Sorry, pal, you lost everything. EMC2 is now $0.17 and sinking. Expect it to go sub $0.10.
Because one member of BTCtalk say something, it must be true?
If after researching you come to the same conclusion, it might be true for you but not for the team.
The loss of value in $ terms is ampliphied by the crumbling of Bitcoin's price which was around 20,000$ at the time of EMC2's ATH. There's barely a coin out there which didn't lose at least 70% since ATH. The problem is generalized.
For a lot of coins losing only 70% even would have been good. Some are down as much as 90% and even more.
Yes 90% down hurts a lot and gains like +17% aren't really the big push we are hoping for. Going from $2 to $0.2 and then 17% back up still feels bad.
I know it hurts looking at the charts knowing you bought at ath. I've been there, more than once (not necessarily ath though). I've bought few coins during peak last June/July. Holding ever since. They're recovering slowly. I had a dilemma, whether to cash out with +50% loss per coin, or hodl. I guess if I sold them back then, maybe I'd lost on another buy.
When BTC goes back above $10.000, I'll get my funds back at least, even with alt prices being at the current level.
Point is, if you're confident about the project and you have no idea where you'd be able to surely earn some money (like none of us have), you will lose once you sell.