ROFX Review - Passion For Trading Forex Best

(no promotional content, no affiliate links)
Hi,
exactly four years ago, I started copying eToro investors / traders that I selected using the broker's built-in search engine (profitable in last two years, already being copied by others), followed by manual filtering, to take into account fluctuations in yearly returns, composition of their portfolios etc. With that, I got a list of 10 people whom I started to copy on a demo account:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u52f0XHfr-LauIscKcFDYF0yGTTUr6VY/view?usp=sharing
In the screenshot you can see that in case of the first two of them the amount invested was $10,000, while for the rest it was just $100. This is because I started copying the first two a couple of weeks earlier; eventually I changed this into $100 the same day I made the screenshot and this is when my calculations start - so this thing is irrelevant, I just cannot travel in time to make another screenshot.
What I did after that?
Well, within the next six weeks my profits oscillated between -$11 and +$9.50 (the biggest profit was on Nov 9, a day after US presidential elections). I found this "boring" and discontinued experimenting with copy trading.
Today I looked back at those ten traders. Here is what I found. Firstly, seven of them are not with eToro anymore; investorNo1, Simple-Stock-Mkt, tradingrelax, 4exPirate, primit, Gallojack, xjurokx. The other three traders are:

toppertrader: not being copied by anyone and for a good reason: his loss this year alone is 61.16%!
Jean-marcLenfant: copied by only 67 people; his loss this year is -1.09% but in general he is quite successful, with yearly profits ranging from 3.57% to 7.32%.
Girem2: he has no copiers, his profit this year is 41.45% but in 2018 he experienced a loss of 83.15%!

My observations and thoughts are as follows:

Seven out of ten traders are not with eToro anymore, which makes me wonder why. I have no proof but my guess is they simply performed poorly, lost their copiers and closed their accounts. This is already alarming but what if they opened another account? Or, even worse, multiple accounts? They could be investing small money and try different risky approaches, hoping that at least one account will turn out profitable in the long turn, attracting potential copiers. (I'm not claiming that those 7 particular traders did this, it's just my general suspicion regarding some of eToro traders)
I'm unable to calculate what would be my profit if I never stopped copying them, because I cannot check at what day and with what profit those seven traders left eToro. I'm guessing this would be an immense loss. On the other hand, considering the three traders who are still with eToro, I would lose more than a quarter of my assets!

What now?
I must be a quite adventurous person or at least an incorrigible optimist, because a month ago (exactly on Aug 26th) I started copying three traders with real money. Here is who they are.
rubymza (Heloise Greeff)

invests in stocks, with GOOG, INTC, BLDP, MA, MSFT, AMZN, V, MU, IBM and NXPI making up 50.3% of her portfolio (allocation of each of them is in between 3.02% and 6.85%)
active since 2016 (only the year 2016 ended with a loss)
has 3044 copiers and $2M-$5M of copy assets under management
strategy (her own words): "My investing strategy focusses mostly on US indices, tech and pharma, promising future (5-10years) growth. My trades are based on technical analysis using machine learning to understand patterns and trends in the markets. I prefer to keep a diverse portfolio to spread risk while achieving great returns."
she gave an interview for Bloomberg a couple of weeks ago
own experience: I just happened to run across her second worst month ever on eToro; my loss is -6.27% at the time of writing

OlivierDanvel (Olivier Jean Andre Danvel)

he is a Forex trader, making typically 21 trades per week; his favorite currency pairs are EURCHF (12% of trades), CADCHF and GBPUSD; the trades, however, typically make up below 5% of his portfolio (at least whenever I'm checking it), making most of my funds unused
active since January 2017: surprisingly enough, he has every single month profitable, though monthly profits are in the range of 0.03% to 3.34% only
has 8977 copiers and more than $5M of copy assets under management
strategy (his own words): "I monitor currency pairs all day to find the best entry. There is some management/scaling position for perfect entry. The risk control is a big part of my strategy," (quite vague, to be honest)
own experience: my current profit is 0.26%

rayvahey (Raymond Noel Vahey)

commodities compose 76% of his portfolio and his favorite assets are Gold and Oil (at the moment, Gold makes up half of invested amount)
active since July 2016, with the following yearly profits, starting from 2016: 6.56%, 10.05%, 13.09%, 32.26% and -2.03% (the current year)
has 1493 copiers and $1M-$2M of copy assets under management
strategy (his own words): "My system is based on patterns, and a variety of technical analysis tools and some fundamental analysis. I primarily trade in commodities. " (quite vague as well)
own experience: my profit with rayvahey is 2.56%

What was my strategy to hand-pick these particular traders? First I did some basic scanning using eToro's built-in search engine. The most important filter was that the trader was profitable within the last two years: unfortunately, eToro does not allow to reach details of earlier performance automatically. To know how the trader performed before 2019, I had to look at stats in the profile of each of them. I was also taking into account how often they trade (to avoid those who do only a couple of trades yearly), whether they were trading recently and whether they write posts regularly in their feed. With this, I got a list of fifteen candidates to copy:

olivierdanvel
marianopardo
rubymza
rayvahey
martidg97
overit
misterg23
knw500
jianswang
reinhardtcoetzee
miyoshi
alderique
jarodd76
benson9904
big-profits

As you already know, I finally chose three of them. Rubymza seemed to be the most trustworthy stock trader, based on profits, posts feed and regular trading, among other things. Regarding OlivierDanvel, his uniqueness is the ability to record continuous profits with the Forex market. Finally, with rayvahey I wanted to increase my exposure to the commodities market.
Wish me good luck!
Michael

P.S.
You might find those copy-trading related readings interesting:

Disclosures:

What you see here is my personal opinion, my own investments and should not be treated as investing advice
I’m an amateur investor

(no promotional content, no affiliate links)
Hi,
exactly four years ago, I started copying eToro investors / traders that I selected using the broker's built-in search engine (profitable in last two years, already being copied by others), followed by manual filtering, to take into account fluctuations in yearly returns, composition of their portfolios etc. With that, I got a list of 10 people whom I started to copy on a demo account:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u52f0XHfr-LauIscKcFDYF0yGTTUr6VY/view?usp=sharing
In the screenshot you can see that in case of the first two of them the amount invested was $10,000, while for the rest it was just $100. This is because I started copying the first two a couple of weeks earlier; eventually I changed this into $100 the same day I made the screenshot and this is when my calculations start - so this thing is irrelevant, I just cannot travel in time to make another screenshot.
What I did after that?
Well, within the next six weeks my profits oscillated between -$11 and +$9.50 (the biggest profit was on Nov 9, a day after US presidential elections). I found this "boring" and discontinued experimenting with copy trading.
Today I looked back at those ten traders. Here is what I found. Firstly, seven of them are not with eToro anymore; investorNo1, Simple-Stock-Mkt, tradingrelax, 4exPirate, primit, Gallojack, xjurokx. The other three traders are:

toppertrader: not being copied by anyone and for a good reason: his loss this year alone is 61.16%!
Jean-marcLenfant: copied by only 67 people; his loss this year is -1.09% but in general he is quite successful, with yearly profits ranging from 3.57% to 7.32%.
Girem2: he has no copiers, his profit this year is 41.45% but in 2018 he experienced a loss of 83.15%!

My observations and thoughts are as follows:

Seven out of ten traders are not with eToro anymore, which makes me wonder why. I have no proof but my guess is they simply performed poorly, lost their copiers and closed their accounts. This is already alarming but what if they opened another account? Or, even worse, multiple accounts? They could be investing small money and try different risky approaches, hoping that at least one account will turn out profitable in the long turn, attracting potential copiers. (I'm not claiming that those 7 particular traders did this, it's just my general suspicion regarding some of eToro traders)
I'm unable to calculate what would be my profit if I never stopped copying them, because I cannot check at what day and with what profit those seven traders left eToro. I'm guessing this would be an immense loss. On the other hand, considering the three traders who are still with eToro, I would lose more than a quarter of my assets!

What now?
I must be a quite adventurous person or at least an incorrigible optimist, because a month ago (exactly on Aug 26th) I started copying three traders with real money. Here is who they are.
rubymza (Heloise Greeff)

invests in stocks, with GOOG, INTC, BLDP, MA, MSFT, AMZN, V, MU, IBM and NXPI making up 50.3% of her portfolio (allocation of each of them is in between 3.02% and 6.85%)
active since 2016 (only the year 2016 ended with a loss)
has 3044 copiers and $2M-$5M of copy assets under management
strategy (her own words): "My investing strategy focusses mostly on US indices, tech and pharma, promising future (5-10years) growth. My trades are based on technical analysis using machine learning to understand patterns and trends in the markets. I prefer to keep a diverse portfolio to spread risk while achieving great returns."
she gave an interview for Bloomberg a couple of weeks ago
own experience: I just happened to run across her second worst month ever on eToro; my loss is -6.27% at the time of writing

OlivierDanvel (Olivier Jean Andre Danvel)

he is a Forex trader, making typically 21 trades per week; his favorite currency pairs are EURCHF (12% of trades), CADCHF and GBPUSD; the trades, however, typically make up below 5% of his portfolio (at least whenever I'm checking it), making most of my funds unused
active since January 2017: surprisingly enough, he has every single month profitable, though monthly profits are in the range of 0.03% to 3.34% only
has 8977 copiers and more than $5M of copy assets under management
strategy (his own words): "I monitor currency pairs all day to find the best entry. There is some management/scaling position for perfect entry. The risk control is a big part of my strategy," (quite vague, to be honest)
own experience: my current profit is 0.26%

rayvahey (Raymond Noel Vahey)

commodities compose 76% of his portfolio and his favorite assets are Gold and Oil (at the moment, Gold makes up half of invested amount)
active since July 2016, with the following yearly profits, starting from 2016: 6.56%, 10.05%, 13.09%, 32.26% and -2.03% (the current year)
has 1493 copiers and $1M-$2M of copy assets under management
strategy (his own words): "My system is based on patterns, and a variety of technical analysis tools and some fundamental analysis. I primarily trade in commodities. " (quite vague as well)
own experience: my profit with rayvahey is 2.56%

What was my strategy to hand-pick these particular traders? First I did some basic scanning using eToro's built-in search engine. The most important filter was that the trader was profitable within the last two years: unfortunately, eToro does not allow to reach details of earlier performance automatically. To know how the trader performed before 2019, I had to look at stats in the profile of each of them. I was also taking into account how often they trade (to avoid those who do only a couple of trades yearly), whether they were trading recently and whether they write posts regularly in their feed. With this, I got a list of fifteen candidates to copy:

olivierdanvel
marianopardo
rubymza
rayvahey
martidg97
overit
misterg23
knw500
jianswang
reinhardtcoetzee
miyoshi
alderique
jarodd76
benson9904
big-profits

As you already know, I finally chose three of them. Rubymza seemed to be the most trustworthy stock trader, based on profits, posts feed and regular trading, among other things. Regarding OlivierDanvel, his uniqueness is the ability to record continuous profits with the Forex market. Finally, with rayvahey I wanted to increase my exposure to the commodities market.
Wish me good luck!
Michael

