I know what you mean. I first heard about Bitcoin when it was $12-$15. By the time I figured it wasn't a scam it was already over $30. By the time I was actually able to buy some it had doubled again. Snooze you lose.

When I first bought bitcoins (starting at $68) I figured I'd sell enough to recoup my original investment when the price had tripled in value.

By the peak of the spring 2013 bubble, my average price had risen to about $120 and the market price only reached $266, a hundred bucks shy. When the "dead cat" bounce took the price back up to $155 after the crash down to $50, I sold some coins and was feeling fairly smug after making a 30% profit after a crash.

It didn't take long to realize I wanted to buy more bitcoins though. Luckily I was able to buy back in for $97. Now I realize that if I sold any coins, I'd only end up buying them back again, probably at a higher price.

I happened to get lucky with my timing then but I can't count on being that lucky again. I'm not a gambler by nature (in fact I'm adamantly anti-gambling for myself) so I'll stick to the slow and safe.

This thread title reminds me of, "no more triple digits in 2013".

We saw how that turned out. 

I guess it depends on why a person buys Bitcoin. If one buys bitcoins to sell them, it's not surprising to see a certain amount of impatience. "We want the world and we want it now."

Those of us in slow-accumulation mode don't care. If the price goes down, it's a buying opportunity. If the price goes up too sharply, it means that if we absolutely must sell some coins, we'll make a larger fiat profit. Win-win.

Good morning Bitcoinland. Still going roughly sideways but with a slight edge upward.

I guess Bitcoin's not dead after all. 

Let's get past $420 and onward up.

Good morning Bitcoinland. I see the small window of buying opportunity is closing fast.

I hope everyone got their cheap coins yesterday when the price was below $400. I also hope nobody here was foolish enough to sell at such a low price, although obviously someone had to sell cheap in order for the smarter ones to buy.

Sideways for a while or back up over $420?

A late good morning Bitcoinland. Stayed out way too late last night and slept in by a couple of hours.

I see I might have missed a great buying opportunity by sleeping in. I'd better get going before the price goes back over $400 for good.

I didn't consider the dip from the $440 range to the $420 range be buyable. $400 certainly is.

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Gotta love how whenever we dip by 5% the FUDsters, anti-Bitcoin trolls and alt shills reach the frenzy point. Ooooh, it's the end of Bitcoin. Fullblocalypse is upon us. Sell everything. The sky is falling. Cluck cluck cluck.

LOL  

An early good morning Bitcoinland.

Despite waking up early, I see last night's buying opportunity has already vanished, just as I feared it would.

Oh well, next time. For now, go Bitcoin go.

>>>Don't ever go to a bar no more!<<<

That's like telling a fish not to swim.

>>>I'm having a coffee trying to recover from both a sleepless night and a misty morning with low btc
  price<<<

I'm having dinner trying to recover from a night of drinking and hoping I'll still be able to buy BTC below $220 in the morning (crack of noon EST). No chix tonite. Maybe I'll wake up early.

Not looking good so far.

Wow 2 nights in a row. Just got home from the bar to see I missed the action again.

Maybe it'll still be low enough in the morning to buy the dip.

Is that "religious artifact" embedded in polymethyl methacrylate?

What a great idea. I wonder how long before the toasted-in image begins to fade. Long enough to sell 'em on eBay I'd think.

Chix like geex.

Or at least their money.

The price didn't go down to $410. It met firm support above $16 repeatedly and seems to be hovering around $420 now.

This is where we were for a half a week before Saturday's rise saw it go to the $440 range for a couple of days.

Today's dip is just the flip side of Saturday's excess. No big thing.

A very late good morning Bitcoinland. Down by $20 I see, which amounts to  4.5% dip.

Too bad it's not quite enough for me to consider buyable. Just an annoying little speed bump on the road up.

Just got home to see I missed the action by minutes.

No one else here? I only see Chartbuddy.

A joker? 

I won't argue with monkey. I also see returning to $450 within a few days but I thought we just had the predictable $450 correction, all the way down to under $430 before the equally predictable return to $440.

What surprised me was how quickly it happened. It usually takes a day or two, not just a few hours.

Good morning Bitcoinland.

Still stuck around $440, eh?

Let's get this thing moving up.

Say what?

Since we first hit $500 it more than doubled to over $1000, fell to less than $200, went over $500 again and down to $300 before reaching $450.

Those are some pretty extreme fluctuations, hardly what I'd call sideways.

Good morning Bitcoinland. Seems I missed a little drama last night.

I leave to go out for Saturday night with the price hovering around  $440, make it home this afternoon and it's $436. That's not surprising.

What is surprising is that it went all the way up to $451 and then all the way down to $428 before ending right back where it was yesterday.

Meanwhile some people around here are acting as if the price had crashed. NLC is posting Tinkerball pix and Abercrombie is asking if crypto is dead.

Silly little bears. Sigh.