this exactly. if something sounds too easy to be true then its because well it is lol. The etf acceptance was priced long time ago. everyone was expecting huge gains and ive been just looking at it since i dont trade but i was pretty sure 90% + that it would remain volatile / potentially drop after it goes up a little. and it did exactly that.

People gotta understand that if the majority of people are bullish or bearish then BTC tends to react exactly the opposite way or sideways. I think even the next couple of months will break some necks as loads of people wanna open a super long position as its ''so obvious'' that we gonna hit a new ath soon. But instead we might have side way trend for the next couple of months or even the entire year lol.

I had to learn it the hard way too. Back in 2020 i was sure dogecoin would tank and i shorted it. it went up more. i called another short. it continued going up. i was sure it would tank at some point but after beeing down about 1 btc or so i decided to hold my horses as i couldn't call when that crazy shitcoin was topping out. eventually it continued its rally for a few days before crashing down.  Even though in that situation, most experienced people knew that dogecoin hat to eventually fall, nobody could tell when.

i used to hold XX BTC back in  mid 2016. after beeing down for almost 2.5years i finally break even and 3y after my first purchase i was up about 50% on my initial investment. Even though I alrdy understood its potential i decided to then cashout on my initial fiat investment and keep only my profits in. meaning i had sold about 2/3 of my btc holdings. through the bullmarket in 2017 i managed to collect some more satoshis but never the amount i used to have. Do i regret selling? yes. I didnt need the money. i didnt need it for school, no one got sick, i had almost the same amount in FIAT on my bank account laying around. i sold my btc with 50% profits after 2.5y of waiting just for it to do 2800% the following 12 months lol.

Today i could have sent most of my family into retirement instead im here still hoping to one day get back to the BTC amount i used to hold via altcoins but all it essentially did was burn more btc's lol. If it wasn't for my early investment in BNB i wouldnt be close to break even but more like down a lifechanging btc amount

For everyone else who used to hold btc and hat so sell them all or partially, if it changed their life they should not regret it. Thats the point of it to change people's life. wether that be surgery costs cause you live in country without healthcare for everyone, or a house property business opportunity whatsoever doesnt matter.

I think its important to not overleverage urself into it, if you're young like i was back in the day, it might still be a good idea to just go all in now , even if it wont work u still have ur entire life ahead of you. But if you're 60 and u always dreamed of owning a house or whatever and couldnt do it till now unless u sell ur btc, its completly understandable that one might think about selling his precious btc.