Crypto-market has faced an unprecedented FUD pertaining to bit-thumb hack. The biggest in my opinion is SEC investigation price manipulation, this news is bound to make the price slide down as we saw it sliding from 7500 to late $5000s, this month . This can or cannot dip another 500–800 $. There is no charts indicating these FUDs so we all have to wait how things unfold. Having said all of this, I want to draw your attention towards a few points:

- Whales don’t earn from other whales, they earn from small and medium investors and their wrong decisions. If BTC drops to 3 to 4k levels, it clearly means all those have left. By now there are only people who want to stay atleast till December to secure profits.

- Whales won’t abandon the greatest opportunity to make hell loads of profits in the past 10–20 years.

- So what is the ideal way of making profits in the past 6 months ? I’ll cover this later here.

- Traders : These 6 months have been very bad for traders, even the most expert traders closed positions in losses thinking market is going up and next we see is that it is going down. On the other hand, it happened vice versa with others, thus, losses in both opening and closing positions. What evidence I have for this, I don’t need to furnish any evidence, its simple maths, Binance has 45% volume drop, Bittrex has 85% . These were the exchanges whose servers jammed due to insane amount of traffics same time last year.

Now coming to what positions/investments have been fruitful in the past, the best returns have only come via good signalled ICOs or Stable solid coins such as BTC and NEO swings.

ICOs are risky, but not those which have :

- Clear Use-case

- Priced below 30 cents regardless of their supply

- Price ideally below 10 cents.

- Have teams who are pro-active and can speak publicly, why do I say this, People who can speak fluently in public are crystal clear and confident about their ideas, it projects their regards to achieving goals

- Teams have clarity to do Tier A exchange listings at the very beginning. There are people who would support and oppose me on this, let me bring forward my logic, the volumes are so low that you can’t even think about exchanges like Kucoin, Idex, Hitbtc. If your coin doesnt have volume, there will be no profits, no change of hands and eventually it’s difficult for people to trust you to roll-out your product which might take 6 to 12 months.

The two biggest lessons we draw are :

- Crypto is testing patience but its not 2013 and it will not take 3 to 4 years.

- Invest in Good ICOs ( don’t listen to every Tom Dick and Harry) stick to basics.

Some of the ICOs I did this year were Chinapex- CPX (10x profit), Arcblock-ABT (3X), Quarkchain- QKC (15x) . Although I’ve been too selective, but the returns have been equally rewarding. I will try to signal more ICOs.

The real purpose of penning down this article is reiterating the fact that don’t think crypto is doomed. I, You and the crypto-market is here to stay.

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