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As the title says, does it happen with you as well? Or just it has been happening with me? Not most of the time, but every time it has been happening with me. Although I sold my holding in profits somehow after sold it start to pump more and more. It's not happening with altcoin only. It's happening also in the Bitcoin trade. I do not regret but it's somehow surprising to me. Either I don't have enough patience or I don't have enough experience.

Does it happen with you? Or just it's happening with me?

Probably it's your timing that's a bit off, I mean it happens to a lot of people. This happened to me one time and I don't want that that thing to ever happen again because I missed out on profits. Maybe try to be a little bit more greedy when you are hodling and the prices are pumping hard to potentially maximize the profit.

It almost always happens. I mean, that's the volatility working and the unpredictability of the market making its way to us in trading. It's not that rare to have the opportunity of the right call, and it's just that there's the notion of people where they think these things below

• Hoping that they could've sold higher
• Hoping that they could've cut their losses earlier

Both of these scenarios can happen to you, and every time it does, people think that it happens all the time because of the "hope" that it instills in trading. I guess being emotionless can lessen these types of thoughts when it comes to these things.

Yup, you are not the only one who notices that. It does feel like they are watching my wallet disperse the coins because the moment I sold my holdings, the price quickly goes up like it didn't want me to buy back. I sold my ADA after it reaches $1.70. I thought it's going to be the peak so I waited and although it drops a bit, the bounce greatly leaves me behind as it reaches more than $2.

It does happen when I sold my BTC as well. And it felt like the exchanges themselves are purposely buying them while I hold my stablecoin to wait for the dip.

Yes. And no.

Let's say you sell at price X. After that price is met, it will go (on average) up or down.
Now, if the price was lower and you've picked a bit higher value for X (which is pretty much normal), in order to reach X a tiny "up trend" starts and may (most probably) not end right after hitting your value and will continue for a while. Hence your feeling. And you're right. It's almost impossible to sell at a top.

But if you look at a bigger picture, you'll see - maybe in a day or more - that most probably the price went also down (lower than X) after your sale (hence my "and no" part).


All in all you could have been selling (or buying, since it goes similar) better or worse. ...That doesn't really mean much  ;)

I have experienced this situation severally. A situation where you would have sell then come a pump out of nowhere! I thnk this is not an indication that one does not know what should be done, for me, it is just a mere concidence and the suprising factor in cryptocurrency! What I usually practise is not to sell evetything! I have realized that have a small bag keep you in the game if there is evet going to be any pump

You should not buy one coin and then sit down that it will go high. Best strategy is that you buy at least 5 coin, you think that it will pump. Now when 1 coin pump sell him and buy another with this. Now wait for other to pump and do same strategy. You will never regret.

I too have experienced the same. But I was bit happy for selling my coins at least for a good profit although I missed out a huge profit when there was a great pump to the same coin I sold. From such incidents, I learnt to be patient enough to watch for a reasonable hike and sell. However, it really challenges besides being aware of news/updates on whats happening to the coin. At times, I even lost the opportunity to sell my coins at a high profit by holding the coin back thinking still that coin's price would go up more. Hence, always, setting up profit at minimum percentage is really good enough. This would certainly satisfy us.

No you are not the only one and I believe many other experienced the same thing at least once. I feel the same as I experienced it few times in my holding history and most of my experiences were in Bitcoin. After experienced it few times I learn that I should not sell all my holding once the price is going up. Since then, I prefer to sell 50% only and set the other 25% in sell order with higher price and hold the other 25%.

When Bitcoin was hovering around 36K, I closed my Buy position at 38K and made a small profit. Then like days later, it went to 40 and here we are.

I'm sure many of us have this opinion, but it's not really true. Perception is the key. The perception is selective, because the situations and the experiences influence it. So what has already been experienced, you know and tempts you to think the same thing over and over again. Example: You buy a new car and shortly after you only see it on the road with other drivers. You only see that because your focus is on it. Or we have all sold bitcoin already in profit, you can think of that too.

Perception is crucial. You see that on similar way again cos we never know top or bottom of price. It is not good to focus on one coin only. I had few times similar filings.

No one can predict the absolute low and absolute high of any move, this is why laddering and averaging concepts are introduced into trading and almost everyone uses these concepts even professional traders, you will be shocked to know that professional traders use it much more than noobie traders who try to refrain from selling and search for right exit only. Pro traders have 2-3 buying entries where they either average or ladder out their positions and similarly have 2-3 take profits where they average out their sale prices too, it's because no one can predict the end of the move and you should sell before the momentum shifts towards the wrong side, especially if you have a huge position, if you sell during an opposite momentum, you'll even incur heavy slippage. So if this is happening to you, try averaging or laddering into your trading.

Lol...

In the past I used to think I had some token devs or exchange dudes lurking on my hodling. It was almost me thinking I was the biblical Jonah stopping the ship from sailing by inadvertently hodling on to a particular token. It doesn't matter how long I hodl  the token. Like Jonah, once I dump a token the price sails/soars. It was weird for me. However, it was not until I saw and read of people complaining of the same issue that I realised it wasn't me alone or anyone trying to manipulate me. It's just the nature of trading. And this is the reason no one can truly tell you where the bottom or top of a token is.

For sure lots of people had been able to experience this scenario even to myself which is already lots of situations where I do able to sold up some of my holdings then the price had pumped significantly

after that which would really leave out some regrettable feeling that you should have wait up for a little bit more but there are times which emergencies and target profits been hit up

which would result on securing those profits but later on the price had risen up way more than you do expect.In avoiding myself to get stressed then I do told to myself that at least I have hit up
my goal or target which do really make me feel better at least.

Absolutely yes, it might no happen all the time but most. That is sometimes I have blamed myself for being so impatient. Well, maybe it was at the wrong timing, maybe we just caught by our emotion and sold it earlier before it reaches its peak. But personally, it was not a big deal, what is important is that we can still manage to sell it at profit, not at a loss.

However, it was also realized what if we can't sell it and miss the train? That much more terrible happenings that just only to miss some bucks because of early sold. That might lucky or unlucky. ;D

The market tp experience pump in price after selling holdings happened to every investor at some point but since it happens to you most of the time I think you're not checking the market condition before you sell is the reason for this and I don't think you should be bothered by it though since you don't sell at a lost price.

