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If I am given a chance to go back to 2020 I would hold my ETH very tight and never let go, when covid was hitting the world at its best I thought it over and I sold 24 ETH which I bought at 120$ each, I never knew I was so damn lucky to buy at that price, learn to hold tight if you believe in a project, there are countless of projects in past years that are way bigger in value right now.

There is one thing you are not taking into account.  That is, how unpredictable this gets.

You may purchase Ethereum at $3,500 now and continue to hold.  It may be worth $35,000 in a matter of years, but maybe you actually bought during All Time High and it will never recover to $3,500 again.  Most of us have been through this.  You sell thinking it will sink to the bottom of the ocean but then it recovers like never before.  Or, you buy thinking this is just the beginning but you are actually buying the top.

Do not have such regrets.  You buy low and sell high.  These what if's are just paper losses or paper wins that were simply impossible to predict at the time you took a decision.

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Well, it is what it is, if you actually sold to sort out some real life problems, then that is absolutely fine, and another thing is that you didn't sell at a loss based on the price you purchased them for, thus you still made some returns on your investment. You can't always regret when a coin you sold starts to appreciate in price weeks or months after you already sold them because the market is unpredictable and the coin you were hodling could as well have dumped right after you sold or whilst you were still hodling, that is how the market is.

What is most important is that you are hodling a coin that is sustainable for the long term like Bitcoin, not every coin is actually good for hodling long term and you have to sell them as soon as you have made profit, but Bitcoin for example is a long term project that would attain mass adoption somewhere along the line, thus if one is a Bitcoin investor i can advise him or her to hodl on for a very long time even when the market isn't so good, but for any other coin i prolly wouldn't give out such advice bodly.

That’s where the market volatility comes in, be prepared as anything can change at anytime. Others might have lost such opportunity than you. But that’s the way the market it, understand it and know how to trade well more.

his situation is not bad at all as compared to those who bought at a higher price and then lost all because the token or coin, is not anymore tradable in the market. at least, if he sold it at profits, he already gained something. much much better than losing your initial funds. as you can't tell the future of the project, you are just hoping that your initial investments will be on the positive side and not on the negative. eth is a solid project, hence, he can see the increase of its value. however, if he happened to invest in hype token, he maybe regretting also that he did not sell the token while it has market value.

Believe me, what happened to you is really a lesson that has cost very little. Imagine people who were selling 100 or 1000 BTC for a few hundred dollars and thought it was a success. The same can be said for many other projects. As a consolation, I can tell you that the cryptocurrency market is constantly developing and you will have many similar opportunities. :)

im sorry for your lose but when you sold it right now and then you will be getting almost 30x more from what you have sold but by the way im sorry for your lose. You must be a lucky guy again soon. You can try to get the hidden gem and hope if it will become a dragon soon. I have ever sold a few hundreds ethereum at the bottom and i regret my decision. lol.

Yeah that's why the chance will always there as long as we are actively searching for the hidden gem and we can find so many new gems that will be giving the best performance like what ethereum did.
We just need to be decipline.

Of course there are regrets, but don't dwell on them too long. The most important thing is that you know what will happen in the future when we have a coin with great potential. I think it's not wrong when we sell it as long as we don't sell at a loss, maybe at that time we won't make as much profit as if we sell it now. But in the world of cryptocurrencies the same opportunities will always exist.

if you can go back in time please buy me eth too  ;D ;D

that's our regret now when we know the price of the coin went up and we didn't have the coin when the price was still cheap, maybe some people here have experienced the same thing as you. hope you will get a replacement.

That's why most at times it is not good to rush into action without making the right decisions, selling off such about of ETH then compared to current price is a strong and big lost. But one thing for sure is that there's always a big chance for you to buy some units and hold instead of regretting in two years time to come.
One thing you must know is that; we learned from our past or
We learned from what happened to other people out there. Be bold and strong enough to buy and hold.

I appreciate the fact that you realise this mistake and hope to prevent it in future but it is wrong to say that in future there might be shitcoins that go up. Shitcoins will always remain shitcoins no matter what happens to the primary market. There are some exceptions but not worth putting your time and money in. So why waste thinking about those countless projects?

If you would say the same for Bitcoin and other top altcoins I would say that you learnt a lesson and don't repeat it in future.

Lessons to learn from the past. It makes us come out different after the experience.

Practically the experience with you, I have some regrets. I may have gotten some ETH still it should have been more if I learn to trade it well in selling at the right time and buying at the right time. I was lucky to have bought ETH as early as 2015 and then sold as well. Its the most tragic story of my life that I could have more to spend this recession time. But I'm glad still. If it didn't happen I wouldn't strive harder to learn from that experience. Now I'm getting confident in trading.

it's an advantage if you can hold on until now, but come back if in 2020 there is a financial problem or other problem and the only way to solve that problem you have to sell your eth

Most important thing is acceptance no matter what your decision because you will never have a peace of mind by thinking that opportunity over and over. If you still having a hard time for that opportunity missed, Just remember that there's a guy named Laszlo Hanyecz that exchange his 10,000BTC for a 2 slices of Pizza. Imagine how much money he missed right now compared on what you experieced. All of us has a what if but we can use it as a motivation to move forward and things to consider for our future decision.