P.S.
You might find those copy-trading related readings interesting:

Disclosures:

What you see here is my personal opinion, my own investments and should not be treated as investing advice
I’m an amateur investor

WHAT ND10X isn't
ND10X Review:- It is vital to realize that ND10X is not a completely automatic trading system such as robots. Once you start the usage of the device, it's going to generate alternate hints using the proprietary indicators and algorithms. You may be required to the area the forex trades your self through one of the trading platforms (together with Meta trader 4). This means that the gadget isn't a mixture of automated trading robotic and gadgets for doing a foreign exchange.
ND10X is also no longer a machine for skeptics. The writer is claiming that he's going to assist you to make ten-fold returns in your account in a relatively brief amount of time (beneath months). Prospective individuals must take delivery of this declare and pay the non-refundable club fee or appearance elsewhere for guru steering.
WHAT units ND10X other than other products?
ND10X Review:- is precise from different structures starting with the claims it makes. The grade by grade and easy to observe blueprint claims to permit you to rapidly boom your account fee. Mainly, in case you comply with its -step formula, you are intended so one can grow an initial $1,000 up to $10,000 inside 60 days or sooner.
The gadget is likewise distinctive from other merchandise inside the actual-global trading enjoy of the founder who has controlled a multi-million dollar hedge fund. He completed this all at the same time as he becomes efficiently educated hundreds of people in mastering to alternate forex efficiently. ND10X includes a giant amount of his education in the form of five distinct units of motion pictures that he includes together with his master magnificence series. The motion pictures come on DVDs and arrive at your door. In recent times, very few competitors are offering bodily component systems in this degree any further.
Who is THIS device in particular DESIGNED FOR?
ND10X was optimally designed for folks that are new to buying and selling the forex markets. This allows giving an explanation for his good-sized amount of covered educational videos that provide grade by grade steering. Delic pledges to work with a tremendously small organization of only 250-300 humans at a time so that you can help make certain that they could make money on their foreign exchange trades. It's far why he turned into best offering 250 subscriptions to the brand new provider when he released.

I am putting together my investment portfolio for 2018 and made a complete summary of the current Top 100. Interestingly, I noticed that all coins can be categorized into 12 markets. Which markets do you think will play the biggest role in the coming year?
Here is a complete overview of all coins in an excel sheet including name, market, TPS, risk profile, time since launch (negative numbers mean that they are launching that many months in the future) and market cap. You can also sort by all of these fields of course. Coins written in bold are the strongest contenders within their market either due to having the best technology or having a small market cap and still excellent technology and potential. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1s8PHcNvvjuy848q18py_CGcu8elRGQAUIf86EYh4QZo/edit#gid=0
The 12 markets are

Currency 13 coins
Platform 25 coins
Ecosystem 9 coins
Privacy 10 coins
Currency Exchange Tool 8 coins
Gaming & Gambling 5 coins
Misc 15 coins
Social Network 4 coins
Fee Token 3 coins
Decentralized Data Storage 4 coins
Cloud Computing 3 coins
Stable Coin 2 coins

Before we look at the individual markets, we need to take a look of the overall market and its biggest issue scalability first:
Cryptocurrencies aim to be a decentralized currency that can be used worldwide. Its goal is to replace dollar, Euro, Yen, all FIAT currencies worldwide. The coin that will achieve that will be worth several trillion dollars.
Bitcoin can only process 7 transactions per second (TPS). In order to replace all FIAT, it would need to perform at at least VISA levels, which usually processes around 3,000 TPS, up to 25,000 TPS during peak times and a maximum of 64,000 TPS. That means that this cryptocurrency would need to be able to perform at least several thousand TPS. However, a ground breaking technology should not look at current technology to set a goal for its use, i.e. estimating the number of emails sent in 1990 based on the number of faxes sent wasn’t a good estimate.
For that reason, 10,000 TPS is the absolute baseline for a cryptocurrency that wants to replace FIAT. This brings me to IOTA, which wants to connect all 80 billion IoT devices that are expected to exist by 2025, which constantly communicate with each other, creating 80 billion or more transactions per second. This is the benchmark that cryptocurrencies should be aiming for. Currently, 8 billion devices are connected to the Internet.
With its Lightning network recently launched, Bitcoin is realistically looking at 50,000 possible soon. Other notable cryptocurrencies besides IOTA and Bitcoin are Nano with 7,000 TPS already tested, Dash with several billion TPS possible with Masternodes, Neo, LISK and RHOC with 100,000 TPS by 2020, Ripple with 50,000 TPS, Ethereum with 10,000 with Sharding.
However, it needs to be said that scalability usually goes at the cost of decentralization and security. So, it needs to be seen, which of these technologies can prove itself resilient and performant.
Without further ado, here are the coins of the first market

Market 1 - Currency:

Bitcoin: 1st generation blockchain with currently bad scalability currently, though the implementation of the Lightning Network looks promising and could alleviate most scalability concerns, scalability and high energy use.
Ripple: Centralized currency that might become very successful due to tight involvement with banks and cross-border payments for financial institutions; banks and companies like Western Union and Moneygram (who they are currently working with) as customers customers. However, it seems they are aiming for more decentralization now.https://ripple.com/dev-blog/decentralization-strategy-update/. Has high TPS due to Proof of Correctness algorithm.
Bitcoin Cash: Bitcoin fork with the difference of having an 8 times bigger block size, making it 8 times more scalable than Bitcoin currently. Further block size increases are planned. Only significant difference is bigger block size while big blocks lead to further problems that don't seem to do well beyond a few thousand TPS. Opponents to a block size argue that increasing the block size limit is unimaginative, offers only temporary relief, and damages decentralization by increasing costs of participation. In order to preserve decentralization, system requirements to participate should be kept low. To understand this, consider an extreme example: very big blocks (1GB+) would require data center level resources to validate the blockchain. This would preclude all but the wealthiest individuals from participating.Community seems more open than Bitcoin's though.
Litecoin : Little brother of Bitcoin. Bitcoin fork with different mining algorithm but not much else.Copies everything that Bitcoin does pretty much. Lack of real innovation.
Dash: Dash (Digital Cash) is a fork of Bitcoin and focuses on user ease. It has very fast transactions within seconds, low fees and uses Proof of Service from Masternodes for consensus. They are currently building a system called Evolution which will allow users to send money using usernames and merchants will find it easy to integrate Dash using the API. You could say Dash is trying to be a PayPal of cryptocurrencies. Currently, cryptocurrencies must choose between decentralization, speed, scalability and can pick only 2. With Masternodes, Dash picked speed and scalability at some cost of decentralization, since with Masternodes the voting power is shifted towards Masternodes, which are run by Dash users who own the most Dash.
IOTA: 3rd generation blockchain called Tangle, which has a high scalability, no fees and instant transactions. IOTA aims to be the connective layer between all 80 billion IOT devices that are expected to be connected to the Internet in 2025, possibly creating 80 billion transactions per second or 800 billion TPS, who knows. However, it needs to be seen if the Tangle can keep up with this scalability and iron out its security issues that have not yet been completely resolved.
Nano: 3rd generation blockchain called Block Lattice with high scalability, no fees and instant transactions. Unlike IOTA, Nano only wants to be a payment processor and nothing else, for now at least. With Nano, every user has their own blockchain and has to perform a small amount of computing for each transaction, which makes Nano perform at 300 TPS with no problems and 7,000 TPS have also been tested successfully. Very promising 3rd gen technology and strong focus on only being the fastest currency without trying to be everything.
Decred: As mining operations have grown, Bitcoin’s decision-making process has become more centralized, with the largest mining companies holding large amounts of power over the Bitcoin improvement process. Decred focuses heavily on decentralization with their PoW Pos hybrid governance system to become what Bitcoin was set out to be. They will soon implement the Lightning Network to scale up. While there do not seem to be more differences to Bitcoin besides the novel hybrid consensus algorithm, which Ethereum, Aeternity and Bitcoin Atom are also implementing, the welcoming and positive Decred community and professoinal team add another level of potential to the coin.
Aeternity: We’ve seen recently, that it’s difficult to scale the execution of smart contracts on the blockchain. Crypto Kitties is a great example. Something as simple as creating and trading unique assets on Ethereum bogged the network down when transaction volume soared. Ethereum and Zilliqa address this problem with Sharding. Aeternity focuses on increasing the scalability of smart contracts and dapps by moving smart contracts off-chain. Instead of running on the blockchain, smart contracts on Aeternity run in private state channels between the parties involved in the contracts. State channels are lines of communication between parties in a smart contract. They don’t touch the blockchain unless they need to for adjudication or transfer of value. Because they’re off-chain, state channel contracts can operate much more efficiently. They don’t need to pay the network for every time they compute and can also operate with greater privacy. An important aspect of smart contract and dapp development is access to outside data sources. This could mean checking the weather in London, score of a football game, or price of gold. Oracles provide access to data hosted outside the blockchain. In many blockchain projects, oracles represent a security risk and potential point of failure, since they tend to be singular, centralized data streams. Aeternity proposes decentralizing oracles with their oracle machine. Doing so would make outside data immutable and unchangeable once it reaches Aeternity’s blockchain. Of course, the data source could still be hacked, so Aeternity implements a prediction market where users can bet on the accuracy and honesty of incoming data from various oracles.It also uses prediction markets for various voting and verification purposes within the platform. Aeternity’s network runs on on a hybrid of proof of work and proof of stake. Founded by a long-time crypto-enthusiast and early colleague of Vitalik Buterin, Yanislav Malahov. Promising concept though not product yet
Bitcoin Atom: Atomic Swaps and hybrid consenus. This looks like the only Bitcoin clone that actually is looking to innovate next to Bitcoin Cash.
Dogecoin: Litecoin fork, fantastic community, though lagging behind a bit in technology.
Bitcoin Gold: A bit better security than bitcoin through ASIC resistant algorithm, but that's it. Not that interesting.
Digibyte: Digibyte's PoS blockchain is spread over a 100,000+ servers, phones, computers, and nodes across the globe, aiming for the ultimate level of decentralization. DigiByte rebalances the load between the five mining algorithms by adjusting the difficulty of each so one algorithm doesn’t become dominant. The algorithm's asymmetric difficulty has gained notoriety and been deployed in many other blockchains.DigiByte’s adoption over the past four years has been slow. It’s still a relatively obscure currency compared its competitors. The DigiByte website offers a lot of great marketing copy and buzzwords. However, there’s not much technical information about what they have planned for the future. You could say Digibyte is like Bitcoin, but with shorter blocktimes and a multi-algorithm. However, that's not really a difference big enough to truly set themselves apart from Bitcoin, since these technologies could be implemented by any blockchain without much difficulty. Their decentralization is probably their strongest asset, however, this also change quickly if the currency takes off and big miners decide to go into Digibyte.
Bitcoin Diamond Asic resistant Bitcoin and Copycat

Market 2 - Platform

Most of the cryptos here have smart contracts and allow dapps (Decentralized apps) to be build on their platform and to use their token as an exchange of value between dapp services.

