Everyone who has ever traded for more than a couple of hours have had episodes where their trades are wrecked because of bitcoin volatility reflecting on the whole market.
What tips do you guys have regarding protecting yourself from bitcoin sudden moves?
Learning by doing, experience is the best teacher. I began to respond the volatile market naturally, even after many times through significant price changes, I was not yet an expert in trading, many market adjustments that I had to learn more.
In this case, when trading for the short term, stop-loss is very useful to avoid fatal losses, but sometimes there is a wrong placement stop-loss so that it could be support or resistance in the market.
For the long term, the key is to be patient, wait until the market situation returns to your expectations.
Basically everything goes back to your trading strategy and how you respond to the volatile market.