How to hold coins in 2018

[Encrypt01]

With what's happening with crypto now, I'm not quite sure it's still a great idea to hodl. I held XVG, ADA and Ethereum. I've lost more the 70% on XVG and ADA. I think the most reliable is Ethereum as the price fluctuation are not so volatile compared to the rest. The best option in my opinion is to trade and buy the dip when the market is down. That way you can make some profit, sell and your initial investment still stays. It's more reliable.

[SirLancelot]

I don't want to complicate things on my end so I just buy bitcoin and few altcoins and that's it. But as far as holding the best coins, for me it is still bitcoin. But my problem is that I can only hold for 6 months, Lol. I guess I have to dump some and take home the profits.

I really admire those investors who can hold for at least a year. Probably, they just bought a ton and just totally forget about it and just comeback after 1 year to check their investments.

As for altcoins, Ethereum is a good one to hold as well. Its currently above $700 and I'm pretty sure that it will reach another all-time-high this year, above $1200-$1500.

If you got me right, it is not about saying it is completely difficult as I added a clause to that. As long as you have a proper understanding of what you are holding and you believe in its future.

Basically, it would be easy for you to hold even with all the fluctuations and proper understanding does not have to do with just the coin but also your pattern of investing as well, which I believe every sane investor should know that buying the dip is always the best.

[BlueStackz]

Best option for hold is buying more BTC/ETH and hold them till 2019. I'm kinda pessimistic about quick profits

If you are planning for holding of the crypto currencies for an year or so, then I will suggest you to go for buying of the bitcoins and that do nothing but holding of all the bitcoins which you have bought for as long as you could because of the reason that doing so will surely help you in having some good earning at the end as the market value of the bitcoin is and will keep on going up in the future.

That is obviously a good selling strategy but everyone sure do know what strategy works for them best anyway. However, this can only be applicable to those who are actually trading or looking forward to the long term trading most especially when there is a huge FOMO in the market.

Every market always encounter the time when they end up having a huge correction and it is always important to always sell when everyone is getting greedy.

[Smarty14392]

How long should we hold coins?

holding a coin depends on our needs, if you want to have a high profit then you have to hold the coins as long as possible, because by holding long then the high profit you will get ...
but I suggest do not hold it too long, if you want to make a profit, better little but often ...

It depends on demand, I mean of you need money and you have only cryptocurrency and no cash in your hands then you will have to sell your coins to overcome your financial requirements, but if you do not need money and can pass your time with your regular income then you should forget your coins for some time. When the price grows and you realize that now I can make handsome profit then you can sell your holding.

[AngelSky]

With what's happening with crypto now, I'm not quite sure it's still a great idea to hodl. I held XVG, ADA and Ethereum. I've lost more the 70% on XVG and ADA. I think the most reliable is Ethereum as the price fluctuation are not so volatile compared to the rest. The best option in my opinion is to trade and buy the dip when the market is down. That way you can make some profit, sell and your initial investment still stays. It's more reliable.

If you want to hold how these currencies are stable to make your money as investment bro. I advice you to keep the fund on the Tether and even you can see the exchange directly accepting the USD option to hold the fund for your safety mate.
So those coins are really well to hold for your price stablity. if you invest and make money go to btc and eth which is really low now.

[Dark Sky]

With what's happening with crypto now, I'm not quite sure it's still a great idea to hodl. I held XVG, ADA and Ethereum. I've lost more the 70% on XVG and ADA. I think the most reliable is Ethereum as the price fluctuation are not so volatile compared to the rest. The best option in my opinion is to trade and buy the dip when the market is down. That way you can make some profit, sell and your initial investment still stays. It's more reliable.

If you want to hold how these currencies are stable to make your money as investment bro. I advice you to keep the fund on the Tether and even you can see the exchange directly accepting the USD option to hold the fund for your safety mate.
So those coins are really well to hold for your price stablity. if you invest and make money go to btc and eth which is really low now.