Ethereum: 2nd generation blockchain that allows the use of smart contracts. Bad scalability currently, though this concern could be alleviated by the soon to be implemented Lightning Network aka Plasma and its Sharding concept.
EOS: Promising technology that wants to be able do everything, from smart contracts like Ethereum, scalability similar to Nano with 1000 tx/second + near instant transactions and zero fees, to also wanting to be a platform for dapps. However, EOS doesn't have a product yet and everything is just promises still. Highly overvalued right now. However, there are lots of red flags, have dumped $500 million Ether over the last 2 months and possibly bought back EOS to increase the size of their ICO, which has been going on for over a year and has raised several billion dollars. All in all, their market cap is way too high for that and not even having a product.
Cardano: Similar to Ethereum/EOS, however, only promises made with no delivery yet, highly overrated right now. Interesting concept though. Market cap way too high for not even having a product. Somewhat promising technology.
VeChain: Singapore-based project that’s building a business enterprise platform and inventory tracking system. Examples are verifying genuine luxury goods and food supply chains. Has one of the strongest communities in the crypto world. Most hyped token of all, with merit though.
Neo: Neo is a platform, similar to Eth, but more extensive, allowing dapps and smart contracts, but with a different smart contract gas system, consensus mechanism (PoS vs. dBfT), governance model, fixed vs unfixed supply, expensive contracts vs nearly free contracts, different ideologies for real world adoption. There are currently only 9 nodes, each of which are being run by a company/entity hand selected by the NEO council (most of which are located in china) and are under contract. This means that although the locations of the nodes may differ, ultimately the neo council can bring them down due to their legal contracts. In fact this has been done in the past when the neo council was moving 50 million neo that had been locked up. Also dbft (or neo's implmentation of it) has failed underload causing network outages during major icos. The first step in decentralization is that the NEO Counsel will select trusted nodes (Universities, business partners, etc.) and slowly become less centralized that way. The final step in decentralization will be allowing NEO holders to vote for new nodes, similar to a DPoS system (ARK/EOS/LISK). NEO has a regulation/government friendly ideology. Finally they are trying to work undewith the Chinese government in regards to regulations. If for some reason they wanted it shut down, they could just shut it down.
Stellar: PoS system, similar goals as Ripple, but more of a platform than only a currency. 80% of Stellar are owned by Stellar.org still, making the currency centralized.
Ethereum classic: Original Ethereum that decided not to fork after a hack. The Ethereum that we know is its fork. Uninteresing, because it has a lot of less resources than Ethereum now and a lot less community support.
Ziliqa: Zilliqa is building a new way of sharding. 2400 tpx already tested, 10,000 tps soon possible by being linearly scalable with the number of nodes. That means, the more nodes, the faster the network gets. They are looking at implementing privacy as well.
QTUM: Enables Smart contracts on the Bitcoin blockchain. Useful.
Icon: Korean ethereum. Decentralized application platform that's building communities in partnership with banks, insurance providers, hospitals, and universities. Focused on ID verification and payments. No big differentiators to the other 20 Ethereums, except that is has a product. That is a plus. Maybe cheap alternative to Ethereum.
LISK: Lisk's difference to other BaaS is that side chains are independent to the main chain and have to have their own nodes. Similar to neo whole allows dapps to deploy their blockchain to. However, Lisk is currently somewhat centralized with a small group of members owning more than 50% of the delegated positions. Lisk plans to change the consensus algorithm for that reason in the near future.
Rchain: Similar to Ethereum with smart contract, though much more scalable at an expected 40,000 TPS and possible 100,000 TPS. Not launched yet. No product launched yet, though promising technology. Not overvalued, probably at the right price right now.
ARDR: Similar to Lisk. Ardor is a public blockchain platform that will allow people to utilize the blockchain technology of Nxt through the use of child chains. A child chain, which is a ‘light’ blockchain that can be customized to a certain extent, is designed to allow easy self-deploy for your own blockchain. Nxt claims that users will "not need to worry" about security, as that part is now handled by the main chain (Ardor). This is the chief innovation of Ardor. Ardor was evolved from NXT by the same company. NEM started as a NXT clone.
Ontology: Similar to Neo. Interesting coin
Bytom: Bytom is an interactive protocol of multiple byte assets. Heterogeneous byte-assets (indigenous digital currency, digital assets) that operate in different forms on the Bytom Blockchain and atomic assets (warrants, securities, dividends, bonds, intelligence information, forecasting information and other information that exist in the physical world) can be registered, exchanged, gambled and engaged in other more complicated and contract-based interoperations via Bytom.
Nxt: Similar to Lisk
Stratis: Different to LISK, Stratis will allow businesses and organizations to create their own blockchain according to their own needs, but secured on the parent Stratis chain. Stratis’s simple interface will allow organizations to quickly and easily deploy and/or test blockchain functionality of the Ethereum, BitShares, BitCoin, Lisk and Stratis environements.
Status: Status provides access to all of Ethereum’s decentralized applications (dapps) through an app on your smartphone. It opens the door to mass adoption of Ethereum dapps by targeting the fastest growing computer segment in the world – smartphone users.16. Ark: Fork of Lisk that focuses on a smaller feature set. Ark wallets can only vote for one delegate at a time which forces delegates to compete against each other and makes cartel formations incredibly hard, if not impossible.
Neblio: Similar to Neo, but 30x smaller market cap.
NEM: Is similar to Neo No marketing team, very high market cap for little clarilty what they do.
Bancor: Bancor is a Decentralized Liquidity Network that allows you to hold any Ethereum token and convert it to any other token in the network, with no counter party, at an automatically calculated price, using a simple web wallet.
Dragonchain: The Purpose of DragonChain is to help companies quickly and easily incorporate blockchain into their business applications. Many companies might be interested in making this transition because of the benefits associated with serving clients over a blockchain – increased efficiency and security for transactions, a reduction of costs from eliminating potential fraud and scams, etc.
Skycoin: Transactions with zero fees that take apparently two seconds, unlimited transaction rate, no need for miners and block rewards, low power usage, all of the usual cryptocurrency technical vulnerabilities fixed, a consensus mechanism superior to anything that exists, resistant to all conceivable threats (government censorship, community infighting, cybenucleaconventional warfare, etc). Skycoin has their own consensus algorithm known as Obelisk written and published academically by an early developer of Ethereum. Obelisk is a non-energy intensive consensus algorithm based on a concept called ‘web of trust dynamics’ which is completely different to PoW, PoS, and their derivatives. Skywire, the flagship application of Skycoin, has the ambitious goal of decentralizing the internet at the hardware level and is about to begin the testnet in April. However, this is just one of the many facets of the Skycoin ecosystem. Skywire will not only provide decentralized bandwidth but also storage and computation, completing the holy trinity of commodities essential for the new internet. Skycion a smear campaign launched against it, though they seem legit and reliable. Thus, they are probably undervalued.

Market 3 - Ecosystem

The 3rd market with 11 coins is comprised of ecosystem coins, which aim to strengthen the ease of use within the crypto space through decentralized exchanges, open standards for apps and more

Nebulas: Similar to how Google indexes webpages Nebulas will index blockchain projects, smart contracts & data using the Nebulas rank algorithm that sifts & sorts the data. Developers rewarded NAS to develop & deploy on NAS chain. Nebulas calls this developer incentive protocol – basically rewards are issued based on how often dapp/contract etc. is used, the more the better the rewards and Proof of devotion. Works like DPoS except the best, most economically incentivised developers (Bookkeeppers) get the forging spots. Ensuring brains stay with the project (Cross between PoI & PoS). 2,400 TPS+, DAG used to solve the inter-transaction dependencies in the PEE (Parallel Execution Environment) feature, first crypto Wallet that supports the Lightening Network.
Waves: Decentralized exchange and crowdfunding platform. Let’s companies and projects to issue and manage their own digital coin tokens to raise money.
Salt: Leveraging blockchain assets to secure cash loands. Plans to offer cash loans in traditional currencies, backed by your cryptocurrency assets. Allows lenders worldwide to skip credit checks for easier access to affordable loans.
CHAINLINK: ChainLink is a decentralized oracle service, the first of its kind. Oracles are defined as an ‘agent’ that finds and verifies real-world occurrences and submits this information to a blockchain to be used in smart contracts.With ChainLink, smart contract users can use the network’s oracles to retrieve data from off-chain application program interfaces (APIs), data pools, and other resources and integrate them into the blockchain and smart contracts. Basically, ChainLink takes information that is external to blockchain applications and puts it on-chain. The difference to Aeternity is that Chainlink deploys the smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain while Aeternity has its own chain.
WTC: Combines blockchain with IoT to create a management system for supply chains Interesting
Ethos unifyies all cryptos. Ethos is building a multi-cryptocurrency phone wallet. The team is also building an investment diversification tool and a social network
Aion: Aion is the token that pays for services on the Aeternity platform.
USDT: is no cryptocurrency really, but a replacement for dollar for trading After months of asking for proof of dollar backing, still no response from Tether.

Market 4 - Privacy

The 4th market are privacy coins. As you might know, Bitcoin is not anonymous. If the IRS or any other party asks an exchange who is the identity behind a specific Bitcoin address, they know who you are and can track back almost all of the Bitcoin transactions you have ever made and all your account balances. Privacy coins aim to prevent exactly that through address fungability, which changes addresses constantly, IP obfuscation and more. There are 2 types of privacy coins, one with completely privacy and one with optional privacy. Optional Privacy coins like Dash and Nav have the advantage of more user friendliness over completely privacy coins such as Monero and Enigma.

