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You sell something and later down the road, that goes multifold.

How do you deal with such things in positive way?

If I trade using TA I expect my target to be passed .og its only passed by 20-50% I give up for the day because I'm not accurate enough to continue.

If you managed to catch the top exactly in a repeated number of times (or extremely close to it) I'd advisd you stop trading and reevaluate  your strategy. A blowoff in either direction should've been factored in.

This also accounts for long term trading, if you sold at a profit why do you care you could've made more on it? You haven't and its over just move on. If you're really annoyed then go back and reevaluate how likely you think it was that it would've gone up from where you pulled out and decide whether that's something you need to think about.

Pulling out early is a safe option. And is encourage able if you trade often or not picking a safer option increases your likelihood of being profitible long term.

It depends.

In the trader's perspective, if your goal is simply to make profit in USD and you did end up making profit, why regret? It's not like you can time the exact top. Your goal was to make profit, and you did just that. Even the best traders can't exactly predict peak prices.

In a Bitcoin enthusiast's perspective, I mean, why did you even sell? If you sold just so you can "buy back at lower prices", well, lesson learned. All you can do right now is earn fiat for you to be able to buy more bitcoin, or straight-off earn bitcoin one way or another.

This look likes what my guideline when it comes to selling looks like, although it is a mixture of trader and enthusiast perspective where I leave some for it to grow. Price prediction is never my strong suit so I do not mind that I got a bad price when I sold my bitcoin, I know that I can get it back anyway so just leave it all behind. To OP, the best way to deal with that feeling is to never think about it in the first place.

Moving on is the only positive way you can deal with such scenario. If you don't do that then you'll beat yourself up every minute with constant thinking of your early decision been a wrong one (which isn't) and you'll begin to assume you made a mistake which if you don't address probably might affect your future trade.

Trading is all about making profit and if you exit any trade successfully in profits then you do that just perfectly. Take some break and reevaluate the market before jumping right back in just to catch the upward wave.

Do understand that the market will present an opportunity in the near future for you to re-enter the market so don't rush into making a decision that most likely will make you loss both the capital and profits you earned. If you sold your bitcoin earlier and now regretting, you can enter good position in some alts as obviously their time will come when they'll record similar growth as bitcoin did. Ethereum just experience hers.

Multi-fold or not, I don't care after I take profit. Why?

• If my calculation (to take profit) is inaccurate, it means I get less profit than what I should have with more accurate calculation.
• Fortunately, it does not mean I take a loss. Just get less profit.
• If I regret and chase the market, I will possibly take a loss or worst a very big loss
• Miss a peak (to take profit), calm down, hang out, enjoy life, and come back days later, to find another new good entry. Market always has good entries for wise traders/ investors

Until you are in gain and no loss than it's okey. Try to focus your thinking on that. It is really really hard to sell at peak so don't take it to close to your hearth. Find new project and keep grinding.

If you've had interest in or owned any bitcoin for long enough, you have probably experience emotions like this.  And how do you get past regret for selling too early?  Just let go of those thoughts, forget about what could have been, and focus on all the profit you have the potential to make during this bull market.  Doing anything else is just a waste of mental energy and will sap your happiness like nothing else.

And if you are in a situation like that, you're in good company I'd add.  Who knows how many people got burned in 2017 when bitcoin started to slide and the burned ones thought it was the best time to buy?  There were probably hundreds if not thousands of them.  And as I say that, it's also a warning not to get too excited about bull markets like the one we're in.  Bitcoin might yet have a ways to go, but be careful when you're buying something that's at its all time high.

Mate, I just forget it gradually.

There's nothing we can do with those early sell-offs that we did. What we can do if we still have some in our own stashes, keep holding. We learned the lesson that it's never that late to hold and if you sell, don't regret it.

That's the way how we must deal with those early dumps with our bitcoins. And if you can still buy with your extra cash, that will make you feel better to recover at least with your money.

Never look  back and just think off into the profits you had made when you do make such sell decision.If you do keep on having this kind of regret on missing out those possible big profits
then that feel of anxiety wont really be removed on someones mind.

Never let yourself get distracted into these things because this will just result into bad decisions since theres something boggles up on your mind.In next move, you might be holding
a lot more longer for the belief that similar situation might happen.

Selling early regrets is common but you should think up positive that you had make out some money and that what matter most.

I find it hard to deal with such regrets. One day back it happened with my ethereum. My target for ethereum was $1000, and further expected price correction. Taking it into mind I sold it for $970. I don't know what to do, the price kept marching forward. All of the sudden it crossed $1100. I don't know what to do, I've missed the train. Had patience and stood for the price drop, nothing happened and today once again bought ethereum with what is available at the price $1260.

Yeah well, I've learned to let those regrets go.  I mean, come on--how the hell was I supposed to know bitcoin would go as high as it has so far in 2021?  And hell, I got rid of plenty of bitcoin back when it was only a few hundred dollars/BTC.  If I kept thinking about how wealthy I'd be, it'd turn my hair white overnight (assuming I hadn't pulled it all out in a fit of rage).

Nobody here can predict the future, so give yourselves a break if you sold out too early.  A lot of bitcoin traders--and even long-term hodlers--did just that, and I'm sure a lot of them are kicking themselves for not holding just a little bit longer.

Just accepting the result because we can't feel regret too long. I am sure we will have a chance to sell at another high price. It is normal if we sell early before the price increase higher, but as long as we can reach the target price that we set before, we don't have to regret too long. That means, we need to learn more details, so we can know where the price will go or at least, we can make a target sell price closest to the higher price. It will need more learn and practice to have a better analysis, and I think many people do that over and over. So you are not alone by selling early, so don't feel bad or regret about that.

One of the easiest ways I'd deal with this is to spread my funds between holding longterm and regular trading. If my trading funds misses a bull run, my long-term fund benefits. The last thing you'll want to do as a trader is to be consumed with regrets during trading.

