The Fear is back - how are you handling it?

[intrader]

The mood changed fast this week. The drop to $69k brought fear back into the market, likely due to leveraged positions getting wiped out and macro uncertainty around interest rates. From my past experience during previous corrections, stepping away from charts helps avoid emotional decisions. Are you treating this as a buying chance or waiting for more confirmation?

[logfiles]

The fear us most for the spot traders and maybe those who opened long positions. Meanwhile, there is no easier time to make money for a short position trader than this but due to the high volatility of the market, it is very advisable to keep the leverage as small as possible especially for other altcoins.
I am not sure how far this goes, but it looks like we are in for a long ride. Most people are not yet believing it, but it seems like we have already been ushered into the bear market.

[intrader]

The fear us most for the spot traders and maybe those who opened long positions. Meanwhile, there is no easier time to make money for a short position trader than this but due to the high volatility of the market, it is very advisable to keep the leverage as small as possible especially for other altcoins.
I am not sure how far this goes, but it looks like we are in for a long ride. Most people are not yet believing it, but it seems like we have already been ushered into the bear market.

You might be right about the bear market. It’s hard to stay bullish when you see over $775 million in liquidations in a single day.
Big liquidation days can sometimes mean the market is close to a temporary bottom because weak positions are forced out.
If this really becomes a long bear market, patience is more important than trying to buy every dip. I think it’s better to wait for clearer signs from price action and on-chain data before entering again, instead of reacting emotionally to sudden drops.

[cxtreenal]

This fall of Bitcoin has dropped to the lowest level in the last 15 months and it has created fear for investors. Some are predicting a fear price level of $38k and some are predicting $65k. But I will not be surprised at all if the price of Bitcoin drops below $50k. It will also not be surprising that Bitcoin will definitely recover its value.

Geopolitical instability such as the ongoing crisis between the US and Iran and the nomination of Kevin Warsh as Fed Chairman are being identified as a bad sign for the crypto market. This is a reason for macro uncertainty. Surprisingly at this price level I am still holding although I am a small holder because I know that Bitcoin will break the ATH again. About 45% of the capital has been lost from the current market compared to the previous ATH but I am still a patient holder and holding and have increased the amount of Bitcoin purchases in the DCA method. Don't sell at a loss out of fear. The market will turn around soon.

[goldkingcoiner]

The mood changed fast this week. The drop to $69k brought fear back into the market, likely due to leveraged positions getting wiped out and macro uncertainty around interest rates. From my past experience during previous corrections, stepping away from charts helps avoid emotional decisions. Are you treating this as a buying chance or waiting for more confirmation?

I ignore the fear. I will not sell even if Bitcoin goes down to 0. If you do not invest with this mindset, or worse try to trade without this kind of mindset then what will most likely happen is that you will panic-sell during crashes and panic-buy when Bitcoin shoots up again.

Ignore the FUD too. There is a lot of that going around online and it will stress you out as well by making you worry about the price.

[Free Market Capitalist]

What is clear is that we are in a bear market. With 2025 proving so disappointing, many began to say that the cycles had changed and that 2026 would be bullish as liquidity entered the market. The problem is not that there has been no liquidity, but rather that what there was has gone mainly into gold and the stock market.

There is nothing left to do but HODL.

[BABY SHOES]

Don't keep checking the market now, because the price of bitcoin will definitely go into freefall... if you keep monitoring it you might panic because the short movement continues to dive.

Now I will try to hold back as much as possible, with a patient heart that must be improved.

Besides that now HODL...

[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

The mood changed fast this week. The drop to $69k brought fear back into the market, likely due to leveraged positions getting wiped out and macro uncertainty around interest rates. From my past experience during previous corrections, stepping away from charts helps avoid emotional decisions. Are you treating this as a buying chance or waiting for more confirmation?

You had better know that the market already plummet down to $68,000 and that is how far we can see it react to this time, just that i was so surprised that all these fall come in at a time, the only way out here is to hold the more and also avoid selling fast, because we may go into serious loss, the market will always rise when the time comes, we are already fully in the bear season and should enjoy this while it last to buy and hold.

[AVE5]

The mood changed fast this week. The drop to $69k brought fear back into the market, likely due to leveraged positions getting wiped out and macro uncertainty around interest rates. From my past experience during previous corrections, stepping away from charts helps avoid emotional decisions. Are you treating this as a buying chance or waiting for more confirmation?

Gone are those days when the price declines tends to inflate fear on investors as part of it psychological market behavior.
Then I was in the cartel of coiner who were being emotionally controlled by the market chart.
Experience has thought me not to troll around the digital market with emotions.
Of course if you're a trader you'll definitely feel your downfall with the current situation.

A rare question to beat this psychological is;  How can one avoid the emotional breakdown during Dip pressures as it is now? It's as simple as hold for a long term at least 4 years while buying the Dip is another sort of the strategy of accumulating bitcoin ahead of your dream in the long term.

[buwaytress]

Nothing different for me. The time to sell had gone. Last month if you caught the rally, you were good. Either we bounce back, which shouldn't still go beyond $100k sustainably, or we fall farther until price finds a comfortable landing ground for months of sideways (haven't we already been there?). Otherwise, just keep buying the DCA way if you can. Bonus prices.