Monero: Currently most popular privacy coin, though with a very high market cap. Since their privacy is all on chain, all prior transactions would be deanonymized if their protocol is ever cracked. This requires a quantum computing attack though. PIVX is better in that regard.
Zcash: A decentralized and open-source cryptocurrency that hide the sender, recipient, and value of transactions. Offers users the option to make transactions public later for auditing. Decent privacy coin, though no default privacy
Verge: Calls itself privacy coin without providing private transactions, multiple problems over the last weeks has a toxic community, and way too much hype for what they have.
Bytecoin: First privacy-focused cryptocurrency with anonymous transactions. Bytecoin’s code was later adapted to create Monero, the more well-known anonymous cryptocurrency. Has several scam accusations, 80% pre-mine, bad devs, bad tech
Bitcoin Private: A merge fork of Bitcoin and Zclassic with Zclassic being a fork of Zcash with the difference of a lack of a founders fee required to mine a valid block. This promotes a fair distribution, preventing centralized coin ownership and control. Bitcoin private offers the optional ability to keep the sender, receiver, and amount private in a given transaction. However, this is already offered by several good privacy coins (Monero, PIVX) and Bitcoin private doesn't offer much more beyond this.
Komodo: The Komodo blockchain platform uses Komodo’s open-source cryptocurrency for doing transparent, anonymous, private, and fungible transactions. They are then made ultra-secure using Bitcoin’s blockchain via a Delayed Proof of Work (dPoW) protocol and decentralized crowdfunding (ICO) platform to remove middlemen from project funding. Offers services for startups to create and manage their own Blockchains.
PIVX: As a fork of Dash, PIVX uses an advanced implementation of the Zerocoin protocol to provide it’s privacy. This is a form of zeroknowledge proofs, which allow users to spend ‘Zerocoins’ that have no link back to them. Unlike Zcash u have denominations in PIVX, so they can’t track users by their payment amount being equal to the amount of ‘minted’ coins, because everyone uses the same denominations. PIVX is also implementing Bulletproofs, just like Monero, and this will take care of arguably the biggest weakness of zeroknowledge protocols: the trusted setup.
Zcoin: PoW cryptocurrency. Private financial transactions, enabled by the Zerocoin Protocol. Zcoin is the first full implementation of the Zerocoin Protocol, which allows users to have complete privacy via Zero-Knowledge cryptographic proofs.
Enigma: Monero is to Bitcoin what enigma is to Ethereum. Enigma is for making the data used in smart contracts private. More of a platform for dapps than a currency like Monero. Very promising.
Navcoin: Like bitcoin but with added privacy and pos and 1,170 tps, but only because of very short 30 second block times. Though, privacy is optional, but aims to be more user friendly than Monero. However, doesn't really decide if it wants to be a privacy coin or not. Same as Zcash.Strong technology, non-shady team.
Tenx: Raised 80 million, offers cryptocurrency-linked credit cards that let you spend virtual money in real life. Developing a series of payment platforms to make spending cryptocurrency easier. However, the question is if full privacy coins will be hindered in growth through government regulations and optional privacy coins will become more successful through ease of use and no regulatory hindrance.

Market 5 - Currency Exchange Tool

Due to the sheer number of different cryptocurrencies, exchanging one currency for the other it still cumbersome. Further, merchants don’t want to deal with overcluttered options of accepting cryptocurrencies. This is where exchange tool like Req come in, which allow easy and simple exchange of currencies.

Cryptonex: Fiat and currency exchange between various blockchain services, similar to REQ.
QASH: Qash is used to fuel its liquid platform which will be an exchange that will distribute their liquidity pool. Its product, the Worldbook is a multi-exchange order book that matches crypto to crypto, and crypto to fiat and the reverse across all currencies. E.g., someone is selling Bitcoin is USD on exchange1 not owned by Quoine and someone is buying Bitcoin in EURO on exchange 2 not owned by Quoine. If the forex conversions and crypto conversions match then the trade will go through and the Worldbook will match it, it'll make the sale and the purchase on either exchange and each user will get what they wanted, which means exchanges with lower liquidity if they join the Worldbook will be able to fill orders and take trade fees they otherwise would miss out on.They turned it on to test it a few months ago for an hour or so and their exchange was the top exchange in the world by 4x volume for the day because all Worldbook trades ran through it. Binance wants BNB to be used on their one exchange. Qash wants their QASH token embedded in all of their partners. More info here https://www.reddit.com/CryptoCurrency/comments/8a8lnwhich_are_your_top_5_favourite_coins_out_of_the/dwyjcbb/?context=3
Kyber: network Exchange between cryptocurrencies, similar to REQ. Features automatic coin conversions for payments. Also offers payment tools for developers and a cryptocurrency wallet.
Achain: Building a boundless blockchain world like Req .
Req: Exchange between cryptocurrencies.
Bitshares: Exchange between cryptocurrencies. Noteworthy are the 1.5 second average block times and throughput potential of 100,000 transactions per second with currently 2,400 TPS having been proven. However, bitshares had several Scam accusations in the past.
Loopring: A protocol that will enable higher liquidity between exchanges and personal wallets.
ZRX: Open standard for dapps. Open, permissionless protocol allowing for ERC20 tokens to be traded on the Ethereum blockchain. In 0x protocol, orders are transported off-chain, massively reducing gas costs and eliminating blockchain bloat. Relayers help broadcast orders and collect a fee each time they facilitate a trade. Anyone can build a relayer.

Market 6 - Gaming

With an industry size of $108B worldwide, Gaming is one of the largest markets in the world. For sure, cryptocurrencies will want to have a share of that pie.

Storm: Mobile game currency on a platform with 9 million players.
Fun: A platform for casino operators to host trustless, provably-fair gambling through the use of smart contracts, as well as creating their own implementation of state channels for scalability.
Electroneum: Mobile game currency They have lots of technical problems, such as several 51% attacks
Wax: Marketplace to trade in-game items

Market 7 - Misc

There are various markets being tapped right now. They are all summed up under misc.

OMG: Omise is designed to enable financial services for people without bank accounts. It works worldwide and with both traditional money and cryptocurrencies.
Power ledger: Australian blockchain-based cryptocurrency and energy trading platform that allows for decentralized selling and buying of renewable energy. Unique market and rather untapped market in the crypto space.
Populous: A platform that connects business owners and invoice buyers without middlemen. Invoice sellers get cash flow to fund their business and invoice buyers earn interest. Similar to OMG, small market.
Monacoin: The first Japanese cryptocurrency. Focused on micro-transactions and based on a popular internet meme of a type-written cat. This makes it similar to Dogecoin. Very niche, tiny market.
Revain: Legitimizing reviews via the blockchain. Interesting concept, though market not as big.
Augur: Platform to forecast and make wagers on the outcome of real-world events (AKA decentralized predictions). Uses predictions for a “wisdom of the crowd” search engine. Not launched yet.
Substratum: Revolutionzing hosting industry via per request billing as a decentralized internet hosting system. Uses a global network of private computers to create the free and open internet of the future. Participants earn cryptocurrency. Interesting concept.
Veritaseum: Is supposed to be a peer to peer gateway, though it looks like very much like a scam.
TRON: Tronix is looking to capitalize on ownership of internet data to content creators. However, they plagiarized their white paper, which is a no go. They apologized, so it needs to be seen how they will conduct themselves in the future. Extremely high market cap for not having a product, nor proof of concept.
Syscoin: A cryptocurrency with a decentralized marketplace that lets people buy and sell products directly without third parties. Trying to remove middlemen like eBay and Amazon.
Hshare: Most likely scam because of no code changes, most likely pump and dump scheme, dead community.
BAT: An Ethereum-based token that can be exchanged between content creators, users, and advertisers. Decentralized ad-network that pays based on engagement and attention.
Dent: Decentralizeed exchange of mobile data, enabling mobile data to be marketed, purchased or distributed, so that users can quickly buy or sell data from any user to another one.
Ncash: End to end encrypted Identification system for retailers to better serve their customers .
Factom Secure record-keeping system that allows companies to store their data directly on the Blockchain. The goal is to make records more transparent and trustworthy .

Market 8 - Social network

Web 2.0 is still going strong and Web 3.0 is not going to ignore it. There are several gaming tokens already out there and a few with decent traction already, such as Steem, which is Reddit with voting through money is a very interesting one.

Mithril: As users create content via social media, they will be rewarded for their contribution, the better the contribution, the more they will earn
Steem: Like Reddit, but voting with money. Already launched product and Alexa rank 1,000 Thumbs up.
Rdd: Reddcoin makes the process of sending and receiving money fun and rewarding for everyone. Reddcoin is dedicated to one thing – tipping on social networks as a way to bring cryptocurrency awareness and experience to the general public.
Kin: Token for the platform Kik. Kik has a massive user base of 400 million people. Replacing paying with FIAT with paying with KIN might get this token to mass adoption very quickly.

Market 9 - Fee token

Popular exchanges realized that they can make a few billion dollars more by launching their own token. Owning these tokens gives you a reduction of trading fees. Very handy and BNB (Binance Coin) has been one of the most resilient tokens, which have withstood most market drops over the last weeks and was among the very few coins that could show growth.

BNB: Fee token for Binance
Gas: Not a Fee token for an exchange, but it is a dividend paid out on Neo and a currency that can be used to purchase services for dapps.
Kucoin: Fee token for Kucoin

Market 10 - Decentralized Data Storage

Currently, data storage happens with large companies or data centers that are prone to failure or losing data. Decentralized data storage makes loss of data almost impossible by distributing your files to numerous clients that hold tiny pieces of your data. Remember Torrents? Torrents use a peer-to-peer network. It is similar to that. Many users maintain copies of the same file, when someone wants a copy of that file, they send a request to the peer-to-peer network., users who have the file, known as seeds, send fragments of the file to the requester., he requester receives many fragments from many different seeds, and the torrent software recompiles these fragments to form the original file.

Gbyte: Byteball data is stored and ordered using directed acyclic graph (DAG) rather than blockchain. This allows all users to secure each other's data by referencing earlier data units created by other users, and also removes scalability limits common for blockchains, such as blocksize issue.
Siacoin: Siacoin is decentralized storage platform. Distributes encrypted files to thousands of private users who get paid for renting out their disk space. Anybody with siacoins can rent storage from hosts on Sia. This is accomplish via "smart" storage contracts stored on the Sia blockchain. The smart contract provides a payment to the host only after the host has kept the file for a given amount of time. If the host loses the file, the host does not get paid.
Maidsafecoin: MaidSafe stands for Massive Array of Internet Disks, Secure Access for Everyone.Instead of working with data centers and servers that are common today and are vulnerable to data theft and monitoring, SAFE’s network uses advanced P2P technology to bring together the spare computing capacity of all SAFE users and create a global network. You can think of SAFE as a crowd-sourced internet. All data and applications reside in this network. It’s an autonomous network that automatically sets prices and distributes data and rents out hard drive disk space with a Blockchain-based storage solutions.When you upload a file to the network, such as a photo, it will be broken into pieces, hashed, and encrypted. The data is then randomly distributed across the network. Redundant copies of the data are created as well so that if someone storing your file turns off their computer, you will still have access to your data. And don’t worry, even with pieces of your data on other people’s computers, they won’t be able to read them. You can earn MadeSafeCoins by participating in storing data pieces from the network on your computer and thus earning a Proof of Resource.
Storj: Storj aims to become a cloud storage platform that can’t be censored or monitored, or have downtime. Your files are encrypted, shredded into little pieces called 'shards', and stored in a decentralized network of computers around the globe. No one but you has a complete copy of your file, not even in an encrypted form.

Market 11 - Cloud computing

Obviously, renting computing power, one of the biggest emerging markets as of recent years, e.g. AWS and Digital Ocean, is also a service, which can be bought and managed via the blockchain.

Golem: Allows easy use of Supercomputer in exchange for tokens. People worldwide can rent out their computers to the network and get paid for that service with Golem tokens.
Elf: Allows easy use of Cloud computing in exchange for tokens.

