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We always hear people posting about their awesome trades and/or gains but very rarely hear about the stupid things that people do. With that in mind, let's hear the biggest brainfarts you've had while trading crypto...

Of course, not having enough patience to hold and just dumping it when there's a FUD and pushing the sell button right away. That's one of the rookie mistakes I made back then.

And then buying at the top price and being trap and can't get out because you will be taking a lost. But just like anyone here, we went all this stages but the most important thing is you learn from this stupid mistakes and never do it again. Hard price though to pay.  ;)

The worst ever situation I've experienced was when my #1 coin was crashing low, even lower than my buy levels and I just kept holding for months while crying every time I looked at my port. I ended up cutting my losses a year later which was a lot of time wasted.

My worst decision was to sell bitcoin contracts in panic when it went down 3000 in a single day. i thought it could liquidate but it was too far from liquidation point.

Selling KCS at 5$, thinking I've made a good profit... Regret comes within 24 hours.

Got two of them!

1) Buying Stratis on its all-time-high back in June and dumping it some weeks later with a nice loss.
2) and way more disturbing: Buying Ripple in August at about 0.2$, holding them patiently until the beginning of December and then selling them at 0.26$ (yeah, a little profit). Regretting 48 hours later. And what a regret. 10k ripple wasted  ::)

Bought BCH coin during the pump and dump. Converted my BTC to BCH during high price and suddenly the price fell and lot a of 100s. Since B2X fork was called off many people started acclaiming BCH would overtake BTC and BTC is going to die and blah blah. Never listen to such moron. Do your own research and  go by your gut feeling. Since I was a noobie back then I have leanrt how the market works now.

I would be one among the top idiots to loose a trade on the spot. It was during the beginning days of my trading journey when I didn't even what trading actually was. Yes I traded despite knowing about it. That was the first mistake I did. I should have learnt what trading is and then started it.
Another mistake was taking part in pump and dumps through telegram channels. Let's be honest, every trader would have been in a pump and dump at some point of time. For me it was during my initial stage of trading. Selling in loss was the biggest mistake I did. And the funny thing is I repeated the same mistake again and again. I lost almost 75% of my initial investment during those days and then I took a break from trading.

I'll take that screw up and raise ya - I bought in at about 90c and sold em at about 80c cos I got impatient and wanted to buy a different coin!

If you did some dump because you need money urgently then don't take it as worst trading decision. Money can earned anytime and you can get back again anytime to the ball game.

Also if you hold coins and sold it (thinking that's a good price to dump) then the value of it rise after, that isn't also a worst trading decision since you got profit in the end. It's just that, it's not that much because of lack of patience but still at the end, there's a profit. Regrets indeed but not a mistake.

Now that anyone have an experienced like that then take that as reference for more successful decision in our future trades.

it's like all the same when you rush to sell but few minutes later the price change. so panic and something i want to crunch myself when it happens. lol

Bought 1 Eth 2 years ago and sold it after the price went down by more than 10% then the next day the price immediately recovered. Eth was still cheap back then so it's not a big deal for me anymore and that experience helped me to be more disciplined every time the price goes down.

The worst I have ever made in my life was during forex trading. I thought I could do it all by myself, pick a price beneath, sell high, blah blah... This made me to attach emotion into my trading, and most times, either I panic or I just ended up getting greedy and losing out totally. But it is all part of the lesson, and afterwards, when I understood that I cannot do without learning, I got better and that is totally helping me right now even in the world of crypto with a lot of opportunities that abound.

As usual, the worst decision when trading is buying at high prices and selling at low prices, it is a very bad decision I have ever experienced in dogecoin trading. Until now I am very careful to trade so as not to repeat the same mistakes.

I did the exact same with ripple.  :(

Sounds like a small price to pay for some valuable knowledge...

I bought a presale monk at a price of around $ 1, then Monk on the Cryptopia a for $ 7, I did not sell that hold it. Then Monk dropped below $ 1 I sold again and now it is $ 12. This is about my worst investment because I did not believe in my own judgment. I have learned many valuable lessons from this failure.

I think thats not your fault when you try to hold it for longer because we know that by holding we will get profit. Just need to be patient. But like your story, the reality and the theory are very different. I think holding is only worth to top altcoin only.

That's pretty brutal. Ah well, at least you don't have Ripple anymore  ;)

It was when i bought a lot of coins and after that the price of it keeps dropping and dropping to the extent where the price of it is lower than when i bought it but i kept my patience still and waited for months but nothing happen :((

My most erroneous decision is to sell GVT when it costs $ 2.4 and now the GVT price ~ $ 32 I've lost a huge amount: 149 GVT * 32 = $ 4768
This is a terrible thing and this is also the wrong decision I made  :'( :'( :'( :'(

Sorry to hear that though I've been to that as well, when I am saving my bitcoin in my wallet and withdraw it after the price became $10k then, suddenly the price goes up to a $20k in just a short period of time, that was my worst nightmare so far that I did not listen to the prediction and advice of other people.

This reminds me of how stupid I am that I even sell a very good and has a lot of potential coin that I have. I sold half of my hodlings and buy a coin that is by that time mooning then one day the dev of that coin ran away. So disappointed and discouraging. But because of that I learned 1 thing just HODL.:-)

Most replies here would probably have happened during their early trading days because that's when the biggest mistakes are made. Lack of experience usually plays a big part in this. Personally, it was also during my early trading days that i lost a lot of btcs. Good things it wasn't even close to its current value today or i'll totally go crazy
 It's more on letting my emotions and anxiousness getting the better of me when making decisions that's causing losses

I always had a bad decision in trading, since i prefer a short time trading in altcoin cryptos than for a long term one. I always buy a coin that comes from a big dump, when it started to dump again like 20% downfall, i decided to cut my loss to avoid big loss. Then after 5 days that coins pump so hard -.- . I always make a bad decision

Maybe you should just get your hodl on?

Totally agree. I remember all too well the sick feeling in the pit of my stomach when an investment dropped! But I've found that the more I've traded, the more I've gotten used to it...

I've heard of a lot of people who did that: bought BCH when it was high and BTC was low and lost stacks...

I totally agree. One thing I've been thinking about a bit lately, though: if no one bought a coin at its ATH, it would never go anywhere. I'm not sure that buying at the ATH is always the wrong move if you truly believe in the project and predict big gains in the long term. I've waited for a pullback  that never came before  :)

I think one of my worst trading decision that Ive been made is to sell all my tokens (my first tokens that ive recieved), yes I sell it in a nice price but after I sell it the price is boom up or it increased double, so lesson learned I should be patiently waiting and believed to the team, and do not sell it if you fill excited because you cant think right. Right now I can say what mistake that ive done before is the lesson for me or I will not do it again anymore.

3k in a day is hectic. What did you buy/sell at?

I have done things that apparently could seem stupid, but in reality I only acted according to the information I had available, without knowing what the future would bring for bitcoin. Perhaps due to my training as a Forex trader, I always thought that the behavior of the bitcoin market would be similar to that of traditional markets, so when I saw that the price of bitcoin reached its historic high of around $1,300 last year, I made the decision to sell a large part of my coins, thinking that soon would come a great correction to buy back ... and to this day I'm still waiting.

sometimes selling early is a bad thing because maybe the potential of that coin is high in the next few days, but sometimes selling early is also a good thing, a few days ago had bought Ignis at an expensive price. I hold it longer the price is going down, :( I lost more than $150, that's the worst thing I did in this week, have to cutlose to minimize bigger losses

Never put all your money or depend on one coin. there was a time I invested all my money into a coin that turns out to be a disaster for me. Always invest in 3-5 coins minimum that is what recommend in order to stay on top of the game.  

Sage advice. Do you mind me asking what the coin was? Also, do you think you can be invested in too many coins? I used to have 12 but it got a bit much to keep track of!

One of my worst decisions was to sell all my BCH at 300$ (mainly because everything said to dump it while you can lol). Wish I waited a little longer to sell it...

My mate takes part in pump-n-dumps through Telegram channels. He reckons he spins a profit. Why did it go wrong for you?

There were a lot that were affected by the BCH pump and dump, and noobs who lost a lot of money because they fell for the FUDs. Although there were those who were smart enough to ride the pump and dump and were able to profit, there were those who got lost because they simply followed the trend.

In fact, there are really a lot who fall for FUDs, especially if they're new in the trading scene. It's still best to determine for yourself instead relying on what you hear and what other people say. Never believe in everything you hear instantly.

I have made a few stupid decisions in regards to trading. The first is that I tried to do arbitrage trading between 2 exchanges, where I bought a shitcoin on one exchange, to sell it at the other, but when I was about to deposit the coin in the exchange I was plan to sell it at, the wallet was under maintenance, lolz. If I did the effort to check first if everything was all right, I would have seen the maintenance warning. Second mistake is that I bought a certain altcoin, and quite a few of them it were, while I was looking to execute a sell order. It shows that it isn't a good thing to trade when you're half asleep.... All these are 2015'ish mistakes.

Selling all of my alts when it is at the lowest price because I am afraid  that I may lost everything that I have. That is the worst thing that I made during my early days in trading.

Watching the graph everyday of a coin that was going down and then finally I caved and gave in to selling it for 50% loss. Little did I know that a few days later it would pump for 100% gain meaning if I was patient I would have gotten all my funds back. Lesson learned the ones that hurt like this are the best lessons despite how much they suck, long term I will benefit from it.

