Do not hodl hot things

[passwordnow]

The title better if it's said as Do not hodl hyped things instead. That's the whole point, when the hype was already you better not invest and get involved in it. I've seen many of those trending things in the crypto market and many can't help themselves but join the bandwagon and be part of it. And that's all due to the profitability that they are projecting in their heads even if it's not guaranteed at all. The marketing of those trends are also helpful on how it made people FOMO as to why they continue to invest despite all of the warnings. They don't like steady and slow movement from BTC but, they want to take risk which is higher than it usually have.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

The truism "don't hold hot things" is perfectly intuitive for our bodies, yet in the world of investing, it is all too easily forgotten.
When an asset is already the center of attention and heavily hyped, it is the right time to act—not to buy or hold, but to sell.

There are some exceptions to this advice like Bitcoin, obviously there has been many what we'll call hot times and they have come in different eras so if you had followed this advice then you probably would've sold quite earlier and won't have been among the benefactors of the gains Bitcoin has gotten over the years. Not every assets that shouldn't be engaged when they're hot as some, that's a signal to get in and you make the quick trades to make profits or keep hdlding the assets as you continue to accumulate. There are assets that fits into this description and many of them (altcoins or other assets) do but always know that there are exceptions to every advice out there. So you don't just follow them blindly and expect things to turn out the same for you since there are some factors that influence decisions in different scenarios.

[Issa56]

The title better if it's said as Do not hodl hyped things instead. That's the whole point, when the hype was already you better not invest and get involved in it.

If you decided to invest in a coin that has already been hyped, then you are entering a serious problem, because if care is not taken, they going to dump the coin on you. I see no reason why a reasonable person should even invest their money in all this memecoin for long term, you should know that hyped coins pump is just temporary, so why will you choose coins like that to hold.

What we are suppose to know is that, a coin cant be hyped forget, if your hype dies down, then everything is going down with the coin, that’s why i don’t always encourage people to even leave their money in all this hyped coins. Most of them don’t have any use.

[passwordnow]

The title better if it's said as Do not hodl hyped things instead. That's the whole point, when the hype was already you better not invest and get involved in it.

If you decided to invest in a coin that has already been hyped, then you are entering a serious problem, because if care is not taken, they going to dump the coin on you. I see no reason why a reasonable person should even invest their money in all this memecoin for long term, you should know that hyped coins pump is just temporary, so why will you choose coins like that to hold.

What we are suppose to know is that, a coin cant be hyped forget, if your hype dies down, then everything is going down with the coin, that’s why i don’t always encourage people to even leave their money in all this hyped coins. Most of them don’t have any use.

Yes, that's when the actual catching of falling knives will happen. And many investors still don't realize that they become the exit of those early investors. Even if we see no reason why these people do it, it's all because of the hope that they see in it that they'll make a lot of money out of it. That's an illusion that they continue to believe even if there's no sense for them to do it when they've seen it's going down hill. But if they insist, let them experience how it will go for them because as for me, I've experienced it and it's terrible and a huge mistake that I did.

[Lakutefx]

Don't always feel over excited about the  investment you are about to enter into to avoid making a mistake. To avoid holding hot things you have to own the thing and if selling doesn't fit into you strategy, you don't have to sell just to avoid holding hot things. You can avoid buying an asset when it's being hyped because it gets overvalued during this time but if you wait a little more then the price will fall after all the hype is over. Don't buy a hot asset that's the advice I follow but not holding hot things I don't think works all the time. It depends on what strategy you're using to trade because if your strategy involves taking leverages of situation that make an assets hot that's when you take profits to buy into that assets again when the market is relaxed then do that if you have the experience to pull it off but if you don't have, then don't try that strategy because you can miss out having an asset that has the potential of making you rich. As a trader, you should know what decision you're going to take that'll work better in your favour and not following the crowd.