Market 12 - Stablecoin

Last but not least, there are 2 stablecoins that have established themselves within the market. A stable coin is a coin that wants to be independent of the volatility of the crypto markets. This has worked out pretty well for Maker and DGD, accomplished through a carefully diversified currency fund and backing each token by 1g or real gold respectively. DO NOT CONFUSE DGD AND MAKER with their STABLE COINS DGX and DAI. DGD and MAKER are volatile, because they are the companies of DGX and DAI. DGX and DAI are the stable coins.

DGD: Platform of the Stablecoin DGX. Every DGX coin is backed by 1g of gold and make use proof of asset consensus.
Maker: Platform of the Stablecoin DAI that doesn't vary much in price through widespread and smart diversification of assets.

EDIT: Added a risk factor from 0 to 10. The baseline is 2 for any crypto. Significant scandals, mishaps, shady practices, questionable technology, increase the risk factor. Not having a product yet automatically means a risk factor of 6. Strong adoption and thus strong scrutiny or positive community lower the risk factor.
EDIT2: Added a subjective potential factor from 0 to 10, where its overall potential and a small or big market cap is factored in. Bitcoin with lots of potential only gets a 9, because of its massive market cap, because if Bitcoin goes 10x, smaller coins go 100x, PIVX gets a 10 for being as good as Monero while carrying a 10x smaller market cap, which would make PIVX go 100x if Monero goes 10x.

e30classifieds e39 E3_2016 E3_2017 e46 E90 EA_FIFA EAAccess Eagle_Scouts EaglesGamesUpdate EaglesTrophyCase EANHLfranchise earbleach Early2000sjams EarlyBuddhism EarlyMusic earlymusicalnotation earlyphotography EarlyPKA EarlyWaking EarningOnline EarRape EarthFans earthgifs Earthmind earthoficeandfire earthporngonecuddly earthpornvids earthpornwallpaper Earthquakes earthship earwax EasonyesSneakers eastboundanddown eastenders EasternPhilosophy EasternSunRising easy_french Easy_German Easy_Ukulele Easycore easyfix EasyKetoRecipes easyrecipes Easyriders EasyTV eatenpistachios eating_disorders EatingInCommon EatShit eatwraps Eau_Claire EauxClaires eBaySellerAdvice ebaytreasures EbayWTF Eberron EBM Ebook ebooksforfree ecc ECEComponentExchange echo EchoArena echofox EchoLinkInfo EckhartTolle eckvanet eclipse eclipsephase ecoboostmustang EcoEvents Ecofeminism EcoFriendly EcoGlobalSurvival eCoinomic EcoInternet econbooks EcoNewsNetwork econhw economicCollapse economicdemocracy EconomicHistory economics2 EconomicTheory ecoreddit EcoStart EcouteCa ECR_Gaming ECR_Plus ECR_UK ecrpoker ECU ECU_Tuning ECW ECWWrestling ecycle EdAnonymousAdults EdBangerRecords EDCCW EDCLeaks EDCOrlando EDCTickets eddit Eddsworld ededdneddy edenchainio edencirclejerk EdensZero EDF EdgarAllanPoe edgarwrightdetails Edgeless EdgewaterRogersPark Edgic edgydarkdankmemes edgyedits edhrec EdiblePlants Edibles Edinburgh_University EditMyReddit editvsraw EDIY EDM_Producers edmemesclub edmontonsocialclub edmpacks edpsych edrums edstonehelper edsupport edubble educationalmemes edX EelMemes eero eff effectai effects Effexor Efficiency Efilism EFT_LFG egalitarian Egg eggdog EggInc eggs eGirlsUncensored egoraptor egyptology EgyptPics EHM eighthworldproblems eigo EILI5 eindhoven einfach_posten einsteinium EiOleLehti EiteDagerous ejuice_reviews EJuicePorn EkaterinaZueva Elantris elastic Elastigirl ElClasico_Livestream ElClasicoGame2018 Eldar ElderKings EldersScrollsOnline EldritchHorror eldritchmemes EleanorTomlinson elearning ElectionPolls Electra_Currency Electrical_Engineers electriccars electricdreams electricents electrician Electricity ElectricScooters ElectricSkateboards ElectricUnicycle electriczoo Electrify electro electroforming electrohiphop Electromagnetics Electronic electronica ElectronicaLounge electronicdancemusic electronicmagic electronics_robots ElectronicsSalvage electronjs ElectronMicroscopes electronmicroscopy Electropop Electrum Elektron elephant elephantgifs Elevators elex elfenlied elfontheshelf elgoonishshive eli5_programming ELI5Music ELI5news elianscript ELIHulk elimiddlemanagement ELINeanderthal ElinePowell ELINT eliomotors ElisabethGiolito elisalam Elisemains EliseTrouw EliteBountyHunters EliteDangerousPics EliteHudson EliteLavigny EliteMahon eliteoutfitters ElitePirates ElitePS EliteRacers EliteWings EliteWinters elixirtoken Elizabeth_Gillies Elizabeth_Ostrander elizabethbanks ElizabethHenstridge ElizabethHurley ElizabethRage ELIZADUSHKU ElizaTaylor elkaybattlestations ElkGrove elkhunting EllaFreya EllanaBryan Ellenpaohate elliegoulding EllieKemper elliottsmith elo Elon_Musk_is_God Elona Eloncity ElongatedPics elonmemes Eloping Eloquent ElSalvador elsword ElvesMTG Elvis Elyse Elysian_ELY Em_pathy email emailprivacy Embarrassing_Moments embeddedlinux Embellish embercoin emberjs emby EmbyShares EMC2 EmComm emcrit EMDR Emerald_Council emeraldcityfoodies EmeraldPS2 EmerCoin EmergencyManagement EmergencyRoom EmergencyVehicles emetophobia EmiliaClarkeBum emilybrowning EmilyDiDonato EmilyHBarry EmilyKinney EmilyOsment emilyrudd EmilyVanCamp Eminem_2 Emirafoods EmmaBlackery EmmaJones EmmaLayne Emmaleigh EmmanuelleChriqui EmmaOcchiuzzo EmmaRoberts EmmaRoseKenney EmmaWatsonsLegs emmyrossuminshameless Emo_Trap Emojerk Emoney Emory emoticons emotionalintelligence Empath EmperorLemon EmperorsChildren EmperorsNewMemes empirepowers EmpireTV empleos_AR employedbykohls employeesonly Employment EmploymentAssistance empyrion EMScapades EMScringePics EMTstories EmuDev EmulationOnPC emulator emusrunningfromstuff enail EnaiRim enbro encyclopediadramatica endcard ender endersgame EndFPTP endgamememes endlesssky endofthef___ingworld enduro EnemyOfTheRepublic enemystands EnemyTerritory EnergiToken energy_healing Energy_manipulation energydrinks EnergyPolitics EnergyStorage enforcethegate ENFPMusic engaged EngagedBuddhism engineer EngineeringDocs EngineeringInHeels EngineeringResumes engineeringtechnology Engineers EnginePorn englishbulldog englishmajors engrishirts enhance EnigmaProject Enjajaja enlightenedclockmen enlightenment enochian enough_chapo_spam EnoughCapitalistSpam EnoughFakeNewsSpam EnoughIDWspam EnoughObamaSpam enoughowensspam EnoughPaulSpam ensemblestars ENSLAVETHEMOLLUSK EnterShikari enthouse EntitledIdiots EntitledKarens EntitledOldPeople entitledredditors Entlantis entomophagy entOttawa EntProTips entrepeneur EntrepreneurConnect entrylevel EntTreats Environmental_Careers Environmental_Policy EnvironmentalScience envirotech EOD EOSDev EOSInvestor EosTrader EPAYChain epicgames epicmetal EPICStream epicsystems epigenetics Epiphone Episcopalian episodehub EpisodeMemes epistemology EPLstreams EPNex epochfail EQ2 EquestriaGirls EquicexExchange EQUIPnTRIP EraseThePlace Erasmus ERatajkowski ereader erectiledysfunction ErectileDysfunctionED Eredivisie ergodox ErianaBlanco ErickRowan ericzane Erie ErinHeatherton ErinOlash ErinWillerton ERNTokenOfficial EroMangaSensei erome erotic_clips eroticaeverywhere eroticcomics erowid ERP errantsignal esarosettamission escapedfrombuzzfeed escaperooms Esdeath esea EsfandTV ESFJ ESFP eShop Eskrima esl ESL_Teachers EsmeBianco ESObay esobiteme ESOCribs ESOPS4 EsotericOccult esox ESOXBOX esperante Esperanto101 EsperanzaGomez espionage Essay_Writing_Service Essays EssendonFC EssentialTremor Essex Esthetics ESTJ estp EstrangedAdultChild esxi ESZPlay etchasketch EtcTrader Eternalcrusade eternium ethdapps Ethearnal EthenMarket Ether Ethereum_contracts ethereum_live ethereumfraud EthereumProgramming etherisc etherparty etherscan ethfinex ethical_living ethicalfashion ethicalhacking EthicalLifeProTips Ethiopia EthiopiaPics EThLyte ethmarket Ethnicity Ethnobotany ethnomusicology ethOSdistro ETHplode ETHSTAKERS ETHTravel ethz EtikaWorldNetwork ETIMusic ETL ETNmining Etoro ETS2 etsmtl eu eu3 eu4dadjokes EU4maps EU4mods EU4Multi EUCXio EUGENIACOONEY eugenics eulalia eulaw euphonium eupolitics eurasianhotties Eureddision Eureka eurekaseven eureplica euro Euro2016 euro4euro eurobeat eurodocs Euroleague EuronWinsTheThrone Europa EuropaUniversalis4 european_dankmemes EuropeanCulture EuropeanFederalists europeanparliament europecirclejerk EuropeMeta europes Europetravel eurorack Eurosceptics EuroSkincare EustachianTubeClick Eva_Padlock EvaAndressa EvaLongoria EvaMarie EvaMendes Evanescence EvannaLynch EvanRachelWood evansville evapadlock evememes EVEN_Foundation EvenAsIWrite EventProduction Eventum eveonline Everest EverestDotOrg everett Everex Everglow evergreen Everipedia everitoken EverOasis EverspaceGame every15min every_one_is_mod EverybodysGolf everydaybark everydaycarry everydayphilosophy EveryGeekShouldKnow EverymanHYBRID EveryoneIsAMod EverySignHasAStory everyteenshouldknow EverythingSucks everytimeidie Everywoman evetech evetrading EVGA EvilBrainstorming evilchairs EvilDead EvilIdeas evolutionary EvolveSustain EwanMcGregor ewanmemes Ewwducational exactlyhowdrugswork exAdventist exalted ExamineDeath Exanima exapunks exasperations Excelsior ExcelTips excgaration ExchangingLanguages ExChristianWomen Excision excusemewhatthefuck exeter exfor ExgirlfriendphotosSFW exid exIglesiaNiCristo exiledprequelmemers ExileMod Existential_crisis ExistentialChristian existentialcomics ExistentialSupport Exittors exjew ExmormonU exmotrees exocomics ExodusWallet ExoLife ExoMars Exonumia exoplanets Exotica ExpandDIO ExpanseOfficial ExpatFinance expectationsvsreality expectedcommunism expectedfactorial expectedhamilton expectedjojo ExpectedMessi ExpectedMontyPython ExpectedMulaney Expercoin ExperimentalFilm expl0ited explainitlikeimfive ExplainItLikeImMorty ExplainLikeAPro ExplainLikeDrBrule Explainlikeiamfive explainlikeim5 explainlikeimapeasant EXPLAINLIKEIMDRUNK explainlikeimelected ExplainLikeImHigh explainlikeimmorty Explainlikeimscared explainlikeyourefive ExplicitGoddesses ExplodingKittens ExploitDev explorables ExploreFiction ExploreReligion ExplosionPorn Explosions Exposingfakepeople ExposingInstagramLife exrm exscientology exSistersinZion exteenagers ExtendedRangeGuitars ExteriorDesign ExtraCredits ExTrade ExtraLife extremelysatisfying extroverts EyebrowPorn eyehurtingfonts eyehurtingjuice EZmisery

