No one knows when would the price would rise. There are so many ICOs launch recently and even listed in exchanges but are below ICO price and some even 90% lower then ICO price which makes the investors infuriated because they are hoping that the price would rise upon listing in exchanges but the opposite happen. If the developers are still active then better hold the coin if you do not need the funds at the moment but if you need funds then better think if you wanted to let go of that investment or not. There may be some hope and wait for the team to have working product to see if  it can attract more investors.


Just like what you said, a good marketing strategy is important so that it can attract more investors and it s momentum will stay. It is better for the team to have good news from time to time so that investors wouldn't lose faith and if they can follow their roadmap or maybe ahead of it then it would be better. There are good projects but behind in marketing and their team are active too but they have low price because they weren't able to attract more supporters while there are projects that has too much hype that's why they have high price.

Some are profitable and some are not. If you want to do it just for speculation purposes without doing any research then one strategy that I have read is to let the price subside. Usually the price would spike after listing and after sometime, price would go down until such time when it found a support and start going up again. It is very risky since most of the technical analysis has a history to base from but this kind of strategy works for some but you can be rekt too following this strategy. Make sure that the coin you would be buying has good fundamentals so that you have a chance that people would support it.


A successful ICO means that many are interested in the project but there is a risk that they would dump it upon listing in the exchanges so better be wary and take all necessary precaution when buying those newly listed coins. You can search if there is bounty campaign and the bounties are already distributed since there is a higher possibility for the price being dumped by bounty hunters and wait for the time there is seller exhaustion and then you can buy.

The first one you are talking about is the shake out which is usually occurring in a support and they will further push the prices down so that the traders who put stop losses below the support would be liquidated and then it will give them more liquidity so that they can buy more bitcoin at a lower price. This is just one of the price manipulation strategy but there are various type of it in the market. One of the most famous is the pump and dump wherein whales or even a group of traders would buy a coin simultaneously to make the price higher and attract more people to buy it and when the price is higher, they would sell their position and those who bought at the top would be left behind.

You can take a look at this video explaining the different types of price manipulation in the market and further understand their purpose and how they've done it. It will help you as well to detect those manipulation so that you can avoid it or take advantage from it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If8ZM8GkThg

Taking your initial investment would be a big help so that you can control your emotion. Knowing that what is left in the market is your profit is an assurance that wherever the market will go, you still have a profit and you will have a rational thinking of when you should decide to take it all. Having a trading plan or sell levels would help in deciding when is the right time to sell. As for me, I don't wait for big gains but instead, I aim for small gains and if that profit percentage is reach, I would move my stop loss above so that in case the price go south, I am assured that I have less losses or I still have small profit. I let my profits run but I am strict to when should I stop my losses especially in this very volatile market.

Security will be the key to make sure to make sure that your bitcoin is safe. First, secure your private key and make sure no one knows about it because if anyone will have access to your private key then expect that you can lose your bitcoin anytime because he will also have access to it. It would be favorable if you save your bitcoin in a hardware wallet like Trezor or Ledger Nano and print all the necessary information and keep it somewhere safe. You can avoid being hacked through this way since the key to access your wallet is non-existent online.


If you hold a number of coins then better separate it in different wallets so that even if one of them is hacked, you still have other coins in different wallets. I know someone who has quite a number of coins and he separate his coins in different wallets around 10 of them. If you keep a large portion of your wealth in crypto then better have a lawyer so that you are ready when something happens and your family can still have access to it.

I believe so. If all other countries in the world are already welcoming cryptocurrencies with open arms then they may change their stance towards cryptocurrency. There are many countries that are still closing their doors toward crypto but the statement of CFTC is indeed an eye opener that cryptocurrency is already part of the economy and it is not going anywhere anytime soon. Many are already benefiting from cryptocurrency and although the legal implications about it is still questionable, some countries are taking positive stance about it which would be followed eventually by others in the future.

If more people adopts cryptocurrency then its future would be bright. We are still in the stage wherein projects base on blockchain technology would be tested that uses cryptocurrency and how it can help for the businesses processes to be more efficient and effective. As what we can observe now, more people are getting interested in it and basing on the number of projects that are release day by day, it would be a big help if we use the coins for its actual use case.


Some of the limitations can be overcome if the owner of the coins would apply security measures to ensure that its coins are safe. We have yet to see what will be the final decision of the government when it comes to cryptocurrency as they still do not know how to treat it and there are still some pending regulations that they have yet to discuss. As we are waiting for their decision which I think will be good news for crypto community, let us help each other promote cryptocurrency to someone who is willing to learn about it.