^ No, there should be no regrets on me even if the price hits a peak because I sold my coins with a targeted profit. Sometimes I have experienced the same and sometimes when it will drop right after selling but I just make sure that I had already profited once I have sold my coins. But that is definitely right, we can still be able to manage to sell at the profit not at a loss and you will be fine, there should be no regret to me on that case. Nevertheless, if you can able to hold much longer, much better.

I always experience this after taking profit and it’s normal because the market wont stop from pumping even if you sell your holdings.

Don’t feel bad because you already take profit but feel bad if you sell at a loss and then suddenly the price goes up, next time you have to be more patient and analyze the chart so you can know when to cut your losses and when to take profit.

Lots of experiences when it comes to this.The price just pumped after you sold because you are already in profits and just like what others been saying here that it would really make you rage
and get annoyed on how the price moves because on the time you are expecting for some pumps it didn't happen but on the time you had sell out then it starts to climb up.

I do even get the feeling on where I do almost smash off my monitor when I did see some green long candle after I have sold out.Rage is there because its normal that you don't
like to miss out profits even more.

We don't like on not getting more or missing out opportunities to earn more.

This happens to me a lot of times, for example, after selling a token out of necessity, it has been seen to pump a lot of times, but the price has not increased even after being in the wallet for a long time.It pumps manifold as it sells.

Commonly, when we are going to sell our assets to a certain target, it means that the market era is rising up.
And if we have reached the target of course the price is in the moment that will rise up again.
I often experience this situation. However, I don't think that I regret my decision in selling the asset at a certain price. Because it has reached my target. However commonly I never ell it 100%, will last some 50% to prepare for another big pump target rice. And then sell again 50% from that 50% least, to sell again at the higher rate.
However, of course, it will be always under the ATH at that time. But no problem as long as I have reached my goal of profits. It is better than being too greedy and the price falls down suddenly.

It happens all the time, we can’t chase every pump because we all have goals to take profit and if you think the market will continue to rise, the keep holding but don’t blame yourself if you didn’t take profit and the market goes down, don’t be greedy.

I also experience buying at a lower price and yet the price continues to go down until I loss money and force me to cut my losses, I believe we all have this kind of experience in any market.

Well I think it's better not to FOMO, this actually happens to almost everybody, sometimes we sell too early or sell too late when prices has went on the reversal trend, so I think it's better to sharpen our knowledge about the market, meaning it's better we learn more about TA to be able to help us not to loose out good profit. Well it doesn't happen to u alone, everyone is faced with this same challenge except the ones who got more informed.

It happens sometimes and I can't tell if it's accurate since the market is always unpredictable because sometimes it does pump after I sold or sometimes it does dump. Maybe it's depending on the market trend but I can't really tell exactly since most of the time I HODL than selling.

I think it's just right to not stressed out when we don't hit the top to sell because that would lead to greediness hence using our emotions instead of just focusing on getting the profit that we want. We should consider ourselves lucky if we hit the top of the price after selling then the market started to dump after you have sold some of your Bitcoin.

it will always happen because of doubts wherein if you continue doing the same way of holding for sure you will miss all the opportunity to gain massive profits. In fact even me i had such experience not just once or twice.. But after learning TA i can see the value of holding and i know which coin is good to hold and coin that there's no potential for long term.. Now i can tell that without knowledge you're not safe, and you know somehow you can fell that you don't need to worry especially if you know that you're at the good coins..

Indeed. It will never stop on pumping since crypto market right now is in a good condition or has a lot of progress which help market price increase again and again. I also experience this after taking profit and it's normal because the market won't stop from pumping even if you already sell your holdings. We don't need to feel bad because we already take profit, only feel bad if we sell at a loss and suddenly the price goes up. I think it helps us a lot if we experience this kind thing. Because experiences will help us learn on what we do next to earn good profit and to know when to sell our holdings.

It is normal in the crypto world when we decide to take profit, not long after that the price of the coins that we have sold, the price goes up again.
I agree with you, the most important thing is that we managed to make a profit and don't have to suffer a loss. So there is no need to worry or
feel guilty for selling the coins we are holding too quickly, usually the price of coins that we buy will someday be corrected. That's the right time
for us to buy coins again that we have sold and can take profit again according to the target we want. As long as we choose the right coins for
holding, there is no need to worry about losing the opportunity to make profits many times from these coins. It is true that knowledge and
experience will teach us how to understand how the crypto world works.

This happens to almost everyone, after selling price keeps pumping make us feel we sold too early, and some time might want to go jump back in and buy the top which might be too risky, well for me I think it will be better after selling no need of looking at the price pumps, it's better to wait for a pull back or look for another coin which is still down and buy, there are thousands of coin in the market and all of them doesn't pump same time.

I have faced this problems when i sold my holding altcoin then it has hard pump, and i think this is our mistake, becouse its only reason is not have any good market experience, but main things is profit, if you sold your holding balance with some profit, and next your coin has more pump, then i want to say that Don't be disappointed becouse already you maked profit.  
So it is not just his problem, all trader and holder always faced this problem.      

Yes, It happens to me. But now I follow a trick, every time I tried to sell my coin at 3part. When my 1st and second targets hit, I set up stop-loss prices at my first target price and wait for the pump. If I saw a lot of volatilities then I wait to close my order manually. Also if it dumps hard, the Rest of my coin sold out at 2nd target price. So there is no risk. I found this trick is very helpful. you can try.

That also happens to me many times and that shows me that I need to learn more about when I should sell the coin. But so far, I am satisfied selling the coin because I always sell the coin when my profits become bigger, although the price still increases after I sold.

It is normal to have that experience because we can not predict accurately how high bitcoin or altcoin prices will increase and as long as we can make a bigger profit, that will not be a problem. I am sure we will have the other chances to make more profit in the next trading time.

Maybe that is our profit at that time and we do not have to regret but we should be grateful because we can sell the coin in the profit time. Not many of us can profit because many of us are still waiting to sell our coins at the next high price, but that does not always increase the price.

Happens all the time. You buy some shitcoins, you think it will moon sometime in the future, months pass, you start to think that it is no good anymore and sell your shit... after you sold your shit it moons. Kind of like they are waiting you to sell.

I think the game is rigged.

This is normal if you have been trading for a long time. Often the price is increased so that we can join. And then we lose our profits. So you never jump into that pump. You will be patient, you will get a good entry back. When I don't understand, I turn off my laptop and walk for a while. And when I come back later, I'm happy with my decision.

