you only feel "stress" if you didn't know this is a normal market behavior that happens almost every year and sometimes every couple of months! the altcoins are pump and dumps and no matter what they tell you, they will not change.
so whenever they get pumped like last year, they will follow that up with a big dump like what you are seeing right now. the bubble for some of them is over because they were smaller coins with less bag holders who acted wisely and dumped fast but for most coins, specially the bigger ones in top10 coins, the bubbles are not only not over but also are far from being over. and that is simply because there are a lot of bag holders in these big top10 altcoins who will hang on to their bags and slowly panic sell their altcoins so the alt bubbles last longer.

you are confused because you are confusing "applications" with ICOs. an application, or in other words what they advertise should be something that has actual usage and does something for real not just some fake empty promises and that is what these ICOs have been doing.

and when things are like that the demand for ETH is also fake and will vanish into thin air when the dump and panic starts.
when you compare that fake demand with the demand for bitcoin which is mostly real you can understand why ETH is weak and will remain on the dumping side in the long term and bitcoin is strong and will eventually go up in the long term.

this is why you should never use market cap to talk about cryptocurrencies! it is utterly useless.
releasing a new shitcoin with 1 billion supply and $1 value can increase the total market cap $1 billion. also pumping a shitcoin with 100 billion supply increases the supply easily, now imagine how going from $1 to $2 in one shitcoin with that much supply can do to the total market cap!
this is how ETH is staying on number 2 also. it has 72 million premine and nearly 100 million total supply which is making a fake market cap for it.

the most important keyword here is some governments.
and also you are forgetting that a real cryptocurrency like bitcoin doesn't need the support of any government to succeed. what bitcoin needs is people which are peers on this peer to peer network since it is decentralized. and unfortunately last year brought in more investors instead of users and investors are known to run away at first sight of FUD.
the government is doing their thing and most of them have no problem with bitcoin so far, they however have problems with illegal activities that are happening in cryptocurrency space like all the scams that ethereum platform has made easy for ICO scammers.

very true. it is very scary that you could have bought bitcoin at $1000 last year and in about a year you could sell that for $20000. in other words if you have invested $10k in bitcoin in 2017 you had $200k in 2018. that must give you nightmares for sure. not to mention that the same $10k in 2015 meant $1 million in 2018 and don't get me started in a longer period of time from back when price was $10

another way to look at it is to see Ethereum going to what its really worth not 10 times higher than that in a huge bubble. and going to real value is not a "dark day" it is a good sign that market is going back to its healthier state and also good projects may have some chance at growing if the biggest bubble among altcoins bursts.

that is only part of the reason, because if the real ICO panic hits the market and if we really start seeing the effects of real ICO bans not the ICO advertisement bans, then by that time Ethereum will see a much bigger drop than this. because the only usage of ETH is for creating ICOs and the main reason for its rise has been these ICOs and if you remove this reason there would be no more usage for it and the price of it can drop to $10 again.

they are biased, even if some article they wrote were to come true partly or fully.


and this is the biggest problem that i see with these articles. they talk about the whole market at the same time as if it is really the same! well, it is NOT. it is very different.
altcoins are getting dumped and people have been exiting for a while now, they are running away and trying to get buried under the dump. so even the volume has dropped significantly in altcoin market and recently we are seeing the newbies are also exiting because some of them are waking up.
but things are still different for bitcoin, the volume is where it should be. people compare it with the time when price was going from $10k to $20k in less than a month and think now it is low because it is lower than that time. but in reality it is still pretty high considering the circumstances. and only those who had high hopes of getting rich overnight are "withdrawing their capital" from bitcoin. the rest are still pretty much in the market still.

well it certainly is not an ethical move and you can even call it dirty tricks to manipulate the market but he did it properly and in the market everyone is at each other's throats. nobody is helping others to make more money or be successful, everyone even a millionaire like Warren Buffet wants to make more money and wants to do it alone.
and since he can not buy millions of dollar worth of bitcoin overnight so he has to manipulate the market and keep it low as much as he can so if it takes him to spread some FUD about it and put fear in some people's minds he take advantage and does exactly that. and guess who will be the biggest whale in bitcoin after 10 years?

