It could be wales. Imagine you have 10000 BTC and millions of dollars in the bank. Why not play with 1000 BTC, pump and profit, dump and profit again ? At worse you might lose a bit, at best you might earn a lot and increase your stashes.
That old conspiracy theory about the Welsh... I have always though there was a grain of truth in it.
You had good fun with that one. I don't sleep enough these days, and it's not even because of BTC.
Wanting to buy at a good price is laudable, however the problem is going all in/all out, that's a crazy risk. The guy is rich already though so it doesn't really matter. If he owns stuff that will keep some value I mean.
10000€ yesterday.
I decided to stop my experiment "trading" BTC, after 6 months. It worked about as intended, if the price goes back to what it was in April, I will have grown the starting capital both in BTC and EUR, but my hodler self is taking over so I don't want to sell anymore BTC. I have cancelled all my sell orders and only kept my buy orders. I have a decent EUR stash to buy BTC when/if it goes down again. Next time I do some trading I will probably start with EUR only, with the goal to only grow the EUR stash (and spend the gains buying BTC, for example).
Overall I think I sold less BTC than I would have otherwise, because pumps always made my heart pump, while with this strategy ups and downs led to excitement, but I've had enough excitement for a while. And I believe more and more, with what's happening with central banks, that BTC is destined to go to 6 digits in a few years at most.
I am glad that you have assessed that you have learned from this process and that you believe engaging in such process has likely caused you to sell less BTC overall than what you would have without such strategy.
Still sounds that you structured such overall strategy in a way that was overly emphasizing betting on down and also in that regard selling too much, too soon BTC on the way up..
But, hey, if in the end you learned from the whole process, that is good, and perhaps you might be able to employ again in the future and/or tweak some more in order to make such process even more valuable to your own particular situation.
If the price never goes down from here then it would have been a "mistake", but not too costly. I'm still well in the price range I had set up, but I realize now that when the price is low, we find that twice or thrice that price would be great already. When we're two thirds of the way to that doubled price, things look different.
I could buy back at current price and "take the loss" but then I might also regret having done that, so I will let things play out, if the price never goes down I will find a use for the cash.