This happens to every investor prices don't go up too much to hold on when it sells it starts to pump then investors lose and lose their profits I have had problems like this many times for a long time the price of bitcoin for investment has not increased and there has not been much profit. But now the price has gone up a lot if you hold on the price goes down if you sell, the price goes up I don't think you need to sell if you don't need too much money if it sinks you have to wait for a good pump.

Oh yes, you are not alone. In my practice of using cryptocurrencies, such events very often occur. And yes, it is so offensive when you sold one or another cryptocurrency and its price then begins to actively grow. I do not believe that this comes from a lack of experience, in my case it is probably due to the urgent need to make a profit, since I earn this for my life and, as it were, I have no other source of income. So it turns out that I often sell, losing even more profit. But you are right, you probably just need to rejoice at the profit made and hope to get even more new one.

This is also happen to me but I don't bother to think about those pumps since I always think profit still profit, I know its so regretful to sell early since we can earn more if we hold but what if the market dumps well for sure we will also regret if we didn't sell at that point that's why better move on and maybe its good not to comeback and see the prices after you sell since somehow that one could trigger your frustrations on the market.

That same scenario also happened to me a couple of times before but I see that as a normal thing because that's a part of a crypto trader's life. Since cryptocurrency is volatile, we should expect that things like this could happen anytime. However, profit is still profit after all. We should still be grateful for every single profit that we'll gain.

Try to learn the technicals of trading, sometimes we thought the price will go down but because of its appearance but it is still moving up because people are still pumping / buying the coin. ACtually we can see it thru RSI, when the price is still at 71 to 81 RSI price will keep moving up. Also check the MACD. Anyway nobody is perfect no one really predict the price movement. The indicators can help us but not 100% precise.

Well, holders have an extremely bad habit that they like to check the price of their holdings but instead of a set limit of checks, they often randomly test too much and since then, this habit makes them talkative and enjoy prying into past data as well as the current state even after the investment has been abandoned by them. Once checked and surprised, they will re-evaluate everything in terms of opinion and information, pooling regrets to buy the top in risk as a last card, lament about the market here

I also experienced the same thing, where before the current bullrun happened, I sold the eth asset at a price of $250, and shortly after I saw the price started to bullrun, sometimes I regret but can't do it again, because the asset has sold out. but I realized, from my sales, I have made a profit, and maybe this is the only profit I get, that way I can reduce the feeling of disappointment

Because you probably watching chart frequently and don't use indicator and fibonacci to setup your TP price target. This is common for traders that don't use trading tools and trading base on how they feel. Maybe you are watching too much price action of pump and dump and then once you saw a medium size green candle, You immediately sold due to excitement cause by watching chart which will not happened if you setup TP price in advance and stop watching chart.

When ETH was just starting off i do really talk to myself that i would really be holding lots of this coin and i can even earn through faucets in the past and i did really make out some good holdings but on the time it did hit almost a hundred bucks then i do sold off and that time it did really go even higher which do really leave that regretable feeling which is really a very common emotion that you would felt on these kind of times.
Lots of scenarios that do i able to experience that on the time  i did sell off then the price had shoot up even more. Its impossible for someone to tell that they are just totally fine.  :D

It will be happen to almost in everyone because maybe no one can predict if their coin will get pumped, in where it is peak and sometimes we afraid of that price can bouncing down suddenly. That is why some people sell their assets earlier then regret if the price keep increased. I think it is just how much we grateful with what we get because maybe not all everyone profit in it, some are missing or some already cutloss their assets.

It has happened to me too, a few times. There are times that I would decide to sell my coins and that day I would want to sell my coins would be the day the market would go down and after I have sold my coins, the market will pump. It happens to a lot of people, but what I did was that I stopped selling when the market goes down.

If I had plans to sell my coins and eventually the market goes down, I wouldn’t sell it again, I would leave it and wait for the right time to sell it. Although there are lots of things I do consider before taking this decision, because sometimes it’s best for you to sell and hold the little you have than leaving it there, if you don’t, then you’re going to end up experience more loss which wouldn’t be nice.

I think this has happened to everyone at some point during their careers as investors or traders and it does not matter how much experience you have it is always difficult to deal with as you begin to second guess yourself and your system, however as long as this was part of a well defined strategy that you know can give you success then there is nothing to do except to accept the outcome regardless of how difficult it may be for us to accept that we sold our coins too early.

Yes,theres no exemption into this one which definitely all people who had engaged into this market had able to experience on selling too early on where it did result on missing out more profits as the price had climb up even more.

Even with Bitcoin where i do make out some active trades and not really going for long swing trades which  does need for me to wait up for  too long.Im  not really that patient when it comes to waiting time.
Selling out coins is someones preference but it cant be avoided that we do mind off that even if we do profit but still we do regret on why we had sell too early.

We  should think that its still a  good call because what if the price had dumped down after you sold your tokens? For sure you would say its a good call.

It usually happens to me also on my previous trades on both altcoins and btc. Having a desire to earn money quickly, I failed to initiate long term holding so selling was my last options to do. Though we earned enough, we can't deny on ourselves that we've been having regrets upon seeing pumps on btc after dumping our asset.

Often times I experience the same thing as you, I also when I sold my ownership with a pretty decent profit but after a while the price was pumped again and this always happened when the coin I chose, maybe because I was impatient and saw the profit in front of my eyes so I felt I also wanted to sell at the current price, but I'm sure there have been many situations like this, even I asked other merchant friends, they felt it too, so the conclusion was that it was too early to sell and there was no patience to wait any longer.
But while waiting, sometimes there is a fear of tokens going down again, so they don't want to take the risk when they sell the same profit.

I think everyone here experience the same with you and even me. We do not hold the market and , our prediction always not perfect but be glad if you earn profit even after you sold, you saw the price keep on increasing. That we called "don't be Greedy" as long as you take profit that is fine. Regrets always there of course but for me gaining small profit is better than losses.

this is normal to happen, worse, more painful Is precisely to happen that whenever a person buys a certain altcoin after the price drops a lot, this is the part that is most painful, in your case at least you always end up with some profit, me too I've been experiencing the same thing that you go through, of course there are times when I also buy and then the price drops and I even think that it seems that the price keeps doing it on purpose only to drop when I buy

This kind of thinking is needed by a novice or professional trader. Because if you are not satisfied with the benefits that have been obtained and are too greedy, it will not be good for investment in the future. Too greedy will have a bad impact. profit a little but often it's better than having to wait for the price to be too high and can't be reached.
I even often experience when the price that I thought was already high turned out to be very low. there are no regrets when it sells well and makes a profit. do take profit gradually it can be an option, so not all in one price.

