That still totally depends on how vast you are when it comes to trading. Investing is one part, trading is another part. Investing could be in two ways, which is either short term or long term and in any way with this, you are still going to be trading which is more like you taking advantage of the profit it gives you over the period of time you are looking at.

The difference here is that without knowledge, you will always tend to make the wrong decisions and with knowledge you are sure going to be making some tangible profit. Learning is an intricate part of any investment, and this space is not an exception.

Certain people may be so much scared enough to not see an opportunity when one comes.

Any smart individual will definitely know that as long as they know there is a great future for this market, certainly at some point the market will have a high level of demand that at that stage, a lot of people who are looking to invest will not even see the opportunity to do so anymore and what would be left is its usage most entirely as a currency, which would certainly create some balance.

At that stage, I would not say it is not a price no one can buy, but would be a price in which people will get to see its real value as a currency than focusing on the aspect of getting rich overnight.

The mods are also humans and certainly there are so many posts on this forum that are actually not relevant for anything. The funny thing is that when some people post, they tend to think as long as they can say a lengthy jargon, that is just all they need. A lengthy jargon is as annoying as not saying anything at all and just creating an empty post with a full stop.

If it is deleted, it is simply because it does not make any sense or going against the rule of the forum and what I would advise anyone in the Op's shoe is to try to amend. I have seen a lot of effort even with some people that speak less English, but even with that, it is usually a very understandable useful point. That is one effort a lot of people are too lazy to make.

There is absolutely no doubt as to why it could be going down pretty fast at the moment, but it is not like it would keep being this way. It is understandable that people will tend to look for reasons anyway and even with all the ponzis, scam ICOs and so on that people keep referring to, it still does not change the fact that they will all vamoose from the market eventually, and then a new trend will begin.

Ethereum may have had its own share of disadvantages, but that does not mean it has not impacted positively in the crypto space. When bitcoin prices will be finding back its rhythm of getting into new ATHes, I believe ethereum also will be back to form to make us possible rich.

I would say none! I have played several games in the casino and of a truth; they always end up the same way at the end of it all. There is usually a start where you get to see some good rolls and some best winning odds as the case may be, but it is all just for the short period of time. As long as you are still gambling irrespective of the game you are playing, then the chances of losing is still very much high. I would have said poker is one game that could, but really, it is just a game of luck anyway,

Even the mathematical outcome of each particular game that you have asked him to Google is as irrelevant as the opinion of others. It is gambling and the last time I checked, you are prone to losing as long as you are gambling. There is absolutely no game that can increase your chances of winning as it all depends on your luck and how events turn out to be in your favor which if it is the other way round, you will still be experiencing the same fate in any game, starting from poker down to dice.

KUCOIN at some point now is actually becoming to look a whole lot like the second binance.

Almost if not the same lay out and UI, the whole low fee thing and so on. It is actually one exchange that is beginning to gain some ground in the cryptocurrency space as well and I would not be surprised it would gain more ground than its current position in the long run.

I have made some trades here are as well and I have never had any problem with transacting which seems good enough for me. The others you mentioned though, I would not even imagine taking such high risk on such exchanges. Asides KUCOIN, I make use of binance and that is it.

And this should be the reason why people should take DYOR seriously as much as possible. A lot of investors and most especially newbie investors are too lazy to want to research on a project and for heaven sake, in this regard, you are not just dropping your hard earned money, but you are also dropping your information which even has to do with your identity. This is some crazy stuff to do without doing the properly needed thing to do before even going ahead with any investment.

So many people or will I say wannabe users looking for free money are the ones who get to be a victim of this as well as those who just tend to want to invest in anything without even doing proper due diligence. I have seen so many projects requesting for KYC that have turned to scams before, and this is a bad thing for those who do not take the pain to research on what they are investing in before even investing in it at all. This is usually some of the results.

I do not think just because there is a manipulation on the exchange market data the whole market is reacting according to it. I mean I am not arguing against the fact that there is market manipulation but the manipulation of data is not the problem, the problem is the manipulation of peoples thoughts on the price trends, the price move according to what people think it will do and when you manipulate enough people to make them think the price is going down, they will sell and when they sell the price will go down, just a big whale (or group of whales) selling a tiny amount can make a snowball affect on the price.

I understand this is kind of tug of war. Those who are following the norms of USA unable to achieve the leadership. This is the reason why Winklevoss brother's Genimi exchange is not a big hit yet again these brothers want to enter another bitcoin business i.e. ETF whereas their first venture should have been the key for second one.

Unfortunately the loan business in bitcoin is a highly sensitive subject, will you get interest in bitcoin ?
Will you try to make sure they get bitcoin but pay in dollars? What will the interest rate be? How much of a increase or decrease can you handle in bitcoin price ?

In the end if people took out loans in bitcoin and lose it, making it back is a lot harder than it looks if they are trying to gather it back in dollars and the price of bitcoin goes up.

There was a Turkish investor who took funds from people in bitcoin and used it for trading and when he lost it during the crash he failed to pay them back because bitcoin went in price so much that it was impossible for him to pay back.

Altcoins market has always been a distraction right from time, but at the same time, they are still a kind of necessary evil anyway.

What I can see here is that most of the time, the altcoin market is always a way of the whales just taking a chance to making more money which is why it is a lot more volatile and the truth is that, as long as people get to know that bitcoin will never lose dominance in the long run, the better they will be able to make decisions into knowing that altcoins sometimes are just basic B.S.

