The scammers are getting better and better at what they do so sometimes it makes it harder for us to vet which ones are real and which ones are bad. Even the most known people can be paid in sponsorship and they could be bought and hype the coin and when you see someone important telling everyone one coin is good usually makes everyone get hyped up about that coin and get into it. Only to realize that coin was a scam coin and they made the famous person tell it because he got money for it.

There are times they lie about who supports their coins and you believe it unless you really research and learn it actually is not true. Scammers get away with millions of dollars from these ICO projects so they sometimes spend thousands of coins just to get more money from you and run away with it.

Honestly, how can you have MINUS 200 when the most you can get is minus 100 which means it went to zero.
Yours did not went to zero but there was couple coins that actually reached into 90%+ loss which is insane to think about.

It is not ICON only, there are man coins out there like nano that went down 98% at one point which is really dangerous to think about. You get in with small numbers and that is still fine however think about someone who got like 10 thousand dollar worth of nano and now sitting on 200 dollars or something, that is really risky and could make someone get away from crypto trading forever.

Yours is just lost like 3/4 of what it used to be and that is not horrible in this market, unfortunately that is still better than what ethereum did for example, so you are fine, with one bull run you will be above what you need.

One thing with so many people who want to trade is that they keep trying to want to look for shortcuts, but in reality, there is no shortcut, and even if you manage to see one that claims to be a shortcut, you just find out the hard way eventually that there is nothing like a shortcut to being a successful trader when it comes to trading a market. I see it as every trader just trying to outsmart each other, and in this case, you really want to be having a strategy and trying as much as possible to stick with it and trade it without any emotions. Those who always look for what the likes of OP is looking for always end up getting burned eventually.

I have never even come across anything of such in the first place, let alone imagine there would ever be anything of such. Most people tend not to realize that sometimes, when they are looking for easy way to do things, they always end up with something that will get them screwed eventually. Trading a market is not ABC, neither will you ever find an easy way out as a trader, you just have to learn, and that is all that it takes. After learning, you will be able to build a strategy and from there you will realize yourself making your own call and doing well, not looking for something you can never find.

Honestly I never thought about this but you could be onto something. Considering one of the biggest troubles while trading is the stress and the panic that is caused by drop in price or not going up enough and what not than the meditation could be really helpful to anyone who would love to calm down and definitely will help you to become a better trader.

Right now, many people trade with their emotions and allow their feelings to control their trading and that usually costs people money and results with losses. You do not want to trade with your emotions and you would prefer to move money with indicators and patterns which is done by having no emotions while trading.

Meditation could help there and whenever you feel like you are going to do something impulsive than you can go do meditation and get your mind out of the trading world.

When classifying if an investment is actually worth investing, that should be dependent on how you are able to come up with that conclusion. Will that be based on the team, the project idea, the available product, the long term prospect, the possible demand for the product in the future and some other factors that makes you feel it will have a future ? I have noticed a lot of people make decisions that are not informed and in that case, instead of even understanding what quality means, all they look at is numbers and assumptions in their head that they get rich with those numbers.

Well, there is no harm in that, as every decisions you make as an investor depends on your appetite for risk actually, and knowing that this market at this point, is actually not something we can probably guarantee anything, most especially when bitcoin controls everything, it is always better to at least usually try as much as possible to take some risk that is calculated and worth it most of the time.

Now, I am not sure how you came up with XRP, but most times when I see people choosing ripple as choice of investment and still considering less risk at the same time, i will say that is even more risky than you can imagine for an altcoin for so many reasons.

The thing with the three category mentioned by the OP is that they are all very important to the way the project eventually turns out. On a normal day, if there is nothing catchy about a project, then there is no way you will even be able to get the attraction of the investors into your project, which makes the possibility of having a community not to even be a thing.

What is important is a good, experienced and hardworking team that will be ready to build a pretty good product, and this is what the community will be centered on. You cannot leave the main thing, and focus on another, when it is that main thing that will bring about the community in the first place. For the success of the project eventually, everything is equally important.

Normally, how will a tree be able to have some fruit without its branches? That is the way everything is intertwined. Firstly, the team comes first, which is why I see the whole team as developers and innovators behind the project, so in most cases, to be able to build a solid community, there should at least be some good team and developers working pretty well to at least keep enticing more investors into their product idea. Now, as the support keep growing, so will the community keep growing, and what is the success of a project without its community support ?

It may be unpleasant to you, but for some of us it is actually very pleasant. Probably you should be seeing the market in different light and stop fighting it most of the time. When you see a downtrend like this, it gives you an opportunity to buy and when you start seeing people get extremely greedy, it gives you an opportunity to sell.

The basic truth is that a lot of people do not always get to understand these things, and instead, they keep going against the right thing to do in the market by buying when everyone is getting greedy and selling when everyone is panicking. Probably, people should get to understand that the only way they can get out of it is to fine tune their mentality and strategy as well as approach to the market.

