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As per my perception here is a lot of investor/trader who was comes in at early 2018 or may be in mid of the year. That time was the best time of crypto and ALT coins too. But later on this scenario was converted into downtrend and all coins were falling simultaneously. It was cause of FUD, huge movements in Bitcoin due to whales manipulation. As a result our portfolio was reduced on daily basis. Mostly people were hoping to bounce back market around their buy potion but this was not happen at all.

In that time how we confirmed our loss? When we were realize that market is going up and our coin is not moving we sold it and jumped in running train,
there we confirm our loss.

What was we need to do there was only patience. Because every coin always give you a chance to be survive your self by bouncing back near your buy rates.

Anyways past can't changed. If you are still try to keep you alive in crypto is keep calm, Trust in your choice, and HODL it. One more thing you should be in
a very potential coin, if you are HODLING shit coins, So you need to be brave and jump into a better coins.

Hope this will help you.

You can survive if you invest what you can afford to lose on the time that you are investing, but if you are not it's hard to keep up, investors should always be aware of this advice, even if the coin that you are going to invest look safe, and have a good potential you never know what's going to happen next in the market.

I can relate with you as I was also a victim of the last crypto bubble. Hoping that the crypto price would continue to pump, I held on to my crypto eventhough I detect that prices are slowly going down. Now my cryptos has very low value and some even have no value because the developer abandoned the project due to losses caused by the bearish market. But that was a learning experience as I have slowly traded even on small gains and became wiser with the way I handle my assets.

I can tell you from experience that it is not an easy position to be but when you find yourself in that situation you just have to learn to be extra patient, it is often said that you can only loss when you sell, so the wiser thing to is to hold for the market to recover, otherwise, what good will it be if you sell with -80%,
Investment is all about taking risk because you never know what the out come will be, it is important to prepare for whatever out come.

It is very hard to overcome such a big lost but I have come to realize that the more you try to regain back your loss, the further you continue to lose. Also, from my experience, it is very possible that you lose much like this when you like trading on the pump and dump token and when you only do that with a short term investment plan. Last year, I was trading an altcoin called BNOW. I invested 100 dollars and traded making at least 100% every week. I continued this with the hope of making $1000 before I will withdraw my money. After a month, the project turn scam and the team massively dumped the token, when I checked my wallet, my balance was less than 20 dollars  ;D. up till date, I didn't even check my wallet again.

Never invest more than you can afford to lose. The place of full of scams and unfortunately things like CMC exit.

most of the people here even lost the 99% of their invest all left out is the dust, some coins i do believe in which early investors have invested will be dead in bitcoin halving event. i do not know what to expect from 2020 but so far we need a manipulation just like 2017 otherwise people will lose interest in cryptocurrency.

I bought my first Bitcoin in June 2014. I was in red numbers for over two years. Those that bought in 2018 do not own Bitcoin for over two years. And they did not lose 80%, They lose maybe 40% if very very unlucky.

Actually when we decided to choose the good one businness, don't be speculate in it. Many people there, almost 90% trader will lost his money from their pocket. It mean, there is no guarantee if you will get rich in crypto, don't think it will be bounce back later, if you lost more than 50% of your money, you better quit on that and find new business thay you're good, master on that.

actually holding is also not good because it is like gambling because it is risking to hold until you reach the initial price or price you want. This is like suicide because I know that the new altcoin is very vulnerable to drop and if you have thoughts to hold that there will be a big loss, I think that should done is to take risks with cutlost and try to recover losses in the other way, and if it is altcoin that guarantees I mean the old altcoin I think the strategy hold is indeed a bit suitable.

If you lose 80% of your capital it's time to stop

I invest only what I can lose, right now I have almost  500$ in investment, if I lose 80% then I will feel bad but that won't be a big deal! Don't invest your saving in some random coins! Investment in Bitcoin will not cause you 80% lose anymore, but yet don't invest your savings! If you lose 80% then don't be frustrated, because you will recover the loses in the next trade!

Simply HODLing will gives profits,there will be a sunshine for sure so all you have to make sure that you are alive to see it. :)

But it is not easy to see the asset value dropping that much so we have to make them into stable coins when the prices fell too much before that price movement with your analysis.

During the bearish market, everyone is at loss because we seem to depend to the numbers during the ATH. And the best thing to do during that time is either HODL and buy. If you have panicked during that time, the value of your money went down and you definitely at loss even until now. But, if you remain holding and became patient, you are somehow recovered right now at least 40%-50%. And if you have bought a lot during the lowest and you've bought bitcoin, you are in total profit now.

It is what mostly happens, so did I, losing more than 70% because of only following the hype and booming crypto issues at that time.

We can confirm from our portfolio, checking on the market and converting the price to the exact number. When we got it decreased by more than 50%, we cannot expect too much again. Selling them at a very low price? I think that is not a good idea. Holding? Maybe yes, for some coins.

You are right patience is one of the key, and it must be supported by the tough feeling. Well, losing so many funds because of the decreased price is very usual to happen in crypto world, moreover for the newcomers (at that time) that only follow the hype without knowing more about the crypto world and without analyzing the market.

This was silly, but nothing will go better if we only make some regret. Just forget the loss and move to better crypto investment with wise analysis and consideration.

It's hard to keep your motivation if you have lost 80%, believing is your only comfort, knowing that you have a chance to recover you losses now that the halving is coming and there are a lot of changes and new development in the Crypto industry, it takes a real investors to keep up with 80% losses.

What if you are waiting for so long?
I have one coin that is still not moving for 2 years.
Isn't that enough patience already and should just move on from it?

There is always a cue in when to give up something. Altcoins now are all bloody and we still need to create something while waiting or else everything will just not move anymore.
New created ones also suck. So better just go for the coins with greater movements.
LTC, ETH and of course Bitcoin. Better just stay there.

Just to be a patient person will not enough, i have ever experienced it and i have invested in an ico in the past and lost 90% of my money, i have decided to take a big gamble to cutloss my investment and then put it in another coin that i think if that was having a lot of potential. It's not about just waiting for your investment to get another pump again when your project has not yet shown any potential again and that's the worst thing to do that. Just try to gamble on something big. High-risk high return and remember this.

At the end of my story and i can recover my loss.

you aren't actually losing anything, the value of your coin dropped but that's just that, if you haven't sell then you still have a chance and hope that one day the losses can turn profit, once you sell then you've already surrender to your loss

Maybe the best recommendation is to rest for a while and have a break. It's quite frustrating to lose more than 80% of your funds. It's not easy to recover if you really wanted to break or get it back then you must learn and understand the market movement. I think that's not the case for everyone as being a trader isn't also easy to do. I am also lose sometime  but what I can do the market is very volatile and lack of accurate result even the charts seems favor on your course.

Some just need to take a chill pill.
Panics usually happens due to massive plunge of the price, or even when the market crashes. Looking at that plunge of Bitcoin from 7k to 4k, I was about to panic actually but turns out when I checked the Wikipedia about the price of Bitcoin throughout the years, it went the same thing while it was still in 3 digits and now look where we are.

First, you have to invest only the money that you can afford to lose in that way even there's something went wrong with your investment its not that hard to accept it.

Then choosing the right coins to invest is a must, conduct a research before making a decision. If the coin you chose has potential it can survive even in bearish trend.

Lastly have patience and try not to listen to people spreading negative about crypto, have guts to face the outcome just be bullish.

For long term never trust in one coin, I think the best decision is a swap from shit coin to good coin by your experience. Some shit coin is doing great. Be patience by your experience because only patience could lose your money. Although 80% lose can't cover easily, wait for another bullrun to cover lose

Yaps, all we can do is wait, it's just that we don't know how long we need to wait and whether the next bounce can cover the losses we get. I think that just waiting is not the right solution, but you need to do other things such as trying to get assets to immediately cover the losses that you have gained.

There will be no problem if you are long term holder but if you hold a shit coin, I guess there is no chance to recover your loss in the future because most of the shit coins are dying.

if you hold a coin that is in the top 100, I think you have not completely lost 80% of the capital, just use the asset to trade and don't lose it, learning analytical techniques is also needed friends

In crypto market we never predict the future pump and dump so if we choose top 100 coin it is our own risk. Because trading is a buy and sell at our convenient ratio and earning. If we loose 80% of the investment it is not a big issue for investors. I think it is a perfect business for current traffic so we make more than 10% profit for each trade.

If there is one thing Crypto currency will teach you is patience.

The say "if you rush, you will crash" so better not Sell if no profit is involved and HODL, let the markets do the magic :)

I do not agree with TC about the best time for cryptocurrencies (in general) and altcoins (in particular). We do not know what kind of development the blockchain industry will expect in the future, and to say that 2018 was the best year for the crypto is fundamentally wrong. There were at least several such periods for the entire time of her existence.

The golden rule number 1 is generally for everyone who invests in cryptocurrencies: "You can invest as much as you are willing to lose right now."
No loans, only your money, and exactly as much as you can afford to lose without consequences for yourself.