Good attitude. I did the same with a coin - bought it for 2c, it went down to .6c so I sold and cut my losses. Today it stands at 8c! Still, that was about a year ago and the money I got from selling it, I've put into other coins that have made money so not toooooo big of a loss. And yeah, a good lesson learned haha

When i started trading,i thought it would be just like the local trading like share market or mutual funds but that was my first mistake.I started with coins which i thought they are because my thinking was they are new people will invest in it as their prices are low and this will spike the prices up but i was wrong people invest their money by checking the quality of coins rather than it's prices.I lost whole of my investment with that and than i started from beginning now i am happy with my trading skills.

usually the worst decision i made from trading is making the order to sell too slow when the price drop too much, that really has made me lost so much money, however i will say that is unavoidable decision because we must all loose money when deciding to sell to cut losses.

That I only used ONE website to keep me updated about all the news :/ dammit!!! why did i do that? sorry it makes me a bit angry when im thinking about it
now I have tons of tg channels that I follow
Also stuff like the merkle, coinjournal, cointelegraph. youtube channels too. actually cointelegraph has a very cool one and it's hilarious
so yeah.. not making the same mistake again.

For me, the worst trading the decision I made was in late November where I sold my STOX tokens for $0.566 each because their value in not growing to the level I want and yesterday I saw STOX was selling at about $1.5 each. I said to myself - shoot! is that STOX am I seeing or another coins with the same name. :)

My worst decision in trading was not buying ETH when the price was too low in the past and I never thought that it will go above $1k in such a quick time and if I would have bought ETH at that time then right now I would be enjoying huge profits and that regret will always be in my mind and now I don't think that its price will crash as its moving higher and higher and can even touch $1500 price in coming days and if it falls below $1k then this time I won't miss the opportunity of buying it.

My very worst for my trading job i'm panicking for my investment I can't control myself and my emotions i sell my coins into lower prices and i lost more than 30 percent of my investment i don't know if you beleive my story after 2 days the coins pumping the price in the marketplace more than my expectations.
Thats the worst experience for mind and also that is my lesson how to become great trader to avoid losses.

For me the worst trading decision i have made was to blindly followed my friend instincts and didn't even bother to question him once.He kept on investing money and i kept on trusting on him and one day market crashed and whole money was ZERO.When i checked where he had invested,i found that this fool has invested whole money in one coin which has already crossed his past limit.I was so shocked and depress that it took me a week to recover.

lol...not buying bitcoin when they went online in 2009 for pennies :)

Well there's been a fair few rushed trades which have resulted in typos and buying at a much higher price than intended, I wouldn't say they're decisions though. Recently I wanted to stoploss a coin and bittrex being a pile of crap wouldn't let me sell for a few minutes because they were overloaded and I couldn't log in. After that I had missed my stoploss price and it dropped a further 5% or so and I thought 'oh it's too late now', well since then it's dropped a further 50% and now I'm bag holding like an idiot.

The worst trading decision I ever made was I traded Adex at the first wave of the pump. It is so sad that I traded Adex at that point. That was last year, I remembered that a btc is only worth 3000 usd that time. I traded it and obtained .19 BTC. And if I waited for just a day. JUST A DAY, and I should've had .44 BTC. Sadly, that's why I valued hodling. THat is probably the best thing to do in order for you to profit a lot.

Agreed - after a few attempts at day trading, I'm now a member of the Hodl Army

My biggest mistake was "top buy, sell bottoms"
In 2 days I lost 50% of my property

Damn, that's so brutal. I hope you've recovered your losses...

I totally agree. On a similar note, my friend got the Adex FOMO hard and bought at the top of its ATH lol. He's been holding and looking to offload ever since...

Do you mind me asking what coin this was?

Was it actually on your radar at that point?

Damn, that's rough! So irresponsible of him! Are you guys still buddies?

Probably selling LTC when it was $40 after a few bucks profit...  Learned quickly that these markets do not trade like the conventional markets.

I haven't really made any bad decisions that drastically affected me in an extremely negative way. I did however lock myself in a long term trade that went - 70% really quickly, but recovering as of recently (down only 45% atm). The worst mistakes are probably holding for a long time but selling early (right before massive pumps.

A lot of us missed the boat on that one. What was it trading at when you were looking at it?

Yeah LTC was bobbing around that $40 mark for ages. It can be hard to hold when you see all these other coins making huge gains and yours is just going sideways. I still fall into that trap sometimes.

I actually participated in the Stox ICO. I sold for $2 after it finished which was technically a profit compared to USD but if I just left the money in ETH, I would have gained a lot more.

Sounds like you got in at the top - a common and costly error that most of us have done at least once in our trading careers...

It's always good to have news coming from diversified sources: decentralised news! Who are your favourite YouTubers? I really like Crypto Daily, Ready Set Crypto, Doug Polk Crypto, and BoxMining...

My worst trading decision is i bought NEO $25 and sold it by price $30 and a next day the price strong bullish,  i missed big profit. I did this mistake in a few trade and now i decide to do long term trading because look promising higher profit than short trading. Now i will focus to trade base on fundamental analysis and doing long term trading.

I was thinking of trying out the arbitrage thing but was worried about something like this happening. At least these mistakes are in the distant past...

I'm exactly the same: look for fantastic projects with good, long-term potential

The worst thing I ever did was sell my bitcoin at a very cheap price, I had a huge loss. At that time I experienced a sell panic because the price of bitcoin decreased drastically. Yet a few hours later the bitcoin price went up and I thought I made a big mistake, if only I had patience then I could gain the opportunity to keep my bitcoin assets and then sell them at a much higher price. My mental and emotional level is an important part of taking every decision.

It was just last year and i still feeling it. My first time trading in poloniex. When i bought a coin before the BCH hardfork date. So many FUDs around the internet that time and the market was affected making BTC down to 2000. All coins were also in deep red that time. And because it was my first time, i didn't hold my coin long enough and sold it at half of its price i bought it. And after a few months, the coin that i sold went high with x20 increase. How i wish i could still have those coins that time. And this charged to my experience. I'll hold my coins til i see it goes through.

I think a lot of people did the same thing. Still, who knew that the Chinese miners would throw their weight behind BCH?!

Ouch! That's an expensive lesson. Still, best to put that in the past, I reckon...

That FUD got a lot of people. You aren't even the only one in this thread to experience losses due to it!

I heard people on this forum said that nxt will be very potiental and it gonna give me another free coin when i hold nxt . I followed them and suddenly NXT drop 50% price. It's really sucks.

That's a pretty huge loss. What coin was it??

Was that around the time of the Christmas spike?

I once made the worst decision in trading
that was the first week i joined bitcoin trading, i ever participated in the FOMO and then buy the coin all in (at that time i don't know what fomo is), then I think the price will still continue to rise, but the price is unpredictable, while I stay asleep, the next day the price has dumped, and it took more than 3 weeks for the price to come back again.

Selling like literally selling a coin when you are in a profit , there are several coins which i used to trade to increase my amount of btc i make profit but the mistake i made was selling it immediately after reaching my goal , what i realised now is it's better to put stop loss rather than selling it away because you could easily make more profit or control your loss.

This is not an decision that i made while i was "trading" but i still remember that i was holding 300K Of TRON when the price was less than $0,01 each, LMAO.

If i didn't sold them all, i could have a huge amount of money when the price touched it's ATH.

My worst mistake happened last year, I always procrastinate to buy bitcoin, I was too late to learn that bitcoin was very valuable, I decided to buy it when the price has increased several times  :( :'( :'(

I have the same experience like you and I remember that I sold my bitcoin when the price is at $1000 because I am in an urgent situations. I don't think twice in that time and only sell by instant but now, I will hold my bitcoin and I will sell it if the price is more than $20k but if I have an urgent or I need the money then I will sell it to fills my needs. I think I can handle my emotional to not selling my bitcoin even if the price is drop like yesterday and I am happy that I can buy more bitcoin with a low price.

I bought one coin for all my money, not even knowing how it works. I kept all my money on one exchange, do not do it!

I bought more than 70 percent of my investment with specific Altcoins at ATH about 47000 sat each and suddenly it was dropping the value intensely, to cut losses at sold it at 13000 sat each.

Many times this keep happening to me, I never learned once. LOL.   

Perhaps my most stupid decision was to sell the BTC at $2000  ;D ;D

I think i bought high and sold very low, what happen is i bought a coin which has a good pump and volume and just dump and i forgot to actually set a cut-loss and i traded a big amount that trade and i forgot that the coin i just traded has a very big event coming coming and that coin just skyrocketed.

When I sold my XVG at 200 satoshi while it was up to 2000 sat a few days later

This was the experience I have in trading, I sold earlier a certain coin then for about a few days it went go high. I also got into panic when the price become lower and suddenly I sold all my coins. So it resulted all of buying high and selling low.

When I joined a few pump and dump groups and accidentally bought in 10x higher than the start price, only to be left holding the bags at the end. Note to all members. Do NOT join pump and dumps, odds are extremely high that you'll end up losing money as the majority of the trade volume increase seen is from the pump members, not randoms noticing the trend.

Having a panic sell because you might loss big but we can't avoid that because the market is unpredictable. And also buying on pump that you thought it will further rise but then again its dumping already.

I AGREE. I remember I was once constrained to sell whatever little amount I had because I am too scared to be left with nothing. Hence, I settled for a much discounted value on the premise of going home with a little cash rather than going home with absolutely nothing. I was so down then but smiled at the end of the day knowing I have some penny left. What eroded that belief of mine was when Bitcoin's value started increasing in the last quarter of 2017 to the point that it almost reached $20,000. I should have settled at holding rather than panic selling because I did not need that money then. In fact, it was just an added investment. So my takeaway on this is that for YOU to know your purpose in every act that you intend to do; that way you can at least be certain on why you have to come up with such move and not fret later on.

