Is it too late to join 2017 rally ?

[MaoChao]

Never too late but not forget about money management. Otherwise, market will crush you.

[nasibakar]

No.
But you have to see this first:
1. Do research to find best coin to jump in;
2. trading or rally is high risk, be careful.

[Natoliant]

No.
But you have to see this first:
1. Do research to find best coin to jump in;
2. trading or rally is high risk, be careful.

That is right. Only buy the coins with good potential.

[Immakillya]

Some good potential altcoins were pumped up already. But still, many cheap but have good potential altcoins are just waiting for a pump. CRBIT(Creditbit), XRP(ripple), Digibyte(RGB), STR(stellar) and XEM(Namecoin). Those are my prospect altcoin this year. They have a good potential altcoin. It's not too late for you to jump in.

[jason943]

no, I think it's just halftime now, or maybe just the 2nd quarter.

[SimmonenY]

It's never too late but be careful and do your research first)

[Mpamaegbu]

The 2017 rally has really opened my eyes up to cryptocurrencies and the awesomeness it brings. I'm eagerly looking to get into the market, but with the huge price appreciations, I'm worried I'm to late and will get badly penalized if/when the market dips. What is your point of view, should I get in now or wait ?

Your doubt is reasonable. However, I think the price of Bitcoin will still rally up again. But don't buy when it does. All you have to do is to wait for correction or dip that's likely to happen and then you can trigger your purchase.

If you asked me, I would say Bitcoin is over rated. People should give the altcoins a chance to come up in value by de-emphasizing Bitcoin for a while. After all, Bitcoin transactions this day are frustrating with high fees and backlogs.

[bicork]

You know when it's gonna be too late? A year from now!  And a year after that! It is always seems like this, but right now "Apple is still works in a garage"!

[Sekhas]

Never to be late Just be careful

[DoctorTussin]

I know lot of people who thought I was grazy when I did btc entry at 300$ lvl.
Maybe 2040 the market is kinda filled.

Just buy in time perioids and you dont have to worry about little details.

[TrumpD]

Nope, not at all, imagine at $250 we still had doubts,  and people thought it was too late. Even when the price adjusted downwards last weekend, folks doubted, and speculated it was the beginning of the end.I stick my head out and predict that btc will hit $5000 before years end, and ethereum $400. It will be best to spread the risk across different alts.

[CoinCollector006]

I don't think its too late so long as you are disciplined about allocating capital, ideally you buy your target coins during selloffs. For long term holds I would consider BTC and LTC. Bitcoin is a must since many currencies trade versus bitcoin on most exchanges.

Some of the junior currencies where I don't believe they have reached their full valuation are ArtByte, ByteCent, Counterparty, LBRY Credit and Viacoin. This is a decent list to start research on whether you like the price, business model, developer roadmap, etc.

Occasionally one of the crypto whales on this forum makes a detailed post describing why they like a certain coin. I have found the advice very helpful when deciding on the position sizing for a new investment.

[wdc4693]

Not too late, no.
Bubble? Yes, but just the beginning.

You can have a good time until end of 2018, beginning 2019, but that's just my estimation of when the potential bubble will burst extremely.

Most people talking about a bubble or the general doomsday sayers are veteran traders who don't realize that the time has changed. BTC and also Altcoins aren't geek-exclusive anymore. More people joined and are still joining. Soon Wallstreet boys will re-enter and after that the mainstream. Until the mainstream enters, we are going to have a wild ride.

Rule of thumb:
If your family asks you to buy a bitcoin for them and they are not tech-savy and not from Japan: gtfo!

[sefo]

Rule of thumb:
If your family asks you to buy a bitcoin for them and they are not tech-savy and not from Japan: gtfo!

That would mean I have to gtfo 

[dissident]

What I do now is invest top 101-200 coinmarketcap alts that aren't been pumped last month, so in that way there is less risk of "deflation" (or dump) and there is still the chance that it will be pumped too.

So my spot now is: BSD

Other one in the 101-200 range that is not at is ATH  is ZCL that is worth a try.

thanks for the tip.

[wdc4693]

Rule of thumb:
If your family asks you to buy a bitcoin for them and they are not tech-savy and not from Japan: gtfo!

That would mean I have to gtfo 

That's what I have meant!

[cryptoneet]

the rain train is about to leave the station.

http://condensate.co

[dissident]

Bought 30k BitSend. Will look at condensate when I'm not working as I don't have any accounts with them exchanges.

Holdings...  Xtrabytes, Bitbay, Ark, VIA, Pascalcoin, NEM, BitSend.

Best tech... NEM, Xtrabytes and Pascalcoin.

Coins most likely to triple in price short term: bitbay and VIA

[Tolrem]

Everyone keeps mentioning a "bubble" but I don't think they understand what a bubble is or how crypto currency works, and I am new. The only implied value of fiat currency is through equity. Crypto has no equity, or nothing significant comparatively to value. It's only a bubble if there is a run - in billions of USD. That's not going to happen besides through government intervention.

[Woogy]

Not too late, you are still early bird, this thing gonna blow up m8