There is always risk in crypto, big risk and things can always go wrong like in any business. It therefore requires a risk based approach to determine the risk of an investment that would impact your cost of capital and therefore drive the calculation of your ROI, NPV and all the other indicators. All factors have to be taken into account - dev action/non-action/delivery, market analysis, other investor analysis, fundamentals and so on and yes including negative posts of other BCT members. Price is not an input indicator for me or at most has a very low weighting as price is the result of all the other things imo - both good and bad, both grounded and fud, both real and pumped, all impacting supply vs demand.
So far for me the risk of MTR has been much lower compared to most of the other altcoins on the market. The reasons for this are most importantly dev delivery and action. This is important because a committed, sincere and legit dev is at the heart of a coin and if the dev delivers according to a roadmap the coin will rise above fud as it withstands the fire test. Dev action/non-action is what makes or breaks a coin. What is also important are other reputable members analysis. Like in economic analysis there will always be economists that say interest rates will go up and others that say interest rates will go down. It is everyone's duty to review all the analysis, see what the driving factors are for the views and then use that to support your own analysis and risk assessment.
Everyone here has the right to their view and has their own method of analysis, even barrabas has the right to his view. The views and analysis in the thread so far has been very positive taking into account both positive and negative inputs. So far all and all MTR has a positive outlook in my analysis. It can be argued both ways if it is good or bad if a dev buys coins for himself depending on how you look at it. Price itself should not form a major input into the analysis as it is the output of sentiment and supply vs demand. Personally I sometimes do not worry too much within reason about the price I pay for something depending on the future earnings potential. Most importantly though are the dev actions and delivery. I have been very impressed so far with the delivery from the MTR team and I am looking forward a lot to the ToshiDesk platform with all its bells and whistles as it is going to assist greatly with providing data and information that forms a big part of the the basis of trading decisions. The better information at hand the higher the probability of profits. ToshiDesk will provide users the ability to make more objective decisions supplemented by registered skilled trader analysis within the tool that would empower its users to separate the wood from the trees and look past things like fud and trolls which is rife in the altcoin threads on BCT.
Like with anything there is always risk and anything can happen, so do your own analysis, but from what I have seen so far on a risk based approach, I am very impressed with what has come from the MTR development team and will keep MTR in my portfolio as it is among the top prospects currently in the altcoin market.
That is a thought out post... unfortunately, not objective. Because you know very well what's going on here. And you know, as well as me and everyone else, that this dev is after one thing first and foremost: Money. Which would be ok... except that he doesn't use legitimate ways to go about it. Let me explain to you something you will not deny -as opposed to the vast majority of thick headed people here-: This coin, in spite of the devs efforts to promote it everywhere, has not attracted any attention whatsoever. Not even with the involvement of DCGirl, which is one of the most loved and respected individuals in crypto. Everything about it is false, invented, pretended. No one is buying the crap, really, as you can see for the "volume" in the last 24 hours. Not at 20% "discount" not at any price. Neither has been bought by anyone before, at much lower prices. It has been the dev all along playing with a total of maybe 100 BTC altogether... and that includes paying, reluctantly, the people helping him put together the toshi thing, which is nice, but is nothing but a portal in which the tools already existing are linked together. Does it have some value? not in crypto, sorry. 95% of people in crypto are children pof different ages playing with minimal money. And the 5% "professionals" left, with REAL money invested, have much bigger fish to fry that charts and "lessons" on how to invest; most of them are already making the bulk of their incomes working BEHIND THE LINES, reaching deals with not very legitimate devs and the like, get it? There's really no space for Toshi. But, even if there was, it would be a tool more or less valuable on its own... nothing to do with yet another copy/paste/hackjob coin like this is.
The tool, also, has only one real purpose: To put the dev at the epicenter of whatever trading a group of people is about to do and doing... which means he will have access and control over information that no one else will have before him or even at the same time. Imagine that. Total centralization... with the keys of their wallets to fully corroborate that what they say they are doling they are, in fact, doing it. Once again, imagine that.
But, more pressing yet is the fact that this guy wants to sell you 400k of his coins for a total of roughly 500 BTC. Like I said, he has invested no more than 100BTC (and I believe probably half that), so do the numbers and you will see that he will have done very, very well... and what is needed for him to achieve that milestone? In his view, just one thing: That the crap "sells" for more than 120k sat... a price, mind you, set by him when the coin was "trading" (only him trading, lets not forget that) at 90k... he knew very well that with very little BTC -less than 4, to be precise-, he could not only take it to above 120, but even to 400 for a brief moment of self-trade. Now it is VITAL for him to keep it above 120k... or the whole house of cards will come down crashing... what is he going to do? Volume like today's, in his obvious absence from trading with himself, won't do any trick. Will all of you, the already converted, pony up 500BTC? Let me be quite frank: All of you together won't be able to pull together 20BTC, let alone 500BTC. So guess what the outcome of this "tranche" is going to be...
It is all vapor. There's nothing. No investors, no money -but his- nothing whatsoever. All illusion. But you are all going to find out in due time and at the appropriate -and fully deserved- price. So no need for anything further. Enjoy the ride, you are being taken for one!