Why do this often happen? What because we always feel less continued? Even though we actually get high profits. But because prices continue to soar, we feel a little disappointed and regret being sold first.
But the good news, at least we have taken profit in a certain number and maybe it's a big nominal.

yeah, gaining a small profit was not our preferred, we wanted more but sometimes the market isn't favorable to us, and losing those chances is a great loss for me. So, I've practice myself to think to give some importance to every opportunity I have, and generating a small profit was still good enough at least we are not losing any.

Greediness leads us to something we have to regret. I once suffered such a thing and I realize that was wrong. Changing our mindset leads to something even better than before and I think that is what we need to practice and making it a habit.

As a trader, if you still have that feeling, I think it's not professional. if the target has been achieved and the market bounced back, I think forget it, after all we have made a profit according to the portion we planned. a person like that is the same as if he floats minus and is left alone, and finally the minus gets bigger, and he thinks why didn't I do a cutloss earlier

Many traders will not sell the coin if they have that feeling but I guess that is not a pure feeling and maybe that is greed that comes to us and tells us to wait for more. That makes traders still hold the coin and not decide to sell at the peak price.

People like that will not make any profit because they always want to make a bigger profit while not seeing if the price does not always stay at a higher price for some time. If they know the situation, they will take profit and not hold it because they can profit while still having time to sell.

It happens to me either. after buying price starts falling and after the selling price starts to climb.
But the thing is if we have bought at low and sold at a high price and we are in good profit then it doesn't matter if that coin is pumping or dumping.

we should only be concerned about our profit and loss if your coin's price is still rising then do some quick research. Check that coin's social media If the price of the coin increasing because of some good news then it is ok you can buy it again else forget it and search for a new coin

if you are only concern about the profit in USD, you can forget about the coins you dump. but for most of those who trade are concern about stacking satoshis on their wallet in which they are accumulating and for them, there is the need to buy back when the dip happens. once the price speeds up instead after they sold, then they are burned.

i was trying to get more doge a few months ago. i sold my stash thinking it will dip later on but the price went 0.72. that's thousands lost instead of profiting more.  it happens to everyone i guess.

It's the same story for the most of us. To be honest, the same thing happened with me today.
I had sold some Solana coins a few days ago when the price was at around $40.
I thought that the price would decrease and I can buy back more to accumulate more number of coins.
Little did I know the price would pump to an ATH today. I kept waiting for a dip but the price kept rising up.
I know it's a terrible feeling but we don't have any choice other than to accept the fact and move on.

It's all emotions) Obviously, we remember about such transactions, for which we did not receive a profit for longer than profitable transactions. I think that if you kept statistics on your transactions, you would see that the price of many transactions after closing orders not only increased, but also decreased.

There are two cases with respect to your visible reputation in this forum.

1. If you are an active trader then you should not bother about whatever things happen after you are exiting.

2. If you are a bitcoiner who understand the real potential of bitcoin then you should never think about selling bitcoins but must try to use it by waiting for the right time to do so.

I have been seeing people who are holding for years never complain like you. I am into 2 cycles of bitcoin markets and I know when to exit and re-enter hence I guess I may not complain about losses in buying/selling bitcoins.

That's exactly what happens, because not many people in the crypto world checks the RSI or MACD, they do not care, I do not care neither. What does that mean? RSI could be 200 (lol) and it will still do whatever it wants, or it could be zero and it will still do whatever it wants, okay examples could be a little too much but you understand what I mean.

If all the people looked at those indicators then we would all trade based on that and everything would be predictable and we all would make money, however since it is not that easy and people are way too greedy and stupid collectively, that means no indicator could ever be true forever. There will be moments when it is true and you will make some money, and there will be days when it is wrong and you will lose money, that is just how it has been for 10 years now and I do not think that it will change anytime soon.

No matter how smart a trader you might look at yourself, you can never be more smart than the market. Should you want to sell at any point, be sure that you've got something to loose or perhaps, you might get lucky.

It's always surprising when these things happen though, it makes you feel as though, you were been targeted but not at all. Your just a straw in a maize field and there is no how you can be singled out. It's just a market condition playing out for which, you've got an inaccurate interpretation of it.

Where you can stay your regrets on is the fact that, did you make some profit? If yes, then there is no cause for regrets. Any other profits that you notice in the market weren't meant for you. That's the way you shoild view it and your good.

Regretable feeling indeed because who have really thought that  it could reach up all time high? No one had really expected to do so thats why in able to avoid frustration then it would be always better on not to mind off
even though it wont be that easy but theres no other way to relieve that stress inside you.

Thing here is that we do able to secure profits rather than on having losses which i could say that it is more stressful than on missing out profits.So better be contented on what you do have.

We all experience this situation for sure but there's no point on looking back because it wouldnt really make you go further ahead.

I guess solana went up to ATH price, sure it is understandable that the whole market is going up "a bit", and you should hold your coins because of that, not because of ATH obviously because you wouldn't know that, but you could hold it for a small increase, like maybe 5% increase at best, nobody would have expected a 20%+ increase, that is ATH and that is insane to think about.

However just because market is good and you will have a few good increases, that should normally be a good reason to hold, nobody says that you will make this much money, that is a surprise and I understand that people are facing a surprise but that doesn't mean that we should not be holding because it won't do ATH neither, even a 2% increase is good enough, especially when you consider that is daily as well. I personally believe that in a bull market everyone should hold.

Whenever i do see profits then i do immediately sold and wont look back on how high it did able to reach because this scenario could really distract you on your other endeavor towards your investment.
Dont get easily distracted and focus  into other coins that you do have.Just accept and move on and find for another on.There are even situations on where i did wait up longer because i do presume that
it might shoot up its price but the other or opposite  thing happened  instead or rising it dumped which it is really giving you that frustration.

This happens everytime I change my holdings to bitcoin. I used to inform my friends playfully, tomorrow we'll see rise in the price of bitcoin. It used to be surprise for them to believe. Going through the thread it is good to see more number of users have experienced it. Maybe when I'm selling more users might be getting into the market with fresh investments.

