[XMR] Monero Speculation

[tokeweed]

"Broken Privacy? The Allegations Against Monero Are Old News"

https://www.coindesk.com/broken-privacy-the-allegations-against-monero-are-old-news/

Knew it.  MoneroV, Asics, that FUD...  You just know something's going on behind all that.  I can imagine that Bitmain Chinese guy pulling all the strings, licking his chops and thinking about how much he'll make if his plans fall into place.

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[Anon136]

Sumbitch I just got my BTC confirmed and before I could buy big green candle. Shit!

There is a very good chance, probably better than not, that being forced to wait will end up being a blessing.

[ArticMine]

Hooray!!! Coins for sale!

(in USD that is...)

Damn blood in the streets tonight. Shit, sorry I even looked.

I know. It's damn painful.  I wish I was good at trading. Fortunes to be made here.  But I can only sit and watch my little pile shrink away.

You mean watching Monero crash from ~5.00 USD to below ~0.30 USD back in 2014, Yes it was painful. The main difference I see today is that the fundamentals are a lot stronger in 2018 than they were back in 2014.

[Anon136]

Hooray!!! Coins for sale!

(in USD that is...)

Damn blood in the streets tonight. Shit, sorry I even looked.

I know. It's damn painful.  I wish I was good at trading. Fortunes to be made here.  But I can only sit and watch my little pile shrink away.

I mean, idk if it's that people are "good at trading". I think the big secret is that trading isn't hard. Like as far as in an intelligence test sort of way. Someone with an IQ of 90 can probably identify a trend and see when people are getting overly greedy at the top and when people are being overly dramatic at the bottom. And that's all you really have to be able to do from a technical standpoint.

You don't need to be able to nail the bottom or the top. Say you bought your bitcoin at 1000 and sold at 10,000. It doesn't matter that it later went to 20,000. The fact that you didn't hold out for 20,000 is no condemnation. You made 10 times your money. That's really damn good! Then say you buy back in at 5000 and it goes to 2,000. It doesn't matter that it later went to 2,000. You just doubled your bitcoins! That's really damn good. And how hard would have been to hit those targets in that scenario? Would that fellow have been a genius? I think not. A genius would have threaded the needed on the top and bottom or something. Look at how much room our guy had to find success with out being the sort of genius necessary to hit the tops and bottoms perfectly.

I think it's just our emotions that screw us over. How ridiculous is it to judge ourselves based on the fact that if we were omniscient beings we could have made more money than we did. But that's what almost everyone does! At some level our strategies tend to be informed by that mindset. I'm not the first one to point this out, but perfect is the enemy of good. I think all anyone with an IQ above 90 has to to do to be successful is learn how to "turn off" their emotions. Like all of them. Go full psychopath when you log onto an exchange. If you feel like you are feeling any feelings at all, stop, logoff, and figure out how to get them under control before you log back on. And when you make money, any amount of money, feel good about yourself, you deserve it. Don't hold yourself to some sort of self destructive standard and expectation. I think that when you let go of that mindset you may find the sort of success that you were actually looking for when you had that mindset, or at least much closer to it than you would have had with it.

Well anyway. ./rantoff

[Febo]

I'm sad because I needed to sell a huge part of my Monero to buy a car, but in other way I couldn't afford a brand new car at this moment.

HODLing the rest of Moneros as if they were gold Monero

lol why buy a new car whit monero right now? It will be 1k until summer

In the end it wasn't a bad move, soon I'll be able to rebuy all that was spent 

Congrats on your timing. You got your car super cheap

Hooray!!! Coins for sale!

(in USD that is...)

Damn blood in the streets tonight. Shit, sorry I even looked.

I know. It's damn painful.  I wish I was good at trading. Fortunes to be made here.  But I can only sit and watch my little pile shrink away.

You mean watching Monero crash from ~5.00 USD to below ~0.30 USD back in 2014, Yes it was painful. The main difference I see today is that the fundamentals are a lot stronger in 2018 than they were back in 2014.

