volatility

Interesting

Fan of Zcash?
So what is your Monero price prediction?

Btc might be moving up and the recent dump was shake out. I want to agree with rpietila that 888 was the bottom but a huge btc rally might coming very soon.  XMR may maintain its fiat value but could decrease dractically if the predictions over 670 or even 700 for btc happens. Im personally staying away for now.

What is the reason for this bitcoin rally other than it's November?

If BTC had a "huge" rally to $1500 or $2000 then all the top alts would rally in near alignment, except the magnitudes would be greater. So where BTC would rise by 2.5, Monero would easily rise by 5, or even 10.

Perhaps for the first BTC peak there would be a moment of ALTs bleeding in to BTC, but as greater disparity as to where the end of the BTC bullrun is, BTC profits are looped back into ALTs, and any subsequent rise continues in tandem.

Therefore it makes more sense to ride the XMR rally than the BTC rally. We saw exactly the same thing happen with Litecoin in 2013.

Hmm... interesting.  Has this relationship BTC/ALTs always held true in all past BTC rallies?

I have my BTC/Alt portfolio fairly well balanced (I think) but I've always assumed that *when* the BTC moon shot finally comes (like if the damn blocksize stalemate could ever be definitively resolved) that I'll have to quickly divest out of all the various alts that I have in cold storage in order to jump back on to the bitcoin rocket fully all-in: that could take precious time and/or possibly not even be feasible IF things get hairy too quickly.

So -- IF I'm understanding your point correctly -- you're saying actually the opposite may be true, i.e. I'd instead best need to plow only the BITCOIN quickly over into my ALTS? (assuming same percentages, to keep ratios in place -OR- maybe just quickly pour it all into XMR or something like that...?)

I see the risk/reward ratio to be better in XMR then in BTC, a rally of 10-15% is not that impressive. I made 15% in just a day today with XMR. So BTC is not that impressive.

Interesting news, the European Central Bank wants to control or curb the development of virtual currencies.
Perhaps they can control Bitcoin better but not XMR.

The problem is the number of people aware of Monero is still very low and thus the coin is still in infancy state. I am not saying Monero should be marketed to the general public but the community is still very small and in order to grow bigger in terms of market cap the coins need to be purchased and new money poured in Monero.