We all have face similar kind of situations where we regret selling our coins at way low price then the current time but i would say it's not your mistake as you need funds in emergency and that was only way you see to help you.Those times people survival was tough and funds we save can be utilised then.Although 24 ETH at this time are worth $84k but at what prices you have sold them? Because i think you have manage to gain good profits with them as buying them at $120 in past must have given you profits so don't feel bad.

There is nothing to regret here, you haven't said anything about why you sold those ETH, maybe a responsibility unfold? The best thing is getting money when you needed it the most this is why I didn't regret if I sell any coins and later it surge higher.

Wish I had known BTC could cost tens of dollars. I will buy it and hold on tight till now.
Don't wish too much. There is no time machine except in the movie "The Terminator or The Time Machine".
We just need to make changes not regrets.

Your regret is almost the same as mine. At the start of the pandemic I had 10ETH in my personal wallet. I held it very firmly, but at that time my finances were very bad. I was fired from work, the pandemic worsened the situation, and my savings were slowly running low. without thinking further I sold all the eth I had, because by then the price had gone up. but when my finances improved I didn't think about buying eth again even though at that time the price wasn't too different from when I sold it. a year later in 2021 to be exact, I realized that the decision at that time was the wrong choice and I regret it now.

I'm currently trying to buy back little by little and will hold onto it for years to come. no matter if many people say ethereum is too high or too expensive, i stick to my current decision, buy it for a long term investment.

Regret does not come in the beginning, because if regret can come in the beginning, then everyone in this world will be happier and happier and it will be easier for him to find the wealth he wants.
Actually, it is not only changes that need to be made, but also trust that needs to be increased and patience in storing it must also be greater, just imagine those who believe in Bitcoin and dare to buy it during the correction in 2018 and sell it last year ::) :o

If you sold it i April 2020 then at least you should have still made a profit with it. Of course the profit that you managed to achieve was only a fracture of the potential profit that you could have made if you would have held the Ethereum a few years more up until now or back into May 2021 when ETH was above 4000$ but the big problem with investments is that you can not look into the future. You should not look back to often because you just get frustrated every time you think about that "mistake" that you have made even if it wasn't a real mistake. Back then you just did what you thought was right. So it's time to move on i would say.

Regret to hear that. Infact at that time people buying Coins for long term and second you choosen top coin this why possible that It will go high in future. Now to he market Sentiment changed. Everybody jump over other project and did not stay long In one project. Many competition here in projects, Ecosystem, Metaverse,P2E and no one can say that next which coin will make history.
I remember that I had received 2500$ worth of Pyr with 1.72 price but I sold and letter the price reached to 40$.

holding your coin to an an extent is good, but not everyone can gather the moment of holding a coin for long time, so from my perspective, an investment is a mind or patient, the longer is coin going the more the increment, to hold a coin gives more advantages, because it may be that bitcoin will skyrocket to higher amount today or tomorrow, so immediately bitcoin increase the more alternative coin alias altcoins follow the increment

I hope you have sold ETH and made a profit. Regret about the lost profit is not worth it, especially since it is impossible to go back to the past again to do the right thing. After all, there are many coins that, in contrast to Ethereum, have brought big losses to their investors.

We don't have a time machine to go back in time, but the journey from what we did is an important lesson that the top altcoins are worth keeping for the long term, I also hold 14 ETH since 2020 but only took 1x flip profit to put it in the trading book.

You made a typical mistake. If you have invested in a project, then you should ask yourself what problem this project solves and what will happen to it if the economy does not go well for whatever reason. If you answered both questions positively, then you should invest in such a project and then you have to keep it even if times are worse. Only the weak hands sell in times of crisis. The strong hands buy and are the ones who end up making the big profits.

We all have our crypto wishes mate, I wish I bought BTC at 150$ in 2010 because it was within my reach at the time, someone came to me and told me all this crypto stuff but I never even took the advice seriously so we just move on, this isn't the end you learn lessons from our mistakes.

If in 2010 you already knew about Bitcoin through your friend's suggestion, why did you only enter this forum in 2021 ? while in 2010 until now there has been a lot of discussion about Bitcoin and also the altcoin project that maybe you can reap very good results through it, so I am surprised when you say this.

Not only you OP, many of us here have regrets not buying last 2020, Im holding huge amount of tokens that year also but sold at very cheap price and most of them reach 20x to 500x last year. But I think we are all learned from mistakes, buy and hodl is the best strategy to earn huge profit in crypto. 

You're still in profit. I've also sold but yours is more than mine and I still got a few ETH on hold which I am somehow regretful of selling as well but with the use of the profit I've made from ETH.

I just think of it when I feel down and regretting and eventually, I'm realizing that it has been into good use so I just look forward in accumulating again and hopefully to hold more until another high price reaches it.

When you realize you've missed out on an opportunity to make a lot of money in this market, that's very normal, and I think that's one of the lessons many people will learn from pursuing this market. I myself have missed many opportunities to sell or buy coins at good prices, but I always see many opportunities waiting for me ahead.

Most of us want the opportunity to go back to previous years to get what we didn't get in that year.
But unfortunately, we can only regret it without being able to go back to the previous time.
You've done selling 24 ETH in that year and that is a lesson for all of us that if we believe in a project, we shouldn't do anything without doing some research because we can get the kind of experience @OP got.
It's a lesson to keep hold of your coins, especially those that have the potential to increase high.

Many people became more and more worried when the price of the coin fell and at that time there were many negative rumors about the future of cryptocurrencies, so many traders were only targeting short term profits after the market recovered, maybe only some people are still holding to this day.

