What's the crypto mistakes in 2025 that you don't wanna repeat ?

[Cryptoprincess101]

I have been holding a couple of ETH that I bought for an average of 1400-1600 USDT, so when it went ATH, I took advantage a couple of times and made good profits. Last time, I bought it back and set up a target price. When the price was near my target, I cancelled selling and used stop loss. It was fine using a stop loss since I thought it could pump more. But unfortunately ETH started dumping, and I cancelled the stop loss due to fear of loss. I thought it could hit my stop loss and pump again. That's how SL was cancelled and never put back. As a result, ETH dumped hard; if I hadn't cancelled the stop loss, then I would have my ETH double right now.

What is important is that you have made good profits before when the price was ATH, but this time around you cancelled your SL and unfortunately it didn't pump back as you expected. What you should be thankful of is that you didn't sell your ETH as the price was falling because even though you are regretting why you didn't put back the stop loss, you can still put a take-profit order and wait for the price to bounce back.
     I find it difficult to hold any coin that is not bitcoin for a longer period of time because since they are altcoins, they are kind of gamble so if you see any opportunity to take profits just utilize it and not get greedy to think that the price will surpass your target point.

[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

Impatient on trades, I've taken decisions for sell in crypto market and later to discover that after the sell order has been fulfilled, the market start pumping later, this make it that sometimes we might not be smart as to how the very step and move of the market, and i have been thought on how to be patience in my holdings or trades, i have to check on the market and be more convinced and selling in profits.

[michellee]

That is happens to many people so you are not alone. I have that experienced many times and even I don't want to repeat the same thing, that still happens. I need to learning more about holding my control because I realizes sometime I lose control.

It is not easy to stays in control but we are human that can make mistakes many times. But if we can learn from the mistakes, I am sure will remember it and will not repeat it.

If we decided to use stop loss and our analysis says that the price will still goes down, we don't have to cancel. But we never know what will happens next so that is normal if you cancel your stop loss.

[m2017]

What is your mistake that you don't want to repeat? Share it so we can learn from each other.

My biggest mistake in 2025? Missing the opportunity to sell bitcoin at its maximum price (~$125k.). I would have been willing to sell at a lower price, say $100-$110k. (within that range), as my goal was to not sell below $100k. But, unfortunately, I was greedy, assuming that bitcoin would continue to rise.

To sum it up, I should have stuck to my original plan (sell for the price intended) and not waited for bitcoin to rise further. This would have allowed me to make a slightly larger profit than I actually did.

Let's assume that we learn from our mistakes and will be smarter next time.

[Negotiation]

I suffered a lot in crypto trading in 2025 and I don't want to repeat the mistakes that put me at a lot of risk I lost all my capital by investing in the wrong coin. The biggest mistake is to invest in a coin when its price is rising usually when everyone talks about a coin it is time to sell it not buy it therefore, 2025 can be a learning year. Surviving the market is the first condition for winning so protecting capital should be given top priority.

[knowngunman]

As far as we refer to it as a mistake, I don't think anyone will like to see such things repeated. It's not a matter of saying I don't want the mistake to repeat itself, it's a matter of you taking precautions and necessary steps to prevent such from repeating itself. I believe in one way or another, we make mistakes in this crypto space and it actually contributes to our experience and knowledge. I made some few mistakes dealing with local vendors on exchange P2P and guess what, it makes me wiser and informed because I can never make that same mistake again unless with another strategy.

[avp2306]

What is your mistake that you don't want to repeat? Share it so we can learn from each other.

My biggest mistake in 2025? Missing the opportunity to sell bitcoin at its maximum price (~$125k.). I would have been willing to sell at a lower price, say $100-$110k. (within that range), as my goal was to not sell below $100k. But, unfortunately, I was greedy, assuming that bitcoin would continue to rise.

To sum it up, I should have stuck to my original plan (sell for the price intended) and not waited for bitcoin to rise further. This would have allowed me to make a slightly larger profit than I actually did.

Let's assume that we learn from our mistakes and will be smarter next time.

Lots of people have that regrets especially that Bitcoin is projected to hit new big ATH. The past ATH on Bitcoin remind us that we better sell immediately if we hit our target since market changing so fast and those unexpected situations will really happen.

But still its good that it happens on Bitcoin, since if you bought other alts there's chances that price will struggle to recover.

With Bitcoin for sure there's still lots of chance to see more pump in future. So instead of selling it at this point much better continue to HODL especially if you think that you can still hold it and you don't need to release yet your holdings.