I have actually seen some ICOs with great community that got listed for free but it does not come every now and then like that. However, if we look at the market currently, we will realize that a lot of the exchanges actually are beginning to have some strict rules when it comes to listing tokens or new coins on the block, and in that case, it has made it difficult for some to want to pay such huge amount of listing fees at the end of it all. However, the main essence why crowd funding came into play, is for the development of the project, and for a project that was able to raise enough, i really do not see any reason why they should have an issue when it comes to listing on reputable exchanges.

Well, that is what makes them a big exchange, isn't it ? As they have the infrastructure and facilities, as well as some great number of users and volume, so one way or the other, if you want your coin or token exposed to more traders and investors, you will just have to be willing to pay for it as well. Although, I can relate with the fact that sometimes, I feel it is getting too huge these days as we tend to see some exchanges asking for a huge listing fee and for the fact that you have to go with some criteria before getting listed, but in a way, i feel it will help rid the space of some shit coins eventually anyway.

It is just quite unfortunate that those who tend to panic unnecessarily are usually the ones that get to lose out in the end. That has always been the plan considering this is a highly speculative market and a lot of people are getting greedy, wanting to get rich overnight, and so ignorant to even understand the market or even understand the risk, but they are just simply after how to make quick bucks.

This makes it so easy for the whales and institutions to tamper with their minds shake them off, and before you know it, they are back joining FOMO all over again. It is always that bad because they usually get to learn the hard way while some even chicken out saying the space is a scam without even considering how gullible, selfish and greedy they are to get a clear mindset in the first place.

There is actually a lot you need to understand when it comes to bounty campaigns as a whole and that is the fact that every project will always have some allocation of some sort to every bounty campaign which would always vary and in that case, this is the main reason why stakes have always been used.

Hence, if you are planning to go against this rule, that means you are not considering some of the factors I have listed first before even trying to think what would make sense for every bounty hunter in the first place. I could have as well just end up telling you $10 per action will make a lot of sense. Probably you should go check how others are really doing it and why, then inculcate that into the idea you want to bring and see how it can work in real life, which i doubt.

There is really no error there, as this is just someone that probably is the one making the error actually which I am sure such a person will probably find out and quickly remove the ask price. That is a huge one compared to the current market price.

Nevertheless, it is nothing to be worried about considering that IDEX will most definitely not have anything to do with this since it is a decentralized exchange and I would not be raising too much of an alarm actually because of that or calling it a red flag. It is just a market and someone is outbidding in the market as far as I am concerned, either knowingly or mistakenly.

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We should understand that manipulation is something that happens generally with all of us as traders, and this has nothing to do with one particular exchange like IDEX. This is just some traders trying to possibly instigate some movement in the market by trying to manipulate the FTEC price anyway. I understand what OP worries, it is nothing new and it happens every time even on centralized exchanges, however, for the fact that IDEX is even a decentralized exchange, it makes manipulation even a lot easier.

For the fact that this is an unregulated space, and even at that, for the fact that it is an exchange that is decentralized.

It doesn't have to that's why. It doesn't have to grow insanely every single year, it doesn't have to grow at all, it can go up or down or go sideways and the market owes no one an apology for dropping.

Some people bought bitcoin for quite cheap and sold it at around $20k or whatever and than there was some people who thought bitcoin will skyrocket more and because of the $20k there were more people who heard about it and wanted to get in and make some money from it seeing how everyone else did but than the market was like "that is enough of this" and started to drop and now everyone keeps asking if or when will the bitcoin price go back up because they got it too high.

Well, no one forced you to buy too high, you saw people that made x3-x5 and even x100 who knows and decided to get in and be really rich but things didn't worked out the way you want it to and now you feel like you are "owed" that x3-x5 or even x100.

I believe most people just tend to assume things in their head because of the bear market and just simply state that because the market is not growing, investors are out. But, system is most important for attracting the new investors. When more platforms are availble with enhanced features then we can expect more people start investing. Yes, we may see a lot of people hedging in fiat at the moment, but that does not mean, we still do not get to see the rate at which the market adoption has increased over the years and still increasing hugely as time goes on.

One thing with life is that you see exactly what you want to see, and since during a bear market, what most people see is negative, they just pretty much imagine that investors are no longer increasing in the market, and I believe that is one thing time will tell and we will get to see how the increase in exchanges will even be of help when we get to see huge boom in this market.

Yes, we must develop the habit of learning from your failures, even after learning there is always a means to understand that you can still make some mistakes in between trying to fine tune your strategy and trying to get things right as this is when the experience thing comes in as you keep building on yourself and getting better. Failure only becomes one, if you allow the failure to pull you down, but when you see it as a stepping stone to getting things right, you will always do better over time. Getting excited about success too is not a bad idea as it comes naturally anyway, but not assuming it to be like you already know it all is one thing that should come to mind. As a trader, you never stop learning, both from the books and from experience.