I am speculating that ETH will not return to $120 in the future, maybe $500 will be the lowest price if the market is bearish in the future.

My biggest regret is that I bought Ethereum below $100 in 2018 many times but unfortunately sold them when price increased above $200 because I thought 100% profit on my investment is quite enough and as I had  less experience of crypto space I could not anticipate that Ethereum strong use case would take it to above $3K. Anyway what happened it happened and we can not change the history.

If you never sold those ETH, it might not trigger the bull run back then. You see, instead of focusing on the profit, learn to move on by positively thinking that if you didn't sell those ETH, you might not be alive right now because of the struggle you have in the midst of the pandemic. Learn from it and let it go because that's part of the investment and sometimes you don't really get from your investment except for your capital back and some other investors has got nothing in return because they invested in pump and dump coins.

It's not over yet, crypto is always full of different opportunities every day, weeks and months, I missed out on shiba inu too because I like judging any project that wants to copy another project, shiba inu wants to be another doge and this turned me off completely but I learned.

Don't be too hard on yourself at that time you only think what can be the best and you weren't sure what could be the future of the Eth just think that you made the right decision at that time and follow what you think is a right decision.

I have same experience when I sold at Bitcoin at around $20k which I thought was the peak but look where at it right now but I don't regret that since I think that was a good decision at that time, not unless you don't think first before selling it.

It was a very weird period and I do understand people who got scared and sold. When people do that in a regular day I do feel like they should regret doing that and it does make sense, because in the end we are talking about buying low, and selling too early and that is a bad thing.

However, when we are going through some of the hardest times as world, and people gets scared during pandemic that makes sense. How many times have we seen a pandemic that kills millions upon millions of people around the world. The early days were truly terrible, I have seen dead people outside of hospitals, it was honestly like a horror movie, I get why you would cash out during that time.

It is an erroneous opinion to think about wasted time and buying, selling at the wrong time. It is better not to regret and move forward because everything is evolving and you can find something with which you can earn.

Those of us who have been members of the crypto community for a long time may all regret it, not only you. When we trade something but we even know it will be valuable in the future but out of necessity or something else, we can let it go. The most important thing is the profit even if it is small, Just holding is not enough if it doesn't become something. Long term only for strong people.

I have ever sold my crypto at the bottom. I know how frustated when someone has been loosing a lot of unrealized gain that can be used to buy a lambo. I know that so well and im not surprised if i were feeling the same thing like you too. So many people have ever felt it and by the way you just need to forget it and move on. Your ethereum will never came back again and just let it go on.
Try to make money from investing in another coin as well. This will be far better for you to be honest.

Everyone right here i guess semms to be having all a regrets. If we just know what coins and tokens are going to go high values for now, maybe all of our money would've just been invested in all of that potential coin especially on bitcoin and ethereum coin. But we need to accept that we can't read the future, so here we are some of us buying from now on the token that is already high and ended selling low due to lose hope of getting profit.

you're not alone. I also sold some ethereum at the end of 2020, and a few months after that, the price of Ethereum went up month by month. it made me think it was like a dream. After a long time I held and collected ethereum, I sold it for under $1k. it became a dream-like regret.
however, the situation back then was quite bad. some situations such as covid, and others make us need to sell some of the assets we have. right now, it was already a thing of the past that became an important lesson. for now, we should return to collect assets that need to be held in the long term. for ethereum, for now the price is quite high, you can still try to collect it again or look for altcoins that have similar potential. personally, I chose BNB for this.

All crypto users must feel the thing that is happening to you at this time, we often hold coins that have potential in the long run but we still doubt that it can happen, so every investment we must have great confidence to get maximum results, especially ethereum is one of the coins that does have high potential and the price that occurs today will definitely increase again, then in this case throw away all existing regrets and re-choose coins that have the potential to develop for the future.

Dont say that. Not only you got a tons of regret or had the same story. For sure a lot here have some regretful moment on crypto that they shouldnt have sold and just hold, and there is also those who wishes to sold than hold. The difference with that is your apetite or risk factor. If you had hold it and leave it and believe on it. You are gonna take a hell of a profit but thats life some just realize when its end already.

I don't understand what you mean by this expression, because potential coins like Bitcoin and Ethereum always don't hurt to buy, especially if you have time to take advantage of the downturn in the market. for the long term.
Because Bitcoin and Ethereum are two coins that are always suitable for long-term investments so being able to buy both will always be the most beautiful gift when the market starts to improve.

Well, that seems to be the case for the majority of people who don't believe in the development of cryptocurrencies as an innate human ability.  Accumulation and growth - this is crypto specific and range-seeking profits are part but lasting traction is a gift.  Reaching for results is a great thing, but I think it's a classic lesson for a large number of similar cases.

If you have to sell any coin it shouldn't be Ethereum, even if you buy ETH and BTC as a time high you will still make your profits times 2 back in near future, they don't go to zero like most altcoins do.

To have trust we need to do our own research so that we know detailed information about the coins we will invest,
when it comes to investing in top altcoins like Ethereum and BNB which are the top two altcoins right now I think almost everyone knows that they are potential coins and will be profitable for long term investment

I totally agree with what you are saying because it is very clear and very accurate to say "they (Bitcoin and Ethereum) are not going to zero like most altcoins" so if someone wants to sell something for money he should probably spend it as soon as possible , it's good not to sell the two coins, but for the other coins I think it will be fine to sell if there is a sudden need that can't be postponed.

why should regret?, at least you have made a profit and also learned that hold for long term will be more profitable, especially if you use the profit for important things during a difficult period due to the pandemic so there should be no regrets.
One thing you might consider next is to sell your crypto assets whose value starts to increase only partly and keep some, but this only work for potential altcoin.

