Your post is very informative.
I just wish there was a good  news in it when it comes
to investments for the "newbies" :-( 
when the price was up i had nothing to take out, now i would 
love to see some cash, and it's just not happening :-( 
Hoping for the good times again ! :-)

you are right its just i am new to crypto but still in profit so lets hope its price rise.

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WoW jrcornel, this kind of rubs in our face that we all missed the boat. LOL

Great post

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It helps to put things in perspective and see the long term pattern. So thumbs up

Hi @jrcornel

It is the #warofthecurrencies and the more we make people aware of this the more we, as crypto investors, will gain. The onslaught continues!

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Agree with you! We should stay informed.

I completely agree. It’s easy for those who have held for years to say that we are still 600% up over12 months, butso
Many people jumped in at the end of last year and then got scared by the drop so dumped, locking in their losses. They will prob buy back in near the next top and repeat the process next time but that’s why there is so much negativity!

I am starting new investments I am new little new
I will consider your suggestions

If you haven't studied finance and don't know what the "efficient markets hypothesis" is, then you should not be speculating in cryptocurrencies.  Your approach to cryptocurrency speculation should be patterned after your approach to taking your life savings to Las Vegas with dreams of striking it rich.

The fundamentals of the determination of the price of capital assets like cryptocurrencies is not yet well understood even by mathematical economists who have studied the theoretical issues for years.

Nobody told them to buy and hold-sometimes we have to accommodate to changes. As we all adult -mentally -I presumed-we should not buy something that we don't know it is.
 Same like with buying a house-check it, research it, buy it.

Altcoin market is flying! But the alts do look very over extended. Seems like many just trying to catch a wave on them and making some overvalued currently. Just my two cents tho.

So nice

the expectations on bitcoin is too much high
the way its price increased ,people expect it to happen again and again .

As many have mentioned, these 50-75% declines have become unnoticeable in the long term charts as this is not the first time this has occurred in Bitcoin.  So, imagine how high this can potentially go if this one also becomes a blip on the longer term chart? HODL!

Well put!

Thanks for the perspective. Resteemed. I am fairly new to crypto, and the one thing that stands out to me is there is a lot of speculation on coins by those who want quick profits. Nothing wrong with that, but they are so eager for profits they do not take the time to understand what that particular chain is accomplishing/seeking to accomplish. Nor are they evaluating why a price is doing what it is doing.

Even as someone who didn't understand crypto, when Bitcoin shot up so quickly last winter, I tried finding out why. There was no good reason it should have was my findings, so I stayed out. That large influx of money (that I suspect was from bankers) began pulling out and now the prices are falling back to where they should have been all along. 

Everyone should practice due diligence before investing, and as I have read many times now, never put in more than you could afford to lose.

Well the point is clear :)

The drop has made  a panic among the new investors ,hope they hodl and get to see the glory once this all the bad news gets over !

Till then HODL !

It took a drop because one of the Co-owners sold all of his assets and made public he doesn't see any future in the coin. Talking about bad news HUH!

what you mentioned is all right, I think BTC could drop ore than 20%,, there should be a time for BTC to get down a bit so lots of buyers who are waiting to buy in the right time will enter the market

Tax day is 17 april!! After that we will see a more or less stable price between 6k-6.5k and at the begging of my we will start to moon again

This is just my opinion, i might be wrong, this is what happened for all the past years, hopefully it will happen again

I definitely can't panic at my long term investments, only tend to them as time passes on. Trying to keep a cool head is definitely working better thanks to your news updates though. Cheers.

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I wonder how FED decision to stop quantitave easing and start clearing its balance sheet at 10 billion USD per month (in a beginning) will influence cryptocurrencies. Were cryptos overvalued asset due QE and will drop to pennies or will they rise to the moon because of FIAT superinflation and money running into cryptos via ETFs?

> "Never have I seen a market wherein investors cry over a 600% annual gain."

The thing is that the majority of the people currently invested in cryptocurrencies probably got in over the last 6 months or so, and most of them now have a loss - and probably a very large loss.

Thos are the people who are "crying", not the people who bought 1+ years ago, and that's what sets the market sentiment.