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You invested in a ICO or IEO project at 1$ per token or coin and the price surge up to 3$ but because you see potential in the project you decide to hold and after few months the price goes down to 0.45$ and after four years and the token surge back to 3$, my question is why the wait? You hold a coin for years just to go back to it's ATH (All Time High) ? And most times majority of coins don't go back to their ATH ever again, what could you learn from this? Never ever hesitate to take profits, even if the project is the best ever, take profits, invest again when price is down because believe me, the price will surely go down

if humans are programmed to see the future won't we all be rich?

I have learned a lot from there and what you were saying was the true story at all.

People are so crazy and greedy to take the ATH as their selling point when the condition of project can change anytime. Sometimes it can be a better and better but in another side it can go bankrupt or dead instantly. This is crypto when everything is still speculative.

People should not take the ATH as their main point. I just try to remind myself if the selling point should be the time when the price of tokens traded above the initial price.

You nailed this one OP, this is the true color of cryptocurrency investment, greed lives in everyone of us, greed is like a curse but it's a blessing to be contented with whatever you have, to me I would walk away once the token turn 2$, that's double gain already, people needs to stop this habit honestly, it will keep growing inside you and you won't be able to turn back, not until you end up wasting your money and your time.

This is the beauty of hindsight. It's a 20-20 vision.

I'm not saying these new coins and tokens are anywhere close to Bitcoin but the same logic could be use as an argument to those who sold BTC at $10, $100, or $1,000. You will see topics in Bitcoin board talking about HODL and using early sellers as an example. They didn't hesitate to sell at a profit but they probably regretted later that they could have earned more.

 

Yes, in this topic I can learn a lesson, that is, there is no need to wait to take a profit, because the opportunity to get profit usually will not come twice on the same token especially if the token was born from a project that is not good, so the conclusion is still taking advantage of it. any number at any time because it is so much better than waiting for years that the probability of profit is uncertain.

It is important to set updated stop loss points when the coin you invested is in up trend. as it is going up you can just shift the stop loss point to profit zones every time, then you stay in safe zone.

Because people become greedy when they see the price can surge up to $3, and they will think that the price will go up higher.
If they don't sell the coin or token, they will lose the opportunity to sell at a high price.
We see many times about that, and maybe we have that experience before.
It is why we need to sell the coin or token if the price can jump to the highest price, so we can take the initial money plus with the profit.
You do not need to wait for more because the price itself is already increasing higher.
After the price touches the highest price, it will go down and sometimes, the price will drop significantly, and if we already sold the coin or token, we will have a chance to buy back in a big amount.
If we can do that over and over, we will be able to make more profit.

If we already know the future, then our life will become more boring and no more excitement because of this, Life is full of risk and this is the reality.
If the hodler don't want to sell yet, then its his choice and it doesn't mean he's greedy because he believes on that project and took the risk. We don't know what will happen next on every project, even technical analysis can't guarantee that. Don't hesitate to sell if you are already contented with your profit, look for more winnings in this market.

Yes, wasting time is a very loss and ridiculous thing because the benefits are also clearly visible, so people who waste such profits are very stupid people because looking for profit through crypto investing is not easy and very difficult.

Yes if humans are programmed to see the future we all be rich and more

i want to see the future, 100 years in advance is good enough for me.

I agree with this. I have been in some ICO and saw some potential gains but waited for more. In my opinion, as long as you had the chance to gain more, grab it. No more ifs.

Investors sometimes become greedy they thought that it will continuously going up, we can't blame them since we all been greedy at some point. It's important sometimes to target just to gain profit and not to target the peak since we are really not sure when is the peak price of that certain run.

Profit is profit, why regrets on something that may never be? And another thing people keep forgetting in this life is any one can die at any time, nothing is guaranteed, it's complete greediness, take profit and investment if price drops lower, in 2017 people who sold bitcoin at 20,000$ make the best choice, imagine buying back at 3,500$ this year in March 2020? Crypto is all about taking profits and buying back when price goes down the hole.

Aren't you familiar with human emotions? In the majority of cases greed is the reason for not taking profits, then it comes the desire to not lose money - so we don't SELL until we are back in profit.

Of course there are the sophisticated investors who invest with a decent risk:reward ratio in mind so it wouldn't make sense for them to sell with 10% profit if their target as per their strategy is 50%, isn't it?

wrong mindset , many people think that holding is the better way to invest in crypto and earn huge from it. They do not look for short term gain thats why many people lost their money because of too much trust in a project that suddenly became shit after they hold it.


Wise traders looking only for short terms and take always profit every time they see gain I know many people selling their coins for 5% price different this is enough earning for a day ,why need to wait ?

And this is what makes many lose profit, I believe few coins are still worth the wait but many will bring nothing but disappointments, taking profits will still earn you that 50% profit target, I believe OP makes lotta sense, taking profit bit by bit will get you where you need to go

It's the norm of the cryptosphere which is how we came about with the "Hodl" term. Since most of the bitcoin and ethereum early sellers have been crying over selling cryptos for ridiculously low prices and both have done more than a 10000%. That said, everyone thinks that if you hold for long, you'll get back multiple folds of your investment and don't bother to take out profits when it becomes. In cases like that, one must think as a trader to take some money off the table and let the rest keep riding.

it's the same as my experience when buying NXT at $ 1, and now I regret not selling it,
whether it will go back to $ 1 again or not, because the current price of NXT is so terrible, what should I do ?,

Some investors believed that if they hold longer, the price will continue on increasing. However, it does not always end up the way they wanted, as some factors affect the price of a token and because long term investment is not applicable to every token. Some investor is afraid to regret selling because they have confidence in the token that they are holding as it demonstrates a great potential to perform well on the following months or years.

