Most of us that come into cryptocurrencies trading have this in mind that when bitcoin is in bearish trend we are loosing money and that is why we are seeing thread of loses in this bearish market. Few know that you can trade usd/bitcoin and make money in this bearish trend all you just need to do is change your analysis from what you are used to to what is happening now and you will make money.
It is hard to make money in a bear market but as long as you are able to discipline yourself, I guess it is not that hard. It requires a lot of knowledge and discipline but I can say there is no doubt that I have been making some little profit in this market even with its bearish condition. Once you have a strategy to play with and you stick with it without any form of emotion, it would always be an easy thing to achieve.
However, it depends on the market you are trading as a sane person should not even be considering trading altcoins at the moment or too many of them, based on how volatile they can get, I would rather stick with trading bitcoin for the mean time and making money from the fluctuations.
With all due respect, I disagree with you mate, we have so many reputable companies that are providing functional BOTS, although I must confess to you that I have not used any for crypto trading because for now, majority of my work is done on PC at home, so I has all the time to trade cryptocurrency without engaging BOT, but I still have so many friends that are using BOT and they dont bother opening their system until they want to check their profit.
I know we have fake ones, which is why we shouldnt pay attention to these ones that gives a free BOT are mostly there to just steal information without yu knowing.