I've experienced this kind of situation too, but simply hodling your coins won't get you anywhere. The passive profits you gets in holding your coins is limited, unlike if you do trading, you can maximize your profits, or lose it, depends on your skills in Trading. If you're gonna invest your whole money in cryptocurrency, better to have a job and not rely on your investment in cryptocurrency if you don't want to lose your profits in the long run.
If you have a $1000, invest the $500 on Bitcoin and start your business using that $500, and invest your profits in your business in Bitcoin little by little, that's how you do it.
One thing that also comes into my mind on where you can really make out some comparison in between when you do held off your funds or making some trades with it.
You can really say that trading does really give out that kind of opportunity for you to make profits in a short time without the need of holding for it in years.
But actually this is on self preference because not all could really deal off with the risk involved on actively making out some trades and facing volatility in day to day basis.
This is why some would really just tend to hold off no matter what.