I have control, I stop when I run out of money to gamble  . but when I still have the capital, the desire to limit betting in gambling is a bit difficult because there is a sense of wanting to get more in betting.

whether it's true or not, I think your expectations are too high. why so many people are expecting so high, it doesn't hurt but if making a slightly realistic prediction might still be accepted by common sense, for example I predict the price of BCH will touch 500usd and the highest is 1000usd. One thing is for sure the price of bitcoin until next year there will not be a big increase, so bitcoincash will also not experience a high increase.
Believe it or not, this is according to my predictions after I read various news lately and it seems the trend is still the same as this year. (You may not believe, this is only in my perspective)

Basically, Alts can maintain its price because of bitcoin, if bitcoin has gone down, then Alts will follow it. plus now there are many bad rumors about IEO investments, many scam projects everywhere, this is also increasingly affecting the prices of all alts, it is not surprising that altcoin prices are getting disappointing. getting worse when conditions like this. only altcoin in top 5 at CMC isn't too disappointing.

if I remember correctly before 2018, the distribution was carried out by the manager and the project team never used their team as a manager in the bounty program but everything changed after the number of managers' performance that was not correct and often cheating then therefore now the project teams had do not entrust the distribution carried out by managers outside the team.
there are good and bad things, good at reducing cheating by incompetent managers, the bad thing is, often not paid and is not responsible because they are directly handled by the project itself.
The last bounty manager I participated in and really believed was at the bountyhive portal, because I think everything was handled by the bountyhive team, everything was paid even though not all of them (the project) were successful but still paid.

I do feel the same as you but I'm sure this is only temporary.
Conditions like this are common, let alone approaching halving bitcoin, precisely those who spread the bad news like now because they want to take advantage of the price of bitcoin when it drops at its lowest price and then they buy it until it reaches the highest price.

bad news again in the crypto world, it seems like this scenario has been planned to weaken crypto. and true, it seems absurd, why pro hackers ask ethereum developers to teach how to launder money lol  . from here the news looks as if intentionally and planned by the U.S or someone, to make crypto is looks bad.

You are very optimistic with the hope that the price of bitcoin will rise to 50k, if you can hold bitcoin up to that price and will not sell it until you get the target, wow you are extremely patient. I personally can't do that because the expectations are too high, but if holding bitcoin until the price touches 20k, I can do that.
and by the way, it's not automatically the price will go up higher just because of halving bitcoin in 2020, I'm sure there will be a process for several months after halving occurs, well after that maybe the price will rise.

I have used IDAX exchange but that was then if now it is no longer. wow, after upbit (hacked), then IDAX (CEO has gone missing with unknown causes), again drama, for this one I am very sure IDAX will definitely end scam, this reminds me of cryptopia, although it's a different case but it ends in a scam.

from my perspective, why only ethereum was stolen, why not all of bitcoin and the erc20 tokens as well. and why this also happens when the moment like this, looks like a "drama" but the issue is immediately ignored by the upbit, and upbit bravely responsible for returning all ethereum stolen by hackers. I know hackers are getting smarter but it's still weird, only ethereum is stolen. Even so, hopefully with incident like yesterday, I hope other market exchanges will start to increase security so that the same incident does not recur.

The price of ethereum in 2020 is between $200 - $300 ( I guess), this is if the price of bitcoin only increases a little. because I'm not sure about the conditions in 2020, for now I'm not sure to predict the price of bitcoin including ethereum will experience a high price increase.

I give that advice because in my opinion it is the fastest way with a capital of 9$. and also I already said that this method is not justified, if there is an option that is better than this, then take that option.

if what you say is true, it means it is very good, unlike other exchange places when IEO is finished the money is given directly to the project team, in contrast to the binance that hold/store money investors first before the product is released. Well, after there is a product (product release) binance then gives the money to the project team. wow, binance means providing full guarantees to investors. I have never invested IEO in binance so I don't really know but if what you say is true, it is incredible Binance.

a little difficult with that amount of capital to trade, the fastest way and that is suitable for that kind of capital is at the place of gambling, although this method is not justified.
if you still want to decide to trade, you will only spend a lot of time by only getting a small profit. if not, try to buy an asset that is cheap and then hold it until the price rises (long term).

It's the same as what I did when I first learned about bitcoin, wanted to invest but didn't have the capital. start following a number of campaigns and eventually become a bounty hunter too and until being bored and tired as it is today, it could say now I have enough capital to invest. After that, I started to reduce my job as a bounty hunter because I took too much time before only to make posts and report links to bounty managers. (I feel my decision is right)

Can be 2 months before halving and continue after halving. this is just my prediction, it could be wrong.
Actually no one knows exactly when it happened because the moment happened usually when there was something "big". I mean, something that could affect the demand for buying in large quantities, could be caused by halving btc or there was good news about bitcoin, now legal or something else.

too risky if staking coins in an exchange wallet.
it is better to store coins in your own wallet that you can store your private key, many variants of options for the wallet you want to use, depending on the type and needs. atomic wallet is also good, can store private keys.

hard to find a top trader in this forum, maybe the old players in this forum are the average top traders? can be! I rarely see them following a campaign and they are here just to chat with each other. no one will confess, are you the top trader in this forum? the answer is clear, no. too dangerous to confess. I think that's a secret.

I personally doubt that, if the price of ethereum is discussed I can be very sure it can happen but can Litecoin be able to reach 1000$ in a few years? I don't feel so sure. If there really is an increase, my predict the highest price range is only around 500$. this case if the price of bitcoin does not touch the price of 20k usd, because if the price of bitcoin soars surely all doubts will turn out to be unexpected.

actually the system like you mentioned has happened before you joined bitcointalk forum. but because it was ineffective, finally all ranks were allowed to join the signature bounty campaign and it continues to this day.
so if in the future there will be changes like that, I'm not surprised anymore and I support that. Regardless of whether the project is successful or not, fewer participants means less chaos is created, easy to resolve if there is an act of cheating.

not all IEOs are profitable even if they are held on a top exchange market. Nah, some I am follow IEO in a small exchange and some in big exchange. The one that makes me always remember and trauma is IEO OCEAN at bittrex, I lost a lot because of it.