I have tried trading to no avail, not everybody has time to monitor markets 24/7 and I can't be bothered with bots.
That's not really an excuse. It's quite easy to open a short position at BitMEX and just have the downtrend work for you. It doesn't cost any time or effort, just leave it open and check back once a week or so.If you use a low leverage count your liquidation price is pretty much well out of the easy to access market range. Ignore all the people saying low leverage counts are for pussies, these people are big mouths and gamblers.
I may be at a paper loss, but I feel I have strong enough positions in the long term, using these periods to accumulate and average down.
That's the best way to move forward. People don't realize how much of an opportunity it is to use current levels to significantly lower your initial buying price. Lower average price means quicker profits on the way up. 
I understand, but I feel inadequately equipped to trade in this market. If you asked me 6 months ago I would of told you that all of the TA in the world cannot tell you whether we go up or down. Now I am in a very good group where I am slowly learning how to use some elements of TA to map out potential trades, however, I still feel market sentiment drives all directions. I feel, this market is purely driven by speculation and I feel that the only thing which could work for me is using fundamental analysis to some extent. On the other side of things, I am only interested in this space, by purely the technology behind it, I feel that if one invests and averages down positions in this amazing accumulation zone, then we will see our amazing returns in years from now. However, the biggest problem is splitting the crap coins from the truely great projects. btw thanks for the merit.