Hard to take a chill pill when people lose money they CAN'T afford to lose;) That's when the real panic happens actually. Because if I'm putting in a bit of money that if I lose I don't feel anything, doesn't matter if it disappears, because I consider it lost. But the problem is people putting money in BELIEVING it will return them a lot of profit.

Losing such a huge proportion of capital is something which is really hard to recover but anyhow there is still hope and the remaining 20% of capital can be used a simple trading strategy which is making small trades of small margins. I know this strategy isn't enough to recover 80% of lost capital and new money needs to be invested as well.

Until the project is dead and if you are still holding those cryptocurrency then you are not in loss. It is better to trade those tokens for small gains and clear of your losses. It still better to hold on to them and wait for the next Bull run. I know it might be a long process but it is a sure shot strategy.

You are right, we don't any worried when we choose the right place to invest like bitcoin or ethereum. Although we see their prices are fall even their fall drastcally we just need to be patient, because we can choose as a holder for this coins. I'm sure there will be many people who still hold their bitcoin when they bought bitcoin at the all time high $20.000 in the past.

You can see how much people even an expert though who had the demanted prediction for bitcoin price in the future. Like Jhon McAfee although there will be some people who call him is crazy but I think he is an expert to crypto, he had a crazy prediction that in this year bitcoin price will touch one million for one bitcoin and he always confident that this thing will be happened. That just pointed out how much bitcoin price goes down but you will comfortable that there will be many prediction that bitcoin will up again.

Buy exchange tokens like ecxx and BNB that can earn you a profit in a bear or bull market or invest in a microcap like $BRAP and make your money back in the next bull run.

Actually any of the trader or investor would lose faith from the markets if he see his portfolio going below 80%. This might actually be a major loss if not treated cautiously.

20% of the remaining funds can again start gaining few profits which might at least bring back your capital if you spend most of your time in trading and gaining profits. You should never lose faith in the markets if you are holding some major potential coins. Those coins would surely be in the dip for few years maybe(as compared to the 2017 to 2018 markets) but might surely show you immense growth after the halving completes(which is expected in 2020). Potential coins would never keep you at loss for large interval.

It is easy to say that we need to be patient, but most people will desperate and will be sad, and it's hard to do. They need to survive in hard situations, especially if they don't have any jobs to do. But they can try to search the other jobs in their real life so they can still earn money because they need to find out another source of income if they still got lose more than 80% in the crypto worlds. Maybe they can come back to the crypto after the market recover, and there is the bull run coming so they can check their asset. It needs bigger patience to see a big loss because that will impact that person.

indeed the idea that you provide can be very easy to say but it is very difficult to apply because the current conditions of cryptocurrency prices are different from a few years ago when there were still many good projects and altcoin still prevailed, whereas for now the market conditions are not good and many investors that came out of cryptocurrency so it was difficult to implement such a method.

I think the other way is maybe you can find a job that can give you more money so you can get additional trading capital and make sure not to make the same mistakes again.

It's a big problem even when you were major altcoin holders. I should remind you about this can affect the mentality of the traders whether they wanna try to sell it or not.
There will always be a chance as long as OP wanna try to looking for an alternative way rather than stand with his old portfolios.
He must re-structuring his portfolios again.

If a trader lost more than 80% of his capital the better he do is to keep holding the coin if that potential. But if not ,better to give up and the rest of your money when you sell your coin and try again to pick up another new potential coin and wait to it to rise to getbback your capital that you lose that is one of the way you can do or you can add more capital to the coin you bought or ads another capital.

Agree to that. And if you are already sure that you are holding shit project better to sell it out instead of being trapped and don't have anything to get back from your investment. Shit coin died naturally and there's no chance to pull your money so best to assess and take your decision if you are still working with good project and the team behind are still in it's progressive development.

You will for surely gonna have a hard time trying to survive after a big loss. What you need to do is to use the rest of your money and start to invest on another coin again. This time, you must be really studying the coin that you are going to invest to and you should be aware if it has a better future or doesn't have one.

depending on what coins he has at the moment, if he holds popular coins in Coinmarketcap,
such as Ethereum, Waves, Atom, BNB, Monero, I think it's better to hold them

Yes, it is all about patience. Especially for those who hold reasonable coins. You won’t lose if you sell at the right time.
Pick the right coin and invest in it; apply some twinge of patience and wait for it to be worth selling; and reap the benefit. And this will be a lot more possible if you invest your spare money. So, you don't have easily run out of patience.

Always pack this advice up. Keep it always in your head, and I bet your journey will be safe. What most people missing here, is that, they buy recklessly, going side to side on where hypes are on fever-pitch leaving the right consciousness on dealing with short term trend. Thus, lead to a severe loss, then going to feel sorry with themselves. That is why I agree with the statement above, if people are going to buy out on what they can afford to lose, their journey, would totally be fine. Nothing to worry for such loses anymore. How about on losing streak? That's totally unfortunate, but whatever it is. Just keep on going out to an amount of you can afford to lose, it is what it is.

I have to agree with this. It's really hard to lose 80%, you have to be really unlucky or really stupid to do it and in both cases you should get into something else. It's like when you're a cook and most of your pastry comes out burned. You either fucking learn to do it and fast or look for another job.
One more thing. Don't ever give up. 80% or 90% it doesn't matter as long as you're still kicking.

patience is the most important thing in investing in the world of cryptoqurrency because if not then you will easily experience losses, but on the one hand patience is not enough to solve them, you need to monitor the assets that you invest in and also always renew them. because not all coins can last long, now many coins lose their value so you need to reconsider so that you don't experience a big loss.

There's only one way of surviving an 80% loss in capital which is realising what led to such loss if a trader held onto the idea of a bounce back that should be avoided moving forward. One a trade goes against set trade parameters its best to exit such trade because there's always another good entry. Secondly if a trader had no trading experience or target, such a trader should develop one.

No such incidents have not experienced with me. If 80% will be loss in your initial amount, i don't think it can be recover. I never continue to trade with only 20%, i do not deal with these situation. Even if you will hold these coin, i think difficult to recover fully.
if you coin is BSV than it can possible to recover in bull run. Crypto is volatile so no need to invest which amount we can not afford.

The coins invested initially that led to loss, might be as a result of some mistake made. Before switching over to another, which you feel is one of the ways that will bring about the recovery of lost funds, it will be better to look back and try to see where you have made mistakes. Not realising the faults with previous investment that went bad, might make you to repeat the same mistake. Afterwards,you can now work on how to avoid repeating the same.

Well, you always survive unless you decide to commit suicide.
Let's say that life is a gamble, so sometimes you win and sometimes - maybe more often - you lose.
If you don't like this, then don't play

The only coin worth hodling is Bitcoin. If you try to hodl alts, and if you are in red because you bought close to the ATH, you are setting yourself up for a 100% loss - because chances for seeing those prices again are extremely slim. The only right course of action is to dump your alts, buy BTC and try to hodl it up until the new peak of the bull market cycle. Good traders know when to cut their losses and look for new opportunities, bad traders are fixated on their investments and wait for them to recover even if it can't happen.

still hold and wait until the price of the coin we invest increases, but we also have to see the progress of the project, if there is no progress then my advice is better you sell it and buy another coin, because the price of the coin will definitely be difficult to increase, but if the project of the coin has progress, so I suggest you to hold it, because the price will definitely be easy to increase and give you profit even though it takes a long time.

actually if there is a chance that you can still hold then Hold mate that is the only way that you will not lose your capital,because as long as you are Holding the currency you are not losing anything it is just the market who is changing the value but your Holding will remain.
for me?i will rather keep my funds intact when the market fall bad because all i invest in here are the amount i can afford to lose.and that is a responsible investing strategy.

It is really difficult to cope with such a huge loss of funds, but the best option here is to sell all the shitcoins from your portfolio and to to choose new coins for investment like Bitcoin and Ethereum. They will not show 1000% growth during a single month, but it will be a safe investment.

What I am doing so far despite losing almost 90 percent investment in coins is hope and patience. I invested in many coins some three and a half years ago. But since then I have been suffering a great deal of loss. But I do not give up on what I believe. As positive signs of mass adoption of cryptocurrency are showing, my wish of recovering my losses will come true.

This rule is not always correct. If you bought a coin at the maximum price, then you will have to wait a very long time for the coin to be traded again at this level. Keep in mind that some coins may fall to the bottom after reaching the peak and stop trading.

Everything constantly comes down to Bitcoin and Ethereum. Are there really no other coins worthy of investment? Is it worth it to deal with other coins initially?

It's better to wait at the support price if you want to buy it, it's very safe and your risk of losing money is getting smaller,
I know 80% of your capital is lost, but it's not the time for you to give up

You should first consider which type of trader you are if you're a swing trader I think there's a medium risk for you and for a long term you have a high risk but high profit and if you are a day trader you are at low risk and low profit this is the safest I think.

You should consider as well your risk and reward ration you should set an amount that you would jump if the price drops in this way you could control your loss and you will not end up losing almost of your capital actually HODL is not applicable always sometimes you needed to jump and cut your losses rather than risking all of your capital.