We should not forget on emission. Back then it was huge. Now is getting almost scarce.

[dEBRUYNE]

Response to "An Empirical Analysis of Traceability in the Monero Blockchain", Version 2

https://getmonero.org/2018/03/29/response-to-an-empirical-analysis-of-traceability.html

[Hueristic]

Hooray!!! Coins for sale!

(in USD that is...)

Damn blood in the streets tonight. Shit, sorry I even looked.

I know. It's damn painful.  I wish I was good at trading. Fortunes to be made here.  But I can only sit and watch my little pile shrink away.

You mean watching Monero crash from ~5.00 USD to below ~0.30 USD back in 2014, Yes it was painful. The main difference I see today is that the fundamentals are a lot stronger in 2018 than they were back in 2014.

Don't piss all over our hand wringing and arm wavings!

...

We should not forget on emission. Back then it was huge. Now is getting almost scarce.

I gotta say, this is on my mind alot.

[xxxx123abcxxxx]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2711461.0
https://redd.it/7z8u6n

31-JAN-2018


21-FEB-2018


17-MAR-2018


30-MAR-2018

[cryptcointrader]

Response to "An Empirical Analysis of Traceability in the Monero Blockchain", Version 2

https://getmonero.org/2018/03/29/response-to-an-empirical-analysis-of-traceability.html

If I read correctly - does this mean that before RingCT was introduced in Jan 2017, all transactions on Monero's blockchain are completely traceable?
I.e. ring signatures did not work to hide the transaction amounts or sender.

[Febo]

chart painting ...

Buddy let me post your original chart:




End of March price of Monero by your supreme price prediction skills should be hmmm ...  Somewhere between $20 and $50. It seems back then you couldn't see that far in future.  


How come you could failed it by that much? That is like x5 fail. Same as if you would predict price right now to be $850.  What was the main reason?  I believe there are probably many but please post the main ones on your opinion.

[explorer]

Hooray!!! Coins for sale!

(in USD that is...)

Damn blood in the streets tonight. Shit, sorry I even looked.

I know. It's damn painful.  I wish I was good at trading. Fortunes to be made here.  But I can only sit and watch my little pile shrink away.

You mean watching Monero crash from ~5.00 USD to below ~0.30 USD back in 2014, Yes it was painful. The main difference I see today is that the fundamentals are a lot stronger in 2018 than they were back in 2014.

That was a bear market.  This is a breather   Fundamentals are incredible, emission is turning off.   I hope to get my emotions turned off before take off, and while I still have some moneroj 

[xxxx123abcxxxx]

chart painting ...

Buddy let me post your original chart:




End of March price of Monero by your supreme price prediction skills should be hmmm ...  Somewhere between $20 and $50. It seems back then you couldn't see that far in future.  


How come you could failed it by that much? That is like x5 fail. Same as if you would predict price right now to be $850.  What was the main reason?  I believe there are probably many but please post the main ones on your opinion.

Charts are indicative of price and structure, not time.
The projection can occur sooner or later.
Either way, XMR is poised to hit sub-$50 later this year.

[cAPSLOCK]

Hooray!!! Coins for sale!

(in USD that is...)

Damn blood in the streets tonight. Shit, sorry I even looked.

I know. It's damn painful.  I wish I was good at trading. Fortunes to be made here.  But I can only sit and watch my little pile shrink away.

I mean, idk if it's that people are "good at trading". I think the big secret is that trading isn't hard. Like as far as in an intelligence test sort of way. Someone with an IQ of 90 can probably identify a trend and see when people are getting overly greedy at the top and when people are being overly dramatic at the bottom. And that's all you really have to be able to do from a technical standpoint.

