Topic: Technique to regain losses? - page 2. (Read 428 times)

Its really plausible but would really require in depth analysis on which coin you would focused on.If your bitcoin holdings are on negatives. Diverting into altcoin is a good choice but it is somehow hard to do since market of altcoins is going the same way with bitcoin which means when bitcoin dump then altcoin dump too where you can able to extend on regaining loses but the good thing here that alts is way more volatile where chances on regaining is there.Timing into a perfect set-up of an order is always advisable.

I believe discipline is always the most important thing in a business. You can have a good plan and it can be a bad plan, the discipline will help you to maximize profits and minimize. minimum risk. So discipline is the key to success in business. You can see that commerce is extremely boring, just repeating one thing and you have to follow the plan that the goal sets out tightly.

I always have several ways to recover my losses, among other things by investing in another coin with the same amount of capital. the most important is the patience and coin analysis, because after all it will certainly produce results and also make our losses will come back.

Loss is something that happens unexpected with cryptocurrency, and to overcome this same the user needs to be prepared enough to face any kind of price fluctuations. In this way can make use of the fluctuations to buy at a best price and sell for a small marginal difference making a sustained earning.

The magic rule .... The more money there is in the account, the easier it is to trade. If you lose $10 when you have $1,000 in your account, you will not be particularly upset and will continue as planned. But if there is only $50 in your account, this could be unsettling and lead to mistakes and loss of the entire account. Not to mention the fact that in the first case there are 100 attempts to correct the situation, and in the second - only 4. It's simple arithmetic

There is simply no need to discourage yourself that you have lost, initially all the people loose but what matters is that what happens in the end, and I must say that you must end it in the profitable note. Moreover, there are a lot of the ways and means by which one can recover the loss some involve more capital whereas the other involve more timings and skills in the trading. So you can read about them and opt any of them.

Patience is key if you want to regain your losses but sometimes if you see a pump occurring on an exchange you can join it and it will help you recover some if not all losses but becareful as that extremely risky and you could end up a bag holder otherwise just hold your portfolio

I think the technique there is not to be a FOMO and be affected on big FUDs, yes it may seem stupid but you can earn alot because of the FUD it's like you are in heaven and hodlers are in hell and when you see a bear exhaustion tp and you gain back your loss and earned more.

There are no techniques to recover losses, and thinking this way - which is the gambler's typical mentality - means continuing to lose.
Losses are the past, they no longer exist. The sooner you forget them, the sooner you can concentrate on the present, which is all what you have.
Think about earning from what you have now.
Forget the losses.

There is always risk involved when we say that we should sell the bitcoin and instead of that we should go on buying the low valued coins. If we do that then we put our investment at stakes and more risk is attracted towards us. I mean is there any coin that gives us assurance that it will rise in the price after specific time? I guess no, there no such coin. However we can have more hopes from the bitcoin itself because it is self explanatory and it can deliver far greater profits of held for ling duration. So if you are willing to wait for the two years then I would say do it, and who knows you might just find yourself into better position than what you are in today.

I beg to disagree. With that kind of pessimistic attitude, then losing all of your investments would be the next thing that would happen. It is relatively true that bitcoin prices are directly proportional to altcoins prices in the market but you have to consider some factors also (i.e. some altcoins are regaining/increasing their value due to bitcoin's fall). Not to mention, rather than complaining about the fall of bitcoin, take this as an opportunity to acquire more coins for short-term investments. Like what I said, that kind of mindset would get you nowhere.


I see this technique as the 'happy-go-lucky' kind of attitude. Remember that we are dealing with thousands/millions of dollars on investments. Even the smallest increase/decrease in the price margin would mean thousands of dollars wasted. But if you treat your investments as the money that you are willing to lose, then I suggest that you just let time do its trick!

Dude your technique is good only in perfect market. Meaning to say you buy here then you gain profit but in real world, market don’t work that way. This is certainly high risk strategy since the word you use is HOPE for faster growth. The best suggestion I will give you is to become a long term holder of BTC. Only long term investment has high probability of success in cryptocurrency.

first thing you need to do is to learn how to use stop loss. I am going to use your numbers here. assuming price is $8000 and you buy, then if it drops 3% which means going down to $7760 you must sell not wait for anything else like price going lower,...

now that you have not done that, what you can do is to either hold on to what you got and wish for it to go up or sell and get out and start making better trades. this means for example if you are hodling some altcoin which has dropped significantly then you sell it right now no matter what the price of it is and then start making better trading decisions. like buying an altcoin that actually has the potential to rise or better yet buying bitcoin which is the only thing with real potential. and then using stop losses in the right way.
note that I said invest in something has the potential not just any random altcoin that you guess might have it.

This is a good techniques and in trading it is called "coins flipping" you make good money if you know how this works.  Most time that you see price going up against the general trends is a sign that coins flipping is happening. We have to practice this before putting really money in using this technique because trading is a very risky investment and it take experience to make money from it.

Buying shitcoins is almost a guarantee to lose, unless you have so much luck on your side, that you manage to profit initially. One way or another, luck is a factor that will make you lose in the long term, and thus not viable.

I have seen how people have set up a portfolio consisting of many shitcoins, and all have been bought drying peak levels. The small initial gains have turned into severe losses due to how unreliable they are.

Bitcoin is the only solid investment, and that has never changed. Altcoins represent reckless gambling behavior, and has nothing to do with investing anymore when it comes to the majority of the people in this market.

You could do that kind of scenario but if that coin didn't progress more then you could use double and even wait for longer time. If you're thinking of converting your loss in BTC to altcoins then i suggest you choose your coin carefully since there are lots of them. Bitcoin is the most recognized cryptocurrencies than the other, if in an event all cryptocurrency rise into fame and popularity like last december than you might regain your losses faster but if that didn't happened then when bitcoin rise, you're alt won't even move a cent.

