Selling Bitcoin = Opportunity loss?! - page 27.

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Quote from: davinchi on June 25, 2017, 12:57:30 PM

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Quote from: Taskford on June 23, 2017, 12:42:26 AM

Well I think it depends on the percentage of your bitcoin.
If you sell 100% of it, it's really a big lost but if it's just 25% of your bitcoin its not really a lost.
You know, everything is always an opportunity to us but sometimes we just don't see its coming
or if its in just around the corner we don't grab it.

Maybe what the OP is trying to ask is if selling your holding will make you loss your opportunity, of course it will loss the opportunity to see the value to grow more but the journey will not end there because if you loss the opportunity you can always get it back.

Buy now or later when the price will start to dump again, I think it's always a the good timing in buying.

In my opinion selling bitcoin is not an opportunity loss but the real loss is when you stop struggling for earning more bitcoin. For me it is more important to earn bitcoin rather than storing it for the reason that at some time it will very expensive in the future.

Agreed and same with me. I often have to sell my BTC when I get paid for my goods/services provided. Sometimes I am paid by comparing to fiat and if I need money I have to immediately withdraw them, to avoid loss.

Store what you need or can, selling, buying is a part other value fluctuations.

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Quote from: Finestream on June 23, 2017, 12:53:17 AM

Quote from: Taskford on June 23, 2017, 12:42:26 AM

Well I think it depends on the percentage of your bitcoin.
If you sell 100% of it, it's really a big lost but if it's just 25% of your bitcoin its not really a lost.
You know, everything is always an opportunity to us but sometimes we just don't see its coming
or if its in just around the corner we don't grab it.

Maybe what the OP is trying to ask is if selling your holding will make you loss your opportunity, of course it will loss the opportunity to see the value to grow more but the journey will not end there because if you loss the opportunity you can always get it back.

Buy now or later when the price will start to dump again, I think it's always a the good timing in buying.

In my opinion selling bitcoin is not an opportunity loss but the real loss is when you stop struggling for earning more bitcoin. For me it is more important to earn bitcoin rather than storing it for the reason that at some time it will very expensive in the future.

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I don't think so because predictions are just guesses you are not sure that price will definitely increase and don't think about opportunity loss because bitcoin fluctuates every second so just make a mind that you sell at that price no matter what is the price after selling.

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Quote from: knightmairesaint on June 24, 2017, 11:51:17 PM

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Quote from: kickero0O on June 24, 2017, 05:26:42 PM

Not really an opportunity loss in my opinion if you already have a profit. You can sell your bitcoin and buy again in its deep dump, if you are in an exchange you can set always your BUY Order. When it is filled, then its another opportunity.

Correct that not all the time when selling is happen is opportunity loss because if you are invest in short term if you see good profit already you would sell it and when the dump happen you should buy bitcoin again and wait for the pump again. I think opportunity loss will happen if some investor do the panic selling.

Agree also with you mate, sometimes i do selling my bitcoin because i see the opportunity to earn bitcoin then i keep my money in bitcoin because i am waiting for the huge dump to happen then buy bitcoin again. I think most of the late investors are doing like this too.

Indeed, the price of bitcoin is very unpredictable. Those recent fluctuations only shows how bitcoin's price can be so volatile and that there will never be considered as the right time to sell bitcoin. There is a chance that after selling your bitcoin, the price will rise which will make you think that maybe if you only hold it longer, you would have earned a higher profit. That is how it goes.

Selling bitcoin and then buying it back surely is another way to gain profit. But sometimes a big dump might happen and it will be much better if you would buy bitcoin at that time. But then again, the time for the big dump is unknown.

If you are experience trader you will not sell your coins with just some small or deep dump because no matter what happen expect that it will climb again and make more pump so in my opinion just hold your bitcoin and sell it with a specific amount when you need it to avoid regrets.

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Quote from: SamsungBitcoin on June 24, 2017, 10:40:27 PM

Quote from: madwica on June 24, 2017, 10:37:09 PM

Quote from: kickero0O on June 24, 2017, 05:26:42 PM

Not really an opportunity loss in my opinion if you already have a profit. You can sell your bitcoin and buy again in its deep dump, if you are in an exchange you can set always your BUY Order. When it is filled, then its another opportunity.

Correct that not all the time when selling is happen is opportunity loss because if you are invest in short term if you see good profit already you would sell it and when the dump happen you should buy bitcoin again and wait for the pump again. I think opportunity loss will happen if some investor do the panic selling.

Agree also with you mate, sometimes i do selling my bitcoin because i see the opportunity to earn bitcoin then i keep my money in bitcoin because i am waiting for the huge dump to happen then buy bitcoin again. I think most of the late investors are doing like this too.

Indeed, the price of bitcoin is very unpredictable. Those recent fluctuations only shows how bitcoin's price can be so volatile and that there will never be considered as the right time to sell bitcoin. There is a chance that after selling your bitcoin, the price will rise which will make you think that maybe if you only hold it longer, you would have earned a higher profit. That is how it goes.