You don't need to be able to nail the bottom or the top. Say you bought your bitcoin at 1000 and sold at 10,000. It doesn't matter that it later went to 20,000. The fact that you didn't hold out for 20,000 is no condemnation. You made 10 times your money. That's really damn good! Then say you buy back in at 5000 and it goes to 2,000. It doesn't matter that it later went to 2,000. You just doubled your bitcoins! That's really damn good. And how hard would have been to hit those targets in that scenario? Would that fellow have been a genius? I think not. A genius would have threaded the needed on the top and bottom or something. Look at how much room our guy had to find success with out being the sort of genius necessary to hit the tops and bottoms perfectly.

I think it's just our emotions that screw us over. How ridiculous is it to judge ourselves based on the fact that if we were omniscient beings we could have made more money than we did. But that's what almost everyone does! At some level our strategies tend to be informed by that mindset. I'm not the first one to point this out, but perfect is the enemy of good. I think all anyone with an IQ above 90 has to to do to be successful is learn how to "turn off" their emotions. Like all of them. Go full psychopath when you log onto an exchange. If you feel like you are feeling any feelings at all, stop, logoff, and figure out how to get them under control before you log back on. And when you make money, any amount of money, feel good about yourself, you deserve it. Don't hold yourself to some sort of self destructive standard and expectation. I think that when you let go of that mindset you may find the sort of success that you were actually looking for when you had that mindset, or at least much closer to it than you would have had with it.

Well anyway. ./rantoff

Yeah.  This is exactly what I mean.  For example:
I know now is a pretty damn good time to buy.  
I am pretty sure now is not the very BEST time either...  I think we have yet to see that in this particular cycle.  

But if I were to add to my position now I would benefit.

My problem are the emotions.  I will second guess myself and wring my hands over a trade and ultimately make a bad decision because of it.

For me the best route is to analyze  the longer trend, take a position and stick to it.  Less trading.  More holding.

[cAPSLOCK]

Hooray!!! Coins for sale!

(in USD that is...)

Damn blood in the streets tonight. Shit, sorry I even looked.

I know. It's damn painful.  I wish I was good at trading. Fortunes to be made here.  But I can only sit and watch my little pile shrink away.

You mean watching Monero crash from ~5.00 USD to below ~0.30 USD back in 2014, Yes it was painful. The main difference I see today is that the fundamentals are a lot stronger in 2018 than they were back in 2014.

I remember that time as well.. Also painful.  And I agree.  The fundamentals of Monero are much stronger now. 

And Monero continues to be an asymmetrical bet in the favor of the long position.

[Traderbtcc]

That was a brutal monero dump. At this point in the market, Hodling becomes the best option.  The price would only increase when the market returns to the moon days.  Keep holding your coins people!

[Anon136]

Hooray!!! Coins for sale!

(in USD that is...)

Damn blood in the streets tonight. Shit, sorry I even looked.

I know. It's damn painful.  I wish I was good at trading. Fortunes to be made here.  But I can only sit and watch my little pile shrink away.

I mean, idk if it's that people are "good at trading". I think the big secret is that trading isn't hard. Like as far as in an intelligence test sort of way. Someone with an IQ of 90 can probably identify a trend and see when people are getting overly greedy at the top and when people are being overly dramatic at the bottom. And that's all you really have to be able to do from a technical standpoint.

You don't need to be able to nail the bottom or the top. Say you bought your bitcoin at 1000 and sold at 10,000. It doesn't matter that it later went to 20,000. The fact that you didn't hold out for 20,000 is no condemnation. You made 10 times your money. That's really damn good! Then say you buy back in at 5000 and it goes to 2,000. It doesn't matter that it later went to 2,000. You just doubled your bitcoins! That's really damn good. And how hard would have been to hit those targets in that scenario? Would that fellow have been a genius? I think not. A genius would have threaded the needed on the top and bottom or something. Look at how much room our guy had to find success with out being the sort of genius necessary to hit the tops and bottoms perfectly.