[CryptoYar]

Your experience is known as Loss Aversion, mental trap, when pain of losing money causes you to cancel safety net, simply because you do not want to be wrong, and small, safe loss can become huge disaster.
In 2025, study results show that 70 per cent of normal traders change their orders by hand when there is scary price drop, hoping that price will go back up, but most winning traders in 2026 will now have automatic tools and even stronger hard stops, which are far more difficult to cancel in heat of moment. My personal error was Over-Specialization, or habit to focus on one perfect stock and ignore other safe ones, and it becomes far easier to panic when that specific price begins to fall. In my view, great trader needs to be robot, so best rule that I can give you is Walk Away Rule. When you have your safety stop, you need to close app and never look at graph, and then your fear will not be able to talk you into making bad decision.

[Nathrixxx]

We can't be in the cryptocurrency industry and claim not to have made one of two mistakes, some of which may be costly, while others may not. Still, as we will always wanted it for ourselves, we should always try to learn from others mistakes and prevent ourselves being in the same terrible situation, the more we encourage for more learning, so that we get informed and also know what we are doing as well as what to expect.

[Mhizlove]

We can't be in the cryptocurrency industry and claim not to have made one of two mistakes, some of which may be costly, while others may not. Still, as we will always wanted it for ourselves, we should always try to learn from others mistakes and prevent ourselves being in the same terrible situation, the more we encourage for more learning, so that we get informed and also know what we are doing as well as what to expect.

You're right because in crypto making mistakes isn't something strange at all rather it's part of the journey in life, no matter careful you're you will still make mistakes sometimes. But When you apply knowledge by learning from other people's experience you will not make a mess of yourself.

So the more you put all your focus, learn and understand how crypto works , the better way to prepare and know the next outcome like what is going to come next . Let's just put our focus on learning about it very well and also understanding how it goes too.

[iBaba]

Impatient on trades, I've taken decisions for sell in crypto market and later to discover that after the sell order has been fulfilled, the market start pumping later, this make it that sometimes we might not be smart as to how the very step and move of the market, and i have been thought on how to be patience in my holdings or trades, i have to check on the market and be more convinced and selling in profits.

I'm not still an expert in trading yet so one mistake I would probably say I don't want to repeat is over trading. In the sense that in 2025, I realized that I was checking the charts too often that almost made me drained emotionally making me to enter and exit trades faster than I should have on several occasions making it easy for the fees and other things to eat into my small profits . I want learn how to be more selective this time around and allow good trades the enough time they need to play out and instead of rushing into trades and rushing out when you feel like it is not favorable enough without controlling your emotions.

[Su-asa]

I guess my mistake in2025 was not taking profits from my holdings. I know as a bitcoin holder you have to hold for a certain period of time, but last year I made a good amount of profits but didn't take any.

Next time I see an ath as good as last year, Ill take some profits and wait for a dip to buy again. I shared this idea with people on my lb but it seemed many are just with the idea of holding till thy kingdom comes.

Some people don't even know when to take profits and for years they continue to let the market take back what it has given and it will take another cycle to see price at its last ath.

Not everyone wants to take profit, they see the profit but they do not want to take the profit, those who invested many years had profits they would have taking but they did not take now they have bigger profits.
Not all holders are desperate in taking profits.

That's true, because majority of investors who knows that long term investment is the best strategy to use for investment, they wouldn't want to take profits during the holiday mostly when it's just a year or not up to a year before the holiday.
As for a short term investors, taking profits duty the holiday might sound like a good ideal yo them mostly when they see a little profits on their portfolio.

[Cryptomultiplier]

I guess my mistake in2025 was not taking profits from my holdings. I know as a bitcoin holder you have to hold for a certain period of time, but last year I made a good amount of profits but didn't take any.

Next time I see an ath as good as last year, Ill take some profits and wait for a dip to buy again. I shared this idea with people on my lb but it seemed many are just with the idea of holding till thy kingdom comes.

Some people don't even know when to take profits and for years they continue to let the market take back what it has given and it will take another cycle to see price at its last ath.

Not everyone wants to take profit, they see the profit but they do not want to take the profit, those who invested many years had profits they would have taking but they did not take now they have bigger profits.
Not all holders are desperate in taking profits.

That's true, because majority of investors who knows that long term investment is the best strategy to use for investment, they wouldn't want to take profits during the holiday mostly when it's just a year or not up to a year before the holiday.
As for a short term investors, taking profits duty the holiday might sound like a good ideal yo them mostly when they see a little profits on their portfolio.