Good  plan and I had done the same on where it can somewhat ease the regrets you do have in mind when you do miss out those money making or profit opportunities.
Don't really get tied too much into your emotions because this is one of the most common factor that do really affect someones decision making skills.
Dealing with it might not really be simple or easy but can really be likely to be controlled with due experience and awareness of the situation.
Selling early is common due to unpredictable market but you should think that you had make out some money and that's what we do aim since from the start,.
there nothing for you to regret on.

In order to make it in this world you have to just do it and move on.  If you regret and look back it will keep you from moving on the next time.  You can not advance this way.

I get used to trade on future trading because I can see or even I can count how many profit that I got directly, different with spot trading which I should count first to know how much profit that I got.

As for your concern, actually I use money that I can afford to lose and never take a decision to choose high leverage. So, when I trade I'll be comfortable in any situation, include honestly I never sell if my target haven't been achieved, it means I never sell early as you asking.

Because I'll have a stop lose feature that can keep my capital getting liquated. These things always give me a good return, yeah I'll compare when the first time I came to trade, selling coin when I bought a coin in five minutes or less it is often to happen, but now I have realized it.

Setting short term goal can ease the regret, I did sell early and regretted it especially the price reach more that 42k dollars now, but the time I do watch the market and plans to monitor it to sell and hold is depressing since the price is too volatile there are points that it keeps increasing when you watch it and suddenly will decline when you're not around and busy. At this point what important to consider is the fact that profit is profit and it's a reward for having BTC before this bull run happen. There's always a time to do short term trading and when price seems to drop a bit buyback can be an option provided you'll have time to monitor it.

I would stay calm despite of pressures experienced particular these days of bullrun. We need to have courage in order to survive and acquire more potential gains when holdings reached the top value. Regrets isn't avoidable but if you think smartly, buying back is a good options just to cope up with future pumps.

I just forget it and move on. i have sold a few bitcoins @33k for each and then it goes to the 40k right now. You can imagine how much should i got from my bitcoin when im selling it right now.
There's no reason to argue if im making the wrong decision because i have been making a decent profit from there.
Just try to take another opportunity from the altcoin market. My life must go on

when it's lucky don't ever regret don't be too greedy. If the price has doubled and the trend indicates the price will rise, just look for the bounce to increase the profit. Use technical analysis to predict where the price will go. Regret won't make a profit, take profit and make profit again. Don't become a loser by constantly lamenting your regrets without taking any action.

This one is the most common scenario in my crypto life. I always a false decision and regret after that. So how I manage it? when I see that I take a early decision but I was in profit that time. It's normal for me to deal. Because I think I was in profit that time. And I don't regret more when I lose something because I already able to manage myself after losing again and again in crypto life.

But when I early take a decision and sale my holding in lose. I regret more in this case and think it was my guilty and should be changed next time. :) But I can not find the NEXT TIME ever. LOL

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What can be done here? You are talking about mistakes. How do you yourself tolerate your mistakes?
I only see two options. If you sold according to your plan, don't worry. If you sold out of fear or greed, then it is worth considering why you were scared and why you did not have a specific action plan.
What happened - what happened, we cannot change this. But we can do something today that would change our tomorrow.

No matter how positive you think but as a trader myself I know how it feels when you sell your coins at a cheaper rate. It feels horrible and it feels like killing ourselves specially when you waited for so long and just when you sell it, the price starts to rise. You are right regretting all the time is not going to help and we need to take positive actions but its not easy to forget about such loses and sometimes we hold coins for too long thinking about past experiences.

I would say it is part of life and trading so one should just not think too much, not easy for sure but just remember that you at least have not faced loss.

I suggest something that has worked for me over the years and that is sell a little each time as the price starts to go up as its very hard to predict the top of the market and at least you know that you have taken profits along the way. So its like dollar cost averaging when you buy say Bitcoin instead of investing a large amount of say $20k and buying 1 Bitcoin where as you could invest say $250 a week and you would end up with more as there are dips in price and the same goes for when selling. You can sell small amounts riding the wave towards the top. I hope this makes sense and helps you out.

This is simple, if you are selling too early then that means that you are a trader right? You need to have several things very clear if you want to have what it is called a complete strategy, and three of the most important aspects are an entry strategy, an exit strategy and a reentry strategy, the entry and exit aspects of a strategy are self-explanatory but the reentry part of the strategy refers exactly about the problem many traders face several times during their career.

If you sell too early you are going to watch the asset you had to keep going in value, that is when you must simply accept that you made a mistake and get back in the market, and to do that you will have to use your reentry strategy.

When I sell early and regret.. I think about what makes me sell early. If its a positive reason, it will actually make me stop regretting. But if I just sell for selling sake. I always find a way to stop seeing the coin I sold that goes multifold

Regret for a while then move on. Yes it is very simple to say but hard to apply because we are dealing with cryptocurrency with real monetary value that if you miss greater opportunities you are somewhat missing out the chance of earning greater gains of profit. It is very usual for every trader to miss our greater opportunities for we are working on a volatile market that highs are considered as improvement on positive way and you should grab such before it turns down. For sure many of us have already experience regrets for selling too early or too late because no one literally knows on which direction can the price goes. You just really need to regret it for a while then move on and try to catch up on the missed opportunity you have and make better decisions the next time around.

Looking at the past few days we can see that it is very important to hold and sell Altcoins or Bitcoin at the appropriate times. Because Bitcoins fall so quickly and keeping them can sometimes leave you with no money.

If you believe in a project always keep a long term bag that you never touch, think about what moon could look like for that project and hold some tokens that you never sell just incase you reach moon. Trade or play around with another bag. And oh yeah, if you actually reach that moon price you had in your head you should sell regardless if it goes up more, what's worse than selling at your moon price and seeing it go up is holding and then seeing a token drop -90%.

Feeling regret is a normal feeling of human. But if you want to succeed in trading or at least in investing, you need to become calm so as to make clear decision. You can miss some of opportunities but the market continue to create new edges, new opportunities for you to grab. If you spend your time to regret what you did in the past, how can you have a clairvoyant mind to make a new trade. Learn from your mistake, but dont let the negative feelings bury you.

Thats the effect of being affected with price drops and fomo. The thing here is that we need some basis perhaps learning how to read indicators is a great benefit for us to know whether it may still go up after few sideways or not.