[DPHOR]

The truism "don't hold hot things" is perfectly intuitive for our bodies, yet in the world of investing, it is all too easily forgotten.
When an asset is already the center of attention and heavily hyped, it is the right time to act—not to buy or hold, but to sell.

True, not just any piece of junk makes for a great investment. If that were the case, the investment game would be quite boring—certainly not one of the most exciting human games, as it is today.

But every excellent investment looks like junk.
(Bitcoin has once again taught us this ancient lesson)

This solidly depends on the coin you could be holding on your hands because when you hold shit coin it is advisable to always sell it off than holding it and be looking at it while it dropped seriously from your hands, that is not an investment as we may know.
When you hold shit coin there is every needs for you to sell it off when the market is at sellable price than holding  it and regret at last. For trusted coin like bitcoin, when the price drops then that creates another avenue for you to accumulate enough of it while the market keeps dropping but I won't encouraged anyone to sell off when the market is not going towards expected price levels.

[KingsDen]

The title better if it's said as Do not hodl hyped things instead. That's the whole point, when the hype was already you better not invest and get involved in it. I've seen many of those trending things in the crypto market and many can't help themselves but join the bandwagon and be part of it. And that's all due to the profitability that they are projecting in their heads even if it's not guaranteed at all. The marketing of those trends are also helpful on how it made people FOMO as to why they continue to invest despite all of the warnings. They don't like steady and slow movement from BTC but, they want to take risk which is higher than it usually have.

An asset that is hyped is hot...
An asset that is very volatile is hot...
The op is not out of place if he says "Do not hodl hot things".

I remember when I newly got into this industry, I was hyped to buy Shiba and I type, I still hold the Shiba and it should be worth nothing more than $30 lol.

I made the mistake again by buying Trump and I was in profit, instead of selling I waited for Trump's speech and it collapsed on me and now it's worth about $4.

I do not care about any altcoin again, it's either bitcoin or no coin.

[tbterryboy]

An asset that is hyped is hot...
An asset that is very volatile is hot...
The op is not out of place if he says "Do not hodl hot things".

I remember when I newly got into this industry, I was hyped to buy Shiba and I type, I still hold the Shiba and it should be worth nothing more than $30 lol.

I made the mistake again by buying Trump and I was in profit, instead of selling I waited for Trump's speech and it collapsed on me and now it's worth about $4.

I do not care about any altcoin again, it's either bitcoin or no coin.

I would not say "it's bitcoin or nothing", because there are solid big names; for example, the most known is Ethereum. There is no reason for not having one aside from just thinking Bitcoin will grow bigger, but ETH will not crash like the ones you name. Simply, no altcoin is safer for longer period because we cannot speculate when another new innovation based coin would arrive in the market.

The reason why you failed was that you got hyped for shitcoins; there is a difference between buying a shitcoin and buying something solid that has been around for years. Like if you bought BNB, it's not going to crash to zero unless Binance itself crashes for some reason.

[kawetsriyanto]

If you decided to invest in a coin that has already been hyped, then you are entering a serious problem, because if care is not taken, they going to dump the coin on you. I see no reason why a reasonable person should even invest their money in all this memecoin for long term, you should know that hyped coins pump is just temporary, so why will you choose coins like that to hold.

Agree. It is too risky to invest in a hype coin. Moreover it is a new coin/token. The hype surely won't last a long time, it will be over at any time. When the hype is over, the price will free fall. The people who buy at expensive price, they will be shocked and they may sell the coins/tokens for losses. It actually has happened many times, experienced people must be very aware of it. Unfortunately, many beginners/newbies never know it and they are usually too late to realize it.

What we are suppose to know is that, a coin cant be hyped forget, if your hype dies down, then everything is going down with the coin, that’s why i don’t always encourage people to even leave their money in all this hyped coins. Most of them don’t have any use.

