comes to spending, storing value and so many other things that banks could not offer, has really been a sweet experience for me in the crypto space.

I do not even want to start with the idea of even earning some things passively for the long term, as long as you are smart to take advantage of them, seems a lot cool to me. I may be new in this market, but looking at the long term prospect and what I have been able to achieve so far, I will say has always been one of the greatest decisions of my life to have gotten myself accustomed to learning about this space.

Personally for me right now, I am more bullish than ever. Of course, we cannot predict what the market will hold or bring in the future, but one thing is that there is a great future and in most cases, when a market is tapped out, this is when I accumulate and drift towards the bull side. Bulls will always keep accumulating in a bear trend and distributing in a bullish trend, and this is what I have been doing and will be doing obviously.

Honestly, at this point, there is actually every indication to be bullish. The fact that the market has been tapped out and has been consolidating for a while now is enough reasons to be bullish on the market and then accumulating for the upcoming uptrend. We may not see new ATH or the chances of hitting the previous one, but one way or the other, we should see some possibility of an upward movement in the market before the end of the year.

Even though a lot of people are complaining about the possibilities of fake volume, we still cannot rule out the impact of this region when it comes to cryptocurrency adoption, and some times, like they always say, even in every rumor, there is always an element of truth. We also have to consider what if those volumes were for real? All the same, fake volume or not, I still believe one way or the other, that the big institutions and investors are already accumulating, and in no time, the possibility of seeing the market hitting upside could be a reality.

If they end up not doing that, I can imagine the number of crypto users they are going to lose as a result of the vulnerability of their browser and its extensions. Nonetheless, I am not surprised though that this is coming, as they need to give an assurance to users that they are trying their best to at least make sure that they tend to experience some level of security in their activities on the website. Chrome has been lagging with this and I hope they are able to come up with a tight rule that will work.

Seriously? What is the difference between a Coinbase account and a Binance account in the aspect of a centralized wallet? It seems a lot of people do not even have an idea what makes some wallet centralized and some decentralized. As long as you are making use of an exchange, there is no way you can have full control of what you are holding. Make sure you are making use of a wallet where you have your private keys.

Secondly, what the OP will need to do is to even understand everything about the space first as well as the security of the space, a lot about wallets, and a lot about blockchain before even pushing out bitcoin to a 13 year old kid to hold. In a way, she has to understand what she is holding as well as everything that pertains it for her to at least be able to do well in the space without messing things up.

Personally, I have never really had any issues with regulation, knowing that we will only be deceiving ourselves to think that regulation is not something that won't happen eventually. We have seen the shape that this market has drifted to with the way things have been without law, a lot of scammers doing whatever they like, manipulations of the highest order in the market, with all these things not being a possibility in the stock market as a result of regulation.

Regulation will not stop anything from thriving as long as it is done well, it will only help improve the space into being a better one. It is obvious most humans need law, otherwise, we just have the ability to not do things right in the absence of law which is always bad.

Yeah, over the years, we have seen the level of hand that Malta has stretched out to the crypto space when it comes to acceptance and that is one thing that is hard to come by, and I am sure, they are pretty smart or they have a government with a huge vision, who understands that rather than fighting the crypto space for no reason, there is so much to benefit from it. We have seen what most of the exchanges are raking in from trading, and I can imagine how that would keep having an impact on the Maltese society at large in the long run.

Honestly, having a good psychology when it comes to trading is not even something anyone can do if the mentality they bring into trading at first is not right. No matter how you want to meditate, if you approach trading as gambling, you have no strategy, you have no knowledge, you have no confidence since you have no skills at all, there is no amount of meditation that will actually make you successful at trading.

As far as I am concerned, the best way to trade is to build confidence in yourself, and the best way to build confidence, is to make sure that you have learned enough and you have been able to back test your strategy to see you are good to go. Meditation will not get all of that done for you the last time I checked.

The approach a lot of people always have towards trading is one thing that has really messed them up not just health wise but even pocket wise.