Rather than regretting what we did before by selling too early, we better perhaps improve our trading skills and collect more tools needed not to repeat the mistakes again.

So some football players scored a hat-trick in one game, do you think he will regret and be disappointed in every next game if he doesn't do the same? You can't have "the best performance" every time! It's simply not possible, not even for the best from the best, even they have bad days and many mistakes!
What that means in trading? Simply you can buy every bottom, you can't sell every top! If you trade regularly you will have good hits, and some days will be perfect probably, when you bought/sold at very bottom/top, but you will have bad days too, full of mistakes!
So how to deal with mistakes (buying/selling late/early), regrets... like always, when you fall first what you need to do is to stand up, think about your position and take the best from it! Learn from mistakes, and try not to fall too hard next time!

Selling early regrets is common because people cant really just able to ignore that they shouldnt have sell that early to make more money.

On thinking that they should consider themselves lucky because they do able to gain rather than on losing their investment.
Dealing with it? Just moved on.

Dont look back into the past or what had been done already as long you do make money then that what matter most.

I went through the same thing and worse not once, it made me realize that being calm is very important in crypto. It's better to do an analysis of what happened and before that try to determine the worst-case scenario and determine the purpose of your investment, I'm sure that will help rather than just regretting it.

By forgetting it since you cannot do anything anymore since you already sell it and just think about you still earn even if the market is unpredictable and bounce back next time around once there's a opportunity. You don't need to count your possible earnings if you hold since it's different scenario and we don't know about the outcome of we talk about future.

I simply think we cant turn back time and its destined to happen. Even I dont sell my coins earlier I cant also pin point the perfect timing to sell.

Thus as long as I made profit regardless how small or huge it is, still its a profit. What we need is contentment and learn to appreciate what we haf. Regrets are always there for sure but think of the positive side of selling early.

What if the price suddenly drop after we sell? Then we made the right decision, just think about it that way.

It is not easy to accept the selling early regrets, especially if we know the price increase so high after we sell.
But we can not do anything because that is out of our expectations, and we can not predict accurately where the price will increase or decrease.
But at least, before we sell our coin, we already analyze the price and we know where we need to sell the coin, so we can still make a profit, although our profit will not be too big if we sell at another high price.
I am sure that we will have another chance to sell the other coins at a high price, and we should accept that without regretting too long.

I'll just consider it as my bad experience and do some adjustments in order to avoid it to happen again. Selling not in the right time will surely to give us a regret but if you have no enough resources to hit the right time to sell then it is better than selling with no profit at all.

But for seasoned trader, I know that this kind of action will surely to give them a hard lessoned and they will regret it for sure. Still it is not the end of the journey, meaning we need to move forward and what we can do is to learned from our past mistakes and make our trading decision better in our future trades.

At the end of the day even if have a plan, selling early would make everyone upset. If we bought at 7k and sold at 21k, that would be 3x return, but when we see price hitting 40k we will still be upset about it no matter what. So, that is why selling early regrets will happen no matter what. What we can do about it is, basically never sell until we want to get out completely.

I understand that many people do not get in crypto with huge sums, so they can't get retirement amount of money that easily, if you invested 100 dollars when bitcoin was 1000 dollars (5 years ago) and sold today at around 40 thousand dollars, you would have 4 thousand dollars right now. That is a 5 year wait on 40x return, and even though that is a great return, you are still not retiring with 4000 dollars. But if you keep investing and keep waiting you may end up retiring with it, and do not sell until that moment. After that, you are retired with a lot of money, doesn't matter if you missed more money.

Yes, you are right. After we get lost the money, we will have more opportunities to profit from the other coins.
As long as we know when we should sell the coin and how much profit we can get, I think we can prevent the loss, and no matter if our profit is not bigger than we expect, we still profit.
With the volatility of the crypto market, we should always calculate or analyze when we can enter the market and exit the market at the right time.
We do not have to make more profit if we think it will be difficult to do, especially if the market is hard to predict.

Selling too early will have a risk, which we should know.
But if the price can increase to $21k, and we already sold it for that price, the price will go down for a while.
Sometimes, the price can go down too deep, and we will have the chance to buy back Bitcoin at a lower price.
Bitcoin price itself will not always increase after the highest price, and the price will adjust to the lower price for a while or stay at that low price.
If you can buy back bitcoin at that time, your bitcoin amount will be bigger than before, so you will have more chances to sell it at another highest price.
Bitcoin investment will need patience, which will depend on how big the investors can wait for that.
If they can wait for a long time, they will get a big reward in the future, but bitcoin investment will benefit us because we can sell it whenever we want.

I can handle the regret because so many regrets had happened to me in as much I'm still the trading atmosphere, every minutes on or two traders gets regret for selling lower so you have to accept that and move on to next trade, I sold my btc at 33k thinking it would still be falling but now it's at 37k, very hard to predict the future and when it's goes against you, embrace it and find the next solution.

One way to avoid it is to never sell.

To flip the negativity of trading early (regrets) is to forget about what you've done.
How? Start something new. Focus on that. Then with high hopes, slowly you will not remember it anymore.
I know the feeling, sometimes it visits like nightmares when you are alone.
Thankfully, I don't remember the numbers anymore.

if it triggers when we are alone the solution is to make your self a company with others or make your mind busy  , play games when no one is available to talk to , play music when your finally alone in your room and will be going to bed . it works like wonders on me .

 trading is like gambling , when we play gambling we practice to forget the past sessions , that includes past losses and wins .

now we need to apply what we learn on gambling into trading .

If you make a profit out of your Trade whether it is a small or big, that's what all matters, you don't have to regret it in my opinion because it's much better than losing a profit. Trading is sometimes not goes with your plan, so it should be expected. You just have to re-enter a Trade again once the price goes beyond the price where you sold your coin, then sell again once it goes up again to the price you want.

What's done is done, no matter what you do after a unsuccessful trade won't change what already happen. You just have to learn and move on, make the right thing next time.

There are no such traders who would get a profit to the maximum. And it's not uncommon for me to see the price of a coin still double after selling it. I know that the market will provide me with many more opportunities to make a profit, but I am still tormented by FOMO.

