Quote from: puvanb on October 26, 2017, 02:16:07 AM

Quote from: sirgoldi on October 26, 2017, 12:30:58 AM

Hi guys. I'm quite new in crypto world (2 months) and trying to understand what's actually going on on the market. The thing is when Bitcoins grows, alts go down (or just don't grow), bitcoin goes down, alts go down even more - why? I don't exactly understand it and feel confused when to trade or invest. I mostly talk about ETH, LTC, Monero and other from top.

Thank you.

The correct answer would be,

Every alt coin is tied with bitcoin or compared with btc e.g eth/btc, xyz/btc because it is traded with bitcoin (you buy the alt coin using bitcoin or sell your alt coin for bitcoin). So technically every alt coin price is depending on the price of bitcoin. Well totally depending on the price of bitcoin.

Every time the price of bitcoin going up, the alt coin investor wants a piece of that cake for a short term therefore they would sell their alt coin holdings to get into bitcoin. You may ask why? It is because when the price of bitcoin goes up, almost all alt coins will go down due to the selling off. So the opportunity to getting more alt coins per bitcoin is more. This is one of the best way of accumulating alt coin holdings. Due to this, investors who likes to accumulate their alt coin will take position in bitcoin and wait for the price of the alt coin to drop lower. When this happens, the investors will then sell their bitcoin to get into alt coin again. Successfully increasing their alt coin numbers.

Now to the question of why alt coin price go lower when bitcoin price go low. The same explaination as per the above. Since all the alt coins are tied with bitcoin, the price of alts will also drop when the price of btc goes down. This is normally a temporary drop, when investors cashing out of bitcoin to get into alt coin. The delay between sell of of bitcoin to transferring to other broker, or position of buying into alt coin is when the price of alt is at its lowest. The alt coin price will only increase with demand or with more buys.

I hope this explains to you.

Thank you VERY much. That explains a lot like all others replies. Thanks for helping me - still complete newbie in this world. :-) But I'm trying hard to understand everything! Would you help mi with that below too?

I have a contract on Ripple, Ethereum and Monero (small ones) which goes down and down and will expire before 2nd fork. Should I just cut loses and sell them now as probably there is no chance to grow before 2nd fork?

One more question: how to explain pump on Ethereum and other alts on 13th of October? Why it went up when Bitcoin was going up before fork?