the thing about trading bot prices is that there is a simple supply and demand factor. there aren't that many bot providers(!) out there so the supply is limited so they can offer any high price they want which is most of the times unfair in my opinion. and most of them are not really profitable.

check out https://github.com/askmike/gekko it is an open source (free) trading bot. I have never used it myself because it is JavaScript but I have heard good reviews about it.

thanks for posting your review about this bot here. and if you used Gekko, post your reviewed about that too.

what the hell man! you are just repeating the first answer to this topic without understanding what the hell is going on

in fact what OP posted here needs nothing more than that 1 line he said. he introduced a price difference between two different exchanges, both of which are open to everyone to check and see if he is true or if the price is still different.
it doesn't need charts, no picture, no personal experience, no additional information,.... nothing. you just open up these exchanges, see if the price difference is correct. then check if they are trusted exchanges (binance is, and I have no idea about DEX) and check if there is any issues in their deposit/withdrawal system. then enjoy the profit if it were possible.

if you don't want that to happen then stop making misleading titles. and it is not just a one time thing, you are intentionally doing it multiple times even after seeing how people only read the title and are misled!

what is a title if not a short summary or a representative of the content of the post?

no previous "analysis" ever pointed to anywhere lower than $10k. in fact all of them were saying that $10k is a major thing and it can not be broken that easily. and as you can see bitcoin barely went below it which shows they were right because it couldn't last enough time to be considered a bottom.

all those who were pretending to analyze and said it is going to $6k were planning on scaring newbies into selling more so that their cheaper buy orders they placed before at $10k and 9k could have been filled.

they are also far less used than bitcoin so they have lower fees based on their lower usage.
ETH has a bigger usage and it has a higher fee. fees that have reached $4 per transaction in times of congestion. and the blockchain of it is so huge that you can no longer use a full node unless you are a centralized server.

it also is un-used and centralized. if you want to use a centralized payment system use Paypal.

it can not handle that many transactions per second. so it has a scaling issue although it is so much better that blockchain based cryptos.

very true.
hopefully we start seeing some real competition this year instead of centralized shitcoins such as ETH and XRP.

many of the altcoins will get pumped throughout next year. and because of these pumps they will skyrocket. but that still doesn't mean you should invest in them, specially not now and then hope they get pumped.

and if you look at their histories you can see they only get pumped in a short time. the small ones during one day (24 hours) and the bigger ones will take a little longer but the same pattern still is true.

because first of all it is BTC/USD on GDAX and BTC/USDT on binance. the first one is a market when people can trade bitcoin with US dollar (USD) and the second one is a market where people trade bitcoin with an altcoin called USDT or tether which is not such a trusted altcoin to use. so it may have less demand at times compare to real fiat.

secondly $300-$500 difference in bitcoin price is 2.5%-4.2% difference. that is not a big deal. specially during the high fluctuations when price goes up and down big time. markets are not directly connected to each other and traders are not the same people on everywhere. sometimes there is a bigger demand in one exchange compare to the other which makes this difference.

there usually is a big spread in low liquidity exchanges and little to no trading history on their platform. and when people are looking for arbitrage trading between two exchanges they don't look at the best "Bid" or best buy order on the exchange they want to sell, instead they look at the best "Ask" or the best sell order and because of the big spread the profit is seemingly huge but what they miss is that in low liquidity exchanges nobody is going to buy from you at that high price.

why "counter strategy"?
if people can predict a market direction they should logically join it. for example if they expect a large number of shorts and a big drop, they also sell, short, etc to join the movement and make money the same way and then they would buy back at the bottom when the time for it passes which is after the contracts expiry time was reached.
don't you think that is more possible?

the real investors already know this and are silently investing in bitcoin in each dip they buy as much bitcoin as their pockets allow them. and what most people are missing is that in the past year it was not just some rally when price goes up, it was a lot of adoption and a crazy number of new people who started buying bitcoin that helped the rally be what it was in 2017 and those new people aren't going anywhere and more new people are coming in.

as for buying opportunity there are two types of investors. the long term dudes who know the real potential and nor not fans of trading so they buy in each of these dips of 30-40% drops and enjoy the ride. and the other type is the short term investors which obviously enjoy these short term fluctuations and you keep seeing them as the most "vocal members" of the community talking about how bitcoin is gonna drop soon big time!

wow, this was unexpected regarding taxation!


I could see the legalization and flexible taxation laws, which happens in a lot of countries including Japan, but to have NO tax on trading and mining and other stuff is really unexpected. looks like their government is not greedy!

this would help increase the adoption of cryptocurrencies in this small country. but it also may help creation of a lot of ICOs since that is also legal and tax free, I just hope they don't abuse this and don't start creating lots of bullshit ICOs there!

if your "friend" was not an idiot then he would have never advised you to sell your bitcoin.

and it is not just because he told you to "sell", I would have said the same thing if he told you to buy bitcoin. generally speaking someone who is confidently giving you financial advice about buying and selling stuff is an idiot because we never know, and when it comes to bitcoin it becomes even harder.

there is always a chance of price dropping or rising. sometimes there is a bigger chance of drop so you sell and sometimes there is a bigger chance of rise so you buy. but you will never know it for sure.
besides right now is one of those times that the chance of rising is bigger than chance of dropping.