percentages doesn't matter on their own, it is important to see what coin you are seeing these percentages for and when.
for example a 20% drop in bitcoin warrants a buy without thinking twice because there will be a recovery after it even though it might continue dropping after that recovery. but a 20% is a shitcoin is not a buy signal because it will get dumped more and there is a good chance for it.
and the timing is also important. there are times when you see a drop after a rise which is the correction of that rise but the bull market has not ended, that is the time to buy but sometimes it is a bear market and the price is dropping constantly, and there is a time when the pumped altcoin is getting dumped hard. you should buy in that case at all because you will get dumped on.

it it take time but you will get the hang of different scenarios and will learn what to do in each case.

all the FUD and market manipulations and dumps have finally done their thing and successfully started the bear market and when the bear market starts you can't just stop it anymore it will last until price reaches a good bottom and that takes a long time.
all these bans are complete nonsense! it was panic dump, nothing else. and the whales are enjoying the trend because they are making a lot of money and at the end of the day they will accumulate a lot of bitcoin and become bigger whales for the next bull run.

we are currently in a bear market and it will not change for a time and until that change we will continue seeing this slow downward movement. and unfortunately it has caused a huge dump in the altcoin market and the dump there will always bring more dumps because the altcoin bag holders are starting to panic sell their shitcoins and when they do that they only come back to bitcoin to sell their bitcoin to get back to fiat and that will increase the sell pressure and is increasing the bitcoin price drop.

if you are looking for the possible bull run after bitcoin price rises for example then it should probably be the top altcoins. despite them not having much else but just being on top of a list, they usually get pumped first when bitcoin price rises but also it usually is not that big a pump either.

but if it is pumps you are looking for, and i think it is based on the list of coins you posted here. then there is no next bull run, they just get pumped when their time comes. the hard part is figuring out when that time is going to be!

that's the problem with the "guess people" don't you think? they are making random guesses and they just switch direction of their guess based on the market. during rises they keep saying how it will go up to the moon and during drops like these days they keep saying how it will drop to the ground like saying how it will go down to $2000!
but the thing is, price can't go up forever it has to come down too, not to oblivion down but a correction. and that's what we saw for the most part of this drop.

none of the things you put in here such as Japan, Binance, regulations,... has anything to do with the actual question you are asking! and why would you even think that? bitcoin is not even adopted by enough people to call it adoption let alone mass adoption!
it has a long way ahead of it and it may take years to get there and during this time price will continue to rise. and it will only reach its "peak" when it reaches mass adoption and by then the rises will be small.

i dare say we are at only 0.1% of the journey to the top.

let me give you an example instead of an answer. there are several famous brands in the world like Nike, Sony,... and people like these companies because their products have been good. Chines have made similar products with similar names like changing "o" into an "a" (Sony, Sany) or something like that with similar logo and everything and sell these as the original product.
do you think these copies (forks of Sony, Nike,...) "eroded" the trust in these companies? and do you think price of the products of these trusted companies fell because there were more supply of their product in the market?!!

you are trying to find a solution for a problem that does not exist so you create the problem in your head and then try to fix it. that won't work ever.
it is true that if a large number of bitcoins were lost (actually lost not just speculated to be lost) and if we see that as a problem then we can start thinking about possible solutions but until that day discussing about it is pointless.

you already have 2 good reasons for selling your coins.
1. you should be holding "a lot". try to keep the number to a minimum
2. when you buy in ICO you should sell as fast as possible before the others dump their tokens.


nobody knows what bitcoin is going to do in short term so if anybody is telling you anything he is full of shit.
and if you check the altcoin prices in both BTC and USD you can see that they are getting dumped against both of them not just compare to USD or USDT!

you should NEVER EVER in a million years hold an altcoin that is dropping and hope it goes back. if you see a dump then sell as fast as possible before it is too late and then if you really think there is a possible chance for that altcoin to go back up (which there isn't for most of them) then buy back at the bottom. but never hold an altcoin...

in 2018 like any other year, the same 1700-200 altcoins will have the same potential to get the same pumps as they always get. based on your luck some of them will have bigger pumps than others and you just have to see the signs for the pump, find them and jump on board before it is too late and also make sure to jump out before it is too late too.
i can give you a bunch of names like others did but they are the picks of now and by the time you read them i have probably moved on to another set of coins because they are getting pumped by then.

to be fair when price is inside of a triangle and has not yet broken out of it (either upwards or downwards) you can not possibly know whether a bull market is on the way or a bear market. my guess is that there will be a bull market soon but it is a guess and you should never invest based on a guess. specially when you are talking about "analysis" you should first analyze and see that triangle and then wait for price to break out of it.