Before buying any coin, make sure you know what is happening to that coin because there might be some news about it in the future or maybe bad news so it is important that research should be done first. Participating in pump and dump is not a good idea because those who bought early would surely dump their coins when the price go up and when you notice the coin when it is already up then better leave it and find another coin. Don't chase the highs because there is a high possibility you will just be dumped on.


That's the reason you should buy a coin when it is still low in price but good fundamentals. There are so many pump and dump groups nowadays and they just choose what exchange they would pump a coin. Studying the price action of the coin would be a good way of spotting some coins that might be pump in the future like increasing volume but still low in price.

You're right. If you have a good paying job then one should not left it for crypto especially if you already have a family that needs your support as earnings from crypto is not stable so you wouldn't want to risk not having any income as you are still unsure if you can earn from it. At least if you have a job then you will be able to provide for your family's needs and you are sure that you can still receive something.


The ideal way would be to make it as an extra income than a main source of income. There is a possibility that you can earn much bigger income from crypto than your job but there is still a higher possibility of not getting anything from it so better be assured of having a fixed source of income. One has also a choice of practicing trading until such time he becomes profitable so that he will have a choice of leaving his job if he wants to but it may take years to do it.

Share only to people who are willing to learn. To be honest, I am willing to teach anyone before about it because it has help me a lot but seeing how they response to what I am saying even saying negative things about it without even knowing the whole story, I just stop educating them about it and only teach those who will come to me and ask about it. Those people will come to you know anyway when they see that you are doing good and they can even hear it from other people or even in the news.


They are thinking that it's a get rich quick scheme because maybe they are used to traditional markets which would take years to profit and in crypto maybe it would just take months but they are not patient enough that's why they are expecting to earn it in just days. Because of being greedy, they can see some HYIP in social media being offered and they decided to invest on that because they cannot wait for months or years and end up losing all their investment.

It's the first time I heard of a professional gambler. I agree with you mate that if he can earn it for himself then why open his service to any one else and if it is really true then he would be banned to enter in a casino because he keeps on winning every time which for me is too good to be true. I will only believe it if I can see it with my own eyes. Maybe it was just a chance that he was able to win during the time when OP watch how he gamble.


Yeah right! I have not been to a real casino too but what I watched in the movies is that when you are winning consecutively, people would notice you and then find a way for you to stop playing. Winning consecutively is already bad business for the house and how much more you offer services to others openly so he wouldn't be able to even enter a casino next time.

All of us have different speculations of where the market might go in the future. It would be better if you have an idea about charts if you think that it would be helpful for you. About trusting the TA experts, some of them are good in predicting where the price might go in the near future and some do fail but what is important is what is your stand to what they are saying.

I, myself, make their analysis as reference and know why they think that way because I am willing to learn if there are any info I can use to apply to my trading plan. I have my own strategy but I welcome the ideas of others too. I do not immediately buy the coin they are suggesting but I make it as reference to know what coin is trending at the moment and check the chart what price can I possibly enter if I think there is an opportunity.

It would still depend then if the coin would be listed immediately, if the team would be active and follow the roadmap and if it is actively communicating to its investors. If there is a bounty campaign for that ICO then most likely the bounty participants would dump their coins upon listing and then you may have to wait for sometime for the price to go back to its ICO price. If you are already well-versed with the ICO market then there is a chance that you would be able to profit from it but if you are new to it and just depend on others then it is still case to case basis if you can profit or not. Besides that, ICO rating sites are not that dependable because some of them are paid.


I lost more than 70% of my capital before being a newbie in trading because I made most likely all the mistakes like panic buying, panic selling, joining pump and dumps, trading base on emotions and buying when the coin is already in high price because of the fear of missing out and end up losing more. I stop for a few months and get back up again because I know that there is still a way and I read more books and watch more videos about trading why others are successful and why I am not so for now, I have a trading plan that I strictly follow and hoping to be consistently profitable.

I agree with your suggestion especially if you are trading for the short term or trading those sh*tcoins because we don't know if they will be able to recover when bitcoin makes rapid movement again. However, if you are trading or investing for the long term then you should take profit when at least you have 50% profit or double your investment and withdraw your original investment so that you can find again another investment opportunity. The amount left is pure profit so wherever it may go whether it will continue to go up or down, it is still profit but you have to monitor it so that when the buyers are exchausted, you should just sell it all and wait for the next cycle.