In any market, profit-taking is always a necessity, I used to see not selling my holdings when they were profitable until a bear market happened. so many, so much.
A friend of mine told me 'Keep your word never wrong' and it is true in all circumstances. It is necessary to reduce greed in trading to achieve a safe level of profit. We can make small profits many times and win through accumulation rather than greed and sinking losses.

Back to ourselves, people have a principle in investing in certain coins, this is the problem, long-term investment.

Some people invest hourly and per day, people like this do not look at just one coin, a convincing assessment of the coin is bought and sold again, can profit a little selling.

There are people who invest in certain coins over a long period of time, in buying them cheap and waiting for the ATH price, usually this kind of investment does not want to take a little profit waiting for a new high price to be sold, this is also the value of the development of the coin before entering the market.

So, in conclusion, everyone has their own way of investing, so, there is no compulsion in this matter, self-assessment wants to be happy and difficult.

I completely agree with you. It is better to stick to this strategy: 1 - after investing in an ICO or IEO and entering the exchange, if you already have x2 and you believe in the project, you can sell half of it to return your investment, leave the rest and wait for further growth. 2 - If you do not believe in the project and went to get a quick profit, sell everything at once on the first candle. And then do not follow the project, because if the price starts to rise, you will devour FOMO.

the desire of those who hold a coin sometimes wants a higher price. In general, a coin that is as excited as that can still have a very high value. that is common sense. however, when the price drops, we realize that it is a very good price to sell.

however, we can only speculate that the price will reach what we targeted. when the price goes down and it comes back at a high price, I think people will start selling it. it's the same as people holding bitcoin at $ 20k. Nowadays, so many people are even waiting for the bitcoin price to hit $ 15k, even me.

Long-term investing is not greed. Some people have reasons why they do it such as the inability to predict the price in a short time or not at all so the price prediction is done by looking at project potential (for new projects) or future fundamental predictions instead.

When the higest price is reached, even veteran traders don't realize that it is ATH.

How I wish the market is predictable so we can all be rich but it's not the way it works we suffer because of this i am a victim of so many waiting for another all time high that took a lo tfo time to come the latest of which is the Uniswap I should have sold half of it when it reach it's all time high of $8 now I'm crossing my finger that it reach $8 or even more.

This is one of the answer and another is greed.
People do think if it's increasing in such a rate, it would reach a much higher price. And we don't know where exactly would it stop x1.5, x2, x5, x10 or even x1000. So, the best way to be secure is to sell your coins on batches so that you won't miss the hike. Don't sell all your coins at once. Even if you are for a longer shot, it would be wise to play with the market waves with a portion of your coins. Like set 75% of it for your long term goal while do some grid trades with the 25%.

This is what often happens to many people, never satisfied with the profit that is actually sufficient. Greed for cryptocurrency will bring people to regret it. Sometimes I still experience it too. It takes time not to do something like this.

Hm, the best advice I can give on this topic is to HODL only few tokens of a particular project, for example you have 1000 tokens that worths 1000$ @1$ per token, if you aren't sure where this project will go in future but you still want to HODL the best thing to do is HODL 100 pieces of the tokens, you don't have to HODL the complete 1000 pieces

Holders is mostly who lost a lot becuase they think its a good idea to wait longer and it can give them more profit . there are many example that lost a lot in crypto.one of the example is the ATH of bitcoin and ethereum because people believe it will increase more the pricein in the next more day they continue holding it until its too late for them to take the profit. Hoping ,that the price will be back. they continue holding it until they see more dump happen in price.  and later on sell it in deep because they are now more afraid that there may be nothing left in their investment.

Even as a bounty hunter I always sell my share of the tokens and HODL very limited numbers of tokens that looks like they have good future, you can never be sure though so you can get away with holding few coins, for example you can earn 100,000 from a bounty, sell 80% and hold 20%

we may not always know how the rise in the price of the coin will proceed. we can return to the level of $ 0.45, but also the price can go up to $ 10. Here everyone chooses their own investment strategy for themselves.

In the process of trying to earn big you will end up losing big, that's all I can say about what OP is talking about, to me it's still greed and in the most painful way because holding on to tokens for years and in the end still same result isn't a easy task, fake hope I presume

Well said brother/sister, I would have make good money if I always take profits from projects, I have this mentality of holding for years and that have gotten me nowhere, since 2017 all altcoins I hold never go back to their ATH again, I guess I learned the hard way but now I'm a different person

Many experience it during ICO Craze and wasn't able to withdraw or use their investments Wisely since they opted to just wait or hold it than to trade it. I'd been there and realize that it's better to trade them faster after their success in ICO as most of the coins before was not able to regain their ATH and some just did scam exit. It's part of experience and once we accept our faults we will find ways to not let it happens again.

this is very experienced by all traders. Indeed, sometimes when the price drops drastically we are used to waiting for the price to match what we expect, for example when the price increases, we are hesitant and wait at a large enough number, even though at that time the price drops back to the bottom. as a result makes us have to wait even longer.