I think most of us did this kind of mistake. Since crypto currency is really volatile, there's no way for us to tell whether if the current ATH price would be the highest for all time or if ever it will grow more. However, I think that the best way for us not to regret something is, when we sell we shouldn't try to look back or even check the price of the things we have sold or bought. This is one of the perks of trading, it's either you can have a good smile once you have sold in a good price, or have a regret once price goes up more.

For me it was sending 22K Verge to Binance that they cleared as received but not showing for trade, so poof it's gone!

You ask this question that reminds me of the past, as I entered the bitcoin market. I do not know anything about bitcoin, I just listen to my friends and I started to buy bitcoin, I think this is too simple, buy bitcoin at low price and wait for bitcoin to increase profit. But I was wrong, then bitcoin prices dropped dramatically. I fear and sell my bitcoin. That was my first failure. And I started learning market analysis, updating bitcoin daily. Now I have had some experience and are still investing in bitcoin.

Have you contacted their support? That's something brother and if that willhappen to me I probably can't sleep and sure nobody can talk to me. ;D
Well mine is when I easily dump my adx after I have it without thinking that it can pump sooner, IMO maybe I'm newbie before and being impulsive is also a factor then.
I was so devastated when I saw it had pump, aw those were memories tho.

Speaking of mistakes I remember the first time I stepped into the bitcoin investment. I keep thinking that profit from bitcoin is too easy. I bought the bitcoin and waited for the price to go up for sale, I did not know the market trend analysis, did not know the nature of the altcoin that I am buying. Then I failed and lost a lot of capital. That was my first mistake and I also learned many lessons in that failure.

Buying nxt at 1,5$... a few days before the fork....  >:(

I have made several mistakes but all cannot be termed as worst mistake as I have managed to turn some mistakes into profits or neutral either by holding or by staking if the coin is POS. One notable worst mistake is, I bought 100k doges for 100 satoshi for the target of 125 satoshi but now it is trading around 60 satoshi, I am still holding.

Recently I bought a coin by misinterpreting the name of the coin. Some exchanges are not showing full name of the coin like some exchanges are providing ANN link of the coin so that we can double confirm that we are going to deal what coin.

I have made many bad decisions concerning trading. I used to trade in real life and I happened to lose much money which led me to depression. And them it happened again until I got used to it and learned from my mistakes. If you want to succeed in something, you have to fail several times.

As for the crypto trading, I am still learning because I need to know about the markets and what would be best for me to invest in a profitable coin.

actually this is every traders regrets eversince they are starting to trade,PANICKED this behavior brings all traders to failure and sooner will regret what they have decided because of that action.well me my worst decision is when i sold my ripple becaue of panicking when the price drops and i am losing 20% already,and after just a minute got pumped upto 40% i almost throw my laptop that time lol.😜

Bought on pump signal and sold when the price went almost to 0. And after that, I decided that I could recoup on the next pump. It was a mistake and I lost everything.

I think my worst trading decision is when i sell my appcoins in such a low price. I sell it at $1.5 and after one day the value of appcoins became $4.2. I did not wait for the price to go up before i sell it.

Its common for people to talk about their success or gains into their trading which you are right that people doesn't really talk too much about failures but I do believe this thing is just really for personal to be kept but to share up common mistake or decision been made is "BUY HIGH SELL LOW" thing which I have done this kind of decision when I'm still new into this trading world.I know this is also a common problem among newbies specially if you have short patience this problem is very common.

I think my worst trading decision is the xrb coin that i sell only at 2000 satoshi and i have 3000 pcs.,now the price of it are already 0.0015 btc or more so it's so hard to accept but i'm only newbie in that time and i earn that in railblocks faucet.,Actually i learn in that that we can earn big here in the future if we are here in crypto like if you already knowledgeable about it.

In my case my worst trading decision I made is when I got panic when I saw the red lines on the exchange market. It makes me feel worried then all of a sudden I made a decision to sell my coin at a not so low price but I didn't satisfy on its exchange rate. I feel so messed up that time, and also I realize that I should learn the virtue of patience.

In my case, I don't feel any regrets with the decision I am making especially during those times that I do trading, whenever I felt that my action is not good, I am just taking it as a lesson, realizing what was the wrong move I made and take it to a consideration so that next time I know what my next move is. I don't feel any frustration so I won't be down, I am still positive with all the wrong mistakes I've done.

I think, all of traders experience this once in their career, especially when they are new to this profession. It totally make sense. It is impossible to avoid fear of losing all the money but with time, the trader learns the true nature and potential of his investment.

It is fine to make mistakes. To be a failure is acceptable but to never try out and giving up after falling down cannot be forgiven.

That happened when I decided to sell all of my Bitcoins, and in few months BTC made the highest jump. It was almost a defeat, but I recovered.

The worst trading or investment decision was obvious coming from a Bitcoin forum.

Selling Bitcoin too cheap.

And no I am not talking about selling at $10k or $20k but I've sold it as low as $200 back in the day.

Back then there was so much crazy FUD I assumed it would crash to like $50 or $0

Actually, this happened to me for a lot of times. Every time that I trade a coin that I think will no longer increase it's value, and then find out that the value increase after I traded it, that is the worst trading decision that I make every time. Which is why I am working on learning from the mistakes that I've made.

the worst thing I ever do in trading is to buy when the price is expensive and sell it when the price is cheap, it makes me very sad and depressed because I lost some of the assets I have.

Selling altcoins early before their value increased a lot.

we have the worst trading decision so far and whatever it's worst, as long as we can learn from that, I think we don't have to do the same things in the future. I am sure that everybody makes the worst decision because sometimes we don't know something with good and we need to learn more about trading. I think from this experience, we could have a good lesson for our trading style so if something is not good with our trading, we can fix it as fast as we can and we can avoid from getting lost.

Worst trading decision I made was buying Ripple at $2.5, I knew that this was the pumped price but I was not in my right mind and brought Ripple of about $10k and now I am in a pretty heavy loss as the price is even less than a dollar. I am thinking of borrowing some money from my friends and then invest that into Ripple as it's price has sunk so low that now it will only go one way and that is to the moon. But then people say that you shouldn't risk huge amount of money on speculations as you can easily be proven wrong and when this occurs you will be left with nothing but only a lesson for life and huge debts to pay.

Incorrectly determines the entry point when opened the shorts to the XRP. In the end my margin was closed but after that there was a sharp drop and I did nothing.

This comes with experience. Hope so next time you will decide better than this one. Everything comes for your good. Nothing is decided badly for you. We only have to find that goodness hidden in this bad. So if you had such loss in past, now is the time to deliver best of you and keep on doing with updated skills and decisions.

The ever worst experience I came across was to carelessly left my wallet unsecured to an untrusted fellow in the field where all my Bitcoin was negligently scammed/swapped off. I almost ended up in a Coma. Another one that I remembered equally was when I sold my dodge coin during its bear trap far below the purchase price with impatience despite my knowledge, until not far later then that the coin price sky rocketted

Ah well, hindsight is always 20/20  :)

The worst trading decision I ever made was selling all my bitcoin holding back in the year 2016 dump when the price per bitcoin was $570 and I ought to have invest into ETH back then either.

When I first stepped into this market I encountered many failures, but the most painful failure of me when trading was that I lost 98% of my property in one night, and also because of lack Puzzled experience that was FOMO. I invest in BCC when its price is at $ 363 but I do not sell gas it is declining value and currently it only costs $ 3. That is my lesson as well as my biggest stumble.

I guess many of us have the same experience like you and I remember that I made a mistake like what you did and in that time, I often to be panic when I see the price is down. but after reading some guide on many websites, now I am not panic and only wait or buy the coin again if the price is down. in the past, I feel difficult to control my emotion and sometimes makes a fast decision without thinking if I only get lose or not but now, fortunately, I can manage it with good.

The worst decision in trading that i have ever made is selling most of the cryptocurrencies that i hold in this kind of scenario. I am talking about the massive correction and dumps of the market that made me shake my hands and just sell my cryptocurrencies but this time, i know that i just need to hold and keep my faith on my cryptocurrency holdings.

We learn from our mistakes. I did the same thing when I first started out - it's crazy to watch something you invested in go down by 30% in a day - but I have sticky hands now   ;D

The worst decision i made was one day when bitcoin prices were rising around $9000 and i happened to have the funds to buy and there was a willingness to buy. Finally i bought bitcoin for $9000 and the next day after i saw the market price how shocking it was to see the price drop to $7000. How disappointed i am with my impatience, maybe i'll get a little extra coins if i buy for $7000.
This is proof that patience is the key to success of a trader.

I just recently started trading so I cannot really contribute to this thread.

Oh wait. I was trading at EtherDelta I accidentally interchanged the number of tokens and the price/eth so i ended up getting fucked.

if i remember my mistake in my trading job i smile quitely lol  ;D
at time i buy coins and i tell to myself this is it this coins makes me happy before the end of this day surely i got upto 50 percent interest but sad to say i can't reach  my target its because i heard fake news thats coins goes dump on that day i sell it in every lower price. the worst scenario do not panic and make your own decision don't not listen to the people make sure research you own if the news are true.

