Personally I ended up making a modest $200+ profit.
I sold way too early on the way up, and tried to make it up by doing leveraged long trades, which believe it or not I fucked up with thanks to Krakens über clunky trading platform, and then exasperated with it all, after a bit of time out due to rage issues, I bought back in at $390. Sat staring at $500 BTC; absolutely point bank refusing to cash out, and watched in disbelief throughout the whole crash (I mean $360 downwards)....very nearly sold at $360, but some voice in my head said "
No Matthew, you are making the same mistakes as you have made so many times before", so at $300, I again decide to take a leveraged long to compensate for losses....but started bottling it on the retest, which really did look as though it was going to plunge even further, so I was in and out, spraying pish all over my legs, and even took an emotionally reactionary short, right at the very bottom of the market, before I came to my senses (although this is the one trade that I exited with a profit).
I have been bullish on Bitcoin since mid 2015, I bought BTC back then, and had pretty much just been sitting on them until this manufactured pump.
So, thanks to my tarding, I have 1 BTC less than I would have if I opted just to leave it the fuck alone, and I were to cash out now, I would be down about €2K. But I aint going to cash out now, obviously.
I really shouldn't tarde Bitcoin.Far too twitchy, emotional, and reactionary, so even when I too spot a good trade, the market is likely to taunt me out of it and even have me doing the exact opposite trade on a whim, as opposed to the original trade which I spent 45 minutes scanning over charts and momentum indicators before making. It is frustrating sitting on sidelines, looking at charts and being able to spot moves, but knowing that as soon as I throw a bit play money into the game, I am likely to start pissing hundreds of bucks all over the shop.