I often do the same, we have to accept that sometimes we lost some opportunities like we early make a sell the after a few hours it will pump more. If we really think about it, you can surely blame yourselves but that was a life in crypto. If we just only know it pump more, I think everyone had meant to hold but it was not, to move on was the best thing to do rather than blaming ourselves nor the others. It was more regretting if we miss those chances, I think.

The resulting profit is always better than a closed order with a loss. But if you closed the order at the very beginning of the upward movement, then you will be out of the market and you will have to wait a long time until the price drops to buy. And this is the most difficult thing for a trader, not to trade, but only to observe the market.

it even happened to me. Sold at the first pump and then followed by the second pump.
I usually make sales incrementally to get a higher price. The important thing is that the sales target has been achieved and I get a profit. If you hold on to it and don't sell when it pumps, it will hurt more when the pump ends and the price starts to sink to the bottom again.

it happens to all us but the number of times that it happen to us can be lesser compared to yours .
i dont think your lacking of experience because you are already a legendary rank but it could be your lacking of patience  .
 you sold at the price you think its high enough for you but that price can be lower to us , that is why only less people have sold and value continue to pump instead of dump .

The same thing happened to me- not once or twice, I had almost four times, one of the coins, sell mine the coin went up, really unlucky for me.

After happening 4x in a row-I wonder what's the reason, of course I can't find a definite cause.
And I changed the direction of the new tricks I used, so I turned money off against some coins in the long run, uh it worked, my experience on ADA coins at that time, I got all of that, big profits.

I take one conclusion, I am not suitable for short term trading, long term makes me successful.

This is the same thing that often happens to me. Maybe you and me are almost the same thing. The coins that I invested when selling the price even soared. Maybe we are a little less greedy. only have a little regret.

Just like OP, everytime altcoin or bitcoin takes bullish from my selling point, though i sold those in profits just like OP. But sometimes, i needed to sell my alts before hitting the target price because of the current covid situation. For example, i sold few alts back in Q2 of this year and those got listed into top tier exchanges which i was expected and took bullish rally.  :( But i'm happy with my crypto trading as i sell any assets on profit rather than selling those in losses when correction was going on.  :D

Almost all trader have same experience no except me too. in my opinion it only about my forthune just on it no more so for me move to another coins is better than feel regret. cryptocurrency's price can not prediction so to minimize event like this you only set your selling price who you think its enough

Everyone must have experienced the same thing. This also won't happen if you have enough information, I personally believe 70% of market changes occur because of fundamentals. If you have enough information I think it's enough to reduce the risk of loss.

There are times that it have happened to me because I have might miscalculated or did not anticipated that it is still possible for a higher price to arise after a long hold which is so much frustrating sometimes because it seems to feel that you miss out a big event because of selling early. But I have learned to accept the fact that a profit is still a profit no matter what happen. It is better that you have sell already rather than regretting waiting for a bigger price then suddenly the price dumps hard.

Common things that we do have in mind on times like this on where we do presume that it is already the peak but to think that technical analysis doesnt really give out assurance when it comes to results.

We dont know on when price could change up but the most important thing is that you do able to make profits despite on missing out the more profit that you could made if you had able to held a little bit more.

This is a scenario on where most people do able to experience on this market for sure.We had experienced further pumps after selling out our coins.

This is probably caused by bad timing mate and you're not alone in this, I also find myself in this situation sometimes and sometimes it's even the opposite, I hold for too long expecting too much from the coin and the next thing the price of the coin dumps to the ground, while some other times after dumping the coin, it will start umping and I'll start feeling bad about dumping too soon, I guess we can't really get all the profits in one coin, if you are in profit and you dump there's no need to cry over it atleast you sold in profit and not losses.

Maybe not only you, many people are good at buying but fail to sell. What I mean is to sell at a price that is not maximized. Some of the friends above have suggested selling gradually is good, at least you take your capital first, it's already very good.
Of course, in trading there are several ways to maximize your sales, one of them is with Fibonanci. That will give you a little clue in which area you are selling. But there are people who think you have sold and made a profit it is much better than having to lose.

Yes, indeed, using Fibonacci, we can make sales at the maximum price. Otherwise, we will tend to sell coins after each green stick. The forum contains a guide to Fibonnachi: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5350203.0 but you can also find the guide on YouTube yourself and study it, because it is one of the most important in technical analysis.

Probably a coincidence coupled with a bad timing and poor market analysis or an inaccurate market analysis could be the cause as to why you always get the short end of the straw. Maybe try something new, when you feel like selling right now, try to wait for weeks and see what happens although it's a risky thing for you because you might actually need the money now.

To be sincere the best part would be after taking any decision never look back because one way or the other the market will move against us, and some times checking the progress of the coin projects we held can sometimes be helpful, mostly for new projects always checking on updates about the project and the partnership there got, a bullish news can bring up a bullish price, also getting to know how to analyse charts can be very helpful for we not to miss out on opportunities and know when to exit the market.

It's kinda frustrating when I decided to sell my asset in an earlier stage of market fluctuations. One day I was surprised when there's a massive spikes happening, price tripled within few months. Many times I've been wondering why it happened, but I just realized that the cryptocurrency market has been too unpredictable. We can't have an assurance when it goes up and down, that's why long term holders is an ultimate winner.

maybe you can blame yourselves because of being impatient but have you think also that what will happen if you don't sell it and the price will dump? It surely you will in regrets and blame yourself again. It was your decision and you have thought it wisely but because we are too blind not to see the incoming (which is true) that is why we keep blaming ourselves which it is not supposed to be doing. If I'm in that situation, I have to accept it and this was the life in the crypto world. maybe we could have to be more patient the next time around.

I often experience things like that selling at low prices in just a few hours or a few days at high prices. and now I'm learning if I have to be diligent in holding longer because the pump will definitely happen and we have to get profit

- Of course, it's hard to test out the slightest clue of the maximum boundary, which seems to be an endless goal that only the lucky enough can stand, sometimes the emotions of many people arise ambitions that challenge these boundaries and return only raindrops of tears on their faces, trading is about correspondence and survival, we are a little content and not competing with the whales for big goals, we will benefit. If we raise the cross and reach the forbidden doors, we are only at a disadvantage

In fact, when we sell a coin, we see that the price of that coin goes up a lot.A few days ago I c98 coin I bought coins and hold them.But in the meanwhile the price went down a lot and when Ethereum Bitcoin and BNB market increased then I sold those coins and kept them as BNB.But today I see that this coin has increased a lot. So I can tell from this experience that when we sell a coin, the price of that coin goes up a lot.