f04cb41f154db2f05a4a f0restGIFS f1models F1TV F35Lightning f45 f4se FA30plus Fables fabricadenoobs fabrication Fabrics FabulousFerds FacebookAdvertising FacebookAss FacebookHelp facebookquotes FaceNudes faceoff Facer facesinthings Fact_Fiend_Official Factories Factoriohno FactorioMMO factsthatmightbetrue FADQ Fahrrad Fahrvergnugen FaiithMarone failedacidartwork failingupwards FailsOnStream Fairbanks FairladyZ fairlyoddparents FairyGardens FairyTailPlot fairytales FaithNoMore fakebaseball FakeBeesRealTopHats fakefutureporn FakeHistory FakeMarv fakemon fakenews fakeswitchtitles FalcoMains falconbms Falconry Falcons_Game_Streams fallacy FallingSkies Fallout4PS4 fallout4settlements Fallout76Factions Fallout76FanGroups fallout_shelter FalloutCascadia falloutcosplayers Falloutdadjokes falloutequestria FalloutMiami FalloutPhotography FalloutTradingPost FalseFlagWatch FalseFriends falserapeaccusations falsewrapping FamiliesYouChoose family_of_bipolar familyguythegame FAMnNFP famoseworte FamousBabes FamousFaces famousfuckyous fandurr fanedits FanF1ction fanfictionabomination Fangs fanjerseys FansHansenvsPredator FansofAngieGriffin FansOfWellmee fanStands fantasy_baseball FantasyArt fantasyartists FantasyArtMemes FantasyBookers fantasybooking fantasybooks FantasyCities FantasyCL fantasyfb FantasyFlightGames FantasyFootballers fantasyfootballIDP FantasyGrounds FantasyHigh FantasyLife3ds FantasyMapGenerator FantasyMLS FantasyMuscle FantasyUnitedNations FantasyWarTactics FantasyWorldbuilding fantasywriting FantomFoundation fap Fapistan fapsassinations farcry3 FarCry4 FarcryMaps farmboners farmtech FarmTogether FaroeIslands FarrahAbraham farsi farts FaSaA Fashion_Design fashionadvice fashiondiagrams fashioneconomy FashionFeet fashionphotography FashionPrinz fashionscape fashionwomens35 fastandfurious fasterthanlight FastFoodHorrorStories fastfoodreview FastingNerds FastingScience fat FAT32peoplehate fatacceptance FatalBullet fatbirds fatcats Fate fateapocrypha FatePrismaIllya fatfishingstories FatGuysVsGravity FatherFieri Fatherhood fatherted fatpeople fatpeoplecomics fatpeoplegettingstuck fatpeopleinscooters FatPeopleLogic fatpepehate Fatsoshop fatsqueeze fatsquirreltolerate FatTV Fattypillow fatwomenlove FAU FavoriteScenes fawns FawnsSittingInFlowers Fayettenam FBAWTFT FBcovers fbhw FBI_Memes fbody FCBarcelona fcdallas fcporto fcpx fcs FDNY fdroid FE_Exam fea feanordidnothingwrong fearandloathing FeatherCOin features February2018Bumpers FedEx FedExcellent Fedlegs fedmyster fednews FedoraCoin FedoraFederation Feedism feedme feedthebeastservers FeedTheDamnDog feedworthy feelbadnews FeeltheBern FeetLoversHeaven feetsies feetvids FEHquelMemes FeliciaDay FelicityJones felinebehavior fellowadults FellowGamers fellowprogrammers FeltGoodComingOut female_chastity Female_Foot_Fetish femalebodybuilding femalevocalists FemaleWerewolves femalewriters fembois FemdomPain FemdomRP Femdomstories femininasmr FeminineNotFeminist Feminisme feminismformen feminist_videos FeministHumor feministtheory Femme FemmeThoughtsFeminism Femslib fence fender FenerbahceSK fernsehen ferret fessOfficial festivalgirls FestivalPlaza FestivalVoyeur feynman feyredarling1 Fez ff14 ff7 ffbe FFCommish fffffffuuuuuuuuuuu fffuuuuckedup FFGtrade ffmpeg FFXII ffxivcrafting FFXIVDadjokes ffxivhomeandgarden ffxivperformances ffxivraf FFXVANE FFXVPCmods FGC FGOmemes fia Fiasco Fiat FibonacciAsFuck fibro FIC_Network_Official fiction fictionalmovieposters fictionalpsychology fictionalrevenge Fictorum Fiddle fiddleleaffig FiddlesticksMains fidget fidgettoys Fidlar Fieldhockey FieldNuts FieldOfKarmicGlory fieldrecording FIFA12 Fifa13 fifa17 FIFA18 FIFA18FUT FIFA_18 FIFA_Mobile FIFA_Ultimate_Team FIFAFashion fifagifs FifaMobile FIFAswitch FifaUTCoins fifteefiftee fifthsub fifthworldart FIFTHWORLDEMOTICONS FifthWorldGifs fifthworldpoetry fifthworldpolitics FifthWorldRage fifthworldshibe FiftyFiftyPorn fightcade fightclub FightComps FighterEdits Fighting fightinggames fightingillini fightoffyourdemons fightscenes FightTraining figuredrawing fijerk filecoin filemaker filesfm filesystems filipinabargirls filipinas Filipino FillsYourNiche filmclass FilmClubPH Filme FilmFaces filmfashion Filmmaker4Filmmaker filmphotos filmreroll filmscoring FilmsExplained filmstruck filmstudies FilmTalk FilmTheorists FilmTVBudgeting filosofia_en_espanol filth FIN_EL_MEME FinalDestinationShit FinalFantasy14 FinalFantasy7 FinalFantasyExplorers FinalFantasyIX FinalFantasyVIII FinallyDeclassified FinalMouse FinalPunch financaspessoaispt FinanceNews finances financestudents financial FinancialAdvice financialaid FinancialPorn FindABand findanentwifefriend finddit FindExchange FindingDitto FindingFinna FindItOnAmazon FindMeADistro FindMeFood findswingerssexdating findthisshirt FineArt FineArtPhoto Fingerboards fingerstyleguitar fingols FinishTheJoke Finside Fios Fire firealarms firearmdealscanada firearts Firebase firebrigade fireemblemcasual FireEmblemCats FireEmblemFanArt firefall firefighter firefighters FireflyGifs FirefoxAddons FirefoxCSS FireFoxOS FireGuy12 Firehouse FIREIndia firePE firespin firestick FireteamsPS4 FireWallZeroHour firewood fireworks FirmForHerm firstamendment firstdayontheinternet FirstGalacticMemepire FirstGradeAnarchists firstgradeproblems firstimpressions firstpage FirstTimeHomeBuyer FirstTimeTTC FirstWorldSolutions fishcenter FishCognition Fishing_In_Thailand FishingAlberta FishingAustralia FishingOntario FishingPlanet fishingtackle FishMTG FishnetFetish fishplayspokemon fishshell FishTapedToATMs FistfulOfFrags fistofthenorthstar fit Fitbit_Fitness FitCelebs FitFI FitGirlsPorn FitMama fitmeme Fitmoe fitness_cringe FitnessDeals FitnessGuides fitnessonline FitnessTips88 FitOrFat FittingRoomCom FittitBuddy FitTunes FIU fived FiveFingerDeathPunch fivehead Fiverr FiverrGigs fivethirtyeight FiveTwo FiveYearsAgoOnReddit fixedgear fixmydiet FixThisSloMo Fizintine FizzMobile FJCruiser flacko FlagBabes Flaggyflag flags_irl Flagstaff Flaked Flamenco Flamengo Flamepoints flamesofwar Flamewanker flaminglips flash flashcarts flashfiction Flat_Earth flatcore FlatEarthMemes flatpuppy flavortown Fleabag fleet_foxes FleetwoodMac flehmen Flewrightover FlexinLesbians flextape FlexTapeMemes flextweak FLgovernment FLGuns flickr flightless FlightOfTheConchords FlightOrFight flightrising FlightTraining flint Flirt_Sex Flirtymemes Flixxo FLMedicalTrees FloatTank flocked floggit Flogoria floorball floorgasm floorplan FlordiaMan FlorenceAndTheMachine Floribama FloribamaShore FloridaForSanders floridakeys FloridaPanthers floridawoman flossdaily flowarts flower FlowerMemes FlowScape Flowtoys flstudioproducers fluffydogs fluffynomnom FluidMechanics Fluttershy FlyCheap flygear FlyingCheap flyinglotus FlyQuest Flyswap flyyoufools fmab FMExposed FN_Herstal FNaF FNaFb FNFAL Fo76creations fo76marketplace foals foamcore Foamhenge focus focusgroups FocusRS FoiledByTheStick foilmtg FoJ Folding folklore folkrock FollowersOfTheShade fontspotting Food_and_Wine Food_Bank Food_Gifs FoodAddiction FoodAllergies FoodBlog FoodGifs Foodie Foodnews foodnotbombs foodphotography FoodPorn_ja FoodPortland FoodSanDiego FoodSovereignty foodtheory foodtrucks foodwishes Foolcraft FoolUs foosball foot footage footbag football_streams footballcards FootballCoach FootballDailyUK footballmanager footballmemes FootballStreams footfetishdating FootTalk footwork fooya foradecasa Forager forcedacronyms forcedperspective FordBronco FordDiesels fordescape FordExplorer fordfusion FordRaptor Foregen ForeignMoviePosters ForensicFiles Forest ForestHealth ForeverChest ForeverHasFallen ForeverUnwanted Forex_Signals forex_trades Forex_trading_chat forfeiture forge forgedinfireshow ForgedWithFire forgeofempires forgottenfilm ForgottenNews forgottenrealms forgottenwebsites ForHonorAcademy ForHonorPTS ForHonorRants ForHonorRomans ForHonorWuLin ForkDelta forkliftmemes ForksoverKnives formative FormerFutureAuthor FormosaFinancial FormulaBuddyRetard FormulaDrift FormulaFeeders Formulaww1 fornite ForniteBattleRoyal ForrestFennTreasure forsale Forth ForTheKing fortify FortMyers FortNite_Epic FortNiteBR2Deep FortniteCirclejerk FortniteClips FortniteDisscusion FortniteFleaMarket FortniteFr FortniteGlitches fortniteloadouts FortniteMusic FortniteRoyaleLFG FortniteStW FortniteSwitch FortniteVideos fortran Fortuna69 FortuneJackCasino fortwayne Forum_Democratie forwardsfrombabushka forwardsfromgunny Forza_Horizon3 ForzaAuctions ForzaHorizon2 ForzaMotorsport7 FOSSHelpWanted FossilHunting fossils Fosterparents FosterThePeople Fotografi fotosmexico foucault foulweather foundfootage FoundOnGoogleMaps FoundOnYoutube FoundTheCanadian foundthedesktopuser FoundTheElon foundthefridgeuser foundthehypocrite foundthepcuser foundtheprogrammer FoundTheRedcoat FoundWords FountainPen FountainPenPals FourEyed_MUA fourpanelcringe FourSouls fourthsub Fox FoxandFriends Foxbody foxgifs foxloaf foxmustang FOXNEWS FoxStevenson Foxtrot fpgagaming FPSAimTrainer FPSPorn FPVvideos fr FracturedButWhole FracturedSpace FragDecants fragfilms fragranceswap Framebuilding FrameByFrame francais FrancaisCanadien FranceLibre FranceskaFournier frankfurt FrankfurtSchool FRANKIEonPCin1080p franksadventures franksinatra frankthetank frankturner franzferdinand FrasierMemes fraud frcmemes freakazoid Freakonomics freddiemercury frederickmd fredericksburg fredericton free_images free_karma Free_Pizzas Free_steam_keys FreeAlbums FreeAtheism freebandcamp FREEBANDZ freebates freebiesandsamples FreeBits freebooks FreeCAD Freedombox freedomearth freedompop FreedomWars FreeDrama FreeEbooksMe FreeFireBattlegrounds FreeFolkNews freefonts Freefood freeforallfashion FreeGameGiveaway FreeGamesOniOS FreeGamesOnOrigin FreeGaming freeganism freegiveaways FreeHans freehardware freehelpmoney freehorrorstories freejazz freekindle freelancer Freelancers freelanceuk freelancewriting freelancing freeletics FreeLoops FreeMagazines freemasons FREEMEDIAFUCKYEAH FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH freemoney FreeMusicFindings Freenet FreeorCheapEJuice FreePolDiscussion FreeProWrestling Freerun freerunning freesmiley FreeSteamGames FreeStuffNYC freestylerap freethinkers FreetoCook freetoplaygames FreeVST FREEVSTS freeware FreeWrite FreezeDried Freezing FreezingColdTakes freiburg freights Fremont FrenchBulldog frenchelectro FrenchForeignLegion frenchhelp Frenchhistory FrenchMemes frenchrap fresh_funny FreshStart freshwateraquarium FreyaVulpine freyjavandenbroucke FridayNightDinner fridaynightlights FridayThe13thGame FridayThe13thReviewer fridgedeco fried FriedChicken friendsafaricodes FriendsAndShit Friendsatthetable FriendsFromCollege FriendshipAdvice FriendsOver40 FrightenedRabbit fringediscussion FringeHub FringePhysics Fringers fringly frisco friskydingo FRIT FRlegends frogandtoadmemes FrogLoaf frogpants FromAssToMouth fromcomicstocinema Fromis FromSpaceWithLove FromTheDepths front_end frontfootporn frontknotcleavage frostgrave frs frugal_smallbusiness frugalcanada frugalcosplay FrugalHouston frugalinteriordesign frugaljerk FrugalMensFashion frugalnyc FrugalPaleo FrugalSports frugalsupplements FrugalTO frugaltravelgear FrugalUrbanHermits FrugalWedding FrugalWrist fruit fruitfaces Fruitgore FruitsBasket FRUITUNION FruityLoops FryMyMeme fsf fsusports fsx FTB_Design FTH ftm_irl FTM_SELFIES ftmcirclejerk ftmfashionadv FTMfemininity FTMMen FTMOver30 FtMpassing Fuchsia fuck FuckableFaces fuckanimals FuckArvo FUCKBLOAT FuckCaillou Fuckcancer FuckCilantro fuckcoop FUCKDAVIDKING FuckDruid fuckedupsimsstories FuckedUpThoughts fuckerebus fuckfuckfuckthirdsub fuckfuckthirdsub FUCKGARY Fucking fuckingcooking FuckingDragonCars FUCKINGINFURIATING fuckingkaren fuckmarrykill FuckMindy fuckmoash FuckMyLife FuckMyne fucknoobmaster69 fuckpatty Fuckscapes Fuckstannis FuckStuartLittle FuckTedFaro FuckTheZuck fuckthirdsub FuckToken FuckUnitedAirlines fuckyea fuckyoumorgan Fude FuelRats FujifilmX fulbo fulbright fulhamfc FullAlbumsOnYouTube fullanimeonyoutube fullconcertonyoutube fulldisclosure FULLDISCOURSE fulldocumentary fullhouse fulllife fullmatch fullmatchesonyoutube fullmetalifrit fullmovierequest FullNames FullNEWS fullnfl FULLPOSADISM FullSciFiMovies FullSkateVideos FullSpeedAhead FullStack fullstalinism FullTiming fulltvshows fulltvshowsongoogle FullyClothedAsians Fun FunAskReddit functional functional_miniatures FundersToken fundraiser FuneralDoomMetal FuneralHomePorn FunFair Fungi FungusZombies FunHolsters funimation funkhouse Funko_Pop FunkoPopDeals FunkStyle FunniestVideos Funny_Autocorrect funny_news funny_pics_videos funny_uncensored funnyanswers funnybutsad FunnyButWhy funnycarmods funnycats FunnyCommercials FunnyDankMemes Funnydogs funnyfartstories FunnyGun funnymeme funnyphilosophy funnyreviews FunnySad FunnyStockPics funnystories FunnySupernatural FunnyTexts funrun FunUnsolvedMysteries Funwaa furby Furi FuriousParents furniture_design furnitureporn furniturerestoration furrealmemes FurriesAreSubhuman furry_catwalk FurryHateFederation furryjerk fursona fusion Fusionfall fuslieandedison FusterTwins Futanarly futbolmx futsal FuturamaBlockchain futuramashitposting FuturamaSleepers future future_economics Future_Technology FutureAnthropology FutureBassProduction futurehouse FutureMan futurememes futureology FuturePresent FutureSchoolCool FuturesTrading futuretechno futureworldproblems Futuristpolitics fuuka Fuzzrock fweddit FWEPP fwjodye fxKorea FYFFest FZ07 FZ09 Fzero