Some would say that TA doesn't work with crypto because they are used to the movement of the prices in traditional markets but for crypto, its movement is fast so you should adjust your indicators accordingly. Some would say that the movements in crypto in just weeks or months is equivalent to years in traditional market so if you are already familiar with this market then you will know what indicators and strategy can aid you to be a profitable trader.

It's not like we can feign ignorance of the rising prices because it has been affecting our cost of living so the way for us to at least maintain our lifestyle is to find another source of income because it is more likely that the salary is the same but the goods and services that we are paying for are increasing so we either have lower net savings or we may lack funds at all and we have to adjust on our lifestyle. Employers cannot increase the salaries of employees because they even have higher expenses and lower income and they are affected too.

I hope that many people would open their eyes to not depend on a single source of income which is often the salary because if the company he works with laid off employees or go bankrupt then he wouldn't have a job anymore so there is no job security. The solution to this is to have an investment that will generate passive income while working or build a business perhaps. We have to work harder and smarter to survive as we can't prevent inflation.

Well we have yet to see it. Some countries Like Japan is already planning to implement a state backed cryptocurrency. Even though its backbone is blockchain technology, it is still a centralized currency that is controlled by the government but since it technology will be base on blockchain then it would be more efficient and has less cost than making and circulating the physical coins known as fiat. I would assume that still many people would use it because it is backed by government and it is regulated and people tends to trust more the money backed by government than the existing ones that are decentralized.

If I have no choice but to use it then I'll go with it. Maybe our government would decide that we cannot directly purchase or sell other cryptocurrencies to fiat but instead we should exchange it to their currency so I have to go through it just to have some fiat since it is an undeniable fact that we still need fiat in our lives because cryptocurrency has still limited scope.

It is binary options and it is not trading for me but gambling because you are risking a fixed amount for a fixed period of time and if it doesn't go your way then you lose it all unlike when you are trading the traditional way (buy low and sell high), you have the option to not sell the coin and wait for the time you will have profits and then sell it even if it will take some time. I don't suggest trading or gambling this way because you will be too confident if you often win and risk more money which most likely would end up for you losing more. I tried binary options before but I just lose quite a big amount of money because I can't control my emotions.

Do not be too haste in gaining profit OP but instead, focus more on learning and it would even be better if you try trading and then losing because through it, you would learn more what are the aspects you need to develop to be a profitable trader later on. You will only continue to lose though if you don't learn from your losses. Experience is the best teacher for me in trading.

Yes, that is what is needed. We need a strict regulation for Initial Coin Offerings so that the scammers who are only using ICO as a front would be prevented. If there would be a proper application of ICOs then things like investors being scammed will be prevented. As much as we want the government to be out of the picture because they are dismissing the thought of decentralization, we are not yet ready for it because there is no consensus yet as to how are we going to approach the ICOs on our own if there is no governing body that would control it.

Speaking of the OP, I hope he is still alive. He seems to lose hope because he posted again a week ago about ETH not going back to $1,000 levels. When bitcoin go back up again, we know the trend that other coins will go back up too most likely and one of those coins is ETH. As what the chartists are saying, we are heading for the bull run so for OP, you shouldn't lose hope that you would lose the $25,000 investment on ETH because most likely, you will have profits this year. When there is a bull run, the coins prices move exponentially so most likely you would get it in a few months and don't forget to take profits when that happens and just play with your profits withdrawing your original investment.

We only have one life and you still have a chance to get that money again even with profits so just hold on and don't lose hope. Cryptocurrency market is still in its infancy compared to other traditional markets and the adoption rate is still so low so time will come when more people adopt crypto and us, the early adopters of it will have profit and may even increase the value of our holdings to at least 5x or 10x.

There are more scammers now using the account of other people because they cannot just easily rank up. In bounty programs that accept thousand of bounty hunters, there are pretty much scammers right there more often than not and the bounty hunters and managers should help each other in monitoring the spreadsheets to detect those scammers. The high rank accounts are often use by those scammers with different address and they take a chance that they will be the one who will be paid instead of the original owner of the account. It's hard to monitor the scammers but if we help each other in spotting them then it would be a big help.


Giving red trust is one of the solution but what if the owner of the account do not have any intention of scamming anyone but instead his account was used by someone so this is not the solution to all kind of cases. The solution would be to post a proof of authentication with the profile of the owner of the account. Some bounty managers are already doing it upon filling up the form but for those who didn't implement it yet, I hope they will do so to lessen the scammers.