My biggest mistake yet was when I invested in an ico, the price went down and I kept holding my coins, I believed in the project but I was afraid to invest more in it since the price went below the ico levels, now some months after, the coin is back at ico levels, if I had invested back then I could be in profits already instead of barely making any money.

My worst decision in trading was also connected with selling of all alts I had when they started to fall. Then the pump followed and I understood my mistake.

Sometimes i feel the same too. When some of my ico coins that i bought suddenly deep. There is always a feeling that i need to buy more because it's too cheap but i'm also afraid that it will not increase in it's price. Now, when i believe in the project i will buy more at low price. We can't win or profit if we are afraid that our money will be gone.

I totally agree and if I believe in a project (and have funds), I buy the dip! It can be a hard thing to do but if it's a decent project, you have to believe it'll bounce back, I reckon.

Was this during the latest crash or was it at an earlier crash? I reckon the only thing we can do in this sort of situation is to learn from our mistakes...

I think the worst ever decision I made is in the recent bull run where I did not liquidate my coins to turn over a small profit and then rebuy on the dip. I made a big blunder there and my portfolio is at the current time 70% less big than it's all time high which it reached in early January., Now it is very hard for me to get back to those past levels and I really regret this as I could have completed our house repairs and bought a car which I need for my family as I only have an electric bike for myself and my wife does not drive sigh. I missed this big chance and hope next time I do much better.

Buying SIACO around at 19 satoshis in the late of 2016 and sell it for a quick profit. As far as I can remember I throw away my money about 500/600 USD. Imagine if I still keep it and sell it in the recent all-time-high.

trading and investing without thinking which leads  me lose  and that is the worst moment in my life because of one wrong decision but that's a lessoned learned from myself that I will apply in my whole life.

Ouch! Hopefully, we've seen the last of scams like Bitconnect but somehow I doubt it  :(

Worst trading decision i've ever made was overtrading and getting into a trade without even thinking about an exit plan. I think both of them is the most fatal decision hence when you overtrading you risk losing your capital and also your cash money which you never consider to be included in a trade before and when you're trading without and exit plan and the price started to dropped, you will have to overcome emotion trading which to decide whether to hold or to cut your losses, and its all because you dont have any plan to exit in the first time  ;D ;D

the bad experience I ever did was when I sold the coin at that price was only about 20 satoshi and now the price goes up to 1000 satoshi I just see it can not enjoy profit because I have been in a hurry to sell it.

When I started trading, I made a lot of mistakes. The biggest one is when I bought all my money bitcoins at a high price. And when the price started to fall, I panicked and sold all the bitcoins at a low price. Moreover, I did it several times.
Only after losing more than half of my capital did I realize that I was doing everything wrong.

And from such mistakes nobody is insured. I also made almost the same mistakes and it is possible that I will continue to do so. But I try to learn from my mistakes.

I am a new also in trading because i still learning. Learning from mistake is the best thing to do as new trader.
My biggest mistake is when i trade all in one, so when the price down i could not buy back and recover my loss. I will never do it again.

Lesson learned, this is one of the things I will do in the future, but right now I cannot do that since I'm not holding a lot of coins and the only one that is down is bitcoin, I could use fiat to buy it but I'm short of money, so I have no option but to hold and let go of this golden opportunity, however once the price recovers I will begin to look for cheap alts once again.

Most of us would really have that kind of hesitation on which we are afraid specially on the very first time we bought our altcoins.The feeling of pump is there which is it somehow caused by intuition together with analysis that it will pump soon but the hesitation is there. If you are a risk taker then most probably you will end up on buying even more when the price is on dip its our choice if price goes as expected then cherish the profits you have made.

I think my worst trading decision is EMC2. LOL. I spent about 0.2 BTC to buy EMC2 when its price was only 0.00001 BTC/EMC2 then I sold it for 0.00002 BTC/EMC2. Also I doubled all my money but if I were more patient at the time maybe I would have earned more than that 7 or 8 times cause only 1 month after that EMC2 price rised to more than 0.0001 BTC :(

I spent all money I had to bought some small percentages of BTC, XLM, XRP, ETH, and NXT at the price around USD 12,5k at the time, upon suggestions of my friends who was get in cryptocurrency earlier. They assumed that btc cs would never fell beneath USD 11k. As a newbie, I followed their suggestions. Since then the prices were fell deeper and deeper. If only I knew that the price will be around at the price on recent days, I won't b rushed to spent all my money to bought them, so I could do better investment nowadays where the prices are more sexy.  ;D
I learn lot things since then. And those things lead me here, to learn and study from true masters of cryptocurrencies. Respect!

When I sell all my bitcoins (120 pieces) for 1000$ a couple years ago)) In that moment I didnt believe in bitcoin and now I feel myself very foolish((

Being impatient and selling my coins at an early pump.  That was the worst decision I ever made, instead of having a profit of $200k, I only got $50k due to selling it my coins pre-maturely.  I was waiting for this coin to be pumped for several months, then after seeing it going up for 10x, I sold my coins and then after 2 or 3 days, it goes up even higher. Oh well I just told myself I already have the profit and need not to be greedy lol.

 I do not have a worst decision when it comes to trading because I never tried to trade yet. I'm just open and I have a little bit knowledge to what trading is.  Through this I am very careful enough in all decision that I will make to avoid the possibility of loss.

People should know that before entering or buying an amount of coin for us to serve as an capital for an investment we should first take time to learn the possible trend of a specific coin where we would know the project as we are going to be a part of it. I think we should first take a trial stage whenever we are going to invest a new coin so if we are going to loss we does not just rely on a specific coin future. We should also learn to deal or to manage earning bitcoin.

That was not so much a mistake but a rushed decision, after all you still got 10x profits which is not bad, that gives you a lot of money to make other investments, besides it is very difficult to sell at the very top of a pump, as long as you are close enough its fine also you will get another chance to redeem yourself since you seem to be good at it, in my case I never had the opportunity to make that mistake because no coin except for bitcoin has pumped 10x when I'm invested in it. :'(

I made some stupid decisions, one of the worst of them was buying Nxt before Ignis airdrop and kept it till after airdrop, price felt 50% down , and Hitbtc Still hasn't given out the Ignis yet!

Mostly they all have one thing in common and that is fear or panic. The worst was selling a big holding of Ethereum when it previously dipped from $300-$200, i wasn't thinking sensibly and was panicked because of what the investment meant to me in real life. I guess in turn the mistake was investing too much.

That's not such a bad trade, tbh. If you believe in crypto, you'll believe the price will go up. It's easy to think that you could have got more bang for your buck if you timed the market better but very few people ever buy at the bottom and sell at the top. In a couple of years 12.5k will look like a steal! :)

We all make mistakes. But I have to ask - you had $120k worth of Bitcoin but you didn't really believe in the project? That seems pretty mad to me (although I understand that $120k doesn't mean as much to some people as it does to others)

It's when you cannot wait for the coin in it's low price. Really bad decision when you join when it's pumping then you decided buying it while it's on it's peek, later on you can see that the price is turning down. lol

The worst decision I made was not having bought 2 bitcoins in 2013 when I had a chance lol .... I also recently should have sold my bitcoins in December when 1 bitcoin was 20 thousand dollars lol

you still have another chance to buy bitcoin again and hold it for a long time again and not sell the bitcoin if the price does not increase more than $20k. I think many of us have the same mistake and maybe we have the same worst trading decision but we don't have to regret it and we can make it again like before and maybe our luck will come again to us so we can make a bigger money again. and if we can move from the past and we can learn from the past, I think our future will be good than our past.

When I started trading, I made a lot of mistakes. The biggest one is when I bought all my money bitcoins at a high price. And when the price started to fall, I panicked and sold all the bitcoins at a low price. Moreover, I did it several times. Only after losing more than half of my capital did I realize that I was doing everything wrong.

The worst decision about trading I ever did was I bought a coin when the price went down but it turns out the coin prices continue to fall and now I can only hold it and wait for the price back up because I do not want to lose. by selling it cheaply

I don't think twice in that time and only sell by instant but now, I will hold my bitcoin and I will sell it if the price is more than $20k but if I have an urgent or I need the money then I will sell it to fills my needs. I think I can handle my emotional to not selling my bitcoin even if the price is drop like yesterday

Right at the beginning I made mistakes and acted incorrectly. I believed that having bought a coin she will grow all the time, but there were reductions of price and I panicked, sold and lost money. But there has passed time and I have understood that it is necessary to wait and have patience

I did this mistake in a few trade and now i decide to do long term trading because look promising higher profit than short trading. Now i will focus to trade base on fundamental analysis and doing long term trading. The worst thing I ever did was sell my bitcoin at a very cheap price, I had a huge loss. At that time I experienced a sell panic because the price of bitcoin decreased drastically

I think this is not your worst decssion. you bought the coin when that coin price went down that means bit early you bought that coins that's it. don't worry if the price recovers then you will get your investment back with profit. suppose if you bought coin when the price was high then you can consider that as your worst decision.

All of my trading decisions have been appalling. I genuinely can't think of a single one that succeeded. It's always too early and then there's a pump, or it's too late and it dwindles to nothing.

I learnt long ago that I don't have the psychological equipment to make a success of it. If more people could admit that to themselves they'd be considerably better off. Hardly anyone has what it takes to be a long term success at it.

Worst of the worst decision was to buy Giga watt token ( WTT ) at $ 1.5 just to flip trade but it haven't moved since then ... lucky i sold it at break even point and by then it has dropped to $ 1. ( Golden advise : never ever trade ashit coin even to earn short term gains )

But you make profit, don't you?