Well honestly, I kinda regret this one, and not gonna lie it did happen to me many times. But I always tell to myself as long as I got a profit on it, that would be matter. I can't do anything, I don't want to grieve on it because there's nothing will change anyway so better to get a grip and enjoy the profit. Besides, you don't know what exactly gonna happen market moves in an unexpected way. You could also buy it back again if you want more profit cause it will never be too late.

The best way positive way I think is best to deal with selling early regret is to have mature thinking about what happened since you don't sell at lost price everything is good cause there will always be another day with another opportunity in the market. So only have to think about the future, learn from previous mistake and ready to make good profit out of the current market after all ones cant turn back the time.

*I will just try to make my mind aware that it is not my luck...
trading often doesn't go according to plan, I often experience this so I'm used to it. the point is we have to keep our minds thinking positively and forgetting the things that passed so that in the future we can make profits.

Keep in mind that profit is profit. Never regret something just because 'you can earn more' yet you've already earned fine. Such pessimistic traits often tend to drive us greedy in our trades which can soon be a constant loss. Dealing with it is indeed hard, yet it is a constant lesson and a character development. As for me, I've lost more than I've earned, yet I still keep moving and learning from such mistakes. I often take a day or two of break and reflecting with such regrets, especially if the possible income is more than 10x of what I've got. But still, it is part, and a lesson. So, being satisfied with a 3 or 5 dollar income in the next trades is fine.

And now it's 39K+ again, the momentum is moving upwards and chances that it's going to find new breakout. If this trend won't stop

45K is also possible to reach, another regret for those who sell it out when the correction take place. You have to face it, there's no assurance

and it's your own instinct that will guide you to move forward.

Instinct/Intuition/gut/inner thoughts = These are the things that will surely mixed up aside on your own personal analysis that do came from TA's and FA's.
Its truly a regretful thing for those who had sell off in loss when the price is going down to 31k as far as i remember where i do also have thoughts
that point of time might really be the true correction but here again, i was wrong but luckily i didnt able to sell off my position and instead
i do accumulate even more into that price point and it did pay off. Its a matter of risk taking though because if you are someone who cant
really just able to make out decisions wether you do risk or not then you wont really be gaining or losing something.

I learned one thing in recent days which helps me with this (was posted on this forum), once you are in profit, change your sl to position where even if market hits your sl you will still be in profit. You can also use trailing stop loss for that.

You will still expose yourself to future profits while minimizing your losses.

I think many people are getting the secret behind this strategy but now where they're having issue is how to time the market perfectly and place those stop loss. I have had complains in the past one particularly from someone that I gave this same advice but it backfired as the market flash crash and later recovered with minute and now the coin is soaring high but he isn't on the benefiting end since his stop loss order got executed.

Many newbies prefer to stay in a trade just because they don't want to miss out on potential future profits the coins is to give obviously based on speculation they most have seen online from the so called professional traders that just leverage on the gullible nature of this new comers.

If you want to be successful at trading then you must self program yourself to be comfortable with the small profits you receive provided you don't close any trade in losses. Scenarios like this is common and you must learn to live with them

Initially, it was big rage for me. Each time I had such downfall I would go nuts and tell everyone in my circle how I lost profits that would have been in my account if I wouldnt gone for selling.

However, later many suggested me that it's not your loss because you loose nothing until cash out below break even point. Each time the price went up I just lost the virtual profits that would have been mine if I would have kept the bitcoin as it is.

Yes it still feels bad but after this I started to follow one method. Basically made two account for trading of which one is for daily trading to take little profits and another is for the purpose of long holding. So I have best of both worlds now. Try to make such strategies which can make you comfortable while trading.

All good :)

At first, I already plotted and decided with it so if it goes up even higher then it will be my fault but in the end I can't do anything about it to accept. After all what we want is profits right? As traders, it is ok to sell early as long as you got some profit but from a holder's perspective they might feel a bit of regret because of selling too early knowing that the price of it might go even higher.

For me, no hard feelings as long as I got profit. There are many opportunities out there. Just wait and find them.

Truly it painful for selling early and later regretting however I always take solace  in the fact that the reason
and aim forr selling my coin at a particular price before it skyrocketed is actualised I just forget and move on.
I can't predict the market perhaps if the price had dumped before selling I would have regretted too for not selling earlier, these are price behavior that no one can change but have to get accustomed to however when any opportunity of accumulating avail itself we should continue to buy and hodl.

When i buy some alt coin first i set my plan. I don't wait long time for high profit. Only sell why i see fulfill my demand and always i sell only some satoshi profit.

One way to deal with that is to have more experience in trading, what some people might fail to understand is no matter how good you are at trading or investing, you will have a lot of regrets whether it's because of selling too early, not selling in profit when you had the chance or not buying something when it was cheap, and you know what? you will eventually get used to it as you have more experience and it doesn't bother you that much anymore and your brain will just learn to ignore these feelings of regret.

So what you can do is to accept the fact that you're going to be wrong at finding entry and exit prices a lot of times, and based on my own experience I assure you that you will get used to it as you experience it more and more and that would be something that could make a way better trader as you're not afraid of making mistakes and missing out on a possible great opportunity anymore.

It's going to help more if you're going to apply technical analysis on it to increase your profits in the long run. Also, trading with the right chart information gives you confident that'll boost your profit because it will always ensure you that winnings in every Trade is 80% accurate than trading by just following your instincts.

There's a lot of strategies that you could learn by reading or watching in YouTube tutorials, find the right one that'll suit your style in Trading.

This is why we need to learn to let go of our feelings when we are trading, it is obvious that in the scenario that you are giving a person is going to be mad by not being able to maximize their profits, but at the end of the day you got profits which is way better results than what most traders and investors are getting when they invest in bitcoin.

After all if you have more money than what you had at the beginning of a trade now you have more opportunities to keep multiplying that money regardless of whether the market keeps going up or not, that is way better than the alternative which is to have no money because you lost it all when you were trading and now you are unable to take advantage of the next movements of the market.

