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Re: [ANN][POWR][UPDATE] *** POWER LEDGER TOKEN SALE STARTS FRIDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER ***
by
w0mp
on 22/11/2017, 22:11:05 UTC
Are people on here really saying experts buy high and sell higher lol good one, what a strategy. Your saying that these experts have some crystal ball showing that a coin is going to go higher then it is, I don't think so. They buy the dips and look at the history of the coin, if it has been high many times before then the chances are that dip will reverse at some stage. To buy a new coin with no history of peaks is the stupidest thing you can do.

Look at all the coins that have had 50, 60, 70+ increase yesterday, would you buy half of them because they are high. I don't think so.

In saying that I plan on investing on POWR but not while its the highest it has been, what goes up always pulls back a bit. Id rather fatten my BTC stack on some guaranteed rises then risk buying on a high 'like an expert'

Good points, just to stimulate some positive debate, I'll disagree from a certain angle. Yes I consider myself above average/pro/whatever (aka done very well, since 2013ish). I buy highs (lows too obviously), that are predictably or unpredictably going higher, and I scale exit anticipating dips, however tomorrows dips might not dip enough to match todays prices. This coin is a rarity, can't really be looked at as a universal pattern or what pros typically do or don't do every formula and %/variable change is different for everyone. This is more akin to a NEO/OMG/WALTON organic rise coupled with real world events and the bonues of no hype re stickers on skateboards or pre-announcing news for 3 days to stimulate said hype and be let down. This is is a pleasant surprise in our eco-system and I am not dollarCostAveraging at all on this one (already in heavy profit since that decision and scaled exits along the way to buy dips as stated above).

I don't believe the retracement/pullback is going to be lower than todays price and if so not by enough. The 10K sats psychological barrier has blown by, the $1 barrier is next, from there I think we're going to see momentum continue to go crazy. Could be totally wrong but as a random internet guy looking out for fellow investors best interests (who enjoy some risk and are ok if there is some loss), I wouldn't wait another second on this one.

Again, very interesting comments here! I now feel tempted to buy-in regardless of my fear. Im really not a pro or anything near it, so I just want to accumulate some knowledge here: what makes you think that it wont retrace more than the current price? Even with those new points of view, I stick to: nobody can predict the market! POWR could go way higher, but at the same time if speculators start to cash out weak hands will follow and can cause a crash. When and if this is goint to happen? Nobody can tell. But I've learned to respect the market the hard way. I will just see where it goes by putting tranches of my investment in there, day by day, and see where we are heading.

I've learned to respect the market too, through getting rekt many times, thus "becoming a pro at something is failing at it from every angle and knowing how not to make the same mistakes, or minimize them". Past market history isn't always accurate, however past experience and pattern recognition of momentum and wealth preservation solutions come into play and are strict.

Example. Buy in now, all in. Start to sell a little as it goes up IF you are afraid of the loss. Now you have profit and some reserve to buy a dip. Be brave and sell the dip to buy back lower (or lose your shirt), sell half once a decent profit is reached so you feel safe, etc. There are many ways to not get rekt, stop losses, scaled orders of small profit, etc. etc. Opportunities like this are infrequent and this is not a group pump or parabolic 2 day climb/drop, I actually feel extremely safe both playing this markets swings AND hodling if I was new again.

*Sometimes 'timing the market, is time in the market. I'd rather have my money in and be prepared/insured to pull out on a stop loss vs being on the side lines watching lost profit if I was in.

I think I can summarize your post very simply:

Buy.  HODL.  Sell.  Repeat.