One thing with trading is that once you approach it like you are gambling, no strategy, no knowledge, no experience, no skill, and most definitely no confidence, there is absolutely no way you won't be messing things up and in that case, you will always be bound to over do things, get your whole emotions worked up every time, get stressed up unnecessarily and we all know how that can really tell on one's health, so in a way it is not trading that is unhealthy, it is just people that make things unhealthy for themselves based on how they approach certain things.

Those who are frustrated did that because they never even took the chance to understand the reason why they are investing in the first place. Not like they had no reason but it was a wrong one, considering that all they were after is just a way to want to get rich over night.

I believe if most people took the chance to at least try as much as possible to ensure that they are well informed with what the past held, and where we are now and the possibilities of a great future, they will never have any reason to be frustrated and worried. Like you said, in your last sentence, we are still on a good track, as at least, where are not where we used to be and that is what I call progress.

Normally, trading itself is not even something you should always expect 100% win, strategy is just there to guide you. I know so many people who have made the mistake of thinking that once they have the knowledge and strategy, they are already set for big wins, but it is trading, and you are only taking advantage of possible fluctuations, so you really want to put in mind that losses are also possible, but how you are able to manage them is what would determine how good you tend to do eventually.

Well, it is the market, we can all make speculations, but the fact remains that time and trend will always end up giving us the answers to our optimism or pessimism as the case may be. I would not be so disposed to the idea that the market may not be able to go above $9k, knowing how surprising this market can be with movement, but I will let the future decide that actually.

You should not even be worried normally. Information sometimes are even disseminated not to get you worried, but to make you and help you plan for the worst. No one can tell you what the future holds exactly, but at least, knowing that there is a possibility to something, this is where you should try as much as possible to try to diversify to put you on the safer side, and at the end, you will have nothing much to lose. It is called preparing for the worst and still expecting the best.

The truth is that it is good to have as much knowledge as you can have and not rush into things, because it is all these acquisition of knowledge that would make you to be able to come up with a good strategy in the long run in the first place. If you manage to discard the part of learning very well, and never stop learning, while trying to practice every step of the way using probably a demo platform, you will find it hard to ever be able to get it right.

However China wants to play their card, it is irrelevant anyway. This is a global space and looking at the number of continents as well as the number of countries, we can as well just know simply that this is something that no single country can apparently just lay a huge hold on the market somehow. Highest thing I see happening to China is to be left out from the whole show eventually, but really I believe in the long run, they might still come around.

Well, last year, we also had a consistent year for the bulls, so in this case, we just have to assume the bears also have to show they are not that impotent in the space as well.

Actually, for the most part of this year, it was a pretty full blown corrective year, even though we still had some up and down moment in between, but it is a pretty healthy one to me as far as I am concerned, which is actually good. For now, I guess we will have to wait and see how next year or towards the end of the year would bring.

At least, with that, you will know you are not just putting a whole risk on your funds and you are pretty much diversifying them, assuming this is all you have in your savings anyway. I think it is actually reasonable never to go all in when it comes to an investment, as long as you understand the risk involved, but at the same time, you are still making a good attempt to as least be a part of the future, you still need to assume the worst case scenarios when it comes to investments, and in this case, while understanding the risks, you still try to take precautionary measures so as not to end up getting burned in a way.

Do not make a mistake of trying to use coinmarketcap to look for top losers to end up just picking any coin, in that case you may just end up with a shit coin. There is one thing with consistency when it comes to trading, in terms of what you trade as well as the strategy you make use of.

Personally, I only have 40 potential coins on my list as a long term trader and even if I will have to add more in the long run, I would never hold more than I can handle and the most I will ever go with would be 50 to 60.

Now, it is easy for me being a long term trader, I do not have to keep monitoring the markets every day, I have my alert on ground for stop loss, I look at price actions on candles as well as momentum to get into any of them if I see it looks good, and I have been making a lot. It is just to have a good strategy and just picking any coin you like.