Well don't dwell on it too much. This is just an expensive lecture from life. At least that is the way that I see it. I could have had so much money by now, had I only known to invest in apple or playstation or microsoft or Bitcoin or Ethereum or and so on and so on. See, you can't predict the future you can only get lucky. That is what investors are, most of the time. Lucky.

So if you look at it that way, there is no reason to cry over spilled coins.

The best part about your complaint is you still make some profits and to me profit is profit either big or small, its not the end many altcoins are gems and if you can find them before they become a multi-million project you will make a lot of money.

The sad thing is not about "what if I invested X much to bitcoin back in the day?", that is a big what if and you would never know. However, if you actually did owned bitcoin, and sold them for some reason instead of keeping them then you become a bit more worried and it does make you question your life.

I earned SO MANY bitcoins back in the day, like you wouldn't believe it, I am talking about 100+ bitcoins easily, possibly closer to 200 bitcoins. What happened? At the time that was just a few thousand dollars, less than 3.5k dollars, and I sold them and paid my debt and lived with it, used it like a salary. I could have not done that and be super wealthy right now :(.

You won't have to regret if you sell your coins still at a reasonable price, as long as you're not losing, then its something you still have to be thankful. However, if you regret of not buying ETH when it was very affordable, and prefer to hold shitcoins and meme coins, that is definitely a valid reason to regret. Apparently, you are not holding them to make profits, but to lose your money, time and effort. For me, i do have my own regret and that is not buying bitcoin when its still very cheap. So i make sure i'm not doing the same mistake again that i may regret in the future.

If such an opportunity is offered to practically everyone here, no one will refuse it because of a sequence of prior failures. That covid ruined my crypto career, because I was scared of losing nearly all of my investment, so I sold all of my crypto tokens at a loss. The worst part is that when they return, it's always unpleasant to watch the coin you failed to keep pumping. We, on the other hand, take this as a lesson and move on to learn from our mistakes.

I don't understand why you should feel sorry for someone who claim to buy eth $120 and sell in 2020, I can not recall at what price eth was trading (probably above 1k) but he has made a lot of profit from the time he bought and sell.
There is no need to feel sorry, he made good profit from his investment, he didn't lose anything.  He should rejoice and invest on other good projects in top 100 or less on cmc for another opportunity.

How much is the price of ETH when you sold it? Atleast you didnt sell at loss and you still gain from it and thats what matter. Its quite normal to sell at the wrong time since we cant predict the movement right after we buy/sell, we dont have crystal ball. Plus during that time (2020) covid became a threat and investors are in panic, its a human nature to feel that way but for holders who have strong hands, they are unshakable.

Anyway it happened already dont dwell in the past, so now be wise enough to not repeat the same mistakes again.

There will always be regrets when we sell only for a small profit and in the near future the price goes up drastically and it must be painful because we all want big profits, and it will be a worthwhile experience. And most importantly you don't sell it at a loss.
long term is indeed the best choice to get big profits, but it is undeniable that sometimes we will be tempted when prices start to rise a little and maybe there are other factors because we need them.
So I think it's better to sell a little profit than panic sell and also lose, because the market is difficult to predict.

There's no such thing as perfect trading or investing but keep in mind that a profit is still a profit no matter how small or big it is. In your case, you're still lucky that you gained profit because some investors have bought their coins at a higher price and sold them at a lower price. We all have that kind of regret but that's the risk of crypto investment and mostly, it needs a lot of patience.

You're not the only one so many of us here have the same wish, especially during the pandemic when the price of all the top coins in the market is crashing, but that is over and gone, it's not yet Bitcoin is predicted to reach $1 million so why not accumulate Bitcoin and other top coins in the market, the future is still bright.

Same. I had lots of Ethereum before but never saw the future.
It's okay though as I learned a lot from my mistakes. Regrets will be part of it and should just move on. Same with Bitcoin and BNB but I said, we don't have a crystal ball to have a glimpse of what will happen and keep it. When a bull comes we tend to be excited about the value gained of our coin and withdraw it instantly. That's just being human.
There are still gems in the crypto market, you will just need to look deeper.

This is basically how I try to approach things. I made a good profit by selling my bitcoins back in the day, and it was actually quite good, like made 15x return and that was awesome, how would I know that it would have gone up even more :D.

So, yeah I could have been very rich, literally like buy a whole apartment type of super rich person and that would have changed my life, instead I am living comfortably, do not have too big of a debt, nothing that I can't pay up today, and still working to survive, if I lose my job then I will lose all my income and I would be suddenly poor. That is the difference between "making profit" and "keep holding".

Everyone makes mistakes so there is not much of a point in lamenting what you did back then, what you need to figure out is what to do right now to keep increasing your holdings of ethereum or other coins?

I know it is not easy to let go of the past especially since we are talking about an important amount of money, but you have to do it, otherwise it is going to be impossible for you move forward and this is something that will cause you to make even more mistakes in the future.