I normally trade for 10-20% of profit and don't care if the coin goes up after I decided to sell it. But I've also made bad decisions) At the very beginning, when I came to the market I've been trading with 'signals' (yeah, stupid, I know :) And I will always remember how I bought Bela and GUP at their highs...I was holding for more than 6 months...but then I've lost patience and sold them with losses...it was just 2 days before they were pumped))) the lesson is: If you hold, hold till the end)))) Anyway I was a day trader at that time, so I've made my money back in a week, but that pump still hurts  ;D

By trading? Hell no. Only buying and holding.

The stuff I've 'traded' has mainly been forks so it was free money and largely meaningless. If I'd laid out real money then I would've lost large amounts of it no doubt. I always seemed to get rid of the forks a few moments before they soared.

The few alts I've bought in recent times thinking I was a hero are still miles underwater which is quite an achievement.

Worst thing that i do in trading is when i buy a thousand of digibyte coins at 400 satoshi each, after nearly a week i didnt see any movement but always going down until i lost 30% of my total value of coins, then i decided to cut my lost. After another week it pump around 1000 satoshi each. Sad if i just hold on :(

When I was made a decision to buy some bcc coin by $25 per coin that was my first worst decision in trading carrier .

I have bought MNX because FOMO and was able to buy during the peak, and it went down three times and never went more than it's ATH since then. Now, I have no choice but to hold and park them for almost two years just to recover my losses. I don't want to sell them just to recover some of my money.

The worst trading   decision I made every now and then is the ability to determine the right price for me to exit my trading position.  I must confess the hardest part of trading for me is the ability to determine the right valuation for my holdings.

every time the stock market jumps up, and then down, it becomes more difficult to do an analysis to show the real situation.

doing analysis has always been difficult, especially if you do not follow the market very closely. At least, only the community helps to properly navigate the market.

Sold an asset for one tenth of what I was supposed to sell it for. Luckily the system in place didn't allow that and sold it to the next highest bidder, that was a relief once I found that out. Before that my heart was racing pretty quick ;D.

Selling like literally selling a coin when you are in a profit , there are several coins which i used to trade to increase my amount of btc i make profit but the mistake i made was selling it immediately after reaching my goal , what i realised now is it's better to put stop loss rather than selling it away because you could easily make more profit or control your loss.

Its not actually a trade but somehow considered to be part of. Going back in the past on where i do have XRB (Raiblocks) which have been bought for a very very low price and then being sold out into few hundreds of satoshis wayback before and now the price had soared up high which i do end up on regretting because if i did able to hold it of for almost a year then i might be a millionaire as of now.

It depends upon how much  % of his holding he  invested on that low coin..

And does that coin have any use-case or any future development and good team ??

Just if u had seen the price  low and invested then it might be an worst decision

The worst experienced that I have in trading is when I sell my bitcoins in lower price because of continuous decreases happening these past few days. I lost my money but it was a lesson learned in my life.

Regret always comes later.
a few weeks ago, about 3 weeks ago I bought altcoin.
and somehow I really want to invest all my money to the coin. after a few weeks I think the price of the coin will go up. but the reality is otherwise.
the coin plummets. and automatically all my money is forfeited! and it was the worst trade decision I ever did.
if you can advise, do not be too ambitious with this investment. because the risks you will face are enormous.
just take a little advantage, do not be greedy  ;)

sometimes u will have to check the projects updates via social media to know if any news is coming up for the project. U should have understood not selling all your token at once. Place different  prices if possible

I could be an early adopter for the coins but I didn't buy them and I missed this thing some time ago. This is the worst one ever for me, I will never repeat the same mistake I wish.

No one can always win in this kind of market, Personally I worst experienced is to trade with zero knowledge i bought cheap coins and my portfolio becomes more cheaper really learned from this and hopefully able to bounce after a fall.

I also miss much of the opportunities. I Always want to be in the people who buy the coins before a bigger percentage gain in the exchange, but I always come later. But once in one coin which was with me from an year I earned about 20X and from that I learned that we have to keep some amount of money in some high potential coins and that will make us a good profit with the passage of time.

My worst trade decision was a few months ago. I bought all my investment in BCH and inmediately the market started to decrease. Panic seized me so I decided to sell all.
The next day the market started again to raise.

As long as the price difference is not that great then you could have made a good investment that is simply going to take sometime before it gives you profits but if you bought at a price that was too high then that could be considered to be a mistake and as you said your only real option is to hold for a long time and hope everything turns out to be OK.

Better to keep holding since you take it in a wrong entry but if you notice, crypto always have a lots of fluctuations, if that coin is on the top 10 alts then better to wait for some times you will see the best result after, we also needed to assess whether the project is promising or just a quick pumped and
then dumped project, from that type of trade cut loss needs also to be considered.

Well, that is if the OP is talking about signals gotten from indicators, Technical analysis and Fundamental analysis.

In this case, I am sure the OP is referring to Telegram signals where someone calls the shot and the followers do the usual thing which is to follow blindly. That is a huge problem for someone who wants to trade, because there is no way they cannot end up losing a lot at the end. It is always good to have the knowledge and be able to make decision without being told what to do.

Exiting ETH at $300 thinking that was the peak, after buying in at $120.

I remembered when I started trading and ended up bumping into some of them on telegram, I really regretted not saving my money in my wallet and watching it grow. They have nothing to offer as far as I know, and one would be better off both learning and making those decisions than allowing someone to give a signal that will only be profitable to them alone as that is what they usually do. Relying on others always make one end up screwed and even badly.

- I never entered altcoin markets like stratis, monero and NEM correctly, although I had the opportunity. Those turned up to be hugely profitable coins.

- I sold some of my good alts too early, and didn't let them grow more profitable.

- At my first days, I listened to everybody everywhere. Many people and sources don't deserve attention (example: trollboxes).

Being dependent should never even be the style of any trader. It is always good to find a way to get the best of the market, which is normally by learning and that is the only way you can really be making good call for yourselves, know what to do at the right time and not live on someone else's idea. Most people make a huge mistake thinking they can always get it right by following others, but they never will.

my worst experience when playing trading is when I sell coins that I have at cheap prices, really I feel depressed because I get a lot of losses. I sell bitcoin loss because I panic and do not know if the price can go back up.

Most people who even have these signal channels are usually busy using their number of followers to push the market up once they have bought at the dip and the problem is that some even get the signals very late and they still always hop in anyway which makes them to lose at the end of the day. As far as I am concerned, 50/50 is not even good enough. You have to be able to learn on your own and make decisions and that makes your last statement the perfect one.

That is always a good way to learn from your mistakes because without facing any problem it is not possible for us to keep more concentration on to it. Once we failed then it is always good for us to learn new things in the market.

When I invested on Binance app not knowing they have high demand withdrawal fees. Not biggest money I've ever spent but it's breathtaking and regretful I still remember the despair I've been through all that and stuck at holding on it and waiting for the right moment to withdraw.

It happened when a friend of mine said that the coin was a scam and I have sold it. But it turned out, that and have such coin can be pumped.

My worst trading decision ever is when I sell my gvt token at a low price and after a couple of hours the price start to pump up and now the price hit up to 20$ Im so mad that time because I miss the opportunity to earn a huge profit, now I learn the leason holding is the best way you can do if you want to earn good profit. Hahaha

That I buy some coins or tokens, thinking that all coins or tokens are very potential or has a future potential that is my worst moves before but as I continue my life in trading I've learned a lot of things especially in my mistakes and also some failures stories of some traders. If you really want to trade make sure you are prepared on the crash don't let your emotions control you.

sad to hear that mate,but its part of investment to fail..and holding today is riskier than the past because more of the ico now wasnt concern about the token,instead only concerns for the profit after the token hit the market,they were just selling all the tokens and then leave all behind

Bought some altcoin with BNB when BNB was 8$ and then it went up to 23$ the next day. I didn't really had a loss but if I would have kept BNB it would have been much better.

That's a common theme popping up here. The panic sell is a traders worst enemy (closely followed by the fomo buy). Sadly, ignoring emotion is easier said than done!

I was just talking about dumb trades that people have made. Following other traders blindly is a sure path to destruction, though!  :)

To be fair, it was sitting at $300 for aaaaaaaages. Still, I reckon it's got a long way to go before we see ETH's peak...

i bought eth on 28$ and sell it after around 50 $ .i always regret about that

By not trading that was my biggest mistake I only gambled and thought trading is time consuming activity and takes lot of time to give me profit but i was wrong trading is more easier and profitable than gambling , I did stop trading so that I don't overdo and get losses

The worst decision I ever made was when LTC80 last year I threw out all the LTC I had.

Now the LTC1300.

Ha ha, even if anyone wants to follow other traders, they should at least be able to make some decisions on their own based on what they suspect on the chart, but of course, some people will rather not learn and follow everything being said by a trader until they lose out completely.

One thing, most times, they are not even told where to stop loss and they end up bag holding until they are left hanging in the cold and then giving up totally to sell for huge loss. It is always better to learn and have your own strategy, and even if you want to follow any trader, at least you will be able to still make your own decisions and analyze the market.