There is no reason to regret, but there are reasons to realize what you did, why you did it, what things pushed you to do it, and so on.
Having understood why this happened, you can try to take control of it in the future, otherwise you risk repeating your mistakes.

You wont really improved if you wont really realize on what are those mistakes that you had done or missed out do for you to make more money.
Dont regret as long you do able to gain then that what matter most.Selling early regrets are common but the worst thing kind of regret is that
you do missed out to sell when you are still earning or making profit and the market crashes and thats because of your greed to held up too long.
Just try to learn up to those missed opportunities and try to apply it into your future trades.

I rarely regret selling early. I cant remember an altcoin, which I have sold with huge losses. I remember myself selling only a part with a small loss, but previous deals with an altcoins were profitable, so in general I'm still having profit. Cant say that I'm the most calm person in the world, but, as cryptocurrency is not my only and main source of income, I mostly go with rule - "you can earn all the money in the world". For me selling early and having a loss means I need to improve in future so that I wont repeat same mistake.

When we trade crypto, we must have experienced regret because of selling early. A positive way to deal with the situation is usually I take a short
break and seek entertainment so I can move on. After that start learning to manage emotions and improve my trading skills, so I can avoid repeating
the same mistakes.

Trading is not easy, there are many things we have to learn in order to become successful traders. So always be grateful every time we get a profit
when trading, even though the amount may be small. And never be lazy to learn something new, it will make our trading skills improve.

That's a great way to stay in the right mood, taking some time off from time to time and more specially after some loss or maybe missing out on some profit could help you get back on the right track.

There's a term called "Revenge Trading" and that is what most less experienced traders could do a lot and do not realize it.

For example: You miss out on a nice movement up or you take a loss on some coin/token which affect your decision making and what it does is that it pushes you to take more trades and as a result more risk to recover what you just lost and I guess it goes without saying that it usually doesn't end that well and it will lead to just even more losses.

Just be realistic, you have to fully understand that we are playing a prediction game here, regardless on what method you use, there's still no way that you can guarantee to know the outcome. Accept your mistake and continue, since the market is very volatile, you'll surely gonna spot a lot of opportunity to re enter again and sell at a good profit once you learn and improve.

I agree. You need to accept the fact the lose the potential of getting huge money if you didn't not sell it early. I experienced it back in 2018, I immediately sold the token that I received in campaign but it's alright with me. I learn from that mistake and learn how to manage my cryptocurrency when is the right time to sell it. We probably know what will happen next but if have knowledge about the right time to sell and buy, we can gain money on it. We have opportunities to come and we need to be sure about what we sell and hold.

I have been in many moments like this. Not just Bitcoin and Ethereum, but many other handful coins that suddently pumped after I sold too early. Until now, I am still feeling it because I was left by the boat as others are celebrating and enjoying their profits after waiting for so long.

For me, in dealing this in a positive way, I focus on other stuff that would make me productive such as creating Youtube videos related to cryptocurrencies, blockchain and DeFi. Despite that it’s kind of hard to move on, I always learn how to be grateful in all lie aspects despite that I’ve missed many boats. I start to congratulate and being happy for them (not being jealous) and eventually I got unexpected blessings from time to time. 

Much sadder is another situation where you are waiting for an even higher price, but the market turns around and you get a loss instead of a profit. And if you are satisfied with the price at which you sell, then you have completed the task set for yourself for this transaction. And we must remember that the deal is not the last, every day the market gives you the opportunity to earn.

By rebuying? People mocked to people who bought at 10k, sold at 20k and rebought at 30k, but that is how you should do in bitcoin world. Think about it this way, if you end up with early selling, would you rather stay away from bitcoin forever and do nothing about it? Or would you rather get back in right away and hope that it keeps going higher? I personally would prefer to get bitcoin when I can and end up making a bit of profit from it, that way I could profit from my mistake but make less profit instead of zero profit.

However if you end up selling and not rebuying, you will be just watching the market as the price keeps going up and you are there with your money and just keep losing more and more profits you could have made. I am not saying sell early, I would say keep it as long as you can afford to keep it, but if you ever sell early, just rebuy.

People do think off the other way around where they do like to have that perfect profit taking opportunity on the right time and doesn't really mind if they can
do things again in the future.You are definitely right  that they should think that they can have opportunity from time to time since this market is moving
or volatile and theres no need for you to regret if you do missed out to make money even more because those words wouldn't really come out into your
mouth if the market go to the other side. You shouldn't regret as long you do make money and this is what our primary target.

The best way to move on from such an event is to accept the fact that you can't get back what you've lost for selling too soon. If you can come to terms with this, it should help you to move on. If there's one thing I've learn in my time here in crypto, it's the fact that:


Like the saying goes, there's no need crying over spilled milk. There's a lot of cause of regrets here in crypto - missed opportunities, selling too early or too late, etc. You just need to learn from it and remind yourself that there would always be more opportunities to capitalize on. Opportunities don't come once.

Well, it hurts and regrets most all the time when you are selling your bitcoin that almost doubled the price now. This is actually happening to me personally when I have borrowed bitcoin and convert to money at the price I think $17k in the market, but now it has almost doubled the price and it seems I will pay this with double the price. So the regret here is why I am borrowing bitcoin at a lower price and now it hard to repay and again such a deal. Perhpas if I have an investment in bitcoin, I rather hold until my profit was there.

Too sad to hear but somehow, you also not know if by tomorrow Bitcoin price will rise and the time you receive the money, you actually cashout it because you need it. On the other hand, you are also benefiting from the money but the problem is, it was a borrowed money and that you must have to pay for the interest no matter if the price of Bitcoin is high or low.
Don't mind about the converted value(fiat), it only hurts you. And for the next time, make it hold for a while.

Amen to that, if you profited then you are as good as anyone who trades. Selling early when you know that the price at which you bought and the price that you sell has a big gap then you know that you already profited. Regrets will be there, it is okay to wallow in regrets for awhile but do not let this get you hit rock bottom, let those feelings be there so you can easily overcome them.

people should have the same opinion as you. I ofter to take the profit from the market when I'm thinking that has been fulfilling all of my targets.
I have ever regret to sell my bitcoin early and lost a lot of money but I just try to move into the altcoin market and I can recover the profit-loss from my bitcoin holding that I have sold it too early.