If we can all see the future of the price I believe the result will be in chaos. All traders will rush to buy/sell a token and I don't think so if trading is profitable anymore because no one will buy at price that will surely dump because everyone saw what will gonna happened.

TP is the correct reaction on trading no matter how big or small it is. A profit is a profit and never regret if you early TP. Its better than being stuck in loss to a coin that you FOMO buy.

You are on point, alot of traders lose their hard earn money due to waiting too long for pump before dumping, the best is to dump after small gain and move on.

It's hard to moderate your greed when you are holding coins with good potential you always see it aiming from one all-time high to another, everybody becomes a victim of this one time or another, I am too and I lose a lot from not selling from some of my coins all-time high one example is OIKOS I should have sold it when it hit  $0.14 now it is down 85%, what big loss.

investors thinking in long term they will gain huge profit,meanwhile in fact when it pumped actually have same result if we hold it for years. sometimes i am confuse how could they do this  , when profits in their eyes not liquidated and prefer to wait for several year. in my analisys, when price pumped its actually equal with price movement for long term. so sell it immediately better than hold it.

Bitter truth, after going through this post l feel like I have made the same mistake where most of them do. Well that's the nature of a human when it comes to money everyone expects more :D

Some times it better to sell our asset when the value is going through a descent profit but it depends on the project, those who plan for long-term they don't even care till ages but it's risky too. My point is it's always better to sell our asset in a descent profit rather than expecting big.

Not everyone will think the way you do about investing because they have a profit target they want to achieve. If it were me, then I would sell everything and enjoy the profit. But what do other people who are targeting higher return think, can we blame them just for not selling all the coin or token they invested ?
I think people who believe in the potential of future project are not greedy people. They have considered the possible risk (price reduction) and they have different belief about what they have invested.

For some reason, everyone started talking about greed, because of which their wallets then suffer. Greed is most likely a side effect of business. And as you know, the main strategic goal of a business is to earn a large amount of a potential businessman both now and in the future. Just like the presence of greed, there is a risk of losing funds, which always comes at the wrong time. An important point for skeptics is that you should not forget that a thorough study of the project will help to avoid the loss of deposits and investments, and make a profit.

Fixing a price is good, but everyone wants to get theirs to the moon.  there are projects that make 1000 X's and we want to try our luck.

That's actually a true story for my friend. He experienced it with the Electroneum bounty which was successful and still has a running platform even though the value is very low. The token reached an All time high $.2 which is already high since the distribution really gave a lot of tokens. Joining bounties are still profitable and don't be scared to join them since all you are doing is investing your time to do these campaigns. Its an opportunity to gain more.

You know how many patience is needed to get that 1000x PRofit and not all altcoin are possible source of that large profit .most of them is hardly to earn at least 200% of its current price. That's too way impossible to happen everyone that experience that  are just lucky person that grab at cheap and accidentally forget or they just don't look at their balance for long time and they remember that they have that coins and recover it. they don't even think that is possible to happen in them the day they bought it.

Cryptocurrency is so volatile that's why just ride on to earn and stop being greedy. You will regret if because of being greedy the tokens you are waiting for it's another ATH will goes down and never recover again. Waiting for so long is just a waste of time and money, be contented to earn even small amount of profit daily.

That is true if you are only looking to make profits, and not use the product itself.
Many projects out there have a token or coin that has a lot of application, would you change your stance in a case like that?

I saw yhe reason behind holding on investment even if it's around 90% down is people are optimistic. Even they feel bad that it was not sold at ATH price. Also another reason is that they don't have any choice but to hold.
However having said so, we must say over optimism is but to be greedy.

I really like your last statement but however no one can predict the future.
Nevertheless, about the hesitation in selling at a good price; I believe this has affected a lot of people badly and where most projects can go back to their ATH or even close to it, a good number of projects do not, in fact they dies as a result of price dump or the team exiting scam. So having known all these, it is quite better to always sell at a profitable price and exit the market, do not be tempted to buy again until the price goes down. Now, once this takes place, you need to study the team to know their level of expertise and seriousness before buying again, in order to avoid buying and the price keeps dumping which might lead to the death of the project.

Yes I do follow and understand your point but it is not that simple bro because most people invest in quality longterm projects that have potential to achieve new highs again and again so personally i do hold high quality projects for long and the projects that do not have my 100 percent confidence i do take profit out of them.

I totally agree with you! When I just started to invest in ICOs I believed in technologies and thought that the projects I selected for investments would become as popular as Goodle or Apple in few years. It was a good lesson for me, I learnt that it doesn't matter how promising project is, you should always take your profit. The best strategy is to sell the half of tokens when the price reaches x2, thus you return your investment and all the rest tokens are now free for you and you can decide how long you want to hold them.

That is the matter, we will never know what will happen next. We will take the profit if the price token just $3 as its all time high, but who knows?  

Also, we can't manage our greedy, we already know about the dangerous of greedy when we are investing, but that is something that can't be leaved.

We can take an imagine, how can we not be tempted with the price token that increased $2 in several days. We will assume that in a few years a head the price token will have $100 or more.

Taking profit is the right strategy and if you are really worried about missing out of parabolic runs you can take percebtage profits like 5 or 10 percent of total holdings at each target price, this way you will take profit and even if market takes turn at some point you can buy back lower and improve your average cost so that you would be in profit faster next time around.

