Topic: Are you tempted to sell? - page 8. (Read 1878 times)

I like this principle, it's best to have kind of trust if you really believe that you pick the right investment, you won't be bothered by any movement knowing that at the end of the day it will reached the value that you select before selling your holdings, though it's tough since by watching how the market moves and how this volatility really scared those weak holders, if you don't have that strong understanding you might also fall from selling as you might being shake by the situation.

If you don't trust altcoins, why did you invest in them in the first place and then have to cut losses? Why wouldn't you buy all the bitcoins if you believe it's the only coin that is sure to recover after every market correction?

In addition, only shitcoin disappears completely after each market correction, if you are investing in top altcoins like sol, BNb...most of them have recovered or even recovered better than bitcoin every time the market recovers. For example, Solana quickly recovered above $150 after being dumped below $110 on the day the entire market corrected.

What I want to say is, if we are afraid and distrustful of altcoins, then we should not invest in them in the first place. If we are willing to take risks and decide to invest in altcoins then we should be confident in our choice.

I don't see it your way, you do not have to feel uncomfortable about a market only when you invest the amount that you can't afford to lose. It partly depends on the kind of investor you are, there are aggressive and conservative investors, and no matter how affordable the amount the conservative investor commits to the market, they will always be in the defence of their asset and manage their portfolio properly. A little drop means too much pain for them, so they may actively be monitoring the market situation to divest at the slightest detection of a threat to their asset.  I don't see fear there but smartness/proactiveness

I like your advice about buying Bitcoin at a lower price and the DCA approach is a very good one to achieve this as well. But I am not so comfortable about blindly purchasing Bitcoin all the time like many are saying, I will only use the reality on my trading cart as a guide for my decision. I misguided myself due to many pieces of advice on Bitcointalk and abandoned my reliable investment plan, which I regret this year with the market situation.

The best is to act based on the prevailing market condition and not always blindly accumulate Bitcoin. What if unforeseen circumstances later happened, or have you been to the future to know what Bitcoin would do in the next 10 years?

I can only sell at a time like this when it's altcoin. If I hold an altcoin and see the price dipping, I'll quickly sell to get whatever profit I can get or avoid further losses. But when it's Bitcoin, even though I don't like to see it going down, I will not sell. I could have sold when it was at $70k, so what's the point of selling now when I can just wait for the price to get back up?
I'd sell Altcoins because you can't be sure that it will rise again after such a dip, but with Bitcoin, it's almost certain that it will rise again. It may not go back to its previous price just immediately but it will gradually get back up.
BTC is at $57k now after dropping down to $49k a couple of days ago, people who bought at $49k have already made a profit of about 16%.

Many traders will panic and sell their coins. But only the OGs, who know the movement of Bitcoins are still holding the coin. I myself holding good amount of money in Bitcoins and I don’t feel fear by seeing these price drops. The whole crypto market and stock market crashed in the previous week. I myself lost 2000$ while trading in futures in the BTC/USDT pair. Hence, it’s just a part of life. If you are holding good amount of Bitcoins, then no need to panic. Just continue holding it for at least 4 years, and definitely you will see good profits.

Exactly, I'm looking at the volume and it seems down but the market has recovered already to $56k. Which means there could be sellers still but there are wise investors who keep buying (instead of selling), in the current status of the market.

Bad timing though for those who needed money and then they will have to sell at this point and not when the price is at peak a couple of weeks back at $70k. But that's life though in this market,  it's very volatile and we really don't know where the price is going to be in the next hours or so. But hopefully, majority didn't dump their stash just because they are nervous on what they are seeing.

The rate at which the price of Bitcoin is going up and down at present is creating confusion among investors every moment. Whenever we imagine that the price of Bitcoin might be going up, the market turns upside down, ie the market goes down. But the OP has no desire or plan to sell even in such bearish market conditions. We tend to hold more patiently for a longer period of time in these tough conditions and not even sell the investment until our target price is reached.

