I always buy at the wrong time....

[emanymton]

Bought at a good 700$ and it's now 470 and correcting. Agh Whyyyyy.
I always get screwed over, Do you think it's gonna spike again, There's been so
much good news coverage! What's happening?

we ALL know how that feels. don´t listen to the guys who claim to do everything in the most profitable way. chances are they fail also.

btc price will rise anyway in the long run. the people that bought on top of the april bubble are good now. they had to wait 6 months. if it really works out bad, you have to wait until may 2014. just don´t sell em.

+1 history shows if you don't panic and sell at a loss, it will eventually reach a new ATH.

[Mirsad]

What can you do wrong, if you sell on the way up and buy on the way down?

You won't get maximum profit, but you'll never lose until bitcoin goes to zero.

What CAN go wrong is that bitcoin might no longer go below a certain price and you sold out all coins before it went to say 2000$.

I never told you to sell all.
If the price goes up, the amount of bitcoin to sell, is decreasing. You will allways have bitcoin left, even if the price goes to 100000$.

[PenAndPaper]

There's been so much good news coverage! What's happening?

Speculation is happening. You thought that price hit 1000$ because someone found a long forgotten wallet and is now a millionaire  

[wachtwoord]

Rule #1) Never buy all at once.
Rule #2) Never sell all at once.
Rule #3) Never sell all your coins.

 

An even simpler system is:

Rule #1) Never sell
Rule #2) Don't forget rule 1!

[disclaimer201]

What can you do wrong, if you sell on the way up and buy on the way down?

You won't get maximum profit, but you'll never lose until bitcoin goes to zero.

What CAN go wrong is that bitcoin might no longer go below a certain price and you sold out all coins before it went to say 2000$.

I never told you to sell all.
If the price goes up, the amount of bitcoin to sell, is decreasing. You will allways have bitcoin left, even if the price goes to 100000$.

But you said "What can you do wrong, if you sell on the way up and buy on the way down?". So I told you what can go wrong.

Another thing that could go wrong is you buy on the way down, and it keeps going down and stays down.

"The amount to sell, is decreasing." Can you elaborate on that?

Maybe give an example?

[Mirsad]

You buy 10btc @ 200$, price rises to 300$.
That's 1000$ profit.

Cash Out 50%, that's 500$ or 1.6666 BTC.

So you have 8.3334 BTC worth 2500$.

Price rises to 400$.
Thats 3333.36$ and 833.36$ profit.
Sell again 50%.

That is 1.0417 BTC.

And so on.

If the price goes down, buy back 50% of the losses.

You can change the percentage. I'll buy back approx 65% of the losses.

[Fernandez]

Bought at a good 700$ and it's now 470 and correcting. Agh Whyyyyy.
I always get screwed over, Do you think it's gonna spike again, There's been so
much good news coverage! What's happening?

It will certainly go above that but not in the next few weeks. Hold for long term and make a nice profit, or if you have th eguts sell and buy back cheaper.

If it was upto me I will hold.

[Martijnvdc]

I used to trade on mt.gox a lot; i had made a lot of profit, but lost a big chunk in the end. So in the end i barely made a profit... 

[Fernandez]

I used to trade on mt.gox a lot; i had made a lot of profit, but lost a big chunk in the end. So in the end i barely made a profit... 

Zero sum game.

[BitcoinAshley]

I am sure the people who bought at $250 in april felt the same as you at one point...

[MatTheCat]

we ALL know how that feels. don´t listen to the guys who claim to do everything in the most profitable way. chances are they fail also.

Yeah..plenty "I sold at $900 and bought back in at $400 before selling again at $750" types on here.

All of them complete bull$h1tters to a man!

The only guys doing this are the sharks who are slapping this market around like a bitch causing the spikes and crashes to begin with.

[Zangelbert Bingledack]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKUvKE3bQlY

[adamstgBit]

Rule #1) Never buy all at once.
Rule #2) Never sell all at once.
Rule #3) Never sell all your coins.

 

Rule #4) Never buy at an all time high...well mostly. Wait for pullbacks.

Rule #5) stick to your trades

[Wekkel]

Rule 1. the trend is your friend
Rule 2. Never short Bitcoin except for the days/weeks after a major crash
Rule 3. Buy and hold. Only sell when your price target has been hit, but do no trade the waves up/down.

[OC19850520]

Rule #1) Never buy all at once.
Rule #2) Never sell all at once.
Rule #3) Never sell all your coins.

 

An even simpler system is:

Rule #1) Never sell
Rule #2) Don't forget rule 1!

This is good rule except everybody has to sell at some time, otherwise it wouldnt make sence to die with the coins 

[sumantso]

Rule #1) Never buy all at once.
Rule #2) Never sell all at once.
Rule #3) Never sell all your coins.

 

An even simpler system is:

Rule #1) Never sell
Rule #2) Don't forget rule 1!

This is good rule except everybody has to sell at some time, otherwise it wouldnt make sence to die with the coins 

Not necessarily. When BTC goes mainstream I may be able to pick up girls with my balance.

'I am loaded with BTCs. Wanna come up to my room?'

[OC19850520]

An even simpler system is:

Rule #1) Never sell
Rule #2) Don't forget rule 1!

This is good rule except everybody has to sell at some time, otherwise it wouldnt make sence to die with the coins 

Not necessarily. When BTC goes mainstream I may be able to pick up girls with my balance.

'I am loaded with BTCs. Wanna come up to my room?'

More realistically you can spend 0.0001 BTC and enjoy these girls.
But spending is the same as selling

[ElectricMucus]

Even more realistically you'll both die alone.

[wachtwoord]

An even simpler system is:

Rule #1) Never sell
Rule #2) Don't forget rule 1!

This is good rule except everybody has to sell at some time, otherwise it wouldnt make sence to die with the coins 

You don't sell them (which is slang for exchange for fiat) but spend them, which means exchange them for goods or services (examples of which you seem to already have come up with)

[C10H15N]

Bitcoin has taught me one thing:  Every man has his price.

While he may be honest at a thousand or a hundred thousand, something about crossing the million mark makes him start mumbling "My Precious" over your bitcoin.