Bitcoin will very good way for investment because bitcoin is a trusted currency and the king of all crypto currency, so that's why bitcoin is much better currency for investment and then you will hold it for at least 2018 but if you can hold it for long term as many years so it will more profitable for you.

[Activitycoin]

The criteria to assess a coin:
1. General information about that coin
2. The purpose of generating the coin
3. The dev team (do more or say much)?
4. What is the current product? In what stage?
5. Are there existing customers? Potential customers?
6. Vision of future coin? Is it realistic or just expressed in words?
7. Scalability?  Can it be accepted by the public? Is it possible to apply to everyday life?

indeed there are many ways to assess the criteria of coins as you say, but in the current market conditions like that continue to decline, it will be difficult to do that. more secure or possible to hold coins have pretty good potential like ethereum.

You are right for your own opinion but I have a bit different thinking as I think bitcoin is the best currency to hold now a day, we should buy and hold bitcoin than making any other investments, holding of bitcoin is safer and easier, ETH now a day it getting lower so buy the bitcoin now and hold it, we have a lot of options but the best one is bitcoin for sure so hold bitcoin 2018 is going to be the year of bitcoin for sure.

[kiloiko]

There has been hardly good results of the crypto currencies if we see or calculate it.

Why you going to analyze the ICO project which is not yet comes to market. I suggest you to check the top 50 altcoins on Coinmarketcap and then pick whatever coins have the good value growth on these times.
If you cheap rate altcoins are good according to your view, do not worry still go and buy it mate.
Check the complete price history and see how times it touches its own peak. This is enough to confirm the potential altcoins.

I do not have an idea if you have been in this planet for long, but if we are really to calculate except for those coins and tokens just hitting the market from ICOs, I would say there has been tremendous results over the years and except you do not know how to go back into history.

You may want to consider the level of percentage at which some coins have really grown hugely over the years before even coming to say this. If you believe in the potential of what you are holding, then you will hold no matter what and not bother about the present. That is how to hold!

If you want to make money from crypto you will have to hold your coins in this year because this year is not good for investors so far and many have lost their money due to fall in the price. But we should be optimistic about the bright future of crypto and all the deficits will be recovered in the near future but till that time you will have to hold your coins.

[Mastsetad]

I think the time to hold coins depends on the target and finances of each person. If you have the capital you have the psychological comfort should hold on more than 1 year (the longer time - the profit may be higher), in contrast to the less capital you hold coins in the downtrend markets, you look up and down the price is too heart attack and stress (not good at all).

How to hold is easy but how to earn from holding is not easy. Buy and forget about your coins till the end of this year. You will have your coins in next year. But if you want to make more money from your holding, then you should trade on daily basis. It is not easy but more profitable than just holding. No doubt that holding will also give you profit but it will take long time.

[noah tall]

right now, im holding cardano from my loss back in march until now. i made myself clear to hold the coin because from what i have heard cardano is a promising coin out there. it has it own blockchain... in my decision making, members of this forum takes a big part of it.

Cardano (ADA)
$0.215504 USD (-7.04%)
0.00002871 BTC (-4.53%) it's today price. I am afraid of this price. I don't feel safe to invest my money in this coin. I prefer ethereum mostly instead of this coin.

Not just you and it has shown already that the bears are still so much in the ADA picture as it is and there is nothing guaranteed yet. This whole market is extremely volatile and the alts most especially should not be totally invested in without at least making sure you are not investing at the top and you are indeed buying probably from the bottom or when there is a very good signal.

The bears still are in play with ADA and not a good time to even hit the market. Instead of struggling with different stocks and markets, after getting into cryptos, I find may improvement with my trading and investments. I must think about more time efficient way of making good returns rather than just holding.

Many investors think that the price will grow more till the end of this year. I hope so, but it is not guaranteed. The price may down more and bitcoin holders may lose their investment. Let’s be optimist about the good times in the future for bitcoin price. till that time forget about your holding and never think of selling.