Yes, we should learn from the past and start utilising the profits before it's too late as greed takes better control of us, we can consider the bull run of 2017/18 as an example wherein people who sticked up Bitcoin didn't sell even when Btc reached over $20,000 and lost the golden opportunity to cashout, later sold it for lesser amount and some are still waiting for btc to reach $20,000 even after 3 years which btc is yet to achieve.

It's best to act smart and be goal oriented rather than assuming it's loyalty to hodl for a long-term.

Like the saying "future is not promised" but what I learned about ICO/IEO project is that 95% of the project dumped below initial offering price after trading competition of it exchange listing is hold and it will be silly for anyone to hold token/coin which is new for long time because most of such crypto are highly manipulated only newbies to hesitate to sell such crypto whwn the time is right.

I think that this is due to the greed of some people to obtain greater profits, and that is why you find these people wasting a lot of selling opportunities for months and years in the hope that the price of the coin will increase for more than this, and in the end they found that the coin has dump, because the crypto market is volatile and you can't control it, everyone should set the goal of selling and when the coin reaches this goal, then does not hesitate to sell.

I agree with you
I have also experienced this, some of the altcoins and tokens that I have, I keep it for a long time with the hope that the price will go up again, at least to the price of ICO / IEO. But in fact the price didn't come back.

So now, I prefer to take profits immediately, leaving at least a few tokens / altcoins for the long term  ;D

When the price has been showing very small sign to the bull trend and they will be greedy to think about how much money they can get it from there. In fact, if so many times people should learn from their past experience regarding this cycle. Just never try to expect something big to happen with your portfolios. We also need to think about the possibility to get out of the market when we have gotten enough profit.

People are very greedy these days just try to accumulating speculative profit.

surely if you buy a shitcoin, it may never go to ATH. But if you buy a good potential coin it may touch ATH in some years again. The best strategy i follow is when a coin price 2X from my buying, i take out my initial investment. In this way i am  not worried about my money and is left with only free coins.

This makes sense, why wait for years to wait the all time high of a token or coin if you'd already earn profit even for a small period of time. But it's lucky if your token gets increasing value after it is being listed, because some other tokens doesn't rise right away such that it may take several months or years to rise.

you should sell it when the price of the coin rises 200% and buy it again when the price drops,
You should try to control your greed to avoid that kind of incident again, because there are many cases of traders or holders who should have made a profit but did not want to sell their coins, and in the end the price has continued to fall to this day.

That is what we always suggest to people or our friends related to the price increase, so they can have the chance to buy back the coin if the price drops.
But they don't consider that, and they think that the price will still rise and jump to the high price, so they don't directly sell the coin but still hold it for more.
Unfortunately, the next minute after touching the higher price, the price drops, as we said before, but people will only think that is normal because the price will be back to the higher price.
That is greedy not to know the best moment to sell the coin because we never know if the price can touch that high price in a short time or it will go down after touch the highest price.

Well the reason why investors are not selling even the price is high enough to take profit is because of their mindset that the value will increase further. Greed of wanting for higher price, most of us have thoughts like that but we should not be too greedy to let the chance of selling passed by just because its not the price you want to sell.

Probably, but unfortunately we dont have such capabilities thats why we are just speculating on the next future price.

Ok, well I think this suggestion is pretty good but because of the greed that messes things up when a coin goes up people will think that it will go higher, without seeing or considering that it is likely to go down. :)

Developers of the cryptocurrency projects offer big profit because people want to have a big profit.
People want to do nothing and have a big profit  :D
That is why now staking system is so popular when people receive reward just for holding tokens.
But different projects use different staking systems. Here is an article about different staking systems to know more about staking https://medium.com/bonfiorg/introducing-bonfi-web-staking-7368467d18cc

this often happens, even when we do daily trading to certain altcoins. sometimes when we see a chart that starts to rise, whether it's a 1% -10% increase from the buy price, we will definitely keep holding, because we expect the increase to be higher. if so, it will be a huge profit. but if the opposite happens, then we will lose both in terms of investment and time. I agree that if there is already an increase then just sell it.

How about you ask around or read stories of early investors and don't be dramatic? It's easy to say to sell at a profit and buy back at a lower price but there are people who regretted selling BTC at the hundreds since they had no other choice but to buy back at the thousands.

i am not joking i had never shite those gaurd since the day i was born,
i am an good catholic in my town in indonesia.
with possession of uses with the past terms of work with the modification, pupils with the business field on cryptofinance to measure less or more on valuation as depending with objective work as might be done on decision of involvement with the project.

Profit is profit no matter how much it is, always remember that. In the world of crypto it is good to hodl while waiting for the ATH, but if you can see that you are already gain and you want to take profit then go. Don't hesitate to take the profit anymore. You can set again to buy back at its dip price. Don't be so greedy.

because no one knows what will be the future prices so some are waiting for longer just to fal and go back to original price again.
While others tend to risk their money(Because this is how the crypto market goes) but  lucky to achieve more than what they are expecting in value.
there are coins that has dumped for long time but when it bounced back after years the price went up to no one has ever expected.
This is how crypto investment goes,if you are willing to wait and loss then you are also willing to wait and profit?

Good advice, I hope people will takes this very seriously, taking profits is the only way forward in crypto space, any coin that's different from

1. BTC
2. Ethereum
3. BNB
4. Neo

And other top altcoins I'm begging you do not think twice before taking your profit, many coins you hold will disappoint you, everyone have the desire of becoming a whale someday I know but 99% of new projects today won't give you that, taking profits can still get you there

Your last two statements contradict each other. I'll go with the last one.

