Yeah, the pressure has been pretty huge recently and I am very surprised and even find it interesting that bitcoin is really holding up strong despite all this. Everything that happens now is all under probability and no one can actually give any substantial stuff to say that bitcoin may go lower than the previous low in this year or it will remain the way it is or even start a bull rally, but whatever it is, time is all that will give us the final answer.

Apparently, finding opportunities is one thing that makes a trader different from a self-proclaimed trader without any skill or knowledge about trading. Once you know what you are doing anyway, you will always get confident over time and you will get to make good decisions from the knowledge you have gained without just gambling anything in the market.

Many people who get emotional today always have this notion of buying low and selling high without knowing a single way to analyze their position before even getting in and when things turn awry, they start shaking and sweating.

So true, a lot of people have taken this path in the past and they ended up living to regret it. We may think the world of crypto-currency is going to be doing great in the long run, but it is not something one should ever consider taking a loan for because that is terribly absurd.

No one knows what tomorrow holds and even those who are investing, are doing so with what they can afford or look over in case something happens, let alone, for someone to take a loan to invest? Nah way!

That has always been the mentality of every individual. I am sure if bitcoin has been stable and does not have much growth as it is now, then a lot would not have even been here and those who only see the main usefulness of bitcoin as a currency that can help them get freedom from the government financial shackles will end up being in this space but we cannot deny that this has also helped with a lot of growth for bitcoin, so one way or the other it still helped for development as people still got greedy.

We are already getting to see some positive news and with that I am sure gradually the market will start stepping back as we break out from the current downtrend completely. I so much believe in bitcoin really giving us a great future ahead knowing that this is the future for most of us the believers and nothing is absolutely going to change that in anyway. We are gradually going to start hitting the growth phase and that would mean a lot.

We are still in the last month of the first quarter and we have 3 more to go and if anyone is not optimistic about that, then that is their cup of tea. We still have a lot of room for development and growth and I believe that this will make things a lot better for the future of bitcoin and its value. $30,000 is not too much to attain before the end of the year, and even if we do not, we still have long years ahead of us.

Yeah, it has and always will and I totally believe that we will be experiencing some good move in the market very soon. If we can at least even hover past this major resistances and settle in at $10000, that would be a very good one for bitcoin, but I want to believe that we may have to see how things end up turning out from here. Nothing is wrong with bitcoin as far as I am concerned; we are just taking our time.

Why? Because of what? It is a market and if people panic and dump, that is what happens but does that mean it cannot recover or the price will remain as low as you can imagine? No! Every market is bound to fluctuate and I do not understand the value you already fixed in your mind for Ethereum right now with what you have said, but whatever is going on now apparently changes nothing for the future.

Price oscillation of ethereum tells us nothing and there is absolutely nothing to be worried about. The market is volatile and it is always bound to fluctuate most of the time, so I do not see what the whole panic is all about. Ethereum may be struggling in your own eyes and you may think bitcoin is going lower than you would have expected, but at least they are all not where they used to be a year ago.

Doing this obviously would save anyone including the OP so many traumas in the future. It is not always about coinmarketcap, it is usually about what you are holding and how far it can go which anyone can only know by trying to dig the team, understand how ready they are to work, the availability of a product and how sound it is in the real world.

It may have a low trade volume which is why it has not appeared on coinmarketcap, but either way, as long as you can check those ones I have mentioned out, which should be the decision making points.

The thing is that people will always find a way to still do what they love even if it is illegal and still find a way to stay outside the government's radar. It is always too risky though considering the penalties when caught and considering the possibilities of being ratted out by someone in the long run, but in that case, they always end up having their group and they prefer sticking to those who are fully registered.

Obviously, if you go against the rule, the law will not be there to have mercy on you but you will have to serve your punishment. I do not know if it is addiction that would make someone to go against the laws of the country or they are just too bold to dare the government of their country. I really do not like looking at my back every now and then after doing something, if it is that case, then what is the point when I do not have rest of mind.

Same here in my country. There is a look the society gives you when you are involved in things that would probably jeopardize the life of you and family if you are not very careful and that makes them to give you that 'oh, he is a gambler' kind of look.
Everyone should be entitled to whatever they do anyway, but I feel some culture will not permit gambling being a culture in the society considering the number of people in the past that have done such and did not go well with them.

