Topic: Do you differentiate you portfolio? - page 2. (Read 2567 times)

most of the time, i ignore all the ups and downs of bitcoin price. i keep an amount in my cold wallet and don't touch it at least until next year to see how the price is going to be by then.

for the rest , i invest in altcoins that i find interesting and expect to grow so i buy them and keep an eye out for selling at higher prices for profit.

as for switching to something else. i have thought about it but i haven't found anything that is worth my long term attention.

It is interesting to hear different people's views, but if you think about the coin that brings 50% annually and keeps quite stable in its value may be more attractive than many other POW coins what jumps in its price + - 100% without giving its owner income.
What coset LTC.
I think that not many people know that 80% litecoin in the hands of the puppeteers from the exchanger btc-e.
That is why a decrease in the block awards to 25 coins had no impact on its value.
If you look at the price chart



 then you see how LTC gradually depreciates against the Bitcoins.
If the meaning of risk and invest their money in a coin, buying it for a few dollars, everyone decides for himself

Well, don't we all hold BTC cause we expect the price to go up big time one day. So, in essence, we all expect BTC price volatility.
I still think it s not productive to buy and hold. If we all do that, crypto economy ll never grow. In order for BTC price to go up, crypto needs to expand. Passive approach does not generate anything and there s no free riding here. If you wont do it, probably other people wont do it as well.

I don't like to invest in alts because that's like adding the volatility of bitcoin to the crazy volatility of an altcoin. It's just in no way safe.

I diversify mostly among various commodities because my day job retirement money goes into stocks for the most part.

I haven't played much with alt coins, but I will admit I own a very small amount of LTC and NMC. That could change tomorrow or five years from now. I'm not sure about anything new, it'd have to be a pretty novel concept to get me to invest more than a pittance.

I own both paper and physical commodities, bonds, real estate, etc.

I like to invest in technologies that are skirting around government regulations but huge benefits for the consumer. That's where the real growth is today. Nicotine vaporizers and juice companies, p2p economy, and 3d printing (and providing real estate for these) are the future. Apps getting around archaic regulations with their own built-in feedback systems are the way to go. The argument that only the government could protect us is ridiculous when you realize it operates only in hindsight. Feedback systems built into applications like Lyft and airbnb are the solution to dealing with problems, and for the egregious ones, lawsuits which any lawyer worth their salt would be happy to take on.

Automation and robotics is another big area of growth with plenty of investment opportunities. If you're going to diversify and it's NOT an investment into disruptive technology, then pick a business with solid value (and perhaps steady growth) and for god's sake make sure they offer dividends and don't have a ridiculous P/E ratio.

Yes, trading without a concise plan and just getting in and out of the alts is the worst thing you can do. This started happening to me and u ended up losing a lot, so I just stopped trading altogether. The crypto depression and low volatility didn't help either, everything has just slowed down in 2015 so the best thing was to get out of everything.

Now I hold everything in BTC and I hold one promising alt, just in case, you never know.

I just hold my bitcoin and don't panic dump it. Bitcoin has a pretty stable base at $200 so I don't think that in the future it will drop any further. I mostly ignore these mini-crashes of exchanges etc and focus on holding like all bit coiner should.

Having different assets is the one of many ways to manage risk.
I try to add the best coins to my portfolio whenever I can just in case I hit the golden pot!

I used to differentiate my portfolio quite a bit with Bitcoin and alts. There was no fixed percentage, I just bought some coins whenever I could and I'd try and trade them. I have a day job, so making quick trade moves wasn't all that easy and I also ended up either getting eaten up or simply trading without a profit.

Meanwhile I got tired of all this and sold pretty much everything to Bitcoin, ignored price moves and just buy up and stock it up or spend it shopping

I worry about keeping too much in BTC because the exchange rate with EUR or USD could continue falling. But I worry even more about leaving fiat (IOUs) on an exchange or trying to do day trading. And altcoins can be fun (I like clam) but they're usually even more volatile than BTC.

I was wishing there was a way to hold BTC and hedge against it losing its value. I thought of a way to do something like this using multisig. I published details about it in June (with very little reaction):

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/multisig-derivatives-1102062

Really I wish someone would build a way to semi-trustlessly hedge so I could use it! If I'm really one of the only people who want a way to hedge without leaving fiat on an exchange, I'd be surprised.

ETH seemed really promising but this initial pump and dump discouraged me from getting anything significant. Again, PoS coins re my favorite cause in the case of PoS, my holding generate new coins, all under condition the coin you select s got good inflation control system.

Besides Btc,litecoin,dash and dogecoin also interest me but 90% of my holdings is in btc.I also keep investing in other cryptos but dont hold them for long

Mostly Bitcoin and ETH but also some Ripple and LTC.

I have some holdings in LTC, Monero, and other alt-coins but the most asset that I have (which comprises of about 70% of my investments) is in bitcoins. I find it easier to buy bitcoins and to stack it up instead of other altcoins. Also, I intend to hold bitcoins for long but every time there is an opportunity to increase my bitcoins (sell high, buy back lower) I do it. Pretty much stacked up right now.

Yes, PoS coins become more and more interesting, after all staking is the new mining.

thats not true
compared to bitcoin example DMD Diamond gained 50% value in last 12 months
and that even now after we lost 50% last few weeks.... (was at 100% before)
and that is without add the POS rewards

if u add pos rewards its +75% instead of +50%

BTW now after 50% value loss is really a great time to buy into DMD if ya join in before the raise starts again

I have been holding Maidsafe for a long time now and some Monero as well and they seem to go on it's own so they serve as a good alternative investment when BTC goes down. Of course if the BTC downtrend is big, then forget it, BTC is too strong and will make the crypto market in general go red as well. I recommend a small diversification of your portfolio in a couple alts of your choice, not more.

It is the best thing to do. All the other coins change with bitcoin and move with it so it is rare that can be earning something with the trade of the other coins.

So this means you exchange FIAT into BTC and sit on them?

i just like to keep everything in btc,makes it simple