As you said its hard to predict the future so if project reaches $3, people think it'll reach $6. This has to do with greed that many investors struggle with along with the circumstances and experience that surrounds the investment which can change overtime. I don't see why you should shy away from holding your investment if you believe in the project for long term. We all remember the guy who sold btc at $60 thinking he was making best investment decision just to miss what we have today. You can speculate the price or hodl. Both are wonderful options and both should be taken into consideration.

What others done by holding a certain token is like betting , why? because of the potential of a certain coin or token to reach all time high,
in your example someone invested 1 usd for a coin , it reachest 3 usd but he still holds it, now the coin drops to half of the price, and he still holds
he believes that the price will be higher, and i can't blame him as we know the price is unpridictable anything can happen.
it depends on how you look in the future , we have different beliefs.

Everyone makes their own target, if you hit your target and you still failed to sell, that means you are greedy and the time will come you'll regret it. However, if you are focus on your strategy which is to hold, you'll HODL no matter what happen as long as you don't reach your price yet.

That's the reality, people may judge us because we didn't take profit, but we have to trust ourselves as we are the only one who should make a decision.

Example, if you buy bitcoin at $1, and it reached $10, but your target is $100, it's alright not to sell even if the price will dump as bitcoin will rise $10 in time and even more, but sell at $10 as that's your target.



"IF".

I definitely agree to not hesitate if ever I've given the chance for making a profit even small bucks for a little time only. Because i have seen so much investors gets no profit waiting for their invested coin when it cannot give them profits even for a long term investment. So, if only we know the outcome of the future, maybe all of us become rich, but opportunities only happens sometimes and not many times, if we encounter profit we should take it right away.

It is very extraordinary the effort you put into this, because that way there is definitely no burden and risk to bear, yes, even though predicting ATH is not easy, it will definitely happen to potential coins, because it is very clear that ATH will not happens to any shitcoin and in any time.

Exactly but my thought is, if I were to invest to ICO or IEO, I would make sure that even though the price will not increase, I will still be benefiting with the coin because of the service it offers.

If in this way people perceive cryptocurrency, then it will then become more successful. It really hurts seeing people considering cryptocurrency as form of investment without considering the fact that it is not and it should be the services we had to support.

As I understand user gain when someone lost. Just like in token someone will buy and someone is selling the seller won't get profit if there is no buyer have you get the point? so if we are all program to see the future I don't think what will happen actually.

Certainly humans are not able to see the future and that’s why they are investing and getting greedy to see where their future actually leads them.  :)

Without this wait they are useless since they don’t know true potential. If they withdraw early then they are missing out all time high and many times if they wait then they could end up loosing all of it all sudden.

That’s why it’s always very tricky to invest into crypto. FYI most of the time it’s absolutely true that project will end up in chaos, so better to sell out as early as possible.

That was earlier, people used to believe.
Now no one cares, everyone thinks only about their profit, no one else waits long.

It's easy to say but you never know what is going to be the ATH.

If you look at the charts day by day they usually show the same pattern of 2 steps up 1 step down. So a coin goes $200 up and then corects $50-100 and goes up $200 up again.
How do you know that day is going to be the last one where the move up is twice as strong? You hold one more day and it's down 50%.

That's why people usually end up holding bags.

Indeed, though that is kind of situational for some coins. That's why there are coins that are meant to be held for longer time than just by trading it within the day.
I use that practice in Bitcoin, well that's the coin I only hold anyway.
Back in my day trading practices, I held some alts for about a month but they weren't giving me any profit, that's why I conclude that some coins are meant to be day traded.

The first thing I can say about this topic is that you can never know when the price will reach the ceiling. The price can double in one day and fall even in one night while you're asleep, you can never know.

Investors should learn how to take profits by selling in tranches. Don't let greed take you. Once you feel that a profit is enough, try to sell 25% or 50% (or more) of your position to lock your profits, this will ensure your profits in cases where the price falls.
Just don't sell everything because you still want to have a position in cases where the price jumps higher.

I think there are several reasons for this problem. If according to my personality or what I have done regarding investment projects then do your best to benefit when you see opportunities. investing does take a long time or at least until the price of the coins you invest in increases and you sell for a profit. so ,, while there is an opportunity, then immediately sell, holding the coins for too long does not necessarily return the initial investment capital. but if the project you invested in is like BTC then you don't have to worry about investing in the future.

I have long been familiar with the concept of staking and how it works, but thanks for the article, oddly enough, I learned something new for myself!

You know that it is nonsense, and no one can foresee what will happen to him and everything that is around the next moment. Everything is risky, the life of a human being as well. However, those, who take risks to do something to get the better existence, get more than those that are sitting idly.

I don't know what's with OP's mind questioning people who waits for a higher price and ending up with just a little crunch, as if people can see the future lol. Decentralization has a risk such as this, especially when it is made for investment, not really a good tool if you want a safe and sure profit.

Early withdraw could be disappointing or regretful, we can't really know what it would be like but you can literally see if the project is worth to wait or has a unique product that is possible to step on a spotlight..

Crypto is uncertain, that's all we should know. All investment is risky but crypto? Man you're like putting your hand in crocs mouth trusting it not to bite you.

