To be honest, altcoin season is really hard to see these days. It's not like we are in 2017 or something. But that will still depend on your decision whether you want to risk or not. I think it is better to wait for the lower point and invest on coins like Ethereum and XRP, and other highly trusted coins since you know at some there is a good chance that the will bounce back.

Short term trading needs also more expertise in trading and demands higher risks because if you trade with the wrong time, you will only lose your money in just a sudden. While long term trading has less risks and is stress free because you will still get profits just by sitting in your chair waiting for your coins to increase its price. No need to monitor daily the price charts just like what a short term trader should do.

You cannot blame most of the people who are inclined into day-trading or short-term investments as they primarily rely on the fluctuations on the price of BTCs to earn cash for their use.
Unlike people who HODL their BTCs for long-term realization, there are also people who focus on a different path but with the same goal in mind- which is to profit.

Every fluctuation on the price, whether the increase/decrease may be relatively small/big, is definitely a big-deal to people who own large amounts of resources. To be honest, you really cannot blame them.

As an investor I only invest in solid coins and HODL. I have seen over the years that crypto market rearly follow news and predictions. Most of the time I bought BTC based on news but in loss as nothing happened. Best is to buy on dip and be patient.

I will say that it is safe, but to prevent confused because there are too much option usually i only pick top 10 coinmarketcap. But only for trading in long term, i already change my strategy only do buy and hold big coin like Bitcoin and Ethereum for now. Maybe will keep like this until halving come.

Yes actually, been very active last year in bounty campaign too, but none of them paid me right, or if they paid tokens just to say they are legit but they didn't enter exchange at all, so it is really useless. I can't imagine how bounty have come to that compare to the past few years wherein bounties have been profitable and have change the life of majority of bounty hunters.

We are still in the accumulation stage before the big altcoins rally.
I will definitely agree with you that now is our chance, actually as long as the market are still struggling, this always gives us a chance to accumulate at a very cheap price.

most of the altcoins now are just holding like 20% or even less of their value during their ATH because they suffers a lot from the long bear market.
And now, if we believe the correction is over and maybe this resulted to oversold of altcoins, then maybe its time to believe that the price will bounce back at the right time.

$600? $10000? I don't understand what you think these amounts mean, but the price of Bitcoin at the beginning was $ and its ATH is $ 20089

Think what people were thinking about in 2011 when the BTC price was $4- $5 when someone said Bitcoin would be worth $20k. I'm sure they reacted with laughter.
It is not surprising that now people also react with laughter when someone says that the price of Bitcoin will be $1M

might still be possible if indeed the crypto market trends are in very good condition, we have so far continued to compare about 2017 which in fact this period is a very consistent bullish period and we realize the conditions are very different from the past. so in this case it is very likely that the bounty campaign will keep their own rules when the market conditions are in a very positive condition and all this just needs to wait for the right time until the season arrives

It is not even about being a professional trader, margin trade is generally a risky trade and I would not advise someone to go for it, although we have so many people that are in experience about this, so they will not understand this until they try it themselves and then fail, maybe then, they will learn from their mistake.

I remember that I never listened to people’s advice about going for margin trade and the worst thing about mine is that I was even greedy about my own leverage which I really leveraged high till I lost thousands of money to Forex trading and when I heard that they introduced margin trade to cryptocurrency also, I ran away from it like my dear life was at stake because I knew the experience I had passed through in Forex.

I can't afford to buy bitcoin when there is a decline again later either at the end of this year or in early 2020, I only have a little capital and only enough to buy some other cheaper Altcoin, in some time I feel being played with by bitcoin prices this time

Thanks for the advices; some are trivial, others interesting and useful.
the point is that now the scammers put more effort into creating a convincing presentation than in the project itself, and it becomes increasingly difficult to recognize scams.
We'll see if we can do some cleaning.

might be being manipulated. but the question is, who is manipulating all the crypto markets? very likely to occur when this is related to the adoption of bitcoin on the market. but overall I don't think there is enough evidence to justify the existence of market manipulation that is now happening. Current markets are due to trade and demand. when everything goes down I guess it's still reasonable. not only in the crypto market but for all trades in any market using the same principle.

How I wish there is, but there isn't, we can be anonymous by holding our token but once you convert it to fiat or you become part of a centralize platform that deals with Cryptocurrency, you cannot escaped from being traced, unfortunately it will stay permanently until all of us shifted to Decentralized Exchange, which I don't think will happen sooner.

I don't know why you're talking about investing in gold in a thread about investment money, unless your investment in crypto comes from gold, but I doubt that.

Did you see the results of surveys? Young people in their 20s when asked what would they want to invest in: stocks, gold, or bitcoin, answered bitcoin. Nobody wants gold now it's the investment of our grandparents. Our parents were into stocks, real estate, domains, and we, the next generation, are into cryptocurrencies.
Just wait another 10 years until the oldest generation disappears and you'll see how we progress.

That was not the case last December 2017, btc had its ATH that time but altcoins followed and they even are more profitable than bitcoin.
If the same trend will happen, we will see bitcoin dominance to decrease and altcoins to increase.

I would rather see that because it give balance growth to the market, if bitcoin dominance keep growing, altcoins will die and I don't think it would happen because altcoins also have a future, its part of the market and they are currently oversold, therefore my prediction would be an increase of altcoins will result to bitcoin's dominance.

I agree if you say daily trading is very risky, but when you say that daily trading or short-term trading is not good at all, I disagree. many people can make a profit by doing daily trading, they take advantage of the volatility of market prices every day by taking profits little by little. sometimes someone does daily trading because they have free time and if they only invest long-term, maybe they think that free time will be wasted. usually a beginner does daily trading, because they want to learn things about trading and at the same time they want to make a profit by trading daily. so in my opinion daily trading still has benefits and I don't agree if you say daily trading is not good at all.

In my opinion, Ethereum can completely return to $100 if the bear market continues in the next few years because the current investment demand is still very low and investors often do not like to hold the old coins. I think you should look for a better coin as there are currently hundreds more new projects launched this year and those are worth the wait in the future. May be risk but new projects are often of interest to many whales.

Also this one I will not agree, if you remember, XRP were able to take the number 2 spot and it stayed their for awhile, so it really beat ETH that time period. Maybe its safe to say that altcoins can influence the big number of ETH tokens but not the entire altcoins market.

Its easy not to react when you have bought your coins at the bottom price of BTC but when you start buying altcoins today that had just bottomed, you'd not lift a finger when the tokens dip for about 20%. Fluctuations always happen no matter what the whales are doing since most of us are going to sell for profit whichever coins they hold. Just relax, if you are a long term holder and truly believe to BTC and the coins you have that it will rise you will still have confidence to it.