I think no matter what type of small coin you want to invest in, never exceed %5 of your portfolio, I mean if they out pace all others and get bigger than you can certainly see them grow over 5% of your portfolio yourself in which case it is fine but while buying never spend more than 5% of your investment into just one coin. I would still suggest keeping most of your lion share at big coins like bitcoin, ethereum, dash, litecoin and so forth.

I am still in love with ethereum and what it can achieve, right now there are many more new stuff used for it like companies built on the ethereum blockchain and games made into ethereum blockchain and even this new cryptokitties type collectibles thing going around. I can not think of a world where ethereum would be going any further down, it has amazing potentials and will be rivaling bitcoin one day.

That is for sure one thing that I know that when it comes to trading, it takes you zeal and your hunger to learn, to get better quickly over time. However, it is always very imperative to take learning seriously and not rush it at any point in time.

Today, people want to rush learning and practicing all in the name of wanting to start getting rich pretty fast and as a result of that, they just end up screwing everything up and saying the market is being manipulated or they have learned but everything just seems to be the same.

Having a strategy is all that it takes and most especially you want to know how to take out emotions and stick with executing your strategy when it comes to day trading, and that is one strategy you sure must have built on and gain confidence on with practice, before even trading the real world.

There was a time when blockchain games were really scammy, there was a lot of games where you owned like chickens or mining or whatever and you made free money if you want to but very little and if you put in money you could say that good bye because after a while they just closed shop and left. Those times left a bad taste in old crypto people like me, I have been around to know that it is not quite possible to sustain those types of business models and really hard to get funded, cryptokitties is an exception and I can see myself playing that which I haven't and probably won't but I would support their existence at least. With that in mind the new blockchain games are looking like they are better than the last ones and maybe I will be wrong and they will have a good career.

Oh please! There is nothing as trading mastery because of trading without losses, as that is not something that can ever happen as long as you are a retail trader. People tend to make that mistake a lot and forgetting that we are just trading the trends of the market, if you are looking for those who are trading without loss, then, you should be looking at the big institutional traders instead since they are the market controllers.

You guys who are new to trading, need to get a grasp of that mentality, that losses are part of trading and if you have no idea how to inculcate risk management in your trade, you will be screwed.

I don't. I mean it is the easiest method of carrying your money in your hands, it has been going on longer than you think. In roman times people would give papers that shows the amount owed to them. Say you give someone a whole farms products than he would give you a paper stating he owes you certain amount of coins. You could use that to purchase other stuff and get your money back and those people you gave the paper to can collect it from the initial buyer when the time comes.

Sort of like the cheque we have right now. That just evolved over time into banknotes printed by the governments and got this big. Bitcoin for example is just a digital asset that normally has no value AT ALL but we say it worths something and it does, normally all money you know are like that but at least most of it has a backing from a government, when you have 10 dollar banknote in your hand government says you own 10 dollars, in bitcoin there is nothing like that neither and we still find it valuable.

I suspect we will get to see more banks and financial institutions actually coming to show their support and then also trying to at least want to be a part of the space as much as they can. We all know the level at which a lot of them have been trying to see a way to be a part of things, coming up with different innovations, trying to be in the forefront, which I so much believe, they may have just been stashing up low key right from the onset.

However things would be though, I believe so much in the long term prospect of this space, and the fact that we will get to see this space grow more than it is now definitely.

Lol. As funny as the category sounds and most especially the last category in the list, it is just the honest truth. And the funniest part of it is that the last part is actually the enormous one in this space, but it still amuses me that a lot of investors usually do not always care so much about this and they do not tend to realize that some of these ICOs using the blockchain to just collect money in the name of some utility token, a lot of them are usually not worth it in the long run. However, we just have to admit the fact that it is a growing space and there would always be things like this now until at least investors start making use of their head and as the space keeps getting matured.

Not many people are actually aware, but majority of people who are aware are not actually in the system yet and while some are trying to at least get a good ground on how to be able to do things within the space, and understand what this is all about, some are pretty scared because they have no single clue what it is all about.

It will take someone who is curious; have some basic understanding of economics, and some pretty good I.T knowledge to quickly grasp as much as they can to be able to handle a lot of the things in this space. Even as we are here now, a lot of people in this forum do not even know much about security of their wallets, so you can imagine!

Well, that is one good plan when it comes to bounties, and it is the same thing here. Although sometimes, I tend to bend that rules when I know it is a bounty that will end up succeeding and there is every chance that the project's ICO will most definitely end up successful for so many reasons which I have never been wrong, I can decide to go more than 2 months.

Nonetheless, I believe it is always a thing to be cleared out in the beginning when joining a bounty, so in a way it is always better to at least make sure that you are doing your best as much as you can to always make do with what you can when it comes to the rules.

Well, it paper money has been a part of the human revolution, the thing now is that a lot of things flopped about it, which I cannot say if that was a result of paper money itself, or as a result of some bad economic policies that really damaged a lot of things, and the government has been able to keep covering that up to make us believe there is still some sort of value for the use of paper currency.

