Bitcoin Pre-Hard Fork Strategy

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Hmm.

Seems like this is one of those times where you can boom if you are right or bust if you are wrong.

The way I see it, there are a few ways to play this:

Assumptions:

1) BTC is severely pumped right now, and will be due for a correction after the hard fork.

2) Only one out of BTC or BTC2X will survive and be worth a damn (the market and miners will decide).

Based on those assumptions, here are the posslble strategies:

High Risk High Reward Strategy: Bet that the confusion and chaos doesn't crash the market for too long, and buy alts at low prices a few days before the hard fork. Get the satoshi multipliers from alts rising, and when BTC recovers from the correction, you win.

Safe Strategy: Exit the crypto market completley a few day sbefore the hard fork at bitcoin all time high, and watch what happens. When and if market shows signs of recovery, reenter at lower prices.

No Strategy: Do neither and just hold BTC. Get BTC 2X. One will die off, but you are guaranteed to have the winner. Suffer a possible period of correction where your portfolio is bleeding, but remain optimistic that it will bounce back. (it seems to me like this strategy has the highest risk and least reward)

I'm trying to decide between the first two strategies.

Let's discuss this. Anyone challenge my assumptions? Anyone have any additional strategies? What are you doing?
 
Possibly a combination actually. I might hold just a bit bitcoin... I will hold this for at least a year. Besides that I will probably get a little bit back into fiat and rest of it in altcoins. Only question remains in what alt coins to invest in ofcourse. I'm thinking of rebuying into ETH and NEO.. possibly some others.
 
Sell half now whilst BTC is at all time high. Hold half and see what happens after the fork.

If it goes up, bingo. If it goes down, buy back the half that you sold.
 
Yeah OK doing a combination strategy does seem like a sensible option actually. You might not get biggest payoff, but you're practically guaranteed to "not lose."

Only question remains in what alt coins to invest in ofcourse. I'm thinking of rebuying into ETH and NEO.. possibly some others.

Fine choices. Big coins are the safest bets since even in worst-case scenarios, they are the most likely to recover.

I'm going for ZEN if I can get it low enough. Have high hopes for Lisk in December and it's retraced A LOT already (with more retrace if BTC hits 8K+), so I think there's big potential there as well.
 
Before the last fork you could lend out on Poloniex for around 2-4% daily interest. Wonder if this will be the case again.
 
I'm going all in on one altcoin, even 30-50% gain would make me happy at this point :D

I'm just a newb
 
I'm going all in on one altcoin, even 30-50% gain would make me happy at this point :D

I'm just a newb

You're in luck.

If altcoin market is healthy right aftr the hard fork, then you'd have to try really hard to pick a coin that can't give you 30%+.

TIP: After hard fork, I will sell the alts i bought on the first large spike, then rebuy the dip.
 
I'll probable exchange 1/2 of my btc to an altcoin and leave the other half in to get me some B2x
 
Personally I'm leaning towards taking the profits out from BTC and putting that into alts, leaving the rest intact and just riding it out.
 
Take the profits out from BTC and pull them into alternative currencies
 
alts showing slight recovery last week. Best deals so far were on november 2nd.

Alt bull trap or is the recovery real? Have we seen the altcoin bottom and BTC top already, or will there be another BTC rally? IDK but I am hoping for another rally because I didn't scoop everything up on the 2nd.
 
The problem with this hard fork is that it sucks.. I like BTC as a store of value but with B2X it's moving to just another payment system which might even transfer to POS in the long run.. it also gives all the power to the Chinese miners. So basically the coin gets captured from it's creators and transfers into something it shouldn't be.

For short term High Risk High Reward is the way to go :)
 
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