The worst trading decision, is not to trade and thinking that my token will have more value than it's current value. Also, the other one is when I was a newbie and I trade my ETH to Bitcoin ( but I click a bitcoin cash logo, because it seems like a bitcoin , almost the same f*cking logo ) , so I do a success exchange on my Eth on that day and excited to send that bitcoin ( which is bitcoin cash in real life ) on my local bitcoin address. But sad to say, my bitcoin address does not supported other kind of token. How cruel, just think what happen next. Sad life.

fyi ( 100 dollars )

Back in the past When people hyped me up and i buy at high price they said that it's a good investment but i realized that those coins are no though their price falls down that time and because i'm a newbie i panic and sell those coin at much lower price but after a month later i saw those coins coming back up again much higher when the time i buy, it's my mistake that i don't have enough patience that made me lose my money although it is not a big amount it is the worst decision i made.

One bad thing I've ever done is do trading activities without doing research on coins that have very good potential. All I do is trade by simply asking for suggestions from others and ultimately the advice of that person will only result in a loss. and this will be a very valuable lesson for me that in doing trading activity is not enough just to rely on recommendations from others.

My gash, I remember again what is the worst thing happen to me. I just sell my token when I see that the price are increase and that is the worst decision I did, because in just one week the token I have will increase in x10 ,well this happen is a lesson to me to learn to hold.

I think the worst trading decision that I have done is that when I cashed out my Bonpay tokens (BON) for early Christmas gifts at the price of $0.68 per token. However, before the great Bitcoin crash of 2018, the value of Bonpay tokens almost doubled its value, and I could have earned a lot more than what I have today.

However, I am still grateful of what I have, and at least I've learned because I was still new at the time I received my BONs to MyEtherWallet.

Of course all in all, since the forum is always the most frequent answer, the most misleading thing in trading is the sale of the expensive price of altcoin, and when it sells a cheap price.

i bought tron at the starting of the year

I think, for me, the worst decision I have ever made is to buy coins while its still at a high price, not really at peak price, but at a price that the profit you would get would be so little that it won't be any significant or can even be considered as 'profit' per se. I think I was so trigger happy and hyped when I did those trades that I didn't really think much about what I did; I was thinking that since the market is doing good, I wishfully thought that the asset would go up in value even if by study of the trend, I know, with a normal mind, that it won't. I guess, just don't jump the gun and think of your actions through.

Gambling consumes more time than trading and it is even no beneficial. In contrary to that, trading consumes time like the rest of the activities of world but produces some good outcomes. It benefits a person economically and increases his knowledge too. Gambling is a total random game based purely upon luck whereas a trader takes decision according to his learnings and skills. Both are poles apart in every aspect.

For me, the worst experience was not checking the (updated) fees of a particular exchange while placing the trade order. As the amount was high, I had to pay comparatively higher amount of fee (cost) for the trade as compared to that of other exchanges. Thus, I recommend everyone to check the hidden cost/fees BEFORE placing the trade order.

Buy high and sell low. I had tried trading last year at first it was really good because I was gaining little by little but when the market is down I do selling at dip.

My worst decision on trading is panic sell, when I still beginning and learn trading if the price falling I will panic and always sell my crypto into low price so I have lose my money into trading. And other day if the price increasing again I'm really regreted about my decision, if I can patient to hold my coin until the price increasing again I will never lose my money.

Everyone has some worst experience in their trading carrier but one thing is very much true and that is all those who made such kind of mistakes like that of panic selling or not availing the opportunity of buying of coins at time when their market value was low are now the most successful traders amongst all other traders and are making some very good amount of money too.

Every trader should have a strategy and stick to it, rather than panic. However, sometimes, I would not consider somethings as panic; I would rather call it playing safe. The same BCH has reached my stop loss before, sold it and all of a sudden it started rising back, of course some would want to quickly buy back into it and then all of a sudden it came all the way back down before you know it. That is one controlled market I have told myself never to trade again. So, at the end, it is just what they call moving on, and better safe than sorry.

Those are probably nothing more than pump and dump groups but people should know better if I knew what a coin will do before it happened I will not share that information with anyone I will probably bet the farm in that trade and become incredible wealthy overnight so it is obvious most signals groups have to be a scam, there is no other way around it.

Lol. No one could have even imagined last year, that Ether will even go further, but at some point anyway, the indicators started turning long and those who were smart enough as traders to see it, did and good thing it came in handy for the profit.

I have made trading decisions similar to this, but I have never regretted them, but sometimes as long as the trade is not hitting my stop loss or giving me some huge bearish signals, I really do not bother myself about it.

That is one thing almost everyone has obviously been a victim of and there is nothing we can all do about it. If the market decides to keep moving up and you take out your profit or you miss out of the show in the dying minute, it is just to accept your fate and move on. This is why some traders always prefer the long holding than having to do short term trading. Everyone have their own preference, it is just for you to make the best use of it.

As long as you make money it is fine people worry too much about selling at the top of the market but it is impossible to do it all the time, the most important thing to do with your trading is to obtain consistent profits, people concentrate too much in trying to get 10 times their investment when  getting 5% out of each trade can make you more money in the long run if you are a talented traders.

The fact is that in most cases, the forecasts for Bitcoin broke, and the etherium was almost always avoided. But nevertheless for today we see real prospects of the etherium about the future. I think this is a better investment than Bitcoin.

I completely agree - life is much simpler when you just hodl  :) I used to trade but I found the whole thing to be a bit stressful. Nowadays, I just invest in projects that I believe in and store my coins safely

Your absolutely right - why on earth would people who create these groups try and help out complete strangers at the expense of their own profit?! There are some good vids on YouTube about how P&D groups operate. Doug Polk Crypto did a fantastic one...

This thing should really be always putted in mind for those people who do tend or plan to join Pump and dump groups which how those people are willing to help out strangers on making out some easy money as they claimed on the very first place. Some groups do ask for payment and some are completely free which means theres really a motive on any way you would go.This is why joining those groups are just total scamming out yourself.

as a newb I once bagholded and got f_cked. Damn, I remeber very well. Never had so much stress in my life.

That's good advice but easier said than done - who among us hasn't felt the overwhelming urge to panic sell when their coin starts to tank? Nowadays, I just invest in projects I believe in and forget about it for a while (although I check CoinMarketCap more than I should! LOL)

What coin were you holding? And was it part of a pump-n-dump scheme? Has it recovered from the point at which you sold it? Sorry for all the questions, just curious  :)

I am new in the trading world but i have done selling one time and during that time i was not known to the price so when i sold my coin i realize to check the prices and the prices were higher than the price on which i sold my coin so this is the worst thing which i made ever and this is good for me that through this way i will earn good amount of money if we start bitcoin and altcoin trading i think we will become the millionaire of this currency as like the other people who are doing this.

To be fair, they are completely different projects with different goals. I like them both but I can see why you're so keen on Ethereum...

Mistake #1) Bought Ripple
Mistake #2) Sold Ripple after no pump on conference
Mistake #3) Watching the Ripple pump everyday while it happened

#3 definitely was the worst part about it all, if I had to do it over again I just wouldn't do #1 ;D

It was BTC. I was in a leveraged position. So I got eventualy margin called lol. looking back to this it was well "invested" money for a lesson though.

I think the worst trading decision I have made most of the time was FoMO "fear of missing out", I never seems to be able to buy in bitcoin or altcoins at the lowest point during each dip, and this have caused my funds to be stuck with crypto-currencies for a very long time before I can sell them away for profits.

One of the worst trading decision I made was not seeing bitcoin on long term  when I first started trading cryptocurrency.  I Bitcoin incredibly cheap in those days and I failed to keep any of them. I thought bitcoin was just saying flash!

My worst trading decision i've ever made is when i ignored my friend told me last december 2017 that bitcoins pump up to 20k $ is just a hype and it may go dip up to below 7k$ in a couple of months and it just happened last month ago. Maybe i can save up 50% of bitcoin portfolio if i just listened instead of being hard headed

I recall when i was new in trading. I had bought a several eth before and i was just keep on buying then when i reach my target and i don't see any movement at that time. I was bored because there is no movement at all and i don't have any knowledge before about trading then suddenly i sell all my eth knowing eth won't rise on it's price. After few months of trading with several coins i see eth pumping and i was shock that the price went up. That's gives me a huge lesson about trading. If i see some potential coins now i tend to keep or hold them for a long period of time and just wait for another "eth" in the making base on the price only.

When I see to it that most of the time when everyone has the knowledge in trading, you keep in trusting him and give your ETH and Private Key to hold the wallet. I was being fooled already and it seems that the coins are in the wallet already.  It is a biggest decision that I've ever made and the biggest lesson that I've ever learned.

Selling when it wasn't the time, and I made this mistake many times before holding til the correct time.

I started trading 2 days before this recent market collapse and I bought some coins, now they are twice cheaper. It's probably a mistake, but I am now learning what does HODL mean ;D

My experience is not on one but there are several coins which i used to trade to increase my amount of btc i make profit but the mistake i made was selling it immediately after reaching my goal , what i realised now is it's better to put stop loss rather than selling it away because you could easily make more profit or control your loss.

I also do that, when i was trading and i didn’t monitor, it was too low that i thought it will go up again, but the flow gets slower, it even stop so i have to hold my account until it gets high again. Now its is almost three months but still the market is sleeping so I have to wait.

Once I hold a coin for months(XRP). It was declining day by day. At that time I needed to sell some coin to invest in one ICO. So I have decided to sell 75% of this coin(XRP). In about a week XRP went up like crazy :/

My biggest mistake 3 years ago, I sold all Bitcoin investment, I think it was a psychological period. I knew Bitcoin early, but in 2015 I sold my entire investment with a momentary nervous breakdown. Then I started to buy crypto moneys again.