Selling bitcoin and then buying it back surely is another way to gain profit. But sometimes a big dump might happen and it will be much better if you would buy bitcoin at that time. But then again, the time for the big dump is unknown.

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Quote from: Sled on June 24, 2017, 07:47:55 PM

The bad thing is, you can't tell if there will be a deep dump again so i think it is best to just keep holding our bitcoin when we bought it for a lower price rather than taking and enjoying small amount of profits. Just do holding and don't sell it unless it is already tripled your capital and if there will be a deep dump then just buy at it to get some cheaper bitcoins that will be added to your current holdings.

In terms of bitcoin that is really the best thing to do. Example someone bought at $600 then want to sold it at $2,500, big profit already but don't sold it as they will never be able to bought back at that price again so better just hold it.

But for altcoins, there are sometimes not meant for long term holding so for here we have to watch the price on regular basis. We don't know that in just a less than a hour nap, we are now already being late.

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Quote from: madwica on June 24, 2017, 10:37:09 PM

Quote from: kickero0O on June 24, 2017, 05:26:42 PM

Not really an opportunity loss in my opinion if you already have a profit. You can sell your bitcoin and buy again in its deep dump, if you are in an exchange you can set always your BUY Order. When it is filled, then its another opportunity.

Correct that not all the time when selling is happen is opportunity loss because if you are invest in short term if you see good profit already you would sell it and when the dump happen you should buy bitcoin again and wait for the pump again. I think opportunity loss will happen if some investor do the panic selling.

Agree also with you mate, sometimes i do selling my bitcoin because i see the opportunity to earn bitcoin then i keep my money in bitcoin because i am waiting for the huge dump to happen then buy bitcoin again. I think most of the late investors are doing like this too.

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Quote from: kickero0O on June 24, 2017, 05:26:42 PM

Not really an opportunity loss in my opinion if you already have a profit. You can sell your bitcoin and buy again in its deep dump, if you are in an exchange you can set always your BUY Order. When it is filled, then its another opportunity.

Correct that not all the time when selling is happen is opportunity loss because if you are invest in short term if you see good profit already you would sell it and when the dump happen you should buy bitcoin again and wait for the pump again. I think opportunity loss will happen if some investor do the panic selling.

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Quote from: cipherer on May 17, 2017, 02:54:03 PM

Many posts discuss the possibility of exchange earnings with selling Bitcoin (and buy later). Other posts discuss the Bitcoin exchange rate, it seems that many agree there is a strong upward tendency and the volatility is hard to predict. It seems dat selling Bitcoin results in a serious probability of an opportunity loss. Selling Bitcoin can only be motivated by an (partial) exit. Do you agree?

In one word if I need to answer, I would say no. You are not selling obviously at a lesser price than you bought it for, so definitely not losing an opportunity. Rather if you keep it, there is an uncertainty. So the ones, in my opinion are selling now are actually encashing the opportunity but the ones who are saving so are doing in hopes.

People only afraid if bitcoin price increasing so hard that's why selling bitcoin has opportunity loss because bitcoin price increasing time to time and sometimes bitcoin got dumped so people afraid if they're missed the low price of bitcoin to buy and then sell again when the price high to get profit. That's why always keep your trading website opened will help you to know the current price of bitcoin.

Keeping the trading website open always is very important for all the traders because we know that the cryptocurrency is all too much uncertain, no one never knows when will be the next price pump or dump so to get yourself at a safe side and also to make as much profit as possible it is essential to always have a sight on your trading sites.

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Quote from: odolvlobo on May 17, 2017, 03:04:11 PM

You are assuming that the price will continue to rise. That is not guaranteed, so selling is not necessarily lost opportunity.

Selling may be the way to maximize your return, but it depends on the risk of holding.

And at this moment, with the current volatility and such it may be best for a good amount of people to simply get out and to just wait this out, though this is something that really depends on WHAT ROLE this money plays in your life. If it's something that you're going to need and can't afford to lose, obviously you should be doing the smarter thing and getting out with this money and not exposing yourself to this insane amount of risk.

If you can risk to lose it, you can either role the dice or be happy with what you've made now -- OR MINIMIZE YOUR LOSSES.

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Quote from: kickero0O on June 24, 2017, 05:26:42 PM

Not really an opportunity loss in my opinion if you already have a profit. You can sell your bitcoin and buy again in its deep dump, if you are in an exchange you can set always your BUY Order. When it is filled, then its another opportunity.

The bad thing is, you can't tell if there will be a deep dump again so i think it is best to just keep holding our bitcoin when we bought it for a lower price rather than taking and enjoying small amount of profits. Just do holding and don't sell it unless it is already tripled your capital and if there will be a deep dump then just buy at it to get some cheaper bitcoins that will be added to your current holdings.

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Not really an opportunity loss in my opinion if you already have a profit. You can sell your bitcoin and buy again in its deep dump, if you are in an exchange you can set always your BUY Order. When it is filled, then its another opportunity.