Hi guys. I was looking through this sub, thinking of PM-ing a moderator or top contributor, but I looked through the mods' recent posts and didn't find one that obviously "clicked". So I looked through some recent posts and this seems like a good post to reply to for visibility.
I would like to spend time doing research into machine learning, and then use it on the Forex market when the midel makes high-confidence predictions. I have tons of spare time but no "bankroll", and since I understand that nothing I would do would affect the market, it seems kind of strange to try to grow a small account organically. What I mean is that if I made a 2% gain literally two hundred times in a row that would be a net 1.02²⁰⁰ = 52x, if there are no trading fees. Starting with $500 would only just get me to 26k, and if there were transaction fees even less. But starting with $5k (which I don't have atm) would net 260k. Even if I split it 80:20 to the backer that would still be better for me.
I do realize this is like pump and dump of penny stock schemes, which is why I think focusing on Forex would remove this component. I mean that I don't think it would require anyone to trust me, and on my end I wouldn't be sharing my model so if someone didn't pay up I could just move on to the next person - it would still be better than trying to grow from a small organic base.
So I think it is not really possible for me to pull one over on someone.
The specifics of the research I'd like to do is sentiment analysis of breaking news, and its effect on forex, since I think that analyzing sentiment from text is something I can leverage into my career: stuff like analyzing reviews, etc.
There is a lot of labelled/classified data on sites that let people leave reviews and also a star rating (i.e. the number of stars is the labelling/classification). Likewise the past results of forex markets based on news items would be my classification of those news items.
If anyone has any advice for me, I would be interested in hearing it here.
My background: I can program in multiple languages, and have less than a year of ML experience. I am currently learning about more advanced techniques. For the moment I would use my own setup which has 16 GB of RAM and a 1060 GPU with 6 GB. If I get my hands on a lot of data I would like to upgrade to 64 GB RAM and maybe a beefier RTX system. For my purposes I don't think I need to spend a lot more on the cloud. I think that the quality of the data that I start with and the model parameters are more important. In the end, the idea that an analyst can derive market sentiment from news is a pretty straightforward hypothesis.
Some of the main questions I have:

Is what I have in mind reasonable?
is there anything big that you think I'm missing?
is there something about my approach that would make it seem like a scam? What can I do to remove this component or make the transaction more foolproof (remove counterparty risk)
do I need to worry about a reverse scam: is anyone going to try to scam me? How can I eliminate this risk?

The main thing I could think of would be if they for example traded 500k but told me they were only doing 5k, so rather than 80:20 on profits, it's 99:1 to them which I consider unfair given my contribution. I think by verifying real world identity I could see what level someone was at.
What do you guys think? Anything else I need to know or should be aware of?