As a bitcoiner one mistake I don't want to repeat this new year comes from a place of observing the price movement before selling or liquidation of my assets.
I intend not to hurry to sell off my coins and watch for the price that is favorable before making any transactions, because I believe I would make more profit rather than selling short and managing what is left.

[Nwada001]

Not everyone wants to take profit, they see the profit but they do not want to take the profit, those who invested many years had profits they would have taking but they did not take now they have bigger profits.
Not all holders are desperate in taking profits.

Everyone has their own target; no matter how fast the bitcoin price moves up, they will never accept to sell unless it's up to the cart price they place to take profit on or they have held it for some certain period of time. Many don't hold with the expected price range; some do their holding with a circle target. It's just about being desperate to take profit or not.

[Curious T]

I don't know if I can classify mine as a mistake or just a circumstance, but I sold too much of my bitcoin holdings. I don't want to repeat that this year. I want to hold my bitcoin for a very long time without taking anything out of it; instead, I should only be adding. Last year, whenever things got too tough, I usually sell. I should have had more bitcoin than I do now if I didn't sell that much last year.

[BABY SHOES]

The mistake was that I did not get to purchase as much Bitcoin as I would like.  I repeat this mistake every year but I hope this time I will listen to my self.  Particularly considering the Price range we are sitting on, it really sounds like a very good time to buy.

I myself am constrained by money condition which is not possible, because of course the desire to buy a lot of bitcoins in our not here empowered can only collect a little little by little it's already enough grateful for me.

It is predicted that this year bitcoin will go down... although some observers say it will ATH, that's not a problem with statement them that clear accumulation bitcoin far more good for the cycle that to come.

As for futures trading for me, it's stressful because I'm not skilled enough.

[Patikno]

What is your mistake that you don't want to repeat? Share it so we can learn from each other.

My regret for 2025 is that I wasted so much time, energy, and money on useless things. At the beginning of 2025, I thought the journey would be smooth sailing, so I overlooked many opportunities for useful things. Crypto mining, Bitcoin dca, and several airdrops are some of the things I have done, and I want to do them consistently again so I don't waste any opportunities or waste anything. Honestly, I really want to do many useful things, especially on this forum. I feel like I' am not as active now as I used to be, even though I used to be quite active in seeking out information about crypto and sharing it everywhere, especially on this forum. However, I won't give up easily. I will return with enthusiasm, and this year I will prove it to myself. Next year, I plan to resume my programming studies, and I hope to branch out into crypto, or Web3 programming—just my sharing.

[bitbollo]

no big mistakes in 2025... at least I hope
the only big regret on my side has been related to DeFi and CeFi. 
Even if I know these are new and great opportunities, I completely forget those. I had just a couple of approaches with a CeFi but without studying properly...
I should admit that a good approach on this matter is not only interesting and "funny" but is also really profitable.

[Stormisover]

My mistake of 2025 is not having an appropriate timing to sell some of the altcoins and Bitcoin I held. I forgot to sell at good prices, always thinking that a pump would happen last year, even in the last quarter of the year, giving way to a bull run and altcoin season. Neither do I know that, such a thing is far from happening. It's my mistake to hope on that, I have learn my mistake from that, not to miss the opportunities to sell at a high price when it arises.

You didn't completely do anything wrong except for not selling your altcoins when you saw the profits because majority of them might not rise again and this is altcoin for you but for Bitcoin I don't think you did anything wrong for not selling there is a higher hopes of Bitcoin risen and breaking through several all the time highs, you don't have to regret not selling your Bitcoin when you saw profit because most forks that sold their Bitcoin at some point they end up regretting seeing bitcoin making climbing up and making new all time highs, because you are still holding your bitcoin you have not lost the future is brighter.

[KiaKia]

I strongly believe too much on altcoins, I held them and expected what happened in 2021 to happen again, I was in profit but I failed to take them, thinking there is still enough time, I wanted that blow off top and I forget that market do have it's ways most of the time, I should have accepted what I was given.

There is no more hope for altcoins right now, I think what we had is the market condition of 2019, nothing like that of 2021 but like I have said before, it is normal to fail, life gets boring when things keep working like you wanted, without challenges life itself won't make so much sense.

We fall and we rise up again, this is life, failure is not an option, that's only for those who keeps getting up on their feet over again.