Well, it is better to avoid the hype coins. People who already bought the hype coins, it is advisable to sell the coins/tokens as long as it has good price. However, it is a choice, you can keep doing your own approach if you really trust the hype coins. DWYOR

[M47AK16]

What we are suppose to know is that, a coin cant be hyped forget, if your hype dies down, then everything is going down with the coin, that’s why i don’t always encourage people to even leave their money in all this hyped coins. Most of them don’t have any use.

Well, it is better to avoid the hype coins. People who already bought the hype coins, it is advisable to sell the coins/tokens as long as it has good price. However, it is a choice, you can keep doing your own approach if you really trust the hype coins. DWYOR

Unfortunately, too many people have made exactly that mistake. They see some new hyped thing, either here, or Reddit, or Twitter, etc., and they end up getting excited about it and go into it, and a week after release, all those shitcoins start to crash. Do not get hyped for anything new, in fact do not get hyped for anything old neither.

The best you should be doing is investing in Bitcoin, or if you really want to diversify (which you do not need to in the cryptocurrency world), then you could pick something from the top five, like ETH or whatever. People going into shitcoins not realizing that they are buying a shitcoin is the biggest problem in the crypto world, if they could do that then it would be a lot better and they would avoid.

[pusaka]

If you decided to invest in a coin that has already been hyped, then you are entering a serious problem, because if care is not taken, they going to dump the coin on you. I see no reason why a reasonable person should even invest their money in all this memecoin for long term, you should know that hyped coins pump is just temporary, so why will you choose coins like that to hold.

Agree. It is too risky to invest in a hype coin. Moreover it is a new coin/token. The hype surely won't last a long time, it will be over at any time. When the hype is over, the price will free fall. The people who buy at expensive price, they will be shocked and they may sell the coins/tokens for losses. It actually has happened many times, experienced people must be very aware of it. Unfortunately, many beginners/newbies never know it and they are usually too late to realize it.

What we are suppose to know is that, a coin cant be hyped forget, if your hype dies down, then everything is going down with the coin, that’s why i don’t always encourage people to even leave their money in all this hyped coins. Most of them don’t have any use.

Well, it is better to avoid the hype coins. People who already bought the hype coins, it is advisable to sell the coins/tokens as long as it has good price. However, it is a choice, you can keep doing your own approach if you really trust the hype coins. DWYOR

When a coin becomes hyped, that's when we should sell it, not buy it, especially for coins with weak or even no fundamentals at all, like memecoins. A recurring problem is when people buy during the hype, which is when those who bought earlier are selling, and usually for very large amounts, which can drop the price.

Especially when it comes to memecoins, even a small sale can drop the price, especially when it's for a large amount. So I agree that it's best to avoid hyped coins, especially memecoins.

[Out of mind]

When a project comes to the market, if it gains a lot of popularity and becomes the center of discussion around it, its future will not be very good. We have already seen in the past that there were many projects that gained good popularity in the market and many people who have invested here have made profits who are experienced and many have faced people. Most experienced people do not invest in such projects, they always invest in reliable places. You cannot expect anything good in the future by investing in any bad thing, that is why it is most important to avoid these bad investments. If we invest in a reliable place, we can expect to get something good from it in the future. Especially when we invest in a reliable place like Bitcoin, we can expect good in the future and it will not face losses but will make us much more profitable.

[Xackie]

What we are suppose to know is that, a coin cant be hyped forget, if your hype dies down, then everything is going down with the coin, that’s why i don’t always encourage people to even leave their money in all this hyped coins. Most of them don’t have any use.

Well, it is better to avoid the hype coins. People who already bought the hype coins, it is advisable to sell the coins/tokens as long as it has good price. However, it is a choice, you can keep doing your own approach if you really trust the hype coins. DWYOR

Unfortunately, too many people have made exactly that mistake. They see some new hyped thing, either here, or Reddit, or Twitter, etc., and they end up getting excited about it and go into it, and a week after release, all those shitcoins start to crash. Do not get hyped for anything new, in fact do not get hyped for anything old neither.