With your example, we know that from $1 to $3 is 300% price up and this is the time for sell to get the profit.
I don't know why people still holding if they find their coin price already multiplied 3x.
Even traders usually sells their coin when the price up only 10-30% already, we must learn how to know the time for hold or sell our coin.

I have several friends whose hodling old token hacken because they saw a potential of this token to reach as high as 20 usd per token knowing that they have seen it pump up to 8-10 usd so they decided to hodl until now and seeing the price of this token burst down really low that makes them so regretful because they hesitated to sell it with that ideal price.

Because of being hesitant many crypto enthusiasts that potentially earn a better profit turns into a very huge loss to them. Also because of being to greedy to gain more and more by waiting for their prospect value of token which apparently did not happen which makes them regret for hodling a bit longer and not sell their token when they have seen a good pump.

Maybe he is not a trader and he is a proper holder who did a lot of research and trusts the project for the long-term. I am sure a trader will definitely bite the hands for a quick 3x.

Some projects always offering and make promises that their projects will be get new developments, so the price "might" be up again, but you know it's always bad when youre greedy. selling when you already getting enough profit is the best way to avoid that kind of situation

Many of the crypto enthusiasts are having this kind of attitude that when they saw a good pump of a potential token tend to wait and hodl it and they wait for their prospect price value only to find out after some time they loss all that should be a gain and earning to them because they always hesitate to sell it when the price is good.

There are ways to hold and not get hurt in the process, take profits when available and reinvest the exact little money you can afford to let go when the token is down in price, this is the best trick and whatever happens won't hurt you, damn even if the project stop working

It`s always necessary to definite sell price, which will be acceptable for you, before investing in any asset and when  this price is reached it`s necessary to sell at lest 70% of your investments. Described situation happens again and again and idk why people don`t want to learn on their mistakes. Some time ago I always holded my investment and I have lost a lot of money. Now my strategy has changed and investments become more profitable

I don't quite agree. Although it is worth listening to those who at one time bought bitcoin for $ 14 - for example, Forbes journalist Jeffrey Tucker. He claims that he bought bitcoin not for profit, but for scientific purposes - to study blockchain technology, and also that one should not be afraid of a bear market and a depreciation. And in particular, he says that the first cryptocurrency in which you see potential and not a fraud, consider it as a prospect for at least several years. It is worth listening to considering its gains from expectation.

one of the reasons I hold even though the price goes up, because based on my analysis that the market still has the possibility to jump. investors move according to their own wishes, in the case you mean it seems true but when we are at that moment, there will definitely be doubts about where to keep holding or just selling. the two options also judge the advantages and disadvantages of each

But sometimes the price goes up even higher than the initial increase, so it can't be blamed if some people are holding the coin.
because the market is 100% unpredictable.
if all humans can read the future, there will still be some who are superior to other yanhs, because they will compete with others.

People tend to hesitate since they are already thinking about the negative results of something that they are not sure about. Its only natural but people within this Industry must always look for the open opportunities. Joining bounties are really helpful and might be fruitful at the end. Its not the users fault that some bounties fail since they are only campaigning about them. Their support is enough to keep the platform going and its up to developers to pursue their goals of further development so there is no excuse for hesitating.

Well, there is a big difference between what you asked at the start of the paragraph and the question you are asking at the end of it and at the topic name.

The reason why they bought at 1 dollar and at 3 dollars they were still waiting was not to take more profit only, it was also the fact that they trusted it and they thought it was something brand new that would be a big part of crypto world and that is why they waited for something like 4-5 dollars or even more. That is the answer to the main question.

However about why wait when it is 45 cents to go back over 3 dollars is different, that is because if you wait you could see it go back above 1 dollar at least, that is not the same reason to wait, one of them (the first one) is to make more profit, here it is not to lose any money, different mindsets.

there is no harm in waiting as long as the project is still active, the developer makes the latest updates about the project as well as a lot of support for the project itself especially attracting market investment. So, I think holding coins for too long doesn't mean it's bad, the important thing is that you need to monitor the progress of the project including the coins you have in order not to lose the opportunity to sell while the price rate is high.

That was not hesitate, more like having greedy  ::) If we know our coin price is skyrocketing 3x, then selling is the most right action to do.
Waiting for the coin to reach even more than 3x is still possible, but i don't think it will be in a short time.
Usually, after the price rising much in the market, then comes the correction which means we missed the selling time.

The word "hold" will make you multi millionaire one day. Why taking profits like 1 thousand dollar if your coins or token will be worth million dollar in the future. Bitcoin is the best example why the word "hold" is very important. If those seller of bitcoin,  giving the chance to go back in the past im sure they will hold their bitcoin. Remember 'Hold' sound like 'Gold', and 'profit' sounds like 'regret'.

If you feel like you are happy with the price you see right now, you should sell at this price. In some time the price will be much lower and you will be able to buy back.

What would you do it the price increases and there is a massive bullrun just like the 2017 run ?
Will you be able to digest it and bee happy with the profit that you booked ? If you can then fine go ahead with day trading else stick to what you hold.