Hello everyone,
I am here to discuss the recent FUD presented by a relatively unknown YouTube reviewer. I intend to discuss his methodology and the actual points themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=1hH5_FAEzyo
This is his YouTube video based on the document in question. He wrote the document. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XQlAGIDPjDoQNHtzEWGdbO9i8MUkc4lZFKYLTZzMpYU/edit
First, to get this out of the way, the reviewer has only been around on the social media scene for a short while. The views of his videos are only in the hundreds and his twitter was created a week ago. He is basically a "nobody" at this point. I don't mean that to be disparaging. He literally came out of nowhere. He is unproven and his methodology is inconsistent and extremely questionable.
With that said, just because he came out of nowhere doesn't mean he might not have a point, so let's look at his rating methodology to get a better idea of his process.
Oh and if you do not want to read all this, here is the TL:DR: The guy doesn't know what he is talking about. He doesn't has much idea of what he is doing when writing reviews. His research is lazy. I actually feel I wasted my time responding to this, but I am going to do it anyway.
When rating a project, he uses the following categories: MVP (minimum viable product), ease of research, team, roadmap, community (bonus), solving a problem, does it need blockchain, token use, red flags, competition, presentation, token vesting, demand/value, scarcity, customer service, best in field (bonus), active use, size of market, development (bonus)
These are pretty good things to look at, but he failed to look at GitHub contributions (or other source code related sites), so he can't really tell if a project is scammy or not. So, how well did he check this stuff out?
Rating the team:
When looking at his review of GVT, the only way to get an idea of this person's methodology is to look at his reviews of other projects. When rating the team there are basically two basic routes a person can take. You can analyze the team itself, or you can bundle the team and the advisors together and rate the project as a whole.
The reviewer is inconsistent in his reviews. In this category he bundles the entire team and advisors on some projects whereas he just looks solely at the team in other reviews.
His research is absolutely lazy. He gave Polymath a 0 rating for their team, but their website links to their company LinkedIn page and lists all 26 employees. It was not hard to find this. Even if it weren't on the site, a simple google search would have revealed who the team is. Polymath has a great team with some decent “stars” on it. It makes no sense to give them a 0. The reviewer doesn't know what he is doing.
Difficulty in finding the team deserves docking points in "ease of research", and it does not deserve giving the entire category a 0. The point of this category should be to evaluate the merits of the team members, which is something he does not do in most of his reviews.
He gave Selfkey a perfect score stating: "Team: 20 Points - Superstar team and advisors" This means he is bundling the team and advisors together. If so, any issues with advisors deserves docking points from that category, not docking at additional 20 points because of one advisor.
Looking at Selfkey, I don't know where the he gets the idea that they have a "superstar team". What does that even mean? I checked their profiles. Some of them only came onto the project recently and their LinkedIn pages are nothing to write home about. Some of them don't even have LinkedIn pages.
He gave the GVT team 13 points, but then docked 20 points because he didn't like Charlie Shrem.
Do you realize the ridiculousness of this? The GV team category effectively gets -7/20 points because the reviewer does not like Charlie Shrem. That is worse than giving the team 0/20. Charlie is only one advisor with no actual power over the GVT team's operations. He cannot execute any commands over the GV team or force them to do anything. The GV team can fire Charlie. Charlie cannot dismantle the GV team. That power balance is important. The rating makes no sense at all. Also, he docked the Changelly advisor because his company has bad customer service? Really? What does that have to do with his ability to advise the GV team on the things they need from him? Fact of the matter is his business is still running. The same cannot be said for advisors of other projects (more on that soon).
If you are going to rate the team and include the advisors, the value should be 3:1 or even 2:1. Even if you gave the advisors a score of 0, the category score should not be that low. GVT's advisors are absolutely amazing. To call them weak is ridiculous.
With regard to Nuls: "Asian team, isn’t on LinkedIn. No way to research." They get 0 points because they are Asian and don't use the sites you like to use? The language used allows that statement to be interpreted in a very negative way. There are non-Asians on that team as well. There is a way to research them. There are bios of each team member if you scroll over the pictures. You can then use that information to do more research on them. You are just too lazy.
Looking at The Key, their members are definitely not "all-stars". Their team is unknown and they have 3 relatively unknown advisors, only one of which has a LinkedIn page. Love him or hate him, Charlie Shrem is a crypto superstar compared to these people. Interestingly they are more of an "Asian team" than Nuls. That didn't seem to affect the score much though.
He gave the Bounty0x team a perfect score, but he obvious didn't bother to research every member of the team or their advisors with much effort. As an example, Terry Li is the Bounty0x solidity developer. If you check his LinkedIn page you will find a few serious red flags. He hasn't held a job for over a year. He has no visible programming experience. He has been a solidity developer for 10 months with no prior history or proof that he can program well. I cannot stress this enough: you do not want your solidity developer to be a programming newbie. This will spell disaster for your project.
When you look at their advisors there are some serious red flags as well. I picked two advisors to research and I found out that both of them have had their companies fail. One of them even declared themselves unsuccessful in a Facebook post. I don't want a project to be advised by people with a bunch of failed startups. Changelly having bad customer service pales in comparison to advisors whose project's failed. Bounty0x's advisor team is filled with failed entrepreneurs and members of their team lack experience in the jobs they are assigned. Also, their "Backend and Solidity engineer" has only been with the project for a month, and his blockchain programming experience is nonexistent. They do not deserve a perfect score in this category.
GVT has a team with years of programming experience, but more importantly, they have years of experience programming financial software. These are exactly the type of people you need on your team.
To the reviewer: Either bundle the advisors into the team rating or give them a separate category. Do not be inconsistent in this category. Do not bring a team's ethnicity into play as a factor for anything. Please do actual research on all the members, and please define what it means to be a "superstar". Please learn to navigate websites. Polymath's team is there. Your inconsistency and lack of research in this makes you appear incapable of judging a team. There is no clear methodology here. All your reviews are questionable because of this.
Roadmap:
He gave 0 points to GVT for their roadmap being hard to read. But the key point is this: They have a roadmap. There is no reason to give 0 points in this category. Not only that, the roadmap is decently detailed with many goals and objectives. The roadmap isn't some simple points on a line like Enigma's roadmap. Speaking of which...
He gave Enigma 0 points for not having a roadmap at all.... But they do have a roadmap. The guy didn't do his research.
https://en.decentral.news/2017/12/27/ico-analysis-enigma-catalyst-realm-crypto-trading-machines/
It can be found here.
MVP:
Having a minimum viable product be worth only 10 points is ludicrous. Any project that has an MVP basically utterly destroys a project that doesn't. More importantly, the reviewer didn't actually bother to use the MVP on what he reviews.
He gave Polymath 0 points for their demo, but gave GVT 10 points for theirs.
I am going to be blunt about this. GVT's demo is a non-functional interface demo. GVT's MVP comes on April 1. Polymath does not deserve a 0, and GVT does not (as of 3/21) deserve a 10. They both deserve a 5. He didn't bother to actually check out GVT's demo, which goes to show he doesn't actually research things properly.
He gave Enigma a 3 for an MVP not available to the public and Selfkey a 5 for an MVP not used by the public. Eh?
He gave the Authorship a 10 for their MVP but claims he cannot find any info about them. How is that supposed to work?
He gave Po.Et 0 points for their MVP because he couldn't find it.
Here you go buddy: https://github.com/poetapp/wordpress-plugin
It's right there. You just failed to find it. It isn't their fault your research is bad.
Ease of Research:
The reviewer either needs to dock points for research being difficult in their respective categories or dock research being difficult in this category. Do not "double dip" and dock points in both categories. This category is irrelevant since the reviewer already docks points in their respective categories. Also, this category is subjective because it is based on the reviewer's research skillset.
Community:
He uses coingecko's score or numbers from their telegram channel but there isn’t much evidence that he actually bothered to check out their communities much. Reeks of laziness and has nothing to do with the quality of a community. This really shouldn't even be a category if he is going to give points based on this. High telegram channel members has little meaning.
Solving a problem:
The reviewer’s inability to understand the problem that a project solves should not be held against it. Polymath is quite clear in the problem it solves.
He gives projects that solve problems of identifying people a 10, but gives projects that solve problems of identifying intellectual property a 3. That makes no sense. Those are both problems that need to be solved by the blockchain. The idea that he finds one more important than the other is clear bias.
Token Use:
The author does not understand the GV product. GV is platform agnostic, and more importantly GVT needs as little outside influence as possible. There is a very specific reason why GVT has to be used in place of ETH. ETH would technically be a middleman in this sense. GV's success is not meant the be tied to ETH's success or ETH token price manipulation. GV's success isn't even meant to be tied to crypto's success. GV is designed to succeed even if ETH or crypto fails.
GVT actually deserves a 10 in this category. GVT is needed to use the platform. Money is transferred using GVT. Profit is returned using GVT. Other services such as GV Markets will also function using GVT as gas. The utility of GVT is needed in all aspects of the platform. This gives the token great utility and investment value. If 1 Billion is invested through the GV platform, GV's market cap includes that 1 billion because the token is needed to transfer that 1 Billion around. This provides great incentive to invest in the platform and a great reason for the token price to grow in value. No other project that this much incentive or ways to bring value to their token as much as GVT. I am surprised the reviewer cannot see this.
GVT is also market agnostic. The entire crypto market can fail and GVT can still maintain value through profits brought in from the Forex and stock markets. This will make it extremely resilient over time.
Presentation:
The purpose of GVT is quite clear. It is broken down on the website and the presentation clearly explains why it is needed as all levels of trust management including the brokers, customers and managers. All that info is very clear on the front page of the site. 0/10? GVT presentation isn't the problem here. It seems the reviewer only watched the video which is just one part of the presentation. Everything is on the site and in the whitepaper, which the reviewer apparently didn't even fully read.
Token vesting:
He colors it yellow for GVT but green for other projects that also get 5 points... visual bias is apparent. He gave one project a 10 for an 18 month vesting period and a 6 to another project for the same period with little justification for such a disparity.
Supply/Scarcity:
GVT receives 3 points because 44M tokens were available during ICO but only sold about 4M. This makes him believe that they didn’t create much demand. “Everyone who wanted GVT got it.” The US and Singapore could not participate. Also, Bounty0x failed to reach their soft cap, but the reviewer didn’t dock any points for that. If everyone who wanted GVT got it then the marketcap wouldn’t be where it is today. What a terrible assumption he made.
Competition: He gave GV a 5/10, but his reasoning made little sense. “Covesting and coindash are used to trade cryptocurrencies while GVT is for cryptocurrency AND non-crypto trading. They will still compete for a portion of the same market. People will have only so much fiat to invest.” You do not use fiat to invest in Covesting or Coindash. Also, GV will allow people who are into stocks or forex to bring their money into crypto. No other coin is doing what GVT does. Covesting and coindash, arguably, are projects that try to compete against just one part of the entire GV platform. GVT is more than that and should have a higher score because there is basically no competition. There is competition for some of its features, but not for the platform as a whole. He gave Bounty0x a 20-point bonus for "Best in Field"... but they are the best because they have no competition. As a matter of fact, there is no reason for a 20 point "best in field category" when you already have a competition category worth 10 points.
He gave Funfair a 5/10 even though he states "No competition in FunFair’s niche"... That would automatically make it the best in its field if it has no competition as well.
Why does a project that has no competition effectively get 30 points (10/10 + 20), while another project with no competition get only 5 (5/10 + 0)? I will tell you why. It's because the author doesn't know what he is doing.
Guy's I am going to be honest. I am tired of doing this. You get my point. His reviews are an inconsistent and poorly researched mess. I've written around 8 pages worth of content covering this. If there is anything else you need me to compare, please write it in the comment section.

ROFX Review - Passion For Trading Forex Best

eToro: impressions, doubts and (ignored) lessons from copy trading

Copy trading with eToro: impressions, doubts and (ignored) lessons

With Bitcoin Suddenly Surging, Canaan Stock Is Also Going Up Today

WHAT IS ND10X? IS IT A SCAM?

Which are your Top 5 favourite coins out of the Top 100? An analysis.