I've been in this crypto space for a while now and there is this mentality instilled in people that seems selling ones coin is bad and one is heading to failure which is very wrong at least from my perspective.
I've always been on the track that investing in Bitcoin simply means buying low and selling high, which I think is one of the keys to success in the crypto Industry. I always tell people that the moment you buy at a certain price and it starts rising possibly to a price that you feel ok and contented with, then you should feel free and confident to sell atleast to get the profit first and always use stop loss just incase the price drops, rather than having a little portion of Bitcoin and letting it get liquidated just because you want to preach and prove HODLing, trying not to feel odd.
So my question is:
~ Do people hodl just because others are HODLing?
~ Why so people hold rather than sell and buy again when low
~ What is your major reason for HODLing and how do your survive the bear market?
Agreed. I noticed it too for quite some time and that mentality is pretty common and easily instilled amongst the newbies. Somehow the pros and the veterans aren't so much indoctrinated by said notion. Then again for me it's all a matter of capacity really. If you think you can still carry on holding coins despite the bear market, then by all means hold them til the bull market comes around. But if you greatly depend on the value of those coins you own then I highly suggest you pull out some, or maybe even all of it if ever. After all the not losing is still winning, and in this case we have to mitigate the losses you incur which will only be possible if you pull your coins out at an opportune time.
I'm glad you got my points very well senior and most persons responded to the thread even without being rational but rather were so sentimental with their decision.
I've always been on the opinion than we always use stop losses and watch our profit til it gets to a satisfactory point to is before selling rather than in bit to follow thread to hold, we could sell or swap to usdt when the bear market comes and be willing to buy it back at the end of the bear market by so doing, one will be able to save thyself from the emotional stress associated with tye bear market.
The only difference Bitcoin has with altcoins is the fact that Bitcoin can reach a 0.00(zero) price while altcoins and easily loss all it's value and I guess alot of people are getting the concept of holding wrong.
Live here and now.
I totally support this very ending phrase and I've been relating to this phrase when talking to people because I got to be in a recent discussion with some group of friends And i came to realize that some persons actually do investment not because they really wanted to be because they don't want to look odd and most times I see them lacking basic things even when I know they have some nice amount in their portfolio and when I advise them to sell some and sort their problems, they see me as a wrong person and feel I'm against them.
For me I save and invest money with hopes that it saves me when the need be and not because I got others doing it.