At what point does HODLing stop being a strategy and become emotional?

[Rubuchi]

I believe we still have plenty things to learn here so I wanted to ask this question . We have heard on several occasions that HODLing is the best way for every bitcoin person to survive in the cryptocurrency market which I quite understand the idea but sometimes I used to wonder where the line is. Like at what point does holding stop being a strategy and starting becoming emotional attachment to a position? For example when someone keeps holding even when they know their main reason for buying is no longer there or when they begin to deliberately ignore the risks they are seeing because they are afriad of missing out ?

For those with more experience about this HODLing strategy, what exactly helps you to realize whether you are still following a strategy or you are just holding on emotionally and how do you stop or reorganize your plans?

[shield132]

I believe we still have plenty things to learn here so I wanted to ask this question . We have heard on several occasions that HODLing is the best way for every bitcoin person to survive in the cryptocurrency market which I quite understand the idea but sometimes I used to wonder where the line is. Like at what point does holding stop being a strategy and starting becoming emotional attachment to a position? For example when someone keeps holding even when they know their main reason for buying is no longer there or when they begin to deliberately ignore the risks they are seeing because they are afriad of missing out ?

For those with more experience about this HODLing strategy, what exactly helps you to realize whether you are still following a strategy or you are just holding on emotionally and how do you stop or reorganize your plans?

I do not think that anyone gets emotionally attached to holding because what's the point of holding money if you can't use it? I think that almost all of us can't wait to claim our profit and spend it as soon as possible. I imagine that someone who has been holding when the price of Bitcoin was a few bucks, getting emotionally attached to hodling because it's a beauty on its own, how the price of the coin goes from a few bucks to a few hundred, then to a few thousand and then exceeds a hundred thousand dollars. When you see how exponentially your coins grow from so low to so high, where the sky is the limit, you'll definitely become emotionally attached to hodling but there will only be a few people who feel that way.

[Wiwo]

Bitcoin as an assets just like gold, can survive long term and increase in value,  so if your goal is to have an investment that gives you value at some high percentage rate,  why then should you panic when that long term time frame can be achieved when your profits can settle whatever bills and you still retain your initial invested capital in bitcoin as assets, why should I sell at $1 profits when I know I can sell it for $3 profits in the future since I invested my affordable cash into bitcoin, which means I am not under pressure.

There come again another dimension in the market like trading your asset, this is different from hodling your bitcoin,  this approach allows you to trade bitcoin with other coins in the market like Bnb USDT and the rest,, speculating their market.

But in all, mind the risks and never be too greedy because at the point you become greedy, you definitely tend to make mistakes in your approach and at that time you will lose more than you can afford to lose.

[Findingnemo]

If someone is accumulating the bitcoin and want to be an HODLer then temporary market movements should not affect their mindset, if they do then they are still in the panic seller category and need to evolve a lot better to turn into an investor. And HODL strategy only applies to bitcoin not just every cryptocurrency so if you are holding a shitcoin and you see the price keeps dropping then just sell at whatever the price and exit the market with something left or you will be left with a dead coin.

[BlackBoss_]

We have heard on several occasions that HODLing is the best way for every bitcoin person to survive in the cryptocurrency market which I quite understand the idea but sometimes I used to wonder where the line is.

For those with more experience about this HODLing strategy, what exactly helps you to realize whether you are still following a strategy or you are just holding on emotionally and how do you stop or reorganize your plans?

If you only use your money for buying bitcoin, what you have to care about is Bitcoin market, not cryptocurrency market that includes Bitcoin and altcoins. Bitcoin can affect altcoins dramatically but it's wrong to say the opposite, altcoins can not affect Bitcoin too much in both short term and long term. If your money is stored in only Bitcoin, you don't have to care about altcoins.

Bitcoin is still very volatile in price in 2025 so holding is key to help you avoid trading that is risky, and control your emotion so that you don't panic with market volatility especially downward movements and avoid panic sell.

With holding, you avoid these things that cause loss while it is helpful for you to enjoy Bitcoin price growth with time and cycle. Each market cycle, cycle by cycle, Bitcoin makes new ATHs. Each year, year by year, Bitcoin makes new higher low on yearly candles. In both views, you can see Bitcoin price grows up very consistently with years and if you can hold your coins, you get profit.

[Bitcoin_Arena]

Everyone investing in Bitcoin should at least have some sort of target where they can take profit, be it in the price of Bitcoin or the period of holding, say 10 years. So in certain circumstances, the reward out ways the risk and therefore that's why they keep holding.

Imagine someone who bought Bitcoin at 1,000 USD and still holds those Bitcoins today at 87K USD. Do you think the risk is bigger than the reward or vice versa?