Nonetheless, I guess another revolution is about taking over yeah? So in that case, I guess we can then understand the main reason why paper currency actually sucks.

Probably, people need to understand the meaning of something before they even ask a question which in this case, I am not sure the OP tried to understand the meaning of stable coin before asking that question. Bitcoin is bitcoin, and even though we end up experiencing some level of decrease in volatility over time, which I believe is not even anytime soon, that does not make it a stable coin.

A stable coin is a coin that is pegged to a physical entity, fiat or asset as the case may be and that is what makes it a stable coin. So, considering that because we are seeing some small fluctuation as stability is even absurd.

I would not see anything as boring at the moment, because what I see honestly is the market at least picking where to go, up or down and until then, we will see this sideways movement.

However, what you said, makes a lot of sense, and when the market eventually recovers, there is always the necessity to at least, try as much as possible to be picking the right coins or tokens with great potentials at the moment. However, speculation is still going to be fully part of this market until we start seeing real life usage and there is actually nothing we can do about that.

Knowledge, which is one thing that will always be needed to thrive and be able to do well in anything. Most of the people I have seen today are always in a haste to do things because they just want to quickly get rich and that makes them most of the time, to not be able to take their time to learn, try as much as possible to make sure they are very sound with their decision making by practicing and before you know it they just rush into the market like you said. Unfortunately, they always get to rush out the same way they rushed in and that is how not seeking knowledge can lead someone into not ever getting it right.

Obviously, you started trading without any much knowledge, no form of practice on your strategy to back test it and then you are simply just rushing into the market. Sure thing is this, once you are approaching the market and trading really without any concrete strategy, there is always a possibility of losing something.

Now, I am not saying that loss is not something that you will not get to see over time, because even as a pro trader, you will always get to see losses once in a while, but the thing you should always consider is that, that loss is something you have to be able to manage, and without a strategy and plan, you can never be able to get that done.

I just like the fact that even despite some of the big theft cases that happened recently, Japan is still doing everything to make it feel right and make the users protected, while at the same time embracing cryptocurrency. This is a country with a great vision and this is one of the reasons why Japan has become a cryptocurrency haven.

As far as I am concerned, if there is no great benefit they are seeing to make cryptocurrency thrive in the country in terms of adoption, they won't be doing much to making it become a huge reality without any complications in the long run when it comes to usage.

Technical analysis have been alive even before cryptocurrency came into play and has been a guide for most traders to always anticipate for what is next and that makes me wonder why anyone would think it is a problem.

Whether we like it or not, we will always have institutional investors, whales and retail traders, who will always want to take advantage of market fluctuations and those fluctuations are just a part of the market that has a lot to do with demand and supply, and there is absolutely no way you will not have to see technical analysis coming into play.

A good point there! We have seen the likes of Japan's GDP increase over time, based on the possibility of legalizing and regulating cryptocurrency. Bitcoin itself is not just some miracle performer that will start helping to fix things, it is just a tool.

Tool for payment which could help bring freedom in some certain ways and make it easy the way we do transactions, save time in most cases as well, when compared to having to use the banks, with their crazy shitty policies. A country's economy will have a lot to do with the leadership and for a corrupt setting, there is just so little bitcoin can do at all.

I am actually expecting we may get to see some boost in terms of prices pretty soon but that would depend on how bitcoin ends up before the end of the year.

Q4 though has always been known to come with pretty good growth most of the time, and I believe that with a good chance for bitcoin to take to an uptrend by breaking the current triangle, we might actually have a possibility of seeing the whole altcoin market trying to make an attempt towards the moon. However, we just have to be patient to see how things will turn out as nothing right now is predictable.

I guess this is one concern that is basically brewing in the crypto space at the moment based on the fact that with regulation, we will actually get to see some level of maturity as well as confidence from investors in the space.

Looking at the way ICOs have been over the years and the level of scam activities that has been going on, it is imperative to have some level of regulations, most especially within the ICO space, but the thing here is that, based on the fact that this is a global thing, regulation will be a hard thing to easily achieve, unless every country come together to form a global framework for regulations.

Whether as an investment or not, one thing is certain, a time will come when there would be real life usage and the chances of seeing some level of stability will be there but obviously it cannot be completely stable.

However, we know that even in the long run, this space will really be serving a whole lot as a store of value most of the time, and in that case it would not change it from being much of an asset like gold and the likes, but the thing is that with real life usage, it even makes things a whole lot better. Those who are not patient now to focus on the future will most definitely have themselves to blame for it, there is no doubt about that.

I would not actually be so fast in calling a bottom at this moment in time. Sure, we have seen some reaction in the $6k region, but one thing for sure now is that we just have to wait and see how the whole triangle thing is going to play out first. I won't be surprised if we get to see a final shakeout in the market, before we get to see an uptrend suffice, but all the same, there is nothing like bitcoin going towards the dark here, and in the long term we are still experiencing a huge light and one thing for sure is that what some are calling a bottom now is what was an ATH just last year. Imagine how things would be in the long run.