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Quote from: chaser15 on June 24, 2017, 01:11:38 PM

Regret is part of trading decision but what important here is you sealed an awesome profit. Don't just be greed as sometimes the wind are not moving in favor to us.

Sure it is,if you plan on selling something at a particular rate then you must not look at it as a lost opportunity,i am not talking about selling at a loss as no trader would do that ,another important factor is,if you need money and if selling bitcoin is the only option ,then so be it,never consider these as a lost opportunity because whenever you need money it has value beyond anything.

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Quote from: cipherer on May 17, 2017, 02:54:03 PM

Many posts discuss the possibility of exchange earnings with selling Bitcoin (and buy later). Other posts discuss the Bitcoin exchange rate, it seems that many agree there is a strong upward tendency and the volatility is hard to predict. It seems dat selling Bitcoin results in a serious probability of an opportunity loss. Selling Bitcoin can only be motivated by an (partial) exit. Do you agree?

Its not actually an opportunity lost since you are still gaining profits on our selling times as long we are on profit we cant consider it a loss unless if you sell on cut losses then its really a disaster.It depends on people if how he gonna handle his own bitcoin if he tends to hold up for future or just on shorting. The thing we do only lost when selling to early is the possibility of price increase on the future.

i think if we are selling with differences from our buy price and selling in high price, we can still making profit and its not opportunity loss, maybe we are loss in bitcoin amount but we are make money in fiat. and if we are buying bitcoin in high price, then i think we don't have to worried to get loss because i am sure that the price will be back like before, the only what we need is waiting for a while by doing another thing so we don't have to be panic selling like other traders.

As long as there is real profits there's no such thing as you loss that round. Overall, while selling, make sure that you are satisfy with the profits that you will made and you really anticipate that price will go down. But in the case where you sold your coins and really got an awesome profit but then price still goes up then don't mind it but rather stick with your decision.

Regret is part of trading decision but what important here is you sealed an awesome profit. Don't just be greed as sometimes the wind are not moving in favor to us.

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If everyone always without any exception holds their Bitcoins do you know what will happen? people will go and buy other coins and as we can see

They have already doing it, they have found the next best things in the market and pouring their money in to them, we need to keep an active market

By trading all the time, I'm doing it even with a few coins that I have but I'm doing it to earn profit and ever since 2 month just after altcoins started

To rise it's now more profitable than ever to put your Bitcoins into circulation and taking some cash from it out in the process. every time I have traded

Bitcoin for fiat I regret it every single time because then price went up and I had to wait a long time for another drop to buy back but with altcoins you

Could earn a few percents in matter of 2-3 days.

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It will depend on person to person. Some are strategist and have set their goals that with this much rise they will sell some % and so on . So accordingly they are contended with what they get it. While others who have sold may look as an loss since they might sell at x and today price is y and may be dissatisfied with themself and it has no end to it.

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Quote from: cipherer on May 17, 2017, 02:54:03 PM

Many posts discuss the possibility of exchange earnings with selling Bitcoin (and buy later). Other posts discuss the Bitcoin exchange rate, it seems that many agree there is a strong upward tendency and the volatility is hard to predict. It seems dat selling Bitcoin results in a serious probability of an opportunity loss. Selling Bitcoin can only be motivated by an (partial) exit. Do you agree?

Its not actually an opportunity lost since you are still gaining profits on our selling times as long we are on profit we cant consider it a loss unless if you sell on cut losses then its really a disaster.It depends on people if how he gonna handle his own bitcoin if he tends to hold up for future or just on shorting. The thing we do only lost when selling to early is the possibility of price increase on the future.

i think if we are selling with differences from our buy price and selling in high price, we can still making profit and its not opportunity loss, maybe we are loss in bitcoin amount but we are make money in fiat. and if we are buying bitcoin in high price, then i think we don't have to worried to get loss because i am sure that the price will be back like before, the only what we need is waiting for a while by doing another thing so we don't have to be panic selling like other traders.

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Quote from: cipherer on May 17, 2017, 02:54:03 PM

Many posts discuss the possibility of exchange earnings with selling Bitcoin (and buy later). Other posts discuss the Bitcoin exchange rate, it seems that many agree there is a strong upward tendency and the volatility is hard to predict. It seems dat selling Bitcoin results in a serious probability of an opportunity loss. Selling Bitcoin can only be motivated by an (partial) exit. Do you agree?

To me selling bitcoin at this time is not an opportunity lost for some people because some bitcoin when the market value of was between $500 to $1000, so if those should sell at the current market value they will make profit from their investment.

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Quote from: FomoATH on June 24, 2017, 07:28:59 AM

Part of the coins can be sold to obtain a guaranteed profit, and some to retain for the future. It is necessary to understand that any investment has a risk.

Transferring to fiat money is far from "guaranteed profit". With Bitcoin at leat you know that the supply is limited and thus the price will be based on its continuing utility. No one can say the same of fiat money because it's inherently worthless.

Might as well just hold if you want to preserve real wealth.

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Part of the coins can be sold to obtain a guaranteed profit, and some to retain for the future. It is necessary to understand that any investment has a risk.

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