We have so many regrets in the past, but if you are looking closely at the pattern there would be a stepping point for jumping price later on that we don't know yet what would happen.
If you remember when in 2017 the price was really high at that time and then went down in next 2 years to be going up again in 2020-current year, so there is no reason to just regret your past decision, there are so many opportunities for us to even get greater rewards with how we experienced the past events in last few years.

my biggest regret? Of course in 2019, because I actually sold Ethereum at $150 and sold Waves at $3,
I really regret it now that Ethereum is at $3000 and Waves is at $20, of course time can't go back,
and it will always be I save it as a lesson for me.

I think everyone has the same regrets as like you, especially Ethereum was the biggest regrets who sold it at early stage when price was 200$-300$, in 2017 when i bought more than 30 ETH but i didn’t hold for the long term and it was wrong decision but i sold it for urgent money. Whatever, even if i want to, i can't bring that time back. Yeah, not only ETH, so many projects we missed to hold tightly.

It's okay mate what happens with you is a lesson. we regret sometimes but in then end we realize that regrets is very useful cause we learn how to do it next time. Like your experience you have a bog amount of ethereum but did not handle it properly and sell it when the price are too low.
Now you know for sure if you holding a coin you won't sell it when the price are low.

Well it was still the beginning of COVID era and I won't blame you for that to be honest as everyone is in need of money already and the economy is badly affected by it.
I sold some of my Bitcoins at that time as I needed some money to buy my needs before the lockdown, but I still held some that were still alive and kicking until this day.
I am pretty sure you really need to have some money at that time and you would value your needs over your wealth at that moment.

Maybe this opportunity will come back if the coin price dumps again at a high level. But if this really happened would anyone still dare to hold their coins? Certainly not. Many people will complain if this condition occurs. Even if the price of ETH drops, the price will not be below 1k.

It's really what you have to cope with in this market, because sometimes it will Happen to you in as much as you are only predicting and hoping. No one really knows what the future holds. One thing is that you can just leave a little piece behind. I also do have my own regrets but I don't look back at them. I move on.

Now the decline and increase in prices always occurs only for a while without running for a long time in the market and the only ones that survive this pump and dump condition are coins that already have strong fundamentals.
Examples such as ETH and a very common thing to happen when a decline occurs is to sell existing coins before they all drop to their lowest point before buying back at a certain time.

I have known crypto since 2014 and in 2015 I was actively collecting  crypto for free, and in last 2015 I had around 280 ETH, 400 ETC, and about 100k DOGE which I got from faucets, cloud mining and many give away programs, at that price ETH but I was impatient and sold all coins and just collect around $420 in march 2016, and this is my biggest regret.

wow 280 ETH that's really a lot of numbers, I'm really surprised by what you said,
of course it's a bad experience if you sell the 280 ETH you got, I also had 50 ETH in my wallet,
but sadly my ETH sold out when ETH was at $200, and now I really regret it

Most of the users here are regretting not buying at the lowest price of a coin but do you really know at that time that it really is the lowest price of that coin? And Vice-versa.

In your case its Ethereum. Do you really know that it already was the highest price of Ethereum at time? Of course no one knows that is why you need to trust the project if you really want to gain high profits. Many here are investing into Bitcoin because they trust it and they can hold it for many years.

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As for me, I don't have any regrets when it comes to crypto. I used Bitcoin to buy my first computer set in 2019. How much is Bitcoin at that time? Did I regret doing it? Not at all because I don't know that Bitcoin will shoot up in the succeeding years.

What we need to know is that everyone's psychology is different. and the way people deal with stress is also different. a good asset does not necessarily follow the trend that bitcoin will build.
no need to regret selling assets that we have already sold and then experiencing a pump. trust me it will be replaced with profit at another asset moment. I have experienced this several times, panicked when selling altcoin assets. even though I lost at the beginning but I can buy it again when it reaches the bottom. when the pump happens, we'll get it all back.

If you can be patient, there will be very satisfying results. Surviving is not easy, because in everyday life there are needs that we must fulfill. However, before investing in a project, we must be able to make our finances stable. Do not let us face the risk of loss, we cannot survive when the market is down. Whatever happens, stick with it, because the project we choose has a very good chance.

regretting something that has happened is not good because it can get you stuck in a cycle of regret.
from that incident you can take a lesson that the price of ETH will continue to increase, and what you have to do now so that regret does not happen again is to buy as much ETH as possible for long-term investments. currently the price of ETH is around $3200 and it is very likely that on the next bull run the price of ETH will touch $10k. be prepared so you won't regret it again!

It is much worse to buy a coin at the maximum price and then wait for years for the price to return to its previous values or sell it at a loss. So, it is better to sell the coin, as OP did and make a profit, than to sell your coins at the lowest price, while losing your deposit.

If people buy more than the maximum price then they are hit by FOMO which eventually buys and holds it with higher expectations after a few years but in the end it becomes a big loss, what I said that I have experienced and of course it is a regret that should not be happen again.
By selling coins that don't need big profits I think it's enough as long as we have set the percentage we set, but they are always ambitious and lose for bigger losses even this often happens.

It's a common mistake by a lot to be honest, while we cannot blame some of them due to some being a legitimate newbies. They did not expect the price to peak at that point and just went full money into the coin that they were eyeing on.

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I made the same mistake when I was still a newbie like in 2017 when Bitcoin peaked at 20k that time.

