Wow! You must be a billionaire!

Monero looks very similar to last year.
It spiked in the spring, then hoovered around 0.002-0.0025 for some time and in autumn was dumped to 0.001.
We should see Monero rising and breaking the resistance on 0.004-0.0045 levels in order to be bullish in mid-long term. The long term bullish is when it basically says farewell to previous ATH from 2014.

Monero could potentially get demand from dark markets if some people are capable and willing to do it. Also, as Panama papers were published, the people who were revealed could potentially be interested in XMR. The problem is nobody cares to market to them (including me).  We are basically sitting and hoping people will find XMR instead of us finding the people. As I said, I cannot blame anyone because I am as lazy and a free rider as everyone else. 

I tend to agree.
Even 2000 usd/xmr is possible, however the probability is significiantly lower than reaching 0.003-0.004.
The bottom line is, anything can happen and when there are strong buyers buying behind the scenes, many will turn bearish but the price will continue rising (like it happened with btc - even wizard Reptilian sold part of his coins way too early to buy the castle).

When Aminorex is speaking us about wheat futures and options and some currency trading opportunities it is time to load some Moneros. I've noticed that when he is bullish, the correction is on its way and when there are trading opportunities elsewhere the price is at the bottom.

I have sold 0 Moneros in this bull run but bought some.
My overall average price is currently at 0.002ish so I do not see any reason to buy. The only reason I could be buying is if I get my average price down.

I am equally content if the price shoots from here to ATH - still bagholding.
I am very happy with the amount of Moneros I have right now and I will be extremely wealthy if the best case scenario (like 2000 usd/xmr) will take place. Until that I will keep building my portfolio elsewhere and working hard. 

Unless someone buys in big time and takes us to over 0.0043 with buy of a great grandeur probably within the coming months we are still going down approximately 50 % from the current value. We will see if I am right with this... Do not get me wrong, I would love to be proven wrong. However, I am pleased also to buy more to get lower cost average, the cost average is the bright side of dump.

I am sorry I cannot do that but if you want to do it obviously you are free to do so.  
The trend broke too badly. It is time to go down and rest a little bit (some months) and probably go its long term resting state value of 0.001.

Personally I am very cautious now.
Too much dumping taking place... Looks like we need to stay at 0.001 for a while before the next leg upwards.
I am preparin some cash to roll over to btc in case Monero goes to 0.001 and stays there a few more months.
Looks like I need to postpone 2000 usd/xmr a little bit, the good thing is I have time to waite even decades (if I am granted days to live so long).

It is hard to say if XMR is failed... It depends on many factors, such as is there tech development going on, is the funding sufficient to take the tech to the level it should be. If the aswear is yes, then the likelihood of failure is significiantly lower.

Monero has traded sub 0.001 (in fact I have bought some coins sub 0.001 level, but something like 20 or so coins only).

The other factor to consider about the success vs. failure is the community. Is the community willing to support 0.001 level or not. If not, then it probably goes to 0. If yes, then there are chance of rising back and even to go to ATH and these bullish predictions of 2000 usd/xmr.
However, the major obstacle to achieve these high levels are the whales. Most likely the whales will "redistribute" their coins to the smaller fish on the way to 2000 usd per coin and thus giving resistance to the way up there. If everybody refuses sell any Moneros below 2000 usd and everybody is willing to buy any Monero they can afford sub 2000 usd it is possible to achieve. As long as there are weak hands and coin is highly speculative, the price crashes if even a noob-account farts a bad smelling fart and start to shit on others (sorry my language).  

I do not think the price of BTC has that much to do with the success of XMR, it is an independent currency and BTC is only a tool to channel dollars into XMR.

Well shaking those means basically we can forger Monero because it means significiantly lower price to shake them away (something like 0.0005 or lower) and at that point, if there are still developing going on, I would estimate the competition for the coins are pretty fervent since quite many can afford to purchase a significiant part of the network.

I will start buying at 0.001ish with significiant accumulation with the target to purchase quite large stake of coins so probably without leg up to new high we will go there, but there are some resistance on the way down.

If the price goes up, I am more than happy (actually I hope more the price to rise towards new ATH more than drop back to the levels of December 2015).

It is because Monero is way too speculative at the moment.
There are not much (significiant enough) fundamentals to maintain the price apparently.
However, these issues probably will be fixed soon ^TM.

Personally I am still bullish but only long term. I am a buyer at 0.001.

I tend to agree with this post mainly.
However as regards of botnet miners, what is exactly the bad thing about it (besides it makes it harder to mine for average Joe who has all the sympathies of us?). If I am not mistaken, botnets actually benefits the coin as the mining is more diversified as opposed to bitcoin that are mined in a large scale at "mining factories" in Iceland or China.

The charts look bearish, and I am looking at 0.001 btc price to be the price I will buy more. If we do not get there ever again, then great. If we get there, I will be a buyer. On the other hand, I am also a buyer on the way up (but obviously much smaller scale).

My current holdings are so small that I did not even bother to sell and dump on you guys so I guess I am sinking with you all the way to the bottom (whatever it will be). Some resistance is at 0.002-0.0025 levels but if there will be no bullish leg with major buying, we are definetely going down from there at some point. Usually it takes a few months for the price to consolidate and stabilize to 0.001.

I will correct a bit my statement: to buy more I need to be convinced the bull trend continues or Monero drops to 0.001. However, the latter case I might increase my holdings 800-900 %.  

I am willing to support 0.001... Personally my average price is around 0.002, no point to buy more unless it will benefit somehow. To support the growth I am willing to increase a bit my average price but if the growth fails (like it looks now) I need to cost average. For me it is too expesive now to buy it even for 0.0015 as there is no point doing so.

I have not sold though since I do not care my current holdings so much. 

Looks like I need to prepare some btc ready for accumulation. I am planning some heavy accumulation if you guys want to throw the towels to the ring. 

Yup. Probably some percentage of the contents of the candles have also buying (I estimate around 30 % minimum).
20 minute dump to bids is a clear manipulative action. If the seller was a legitimate seller (s)he probably would have done the trade OTC or setting smaller ask ramps and support the bid-side or if the seller had hurry selling could have resulted better results if dumped in portions of 200-300 XMR per hour so that the buyers would have more time to send their slowly moving btc to Polo and give the markets for the seller.

I agree. If the dump was done by whales I would be worried... As for now, when shorters dump by borrowing coins from the lenders. I speculate the shorters will get burned and XMR will have a steep spike upwards.

someone just dumped over 3000 XMR borrowed from me... So there are shorters now in the market.
I am not worried at all since they will repay in one way or another (+ I get interest payments hopefully for entire period of 60 days).

Those shorters make me even more convinced to buy more coins. If the dumpers were whales I would be worried but knowing they are just a few random guys who can afford to throw their bitcoins towards betting XMR I am not worried but buy coins from them and lend those same coins back to them. 

My guess is it was a short due to the spike in interest rates.
However, if I am wrong, the spike of interest rates was then due to lenders withdrawing the coins from lending markets.

The interest rates are up in XMR markets.
Wether the big lender has withdrawn coins from the markets or there is increased demand for Monero denominated loans due to massive shorting.

Shorting hurts Monero's market cap in short term but once the loan is repaid the coins need to be purchased with interests so in the longer run (max 60 days) it will help XMR. Even if the short is held longer than 60 days (refinanced), in the refinancing period interests need to be repaid so some kind of buying pressure will be in the marketplace at spot price.