One of the worst trading decision is that I didn't follow my friends' advice. He told me that the end of 2017 the price of bitcoin would decrease, I didn't sell any of bitcoin because I think bitcoin would never reach $7k and full of greedy in my inner world. Unluckily, it happened as we see.

My worst trading decision is to underestimating the projects. I ever sold some coins early when there are 200 to 300% gains, but the coins went 2000%.

This is often advised here as well that don’t come in practical world until you don’t know the basic information and studies. There is big difference in theory and practical. But if you are equipped with handsome knowledge set, chances are there for your improvement. But if you are zero and you are much passionate to come here, results would be of like yours. Learn first and then practice them.

Worst decision is not believing that altcoins should someday reach new heights so I dump everything in June. 6 months forward specially in December almost all alts have been pumped hard so hard that almost all of them have reach all-time-highs. Sadly though I sold off everything and I should have made a lot of money during the December rush.

And then joining ICO, holds token which drop and I keep on holding and believing that it has the potential to increase overtime. However, its not the case because it has no value at all.

True, if you start to regret, you waste your time, which is the money as well. That is why I just remember about all mistakes that were made and go ahead.

The worst decision was to contact this crypto market in general and start trading without proper educational training.

My bad decision was the impatience to buy bitcoin in January this year when the market was not flushed out like it is right now. When I witnessed a terrible growth of bitcoin in 2017. But I will continue to invest more bitcoin at this time. I will definitely hold it and keep waiting for the upward oscillation.

I think it would be i have to much greed in trading so i buy more when it's high hopping to it pumps but that's not likely in the market especially after the pump there will be a correction and because i am impatient i didn't wait for the correction to happen.

When I started trading, I tried to do it on 5 and 15 minute candlesticks on the chart.
Tried to catch the top and bottom, resulting in losses

The worst thing I ever did was sell my bitcoin at a very cheap price I had a huge loss. My mental and emotional level is an important part of taking every decision.

Oh, no! Was it someone you knew? Or someone you met through crypto that was only pretending to be your friend? That sucks, dude  >:(

Ah, we've all been there, dude - they say that trying to catch the bottom is like trying to catch a falling dagger. I never knew what that meant until I tried to do it myself lol

It's true - the ability to take emotion out of trading is paramount to being a successful trader. It's definitely easier said than done, though. Hell, even hodling can be hard when the market dives!

The worst trading experience for me took place at the end of January when I bought Verge for almost 0,10$. Everything seemed to predict its growth: the news, the future events planned for this coin and the several days of price fall. But exactly after my purchase of Verge, the market started a huge correction that lasted the whole week. Verge's price dumped to 0,056$. After the correction, all the coins started to recover to their initial prices but Verge was moving to slow. Already then I decided to sell as soon as it reaches the price for which I bought it. But the Verge never reached this price. After reaching 0,08$/XVG, started a new wave of correction, and after that one, a set of other corrections, and the Verge was devastated.
Now its price is approximately 0,031$-0,036$, and it can't grow higher. That is my worst investment so far. The only good thing is that I stick to my strategy and don't invest too much in a single coin.
So, beware guys, don't put everything in one asset. Better slower movement but the right moving forward.

My most stupid decision was to sell XRP too early, when the price of XRP was 0.2. If I'm calm then I haved a lot of money

When i buy a big value of shitcoin, that was my worst decision i have ever made. At first the value was neutral, no major changes, but as the day goes by, the value keep on decreasing everytime that im checking. Good thing is i already cut my loss before the value of that shitcoin will totally be worthless.

It is natural. Definitely if you have invested in bitcoins and there you are seeing the prices are cautiously decreasing for no reason. Your mind will absolutely be shaken and there will be ring bells in your mind for taking out your investment. Then this would be the best moment of decision for a trader whether to listen to your heart and become loser or listen to your mind and control over everything.

My worst one? There are plenty :) I did not buy XRB at $0.64, was too worried about them scam exchanges. I did by into ELIX at $2 – maybe it's gonna explode eventually. Overall, I think that I (and you guys too) should buy more/earlier into the projects that you believe in. No use in being greedy, y'know? :)

I have witnessed this before, where you exit a trade wrongly and it starts to do the unexpected. For instance in my own case, l buoght and as soon as I made payment, price started to moon.

Buying high selling low that the stupid thing i done on trading,, well as beginner before i always have fear on losing so i cant wait on pump then i was always worried when price is falling so i end up losing than gaining before but now i overcome it already,  and get more profit on trading than losing.

I bought litecoin at $49.5 several months ago and this was when bitcoin began its bull run up to 10k or a bit more.  I was certain that litecoin was going to catch up but it was taking a while to start rising.  Once it did start rising I felt like it was going to crash soon after it rose so i sold at $67.  Literally like 2 weeks later it hit $420 and i missed out on like 9x my money.  Im still mad to this day lol.

I remember once Bitcoin's rise was very crazy, and I sold half of it when it had just risen to 50%, but I don't think it's a shame. I can only say I made less.

This topic is getting too full of the usual

I should have mined bitcoins with my CPU back in 2009
I shouldn't of sold my Bitcoins in 2011-2016
I should have bought GPUs to mine ETH in 2016.

I think my worst was trading stock options about 10 years ago when I was new to trading.

Trading stocks was pretty easy. However I got greedy and read up on Options.

Long story short it was really difficult. One reason being that unlike assets or Bitcoin they lose value every day even if the underlying doesn't move in price at all.

Was a good learning experience though.

There are various trading decisions I made that made me regret doing it and I believe they all have the same weight.
1. Buying a coin because it is going up and not even checking the chart or checking what is the reason of the pump and I eventually end up being dumped.
2. Participating in a pump and dump.
3. Selling at a loss even though it is already at a support level because I am losing hope.
4. Panic buying and selling.
5. Following the recommendation of others what to buy and sell without doing my own research.
6. Not taking profit and eventually sold at a loss.
7. Being greedy.

My worst trading is whe i sell some of my ethereum when it was only 10$ each :( eventhough i make a profit because i only bought ethereum when it was only 5$ each. I still regret because i lost the opportunity to make a lot of money if i just hold it until its ATH or just now.

At the beginning, I traded frequently every day. I lost a lot of money because I didn't know what was valuable. I missed a lot of valuable buying opportunities at a low price. Now I will understand this currency before I buy it. I decided that this helped me a lot. I made some money. Everyone made mistakes. The important thing is how you learn from mistakes. It is important to learn not to make mistakes!

My worst trading decision I've done is i sell my coin lower than the buy price because that time i'm afraid to lose all my money and the next day the price of the coin gain 150% up , that time i have no idea how to buy a good coin and no idea trading strategy, so far i learn from that mistake.

I am just a beginner when it comes to trading. So no wonder I always do the stupid decision. One thing is I usually bought at so much higher price because of I listen to the wrong signal groups and thinking that I will earn, but end up losing more. I learn from that already. I will not rely now on my decision because someone tells me to do so. I will study first on my own.

You made wrong decision! My situation is a bit similar.  I totaly missed the moment to sell my coin. Now it is twice lower then I've bought it. So, I decided to hodl it and to hope for the best. I don't want to sell it now. It's my first coin and I like it very much.

I bought ETH and sold out of panic at a loss. Just after selling my ETH, I saw price of ETH is increasing significantly. After selling ETH, I purchased some altcoins that started losing it's price. Finally I got loser from both end. It was due to my impatience and nervousness.

Trading is not a very easy profession, it becomes more difficult if you don’t have good knowledge of the asset. But mistakes are what gives us experience and help us in growing up. I appreciate your persistency and spirit of not giving up. Day trading is a whole different story in itself. It takes even more efforts than long term trading. But all you need to do is not sell out crypto coin if it keeps going down any particular day. Check the price out next day and go with bitcoin.

At time when you are newbies and that you don’t have a good idea about the trading market, you do make certain mistakes which you later on realize that you made a wrong decision. In case you ever come across this kind of situation, then the only thing you need to do is that you need to learn from those mistakes and that you should try not to repeat the similar mistakes in the future to avoid more loss.

By not trading that was my biggest mistake I only gambled and thought trading is time consuming activity and takes lot of time to give me profit but i was wrong trading is more easier and profitable than gambling . I did stop trading so that I don't overdo and get losses

There comes certain occasion when you failed to make the right decision and that you end up making such kind of decision regarding which you later regret but even then it helps you in learning some good lesson as well. The only decision which I still regret was the selling of my crypto coins and that too at time when the market was falling down because of getting panicked and losing the control over my emotions.

My worst trading decision is buying a coin in price peak and wasn’t able to sell when it wnet down to 10 percent. Now I am still holding it with a paper loss of 70 percent. But I have all the time to hold it and wait for my profit.

The impatient or novice investor decides wrongly. they make crypto money sales at an early time. I made a rush sale last year for the beginner. This is the worst decision I've made so far. I would have earned twice as much as I would have waited for a few more months.

Same here bud, as what I've been experienced on my bitcoin way back last November 2017. On that time I'm planning to hold my shares which that time bitcoin is around $7,000 and I sell when it hit up to $11,000 and I didn't expected that It's gonna increase as much as $20,000 supposed to be my shares could be almost 3 times. Well, everything is unpredictable as what happen to the value of bitcoin is volatile as well as other crypto currency here in the cyberworld. I'm just hoping that I'm gonna be lucky enough soon. Cool

When I'm impatient to a coin because the price is always up and down daily so instead of i earn a lot of profit i have no choice to sell it that time because I need it to invest in other coin and I think its normal yo us that so.e time we have impatient moment but in crypto you need a lots of patients if you want to earn big profits.

