I personally believe that in some cases, you can do both. You can have some BTC that you categorize as your long term HODL and you keep adding to that stash, and you can have another portion of your BTC that you decide to invest extra and then to sell some or all of that portion when (or if) the BTC price goes up; however, you still would need to be prepared if the BTC price does not go up, then you would need to have a plan for that.
Investors invest with the assumption that they will make a profit as well as lose their money. An investor has no reason to think that his investment will only bring him profit because he at least knows that the market is changing at every step and the change can be both positive and negative. Since changes in the market can be both positive and negative, the investor's money is at some risk and investors invest with this money risk. A new investor invests bitcoins and before investing he first plans that he will hold his bitcoins for a long time but as easily as he plans that plan will not be implemented so easily.
A professional investor can easily hold his investment for a long time but a novice investor cannot easily hold his investment for a long time. A new investor faces various challenges in holding his investment for a long period of time and those who can face these challenges end up holding on to their investment but those who cannot face these challenges sell their investments in short order. If you invest, you should invest in such a way that you don't have to sell the investment later.
We should give as much importance to investment as we give to our mother's ornaments and wife's ornaments. Just as we never think of selling our wife or wife's jewelry even in the face of many financial crises, we never think of selling our investments no matter how dangerous the situation.
Investing a relatively small amount of money is a good decision if it can be held for a long time, but investing a large amount of money temporarily is of no use if the investment has to be sold after some time.
That is a good point. It is true that FinePoine0 is describing his bitcoin experience in terms of various kinds of short term gratification, and he likely is not going to be able to get long term benefits and who knows how he is playing his trade.
There are some people who come to bitcoin as traders but they end up converting to investors.. so we do not all start from the same place, even though it seems when the relatively newbie guys are getting so excited about short-term profits, they don't seem to be considering their bitcoin holdings in terms of it's longer term ramifications...even if they are trying to appear that the are talking the talk.. but they are seeming to be faking it...
@FinePoine0 probably sees investing and trading as the same thing and thinks they are the same. There are many differences between investing and trading in a practical sense. Trading is like a normal business, just as traders buy a commodity at a relatively low price and sell it at a higher price, in trading a trader buys a coin at a lower price and sells it at a higher price. Just as business is not always profitable, sometimes the trader sells his products at a relatively small loss, so in trading, a trader sometimes sells his coins at a small loss.
There is no hassle in selling the investment but an investor can buy a particular one regularly if he wants and increase his investment amount.
@FinePoine0 Hope you understand the difference between investing and trading.