Good Morning BTC Land... So we had a massive dump this night... How shocking... So no 50k sadly I had no fiat left for buying the Dip.
I saw lowest was 46k so almost 8%, now we are a little higher than than. Mmh f2pool again?
Let see what the day brings us.
This is the usual weak hand trading. Traders who try to make 1% daily profit caused a daily resistance, which often leads to their loss. They count on the sell button too much and when several traders hit it at the same time the button, their sell is done 5-10% below what they expected. This typically happens when the bid book is too thin, as it was yesterday on all exchanges. The funny thing is that these are the same traders who registered many losses in the last year despite the huge bull run. Yes, it may sound improbable, but most of the daily traders live with some kind of loss ranging from 10% to 100%. Many of them who cut losses in June last year, having X bitcoins, not cut their losses having X/10 bitcoins. This is how things work - investors getting richer and traders getting poorer each day. It is not possible that both groups of people win at the same time. We've seen here quite a few excited traders, who boasted with a 10% profit around 7K at some point last year. They sold, because some famous shorter publised a prediction in tradingview that the bull run is exhausted and Bitcoin is going back to 6K. Later their guru was caught with his pants down and incurred himself a huge loss. Nobody from these imbeciles ever showed up here again. I guess they live happily with the 100$ they've made. And this is the successfull 1% part of all traders. The remaining 99%, most of who use leverage trading are in some kind of a loss. On the other hand, the only real investors in the whole hisory of Bitcoin, who are in a temporary loss are those that bought Bitcoins yesterday. And they won't be dissapointed in the next months, for sure. So, there is absolutely no need to be frustrated because of the dips. They only help breaking the resistances on the way up.
Interesting. Thank you. Didn't have any inside view of trading. I tried it once with stock options years before Bitcoin. Lost and thought. Meh... When I go long, the market drops. So I never trade again. Only bought and sell a little in 2018.
very well said, ivomm
a human being can stand a certain varying amount of psychological pressure. some days we are stronger than on other days. no matter how rewarding it may be to hodl bitcoin, it is stressful. it sometimes feels like going into a casino, put lots of money on "red" at the roulette table, winning it, but then decide to leave it all on red for another round... and another round... and another round - a perpetual high risk/high reward gamble.
the stress takes its toll. and there are weak moments. and there is the
mindrust phenomenon. i dont think anyone is immune to it. i had moments in the past 8 years where i just wanted to give up. not because the price dropped, but when the perspective of this perpetual super-stress will just stay that way forever got to me.
the combination of the best performing asset in the history of finance being also the by far most volatile asset in history is a heavy weight to lift. we are not specially trained, hardened professional traders with balls of steel. most of us are regular guys who would have never chosen becoming traders. with selling the entire stash being just a mouseclick away, hodling btc is like trading - you choose not to sell, every new moment, every new day, every new wave of FUD.
We had no choice but to grow balls of steel ourselves. when your life savings can literally evaporate overnight, getting up in the morning, checking the price would be hyper stressful for a someone not used to it. it became routine for us. but it takes time for those balls to harden. and sometimes, for example when reaching a certain threshold money figure like $100 000 or even 1mio, even seasoned btc hodlers can experience high stress levels again.
a multiyear btc hodler is stress resistant as a human being could be. but it takes its toll.