LOL. blame it on my weak English but there is nothing called "Downside bubble" as far as I know. he is trying so hard to create a new concept which does not exist and he is too vague about it which is why everyone is making the conclusion based on the title and a little bit of his vague content.

maybe the word "opposite bubble" would have been better although it still doesn't make any sense! "cucked out bubble"? haha...

it is not at all a complicated thing to create! I have never checked out either one of Exodus, Jaxx or Coinomi to say anything about them, but the process is pretty simple using either one of these APIs like the shapeshift or simply creating a decentralized exchange among the users of that wallet.

for example when you run the wallet you become a peer on the decentralized network of exchange. then you can see all the others and their bids and asks and either tell them your bids and asks or just accept one of their offers and fill it.

this way you own your private keys and nobody can rob you. but when you use exchanges (the centralized ones) and their wallets you don't have the private keys and they easily rob you as Cryptsy, Mt Gox, Bittrex,... have already done.

the bloodbath for bitcoin was a panic sell initiated by the whales to shake out some weak hands and possibly it was because of the futures contracts that ended yesterday. either that or the expectation of it to happen caused the panic sell.
that ended more than 20 hours ago when price bottomed out and everyone could enjoy the huge discount they received on their purchases. the accumulation begun and everyone has been buying like crazy.

as for altcoins the bloodbath is the dumping that is the follow up of their fake pumps which caused lots of bubbles in each of them. when bitcoin had its drop everyone dumped alts to rush to bitcoin market and now that bitcoin is rising again everyone will start investing in bitcoin and focus their funds there so altcoins can potentially continue to have the bloodbath for a longer time.

I still don't see the benefit of making it local, it creates a lot of limitations and it will be very hard to make it popular. there currently are a lot of ways to connect to each other and play for example you can start a Dota2 tournament and even do live cast in game with commentators and anyone anywhere in the world who has Dota2 can start watching the game or join the tournament.
you can even stream it in video form in twitch website.

the cost will be a lot for a small operation. going the live casting on twitch and inside game if it has the option is a better choice in my opinion.

the thing about bitcoin's demand is that most people who happen to also be silent investors with wise money, they don't care about these short term dramas that bitcoin has. they know the facts and that is enough for them to invest. facts such as the scarcity of bitcoin due to its limited supply. the fact that bitcoin is a decentralized currency that nobody can control and will give them  effectively freedom over their finances. and a lot more.

so when there is a dip like this, they happily increase their shares of this limited supply currency. and guess what in a couple of years people will call it "unfair" that they have more bitcoin than them just like they are calling those who were buying at $10 "unfair" right now.

I'm sorry that you missed the opportunity to buy at the bottom when the market was giving you a discount or possibly sold there instead and now you are screwed but that doesn't mean because you made a mistake bitcoin should now be in a bubble!

there is no bubble. the bubble that existed was around $20,000 which then burst and it was corrected back at $14,000. from that price to the current rate it is an artificial low due to FUD and lots of idiots who were considered weak hands who panicked and sold their coins cheap to the whales who are now buying bitcoin as much as they can to accumulate for the next rally.

size does not matter.

so far as I know, nobody is really using it yet (that is why I said more of a future solution) these use cases (selling shirt by blockstream?) and the VPN thing was for testing purposes and showing how it works. there also have been others such as buying a coffee, etc. they use small payments because it is meant to show how small payments are possible for no fee using LN. otherwise buying a Lamborghini using LN doesn't really say much

DAO was and still is a fundamental bug in ETH platform that can happen at any time again and it has already happened at least 3 times with 3 other smart contracts if I am not mistaken but the size were small and the ETH foundation didn't lose any money because of it so it stayed out of the news. and the fork didn't solve anything about it.
don't compare that with LN which is a new software and may have some bugs.


as I said I am not an expert in this matter so you may want to consult someone else too.
but as far as I can tell it is ready. the protocol (just like bitcoin protocol) has been ready for a very long time and (just like bitcoin has bitcoin core, electrum, armory, multibit,...) there are multiple implementation of it in different projects. these projects are rather new and need more testing but you can still use them and start looking into each of them and see which one is more suitable to your need.

whenever there is a drop like previous days you should invest in the dip or buy the dip not after it is done. you see the biggest part of investment that makes some people successful and others not, is timing. when price is dropping you should sell at the beginning of it not at the end, and the same way when price dropped you should buy at the end (bottom) not at the beginning or when it was over and it already went up.

right now the dip is over so the golden opportunity to buy at cheapest price is over. now you should only buy if you believe in the future of bitcoin and believe it can go much higher than this. I say it will go to $20,000+ by the end of next month. but that is up to you to come up to a decent speculation of you own.