There are two main methods used to analyze potential investment choices in stock and to and make investment decisions: fundamental analysis and technical analysis. Technical analysis is favoured by many statisticians and financial gurus, mainly if you are looking at speculation. It seems from its various characteristics that TA could fare well in this crypto space, but how come a majority of models I have seen have been abysmal in detecting some trends in the cryptosphere?

Aggregator sites like coinmarketcap and livecoinwatch often show trends of greatest gainers/losers of the day/week/month/year. However, coins with almost dead marketcaps are prone to manipulation.

Why don't these sites remove such coins?

Bearish trends have been dominating the market since mid-Jan. Is what we are seeing a sign of investor confidence finally breaking?

Hear me out: I think we got too popular too fast. The normal person on the ground would expect to use crypto much more for daily-life transactions but this is not currently the case. Maybe we needed some more time for the technology to mature (no scaling issues, slow transactions, etc) THEN the normies come in. Right?

NEO and IOTA have this unique approach to the blockchain by using DAGs that require no fees to operate, among other benefits. Are there other similar coins that are flying under the radar that can have a good bump in price in the near future?

Edit: Meant NANO not NEO. My bad.

We all know bitcoin executes a fixed script, and ethereum has its smart contracts language Solidity. Which other coins have their own cool custom scripting languages?

I am one of the unfortunate people who have coins still stuck in this exchange. Some 5 months back it was still on Coinmarketcap and a valid place to trade. Nowadays its a ghost town and support NEVER replies to any questions.