I do not think the amount of insiders is enough to actually make a difference in bitcoin prices.

I agree that there could be some insiders who waited until the goldman sach news before shorting but they definitely were not big enough to make a dent at a 12 billion dollar volume business. Bitcoin has a daily 12 billion dollar transaction and no insder has billions to change the course of the action, specially not just an insider from one firm.

However, whales are big enough to change I do not challenge that yet these are very small number not huge. You may be right but that wouldn't change the move bitcoin was making.

Altcoins are always bound to go down with bitcoin going down, but at the same time, I would not be surprised that at the instance bitcoin picks up, altcoins may actually want to start doing the same. For now, the best coins to buy are the coins with product and not just some empty promises, as this would be the main market that a lot of smart investors will be focused on and even though some shit coins can increase hugely, it is never worth the risk.

Just buy what you know smart people are buying and in that case, you should not be buying empty promises. There are so many fishes in the sea to pick from and you really want to be smart and sure you are not picking the poisonous ones, and in that case, even if you do not want to do proper diligence, it is better to go for the coins that are well known with product and being talked about the most which is bitcoin, Ethereum, neo and the likes. In that way, you will be safer than sorry.

This is actually not about the master sharing his strategies; this is about knowing what you want to embark on. There are so many strategies anyone can make use of to make the best of the market, but even if you share it as a professional trader, it is someone who already understands the basic that would be able to get what you are telling them. What is important is for you to learn and even though you want to go the marginal way, which is good you already understand the risks, then you will want to make sure you have all the normal market knowledge as well as trading knowledge you need to do it right.

Without a good team you are just going to be wasting your money. It is one thing to have a great idea and it is another thing to be able to execute such idea perfectly well. This is one major criterion I always look out for when investing in ICOs. If the team past experience and their diligence to getting work done is satisfactory, then the next thing I move on to is the product.

A viable product or at least a proof of concept should be something a team should already have when coming into the scene, which shows their enthusiasm to work. I am not a fan of promises, no matter how fantastic the idea sounds.

Any market can rise but the current state of ETH volatility and how fast it drops has been quite huge and it is usually more like people trying to just give it up for whatever value they can. However, it is market and it is normal to always see trends change at certain points in time, what is important is to know how to utilize such trends to your own advantage. ETH would still recover and there is no doubt about it, but for now, no one actually knows how far it is going to go down.

No one would have. A lot of people speculated we will find a bottom around $500 and then we keep going lower and lower and then we are just ready to drop even lower than $200. This is one thing with market, you absolutely cannot predict the market and the same way some may be worried about how far it is going down now, is the same way they would not take advantage of it to buy it back when it starts showing sign of recovery. It is bound to happen at some point.

People will generally want to assume the outcome of the market like they can even know in the first place. It is a market and every market is unpredictable and the only person who can tell what is going to be next will definitely be someone who can see the future which from what I know, no one can. For now, we might not see very much movement in the market but in the long run, we will definitely see the possibility of good growth.

What you are saying is true for the current situation but there will be no chances for this trend to continue for another longer period hence market will bounce back. This is what we are all looking as the next thing in crypto market. Yes, a new ATH for BTC.

Careful with any tips that you may see or read or hear that comes from a third party that you do not know, if someone you have never seen or met or even know online tells you that some coin is going to skyrocket, take it with a grain of salt because there are many possibilities involved, he might be paid, he might be a shill and own some of those coins and he might be unresearched silly person just telling you he "feels" that way. In the end trusting any third party on social media, telegram, chats, forums anywhere, just be wary because you do not know the reason WHY he feels like that coins going places.

A better practice must be depending on our own analysis. Just think about who will care for our profits ? ourselves or someone from somewhere ?. I agree they are doing to earn something but their reliability will be very much less which may lead to unexpected collapse at any time.

Apparently, everyone wants a better and more matured market, but in the real sense the only way to do that is for people to accept the fact that this is not a money making venture and you only have to utilize what it was created for to be able to get the value and hence, the demand which would then increase the value further.

Moreover, it has turned to speculative entity and what the Op is suggesting by creating a token and requesting it would need huge volume is just B.S to me and not the solution.

If you have a project, share it, if people believe in it, they would get in; it is not by begging for volume.

These days, coins’ being delisted does not really mean anything anymore as long as they are still trading on other exchanges and people still see the need to want to hold them. Recently bittrex delisted BTG, and with the news, I was expecting that the BTG market would start dropping very fast but even at that, it was still trying to hold up without much volume in the market either in the sell spot or the other way. Coinbase may be a highly regulated exchange since it is based in the USA, but that does not mean it does not have a future.

At the end, it all depends on what each individual wants to be trading and even if coinbase ends up delisting coins in the future based on regulations, some will not be affected, and those trading them or prefer to trade them will still be available. Coinbase is just a wallet and an exchange provider, and thinking because it might end up being regulated hugely as a result of where it is domiciled, does not affect its growth in the future.

The worst case scenario would be USA banning all bitcoin related moves.
Back in the day when gambling was legal in USA for online gambling poker websites those websites made ton of money and one day FBI decided to seize all the casinos because of money laundry reasons and all that and all of a sudden those websites got blocked in USA and they had to move overseas.

Of course the big boys stayed and still hang around but nothing even remotely close to what it used to be. So we should hope the god that USA won't somehow ban bitcoin because if that happens than we are all screwed, that would be the worst thing that could happen in bitcoin world.