yes kep holding bitcoins along with alcoins will make new high in 2018 itself.....
Sometimes that may be going to opposite way too.
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Do you own research as to which coin to hodl, which one to dump as soon as it reaches exchanges and which ones are for mid-term holding.
That is what i have also experienced personally in past years, the cryptochrrency market is absolutely occuring in cycles, i agree 100% with your post. A real trader knows how to deal during these down trends occurrrence, however i doubt newbies or less knowledge keeping people will lose their coins by panic selling
The cycles happen and its also seen in other markets not restricted to crypto. Similar phenomena occurs in stock market as well. What should be done is buy at the dip and sell at the rise or you can buy at the dip and keep stockpiling and hodling till one day you dump all at profitable rate.