I am one of those that have sold too early on 2021 but then, I've learned from that moment and happy to be with you guys, the moon and the golden hands club.
I suppose the main thing is learning, and surely if you had been mostly focusing on accumulating since your forum registration date (in 2016), you would be in a good place right now, yet there are a lot of us who have made several mistakes along the way, and one of the main things is to try to be able to stay in the game and to not get completely knocked out of it.
It can be tempting to sell too much too soon without realizing that is what is happening, and so I continue to be a pretty BIG fan of incrementalism and figuring out ways to engage in incrementalism especially when it comes to selling BTC - yet I also have a bit of a philosophy that it is not even a good idea to start to think about thinking about selling your BTC until you are either sure that you have enough or that you have more than enough, and that can be a bit of a tricky kind of a measure to figure out how much is enough.
One of the frequent problem that guys have is to sell with an anticipation of buying back cheaper, and it seems to me if there is a structuring of sales in such a way that there is no expectation to buy back cheaper, then there is a realization that you cannot start to sell BTC until you are sure that you have enough or more than enough.. so then you would ONLY sell from the part of your stash that is "more than enough." No one is going to help you if you miscalculate whether you have enough or not, and you likely have come to realize that no one is going to save you if you end up selling too many of dee cornz too soon.
I have accumulated but compared to you and the others who have been too early on accumulation, it's incomparable.
Personally, I tend to believe that it is better to attempt to compare yourself to other versions of yourself rather than picking some other timeline, and surely many of us likely inevitably make several mistakes along the way, yet if we try to learn from our mistakes we are likely in a better position to tweak our practices to make our practices more solid, whether we are still accumulating bitcoin or maybe at some point we end up transitioning into more of a maintenance rather than accumulation state. Surely I would not proclaim that transitioning from early accumulation to maintenance is a clear line since there can be levels within accumulation and also levels within maintenance.. and surely later we might be unclear whether to call our later stages liquidation or merely a form of maintenance that is done through a kind of sustainable withdrawal...so we never really plan to get out of bitcoin once we largely established our position we might transition into variations of our maintenance state.
That's positive to me. I get the idea that it's a matter that I have to take so that it pushes me more or gives me more encouragement to do better and be like each and everyone of you. Although I know that there's a huge gap and it's like me a cub following the leader and I am part of the group.
I am even thinking of something great at my position but I just can't forget the bad decisions I've made in the past. But I know more people that did more bad than me so that's no reason for me not to be grateful with my status.
But I can say that this is going to be a life changing thing if ever the right time of selling for me happens again.
I doubt that there is any right time for selling, especially for guys who consider bitcoin as a long term investment. Sure there are ways that we can shave off part of bitcoin based on price and/or based on time, yet I doubt that it is really to think about your bitcoin as being something to sell rather than something to figure out ways to manage.
But, yeah of course, you are free to think about your bitcoin however you like and do with it whatever you like, even if you choose to do dumb stuff with it, such as trying to trade it... or selling it in order to buy some short term fiat pleasures... so you may need to continue to study bitcoin so that you can figure out some kind of plan that might not cause you to get completely out of bitcoin, absent that you are on your deathbed or some other contingency that might inspire to sell from principle rather than selling from profits... but yeah, there are a lot of guys who have difficulties figuring out how to value and to manage their BTC in order to make sure that they are more empowered by it rather than just merely considering short-term fiat gainz.
That's realization but what I can say of myself is that I won't trade off some of my BTC for personal stuff and pleasures only or even other short term things. Thanks for the wisdom, it's about
managing now that's word. It's not only about decisions, accumulation but also that magic word you've said, how to manage it and it covers everything, selling, holding, emotions, buying, etc.
It is true that it is about learning, how many bull runs were there already that happened in my life and I've sold some amounts that truly are huge if the present value today will be on those sold Bitcoins that I have made before. But you're right about it, figuring it out and thinking if I have more than enough to sell is going to be hard. I'll make sure this time that I make the right decision.
Hopefully you can figure out something that is reasonable and fits your situation, and of course, I have been trying to write on the topics of
bitcoin investment ideas and
sustainable withdrawal ideas, yet one of the things that I frequently need to emphasize is that guys should be focusing on accumulation through various ways of buying prior to getting into selling practices or trading or even getting involved in shitcoins. So, I personally think that there can be quite a few ways to both buttress your knowledge and also to tailor your BTC approach so that you are more empowered by your BTC management practices rather than ending up with way fewer BTC than you otherwise would have had, and so sure I have n problem with the idea that your BTC is likely to shrink in quantity with the passage of time, once you enter into withdrawing (selling it), yet there are ways to manage that, and there are ways to continue to buy bitcoin so that you get your bitcoin number up without fucking around with selling which is like gambling and it is not going to really help you to get your bitcoin quantity up.. so from my point of view you gotta get your bitcoin quantity up prior to starting to even think about selling any of it beyond engaging in sell and replace practices. And, yeah, I agree it can be difficult to figure out these kinds of ways of thinking about your bitcoin and bitcoin accumulation and management practices that compliment solid ways of thinking about your bitcoin.
I am now following that. I do agree about going on with shitcoins and even though I hold some of them but they're not of greater part of my BTC holdings. And it's just like playing around with some spare that I can afford to lose although that's in my case. While there have been a lot of people driving others to invest into altcoins, I always prioritize telling mostly my friends if being asked what to invest on this market, as a starter it's always been the best with Bitcoin and that's no brainer. Even at these prices, I am one of those that keeps on accumulating even with the little that I have, I am cash broke.