I actually lost over 70% of my capital when I invested in shitcoin by mistake, I just thought it was the first experience of entering the cryptocurrency world, and I started to join ieo and gradually recovering my capital, now I am quite experienced in investing coins, so it is important for you to keep going or not when you have lost quite a lot

I don't see the point in selling if you're 80-90% down on an investment. I understand if it was a big position size that people need to jump ship, but with smaller position sizing selling in order to get back 10-20% doesn't make much sense to me. 10-20% is the minimum amount you want to be gaining in trading or investment, not recovering.

A quick analogy for anyone interested, if you bought something at $5, and it goes down to $0.5, yes that's a 90% loss (in value), but if you still believe this coin can go up 100x, then you can still make 10x your investment in the long-term (instead of losing 90%). Likewise if you think it can do 10x, you might be able to get out break-even.

$5 - buy level 10x
$4 - 20% down x8
$3 - 40% down x6
$2.5 - 50% down x5
$2 - 60% down x4
$1 - 80% down x2
$0.5 - 90% down
(xX reflects increase from low to buy level)

Also as relevant is that if the coin goes up just 5x (yes, "just" because a 4-5x gain is common enough in a few weeks or months), then you will only be 50% down on your investment. If you still believe in this project, by buying the same amount again, you will drop your losses to 20-25% under the price, which is basically nothing in the broader picture. Alternatively, if you want to then get back half your money it's a lot better than 10-20%, about 2.5-5x better  :P

A weird example I know, kind of obvious maybe but a lot of traders don't look at things this way. Some of the best gains I ever made were after projects lost 80-90% of their value, baring in mind that all the biggest coins and projects atm all lost 80-90% at one time or another. These things are actually natural.

There were few coins which are below 50% of their value when they were on peak and most of the traders might already have made mistake of buying coins onto those peak. Unfortunately, they have no options left to sell their coin at loss or hold the coins patiently until they see the price struggling somewhat near their buy zones.

This would actually be a lot time consuming and mid range or short range traders would almost stop having profits from the trading markets because they would never be able to buy sell once they buy at the wrong price. This might demotivating a lot of traders but never forget that you can again start a chance to make profits even if you are down by 80%. Use the remaining 20% more wisely and you would see profits for that too.

You must change your technique because you can lose all of your money if you continue, maybe you should switch and go on a better plan. But losing this kind of money and still continue your journey is such an awesome decision because I can say that you are really believing that crypto is a good investment. Do not lose hope and you should buy a better token so that you can really earn. Do not sell tokens when it is on a downfall because you are just losing your money. The downfall is normal since the crypto is passive on its volatility in terms of price. So we should wait. There are better projects that you can support. Knowledge is important before taking risks and do your plans.

If you can actually keep holding and invest into stuff that are both safe but leave a short coming of it to even riskier stuff for just
recovery with some selling on profit, you could somehow get it back. Don't get me wrong, losing 80% of your capital means you have done some horrible trades and its not really easy to make that make, you should have picked stuff that was safer instead of picking stuff this much risky, from that point on forward you have to hope that coins go back to their all time high prices, there is no other possibility to make all of it back.

However, if you just invest that money into bitcoin, you could at least get something back, just last year bitcoin went from 3.5 to 7k, which is what you should be hoping for, maybe it will do it again this year, who knows.

It's always sad to lose money. But we should be careful of what we invest into and the time frame and purpose of investment with alot of patience. There is alot to this, majority of loses in crypto is usually liked to lack of proper research , greed , inexperience , misleading by supposed top guys.

You are very right, so many investors suffered losses, 2017 and 2018 turn around was a very big shock for them and most of them dumped, some might still be holding that is why it is advised for one to invest what would not affect him or her should anything go wrong. Also make sure to buy top notch project so you will be confident of your investment. 

Patience doesn't always help. Sometimes, over time, the coin loses its value and therefore it does not make sense to keep it for a long time. But if you are confident in the coin, then patience is exactly what you need.

confident , pateince wont help at all because you said the coin will still loose its value   but that is if the coin you chose is crappy  .  many crap coins scattered on the market now so we must be aware of what are we picking   .

 patience and confidence is really benficial for a good coins like for example bitcoin  . btc might loose its value but its rare to see btc not recovering     . for the 10 years of existence  , btc still gain some value even on its up and down state   .

what do you mean by survive?  You mean how to live in real life?or you meant how to get out from that loss? Most people already told that invest those money that you can afford to lose but I want to add one more thing.If I were you I definitely hold btc rather than altcoin and I will definitely not sell my bitcoin in loss.I have enough believe what I am holding.If you are holding others shit coin and you don’t have believe sold that get out from that shit coins.                 

If you are trading on spot there is no way to stress out if the coin you invest is a good coin. We are on bear market it is natural to lose when you invested few years ago and hodl until now. We have new trading features now its called "FUTURES" Like binance futures. It is more risky than traditional spot trading,  you might loss all in just minutes but you can also get high profit at the same time. Handling situations is really on us, on futures I can't allow to loss more than 80% we need to set stop loss.

Living on, and what else can be done? Just the other day, the Yobit exchange froze my account, with almost all my funds in cryptocurrencies. Formally, this is not a loss, but given that they have not been responding to tickets for 8 days, the chances that they will return my funds to me are negligible.

Survival is not a big deal if you've lost what you "then invested that you could" afford to lose, but if not, then your survival IRL could have been a lot more struggling than you'd have had if you'd have brought your money out at the right time. Survival in crypto was something I couldn't get, I mean in what reference or regards have you said that? Leave the past and focus on the present, invest in IEOs which were launched at Binance exchange and hodl till BTC halving and see the magic.

Luckly i was never have worst experience such as that but in my view if this is happens to me then there are two choice should be picked and first option is leaving from crypto world because seems crypto not suitable for me  and second options is survive with the rest of funds although already huge loss but indeed this could be hard decissions because i'm sure those who lost 80% from their initial amount of money while invest will be so frustrate

It's not. some times people have made mistake to buy coin at the higher price and this gets dumped easily even to make it reached the bottom price which almost 100% loses. Look at what happened with kin and even it has a very strong company but with just a few decision that has already taken by SEC and it goes to the bottom instantly.

Seeing your coins slowly losing its value are really frustrating but what could be the solution if this happen? If you dont want to lose your capital then keep holding especially if you know that you're holding a good coins. However if you cant stand such situation, sell and quit are one of the option you can do but remember that every investment has risk thus you should be prepared in worst scenario and quitting is never a solution (well atleast for me).

Back then it happened to every single user, right? The Bitcoin prices dropped by 85% during 2018 and many of the altcoins dipped even more. I had Ethereum in my wallet, and it's value went down by more than 90%. Cardano lost 98% of its value and many of the smaller coins became worthless altogether. But then, those who panicked and sold their coins made a mistake.

Finding ones self in this situation can be depressing at times watching your funds diminish every second. If I bought the Bitcoin pump last week and slept today, I will wake up to a huge loss. Every trader or investor should watch out for their investment in this space things can change without any further notice thereby leading to a loss. But when you do incur some losses, cut your loss early enough do not wait forever to cut loss.

Personally, making a cut loss is the best choice to solve it.
I know this is very frustrating. But I can't see the value of my assets continuing to decline month after month.

Booking loss is not a bad idea. In many cases, it is the most intelligent thing to do. However, the investors are not very comfortable at this as no one is happy to sell their assets at a loss. I am someone who had done loss booking in the past (although with a heavy heart) and I would say that I was happy with the outcome. If I had held on to my assets, then I would have incurred complete loss.

You can recover is you belief, you should learn trading for fast recovery and I suggest you use Bitcoin not altcoins for trading, if you can keep buying Bitcoin at bottoms you will rise up fast, the most profitable investment now is bitcoin

It is good to be positive, however, pet me break it for you. Not all coins, especially new altcoins recover or will cover from the bear market. That is why to survive, you must not stat in one project for too long. Expand your horizon and look for other opportunity once you have your profot from one project. If you trust a project, just buyback.

Some people are doing suicide after this and i can understand them

There must be something on your trust, the project to be trusted there should be something on them that you will think that they can bounce back in any bad situation, so far only the top coins in the market has done, from these top coins you already have an idea, what to look for if you are going to add or dump coins that you are holding, you just don't hold coins just for FOMO.

it's hard if we have lost more than 80% of assets, of course psychologically very disturbed. but we may lose capital, but don't lose our confidence. therefore we must be able to analyze the project well, thus accelerating the recovery of our capital. especially if we are good at trading, certainly not a difficult thing to restore it

Losing more than 80 percent of your capital is not really good because it means that you have only 20 percent left of your total capital that you invested to the coin, but they have instances that because market dump even you got a potential coin you will lose more of your capital. They have other ways to survive your money and this is only to hold until the price go back when you bought to get what you spend  in that coins.

If for now it is better to capture bitcoin at the lowest price, because it would be very risky if traders buy at the current price, because now bitcoin is experiencing price declines in all markets which results in traders being afraid to buy in large quantities.

