[Genghis Khan]

Anecdotal data:

I've seen 3 of my friends make remarks about blockchain on LinkedIN, specifically mentioning some article that talks about the company they work for.

One guy works for a major healthcare company, and his CEO talked about how blockchain is the next big thing.

Another guy is a partner at a major consulting firm and shared an article about blockchain.

This could be a preliminary indicator of the next hype bubble. People are feeling more positive than they were a month ago when everything was bleeding.

[Sassy]

ADX - anyone on it? Thoughts?

Saw it jumped up 30+% today but then dipped back down

[ksbms]

Neither BTC nor ETH are the "next big thing" due to blockchain's limitations. If anything, its IOTA technology based on Directed Acyclic Graph. They've just partnered up with VW and Fujitsu, among others. It's beyond me why IOTA is still so under appreciated. The below talk illustrates precisely why, long term, a bet should be made on that technology.

[Giacomo Casanova]

I imagine that this night spike is the definitive sign that means the end of the multi months bear market. Smart money were accumulating on the big dip and are up almost 100% from bottom on numerous alts. Guess it is now time to HODL.

[Genghis Khan]

(04-23-2018 11:31 AM)ksbms Wrote:  

Neither BTC nor ETH are the "next big thing" due to blockchain's limitations. If anything, its IOTA technology based on Directed Acyclic Graph. They've just partnered up with VW and Fujitsu, among others. It's beyond me why IOTA is still so under appreciated. The below talk illustrates precisely why, long term, a bet should be made on that technology.

Because it's trash.

[Giacomo Casanova]

I was also quite positive about IOTA but I had to change my mind since they kept missing deadlines and still there is not a decent wallet despite the announcements. It is intollerable. Also the bad attitude of developers didn't help. I mean, it is a great project and idea but it is difficult to trust the people running such idea. Additionally, it looks like we have the usual problem that the price fluctuation of the taken could influence and block the adoption. I don't think big business are going to buy IOTA tokens for everyday operations business, they don't want to take a risk of price fluctuation in the order of 100% in 15 days (more or less the increase of IOTA price in the last few days). On a lesser extent this is also a bit a problem of Ethereum dapps. The model with a double taken (one working as a "share" and the other one with a fixed price to be used for "blockchain/operations") seems to be the best for real adoption.
Just as a reminder, there are plenty of crypto companies using IOT + Blockchain which seems to be the best integration for business purposes.

[Sidney Crosby]

Wish I had more money to throw at Wanchain, the price has doubled since I bought in.

[gework]

Does anyone know any web/desktop (Linux) coin trackers that allow you to set alarms for percentage changes in a coin that they import from exchange accounts and wallets?

I use BitUniverse for mobile that does this. But I prefer to keep it switched off in the day to not get distracted.

Recently I bought into Decentraland, Kyber, Gifto and Golem and they all had big pumps that I would have sold out on, but I only caught one of them near it's peak, Kyber, which I cashed in today.

[yaku]

(04-24-2018 03:39 AM)Giacomo Casanova Wrote:  

I was also quite positive about IOTA but I had to change my mind since they kept missing deadlines and still there is not a decent wallet despite the announcements. It is intollerable. Also the bad attitude of developers didn't help. I mean, it is a great project and idea but it is difficult to trust the people running such idea.

Agree. The lack of wallet blows my mind.

[Giacomo Casanova]

Do you know if there is a way to short EOS? This evaluation is ridiculous...

[nola]

(04-28-2018 08:04 AM)Giacomo Casanova Wrote:  

Do you know if there is a way to short EOS? This evaluation is ridiculous...

Futures on Bitmex

[gework]

(04-28-2018 09:25 AM)nola Wrote:  

(04-28-2018 08:04 AM)Giacomo Casanova Wrote:  

Do you know if there is a way to short EOS? This evaluation is ridiculous...

Futures on Bitmex

You can also short in BitFinex. And right now the rates are close to zero. You borrow EOS, use it to buy dollars or something else, then when EOS goes down, you can buy back EOS cheaper and pay back the EOS loan plus the currently meager interest. If I remember correctly you can borrow 3.3X to start with and then bunk it up to 5X.

[Sidney Crosby]

What are your guys thoughts on Achain (ACT), Is it worth a small investment?

[Genghis Khan]

https://hold.co/

Debit card that lets you use your crypto as collateral for cash. Not out yet, seems like an interesting application. Similar to DAI for ETH, but more currency agnostic.

[gework]

The one day view looks really bad to me. Cashed out 95%. Though I think we could see it pop up to about $12K soon I think we're heading down in general on the year.

[asdfk]

Can anybody recommend a good tutorial / course on crypto day trading? I want to have a fundamental understanding of trading and markets.

[Isaac Jordan]

(05-03-2018 05:04 AM)asdfk Wrote:  

Can anybody recommend a good tutorial / course on crypto day trading? I want to have a fundamental understanding of trading and markets.

https://www.babypips.com/learn

[sonoran_]

Couple days ago I was mentally and psychologically get sick of all the charting ive been doing, so I just yolo'd for the 1st time a cross margin long on ADA. To give you perspective, I usually do a 2x leverage.

Today I just got liquidated for the 1st time. I lost my entire bitmex account and although it wasnt much in value, it was a sizable amount for me.

The weird part is that I dont feel any emotions to losing this money.

Lesson is: dont trade when emotional.

[Matt3B]

The other lesson is: don't gamble when margin trading

An alternative lesson: always use a stop loss

[rungoodinc]

Why are people margin trading when all signs point to a bull market...

[Matt3B]

You can margin trade long and short?

[sonoran_]

Yea, was just completely reckless of me and it was done out of frustration.

^^ margin can be done long or short

[redbeard]

(05-08-2018 07:31 AM)Matt3B Wrote:  

The other lesson is: don't gamble when margin trading

An alternative lesson: always use a stop loss

You bet your sweet ass I'm going 100x long next time we're parabolic.

[redbeard]

(05-01-2018 05:31 PM)Genghis Khan Wrote:  

https://hold.co/

Debit card that lets you use your crypto as collateral for cash. Not out yet, seems like an interesting application. Similar to DAI for ETH, but more currency agnostic.

BitPay

[Kentemo]

Try to get a feel for shorting/longing BTC first. Don't immediately start with margin trading and leverage if you don't know what to do.
Try to be disciplined too, every trade should be a small percentage of your overall portfolio. When you feel confident you can take on higher positions. BTC isn't going anywhere.