Also, have seen a few accounts that offer services (VIP signals etc). Presumably some of these are better than others.... if so, what have been your experiences? Thanks.
We have been in one of the biggest downturns of bitcoin in history and since the price went down so much everyone thinks the time for going up is starting up again however the past year caused a lot of new coins to go "bankrupt" and basically go away, many crypto business closed shops and there are a lot of them laying off their staff as well because none of them have any money left.
Hence, it has been all bad news and all bad things for crypto which would mean it may take some time before we recover. You should start putting in some money but not all of it, you should divide it to 12 equal parts and invest once each month of 2019, that way if it goes lower you will average it down, if it goes higher you already invested.