The quality of the coins you hold is what matters not there present value, if you are into crypto space for quick buck then learn trading, day trading is the best choice, if you are in for HODL then spend your time doing lots of research on popular projects and choose wisely

80% loss is not easy to recover especially if you have no plan on how to recover it but I agree with your statement that patience will surely help you to recover or even profit in the long run. As long as you are holding a potential currencies like bitcoin,ethereum and etc. then you still have chance to recover your 80% loss if you are ready to hold for a long term one.

Meaning you need to wait for another bull run in order to sell your investment in either the same price as you bought it or higher to it if the market will continue to obtain a new ATH record.

For me, the question int he OP feels a bit of a loaded one.
Capital for trading and investment shouldn't be a matter of survival, especially with crypto! It should be something of an amount, that based on the trader's income, could be afforded to be lost.

Expecting to always come up with revenues from activities such as trading is an excercice in futility especially when trading new coins. Those cary the most risk as they could go bust very easily. If someone wants to trade regularly with big amounts then markets with the best liquidity and support are the most viable alternative to avert catastrophe like loss of principal capital.

For what reason? Is it because you have a lot of losses? if indeed because of a lot of losses can make it to commit suicide, then it is very silly, because there were also many people who suffered losses but never did anything silly or committed suicide.

in mid-2018, the value of all cryptocurrencies decreased and lasted until the end of the year, and at the beginning of 2019 it was the worst, where BTC fell to $ 3200.Those who still hold their coins from the middle of the year now feel safe, with the exception of those who buy at the end of 2017, while still losing 50% of the value of their assets.

You need to stop and evaluate again your plan, find the mistakes and fix it, if needed change it. Even you only have 20% it will be enough to get your fund back, keep optimist and disciplines. I don't agree with " hold " because it's depend market volatility, chose wrong coin and keep hold it will create new bankrupt person. Every strategy need patience but sometimes you need to change it become " cut loss ".

Any new investor makes mistakes when trading in this market but if you take the time to think during the past period, you will gain a lot of new experience. Personally, I have encountered a similar situation in the past and it was actually the most difficult time for me so in the last 2 years I have become more confident and made a lot of good profits.

I think the best way is to do some day trading,
Take some small profit to gain back what you've lost.
But if you can't do or aren't good at making quick trades then I think the only option that you have is to wait for the market to go high again.
Whenever I do short term trades I would take about 2-5% profit and set up my cut loss at 2-5% too.

You're right! The only way out of this situation is exposure and the presence of top cryptocurrencies. However, I also managed to fly to the moon at the end of 2017 and later saw a fall, and also hold some coins from those times in the hope that they will increase their value. But now I understand that the crypto market has moved to a different state and now new cryptocurrencies may not give a price increase at all, but rather go down. To do this, you need to translate everything that you have and what you don’t believe, for example, in BTC and ETH.

Day trading is very risky, if you allso see the flow of the market, it is really hard to predict the outcome of the market, chances for you to take back your losses is really low. I don't think that this is the best way to take back your losses.
It is better to become patient and hold for the mean time until the time that your holdings will increase in price.

You can survive if you will exchange your holdings into a better altcoin,

Seeing a coin that drops more than 80% is more like losing a chance for that coin to go back or maybe it will take a lot of time to grow back.
In this situation, choosing a better altcoin is the best suitable option we have. We can avoid losing all of our funds and we can still have a chance to take it  back by that new altcoin.

Do not have this dangerous attitude my friend. Hope and belief has nothing to do with gambling (and yes,,, trading and losing 80% capital definitely means you have been gambling). I would stop. Clearly trading is not for OP and there is no shame to admit that. Take the 20% and tell yourself you learned a good lesson and you will recover when BTC goes x5:)

Even in 2019, I lost over 90% of my total investment. But until now I still exist because I tried so hard to earn money. As long as you are not discouraged and give up, you will surely find a way to survive in this market and make a profit from it.

Sell the rest you've got and move on. It's obviously not your thing.

Recovery and development always start from fixing mistakes, so a review of the project and the method we invest is essential in this story. Next, the holding method should be handled according to what you have mentioned, patience can be good but it's not always good in all cases, when we only have 20% of the capital remaining, we should understand that the project we invest is too bad, the rate of continued loss will be higher if we persevere with it, giving up decisively will at least have the opportunity to preserve the remaining capital and seek other opportunities

if we lost in major capital , we should not too worry with this.someday its price will recovery again although not comeback to initial buy price. but different condition if we hold unknown token that have no strong community and just used to dump and pump. as long as we didnt sell asset , its loss not liquidated yet.

Continue to invest with 20% of the remaining capital. But I do not understand why you can lose 80% in this market? You hold shitcoin for a long time and now you want to sell it? In this market, if you are a trader and a smart investor, when you lose 10%, you should cut losses and reinvest in other altcoins.

Many people do not understand that they really didn´t lose anything until they sell their position / coin in a loss. Thats why the best strategy if you already have position that you can sell in 80% loss is HODL. Just relax, if you loose 80% or 100% is pretty same, the mistake was made and only what you can do is pray that situation will get better. In most cases (in crypto) price recover.  ;)

i think there is something wrong why we could loss our 80% capital in market, did we have risk management that will controll our mistake in each transaction. if we did this risk management , i am sure we will loss not more thaan 20% for every single open. we must dicipline in our analisys and dicpline to cut loss when we wrong.

Investors who are cashing out after a 80% crash (~85% from $20k to $3k) have either had weak hands, panicked, do not believe in BTC or haven't been in the game long enough to know there have always been recoveries.

It's quite easy to recover imo from a Bitcoin dump. That is, however, a risk I assume for myself and at any given point my method could turn into an even larger loss. Here is how I would've recovered from the $20k ATH investment:

When the price reached its ATH ($20k), a $100 investment would have been equal to 0.005BTC. After the price had dumped to $3k, 0.005BTC would have been worth $15.
In order to recover, if I had invested $100 at ATH, I would've invested another $100 when the price fell to $3k. That would have brought my average purchase price down from $20k to ~$5k and with today's price my portfolio would be up by more than 75%.
If you had a +80% loss since 2018 and would've invested at $3k, even if you had invested only 50% of the 2018 investment (in my case, $50), you would've brought the average purchase price down to ~$7k. That's still a +30% overall profit at today's BTC price.

I always do this and it has always worked. I do know, however, that sometimes this could turn into something even worse. But it's a risk I take and assume..

Can't disagree honestly. OP can still trade with some test coins that worth literally nothing just to make progress if he is interested in  trading crypto anyway

First, you blamed the emotions of the trader and at the last sentence, you wished "hope" for hopeless trader. The hope is not the case here, controlling the risk and accepting the right decisions will only save the trading account unless the trader has no edge. If the trader has the edge in the crypto markets then it is not bad to make risky trades, without bias it is impossible to bear the market in the long run.

Everyone is losing here particularly when bearish trend hits the market. And you will really lose more if you chose to sell your coins rather than holding it. In times like this, we should keep holding our coins patiently and just wait until the market recovers so we can sell our coins and make profits. Losing 80% of your capital is very frustrating but you need to be more patient and be firm in making decisions so you won't lose more.

usually those traders who have not been able to control their patience still have the potential to panic and sell their assets at low prices and will suffer losses, but for traders who are experienced, they will still hold their assets until the cryptocurrency price at the exchange can recover because there is no other options to wait.

Of course there's always a good options, don't ever dump that asset and instead of being panic always remember to happen to hold it for long term. I know one day altcoins moment will be back, and still I am developing myself towards acquiring confidence on every circumstances that will come at any moment. However, surviving isn't easy but somehow it's rewarding once you'll able to surpass all of it.

When you lose 80% of your portfolio, then you need to calm down, because the foundation of your investment is wrong.

Do not just invest because a token has reached its bottom price.
Invest because you see a future catalyst set aside by the project team that is capable to push the price of the token higher up in a very near future (2 weeks to 4 months).

Sometimes, some altcoins reach the bottom only to get delisted, so Always DYOR.

It doesn't matter if you are in it for the long term when you are down 80% on your portfolio, lets be real the crypto market is not as active and as bullish as it used to be, it is still bullish compared to all other stuff like stocks and so forth but it is not going to help you get that much money back too quickly, if you bought bitcoin in 2017 and waited until $3k and didn't sell, now you are at $9k which is of course better than the bottom but 50%+ lost from the top as well.

There is only way to get out of such a situation and that is constantly buying, if you keep buying bitcoin every month when you get your pay check (even a small amount) you will end up dropping the average of buy price and you will get a lot more profit a lot more quickly thanks to that.

Why you invest that money that you can not afford to lose. That's not the proper way of trading. The crypto market is a very unpredictable place so you should be careful when investing. If your holding loses 80% of its value then you should hold them more if the project is developing. There is a chance that it will rise again and also there is no points of selling that coin anymore. If it's a dead project then you should sell what remains.

Having a portfolio decline of more than 80% is sure to cause depression and panic. But we also have to analyze the cause of the decline in the value of the investment, whether because of the performance of the coin or token or indeed because of the overall cryptocurrency market conditions. If we hold coins that have large liquidity and are traded in large exchangers and have good products, I think what is needed is patience waiting for the market to recover

I have got a bit lost like you in the past but i just bet all of my remaining money to the new coins and i have got a bis surprise because i can return my lost. If you will never take an extreme decision to your investment and you will never recover your money back again. You must take something that very risky and gamble with it

There is other way but to just hold it, you are not alone with that problem, I also have a lot of coins which only holds 10% of its value and they have become a shitcoins in my wallet now. However, it's not wise to just dump it and access that I lose, I am still optimistic that it will rise in the long run so I'll hold it no matter what.