I think it's just our emotions that screw us over. How ridiculous is it to judge ourselves based on the fact that if we were omniscient beings we could have made more money than we did. But that's what almost everyone does! At some level our strategies tend to be informed by that mindset. I'm not the first one to point this out, but perfect is the enemy of good. I think all anyone with an IQ above 90 has to to do to be successful is learn how to "turn off" their emotions. Like all of them. Go full psychopath when you log onto an exchange. If you feel like you are feeling any feelings at all, stop, logoff, and figure out how to get them under control before you log back on. And when you make money, any amount of money, feel good about yourself, you deserve it. Don't hold yourself to some sort of self destructive standard and expectation. I think that when you let go of that mindset you may find the sort of success that you were actually looking for when you had that mindset, or at least much closer to it than you would have had with it.

Well anyway. ./rantoff

Yeah.  This is exactly what I mean.  For example:
I know now is a pretty damn good time to buy.  
I am pretty sure now is not the very BEST time either...  I think we have yet to see that in this particular cycle.  

But if I were to add to my position now I would benefit.

My problem are the emotions.  I will second guess myself and wring my hands over a trade and ultimately make a bad decision because of it.

For me the best route is to analyze  the longer trend, take a position and stick to it.  Less trading.  More holding.

Yea there is some sort of quote out there about how if you are trading often than you are doing it wrong. Humans can not compete with machines on the micro scale. You will just get your ass handed to you by AI. But AI can't see the bigger picture in the way that humans can. So we still have a niche. For now...

[StealthPay]

StealthPay gives you the possibility buy Monero with cash if you are registered on Bittrex.

Here are the steps to go:

1) Get a XST address on Bittrex.
2) Buy StealthCoin with cash transfer here: http://www.stealthpay.com/buyxst (Western Union, MoneyGram, Contact, Unistream, Ria Money Transfer, Leader, Sigue Money Transfer, Intel Express)
3) Exchange XST (StealthCoin) to BTC on Bittrex.
4) Buy Monero with BTC.

No limits. Enjoy.

www.stealthpay.com

[yunusseymen16]

I'm curious how everyone views BTC, XMR, etc. correlating with the global economy... For some reason it seems to be following the DOW at least.  To me it seems to make sense... the more people are feeling confident in the economy, people tend to be willing to throw their money around and into investments, and therefore cryptos.

[Anon136]

StealthPay gives you the possibility buy Monero with cash if you are registered on Bittrex.

Here are the steps to go:

1) Get a XST address on Bittrex.
2) Buy StealthCoin with cash transfer here: http://www.stealthpay.com/buyxst (Western Union, MoneyGram, Contact, Unistream, Ria Money Transfer, Leader, Sigue Money Transfer, Intel Express)
3) Exchange XST (StealthCoin) to BTC on Bittrex.
4) Buy Monero with BTC.

No limits. Enjoy.

www.stealthpay.com

Wow. If someone can confirm that this works please do! I'll totally forgive this guy plugging his coin here if this actually works.

I'm curious how everyone views BTC, XMR, etc. correlating with the global economy... For some reason it seems to be following the DOW at least.  To me it seems to make sense... the more people are feeling confident in the economy, people tend to be willing to throw their money around and into investments, and therefore cryptos.

Right now bitcoin is thought of as just another tech stock. It probably would be more closely correlated with the NASDAQ than the DOW.

[explorer]

StealthPay gives you the possibility buy Monero with cash if you are registered on Bittrex.

Here are the steps to go:

1) Get a XST address on Bittrex.
2) Buy StealthCoin with cash transfer here: http://www.stealthpay.com/buyxst (Western Union, MoneyGram, Contact, Unistream, Ria Money Transfer, Leader, Sigue Money Transfer, Intel Express)
3) Exchange XST (StealthCoin) to BTC on Bittrex.
4) Buy Monero with BTC.

No limits. Enjoy.

www.stealthpay.com

Will there be anything left of your funds after all of those exchanges?