There are times when we have to keep looking forward, don't keep fantasizing about the past because time will go on, you won't be able to turn back time and change it back to that time.
everyone has experienced mistakes and our mistakes are not holding the coins we have in the past, so what will be our barrier now? Rather, it is an experience because we have made mistakes at that time, lest the same mistakes be repeated now.
while you can, then now use the opportunity to save assets lest you regret but do nothing

we must forget it move on into different direction. alot important experience we can took by the mistake, someday we will get bigger than in the past. regreting didnt solve anything, it could make us give up due market condition. before decided buying any crypto currency make sure we have calculate risk and accept it.

These incidents can also be connected with fate, because some sell it on need whereas majority sell on fearing the market fluctuation. Myself experienced a big loss during the pandemic, but that happened out of gambling. I bought bitcoin to gamble, and lost everything. Same time if I've bought ethereum by that time and kept hold for a week's time I could've made more than $15k profit. As said everything is a learning out of mistakes.

Why 2020 why not 2010 when Bitcoin is just making headlines, we all have this kind of wish even Hodlers and long time investors
but even a coin have all the signs of a potential we still sell them for early profit not taking a chance to HODL longer it is because of the volatility of the market, coins are vulnerable to crash dumps and pumps it's hard to make a decision when you on this roller coaster ride.
There is no need to regret it, all coins which have proven themselves in the market can still go down and it's an open opportunity for us to take, and always look for a new coin to invest in with future potential in the market.

I have the same experience as you during the start of pandemic. I sold all my ethereum for the price of $230  not knowing that it will sky rocket not just doubled the price. But we have nothing to do about the past but to forget and just let it be an experience then keep on moving forward for another good coin to invest then if you can hold, much better. Market is really unpredictable!

Some part of us will really regret about it especially when we see how big the amount we can get if we continue to hold those coins but as said we can revert what happen from the past and let those things a learning experience. We can still say that we are in early phase on crypto and good changes still might happen in future also that means possibly more pumps will came if people don't want such things to happen again they should act accord to how the market moves right now.

This comparison applies to all products that have a price that fluctuates so sharply.
If you sold your savings thinking that it was the right time for that, then you will necessarily discover one day that you were wrong to some extent because the price of reliable products will continue to rise as long as users trust them. Of course, it is generally considered profitable as long as the purchase price is very low compared to the selling price.
But if you had to sell your savings as a result of urgent conditions, then you are not to be blamed, and this is the activity for which we want to save and invest.

You need to wage the risk factor as well, some projects might not do well in the long term and it all depends upon the team and how they are planning to implement their vision. So basically you trade and sell according to specific projects and there is nothing to be regretted because at the end of the day you will encounter losses in any financial market when you target alts.

You are right. It is helpless to regret something that happened already. No benefits from regretting something, we are better to forget it and take some lessons from it. If we missed the right time to buy ETH when it is still cheap, we can plan again to buy it in the next bearish. The price of ETH won't always increase, there is a time when ETH price decreases. Just monitor the market and buy as soon as possible if there is a big correction on ETH price.

We should not over confidence now in any coin now because to this is Having period and every years after a Bullish year there is high chances of Bear market so we should be ready for that . There will another chance to buy Our favorite coins from bottom and if you missed you will again Regret. Forgot the Past and focus on future opportunities,How you can make double profit.

if we see regret then we can not grow, because the shadows continue to fall. Of course everyone will experience it. currently the bullishness seems to have been spent in 2021, and the bearish opportunity is indeed wide open, and we don't know when it will end, is it 4 years from now? I don't think anyone knows for sure, and after that whether we will be able to survive if another 4 years turns to the bullish season, or we will experience a panic sell, so logical thinking must still be applied

Anyone in here have ever felt their regret to sold their assets for very cheap amounts of money.- That's not your fault but the market is just can't be predicted. I think that as long as you have been taking your profit and that's fine. It's caused by you can search it again to invest in the small cap coins or tokens that will become the next big thing. In my opinion as long as you are aware about that and you can pick some new tokens in the market that will have very good performance like ethereum. The chance will always there. You must also see that how polygon has become a major crypto from the small crypto that worth nothing. This is an example about how another tokens in the market can still give you a very good return.

If you continue thinking this way that you sold your ETH cheap in 2020 because the price is higher now, you will always regret it in years to come because the price will surely go higher than it is in 2022. Instead of living in regret why not buy back whenever the price goes down. Do not mind that you will not get it at $120 any more. But still buy it. ETH can get to above $10,000 in time to come. If you miss it now you will regret more then.

Looking at the facts of the current price of Doge, ETH and bitcoin, of course my biggest regret is in 2019, at that time I lost my patience because I saw a red market since 2017, and I sold a total of 20 ETH, 160 BNB, 75k DOGE and some coins like ETH LEND (AAVE), when I sold all of them I only collected about $5200 and if I calculate at the current price I can certainly get more than $215k.

For any purchase, you need to determine the time correctly, otherwise you can become a long-term holder or receive less profit, since the coin was bought at a high price. You should make purchases only with full confidence that the market will continue to grow. If there are doubts about this, it is better to wait for the end of the correction.

There's no genie and there's no such thing as a time machine, what happened to you happens to every investor not only Cryptocurrency investors, there's no room for regret in investing, true investors always move forward and always look for new opportunities.
There's endless potential and possibility in the Cryptocurrency market forget your losses and just look for those opportunities there's no use crying in spilled milk.

In the end, there is no point in regret in any case. In any case, each of us has his own circumstances that lead him to make such decisions. From an investment point of view, some products can be trusted for long-term investment, but the risk-taking is led by the dream of a stroke of luck like gambling. Of course, in gambling, you should not risk an amount that you can't afford to lose.