Also, you need to continue monitoring the project so you'll get an updated information, and as long as its not dead on development, you'll remain optimistic despite the struggle.

These are some ways to survive your loss

1. Reset your investment or your allocation - try to start again, cut your losses and make a better choice this time.
2. Avoid making rush decisions - always keep your cool, a clear mind can solve every situation.
3. Do leverage/margin trading - slowly increase your allocation fund.
4. Analyze your holdings/investment - see if you can find a valid reason to keep holding your investment.
5. Keep calm - the same as number 2, keeping your calm will help you to avoid losing.

if you have lost so much, there are only two choices left to wait until the market recovers and hope that the price rises again.
or you sell all your assets with the value of 20% and try to invest in new coins, both of these methods are just as risky as you just decide which one you want to use.

Not too early in year 2017, I become interested to earn some crypto. I did not buy any single coin. I just earned coins through bounties. During that time, there are less scams and I say the payment is really worth it. In short, yes I earned big easily. But in 2018, I am waiting for the price of btc to reached 20K$ before I convert. But the sad thing is, it did not reach 20K$ and keeps moving down. It hurts. I lose. But at least I just lose what I have earned. I did not lose any capital.
Now in order to survive, I am saving the remaining cryptos I have continue earn cryptos while waiting for the price to soar up high.

There are many ways to survive any crisis.

The main thing that you should understand is that any problem is solvable and have a desire to solve it.
Having realized this fact, you will be able to assess your current state of affairs and condition, as well as outline the starting point for the restoration of your capital.
Read the monographs of billionaires who lost everything in their lives and restored again. Perhaps this will open you up to some possibilities.

In my own opinion, it is very to keep up just to survive if you lose more than 20% of your capital because there is still a chanve that you could lose a money again, that is why for you to survive you should not make reckless decisions, always keep calm, and analyze your trades or investment for you to have a successful income.

Yes, the cryptocurrency market is unpredictable and we all just learn from it. There has never been such a long period of decline in the cryptocurrency market after such a significant increase in prices as it was by the end of 2017. Also, it was not yet such that Bitcoin significantly increased in price, and altcoins did not react to this. Therefore, it is not surprising that many who invested in this period suffered significant losses. Therefore, first of all, you should not invest significant funds for cryptocurrency for you. If you made a mistake with investing, you do not need to make hasty decisions. It is necessary to study projects where money has been invested, as well as the market as a whole. Well, it seems that cryptocurrency graphs and analogies do not always work.

however, the goal is to invest in the right assets. so, when you experience a loss, you need to sell your assets and choose other assets that are more appropriate. Well, it's just that the disadvantages of this are, we don't know which assets are really right. for example, I held bitcoin and ethereum because I thought the potential was big this year, but the potential for the first coins to pump was BCH and BSV. Well, I think that's a good tip, it's just hard to choose the right asset.

Its not easy as we think when we lost 80% of our capital from investing on cryptos but as you said past can't be changed so user can keep on holding until bull run begins or can try lending or trading options which help to generate some money which can help to cover the loss a bit.

Keep calm and lend  ;D

You don't have to really "not be able to afford" in order to feel upset about losing 80% of your portfolio because that is just upsetting even if it was just %1 of all your money. Even if you had a million dollar house and a 200k car and 100k a year salary so forth, you would still be sad about losing %80 of your 100 dollar crypto investment.

For some people of course it is definitely losing a lot of money and they are sad because they lost very important amount of money for them but that doesn't "have to be" like that. You can still be sad that you are wrong and didn't get it right. Same with me when gambling, I gamble very little and I wouldn't mind losing them but not getting it right is a bad feeling.

Nothing you can do once you lost almost 80% of your capital aside from starting from scratch and use your 20% remaining funds to invest to a well establish or new, up and coming project with so much potential which I think is hard find in moment of time though and hit a jackpot and recovered to start all over again.

If it’s still early and you haven’t lost much, like in the case of a long term investor or trader, what you will have to do is to pull out the money to cut your loss and save yourself from further loss. They do say that sometimes holding on can do more harm that letting go.

There are times the price will drop and it’s going to take a long time for you to recover the amount of money you lost, so these are what you check. If you have a strong determination to take whatever risk that comes your way, then you should go ahead and have patience and see what next follows as long as you know that your analysis is accurate.

This is a bad experience. A lot of people are lose their money like you and including me. My experience is very bad. I lost about 90% + of the funds investing in shitcoin.  Which is the biggest mistake of my life. The mistake is when 20-30% was down, it should have been sold that time but I'm missed that opportunity. Now there is a way to invest the funds you have left in a good project. Maybe your loss will cover something.

You don't lose anything as long as you don't sell your bitcoin. You are talking about the downfall that took place back at the end of 2018, right? Then, yeah if you kept on holding it and waited till today. You wouldn't have made this much of a loss. Patience is the key over here. The price is crashing, not the the number of coins you are holding. Instead of selling it back then, if you would have bought more during the dip, you would have made more than 120% of profit.

every coin will get time to go up, except shitcoin but if you hodl shitcoin you must quickly sell it before shitcoin price falls again because traders will not buy shitcoin and shitcoin prices will not go up

I like this one. I also believe that if you wanted to survive in this kind of market you should have patience first because market it unpredictable we never know when it will make a move whether to pump or dip. One tips is that don't waste your time and money on investing on such shitcoins that has no future but rather choose those coin who are placed at the top coz they'll surely give a good profit.

Maybe the only way to survive is to learn from your mistakes and failures. Some success goes through a lot of trial and errors, lots of time learning, and lots of failures before they learn the exact recipe of success , may be it on trading or investing.

It seems to me that you need at least 2 years of experience trading in the cryptocurrency market in order to claim profit, even when the market falls.

year does not matter because i see someone can learn fast enough or those who are called gifted which have advance thinking   but i think its  still not possible to earn when the market is falling because there is no way to sell your coins for profit  . when the market falls only a trader can do is to wait and continue hodling  till the marke recovers again   . learning from past mistakes is only a way to avoid future mistakes or cant avoid at all but itll only improve you   ,  on the time that your on actual critical scenario i think the only way to survive is iether you sell or continue hodling depending on the coin you hold  .

The possibility of a man to survive such drastic lose from his or her investment will be a more difficult task to carry out in order to achieve or gain back their lost funds. 80% of capital lose is disheartening to me, although the only reason behind getting the lost percentage back is for the victim to invest into a real project which has a real world case use. With this, the victim can start getting back some good percent from this real  investment, with time the victim will get back all the loose funds from these investment platforms. But the victim must be more careful with scam projects around the industry or cryptocurrency.

Always be ready to change your shit coin when you find out. Top coin also dump in last year but you should clam down with this coin, those are legit coin. For shit coin holding my hundreds dollar turn out only cents. All coin isn't good for hold and you should consider few loses. Another way is to invest after coin price is dump in exchange

If we've been stuck in a loss, I think there's not much we can do. Maybe we should be patient and keep analyzing. The decision to sell coins when market conditions declined is very difficult. It happened to me that I also lost a lot of money.

However, I try to be patient and until now some altcoins still I Hold. Doing a trade does require a good ability and if we are not professional will definitely have a lot of problems.

First of you shouldn't have invested more than what you afford to lose so that it will not affect your lifestyle and most importantly your peace.

Secondly ok you are already invested so just do some research on what coins you are invested in and why do you invest.?
If you are invested in altcoin just ask yourself did the coin achieved what did they promised for and analyze the reason for the price drop the overall market is not good because BTC dropped from 20k to 3k so it's natural every coin will follow it. So if the token or coin you have invested is not performing from the project development side then close your position on it and consider investing in some other coins.

Now what you can do is invest the remaining 20% in the quality coins or simply in BTC in the bull run, you can easily convert that remaining 20 % to more than what you had before.

use the remaining 20% ​​to turn things around. if yesterday had lost 80% of total capital, then we have gained experience or at least the current market trends. then what we have to do is create our own momentum by analyzing how the trend before that, then we determine whether all crypto in the market experience the same thing or not? if so, then the chances of us getting profit in the near future are slim. so, if it's not possible to re-enter the crypto market, then use the remaining 20% ​​for others.

That's too complicated for non experience traders, it will take a lot of knowledge to grow the remaining amount to get back your initial capital.
Some of us would hold for long term here, so that means we should wait at the right timing to sell, those coins we hold even if they are down at 80% does not mean they don't have a future or they will not bounce back anymore, look at ETH, it's down big time but people are still betting on its future.