Once you expect great profit from the project, you will regret no matter where the price will go. If the price went down, you will regret not selling it earlier because if you did, you could have multiplied the quantity of your tokens.   

When price goes up after you sell, its a lot devastating when you are already expecting big.

It should be taken for granted that there is no such trader who is able to sell at high and buy at low. But if you closed the order before the price reached high and made a profit, then you did not open this trade in vain. After all, any profit is better than a loss.

That's right, it's what it's. what you have got, it is your decision. don't regret it for too long. and events like this will definitely happen, as long as we are able to set our profit and goals in trading, I don't think that's a problem

i say always if you sell it with profit, you have profit, dont think about it anymore, because i have learned that if you are greedy , you definitely gonna loose your profit , heck you even will be in loss ;)

make an limit for your self and if you reach it sell it ... and buy it back when its lower again...

As the type of scalping trader who takes no big profits, I myself don't care about large increases. the most important thing is when the Profit Target has been reached I will sell it. there is still time to be able to produce at a later time than I have to wait for the increase again. because I rely on tradng to get a monthly income. on average every 1 - 2 days have reached the target or hit a Stop Lose  :D

It's not even just about selling early, selling during the market crash I did and it's a regret I can really overcome just by ignoring it. I just think there will still be many opportunities ahead, so making that previous bad experience or mistake is a lesson and doesn't need to be done again. Therefore, changing with great effort for the better is something that must be done, we don't need to get carried away in regret because it will only waste time and will not result in anything.

If we sell early but still get a profit, there's no need to be disappointed and regrets. Except when we sell early but experience a loss, it must be
regretted. Therefore, the best key to crypto trading in order to get profit is that we must be able to control our emotions. Because selling early
usually happens to people who don't have patience. My advice in order to avoid selling early is to stay focused on our sell targets. I am sure that
when trading, always be patient and focus on predetermined sell targets. So selling early can be avoided.

Human beings are naturally greedy and its not surprising that we would really be looking for more profits rather than on earning less but we shouldn't really have this kind of mindset because
instead on making profits we would rather be on loss.Selling early regrets is normal but we shouldn't stress up ourselves but rather do learn from it so that we would be smart on next
possible opportunities that we might encounter.If you do really always mind or thinking about it then that will really be a problem. The important thing is that you do able to make
money and don't look back or trying to remember that you should have not sell because we don't know on where market moves.

Is better to be early than turn to a loosing trade mate because often times people think their TA targets need to be hit and they look for their top which in most cases never comes

Same thing happen with one of alt I traded just yesterday, it hit my sl and now 50% up, certainly this strategy sounds better than it is.

It’s better to get something than nothing.
I always think of this.
Yeah i feel sometimes bad, but make myself happy thinking that I didn’t made loss.
The best practice is to calm down whenever faced with such scenarios.
And act smarter to decide when to sell and when to hold.

Well, I've been down on this road many times and I must say it's not to easy to deal with most especially when you are looking at that same coin or tokens skyrocketing.
My recent experience happened just last year, I sold all my 28 eth at about $387 each around October last year, OK, imagine I held to at least December, I would have earned a very huge amount of money, but then it's gone and it's gone, I can't leave with the regret cus it would be disastrous, so I just act like I never owned that coin or token in the first place, I just tell myself I never owned it, and beside, the money I earned from the sell was not wasted, so it make forgetting about it more easy, so I just let the past be in the past and let now and future be my major concern.

How do you deal with price going from 10k to 40k? I am pretty sure that scalping still made profit since the price was going up, but people who hold their coins made about 4x return in the same time, do you think scalpers made 4x as well?

I am not talking about specifically you, you may have made more or less than that, I just wanted to ask did you find the method great during this period as well? Considering you make a monthly income from trading, you must be really good at it, what do you think is the best method you have seen so far? Is it scalping?

I personally do not really like risking my money with scalping because I am not good at it, I realize that scalping might be good for some but you have to be good at it, if you are a newbie like me and go into scalping that easily, it would be really not a good idea so I try to stay away from it.

As the price went up it was easy to make lots of little profits from trades but nowhere near as much profit as you would have made by holding.  Still, you only make a profit when you sell, not when you hold. 

It is worth identifying your mistakes and continuing to move on. There is nothing you can do about what has already happened, except to try to change the current actions in order to subsequently change the results of tomorrow. In general, it makes a lot of sense to put yourself a stop loss on bad deals, after a certain number of deals or a certain amount of lost money, you exit and close the session for today.

The only way to deal with it is by moving on and starting to invest again with a better strategy. If you sell early because you reached your profit goal, then there is nothing to regret about. If you sell early because you got nervous seeing the price rise, then learn from this mistake. If sell early because you saw the price dipping, then make sure next time you are ready for those small dips.
Move on, start investing and keep holding. Don't sell when you see the price dropping if you can afford losing all your investment.

I simply set a target goal and sell when I reach it. Through that, I won't have too much regret since that is my usual strategy for years. The best thing to do when we regret selling too early is just to take it as a lesson and reinvest again. We can't get rid of this common mistake especially when we're just beginning so we should also know how to handle our emotions.

The best way to deal with such regrets is to remind yourself that it is not the end of the world and there will be better chances. The thing you must learn from such instances is to avoid panicking next time and never trust those signals and articles that are all covered with negativity once the price starts to drop. When you buy Bitcoins or any assets in general then you have to keep faith because drops and rise are part of the journey and if you invest in something you rather believe in their value more than the price.

I have made similar mistakes in the past where I sold some Bitcoins because people were telling me that it is going to be the end of Bitcoins and better cash whatever you have rather than waiting for absolute zero. With time I have learned that no one actually knows how the market is going to move so better make your own predictions and stay firm with them.

Plain and simple. Sell and never look back. Just about profit is profit so that you will not regret. Selling early is less painful than selling in loss dude.

