I see you're trying to emphasis that our disposition also counts in determining whether price goes up or down, because when most of us become upbeat about price going up, it usual goes up, so it isn't exactly true that whales are to blame for the market whores, panic selloffs also has a hand in it.

One thing is missing out in your argument above and is that without a good entry point, you might having to wait for a long while before the open order turns green, if it ever does and that would also imply a huge exposure to the market, which is a terror and a reason some traders ends up buying high and selling low.

With trading tools like Bollinger Bands, a trader can always ascertain the predominant market trend using the high time frames and then stepping down to the lower frame for spotting good entry points in the direction of the confirmed trend. The lower and upper bands of the higher time frames are famous for spotting market reversals.

Do you really understand what you're saying and what would you be putting your emotions under control for if not to follow the dictates of your studies and market analysis? You can say that some trading tools are better suited than others, especially when a trader is able to effectively put them to use, but it's unfortunate may traders especially newbies are so much in the hurry and miss to see the place of making informed trading decisions.

OP, I think, Elliot wave is too advanced for a newbie and instead Bollinger band should make the list.

 Obviously all that sums up to the dearth of sound trading knowledge and some experiences. With adequate knowledge, we start to see the market not from the perspective we used to, but one we can create or recognize some advantages or opportunities ourselves. I think an almost silent reason some people, mostly some advanced people are not too keen about cryptocurrency is the fact that most aged people actually think it's something for the new generation.

It is obviously a noob question to ask who would buy Bitcoin at nearly 9k, when it was 6k one or two weeks back, because you're a witness to the fact that a huge number of people had paid almost 20k for same in January. Just know that with such potential as Bitcoin parades and with the increase in awareness, the demand would continue to sour and the price invariably.

Don't forget the media practitioners are doing the job they at the end of the day get paid for and it's up to a trader or investor to equip himself or herself with the right trading knowledge and skills, so they be in a better to tell noise apart from real market signals.

Which better ways could those be? You must not feign ignorance of the fact that regulation is an afterthought, most governments would have stayed put with banning of Bitcoin, only reality dawned on them that Bitcoin cannot be banned in principle.

Good names, I seriously doubt, because the name calling was actually part and parcel of the game plans to take the shine off Bitcoin! You'll find that in the event that regulation becomes too pronounced, instead of attracting far more uses, we're likely to record short falls, because a good number of users would deflect to use of coins with better anonymity.

That's what to expect when you find a project that is tailored to fill in some needs implicitly or explicitly identified in the community and it becomes even more forceful, when a credible team can be linked to it. Given that this project is actually an advancement on other platform coins like ETH, NEO, ADA, XRP, etc, it stands to reason that history almost always repeats and Hodling these tokens would hardly lead to any regret.

If you believe all that, you'll believe everything! Most advice you got here are off people's experiences and who else would you lend your eyes to, than the one, who has been there and done that. You need not just to research about the market, but to comprehensively learn how the market works, that's where you will find if cutting your loss can be said to be a desirable solution or yet another problem!

That's a possibility but I am reminded of their recent action of having to close their doors to investors in Japan on claims of rising costs, but should one dig deeper, it begins to suggest, it was rather a calculated move to avoid the FSA efforts and crackdown to scrutinize exchanges offering services in the country, following the hack of $530 million-worth of the NEM cryptocurrency from the Coincheck exchange in January and the infamous Mt. Gox hack!

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3339797.msg35099452#msg35099452

It's a wonder, is Bitcoin really an easy technology to operate?

To start with, it's wrong to assume that being able to perhaps access your funds in the Bitcoin network is all there is to know about Bitcoin. Fact is, Bitcoin and its ecosystem is actually a vast area of learning and since the courses are being offered for free, one have nothing to lose, but everything to gain, because a very wise saying, is that no knowledge is waste.

With its huge potentials, robust community and as the flagship cryptocurrency, you can never say never with Bitcoin. I must say, except for those without some profound knowledge in Bitcoin, magical dates and strong evidences are not really necessary to profit from the market. If you can identify when a bottom has started to form in the market, just start buying, don't wait for any further prompting or some crystal balls. If you're doing that well - rinse and repeat, you don't need price to retest or make new ATHs to corner some handsome profit off the market.

You really do not think that fronting Bitcoin, which is a renowned global brand and when unsuspecting and less informed cryptocurrency enthusiasts follow the lead, they end up with BCash, is no problem
 
The argument is clearly not about Bitcoin being superior to BCash or not or if Roger has a right to promote his coin or not. But knowing fully well that Bitcoin and BCash are entirely distinct coins and then going ahead to propose the most versatile and valuable coin, only to supply the less valuable one after money have changed hands is indeed a fraud. Roger Ver ought to be promoting  BitcoinCash, which is what his project ended at and not Bitcoin, which is an entirely different coin.

Week #2, payments in IOST and BTC received. Thanks MadZ and best of luck to the IOS Project!

The Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, one of 12 regional Reserve Banks that make up the United States’ central bank, has conducted a study asking some of the biggest questions in cryptocurrency today – and they may have found some real answers.

Their researchers investigated the control structure of various currencies and looked into whether central banks will adopt cryptocurrencies as a form of payment.

Commodity, Cash, or Digital?
In an effort to assign Bitcoin one of the above monetary categories, the researchers concluded that Bitcoin actually defied traditional categorization – it’s none of the above, as shown in the chart below.

https://www.ccn.com/us-federal-reserve-bitcoin-study/

I didn't see the usually finger pointing at Bitcoin by the authorities - Bitcoin facilitates crimes blah blah blah! Can we say, they're now beginning to think straight, especially as there're emerging news of the authorities from different climes, like South Korea,Sweden, etc becoming quite upbeat about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency?

You're right, the main reason governments across the globe are having a hard time identifying with Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general, is in the fact that these coins hands back power to the people to manage their finances by themselves, which is one thing governments after governments have been sitting on in order to maintain the statuesque until Bitcoin showed up.

You can be sure of one thing, any airdrop demanding for your personal info was probably setup to accomplish nothing else and a good number of them would end up selling the database to third parties and that can explain where and how some scammers readily come into people's personal data. Caution and attention to details becomes the way forward.

That's true and it would help to realize that back then, it was not really about the price Bitcoin was going for, but their conviction and faith in it. The awareness and adoption of altcoins have been on the increase and with that is the likelihood that price would sour, so in the future we're sure to hear of people celebrating the wise choice they made in buying now, while some would hate themselves for being shortsighted.

That's right! Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general is still evolving and given that it's knowledge based, a lot of grey areas are inevitable and even most governments across the globe are having some hard time understanding the phenomenon and that explains why we often hear them talk of banning Bitcoin on one day, only to start echoing regulation the following day.

Your understanding that taking a loan for trading can only put you under pressure and subsequently losing out gives me the impression your claim to be a knowledgeable and experienced trader may not be far from the truth. However you seem not to have realized that the first capital needed in any business isn't money. Ideas are truly the first capital and when you one, it would lead you to where the capital is or can be found, because it would be like a fire in you firing you up.

You don't need to start with people's money either, because of yet another form of pressure, instead give trading a break and throw your weight behind gathering some funds (this forum is already a right place) and then start not minding how little - the knowledge you have, overtime would bring the multiplier effect. Your performance with the little capital will then either attract investors to you or chase them further away.