At the first same case happened with me many times, but i noticed it which is due to lack of patience but now i have a grip on it and having much patience I will wait for the coins and their selling price which are already predicted. So, i sell it at the predicted price and get the profit. I think you should keep patience also, because it is very important in trading.

Maybe you should have to work on how to control yourself from being impatient and try to do some TA before selling if you want to maximize your profit. Hodling works better if you know when to sell and also Bitcoin price movement is very unpredictable that's why learning how to do the some technical analysis is required if you want to become a successful trader.

Avoid using your emotion when you see a sudden movements in the market, that's not healthy when you can't control yourself you always make a bad decision often. You are not trading if that's what you do, you are actually gambling with the market. Trying to favor the luck in you when in fact you can't trade properly because of how impatient you are.

I would say it's just bad timing and really unfortunate because COOLCRYPTOVATOR is an experienced and very old member of the forum so must have great knowledge about the market. The problem is that no matter how much knowledge and experience you have in this market, the price can slide or rise without any reason.

I have been in his shoes in the past when I sell a coin and it starts rising. It feels really bad and hence I don't completely empty my coins now days, I sell some and then wait for the market to move before selling/buying more.

The OP was satisfied with the profits he gained from the coin trade. This is the most important point here. Perhaps he didn't want to be an ultimate winner. In this case, FOMO should be avoided, although it can be psychologically difficult. Every successful trader must remain calm in these situations.

Sometimes I also make blunders by selling my tokens too early or buying stablecoins too late, but I try my best to predict market trends correctly. I even can to take a pause from trading for a couple of weeks, but I never completely rely on technical analysis.

Anyway, most of my funds are in cold wallets, so I trade some of my coins. I gain experience and learn a new financial lesson almost every month.

We usually have to choose new ways of trading when there is high risk in the market, you should refrain from trading and sell when the price rises most traders do not have patience so they lose more we have to wait for the mind to cool down the market does not always move at the same pace. Therefore it is possible to pump only after analyzing the market and verifying the dependability of the tokens.

Actually, this kind of thing is just a coincidence. but one thing that is fundamental is that we are less calm about the goals that have been targeted. we are hit by panic selling even though we are already profitable, for example. indeed the psychological burden always resides in our bodies and indeed seems inseparable, but we should learn to control it, so that it makes trading feel comfortable

Same thing happens to me many times, i had bought yesterday a coin which surprises me by giving much profit and even i had sell them its price rises again which i didn't think that it will rise again. And the same token i had bought today which give me much loss after buying the coin, it goes down and same thing done to me.

You arent the only one who do experience but for sure all of us does.. There's always a point on the time we have sold off our coins for securing profits and then suddenly there's a pump that do happen which would really be leaving that regrettable feeling inside. Same goes when you are tending to get in because you do believe that it is already the bottom of said price dump or decrease but it is more annoying when you are on selling mode.

I do just tell to myself that it is just fine because i had still able to make or secure profits and its better rather than have nothing at all. Market is unpredictable and these kind of
missed out opportunities are common.

So better prepare and wont really be that emotional or highly reactive whenever you do face up situations like these.

We know about some investors who are not patient enough to hold and they sell once they start seeing their investments in green. But we call them smart as well, because what would happen if that specific investment never rises in value once it came down and that investor would rather regret holding it? Whatever you gain, a gain is a gain and if you see coins pumping after you sell your holdings, then we call it your bad luck and not impatience to hold, because there are so many investors who would fall in your category who also experience the same.

Not all of us is lucky with the decisions they make sometimes things might not happen according to what we plan and we wanted. I also experienced this on my pyr tokens after I sold it at 1.8$ it rises up to 5$ how sad. But I am always thinking to secure profit than waiting for the unknown profit. It doesn't matter if I lost for not holding I still earn a small profit at least there still small profit and I am thankful for it.

Didn't happen to me, sold at around 57k so I made the right decision at that time to sell my bitcoin because it had slumped back after hitting and staying at 60k for awhile. I think that yours is just a total coincidence.

This happened to me one time and I don't need that that thing to at any point happen again in light of the fact that I passed up benefit. A circumstance where you would have sell then, at that point come a siphon all of a sudden! I think this isn't a sign that one doesn't have the foggiest idea what ought to be done, as far as I might be concerned, it is only a simple occurrence and the amazing element in digital money.

That's a very difficult thing, it's not easy and it takes time to do that, I personally feel like there is a good chance we may not end up with the "optimum" profit each time, I can't predict the absolute bottom on each bear, and can't predict the absolute peak on each increase as well, it is just not possible and I do not think that it would be possible in the long run neither.

So, what do I do? I buy it when I feel like it is gone down enough, sometimes it goes down even more but that's fine, and sell when I believe it's gone up enough, haven't sold my bitcoins in a long time but I have at least tried it as best as I could when I was trading, surely it did go up some more later on most of the time. It's okay to not make the 100% maximum possible profit each time, as long as you profiting that's fine, important thing is to keep on grinding it.

You are legendary, and I guess this is something that happens many times with many people who are here for years! So not once or twice, it's like many times... just after selling and thinking this is the top, we see another bullish trend and push to some higher prices! And not just that, there is the opposite thing that happens... I buy with thinking it's the bottom, but the price goes down more, I buy again and the price drops again!

I think this is crypto, and this thing happens all the time to us who are active in crypto for years! Nothing strange, it's why I try to have a stash on both crypto and fiat sides when I make a mistake to be able to do something else!

You always have to be in sales to trade. You will have a small profit when trading and then you have to leave that order.Remember that cryptocurrency trading can be expected to catch you big. If you do big business, you will lose.Do not hold, especially when captive trading. You feel huge when the price goes down to hold.

That’s not something we can call as coincidence. If you are getting this type of trade all the time then you should reconsider the way you are making daily trades. Sometimes, it’s our methods which do not match up with current market. This you need to improvise and try to set up excellent exit strategy. After all trading is about at what price you enter and at what price you make exit. It’s never about pump or how much pump, it’s about whether you are in profits or not. If you sell in profits then you should not worry about the next pump.

you are not alone, most traders have also experienced it..... after selling the price increased many times,,, but if you hold it the price will go down... It's annoying to see things like this... regret comes as if to congratulate you on impatience.. keep the spirit of patience it is indeed bitter, but the fruit is sweet..