The real thing we should be focusing on here is the fact that someone who is new in this wouldn't be capable of doing so awesome to begin with. Nobody starts becoming a great investor or trader in day one, everyone takes time to get better and better which is the important rule of investment. Everyone should know that even those giants with billions of dollars even trillions of dollars of hedge funds didn't became that way day one, sure some of them were lucky and rich even when they started, but the idea was always a long haul, you have to be consistently investing a lot of money for decades and you become a strong power.

Now not many people have a chance to invest that much for decades and get the profits of it, but you do not have to be that rich neither. So do not sell early, do not sell late, just buy buy buy and eventually you will realize after few decades (if your age permits) you will be way too rich for your own standards, because that is how investment works.

As a trader; it is best to take your mind off tokens that you have taken profit from. Once you sell a token; either it moons or not should not cause a mood swing for you. If you sold at loss; and it later ddid multi fold; you should improve on your decision making skills in case of next time.

But can you really do that? I cannot stand not to take a peek on how's the market going after selling Bitcoin. Half of the times I've recently sold, the price remained to similar levels after selling, so didn't really bother. There was this time though, it wasn't long ago, less than a month, that the price skyrocketed right after I sold, I did make a decent profit but still, it's annoying to see it happen.

Personally, I set a goal of achieving an X amount of profit, (Either in percentage or in cash). After surpassing that, I will monitor the price for a while and then sell. Then, try not to bother of what happens next.

If there is no greediness and stable trading emotions, then the decision that has been made of course is a correct way.
yes, although a little regret does exist, because it is human nature,
but a trader must know when to buy again, the most important thing is to have profit from each purchase.

And the right time to buy again is when the price of bitcoin will dip.
Don't believe on the bullish people that bitcoin will not anymore dump to $20k and below as the history tells bitcoin is very volatile.

you miss and opportunity to buy cheap, wait for the price to correct and then buy bitcoin at dip.

Regret more if you don't buy at dip than selling early despite making a profit from it.

Look at the graph https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/

wait for the red line to come.

https://i.imgur.com/NJMI1xe.png

That depends, did you lose money? If the answer is no, then I don’t see any reason why you should worry much about it. If you feel that you’re losing money then you should buy back the asset and wait for when you will make extra profit. This is how most of the people here are making profits out of this crypto space. Learn the strategies and always look for the opportunities.

I always have a target, and I never regret when I sell at that target, even if the market should move forward from there, I don’t see any reason for me to worry about it since I have achieved that my target I will even happy about it. The only time I regret is if I should sell my coins while at lost and then the price pumps.

That’s why it’s good not to hurry at times, but there are also times you will decide not to hurry and you will end up losing your money, so how do you deal with a situation where you lose your money?

You know that’s worst than when you sold early but you still have profit, so a situation like this one should be more easy to handle than the one where you’re losing money. The thing is that you should take away greed and appreciate the little profit you have got and understand that it’s not a must that you are going to get every thing. Maybe next time try to not to sell everything and just sell some and leave the rest.

We have our own goal and strategy when selling our assets. From the start you should have a plan when to sell. As what others says take profit when happy, but others have regret because of greed and no contentment. So as long you have profit it is good and buy back in dip.

I always have a good reason for selling any of my token in the first place....

Like once I needed to buy medications for momma....
Another time it was to take Care of some very bugging issue...
That way I know at least... I didn't just sell it, I sold it to get something of equal value or greater value

That is not easy for many newbies unfortunately. I would suggest the same thing if it was in my hands but I do not think that we are going to be able to see something like that anytime soon and it will not be possible. We are going to end up with a lot better results if we were capable of not feeling emotions, but we are humans and we feel emotions so there is no way we are not going to feel regret neither.

At the end of the day bitcoin is a long term store of value asset and it will always go up, which means if we end up selling, we are going to see it go up, because in the long term it always goes up so it doesn't matter if it goes down or up during the first days or weeks of us selling, eventually after few years it is going to be so much more and that is the real deal here as well, we are talking about something we can't control.

That is correct. I had probably over 100 bitcoins in my life, almost all of them when it was lower than 1k dollars, and a few of them between 5-10k levels, and only a very tiny portion of it (under 1-2 bitcoins) was above 10k, and I never had any bitcoins since it broke over 30k for example.

It means if I kept that 100 bitcoins, that would be about 3.7 million dollars right now, I would be so rich that not only I wouldn't have to work ever again, my grandchildren would live a very rich life with that kind of money, hell my grand-grandchildren would probably live off that money, looking at inflation dollar loses value but not that much, it would stil be good enough amount to live without working for 3 to 4 generations. Yet here I am working every single day to make ends meet and not even making that much money. If I focus on this, I would probably feel suicidal, but I do not, because I love my work, and I feel like I earn my place in the world instead of just getting lucky.

There's always a situation like that on where you would really be ending up on selling out your coins in not the right time due to those kind of emergencies
which i do agree on most part that it doesnt really matter as long you have sold it for other important purpose just like hospitalization or medication of your loved one's
or other situation that do get involved your family or relatives. Money is should be spent out but if you do have some spare for you not to touch off your
coins that had been holding then its a good option but if you dont have any choice then this will be your last resort.

This is a common occurrence especially recently when everything is growing. I don't know how to calm this feeling even though I earned a few percent on the project. For example, I sold UNI for $ 2. I will always remember this and this wound will never heal.

Once you finished the trading, don't look back and check for the price. You need to move on, otherwise, you will get crazy thinking that what you should have done. As long as you made profit, just be happy that you are on the positive side. Thinking that you should have sold at a different time will not help you calm down your feeling of regret. We will always have that feeling but one thing to move on is just look for other opportunities and not go back again and again to your old asset.

I think that feeling is the same feeling as greed and he's already using emotions in trading which is not good. Most traders are like that and did end up regretting because they sold early. I think it's just normal because all you want is to gain profit but you didn't expect it to fold more than what you have expected.

That's why TA is somehow effective if you really want to get close of the price as much as you can.
Anyway, if your target is just to gain profit why regret though? You haven't done wrong with it and I think if you feel the same way again then always think that when you are about to dump be sure that you won't look back anymore.

