How do you select what you invest your precious satoshi's in?
Free signals? Paid signals? Own TA? Depth charts? Pure luck? Acting on regular volatility?
Personally, my tipple of choice is depth charts. Would be happy to debate the relative merits and hear how other people make it work for them.
How do you protect against dumps (Bart!)? How do you pick the coins you want to analyse? Are you successful?
Own TA all the way. Why should I ever want to follow someone when I can certainly do it all by myself and there is absolutely nothing as good as you being able to do it yourself. Luck is not something you should be looking forward to in trading, except maybe you are hoping for some huge gains, but usually you should be more focused on the aspect of trying to use your strategy to take advantage of the market volatility as the case may be which is something I expect any sensible person to always take into consideration.
In depth knowledge of how to trade is certainly the most important thing when it comes to trading. Without that, you are going to be short of strategy to trade the market effectively, rely so much on luck and then in that form you would just be gambling and that can terribly or will terribly lead bad in the long run. Analysis is important and that is how you are able to plan your trade. If you fail to plan, then absolutely, you plan to fail. As simple as that!