That's too easy to say! Everybody has already done some bad trades and you will always keep remembering them. I sold most of my DOGE when it was way under 0.01$ as I never imagined it could ever reach 0.01$ or higher. Till date, I am still kicking myself but it is what it is. Right now, I just try to take profit where I can and always on the lookout for a good opportunity to do some trades.

It's important to always do your research as an investor and make sure you know what you're doing. If you don't know what you're investing in and how to invest, you should stay away. There is a reason why Warren Buffet and Bill Gates have such massive fortunes while hundreds of millions of people continue to live below the poverty line.

Investing is a long-term game and while there are occasional dips and swings, overall , the crypto markets always go up. As long as you have the right strategy and don't invest in something that will go against the market, you're likely to make money.

Not only are you selling the asset at a low price at that time and neither will we know that the price will go up very high in 2021, so if we compare that to the price when I released the asset, the comparison loss is huge because it doesn't last a little longer, but it's all become an experience that when we hold a potentially cheap coin, I'll hold it longer until I can get the tremendous benefit.

Yes, the market is unpredictable and what happens to you is a lesson so you don't rush into making decisions. Projects that we believe are indeed good to be maintained and indeed as much as possible are maintained because in the future the prospects will be good. but instead of continuing to feel sorry and blaming ourselves, it would be better if we could rise from a slump and learn from our mistakes. it's not so bad selling your crypto assets what matters is that you've benefited so you don't keep blaming yourself. there are many experiences that I have gone through, whether it's gains or losses, the same as what you received, but I learned to accept it and become better in the future.

Everyone has a regret story shored up somewhere, especially in crypto. If we all had held on to some tokens, we would all be some sort of moneybags now. It's not possible for that scenario to materialize, and that is life

Whenever I retell the story of my 2017 crypto journey, one incident stands out for me. It's such a painful incident. I just want to keep hating myself, Regalcoin and BNB for that 😢. In what looked like I had made enough gain, I sold all my 270 BNB which I bought around $0.3 and moved the whole capital to buy Regalcoin which was one of the trending tokens for lending then. Sooner had I bought it than it collapsed and all my cash gone. It saddens me till date even when I've tried to forget all that. After that, there are various mistakes along the line for me but the BNB one stands out.

Everyone must have regretted making the wrong decision when investing in crypto. It's a very human thing, so we don't have to regret it
for a long time. As you said, we just need to learn from every mistake we make. Because we sometimes need to make mistakes first to be
able to know how to invest correctly. During my investment in the crypto world, I quite often made the wrong decisions which resulted
in me losing money. But after I corrected my mistakes, then I am now starting to be able to make big profits.

I don’t think we would see ethereum go as low as that $120 the OP has mentioned. That is in the past now and we wouldn’t we it happens again. But, there are still better opportunities ahead of us and we should make sure that we do not miss that.

The market has already reached the peak and we are all looking forward to another all time high as the market is currently facing a correction. Now would be a good time to buy and hold for a long term when the market would increase in value again. That’s just what I am doing now.

Stop thinking that, you're not an investor if you have never experienced selling at the wrong time or not holding a coin that turns to 100x profit we all have a share of that experience, there are no investors who made a profit from all the coins he invested, even the best investors who have good average in analyzing have fallen to what you've gone through.

We are going in a circle price drops to recover again, you're lucky if you have funds to allocate at the time that the market is in a huge drop, besides selling coins at the wrong time, not having funds to allocate when the right time to buy and opportunity is there is another regret of investors.

For me bigger regret is not having money to buy... I got into crypto iin 2017 and was without money to invest that time. Advice just keep researching and investing it's still early for crypto in general. 

You are still talking about being great but not talking about learning. You say you are regaining but do not share what you learned. That means you might not learn anything. Because your story is a lesson for everyone in the crypto space. There are two lessons. One is held, and the second one is entered. If you thought the time you entered was the best time to enter into crypto or buy the best time to ETH, then you might be wrong because when you bought ETH at $120, it was a big amount for you, but when today you see per ETH $3000+, it is less expensive, but after some time, when 1 ETH will be 10k to 20k, then this 3k will be a cheaper option for you and great also. So what I believe is just enter the market, hold it for a long time, and then you won't be great. That's it. Thank you.

Well, I never sold anything during the covid19 pandemic, I just kept holding on tight to everything I had. Though what encouraged me to keep holding was the fact that there would soon be a Bitcoin halving as of then.

It was a kind of a normal thing for the price of Bitcoin and ethereum to go up every time there was a halving, so I had to sit tight, that wasn’t the moment to falter. Everyone have had that same experience once, so now that you have experienced that, don’t beat yourself over it, just take it as a part of experience and move on. Next time you would have to do better.

My luck was as bad as you dude, I also sold the Ethereum coins I owned about a year ago when the price of one coin of Ethereum was at that time I thought +$ 1000, I regretted the hasty decision I made to sell. I wish I could go back to the past to undo this decision like you, but now I have learned this harsh lesson that promising coins that have many uses are the ones that should be held into the future without ever selling them, and if you make a good profit from them, you should get back your own capital and hold the rest.

Well, if you really need that money for something I can accept that you sold your holdings but right now you can buy again and wait for another ATH because in my opinion right now the price of ETH is pretty low. Don't regret your decision but make it become one of your experiences so you can keep patience and get higher expectations in the crypto that you hold.