Insitutionals continue to purge. So much for long-term investment, huh.

[bittraffic]

It must be tempting to bet on the price to go up in the options market since this drop of price seem to have  bottomed. If there really are institutions manipulating the market, betting for price to go up will make the price drop further since they want you to be liquidated. 

Its best to just wait til the price emerges again. If  they say price is going to fall to 52k, I think  I would take it seriously. There ain't no reason for it to fall that hard but if someone says so, I think I would look into it.

[rat03gopoh]

Are you treating this as a buying chance or waiting for more confirmation?

If you still believe in the long-term thesis (institutional adoption, ETFs, the halving effect not yet complete), a correction could be a point of gradual accumulation with remaining cash ready for a lower price scenario. However, I'm more confident we're currently in a psychological support zone, with price $64k representing the resistance zone from the previous cycle's ATH.

Your past experience actually teaches you something important; however, staying away from the charts during high volatility is a good idea.

[7juju]

This is were DCA comes in very handy, it's been over a year since bitcoin dropped to this level we are currently seeing and it won't make much sense if one should lost this opportunity and be waiting for more confirmation, because the market sentiment can change at anytime, so it's a buying time for me but I won't go all in at once. DCA will be a good avenue to take advantage of this market condition. I won't encourage anyone to keep waiting for any further confirmation.

[Hewlet]

Are you treating this as a buying chance or waiting for more confirmation?

At this point in time, being afraid as an investor does not help you in any way. you just have to either continue investing eve when the market is down or quite investing for a moment while allowing your asset that is in bitcoin to stay just the way they are. checking the worth of your holding at this point is something not to try because it is going to almost destabilize you to a large extent. the future is better even with the DIP and so, it is either you are stacking more bitcoin or you are lying low at the moment.

[Accardo]

The whole drama with core developers moving down to bitcoin Knots shouldn't have been done publicly on social platforms, private room calls or encrypted messages on the development would have done a better job. Bitcoin would have to undergo serious informational changes to retain fresh investors. Too many fights and arguments raised a lot of dust in the market, forcing scared investors to sell quickly. The faltering price is so much likely to be the faults of billionaires who are on profit and wants to shift interest to something else and panic sellers who can't stand seeing their money go in consistent transactional loss.

[FirmWars]

The confirmation already took place when Bitcoin failed to hold at a certain support level that most people thought it would have made the price to surge but didn't hold, therefore it already gave a confirmation for the fall that is happening, I can buy now without waiting for more confirmation because I don't think Bitcoin will dip to $40k but even if it's going dip to that price, a smart investors would have to start DCAing while they can, to avoid missing out any bit of opportunity. If we buy here and the price takes off into the bullish side, we will make profit but if it dip, we continue to buy more. The end result is to hold and make profit in the future, I'm experiencing no fear.

[Odusko]

The mood changed fast this week. The drop to $69k brought fear back into the market, likely due to leveraged positions getting wiped out and macro uncertainty around interest rates. From my past experience during previous corrections, stepping away from charts helps avoid emotional decisions. Are you treating this as a buying chance or waiting for more confirmation?

If you keep following the price of Bitcoin each day you may get distracted, we already know how volatile Bitcoin market is so for that reason such dropped in price is ment to happen sometimes in the market, as much as we expect bull market, we also must expect to see some level of bear market too just like this one, right now 65k+BTC.

[Hypnotizer]

“The Market rewards the patience ones that HODL”

This is it, another bear which I think most people are supposed to have expected and the last time I checked the price today I saw the price around $65k but nevertheless this is a time where everyone displays his level of  patience, personally I’d advice anyone Hodl to right now to get off social media especially X and he shouldn’t even bother much about checking the price every two minutes like his life totally depends on it. _{Matters act differently unwatched}  

And lastly don’t panic-sell, you don’t deserve loses in your investment and panic selling just lead to losses..Hodl a little longer or a more longer! And never make decisions based on your Emotions, drink water first before making any decision!  

[mindrust]

I ignore it completely. This shall too pass, like every other crash did before. Covid crash was way worse than that and we have recovered from it. This is nothing compared to that and if this one goes even deeper, there will be another recovery anyway. So the lower it goes, the more opportunities for the people who missed their chance to become a millionaire. The holders/early adopters are already positioned well enough so they only need to wait it out instead of doing something crazy.

Just stop watching the charts and do something else. In a few years, you won't remember this day or even this month. Panicking won't do any good.

Everybody screams they are holding a grenade but that grenade never explodes unless you intentionally decide to pull the safety pin.

[Emeraldo]

The mood changed fast this week. The drop to $69k brought fear back into the market, likely due to leveraged positions getting wiped out and macro uncertainty around interest rates. From my past experience during previous corrections, stepping away from charts helps avoid emotional decisions. Are you treating this as a buying chance or waiting for more confirmation?

It is unbelievable to see the way the price of Bitcoin has been moving after all we thought that Bitcoin is going to range for a little while before the price will continue going up. We have seen it all and I know that this is a clear bear market which we are seeing right now. The price of Bitcoin could go down more up to $60k price before any worse movement will happen again which could be another bear momentum. Holders need to continue holding till we see a clear move in the crypto market.