Why should I regret it, if you have already profit from your trading. This is something good.
Sometimes we can’t predict peak prices, even the best traders. Come back to buy at a cheap price,
this will be very safe, if you want to sell for profit.

But people dont really get contented that easily which means whenever they do sell out early and then seeing the price had increased even more then they do really regret after that
but if they do think off if they do able to pull off those positions before the market crash then they would just simply say that was a close call.Humans are born greedy thats why
these kind of selling regrets cant really be removed on one self. Profits is profits and that what matter most but people doesnt really like out to miss and like to have that
maximum profitability even into this very unpredictable market which is really that too dumb kind of a habit or behavior.

Simply , Be realistic and Put to your mind that you cannot bring back the past instead work for the future.
and Bitcoin or crypto trading does not stop just because you lose today.

Instead of Blaming yourself why not use the time and effort to look for another investment and will not become Panicking again this time, Use the mistake to be more knowledgeable tomorrow.

If you are not sure about selling or not selling, always pick the not selling side, because at the end of the day if you have the option to not sell there is no question in my mind that I wouldn't sell. Obviously there are times in life where you have to end up selling and I get that, it is understandable that you might be forced to sell and that is totally understandable, but just because it is understandable that you might sell due to some reason, doesn't mean that everything is a valid reason.

If you want to sell because you are going to pay your debt that sounds reasonable, but if you sell because your reason is that price may go down, that is not a good reason at all. I just make that distinction between those two things and I do not sell that easily at all. Selling or not selling is not a question in my mind, it is a forced thing or not.

There we have it our what we called "gut feeling", either you are torn between selling or not selling just listen which one does weight heavier because this might what your gut feelings wanted you to choose. However, if you had already done it like selling at early where you didn't think that example bitcoin will getting to hit its new ATH for somewhat $40K and you have sold it for just $20k then its a sad part, totally sad but then it'll happened and you couldn't change the way it happened. All you need to do was moved on and trust yourself that you may get it again, maybe that profit wasn't your lucky time yet

Gut feeling with some accompanied a little bit of luck will really be pleasing but when results goes to the opposite side then just move on and accept  because not all the times we would really be right
on what our gut do say but basing off on experience this one could really help into some situations.

Results might not really be going as expected but basing off ratio then i can tell that this is also a helpful thing for you to follow but wont really be that good for you to head on from time to time.

Selling early neither would be a good call or not and this will vary on how market moves.Its always been unpredictable thats why results would really not go as anticipated.

Accept your mistake and move on to find a new opportunity again. Correcting our mistakes everytime is important to grow, we don't have to stop right away after making mistakes, even if we are successful already, we still want to make more by doing our effective strategy, some with making mistakes, we will not stop until we learn and be good at what we are doing.

I've sometimes caught this one. I bought BTC at $11k, then seel it at $20k, but it was a surprise it goes high reaching $30k, $40k. Yeah, it is very regretting but we should have to accept it rather than crying and quit, much better to set a plan for another investment.

It is a thing we need to move on and from that bad experience, we are able to learn. Seeing this failure is a big chance for us to grow for positive people but for doubtful individuals, don't know how they will respond.

Learn from mistake and move on.Dont go back to the past and keep regretting because this will just disturb you out on your further actions in the market.
Early selling regrets are bit common because this is an unpredictable market but somehow it can really be handle out if you do know how to deal things up.

We would learn in our past mistakes and sometimes guts and intuition are one of the things that could really be helpful on this kind of time.

There is nothing to be sorry about, we sold early, the most important thing was that we managed to get a profit. You don't need to be greedy,
wanting to always make big profits every time you trade, in my opinion it's better to have small profits and not lose money. That's what's most
important when trading crypto. If you don't want to sell coins too early, can hold long-term and do not be affected by price movements that occur
in the near future. Always focus on the targets that we have set, as long as our selling target has not been achieved, don't sell the coins that
we HODL. That way I believe you can get maximum profit.

it happens to me many times, i bought a specific coin at lowest price after a day it went double i immediately regret my decision in selling it. It is just a part of a trading life,  traders actually experiencing that even you are great trader we cannot control the flow of coin. in my cased i move on and buy another good alt coins so that i can earn more in trading alt coins.

Actually, it's not even about the profit. Selling simply means realizing your capital. $100 in orderbooks is still $100 in imaginary numbers. You only have it in hand available to withdraw when you sell.

Sometimes the regret is about making losses, but the important thing is to keep to stop loss and TP. Not to dream and never realize p/l. Easy to forget for most traders that they came and traded using strategy to make consistent gains, not to make X amount of money.

That is the best advice I have seen in a long time and it is 100% true as well. I believe it is in a situation where we are living in a world where we keep thinking what could have happened instead of thinking about what could happen and that hurts us a lot. I personally live with this problem as well, not that I keep thinking about the past because I have given up on that already so I am good there, but I fail to imagine what could be in the future, I always think how I will not be making too much profit and only be fine with the small amount of increases I get. I could make a good amount of profit if I focus and work hard but some reason I do not look at the future brightly even though I do not look at the past I am still %50 wrong here. Great advice though, everyone should follow this.

Yes as long as we have the profit I think we should regret selling it, we can accept and be contented not all people get what we have and what we earn, and it will give us another joy since we made the right choice to buy that coin and we take a courage to wait for it to pump, don't get too emotional in trading it will not bring you anything good in the future nor give you additional trading skills.

I think it is not like that at all, having bitcoin is not really unrealized profits, you could even use your bitcoin for buying something and that means bitcoin is bitcoin all by itself. Lets be honest you can't go to any place and pay with apple stock, nobody accepts shares as a way of payment, but there are soooo many places (specially online) that accepts bitcoin as a payment.

Hence I think unrealized profit is not the case for bitcoin, even if you are a trader you could say that 100 bucks in bitcoin is still 100 bucks and it still worths something, it is not digital fake numbers, it is bitcoin and it does have a purchasing power. What you said could be very well true in any other asset, barely anyone accepts gold or silver as payment, you may convince them but you can't do that easily, definitely not online, nobody accepts shares, or foreign currencies that easily, but bitcoin is different.