Eth price is now already very high and I don't think that it will again 10x or above from current price. No doubt that Etherium is King of all altcoin but other ecosystem are also gaining position in market which not good for Eth price. Solona already a good competitors of Etherium in NFT but security issue is high in Solona. Luna is next best coin and now Near coin follow the same path of Luna and there is Chance that Eth whale shift some money here. I think Near and Luna coin will make history like Etherium but in long term.

Biggest regret? o i want come back 2017 because the year i lost a lot of money because i was not good at holding. Moreover, at that time the prices of btc, eth and other good currencies were low. Also the time was right to invest so i think the years of the past were the best for the crypto market. Over time the crypto market has changed where investing is more risky right now. However if i could go back in time to the past then i would first make myself proficient and then buy, sell, hold tokens at the right time.

My crypto regret is when i loss my chance of being a millionaire because i don't have a strong hand to hold. If only i have a strong hand maybe i am now one of the crypto millionaire because of bounty hunting last year 2017, and for now i am full of regrets specially when i look at the transaction history of my wallet. For now i am still hoping that i can be a millionaire in the near future.

Thats why diamond hands is very important to get a decent profit. If we sure that the project is good, then don't sell the coin just because the price increase a bit or if the price dump. Although we can miss the ATH, a good coin will reach its ATH again and will hit new ATH.
We can't do anything if we missed them now, what we can do now is we should find some new projects with very good potential.
Im currently watch QANPlatform project, it is a new blockchain project (project looks like polkadot, polygon, solana, etc).

this doesn’t only happened in your case, so many of us have a fair share of regrets selling early because the impending needs that couldn’t be resolved with something else but money.
instead we should be learning from that and didn’t do the same mistake, always hold as long as you can but surely settle your basic needs first because its gonna mess with your investment eventually if you still have unsettled basic needs.
also none of us could know the future so making a really bad decision is humane.
just don’t get too caught up in your regret that you succumbed in sadness, instead try repeating the same great achievement that should be yours but unfortunately couldn’t because of certain things thats out of your controls.

You know, there are so many Regrets that we may experience in the crypto world.  Not only about ETH pr8ce but akso the time we invest, strategy to take, tarhet price reached, selling token and so on.

So, what's the point?
No need to worry and just let it go, take it as lesson and our experience. That's the worth. Keep it up better

To talk about regret selling low and then it going high after we sell, I believe everyone on this forum stumbles. But if you sell all your ETH because you need money for your life, I think you shouldn't regret it. You should feel very lucky that you bought ETH for $120/ETH and what's even better is that you trusted holding ETH and you were rewarded for selling it at a high price.

My regret of course is selling coins cheaply in 2016 and 2018, if in total I have sold more than 10 btc, 200 ETH, 300 BNB and many more coins, but this is an important lesson that I have to hold long term so as not to regret again.

As one of the 2014 market participants I also sold my bitcoins many times. Now that I think about it, I really regret not trusting and holding my bitcoins from earlier. It will be an expensive lesson for those who used to sell bitcoin at that time, with bitcoin just buying and holding for a long time will definitely earn huge profits.

Welcome to the Crypto space,.a world full of regrets. Everyone has his/her fair share of your experience. Most times we are skeptical about a project, we sell and then boom, the project skyrocket in price. On the other hand we believe so much in a project, we hold and then the price begin to plummet.
I have made up my mind, never to regret any more. Because if I continue to do so, one might end up with a high blood pressure and an heart attack

Everyone here will definitely experience what you are going through, holding coins with large estimates is certainly not easy. There are temptations and fears every time when we hold it, sometimes only lucky people forget their assets, then after a few years reopen their assets and find treasures, even very few people experience this. You don't have to regret, there is always an opportunity for other cryptocurrencies to become the next ethereum, the future of cryptocurrencies is still very good, don't be sad, let's continue investing.

I guess you sold out maybe because yoh needed money to help your self to solve problem,  if that was the case then you had no choice than to sell. Cryptocurrency always have good opportunities for those who are ready to hodl, it is possible you can still get back those opportunities you missed sometime ago agai . No late comer I'm Cryptocurrency,  holding just the way.

Another sad story. It could've been more sad If you have shared a screenshot of your portfolio and how you sell them.
So, you bought those in 2017 or 2020?
Well, you don't need to regret though. We are all uncertain of what's going to happen during the rise of the pandemic and while everybody is locked down on their homes. Cash flows from each households has been temporarily halted for a couple of months. So, yeah most of us think it's going to affect everything in a negative way including crypto.

I also think that just like you, in 2017 I didn't know anything about the market, I had no idea that the market had phases of accumulation, distribution and bullish and bearish trends, usually at that time I stopped selling some coins at 20USD that was in a privacy project where most of the airdrops were around almost 2000USD per week, I think that if I had sold at the highest peak I would have made BTC and still had it, but things are like that and they happen for a reason, that is why I want to take advantage of every The moment the market gives me an opportunity to enter, I will do it, because something I learned is that the market always gives profitable entry values.

You are not alone. A lot has been regretting too that they end up selling their ETH when the price was quite low, not knowing that its value will go even higher this year. But not for ETH only, because i had also regrets that i was not able to buy more bitcoin and hold them more when there was a big opportunity to buy. Now i've learned my lesson, so i'm giving much importance to bitcoin right now, and to all the projects i have high hopes to be more valuable in the future.

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