If the estimated loss has reached 80% it is better to just hold it.  That is one of the advantages of a strategy where you use the funds that you have specialized for trading or investing with cryptocurrency, the risk is great if you use regular funds for your daily needs.  Remember that your mentality and patience are tested when an analysis is missed.  Always prepare plan B and stop-loss strategies.  Of course, don't bet your funds on new projects that are convincing, choose ieo in Binance or Huobi if you want, or it's better to choose bitcoin or strong altcoin.

Yes, calmness is very important now. Emotional and impulsive people have nothing to do here. Especially if you are engaged in trading, your nerves should be very strong.

in my opinion even though they are experienced in trading, they will also suffer losses because we will not continue to benefit because market movements are difficult to guess, so the OP is asking for tips so he can manage the rest of his money

Well if you didn't able to cut loss and get out
You have 2 choice left

1) If you believe the coins will perform in long run, just HODL it
2) Else if you think it is not moving anywhere, its better to actually sell the coin cut loss and get back your capital

I understand you. But my weak mentality always made me afraid of losing coin value hour by hour, and then I sold my coin as fast as possible to advoid the big losses  :'(

I agree with your perception, i think you should take the risk of holding your coins and give a 100 percent of your trust for it to increase and regain what you've lose. However it migjt not be effectively working anytime but you have to take the risk for your lose.

Patience is the main factor - that's for sure. Fighting your greed and fears is another part. It's quite difficult to fight FOMO and FUD sometimes when everybody around is on panic :)

If I already lost 80% of my capital then there is no need quitting at this time. I will have to hodl till forever, if the whole market goes to shit so be it, if not then one day I will be able recoup most of my capital.

That would be the best option, but you need to be very patient in the long run which is very hard, since getting back what you have lost will take a lot of time holding your investment.

There is also another option, which is to exchange your investment into other altcoin that you can use to take back that losses.

Better to cut lost when looking our coin assets never growing up to higher price, but when checking have bigger chance back to higher price is best way for waiting until price recovery and back to higher again, most wondering when looking many coin become shit and die without raise to higher price.

As long as you're keeping the coin on you portfolio and not selling it, you're still able to recover and make a profit from it. But if you have already sold it at loss, accept it that you have already sold it and cut the future possible loss. In crypto, the fainted hearts need to become stronger and if this isn't for you, anticipation will come to you easily in negative form. I've held for years and even after the bull run, I've experienced loss and profit and still kicking through this roller coaster ride.

Risk assesment is indeed crucial. If predicting which one to pump is easy then loss of investment will be invalidated provided with the success rate we knew. Most coins on the market posses risk even though they are what we called major or blue chips gems.

Even ethereum that tops the altcoin can also tremble and create a huge surge. It's always depend on the traders and how they are utilizing their knowledge but even with skills have also failed sometime in this volatile market. So better advise is to playsafe when doing trading cause 80 loss isnt funny and people who are keep losing should already think twice if their gambling without any strategy.

If they were doing something wrong and they will actually get the loss from the trade. The market is not so difficult to be followed but the difficult thing is about how to make people being not so greedy to expect a huge profit from their trade when they have a chance to take their profit from the market.

Well, the ironic part in the market that we have is that there is really no play safe here. The fact that you hold ETH or whatsoever blue chips you're pertaining regardless of their integrity and reputation it's still considered as a dangerous play. It's not a strange condition since it's also happening in stock market. That's why as an investors wethere in altcoins/crypto/whatever market you should be really a risk taker and you must always ride the market in favorable of you otherwise recovering could be difficult to be acquired in the future.

The incident two years ago made many investors sad that it caused a very high decline in value in all cryptos. it is a story of the past. Yhinking of reversing all of these portfolios is very difficult, especially since there isn't a good pump this year that can make huge profits in late 2017.

One that can survive is to believe in your portfolio, because it can increase your enthusiasm in the crypto industry. Because I remember a lot of people said that they would leave the crypto industry when they were doing cutloss.

When the value of our portfolio dropped by more than 80%, I thought everyone would panic. But panic does not solve the problem and I think we should do more research about the tokens or coins to hold. We have to sort out the tokens that are feasible for the long term and for the short term. Cut loss may be the last choice on tokens that do not have large liquidity

How to survive is
1. What made you in ure such loss?
2. What lessons did you learn from an 80% capital loss?
3. What measures are you taking to avoid a repeat.
Without learning why we incited a loss we cannot solve it, also there's need for a new strategy to avoid such loss in the future.

Well, I agree on that manner of keeping calm despite of experiencing loss because having panic will not help you at all and might get you into trouble of selling your coins in a low price just to save yourself from a great loss and if that happens, you cannot already get a chance to win back your loss since you have already given up the fight and once you have found that the certain coin you have sold turns out to bounce back from a great loss, then you will just feel regretful about that. So despite of what is happening, we must need to remain calm and keep our patience not to make any decisions that is driven by our emotions to avoid doing regretful things. Any cryptocurrency in the market can do have a chance to win back their losses and only time can tell when so be patient enough and wait until such time happen.

Well you learn from this and next time you won't invest into coins who are near ATH or just started to go down because as we saw last year we had a lot of bottoms for altcoins and even Bitcoin so you kinda need patience with cryptocurrencies and don't invest what you cannot afford to lose. All you can do now its hold I suppose instead of going out at this lose and maybe miss a chance for your current holding to go up.

One behaviour that i would entreat every crypto investor or trader has is courage and patience. Cryptocurrencies are volatile and everybody knows that but it's incumbent on the trader or investor to put this in practice and not sell your coins when they dump in price especially when they are of good projects. But if you realize that the project is not doing too well then you can sell of your bags to reduce the cost.
Investing in masternodes is also very lucrative, maybe investors in here can star looking at that as well.

Very wrong strategy if they keep on buying during the coins pump. It's nearly impossible that they can recover the capital they've used for buying that coin if it just came from its ath and it's just a coin that nobody else is interested with.
Patience is a must, the known quote about building Rome is applicable and the Nagasaki bomb pertains to losing quickly.

Before you go and enter this market make sure that you have a lots of patience, the problem with people who did not study the industry first just invest without pure knowledge, it's  difficult to convince them to keep holding as the entire market got a bad market movements and this loss is really intimidating to anyone who are holding huge assets.

I only regret it a little because I believe too much in predictions when 2018 bullrun will still occur, and finally at the end of the year ATL occurs in crypto. And from now on I start to believe in the tokens that I hold because someday it will definitely touch ATH again or at least provide enough ROI for me.

definetely as long as our assets were good project i am sure its price will recovery when crypto market going back. not only minor coins, even major coin such as bitcoin ethereum litecoin and many other drop alot till its value 10% left from all time high. many traders have wrong analisys about 2018, most of them this year will continue bullish trend but unfortunately many bad news from several government that caused crypto market crashes.

Holding would be the only way in order to survive from the losses. Choosing to sell at this moment will permanently cut down the loss as well as the opportunity to again earn profit. To lessen your worry, be practical, observe that the amount of Bitcoin is still the same and it is just the market price which is low at this moment. Once the uptrend occur, same thing could happen to your holdings. You may also consider investing at this moment because the price is still low, which is a good opportunity to invest, given that there is an anticipated occurence of halving, believed to again trigger a bullish run.
Many people felt the same way. Such happening simply proved that expecting too much is not a good thing especially int this industry. Many people expected that the increase will be continuous and that the price will just keep on increasing, at that moment. But when correction occured, many are filled with regrets, some even quit because the market price was 'down' for more than a year, and it was just this year that it again showed signs of recovery.

We have the same belief but I never regret anything because I still believe that the altcoins market will arrive and we will see a new ATH of the coins we are holding, the journey would not be easy, it may take time but definitely as long as you are following the projects you are investing and you are confident they are still doing their job, you don't have to worry then as for sure they'll bounce back at the right timing.

It is something we need to use our common sense and the fact that crypto isn't a safe investment, we better have to think good as well and take action before it is going late. Thus, if we think that we are not gaining at this particular coin, why not of giving it up and find another one which we either see that it has a huge potential to grow. And that makes us help to save from losing our funds.

That's the right thing to do if you don't trust anymore that you'll survive holding for long.
Everyday is an opportunity for us to correct our mistake and try to venture again, so let's find the right timing to do it.

Losing 80% of your investment is not losing everything, you still have a small percentage left that you can grow, but of course just try your best as there is no assurance that you'll be successful with it since everything is just gambling, we could be right or wrong.

Believing in the single project is the worst feeling I know, even if I don't put all the money in the failure of the carefully chosen project makes me feel depressed. The bull market will be in crypto space too but only those who wait patiently will take advantage of the high prices. The final movement of the bear market trend will correlate sooner or later, the opposite of trend can change the opinion of the disbelieved investors.

In my opinion, one way to survive when you lose 80% of your capital is to invest in another altcoin that has good potential for returning capital that you lost before. the most important thing is that we must not despair disat experience loss but must be enthusiastic and optimistic to be able to benefit in the future.

this is totally wrong when we loss our money till 80% . i am thinking did we manage our risk our not, as investors we must protect our money and cut loss also involved in this. many people thinking when price already drop alot price will recover soon so they hold their asset, and finally float till 80%. we should not do this , always dicipline while market move againts our direction by cut loss.

it looks like if we lose up to 80% of our money in the market it means that there is no careful planning for investments made. I made a plan for selling prices for profit and selling prices to cut losses when a decline occurred. and when that happens then I have to be ready to play my money again in other assets when there is a decline.