[Alonso92]

I believe 2018 will be huge for cryptocurrency, the present challenges notwithstanding. in my own opinion however, the price of BTC may never get to ATH, at least not anytime soon.

Hence, i believe altcoins like XMR, TRX, EOS are a good hold, at least for the next one year

[samelvis]

For this period the best way to hodl is to swing trade. Buy the dip and fling at any sign of pump

[molecularman]

Hodling can be tough just because most of us lack patience and want instant gratification.

I am holding until the winter,  just because of tax purposes.   But I might continue to hodl for who knows how long.    I've decided I would rather hodl my investments to zero than sell off early and find out I could have made a life changing amount of money.


The hardest part is trying to forget about your investments, but still staying in the loop with development and need to update wallets..etc.   It tends to suck you back in to a short term mentality.

[thuongnguyen199120]

Let's manage your capital, really good. Split money out hold the top coins

[kontarz]

It's a good time to buy.
Hidden in the long-term downtrend trend is short-term growth. You should divide the account, part to hold good coin, part to trade. Can try margin. That is a good way to increase profit at this time.

[GoodDay2621]

Let's DCA the good coins and focus on routine work.

[logicgate]

I think the time to hold coins depends on the target and finances of each person. If you have the capital you have the psychological comfort should hold on more than 1 year (the longer time - the profit may be higher), in contrast to the less capital you hold coins in the downtrend markets, you look up and down the price is too heart attack and stress (not good at all).

How to hold is easy but how to earn from holding is not easy. Buy and forget about your coins till the end of this year. You will have your coins in next year. But if you want to make more money from your holding, then you should trade on daily basis. It is not easy but more profitable than just holding. No doubt that holding will also give you profit but it will take long time.

  Trading daily has good profit but it is riskier than holding, for trading daily you will take risk and will spend a lot of time checking market, taking risk, so I think to hold a coin we need only the patience level if you lose patience then all will be wrong but ig you will keep on holding with patience then trust me bitcoin has potential to make you milliner within couple of months, you will just have to hold till perfect time for selling.

[ArnoldChippy]

For this period the best way to hodl is to swing trade. Buy the dip and fling at any sign of pump

Agreed best way of getting through this dip is holding till it gets high,  if you are thinking about holding of your bitcoin I would suggest you to buy some coin as well, after that do nothing but just holding your bitcoin you have bought to hold, because doing so will surely give you good amount of profit, as at the end of 2108 price of bitcoin will start pumping high.

I think the whole crypto market is passing from bearish trend and the market is in fact giving a very good opportunity to people to do investment in crypto currencies to make a good profit, but you only have to choose a potentially good crypto currency which have more chances to increase its price and which can give you a very good profit after some time.

[anchy]

Hodling may have been a good strategy in 2017 but it is definitely not in 2018. All of us who didn't learn enough about trading got rekt, and many keep doing so. It won't change unless bitcoin goes for another bull run.

[marketone]

For this period the best way to hodl is to swing trade. Buy the dip and fling at any sign of pump

Agreed best way of getting through this dip is holding till it gets high,  if you are thinking about holding of your bitcoin I would suggest you to buy some coin as well, after that do nothing but just holding your bitcoin you have bought to hold, because doing so will surely give you good amount of profit, as at the end of 2108 price of bitcoin will start pumping high.

I think the whole crypto market is passing from bearish trend and the market is in fact giving a very good opportunity to people to do investment in crypto currencies to make a good profit, but you only have to choose a potentially good crypto currency which have more chances to increase its price and which can give you a very good profit after some time.

Yes, it is giving very good opportunity to people who want to invest in cryptocurrency, everything we need some time because within short of time we cannot make profits. Meanwhile when the market starts recovering it is always good to research the good potential for investing and start holding them in the desired wallets until the price starts increasing.