In trading, I think this is a natural occurrence and surely everyone often experiences something like this, after selling... at that moment it will definitely increase, but that's only for a while and then it will go down again.
Regarding this, we don't need to regret it, we are here really playing with fluctuations that are so sensitive to changes in price movements.

This happened to me too, and I think almost all traders or holders have experienced this, luckily you don't regret the decisions that have been made because regret can make us make wrong decisions in the future.
If the result is still a profit, I think that's what we deserve, the result of holding it for some time.
Especially for Altcoins, usually I will no longer check price movements if I have sold it, not all Altcoins only for what are commonly called shitcoins because hold longer to expect higher profits is not wise because of volatile crypto market conditions that may change in just one night

Yeah,I have lot of experience. The same thing happened a lof of time of me.Some times my decision was impatience. Bit patience is key to trading or holding. When you start trading or holding then you need to more patience. You also need to wait what you expect for holding or trading.Ig want to get profit then Don't worry just you need to keep patience.

It happened to me not just once but so many times. I've thought of the same as if it only happens to me but I've seen other folks too that it also happened to them and just make fun of it as if we're unlucky. I've lost a huge amount of profit when I've sold earlier although it's already a profit to me if I've just waited for a few days and weeks, I have made more than thrice when I've sold but that's it. I guess when we sell, let's just anticipate that it's going to go up and there's no regret and recalling that time when we sold.

Yeah this reminds me of selling almost $2k worth of ETH to a friend of mine for cash on hand for him to start purchasing Axies. However a few days later, ETH’s price skyrocketed from $2k to $3k+ and I had nothing but regrets.

I could have guided him to use Binance P2P instead of me selling my own holdings lol. Anyways, it is what it is, and I just have to move forward.

It doesn’t happen to me all the time, but it does happen to me. If you’re steady trading cryptocurrencies, in one time or the other you must have experienced that. There are even times the price will pump very well, and I might decide to sell a day after, because I don’t need the money immediately, and when the day comes for me to sell it I will see that the values has decreased again. Then there are also times when I will sell and the market will pump like you have described here. And then there are also times when I will sell at the highest value for that time.

The truth is that no one really knows when the price is going to stop going up and it is the right moment to sell so at some point you need to take the risk and decide this is when I'm going to sell, and sometimes you are going to be wrong and the price is going to keep going up and sometimes you are going to be right and you are going to sell roughly when the price reached its maximum value, what you need to do is to implement a strategy that helps you get back into the market when your decision is wrong.

This have happened to me alot of times, I've missed out on a lot of profits due to this same issue, but right now, I've learnt from that experience and am never allowing such to happen to me again..

But how can we possibly prevent this from happening when we sure lack the power to actually tell what happens after selling?

1 is to set a realistic sell target price for yours self and discipline yourself not to sell below your set target price, even if it's taking like a year, 2 or 3 to hit, as long as you trust the project you invested in, keep holding

2 is ones your sell target is reached, see if the coin still have strength to go up more, if yes,, then keep holding, but if not, then sell and if possible, delete every thing about that coin and proceed to the next one.

As said above, there are many people who have felt at times that they sold right before a pump - we've all been there, but as discussed above the best we can do is learn from past mistakes and continue to improve.

Studying the past might make you realise where you went wrong, what you read wrong and help you build that confidence so that when you do sell you are content.

Let's face it, we can't always catch the top of every investment but it's the average that counts ;)

When we sell our coins at a high price and already make a profit, that is already the best we can get. the most important thing is not how high you can sell, but how consistently you sell and make a profit. because some people will just panic when the price starts to fall and become Fomo when the price goes up.
Strategy is really needed, so you will know where to sell and at what price to buy.
Don't feel sorry for selling early.

Base on my experience it happens to me because last time when I sold most of my bitcoin at the price of 22k if I'm not mistaken I sold it already because the price going down and after that day the price surge coming up and went to the 40k mark value which is one of my biggest regrets well why trading skills with reading charts that time is not fully developed and that mistake gives me a lesson na if you can hold as you can there's a chance you can get more profit. The higher the risk the higher the reward.

You are right but it's not just about being good at selling and consistently do that but as well as being good at buying too. Since you're talking about being consistent in selling and making a profit, it's also giving you the proper time of buying during the corrections and be also consistent in doing that. It is coming to me sometimes that I do regret selling and feeling sorry about that whenever I remember it but it's already done and I cannot go back to what I've done before and that's why I'm making things correctly.

While this seems like the correct way to go about this it is inevitable that something like this happened, after all the whole purpose of trading and investing is to obtain the most benefits you can, so even if you sell for huge profits if you could have obtained more money than that then it makes sense that you are not comfortable with the result as this means that whatever strategy that you are using still has room to be improved and it is something you need to do, so something like this does not happen again.

You wouldnt really be that comfortable and it would really be just a normal reaction for a person to have because we do always aim for more money and missing out even a buck would give out
that kind of feeling which would really frustrate us.

This market could really give out that kind of emotion from the time we do sell off and the price had suddenly rose up after that.We would really be having in mind if we had
able to wait a little bit more then we do able to make more profits.

Be contented on what you gained.

Well, that is true --be contented with what you have gained and there should not have a regret.
If you sold your bitcoin with 40% profit and now you will see that there is potentially gain more than 50% profit, don't be regret because you have sold your coin at the stage of making a profit or your targeted profit. If you have earned, that is good for you but no one will perhaps dumb holder will sell even at loss position. We know from the start that bitcoin is good for a long-term investment.

Has happened to me a lot of times in the past, but ever since, I learnt the hard way to be more patient and calculative, such thing as pump happening immediately of after I've gotten out of a coin reduced drastically.
Infact, nowadays, I get out of a coin, and after two to three hours, I go back to check how the coin if fairing, only to have reasons to thank God for making me get out on time.

So @op, to stop getting out too early from a market, I think you should learn to become more patient and make sure to follow up on every coin you invest in on their chat or discussion platform like telegram, Reddit and the rest, with time, you will notice that you no longer experience to this anymore.

