With altcoin trading, I agree with the you that I will not be able to make any profits there without any help from inside people. Because only devs and their team are well known about when one particular altcoin is going to be pumped or dumped. I have noticed rapid changes in price levels along with their recommendations.

For bitcoin trading, I have not come across with the any insider information so I'm not sure whether this type of manipulation is existing or not. When considering the 18+ billion dollars market cap of bitcoin markets, I believe there will be no possibility of manipulation by some people.

Yes, both gold and bitcoin are more stable as it is present for a long time, while bitcoin is very new as compare to bitcoin and making its appreciations to match gold. I think when time will pass the bitcoin will become more stable but I think the income that we can get from bitcoin right now we cannot expect it from gold.

That is the reason people are expecting bitcoin to beat gold in near future. When considering the flexibility and usage as per digital era and day to today life, bitcoin is only suitable whereas gold is completely remains as a traditional way of store of value.

Fundamentally we do not have any reasons not to believe on fiat. Fiat is being used by the people throughout the world and without fiat it is difficult to survive because bitcoin or any other crypto currency cannot provide us such facilities that fiat can. But things might differ when bitcoin will hit mainstream adoption.

Just in 2 to 5 years, I am sure bitcoin will be available every part of this world and every single person will be using it and there will be no need to depending on fiats anymore at those times. We may still believe in to fiats but we do not need to use it.

Although it is not such an easy job to find a trusted casino, but I think bitcointalk can make it easy for you to find a trusted casino, where you can invest your money in a trusted casino. But still you also need to do some investigation about the casino where are you are going to invest our money.

This is the point even veteran investors get failed because no one can be sure all the times about the future of one business. Even long searches also fail in this case.

Yeah and talking about habits I have seen gamblers who loose a lot they still rain away a little often while there are guys who win most of the time yet they never rain or share their winnings.

Not encouraging rains here but actually I am saying that each person is different and even loosing gamblers can be polite and humble while winners may be too kind or too miser in their life. We can not really conduct any survey (as op suggested ) based on these.

That is true but bonuses are always given a for a simple reason because they want to either introduce their site to you or they want you to keep gambling ( like loyalty bonuses ) and both the things are quite bad for a gambler.

In case a gambler thinks of quitting and gets an email about a new bonus they just start again and then deposit their own money. Overall, we can say bonuses works well for gambling houses but very rarely will work in favor of gamblers. Still, it is our responsibility to stay safe.

With the respect to altcoin trading, almost every trader must have strong skill set + some luck to earn.
But, luck will not be playing any significant role for bitcoin trading against fiats. Because unlike most of altcoins, bitcoin is not being manipulated randomly. With some technical analysis we can predict directions of price movements.

Still, I doubt steady income from trading and particularly from bitcoin is possible. Because I do find on some days, bitcoin prices are trading in range bound and we could not find the any decent profits within that range.

Expecting fixed income from trading for this reason still looks like a greedy for me. Trading without losses would be a big achievement rather than achieving fixed income imho.

I am not finding any exchanges offering selling-first types of trading. I have seen this feature only with Forex trading platforms. I believe, for cryptocurrency world it is completely new thing. Basically cryptocurrency exchanges are still working peer-to-peer type of exchanges whereas forex works peer-to-broker kind of exchange.

For making more bitcoins, I guess you need not looking for shorting altcoins. Making use of altcoin trading and just holding bitcoins will help you to earn better in more effective way within short period of time than you expect.

Its seems like most of the people prefer Usd/Bitcoins market.

While I am not denying guys that it's much more safe and easier since all we have to do is wait but if you are a person who has some nice understanding and knowledge then you can earn with altcoins.

Since, you can just buy some potential coins, wait for the peak to reach and then sell all of them. Tactically this market is much better while in hindsight the best market is still Usd/bitcoins.

Honestly casinos give bonus for their own benefits. They are using different trick to attract people to their casinos.
I think it is their advertisement. Some casinos give bonus through which you can only play, while some other casinos also give option to use the bonus to play with or can cash the bonus, depending on the person who is receiving the bonus.

I always look for bonuses but simply utilizing those bonus does not mean I will continue my gambling with them there after. It means I just use their bonuses just to check their services.

In my area as gambling in not legal, therefore we do not have legal casinos here.

We do not have formal casino here, we have just limited games in our casinos, actually there are more chances that the police will react and will get seal the casino therefore the owners are trying to not to invest any big amount in their casino.

Out of this, I have only option playing with online gambling sites. I just follow bitcointalk reputations while choosing my gambling site. I they are not active on this forum, I will not touch them.

But I think it depend on the bet for example if you win a millions dollar bet then it can make a rich person over nigh. But after that it depend on your strategy that how you manage that amount.

If you will continue gambling with that amount without any planning and strategy then there are more chances that you will even lose your all winning amount again and if you have some good strategy then you have chances to keep your money with you and even increase it.

Yes, payment things make necessaries for regulations.
When you are sticking within bitcoin or cryptocurrency payments with your gamblers then there would be no requirement of regulations as you never need any approval from any government.

Regulations for a casino business is mostly country specific at the same time online casino does not require these when not dealing fiats. If I plan for a casino I will not deal with fiats and physical casinos so I believe I never need to worry about regulations.

I am not preferring trading for a do or die. If I do prefer, I would have chosen gambling instead of trading. Compared to gambling trading is relatively less risk involved and that is the reason I am into trading. If penny stock trading is again similar to gambling, then I will never touch them.

After seeing this topic, I checked some learning materials on penny stock trading. But I decided to continue only crypto trading. Basically I am not preferring trading stocks, but penny stocks are unlike other stocks seems high risk involved.

That is true, holding bitcoin for a long time is not guaranteed to give you any significant profit, however if you play it smart and divide your capital into saving and exchanging that might earn you profit, the price of the bitcoin goes up and down so if you wait until it goes up and sell and then rebuy when the price is low you can double your bitcoin in no time.

It is a good idea to diversify the sources from which you take information, like Google, YouTube and even this forum which I found really helpful when it comes to learning things about bitcoin investments and other stuff, the point is to keep looking until you have a clear idea on what you are doing so you don’t make false decisions.

It is true, but in order to develop a good experience and progress and make profit in trading you have to try it for yourself.

It is okay to fail at first because failing is a part of learning so don’t be afraid to try, just start with a ow amount there are sites that allow you to trade with virtual money just to train and when you feel you got the hang of it you can start trading like a pro.

The same "over-confident" makes it is difficult to quit gambling. When we are foreseeing your profits, how we will quit such system ? I believe gambling has all the characteristics to inject us those confident levels slowly. Only realizing the true nature of gambling will help a gambler to overcome the real difficulties of quitting gambling.

But, within that period of time, most gamblers get addictions and after that quitting it becomes too hard for them. This also fixes with having a limit for gambling bankroll. Honestly I am not finding any working way to quit gambling.

But if you are into right gambling then you can have more factors other than just luck. I do gamble on cricket betting, no one can claim that I am making money there just for being lucky. I spend more than hour before making a bet for analysis.

Only due to analysis, I am able to bet on any team whereas my friends do bet on only our home team. That ls differences of using analysis.

I am afraid again $1150 will play as strong resistance zone as many bitcoiners still believe ATH would be the profit booking levels. The good thing is this time we are having massive investment news ETF to support prices. Still I am also very much confident this time bitcoin prices are going to see $1500 levels before making any turn, that too before end of February itself possible.