Selling EOS @ $6 dollar just before the rise of EOS. It's feel me so bad. Now price of eos $19. Now again try to buy eos but getting fear price become so high.

Happened just late last year 2017.  I have recieved 100k PRL as payment for my signature campaign sold 50k at a rate of one is to one. Only to find out that it had risen up to double just 4 months after it was launched in exchanges. I'm sorry I just had to sell it off due to immediate need. Makes me laugh each time I remember. NOw, you'll get 30k for the price of 1k PRL.
Forgive my nuissance.
I known better now. That is to HODL. And to save.  

I guees that was selling of $2k BTC back in 2014.
Made a good extra with it though

My worst trading decision ever made was the choice not to invest in ETH when I had the chance, near when it was first released. Although I don’t like regretting things, this is one thing I did regret. The hype around ETH was big when it was around $7 and I was offered the change to buy a bundle at a great discount, but I didn't believe in the potential. Oh well.

my worst decision in trading is my inability to be more patient in holding a coin and it makes me always fail to get better profit. right now I always try to keep my coins and plan to do the selling target.

I sold my ico eth's around 11 usd, one monts later it went to moon, and I sold my ZCL tokens around 10 usd (4x gain) and just 2 days later it crashed 200 usd.

You may know that bitcoin's price has hit $ 19800 and I had the worst trading decision when buying bitcoin at $ 19,000 and cut losses when bitcoin fell to $ 6000. I was divided into three properties, a very bad and wrong decision, as a result of unplanned sales and lack of market knowledge, I had to divide my assets mine.

i guess i made wrong by not holding my litecoins last year. i remember the price was stuck at 4 usd for a while. i collected from these point and i just sold them during the first pump wave when it was about 8 usd. it reached till 300 usd at the end of last year. I had an opportunity earn x100 in less than 1 year.

my worst trading decission was happened last year when Dogecoin reach to 100 satoshi above that i was bought at that price because some of people says Doge will reach to 200 satoshi at that year so buy and hold Doge is good idea they said but unfortunately they said were wrong that Doge price gradually fall and i never can recover my losses back

My worst trading decision was to sell most of the bitcoin crypto assets because of too high panic factors, and after selling them I became frustrated because prices soared and became 10x the price I sold afterwards. There is one very important thing in which I have to keep believing in bitcoin and not even selling it.

I think for me it's quite easy. Trade-out prematurely or selling in panic, especially during the times when the market and its assets are falling down, and I didn't know then that it will soon rise up again after a few months. Since I don't want to endanger my investment and capital more and thinking that I would only suffer lesser loss, I got rid of my assets that would rise up after a couple of months. I regretted that very much then, but I got over it. After all, I can't do anything to get it back but to learn from it.

Panic selling is one of the most common worst trading decision everyone has ever made and I'm not exempted from it. I've also been into that point of my life where I was so impulsive and not thinking of other possibilities. In consideration, it's also the inappropriate timing of when, how, where, and why to trade. It's depressing and exhausting. There are a lot to mention with regard to this issue,  but I don't think dwelling too much on this situation can help us grow. What is important is we learn from that experience, move on and not to do the same mistakes again.

Fortunately I did not make epic fails with crypto coins but I did with direvatives on a commodity market when I hold futures with a sufficient big leverage opposite a trend I could not acknowledge my mistake and I lost very much. Anyway direvatives are very difficult crypto coins are much simplier

My worst trading decisions were made in beginning when I was selling in panic, prices started to go down and instead to be patient and wait I were selling just to cut my losses. Since then when I buy and price drop I wait, doesn't matter how long, for months if I need.
Its a classical newcomers mistake that most of us made. In those trades I lost a lot of money, even more if you calculate by this prices now.
Except that I didn't make mistakes, after I learned to wait of I buy in wrong time I started to make more profit. I don't regret because of that, every school needs to be paid somehow, I paid mine. All newcomers made mistakes with trading, we start like its easy but its not.

I think my worst moment would be when I trade my bounty reward and after an hour the token went up about 10% or more.
I really felt bad about it and after that whenever I got a bounty reward I would make sure to keep some of it so when it pumps up I could sell it off.

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I sold the coins in panic or because they did not grow for a long time. The most important thing is to have exposure

My worst decision was to invest in DGB at 2500sts, at that time there were a lot of predictions that it would go up so because of the fomo I bought a lot and the result was that I lost more than 50 % of the value of your property. That is a lesson I will remember forever in this market.

The worst decision in my trading life was selling my tokens for less than $500 and realize in a week time that those same tokens were worth over $3000. It hurt me so much that I cant not even look at my portfolio again.

got a friend scammed because this guy had a really good offer and he just took the coins and ran :/

You should look at the bright side OP. At least you got $500. As for me, the token I held is already worth $2,000 but I didn't budge hoping for the value to go up more and then the bear market come and my token now is worth $150. If I sold it when it was $2,000 then I would have bought again at least 10x of the token I held before. Well, that's the worst decision for me because I was too greedy. I learned my lesson and intend to take profits in the future.

This is one of my experience as well. If the token I receive is big then I would sell half of it and then keep half so that when the coin pumps, I would be able to sell it at a bigger profit. If the coin become worthless then at least I got something from it. I have a bunch of tokens that I held now that are worthless because either it is a scam, the developers abandoned the project and some doesn't have any volume at all.

The worst thing I ever did was sell my bitcoin at a very cheap price, I had a huge loss. At that time I experienced a sell panic because the price of bitcoin decreased drastically. Yet a few hours later the bitcoin price went up and I thought I made a big mistake. I guess many of us have the same experience like you and I remember that I made a mistake like what you did and in that time, I often to be panic when I see the price is down

My worst trading decision ever is when I sell my gvt token at a low price and after a couple of hours the price start to pump up and now the price hit up to 20$ Im so mad that time because I miss the opportunity to earn a huge profit. That is one thing almost everyone has obviously been a victim of and there is nothing we can all do about it. If the market decides to keep moving up and you take out your profit or you miss out of the show in the dying minute, it is just to accept your fate and move on

I have an altcoin earned in a signature campaign. Actually that is the first altcoin I earned. I heard from a friend, its price will rise in the next few months or in next. I believed in him. The next month, its price rises up to more than 1 dollar, that time I already want to sell my alt but my friend refuses so I believed in him again and that's the worst decision ever. The price did not rise that high again plus I waited couple of months just to sell it. I sell my alt in 1 dollar price after 5months to be exact.

The worst thing i made in trading when i let dump my coins at very low value, We all know dealing with cryptos are unpredictable, but due to some circumstances, I lost the opportunity to earn huge amount, actually it makes an eyeopener to my part and through that scenario, i learned to hold more coins and patience always.

My Worst ever experience is trading on binary option platform. i never realized that the greed is forcing me to invest more and more thinking that i will recover my amount. I lost so much hard earn money in those shady platforms like IQ Option

When someone gets into this world of trading and investing, greed is a factor that might become the solid triggering catalyst. We can become de-tracked of what we have planned for. People don’t recognize this at first. But after sometimes, when they look down upon what they had done, they regret. So better is not to cry over spilt milk later rather leave out this greediness.

The worst decisions I had when I decided to back away from the trading plan. Instead of selling coins on time, I thought that now the price will grow even more, and I will earn more. As a result, it turned out the opposite, the profit was less when the price began to fall sharply.

One the worst trading decision I ever made was when I was trading forex I triggered a sell trade without a stop loss coincidentally the trade went against my set up invariably wiping out all my investment, that incident has enabled me to always ensured that I stop-lossed any trade I have embarked upon to avoid heavy losses.

last year i bought NMR and price went down 50% , The funny thing is that I sold it by then and bought it again when it went up  ;D
And it went down again , I lost almost 0.3 btc through it .

Funny you mentioned NMR..it's also my biggest trading mistake. One of the few trades that I got out of with a loss.

Everything which we do in our lives help us in learning some good lesson which can help us for the rest of our lives. If you ever made this decision and that because of this. You lost your money, then you need not to repeat this mistake again in your life and that you need to remain patient at the time of dump instead of going for panic selling. Stay in your senses so that you may not end up losing your money.

I decided not to buy bitcoin due to negative statements and the crash in the future while the price was as low as $2700 last year. but I was very upset when I saw that the price is growing more and more and till the end of the year 2017 the price was at its peak which was $20k. gradually the price was increasing but I never tried to buy some.

Firstly, I will like to say that any decision that leas you to profit no matter how little that profit is can not be said to be a bad decision. The worst decision for me is not to take my paper profit. Waiting too long is counterproductive.

My worst trading decision was getting hyped and bought at the top only to sell at the bottom since I didn't realize that I bought at exactly the start of the downtrend.

    In my views when the market is on the way down and I need money for my financial hurdles and I sell my holdings for low price, that was the worst decision because I will sell my holdings in the wrong time.so I think that the best decision is to hold your bitcoin when the price is low and sell or use them when the price is high. opposite decision will be worst decision.

In my views when the market is on the way down and I need money for my financial hurdles and I sell my holdings for low price, that was the worst decision because I will sell my holdings in the wrong time.so I think that the best decision is to hold your bitcoin when the price is low and sell or use them when the price is high. opposite decision will be worst decision.

The worst decision is to sell what I have today. I do not have the patience to see my money go out for hours, and now I see the recovery of the market. This is a lesson for me.