Holding on to investing is a very good decision because in case of day trading if you do not have a good knowledge of the market you are more likely to lose but in case of holding double profit can be achieved if the risk is lower. The price will definitely go up if the bitcoin investment waits with a lot of profit tokens are not very optimistic they are mostly scams.

you can learn that a good project will always be good because it can return to its ath  . you bought at 1 usd and you call 3 dollars an ath ? is that too small ? that would be okay if you buy at 0.000xxx and if you buy tons of coins because you will not hesitate of selling  . with the bad experience that most people get on crypto during the ico era ,  most of them learn and are now not hodling the coin for a verry long time but they are know doing what you recomend here which is sell asap and buying asap again .

we are going to be rich if that happens but theres no way that thing exist but you can be rich because of faith and hardwork

That's one of my biggest flaws. I always tend to get too greedy with my investments because of that I don't take profits and suffer some serious blowback to fix that I have now started creating sell order in advance so that I minimize the loss.

There are times when the token value drops but a smart investor knows that there are various factors like bounty hunters will drop their coins when exchanges allow trading that token and it is obvious the price will drop and then it will rise once the early storm is weathered then there are some cool rewards to reap.

Although that said one must have the ability to analyze that whether a particular token has that ability to weather the storm because a lot of coins just die during that phase and one who holds during that time might feel like an idiot if the coin becomes dust after the initial price.

Because the price might jump even higher if the coin actually goes to ATP after few years that shows the coin has potential and some really solid plans as it continues to recover over years which is not something we often see with altcoins at all.

Well, that is why no one actually holds altcoins, I don't know anyone who holds any altcoins for years apart from the few dominant altcoins. I don't know your theory but really it is not common for people to hold new coins for months, let alone years. Everyone just wants some quick profit with these coins and once they get listed everyone sell the coins which is also why coins drop in the value when initial exchange listing is done.

Things that are explained by the topic creator actually take place. A huge number of investors, due to the fact that they do not have the slightest idea in exchange trading, miss the opportunity to sell their assets at a completely acceptable price. This comes from a lack of experience. But it is thanks to such situations that people get the experience they need in the future.

Holding for a long term is like gambling because you don't know either your coin that you are holding will have a higher value or it will lost in crypto space in the future or in he time frame of your holding. Also about bitcoin ,no body knows that it will become more valuable after a couple of years and just lucky those who have bitcoin on their wallet before it increased too high. Those who don't have bitcoin regrets after they saw bitcoins value and said " If I just Know..." I will hold also....! For me much better to trade daily with small profit and don't become greedy in thinking of being a Millionaire of Billionaire just by holding coins in a long term.

Yes, but speaking honestly there are only a few pearls in the altcoin market that actually maintain their value in the long run and have the structure to scale without collapsing. I haven't seen many coins do that and specially since the ICOs spammed the market like crazy and earlier the ratio of successful coin was around 1/10 and now it might be 1/50 after so many scam and short period projects being launched without any knowledge and robust plans.

With altcoins I never trust the market and as soon as I get at least 10% profit, I liquidate a part of my coins and then wait for the next wave to sell the remaining coins at a better value. I also buy some extra coins when the market drops because I know it will rise at least once since no coin just becomes useless suddenly.

"Hold" is good for some good coins with a good projects or some old coins that have some trust by people. i don't think that some new coins / tokens from ICO and IEO will good for us to hold. you can see it in some current or just finished project, most of them are lack of investors, then the price fall really hard and become another shitcoin.

as returns with terms on early stage to gives with one to work with following entrance on field of business with the crypto finance, different ideas on investment might appears as pupils to work on following customs with initial tasks to advance to be completed. to gains on finest terms as the decision of expends.

When you see an opportunity to sell it then do it, cause you'll regret it when you keep on holding it and waiting to the price to get back to another all time high which is as you said is not possible to happen. The project will only see the potential when in its first 7-12 months of running, but investors will suddenly loss interest when new projects with same potentials come in.

You are certainly correct when you said that many people tend to wait longer when they see that they will only get double the profit for their investments. I mean if they want to wait longer then by all means do it. But do remember that we cannot learn the future of cryptocurrency and we just have to trust ourselves in making informed decisions.

I don't see how your last question is relatable to reality at all, I'm pretty sure anyone understand that.
Anyway, the rest of your message is a complete 100% truth. We all've been there, not everyone learned from it though.
I caught myself doing same thing, when I received UNI and it peaked to $7, and I hesitated.
I laughed at myself and sold everything at $5 level, doing same mistake as beginners do was quite funny.

In this case, maybe I still remain hold my coins and wait till it comes back upgrading And as long as I can see that my coins are still active in the market I have nothing to worry about. But if the coins is like yearly depreciating its value maybe it was the time to sell them and look for another coins to invest and make good profits.

It is because of greed why most of us forget to take profits. And I think every newbie experience that and it taught them a lesson during those times.
Every investor should set their achievable profit. I think this is the mistake because we often set our expectations so high that it is impossible to happen.

It's a good strategy to wait for higher prices before selling ones token in order to benefit from higher increase in the value, but it's best to take some profit as the value increases so you can benefit from the value movement. Its possible to have the tokens later at lesser price.

For this matter I will keep handling my coins and wait until it returns to upgrade And as long as I see that my coins are still active in the market I have nothing to worry about. But if my coins has it annual value reduction maybe this is the time to sell and go find another coin to invest and make a good profit. And what I see as another source of good investment is the yB token for I know it can benefit me like others from the market.