[348Judah]

When we are holding and then the market pumps to a certain extent that requires we sell and then targeted buying again to hold for another selling opportunity, there are strategies enough bthaybwe can choose not use in trading pointing at how we could increase our profiting opportunity, I know not could happen bthaybsome are found holding without having bearing not decision on what to do and expect from the market, while by the time they may wanted to sell, things would have been bearish that they sell in loss.

[Hatchy]

For those with more experience about this HODLing strategy, what exactly helps you to realize whether you are still following a strategy or you are just holding on emotionally and how do you stop or reorganize your plans?

If you have a good plan and your plan requires you to hold for a certain period of time, once this time limit is met then for no reason should you choose to continue holding.. I guess this is the point where many investors get greedy and just want to keep holding without thinking about taking profits. It's not a bad idea but at some point you should try your best to stick to the plan. It guides you and all the decisions you make while your investment is still very much in play. Alot of time you see people asking when is the right time to take profits. After holding for so long a time, you don't know if it's right to exit the market that's because they had no plans before jumping into investing...

[DPHOR]

Hodling depends on what year you have projects yourselves and your investment, for instance there are people who projects 12 years, while there are people who could be that projecting 20 years time to come on their holdings, and even as that they wouldn't skip doing their DCA to keeping their investment while the year keep running. At this point I don't think there should be emotion attached to it because they haven't achieved the year they projected for their investment, and even though bitcoin dip to -80% they won't panic for any reasons rather they would be looking at the year they already projected at, so I don't see any reason why they should be attaching emotions over it.

[EarnOnVictor]

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For those with more experience about this HODLing strategy, what exactly helps you to realize whether you are still following a strategy or you are just holding on emotionally and how do you stop or reorganize your plans?

Grievances like this are common these days, especially for the fact that Bitcoin is no more performing as expected.

But first, you need to know that HODLing is not a strategy, but rather a goal, and this goal is attached to your belief in Bitcoin, which makes it endless for some people. This is not just an investment plan, but a diehard longest-term plan that could be sustained for years (if not decades). Some people are not even planning of liquidating their Bitcoin arsenal, but treats it as an inheritance that would be passed to their children.

These people will stay with Bitcoin in thin and thick moments. Anything aside this, then you are not HODLing, but merely practicing something else with your Bitcoin, and more reason you mistook HODLing for a strategy.

[noorman0]

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 and how do you stop or reorganize your plans?

I've managed to maintain my holdings through this cycle since 2022, using DCA until 2023. I recently exited, cashed out only the fiat amount I invested, with the rest being my moonbag. I've started DCA again in the past few weeks since I started earning extra money on this forum, and I'll be applying the same strategy.
I don't feel the need for a professional strategy for holding, as the success rate is very high, even for beginners.

[michellee]

Only you will know how your plan is so you will have a target when you stop holding or sell. My plan is to accumulate more especially this time so I can add more amounts to my wallets and wait for the next ATH.

People HODLing Bitcoin for a long time but they also cashout their profit by selling Bitcoin at the peak. Whether that is 4 cycles or more than 10 years then they sell Bitcoin, that will depend on them.

A Bitcoin investor will manage the risks and know how to prevent the risks from becoming big. You only need to accumulate when the bearish starts until the bullish comes, and then sell if the value increases 2-3 times from your initial investment.

[batang_bitcoin]

For those with more experience about this HODLing strategy, what exactly helps you to realize whether you are still following a strategy or you are just holding on emotionally and how do you stop or reorganize your plans?

To me, holding is already a habit and that's why I'll continue to do that regardless of how I become emotional. What makes us hold is because of the hope that in the future that we'll make profit out of doing it. So, if you're done profiting and you want to take it then that's the time that you have no longer a reason to hold when you've sold 100% of your holdings. But there is no limitation until when we can sell or when we can get out of the market if we decide to do it, reorganizing my plans is when I have made mistakes and recognizing that it's my fault. It's always okay to reset and start somewhere you've stopped.

[Roseline492]

at what point does holding stop being a strategy and starting becoming emotional attachment to a position? For example when someone keeps holding even when they know their main reason for buying is no longer there or when they begin to deliberately ignore the risks they are seeing because they are afriad of missing out ?

For those with more experience about this HODLing strategy, what exactly helps you to realize whether you are still following a strategy or you are just holding on emotionally and how do you stop or reorganize your plans?

The moment holding will cease being called a strategy for someone is when they want to stop holding and doing another benefiting things but however you cannot still be holding or schedule to hold for more 15 years and not consider yourself a holder because that would mean that the person do not even understand what they're doing, although if not that you have already mentioned holding to be strategy we shouldn't have call it a strategy because is an investment but what is called strategy are the method people use on making there investment for the holding, buying on a specific time could be a strategy because that's were you see convenient.