80% is just too much it's hard to recover from that you only lose that percentage if you invested in a shitcoin, if you invested in top coins in the market there is no way you are going to lose that percentage, the only people who lose that huge percentage are those who invested in ICO, because ICO is not profitable anymore.

If you want to bounce back then never give up and continue to invest until your capital will return 100%, failures that used to be not repeated again then you should choose a nicer altcoin do not survive with one coin Because it can make you fail to retain capital, now choose a new way for the capital to be withdrawn. 

Maybe because I was too greedy when I was hoping for a quick profit and eventually I lost a lot of money. But after seeing some people here who still have high hopes on altcoin, I'm more convinced if it's true altcoin season will return again like in previous years.

I don't think there is someone you can blame on.you just have to get around it. What you can do on the remaining capital is if the coins are still trading analyse them,the team and the progress made by them last year and decide if you wanna sell them or leave them forever on hope more than expectations.

Selling tokens whose prices dropped more than 80% in my opinion is an act of panic that can bring greater losses. If the tokens or coins we have are tokens that have a large market cap value, I think we need to be patient and this is different from shitcoin that does not have use cases

Pretty terrible if the assets are lost 80% on one coin that you hold. I can be stressed if I lose 80% of money. Now the solution to bounce back from adversity is by investing money in some coins that have a good future, like ETH or bnb.

- For those who are familiar with the account fire situation when playing trading margin, this story is too normal but for those who are just looking for a feeling of investment, depression and mental collapse are the first things I think about in this story, this is a difficult time and if we falter and don't face, we won't have a chance to turn around. After we can glide over this failure, we have more diverse and positive perspectives, a new goal, a new plan, full recovery of capital is possible as long as we make efforts and do not give up

It's not a good feeling yo experience and usually people do the unimaginable things to themselves especially in scenarios of huge Investment. There nothing anyone can do but to accept the loss and move on. And simply try to turn the little that is left to big. I have a believe that whatever you believe can make you can mar you. So when it Mar's you, then you should be able to recover from it your losses. The most important thing is to be careful of Investing only what you are willing to lose.

This question is not just about losing money. This is a question of how people experience personal falls, personal crises, personal failures.
Most people have experienced personal crises since childhood that they cannot cope with, they are haunted by constant nervousness, and insecurity in themselves and in their own strengths.

Therefore, the answer to your question lies deep in the depths of the human psyche. Indeed, if a billionaire loses all his capital, he will still have knowledge and skills on how to earn this capital in a new way.
It all depends on whether you believe in your strength or not, you have enough skills to make this money again or not.
If your capital came to you in an easy way, then most likely you would not have kept it anyway.

After reading your content, I feel bad that you lost a lot of money by trading / investing. I think you haven't invested/traded in any of the Potential projects. Before each trade, you will need to research how the coins are currently operating in the Cryptocurrency. You have other ways to settle your money and this is only to hold until the price go back when you bought to get what you spend in that coins. Then you can be of benefit, otherwise no.

Business profit and loss will be. Sometimes you will get a lot of money and sometimes you will lose a lot of money. So don't be disappointed. You need to do good research,  need patience and then need to try again on a good project. Then success will come.

It is best to start with little fund if you are just a learner. Most times, learners are at the receiving end, particularly the greedy ones among them. if an expert should trade or invest in a coin and sees that he is about to or already losing before it becomes serious, he would find a way to withdraw and then wait for a better point to buyback.
Striking balance is very important. You should also have some funds in reserve. Your reserve can help to cushion the effect of any loss that might be encountered in future.

I once lost 80% of the capital I invested in the ICO, but at that time I remained calm and tried to return the capital by doing daily trading, because my hard work in conducting research projects finally only took about 4 months to lose my capital. can come back

Losing more than 80% of capital that is difficult to survive unless if your are patient and can hold for years until it will full recover. I experienced a huge lost  when the market was bearish and I can't hold anymore I just sold my cryptos. If I keep hold until now I'm still in lost.

My suggestion is to avoid the most common mistake, which is doubling down.

You must consider all the available options every time you invest and people tend to focus on the option they have already chosen before (which is inherently wrong)  ;)

In this coin market, if you are not a smart trader and a smart investor, when you lose 80% of your cap , you should cut losses and say good by to the market . Sell the rest you've in your wallet get and move on because it's obviously not your thing to stay with . This places need research , patience and knowledge of trading that how the market act on various situation , if you have these 3 element you didn't lose 80% of your Capital !!!

Losing 80% of your capital is like losing everything, many will quit when they find themselves in this type of situation but only the strong will stay, it's better to invest the remaining 20% on bitcoin, doing so you have the chances of regaining your loss soon

So have you take back the losses by doing daytrading?i don't think that
 is more appropriate to do when losing
 from those shit ICO investing because for me?instead of DayTrading i would rather to Gamble the money because that's
 only remaining 20% and it is hard to gather the 80% losses just like that.
But if you did Get it back and profit
 more?then i may say You are a really good in trading in which the riskiest place here in Crypto Market.

There is still a chance to start over. In 2018 I lost over 90% of my assets, everything seemed to be over but I still didn't give up. Continue to work hard and seek profit, staying away from the bullshit altcoins in this market. That's the way I still exist to this day

In the first place, avoiding to lose up to 80% of your portfolio is important, prevention is better than cure they say. If your stop loss is always intact, then you can't lose more than 10% of your entire portfolio at a go. Mind you, I mean setting stop loss to sell to a stable coin like USDT. However, if up to 80% of one's portfolio drops due to dip, best way out is to hold but that's if you are not holding a dead coin. By dead coin i mean coins belonging to abandoned projects after team has cashout. Let's be very careful, risk management is vital.

First of all, nothing can be done if you've invested in shitcoins. If your token has lost 80% of its value, then the most intelligent thing to do would be to make an exit after booking losses. The ICO boom of 2017 was a short lived bubble. It is not going to repeat ever again. If you book the losses now, then you may recuperate some of your investment. But I agree that it can be a very difficult thing to do.

As long as you don't lose 100%, I believe you can build everything back. I have seen a lot of people lose 70 to 80% in this market, but they have cut it and invested in other projects. Until now they have made more profits than before and they never make that mistake again

Losing 80% of your capital is huge enough to get an heartbreak, so firstly you need to be stabilized, and calm down.
After which you figure out your mistakes, what went wrong, do your research about a possible solution; then start again, you will win

If you lose more than 80% of your Capital? surely gonna have a hard time trying to survive after a big loss .This time, you must be really studying / research  on some coin that you are going to invest again to return from it . IF you Pick the right coin and invest in it which will be worth selling on time and  and reap some benefit from it .

if you have lost so much, there is no other option but to gamble, or it will take you a long time to get it back.
except that you know exactly when to buy and sell at the right time, otherwise it will worsen your balance.
or you can do a future trading, that give a big profit also risk too, because it very risky, you can lose all your funds in a minute or second.

Well one should be then ready to lose everything if someone is choosing to gamble . If they can sustain even if they lose remaining 20% in gambling then it is fine as that risk if turn positive can help in making some money else with remaining 20% one should be waiting for market to fall and buy only the top coins during dips and keep booing profits when market rebounces.

If you lose 80% of assets / capital owned, we only need to be patient waiting for the price increase on the coins we invest in and if we do have more capital then start trading on other coins to recover our lost capital

It is very difficult to recover after this amount of damage. In this situation you needs to be mentally tough too. After that, if you have made that investment in a solid project which gives you a chance to return to your previous position, then you can wait some period time with patience. If recovery possible that's great but if not, then the rest of the capital will have to be invested in a top project.

Change your mind first. When you have a loss, don't think that you have lost in the real thing because your loss has not yet become a reality, you do not sell it then you will not experience a loss.

But if you invest using hot money, you will not be able to have the thought as above because you have been wrong in fundamental trading, you must use cold cash for trading or investment, if you violate these principles then you are a fool.

Exactly, what we need to do is to avoid by all means possible to lose 80% of our capital and this is only possible if you have very strong money management skills, this is why it is important to never invest all of your capital in one single coin, just think about it just to recover your money now you have to earn five times your current capital and that is just to breakeven and it doesn't matter how good you think you are as a trader or as an investor that is very difficult to do, most likely at that point an investor under those circumstances is going to get desperate and lose the rest of his money instead of recovering the capital that he has lost.

And someone once adviced me not to sell at loss. This Cryptocurrency is about doing research to pick a good coin, as you said, one may still sell and jump into another treading on still loss, I once sold a coin at loss, bought an IEO upon listing and still lost more. Patient is really the key in crypto. I have come to realise one do not know it all. Personal research matters than relying on FUD or FOMO

if you follow an emotional attitude on the basis of losing previous money, it is not the right decision. I mean to cover losses in a hurry. You need to calm your heart first and just start doing things that are profitable to cover the losses in the past.