We all probably know how Bitcoin market has faced in 2023. We saw Bitcoin drop below $30,000 that year and the market bounced back to all-time highs, which is a historic high. The dip season that is currently going on in the market may turn around from here and reach the bullish season.

I want to understand if you are of the opinion that converting to USDT and waiting the bottom to revert to BTC is what 70% of the investors will opt for? If yes, I do not think that information is accurate because 70% is too high a number as I feel majority are sitting tight and waiting the bleeding out with their assets in BTC. I have no record for this but the few persons I know are simply crying but unwilling to sell at loss.

I'll also not completely agree with you here because this year is significant in many fronts. The first part being that the effect of the halving and ETF are not completely over and by previous records, Bitcoin will still respond to the halving as we go closer to the last quarters of this year. The other part being that this is US election year and when the campaigns thickens, the news around the election is expected to inject a lot of volatility in the market which can see price rise astronomically depending on how the poll data between the candidates comes out.

Only newbie investors or to those people who had just recently dive in into crypto space are the ones who would really be making up some cutting of their loses on which there's no sense on why you would really be tending to sell while them market is on deep reds? I dont know on where they do get those idea on why people would be selling on loss? Yes, its a deep loses but as long you arent that selling your position then it would really be just that consider to be paper loss and not something has been realized. If you are someone whose really that not get used to with this market condition then its likely that you would really be doing such action but into the moment that you do have that sufficient experience and awareness on how this market behaves then instead of selling out with these drops, you would really be rather be buying up even more.

These are indeed the best time for you to accumulate or making up some buybacks because on the time that the market would really be having its recovery or bounceback then
you would really be definitely be able to make profits once it do happens. It all matters about on someone experience and awareness on how this market works because for those who are just new
then they would really be able to see these drops are disadvantage or shit thing but actually it is really just that the best opportunity to have more.

No one can take perfect entries in the market and don't ever think that you understand bitcoin and it will keep going up from your point of purchase. If you are long term holder such dips should not be matter to you and if it matters then this means that you have invested what you can't afford to lose.

If you felt that after your buying bitcoins the bitcoin dumps, it become more cheap then you could have DCA and accumulated more bitcoins if you have extra money. If not, just keep holding and do not panic sell in loss.

Its not that tempting to sell after the fall, anywhere near 70k I could understand selling expecting the worst or just a repeat of prior selling in that area.

The volume today as price makes its way from 49k back to 60k area appears to be far lower then the volume of selling yesterday when BTC first reached that low and did a bounce a bit.   My general conclusion it will take most of August and beyond for the market to decide and explore this area before determining a direction.

No need to jump the gun just yet and its already too late to be especially smart in selling.   Beyond this month and upset apparent right now, the horizon remains clear for gain.  Its never a clear road but we arent going straight down in any simple way imo.

I actually think the opposite, especially for experienced bitcoin investors.
They have accumulated bitcoin over time to build their investment portfolio, even at previously high prices. If they do so at $65k to $70k, then there is no reason for them to wait for a deeper dip to accumulate below $49k.

It is very confident that experienced investors who have strong financial strength have accumulated bitcoin during this crash. They realize that this is the biggest opportunity to buy a lot, so they will do it without fear. As proof, the market has rallied again and the price of bitcoin has exceeded $56k now, so they get return, while others are afraid and hesitant to do so.

The current crypto market situation is not improving, this can be seen from the various kinds of speculation that exist and for various reasons, which are impossible to mention one by one here, for me the decision is wise, what is certain is that they did it not without a clear reason.

Today's Bitcoin price, August 6, 2024, fell to $56,170.This speculation is very far from predictions, many Bitcoin investors and users cannot think rationally about the current Bitcoin phenomenon, whether it is a coincidence or whether it will globally have a negative impact on the current crypto market.

Almost 70% of the investors I know do not dare to take a decision at this time regarding the continuation of the Bitcoin price, many have decided to settle on USDT, they prefer to remain silent, monitor and wait for the best situation to act, but I am very sure that new things will happen in the development of Bitcoin in the future, but not this year.