[OcTradism]

For those with more experience about this HODLing strategy, what exactly helps you to realize whether you are still following a strategy or you are just holding on emotionally and how do you stop or reorganize your plans?

If your holding is emotional, you will have panic and have demand of panic sell. If you have such feelings, you are not an actual holder but only like a speculator and your holding is for short term profit, that started without knowledge and made by emotion, greediness and hope that you will get profit from your holding soon.

As you did not start carefully, you don't have enough budget from finance to time, and you did not prepare your mentality well so when market turns bad, opposite with your expectation of short term profit, your emotion rises and makes you feel like your decision now is wrong, and you need to do something for cut loss, exit the market and heal your painful loss.

True holders don't start and act like this, as they no longer mind about short term volatility. They know that if they can accumulate and hold bitcoin a long time, ignore short term volatility even up or down, they will get profit in a long term.

[Cointxz]

For those with more experience about this HODLing strategy, what exactly helps you to realize whether you are still following a strategy or you are just holding on emotionally and how do you stop or reorganize your plans?

When you are buying using funds that doesn’t meant for long term hodling while you are still buying.

Holding is a strategy using a disposable money or non moving cash flow to be invested long teem so that you will not be affected on the short term price action.

You will not be emotional if you don’t need to use the money at current time.

[OcTradism]

When you are buying using funds that doesn’t meant for long term hodling while you are still buying.

It is the start and when people began bad, by using money that likely can not be used for long term investment and holding, it causes many steps later very uncertain and can be affected by emotions.

Holding is a strategy using a disposable money or non moving cash flow to be invested long teem so that you will not be affected on the short term price action.

You will not be emotional if you don’t need to use the money at current time.

It's not like disposable money, I disagree with you, as even we should only invest money we can afford to lose, that does not mean it is disposable money at all. Investment must be started after due diligent research and careful decision making, and only with money from our discretionary income. By this long procedure before actually spending money for investment, our money used for investment is not disposed to what we buy.

[suhadi88]

I believe we still have plenty things to learn here so I wanted to ask this question . We have heard on several occasions that HODLing is the best way for every bitcoin person to survive in the cryptocurrency market which I quite understand the idea but sometimes I used to wonder where the line is. Like at what point does holding stop being a strategy and starting becoming emotional attachment to a position? For example when someone keeps holding even when they know their main reason for buying is no longer there or when they begin to deliberately ignore the risks they are seeing because they are afriad of missing out ?

For those with more experience about this HODLing strategy, what exactly helps you to realize whether you are still following a strategy or you are just holding on emotionally and how do you stop or reorganize your plans?

The reset method seems easy in my view pretend it doesn't exist, even if it does. If we keep moving forward, holding on to it will become emotional, and even holding it will no longer be logical, but rather forced, leading to impulsive decisions, such as selling suddenly without waiting for a price reversal.

I think times like this require taking a step back and preparing what's needed, both financially and mentally, because we know the market doesn't care about a person's financial condition; whether we're ready or not, we have to be ready.

[barbara44]

Like at what point does holding stop being a strategy and starting becoming emotional attachment to a position? For example when someone keeps holding even when they know their main reason for buying is no longer there or when they begin to deliberately ignore the risks they are seeing because they are afriad of missing out ?

When you realise the actual potential of bitcoin, you will start emotionally connected to it. The early adaptors of bitcoin did not see it like a wealth creating one but later on when bitcoin attaining considerable huge prices like $1000 and then $20k, people started seeing bitcoin as an asset and by holding it they believed they can create and considerable wealth. With a growing asset, you will definitely emotionally get connected and bitcoin cannot be an exception here.

Obviously I will lose all the future growth of bitcoin if I sell my bitcoin right now. When there is no emergency made of funds for me why should I go for selling bitcoin. This is the reason I continue hodling bitcoin and I am slowly creating more stronger wealth for me and my heirs.

[jaberwock]

If someone is accumulating the bitcoin and want to be an HODLer then temporary market movements should not affect their mindset, if they do then they are still in the panic seller category and need to evolve a lot better to turn into an investor.

People will get panic only when they are not fully aware of the potential of bitcoin and the fundamentals of bitcoin ecosystem which includes the 4 years cycle of bitcoin market. I mean to say that when you are taking time to learn all the basics of bitcoin then obviously you will become a long term holder and you will never bother about any huge downfall of bitcoin price levels.

Obviously I will lose all the future growth of bitcoin if I sell my bitcoin right now.

This is the reason why "coffee-can" investment strategy was invented in stock market. By continuing your holding that ensures that you are not missing out the future earnings. I am sure this is how all investment should be done and we are happy that bitcoin is not an exception here.