Believe and patient are the main thing in crypto.  Although it is so simple but it works.  Many people that unconfident and get rush in deciding their choice in crypto,  they will get loss everything.  Just examine and find the potential coin.  Do not be lazy to get knowledge. It will always help you. 

Agree that money management is the most important thing in investing. Every investment carries risks as well as cryptocurrency and to reduce the high risk, I think we should not only invest in one coin, we also invest in other coins that have large liquidity and are actively traded in large exchangers

If you have lost more than half your assets, then stop and find out the reason why you fail in this market because if you do not realize that, investing in this market will only make you lose a lot of money and not bring any profit. I have stayed in this market for a very long time and have a lot of experience to watch out for when the market suddenly drops.

My views for survive, after loose your money. I advised you, choose valuable  & read past history of the projects. Invest only those  projects  who are new started, short periods investment would  be profitable in future.

That is not really a bad strategy but that can only be applied when you are investing in good coins which you know will recover if given enough time, but when you invest in an ico or an ieo as many people do that is not really an option because if you keep holding your coins when the price is going down there is a very high chance that you are going to lose the rest of your money as the coin in which you invested crashes all the way down to zero.

If you have already lost 80% of the capital, of course you have 20% left, then you have to rack your brain for more profit and I think it has to start again because we also have to survive with the remaining money, so it's better to follow a few campaigns to get capital back so we can invest with initial capital, but we must be careful again and learn from before because if you repeat things like that it will be more difficult to get up again.

A very simple view, what you should know is when someone experiences a loss of money in crypto investment, then he tends to drop and lose his enthusiasm, because it is not easy to bounce back after losing, because it takes the right process and time to get back into the investment new, and investing in a new project is also very risky to lose, because new projects are very difficult to succeed now, even if the person is doing it in the short term.

Patrice you said it's really not easy but the best solution, come to think of it, what if it's a shit coin that team dumped on investors and one keeps holding, it will definitely keep dumping, it's really not that easy to stand back and the fear of jumping into another coin despite its potential may really not be an easy one, this space is filled with ups and downs so what ever that comes should be accepted a d it's also good to buy a good coin.

This isn't a better way to trade. In trading, we have to take a loss to be what it is, trying to fight back by maybe gambling will hurt more. The best way to treat a loss is to let it go because another trade  time of trade can be better. A newbie and inexperienced trader tries to fight market that can swallow as much big as the account is, so there isn't any profit that will come from gambling in trade.

Remember the golden rule of trading, until you sell you don´t have loss. So, in the worst times just HODL and if you have more money to spend, then invest, you reduce your potential loss and while price goes up, you are in bigger profit.   ;)

I agree to the point that even if someone got into a coin at high prices he should keep on hodling because accepting such a big loss is not feasible idea, especially if you think that the coins you are holding are good and team is actively working on team then prices will grow during next bull run it is just a matter of time when we see bulls back in the market.

Have you been seeing there are so many good coins that have dumped even if these coins have very good fundamental? That will not give a lot of guarantee. If you have bought such coin at a higher price and when it goes down and you will lose a lot of your coins or money in a very short time. without a chance for you to sell your chunks

If you have experienced losses in the past and even lost 80% of your funds, then my advice is you need to stop and start again when you recover.

Holding would be great idea to make that money back but if you do nothing but just holding you are going to wait too long to make it back, especially if you lost %80 of your capital it will become even harder to actually climb that back straight up.

Just buy more, I know it is not going to make sense to go into something that lost that much money, you would think that why would I want to buy something that made me lose so much money, however one thing is for sure, if we are talking about a good coin that has a chance to comeback, that means you should buy from bottom as much as you can and eventually when it goes up you will be profiting from it. That may not be quick but at least it will be quicker than just keeping it and waiting for it to go back up.

Proper preparation and analysis with any project to support, if things don't work out with your position and you already lose huge amount of money in terms of current value with fiat pairs be reminded with how you plan things before investing your money. If you are willing to take long term journey keeping your assets as it is also considerable but if you are willing to take another risk of switching to another project and to try some luck, make sure to review and reassess the situations.

I think that once you have lost 80% of your capital the first step should be to revaluate your strategy to try to understand how you got to that point? Because if you do not do that then it doesn't matter what kind of strategy you try to pursue most likely you're going to repeat the same mistakes again and you will lose your remaining capital, however even if you find the reason of why you lost most of your capital the truth is that just to recover the money that you have lost it will take an enormous amount of effort and several years of taking the right decision all the time which is something not easy at all.

it reminded me of a youtube channel that talks about cryptocurrencies, the guy from the channel two years ago said he bought ETH for the price of 0.09 BTC and that in a few years (I think he spoke in two years) the price of ETH it would be too high. man I keep thinking how he must be taking this loss, he continues with his channel, but he doesn't have many followers. That high optimism that people have can be a big problem



I only see bitcoin as a good currency to hold for the long term


I hope that your advice be heard by many people

That was totally true. Whenever we do investment whether in crypto or in stock market, we must always think that we will just invest the amount that we can only afford to loose because in investment there are risks that must be taken before coming up into a success. It does not mean that when you have invested a large amount of money you will going to gain large profit, it still depends upon the potential of the coin or project you have invested with to get your money working into earning. Coins seems to be safe at the first time you have handled it but we do not hold time which caters changes so unexpected things can really happen so better take the low risk by investing only what you can afford so that you can still be able to recover yourself if ever an investment you made have failed but do not loose hope instead look for another better opportunities because there are lots of opportunities that can be found in the industry we are all have been working with.

Stopping does not help at all to the question, OP only lose 80% of his capital, he does not lose everything yet, so that 20% can still be use to recover what he has lose. Well, holding for long term would not help anymore as it will take a lot of time, the only way is just for OP to learn how to effective do trading especially day trading, just like gambling he can easily grow his money if he is lucky and maybe good enough.

MAybe His advice is useful in that matter because OP did already lose 80% so better take a rest for a while and study the market more first.

From this point he will find more knowledge to find valuable and potential currency to invest so the possibilities of losing will make less in this part.
We knew how hard to day trade so he will be needing more time to learn,He losses because of lack on knowledge to make trading and that is the thing he need to realized first,

I agree with you, the first thing to do after losing more than half of your trading amount should be checking what went wrong! If a coins drops so hard (and here we shouldn't make a mistake and identify as same all coins) maybe it will drop even more, and maybe that coin will never recover! Bitcoin (maybe ethereum, dash, and couple others) is the coin you need to trade with, and if the price drops so hard, move that coins to wallet and be ready to wait a year or two before you see the price recovered!
Not every coin is good for trading, especially not for long run holding, it's why bitcoin is the best coin for trading, even if it drops you can keep it and wait for recovery! You can't do that with every coin!

It's not advisable to hold onto pass mistakes or losses encountered during life's journey. If you are focused and you such believe that you'll make earns from crypto, you will surely see it coming through. Trust, be patient and don't be distracted or discouraged from the negative influence of the past losses

You still have 20% of your assets, so you can start over. But if you have lost 80% of your assets in this market, it is a huge failure. There needs to be an important lesson from that loss, and avoid letting it continue in the future

80% is a big loss no matter how we try to push it. But it isn't the end of the world especially if your capital fund gain mostly comes from crypto. I have no doubt of that person can easily recover back if he could earn a good amount of crypto to be his funds.

Start with learning how to invest at the right timing, per OP's statement he was talking about early 2018 where the market is bullish, most of the altcoins I guess had their ATH last January 2018 while bitcoin had its ATH last December 2017. So the hype is really big time that time, new investors fall for the FOMO, they invested and think the price will skyrocket even more but they are wrong as the moment the whales start to cash out by dumping, the panic will begin.

maybe OP just learn to buy at dip instead of of buying at peak.

And the saddest part is that such huge losses could also be avoided by checking your strategy before deploying it in the market but very few people do that, they begin to trade without knowing if the strategy that they are using generates profits, and the results can be very surprising a strategy that seems great when you first look at it could be a strategy that loses money, and yet one strategy that could be extremely simple to trade and that may not seem like enough to generate profits in the markets turns out to be a great moneymaker.

In investment into cryptocurrency there is a popular saying that goes like this: "be rest assured to invest what you can afford to lose in the process". There has been many people who have been doing  investment without their understanding of the ways the investment works, investment in bitcoin is such that need long-term Patten and not the short-term. If you're losing your investment with 80% investment funds, is expected that you take such investment into a long-term for you to gain  back the lost profits.

You are already a survivor if you've invested what you can afford to lose, in any investment market losing is inevitable, it is from losing we matured as an investors, once we matured we can survive any condition in the market, but in any situation only invest what you can afford to lose.

The choice is yours, 80% ain't something you can just forget and move on from, even if I have to tell you to invest that money on any project we don't know what will happen, but if Bitcoin can go down alot like what happened when Cov-19 took over then it will be an opportunity to recover your money

In fact when we decide to choose a good business, don't speculate on that. In the bear market, everyone is losing because it seems that we depend on the numbers in ATH. And the best thing to do during that time is HODL and buy. The newly created ones also attract. So it is better just to go for coins with bigger movements.LTC, ETH and of course Bitcoin. Better just stay there.