Long-term investors are not concerned about the 12.58% drop in 24h and 24.04% drop in 7d. In my opinion, the ones who will feel the concentration is disturbed are the day traders.

Those experienced investors will not be influenced to sell, but they will take advantage of the sudden drop to buy. The decision to buy like you made would be my choice as well and probably for others here.
This drop will turn into an increase and you have to understand this. It takes a correction to experience the increase we want.

Mate is normal to feel this way but to me, I thing you are on the right track because you also bought during the dip, you should know that despite how the market is at the moment, know one can come out to tell you that he or she knows that the market will slide this far, the major thing is that you bought during the dip so no matter how dip the price of bitcoin goes that shouldn't bother you much, your concentration now should be what awaits you in the long run, i know that it is painful to see an asset you purchased yesterday to dip further there by making you to use the money that you would have use to purchase a large amount to buy just few thats quite understand but the real thing is that the opportunity is still their unless you arent bouyant enough but still you can buy the little you can, this continues temporal dip of Bitcoin price has benefited some short term investors who took the risk to invest a large some of money and got their profit in few weeks, although am not advising anyone to do such hence I know that Bitcoin is a longterm investment thats is profit assured in the future.
We shouldnt be in a haste to make  quick decisions to sell on the bases of the situation on ground because we may wake up to see a turn around in the market and this might make us to regret our initial actions, lets keep acumulating to keep a bulky portfolio for the future irrespective of what happens.

Bitcoin increased by more than $5k when the US market opened and has maintained so far, and those who did not buy but waited for bitcoin to fall further yesterday will probably regret it somewhat. But bitcoin's recovery doesn't mean it won't continue to decline, we have no evidence for that. Like in July when bitcoin suddenly rose back above $70k and no one believed it would correct below $50k again, but it happened yesterday to everyone's surprise.
So there is no need to gloat or laugh at anyone for deciding not to buy yesterday because the future is unpredictable, bitcoin could go up from here or it could correct again. The market is still not stable so don't be too subjective.

No, I even didn't look at the price, Lol, although when I check it last night, I was surprised but I was not tempted to sell any. Although I wasn't able to buy as well, so I guess it's not like a normal day for me, didn't sell but didn't take advantage of the situation.

So good luck for those who have bought at the downturn, another great opportunity that might not come again. As the price has bounce back to $55k already. And for those who have waited and think that it might go down to $45k or lower, I guess you missed that opportunity because you are naive to buy as you are waiting for the price to still go down.

Now price of bitcoin reach at $55k again and got lucky also for deciding to accumulate while there's opportunity to do it when bitcoin is experiencing a dump.

The current recovery really tells  that its not really good to get panic on such dumps happening since if they ride with the fear of lots of people then the same with them they have huge chance to lose.

But if they believe that bitcoin will recover which usually really happen for many years they could also able to earn the same what other people who always see those dips as good chance to accumulate.

That's why "Buy the Rumour, Sell the News" is always relevant in this situation.

Bitcoin is volatile and the knowledge of this is important for every hodler to know how it works, pump and dump is it's feature and the uniqueness is that over a long term the pump will be greater than the dump. Everybody that is investing in Bitcoin should have a long term plan, with this strategy they will not be bothered about selling when price starts to dip or consider converting it to stablecoins. Conversion into stablecoins should only be when the holder wants sale on the short term during dips so that if it continues to dip, the value of their Bitcoin will remain stable. This is why DCA is the best method to hodl Bitcoin, you won't be bothered about short term price pump and dump and speculations, you will just buy, hodl and wait as long as it takes for bull run.

Of course not. I think that average investors understand now what it means to be holding. But everyone is free to cut their losses unless you're long term, you don't have be bothered with these situations of the market.

Nope, I'd sell in profit but if the market doesn't look good then I'd be buying more instead of selling. I'm preparing for the upcoming cycle that even though I may not be able to sell at the peak but at least close to it.

Well, just as what we're saying about cutting loss and accumulating more. Everyone is free to do what they think is going to work for them. So, saving the value of what they've got through converting into stable coins is fine but choose a better stablecoin than Tether.