Monero Speculation remains the thread with the most views and the most posts in the Altcoin Discussion.

What I find much more interesting however is the recent price action.

 
  
/r/Moneromarkets aims to have regular price discussion there, and needmoney90 who is defacto running it doesn't even want individual price topics if it can be helped.  We hope to eventually grow it into a reasonably srs bsns subreddit liker/Bitcoinmarkets.
  
As well, high quality jokes and fun are certainly still allowed onr/Monero too within reason, but as I've heard fluffyponyza say, "let's keep a high signal to noise ratio".  The rest of that noise still needs to be made though, but it shouldn't necessarily happen on an official subreddit where people may come to honestly find information about the technology.  It was a hard choice between moonero and darkflarb but because darkflarb carries a slightly negative connotation I went with the former.  In fact, I'd even be willing to turn overr/darkflarb to anyone who hates Monero and wanted to make an anti-XMR subreddit.  
  
The goal is not to police what content belongs where with an iron fist, but simply to give the Monero social scene a little more room to flex its wings.  Summer is coming, and further out I believe we will see some severe price increases in the next few years.  Jubilant people making money like to shitpost, and we need to have a containment zone in case that happens.

I was sorely tempted to go leveraged long at ~180k, but didn't due to

1. Pegasus' "don't be me" advice, and
2. my obscure 2FA device takes a while to boot up.

/shoulda woulda coulda  

Soon some consolidation around 0.0018-0.002 area with stability.
After that one more dead cat bounce which is the last selling opportunity before the deep and long dive.
0.004'ish price will be regained in spring 2017.

Please TC....after all this time everyone in here knows your "TA" is based exactly on your trading positions and not the other way round.

I guess this makes you kind of a funny mascot but it is getting old. I really don't understand why you would choose the relatively contained volatility of XMR for your BTC accumulation. There are markets you could throw any way you wanted with your funds.

It's probably over for Eth rise.  I wouldn't short it either since it's not an aggregate market and the single entity manipulating it would just try to squeeze you.  The only logical move is to exit that market completely.

 
  
You face a similar decision to two days ago.  The price is at 215k.  In a few weeks it might be at 450k, or 120k.  Either way, margin is gambling pure and simple.  As a highly visible member of the community, the only thing I can ethically recommend is that no one should ever buy Monero on margin, nor should ever short Monero..  
  
That said, the odds are probably more in your favor now than they were a month ago, but that is all you can surmise - relative probabilities.  There are still no guarantees about the future of the price.    
  
Proper investing is a different story: one can take a rational survey of all the different blockchains in existence and come to a conclusion that Monero is the best one - therefore parking your value in Monero and sitting isn't such a major gamble, in the long-long term.  Usually superior tech trumps all others (especially with this field of clowns we face).  You could still lose, but you would have lost making the best possible decision.  
  
But margin?  You have to predict that more people will buy more Monero now vs. later.  That's a hard damn thing to predict, and the moment you are margined your emotions will come into play.  It's also a zero sum game.  The only things that will truly make Monero more valuable are a.) more computers mining it and b.) more people believing it has value and desiring it.  Traders washing bits back and forth between themselves does nothing but add a little liquidity to the market and help price discovery.

I don't know what his past posts were, but that one is dead on.  We all know the Bologniex casino illogically trades as an index now, and Ethereum is in a bubble that will likely be sold off before BTC halving comes.  Unless he wants to lose money, the Eth pumper has to dump before May 28th when the ETH DAO can be sold - and the Eth charts are starting to look shaky now.  Once the Eth dump begins, all other alts will likely stop any upward momentum.  The Eth dump will be momentum traded into buying BTC for halving, and alts typically go down when BTC goes up.

I personnaly think we are waiting for the best part of ETH pump. moreover, if you are expecting that only money coming from eth pump to fuel BTC pump, this would be one of the most boring pump in BTC history.

I think that part of the money invested in the DAO has been by new commers to the cryptocommunity.