It's good to be a long term holder if you do it the right way, make sure you have other sources of income, make sure you are actively following the projects you holding, make sure they are very very active, what many used to do is lock the tokens or coins up and go away, when they come back few years later some tokens will be dead or abandoned  and some may switched their contract address

I don't buy the idea of dumping every tokens or coins you have, you could end up regretting some day, remember that Bitcoin was once 10$ or 100$, those who don't hesitate to sell off are definitely regretting right now, don't end up like this people

You can keep taking profits but make sure you keep few special coins for the future, you won't regret this I'm so sure of it, look at BNB, ChainLink, etc they are once very cheap not too long ago, people who adopted these coins are now multi millionaires, be wise

Hey mate, you are right we must take profit when coin price is good,  we should not hold our coin long time. We always think when coin price go all time high price than we sell our voin, that is very wrong idea, so when coin price go high we must sell our coin and take a profit.

Well, it happens that way. It's called FOMO (yeah, I know FOMO is more pronounced with investors who are yet to buy). Even when one had already bought in, one will still have that thought that there could be a sudden reawakening for the token and that fear of selling cheap and missing the cruise sets in. During the early days of Binance I held BNB token awhile while it dragged at less than a dollar. Immediately it got to $3, I sold off only for it to skyrocket to $30 within a few weeks. I still feel bad about that decision of mine till date and I believe that's what a lot of investors are scared of.

On a lighter note: If humans were programmed to see the future, that would make us God. And that would be rivalry with the supreme being. God doesn't like rivalry 🤔.

I know people are fed up holding coins for long time and I don't blame you guys, since 2017 every altcoins never go back to their all time high again, this is not encouraging at all, but still be prepared, maybe the that day we've been waiting for is already around the corner? Hold what you can and take profits too, just be prepared for both sides.

This is exactly the message that I want to see appear more to this community, people invest in FOMO style so very little knowledge about the project they invest in, and only until you lose money many times. on mistakes made in the investment process. I see when the market has hidden signs of going up, then people are waiting for a seasion in the wave of other coins to come back to ATH. Stop thinking about it and work forward useful things.

It's not a must to dump all coins and tokens that comes your way, if you can do this you will be on safer side

1. Always hold high quality tokens and coins
2. If it's not listed on top exchanges it's probably a crap project
3. Watch out for how hardworking the team are, make sure they are professionals and capable to face any difficulty as the project progress

I think OP is right, every good projects that get listed on binance exchange are now at lower price compared to when trading starts on binance, imagine if you'd sold your coins then and still buy back now? It's indeed better to always take advantage of any token or coin that surge because that could be it's ATH for many years to come.

That's a very wise decision, sometimes the only opportunity these coins give is only at the beginning as the moment it's listed in big exchange, the hype is big and because of the hype it will pump to make the price overvalued then correction happens and that price will be stagnant for a longer months.

Only those who really experience it can understand, the hype is real in this market, so we should know that.

For smaller coins or new listed ones, it is good to keep on booking profits if you have larger quantity then at regular price rise, keep selling some qty. If holding something like btc or top altcoins then holding will make sense because in longer run they can give us manifold rise and if not in urgency of money than just buy for long term such coins and hold it. Everyone may have different startegy around it and till the time its beneficial to you keep using it.

Many people make the same mistake, always hesitant to take profit. Because most people always want big profits, so always delay
selling coins when already profit. Many people think the coins will go up according to the predictions made. Even though the crypto
market is very difficult to predict, so don't hesitate to take profit, even if the profit generated is below our target. Because we can buy
more coins when the price is cheap and sell them when the price goes up, do this over and over again, the total profit generated can
be large.

When people see a coin that they really feel in love with they do not hold it because they want bigger profits, maybe that  is one part of it because you can't just hold something forever, if you keep your own dollars forever without ever spending it, technically speaking it would become just a piece of paper and nothing more, literally just get 100 bucks paper money banknote and put it somewhere and until you spend it, that is just a piece of paper, same idea with tokens as well, until you cash out it worths nothing.

However there are people who like to get involved and who like to participate in telegram, twitter, bitcointalk, discord chats and more and basically be an outside member of the project team by their support from how much they love it. Those people hold some of their tokens to back their love.

I think we have all done this one time or the other because seems all humans are greedy that way but the truth is some learn and some keep having the habit of repeating the same mistakes over and over again.. i think once a project hits its all time high its always advisable to sell of at that point because you dont know when the price would start dipping low and might be to late for u to sell then

I agree with you, because when you invest in a project and you wait when token from this project will start growing, you need to immediately sell either some part of your tokens or you can sell all your tokens because after some time the price of this token possible will reach zero, but there are times when you need to wait a long time to get a profit too.

Humans are generally greedy but not everyone, when they get a profit of $ 3 they still hope to get $ 10, there is no word satisfied but what is gained, not at all, because greed ultimately gets nothing. So take advantage of opportunities when you make a profit,

Lol! i am a victim of this and i have promise myself several times not to be bag holder but still find myself holding because of this believe of seeing potential, am serious thinking of changing my style of approach because at the end it will still arrive at the same point, holding and watching it to dump and recover back to same ATH is like a vicious circle, you would have earn more if sell in the initial pump and buy back if you think the project is worth holding, there is much sense in what you say though.
 

It's better to hold and take profits too so you won't end up losing out, holding coins brings losses and profits but if you can take risks who know? Here is what I suggest, have a target, once your target is reached just take your Profit, we all know that crypto has high volatility so price will dump again, when that happens just buy back