Yes, slow and steady will always help a trader to become a pro-trader. In depth sense, only with slow progress, a trader will able to learn from his each and every action and what are needed to be repeated and what should be avoided will decide the success of a trader when a trader is consistent with his success ratio then we may consider them as a professional trader.

Learning from other's mistakes and from our own's will enable to groom as an experienced trader. Just learning will not help any trader but remembering the past events and recalling them for right usage at required time are only possible for professional traders. Being a professional trader is not an easy task as it requires lots of dedicated tasked to be ticked all the times.

I do not really understand how decentralized exchanges make money aside from listing. I mean I understand they ask for a lot of money for putting new coins there from the coin team (except the big ones of course) but aside from that what is there to make money ? If they are taking fee's for trading how decentralized could it be ?

I understand dex is much more secure in trust aspect considering you are holding your coins but honestly it comes with the problem that you need to have a ledger or get the wallet or something for the coin you want to trade.

I would rather use the current centralized ones because it really gives me the freedom to be lazy and just put my money there and do whatever I want with it there without putting much work on me. Either you will have more secure website that makes you work more or you are going to have security trouble possibilities but won't work too much for trading.

That would be investors that want to panic and fear based on their level of ignorance in understanding the market first before investing and even taking their time to realize their mistake and try as much as possible now to understand the market to make better decisions after investing and looking forward to the future while taking advantage of the moment. There is always risk in every investment, but what sets you apart as an investor in having great chances of success in the long run will be practically based on your level of knowledge to be able to manage those risks.

Lol. Even if you look at it, as long as you are able to settle your mind with the long term, you should not have a problem with the short term at all. Although I can understand that looking at it most especially when you have bought during FOMO can really be very devastating and emotionally draining, so if you know as a person that you cannot cope with such emotions, just look for a cold storage and keep your funds there, while coming back in the long run to see how things have been. Fear is something that can only kick in when you do not have long term goals as far as I am concerned.

Simplest option is to follow their prices and buy/sell accordingly. For example I personally believe that USDT is a scam token and I do not trust it a single bit. However recently it dropped like crazy and it worth like 95 cents or so for a while. Well we all know it is tied to 1 dollar and it should not be more or less from it as close as it gets. So I did what anyone with some logic would do, buy it at those prices for guaranteed profit.

Who would say no to something if you tell them something 95 cents will be 1 dollar no matter what, this is guaranteed money we are talking about, everyone would buy it. Now I am holding a bit of it and sold some of it (some places returned to 1 dollar, some places declined to use it etc) I think if you want to profit from stable coins just put a buy/sell order, whenever its low buy it, whenever it reaches to what it should be sell it. For example 97 cents to 99 cents in USDT is smart.

I think ethereum is really great right now. It is as low as it gets in a miner stand point, miners are not making decent returns anymore and certainly not even to worth mining it all the time and definitely not big enough to make a living out of it. The price is insanely low compared to what it was at the all time high and it has been on a steady decline for almost a year right now.

Considering all of this if you purchase ethereum right now than you are buying at the bottom, now I do not know how high it can get or when it will go up but I am definitely certain that 200 dollar is the bottom for ethereum and everyone should try to get at least some ethereum even if not with all of your investment (because putting all your money into one thing has been historically a wrong idea).

Check out if there is anything upcoming for ETH and try to decide for yourself but I am putting 20% of my investments into eth.

The truth is that this is what a lot of people get to see every day, but to me, it is actually more than that. I cannot deny the fact that investment is part of the reasons why we are all here, but the usage as well, coupled with the freedom it brings is one thing that matters a lot as well. You cannot be investing actually in something you do not believe in. I know a lot of people invest blindly without knowledge which is why they make a lot of mistakes anyway, but in the real sense, it is the future you see in something that makes you want to key into the present to benefit from that future.

Every crypto adopter is having their own reason to buy/invest with different cryptocurrencies but in short, everyone is targeting quick returns for their capital. It summarizes into 'cryptos are the biggest investment opportunities for all of us in these days'. Even conventional investors also started considering cryptos just for the reason of diversifying their portfolio.

A good one there bro! One thing about trading is that there is no way you can even be able to make the best decisions, if your mind is not clear and if you are not knowledgeable enough. Your style of trading will be dependent on the time you have on you as well as you knowledge to be able to do well in that style.

Trading will only become unhealthy just like any other thing, when you make it unhealthy for you. It is as simple as that. One thing with a market is that you just have to find what will be best for you and then stick with it. You do not have to be concentrating 247 on the screen just because you want to trade, and even if you want to day trade, you should always have a limit, but I guess some people probably want to have it all, or some just do not understand how to keep going about things when it comes to trading.