Quote from: herurist on December 18, 2018, 05:29:31 AM

Quote from: ly0yl on December 17, 2018, 03:06:24 PM

Hi all,

As you all know, the 2018 was one of the best/worst years of Bitcoin and Altcoins. As a result of that, we have find out that there are hundred thousands of people who has lost a lot of their funds by trading. Therefore, we as a consultancy company prepared a detailed analysis based on the most common trading failures during the 2018. During this post you will find the summary of analysis that aim to give an idea about how to trade in the 2019 if you are still interested in trading for future. The purpose of sharing the analysis is to prevent the same mistake occurs.

Premise: We assume that you have been experiencing in a good way if you didn't invested all of your money at the ATH. The most important part is to prevent to have the same mistakes in the upcoming year/s.
These are several reasons for losing the money.

1) There is only 1% of taking profit from Pump Groups; You may only be successful in few times by attending the Pump Groups but you will lose most of your funds later on. (internal monolgue: I was almost rich, so I should have the risk few more times...)
Comments: I am sorry, but you can't. Pump is the regret.

2) FOMO is another regret.
Yep, you are right. Another crucial problem with trader is that they do never pay attention what percentage a coin has increased and they just tried to get in to get some profit. However, the people who bought quiet cheaper, start to sell and they dumped on new comers
And of course most of the traders do not pay attention about the possible reasons for the increase and they just buy as a result of FOMO. And in most cases they don't have ay information about the project. They buy, because some others did.
Result: Wait for month.

3) Investing in Shitcoins.
It doesn't mean that you are going to be rich if a project offer you ERC-20 or ERC-721 tokens or any other platform based tokens. More technical information is needed.

4) X number of investors.
Ok, it's obvious that most of the investors invest on any kind of projects by checking the numbers of investors and if there is a crowd they just send whatever they have. They started to share The project SikCoin has X number of investors, therefore these people can't be wrong and that's why they should invest in.
Result: Regret.
Because it's not difficult to fake the numbers.

5) ATH in not appropriate to buy an asset.
Some of the investors, decide to invest so by considering the last several days which an coin had an sigificant increase. Therefore, they believe that the coin is going to rocketing. Why? Because they have bought it.
Wrong. They will again dumped the coin that bought before couple of days from you to buy and of course cheaper.
Result: Regret and waiting for couple of months.

6) Lack of Research before investment
Most of the traders do not research before investment, they do resarch a bit after investing and try to figure out what's going to happen if there is any price dump on the market. If you don't make your own research appropriately, then most likely ou are going to lose your funds.

7) Lack of Vision.
If you are not well-informed about coin that you have invested, you're likely to sell before increase in price or sell after dump. We have seen people arguing as waiting for x100 to sell a scam coin. In this case there is no any way for trader to sell at x100, By waiting even the investor miss some chances of selling x2 at any time. MAKE A PLAN!

8 ) Following the FUD.
As a result of lack of research, investors are selling their coins after some manipulative news that can be called as FUD. Then, the investor figures out that it was FUD/manipulative news but it's a bit late; investors already sold out with quiet cheaper thatn few hours after dump.

9) Following Influencers and copying their investments/shared coins.
Of course, it is vital to follow significant influencers who are wised or well-informed. It helps, indeed. However, it doesn't mean that people should copy whatever has been shared to their portfolio in manner of seconds. In these kind of scenarios most of the people are going to lose their funds as a result of lack of research and experience.

10) Team's nationality/citizenship;
Do not invest in any project by only paying attention to the team' nationality or their citizenship of X country. Being a citizen of any country do not legitimize what will happen in close future about price and value of the coin/token.

These are mainly what I have realised and wanted to share with you all; and would like to hear if I have missed any significant other possible reson/experince, feel free to add more.

✨2019✨

You have good explanation but I'm afraid to early and too easy because 2019 is still dark form me. Depend my analysis bitcoin will go up at middle of 2019 but the price can't high like 2017. This is become problems because many investor at 2019 still wait and see not take action to buy or recovery asset. Even still dark bitcoin have hope to rise again, trust me.

I am not on the same side by arguing at the middle of 2019. I think if we have bull run, then it has to be about January or something like that. If we don't have a significant increase during the first quarter of 2019, then we may expect it to be more stabil for a while.
Let's hope for January/February.