Lets exclude bitcoin on the situation and mainly talks on some pump and dump altcoins in the market which do pump out on big multipliers or how many folds on where you do look that it is something which is worth to
sell on and secure while you can but it did make out some triple or quadruple higher on the point you have sell out.

You would definitely be punching yourself that you shouldnt havent sell on that time but as you both said that we should really be contented.

Its happens to me too and i think this can happens to anyone. Especially when you hold coins with low trading volume and you dump. The transaction can easily be tracked by the team and pump can happen so that you will regret dumping.
This is how i feel whenever this happened to me.

Sad to say but it is not only you who experienced this kind of problem I personally experience this problem on my token holdings before, until now there's a voice inside my head said why you sold it?. Sometimes there is a little frustration but I will always think that it is better to have a profit in a sure way, than waiting for the unknown profit, because no one can predict on what will be the future of the coin that we invested and I believe that sometimes profit depends on our luck.

You know, this also often happens to me, but I think this is all in our head, when I sell coins, they immediately grow, it is on a psychological level that we remember more negative moments in trading than positive ones, if we analyze other days, then at I have had ups, but I forget about them and go on.

on the other hand things like this seem to be experienced by many people. For me, the analysis is actually correct, but sometimes looking at the declining market makes our psychology disturbed, so we are hesitant to decide whether to hold or sell it. and in the end we couldn't stand it so we immediately sold it. from this it appears that psychology is very decisive for our success in trading

It doesn't matter as long as we make a profit when we sell the coins we hold, because everyone will experience selling coins too quickly.
This often happens because crypto prices are volatile, so indeed several times we have experienced where after selling the coins we have,
not long after that the price is pump. Never regret if this happens, because making a profit from trading does not need to be big right away.
But we can make profit little by little, but if we collect it it will be big too.

I don't know if it's a valid reason but it's likely that you're analysis is wrong or that you've hit a good streak with Lady Luck and hit multiple coincidences or a much rational reason is probably, you've sold too early or along the run of the market that's why when you sell, the prices are still going up.

Honestly those pump and dumps are the biggest trouble in the crypto world today, I understand that some people want to make money the quick way but the reality is that we can't make that type of profit without hurting someone else. Trading is fine, investment is fine but those pump and dump groups are the pain of every single market. It doesn't only make people lose money, but it also drops the credibility of so many coins at the same time.

I hope that they are gone soon and it will be illegal to do that in nations, you can't pump and dump in stock world for example, not because you can't, you can do that but the reality is that you may end up with a big punishment and that is why people do not do it, otherwise warren buffet could just buy 1 billion dollars worth of some small company, say it is a great one, and sell it as soon as people start to pump it.

Analysis could be neither wrong or right because this is an unpredictable market thats why its really hard to determine which is precise and which is not.We know that theres no guaranteed strategy that will give out

100% efficacy or accurateness towards your trades and thats why these kind of missed opportunities do commonly happen because we dont know on what would happen next which is normal.

What we should have here is that we do know to be contented on what we had gained.Just mind off on how you would do even more better next time.

It happens to everyone traders and investors because the market is uncertain and always doing it own thing. The fear of losing one or two from the money that had been made from holding is what makes people to sell there coins prematurely because they are always scared of losing the little they have gained.

The market moves in an up and down directly which makes it hard for one to correctly virsualise the real direction of the market. It since better to make little profits from holding than to sell with loses.

It happens to everyone and not just you, I don’t think it’s something to worry about a lot, you’re not going to get everything. Once you have made some profit you are good enough to sell your assets and move on and start making other plans on how you will invest later on. If you continue to wait to gain everything, you might end up losing everything that you have invested.

So, be happy with what you’ve got. I’ve seen people who kept their assets to the price reached his maximum and unfortunately for them the market went down really fast, and they end up losing a lot . Some of them even decide to leave it there when they see that the loss is too much and they regret why they never sold on time. A little profit is better than nothing.

I was thinking it's happening to only me my own case is a little bit different whenever I buy coin it will start dumping and maybe the coin pump a little bit and I sell the price will continue rising so I later think about the cause of it and I notice maybe u don't have target that's the cause because if I set a target immediately the target is reach I sell and move to another one it won't really disturb me.

Stop thinking Of sold when you bought
 Don't buy for short term and say to yourself “I’ll hold this for 4-5 years” you won’t lose that way and you’ll stress yourself out less. Its often happen with short term user.

It is not in your head, there is a big probability that bitcoin will go up at anytime, it is in its nature to go up which means that whenever you sell there is a good chance it could go up right afterwards. Of course, there are times when it goes down as well so you could be selling right before it goes down, but that doesn't change the fact that it will not be going up after that too.

So long story short, there is a good chance all of us could sell and it could still go up. What we are having however is the fear of losing too much money so most people end up selling when it is going up to avoid losing money, and when it goes down a lot, the potential of recovering and going up increases even more, hence why it goes up after we sell.

The thing is that you can't always sell "right before" an increase, I understand the point of "bitcoin goes up in the long term" because that's true, but if the person sells "right before" it goes up then there is something fundamentally wrong with that. I am guessing that it takes a bit of time before it goes up and not like 1 hour after they sold but I assume that, I do not know it.

If we take it on face value and say that they always sell 24 hours before it goes up a lot, then we should find out what they do wrong in the trading world, otherwise it doesn't make any sense at all. This is why I have been in trading for a long time, because I know that I would know my strategy and never sell right before a big increase.

Just same here in some cases, but i can say often with me , when i sell a coin its price is going up and up and in order to buying a coin the price of that coins goes down more. Haha , this is same with me always. But it is also depends upon the fortune and also we can say that in most cases it will depend upon the trader thinking.

Really needing some sort of luck when you do really sell out because for sure most people here had experienced this particular situation where on the time we do sell then the price goes up way more higher

and when we do tend to buy then the price goes even more lower.The feeling that it do gives does really sucks bigtime and this is where this market makes unpredictable.

Thing here is that when you do sell off then thats always considered as profits.Dont ask for more or dont get not contented on what you had gained.

This is something that has happened to everyone and the one that has not experimented this probably has not being around this market for long, however we need to learn from this experience after all if this keeps happening to you all the time then there is the possibility that there is something wrong with the system that you are using and you need to adjust it, so even if you cannot eliminate this completely at least you can reduce the instances in which happens to you.