Basically, it is not important since everything till balls down on luck anyway. Before you even start, it is best you switch your thought to negative and know that you may lose everything and that should at least set you on track not to expect so much. Positive thinking on the other hand will fine tune your emotions and make you to end up doing more than yourself. If everyone is busy having positive thinking, casinos both offline and online should have gone bankrupt by now.

Simple as that! The main reason why we are here is because we want to invest in a coin with a product and solution and apparently a stable coin which apparently makes it centralized and controlled defeats that objective and since that is defeated, what is then the point? I would just rather stick with fiat like you said, since I know I will have my government to deal with if anything happens, than holding a centralized digital currency.

If I want stable I will move to fiat. What is the point holding a stable coin? It total shows one thing if it is stable, which the fact that it is centralized is, controlled and have nothing to offer than to close the normal fiat. So, why would I even trust those who have decided to launch a stable coin when I can just at least stick to the centralized fiat without worrying? I even find it hard to want to leave my holdings during a trade in USDT considering all the things that have been said.

The millennial obviously have an upper advantage anyway, with the fact that they reached their adulthood in the jet age. The old cargos are just living borrowed time presently and they are still so much in the past while just living in the present, since it is always going to be hard for them to easily adapt to the strong change in technology.

Additionally the target market is somehow still restricted to those who have access to the internet easily, since without that, you are in total darkness from the digital world.

If he cannot trade and he wants to go long, he may wait a little bit for  a retest actually and if he can still lay his hands on buying at $8500, it would not be a bad idea, because there may actually be a big bounce at $6000 and he may end up not seeing his buy order hit.

Whichever way, I believe we are in the buying season as long as people are afraid to buy, you should be doing the opposite and when greed is entering the market and everyone is buying with the whole thing looking crazy, then you may want to consider the opposite as a trader. Holders usually do not mind anyway.

A lot of people always end up sentimental or drawing conclusions when they should obviously do some research to know the real thing before commenting. Trading or holding both depends on the individual level of knowledge. Where trading requires a lot of knowledge, holding does not require much unless to understand what you are investing in. However, from what supermine said, that is absolutely untrue. A trader will always make more in the long run than a holder, as you keep making more as a trader from the fluctuations, but like I said, it is not for everyone.

Asides from that even being part of risk management, common sense should always tell people that, but humans are bound to always get greedy as they want to acquire so much for themselves in a very short while than they can imagine and anyone doing that is bound to panic and fail big time. For anyone that is trading though, the best thing during crisis is to chill.

Moreover, if anyone is knowledgeable enough, they will not classify it as crisis but an opportunity, so I will re-twist that to; wait and go back to the books to learn.

Jumping into another alt right now is even more like jumping from frying pan into fire as they are all beaten as well and this is a wide correction going on in the market and it affects every other cryptocurrencies with bitcoin being on the leading front. All the above, it does not make sense switching into alts in this case and would rather keep holding bitcoin or go into fiat until the whole thing dies down and there is huge light ahead of us to eliminate all these FUDs.

MtGox generally right from the onset has never brought anything but negativity into the market so I am not surprised. I guess the whole thing is more like, if we cannot win, we can delay its growth, and otherwise he would not have done what he did by selling making use of an exchange when he could have easily done that over the counter like you said.

I wish they can just allow him to sell whatever is left, I would not mind buying it from him at $500, as long as he is willing to accept and I am sure no trader wants to give him that opportunity of selling at a high price as it is.

You can always take a chance with every pair but that will be applicable to someone who knows how to trade and I am sure the OP may not be in that shoe. But why stress myself anyway since I eventually still trade ETH against BTC and BTC being the legacy coin, which virtually 100% of other altcoins are traded with, then I do not see why U should choose ETH pair over BTC pair.

As long as OP is buying the alts to hold, what differs? However, if he is a trader and he is trying to trade a specific pair based on the reaction to it and whether it is acting bullish on that pair or bearish, then he can decide to go ahead with any of them, at the end though, it is all about the decision and what he was holding to buy those pairs but it does not really change anything. For instance, an altcoin may be acting bullish on Ethereum but not on bitcoin, so it all depends on skills of smart trade.

He is not mixing apple and oranges and he is not talking about crowdfunding here but a platform crowdholding.com, so you should have at least look well yourself before throwing darts on someone who is even more correct than you are. Crowdholding is a platform that allows you to share your candid opinion about projects and you get some rewards in return for it, but not as easy as it looks as you have to work for it as well, just a little Google and reviews online will help.