Most people try to regain their losses buying the same coin so in your example, you might sold your loss at 7k and try to buyback at 6,5k and not converting to other coins. Likewise all trading strategy is a prediction of logical future events so you might lose the opportunity if it didn't came back to 6,5k and instead the price rose, so tread carefully.

If you're only investing 1/3 or even less than your investment fund at the time then you might consider to invest more fund buying on dip, it doesn't matter if you're averaging your position in bitcoin or altcoin and just act like its a new beginning for your trade and consider the last investment as a long term investment if you want to have less stress. Hope this help 

All the suggestions of holding,  don't looks at it are at best wishful thinking!  I would suggest that you hold but in addition to holding,  buy every dip during these bear. If you could discipline yourself to buy dip,  you will recoup your losses faster when there is slightest green in the market  

Just do not look at it. In a few months everything will be back to normal, or even at a new ATH. The only thing that may help is to buy the dip with fiat. good luck!

I will suggest to hodl if you have bitcoin, etheruem and litecoin in your portfolio because sometime they will recover especially bitcoin. Talking about bitcoin , with the way you are sounding, it seems you bought at a very high price maybe during its ATH in December when price got to $20,000 and you are losing hope that price won't get there till after 2years time. But, that is not true because price will get there, be patient and don't sell off your bitcoin.

Meanwhile, for selling off and buying an altcoin, that is another new investment entirely in business terminology.

I think this is a very good question but has a complex answer.. where to begin..

To answer the last part of your question first I think waiting 2 years for the market to recover is a bad option.. 2 years of not trading is the same as losing money.. its best to not let your situation get so dire earlier on (which is probably the most important thing to take away from this but thats another subject) but considering that is the situation.. yes it is possible to segment your losses into incremental gains in a bear market to work down your cost average but you need to approach this very carefully.  I use a laddering type system...
Lets say you have 2 BTC invested in something that is out of position and you are down .8btc overall.. you could start to trade upswings and cover the bottom with profits in a ladder system.. so to make sure you don't get further out of position I would trade .05 BTC or .1BTC in your first sell.. if in incrementally goes up again I would sell double (.2btc) and double again (.4BTC) and stop there.  You need a majority of your position incase it continues to go up and you just need some leverage to cover the bottom if the bottom falls out again.. you do the same strategy if it drops.. first buy .1 btc.. 2nd buy .2 btc, etc.  It allows you to play the gap to make up some gains while being very unlikely to be out of position permanently and still not being idle waiting the two years for the price to come back.. figure out how many coins from these position trades you need to break even and once you have accumulated that number of coins its okay to start making riskier trades as you ladder up.

Specifics of coin doesn't matter, but I will say this.. start to focus on working BTC dips and corrections for quick alt entries.. you can clear 8-10% easily if you trade alts with btc/usd chart simultaneously open and can start to accurately predict the bottom (or the quickest possible reversal).. just don't get greedy in bear markets.. 10% is incredible but so is 4-5% if thats all you feel comfortable with.  Its about participating and participating positively over sitting on the sidelines and pouting.

Learn to use fib retracements always.. never consider entering trades that aren't atleast 50% fib or more retraced so you don't enter positions poorly.. it helps eliminate fomo and makes you wait for good trade confirmations which is likely the problem to begin with if youre way out of position.

If you are uncomfortable with trading and feel like the trading entry point is your struggles then don't do any of this without a couple of weeks of paper trading.. if you feel like you trade too emotionally or enter/exit too often then up your time candles..start looking for positions on day candles and work down to 4 hour candles.. the larger the time frame the bigger and safer the move with less emotional swings... avoid 1-30 min candle time charts altogether and save 1 hour charts for when you have more experience. Heres some trading indicators I use from another thread I wrote that you may find useful in this journey.  Good Luck.

From a previous post:

Moving Averages on the Day Chart (50/100/200 Day) - I value this one the highest.. its simple, and allows at a glance of scanning coins what has pulled back enough from runups that may be worth looking at if other indicators seem positive
Fibonacci retracements for buy and sell zones (just ideas on where to look for resistance levels to take profit, always leave the areas a bit lower, since everyone uses these to sell as zones, hence the more who use TA, the more of a self fulfilling propechy it becomes.
Bollinger Bands (sometimes I use these just to see how tightly wound things are getting when trying to break out from descending wedges/bull flags/etc.
MACD and RSI (just a quick indicator to pair with others to confirm the information the other indicators are showing me)
Ichimoku Cloud - Love seeing the overhead resistances and when on bull runs if its starting to fall flat.. this indicator isn't good on its own but like using with others.

Things I don't find useful:
Elliot Wave Theory - I can certainly appreciate the concept and I think overall the general concept of any 1-5 wave will lead to an ABC correction in a general sense is good, but as a predictive price to buy or sell at, it seems way too optomistic 99 times out of 100 to me.  When chasing coins on a pullback however I do wait for the confirmed C pattern to form.. the problem is large runups can lead to a very long C extension (especially when paired to BTC acting up) so its just best to wait for confirmed reversal pattern over trying to buy based off of the measurement of C.
RSI alone - alot of people use RSI alone for whatever reason which I don't feel is a good idea.. it can in a general sense  show if something is overbought or oversold, but something can rally oversold for days or weeks..btc in 2017 is a good example... if you sell when something is overbought or buy when its oversold, youre gonna miss alot of the tops of runups and get cut by the falling knife as it just becomes even more oversolid.. wait for other indicators to confirm what the RSI is telling you.