The best you should be doing is investing in Bitcoin, or if you really want to diversify (which you do not need to in the cryptocurrency world), then you could pick something from the top five, like ETH or whatever. People going into shitcoins not realizing that they are buying a shitcoin is the biggest problem in the crypto world, if they could do that then it would be a lot better and they would avoid.

I can't find the insult for anyone who still buys shitcoins in 2026. The era of shitcoin is gone, people are already becoming smarter with their money . I can't even remember the last time I saw a coin being hyped on the social media after their failed 2024 bull run. We've seen project who promises financial freedom, good RoI (almost x30 returns) and revolutionary technologies, only for the developers to dump the coin after a month or 2. How I wished they could scrap all the memecoins and Altcoins (90% of them are useless). So they can leave the top coins alone like Sol, Bnb, Xrp, Eth. Only a greedy person that will still chasing shitcoins, they think they can become rich overnight whereas they are losing more money than expected.

[Proty]

An asset that is hyped is hot...
An asset that is very volatile is hot...
The op is not out of place if he says "Do not hodl hot things".

I remember when I newly got into this industry, I was hyped to buy Shiba and I type, I still hold the Shiba and it should be worth nothing more than $30 lol.

I made the mistake again by buying Trump and I was in profit, instead of selling I waited for Trump's speech and it collapsed on me and now it's worth about $4.

I do not care about any altcoin again, it's either bitcoin or no coin.

I would not say "it's bitcoin or nothing", because there are solid big names; for example, the most known is Ethereum. There is no reason for not having one aside from just thinking Bitcoin will grow bigger, but ETH will not crash like the ones you name. Simply, no altcoin is safer for longer period because we cannot speculate when another new innovation based coin would arrive in the market.

The reason why you failed was that you got hyped for shitcoins; there is a difference between buying a shitcoin and buying something solid that has been around for years. Like if you bought BNB, it's not going to crash to zero unless Binance itself crashes for some reason.

People should learn to differentiate between a newly invented altcoin from those altcoin that has been in existence for years. Most of the newly introduced shitcoin are just to attract investors into buying them. However, this doesn't mean that altcoin that has been in existence for long are safe to invest in. Eth and bnb may have been existing for long but this doesn't change the fact that they are not safe to invest in. Holding shitcoin for a long time isn't a good idea as introduction of new projects can make the existing ones to lost its value. Bitcoin remains the only crypto currency that is safe for long term holding because of its strong network and widespread adoption.

[Fuso.hp]

That is why I do not dare to hold any other coin in the market except Bitcoin for a long time. I have seen many such coins that have hit high prices overnight and there has been a lot of discussion about those coins on social media, due to which many people have bought and held those coins with a large amount of money, seeing the future prospects, but later those coins have lost their value in such a way that later the investors' capital has not been returned.

If reliability is given priority, then Bitcoin should be trusted because the value of this coin does not suddenly increase a lot, nor does the value of this coin suddenly decrease a lot, and the most important thing is that the behavior of this coin is not similar to the behavior of all other coins.

[Justbillywitt]

However, this doesn't mean that altcoin that has been in existence for long are safe to invest in. Eth and bnb may have been existing for long but this doesn't change the fact that they are not safe to invest in.

Most investors are skeptical about ETH and BNB because of their centralized nature, apart from that particular reason I don’t think there is anything that will make anyone classify those coins as unsafe it invest in and hold for long. Although ETH has not been unable to break its ATH in the last bullrun. But even at that it has not completely collapsed like many other altcoins we have in the market, it has demonstrated signs that breaking the previous ATH is still very much possible. As for BNB, it has been setting new high in each of the previous bull market. I don’t think BNB investors have had any reason to regret investing in it.

[Emeraldo]

The truism "don't hold hot things" is perfectly intuitive for our bodies, yet in the world of investing, it is all too easily forgotten.
When an asset is already the center of attention and heavily hyped, it is the right time to act—not to buy or hold, but to sell.

True, not just any piece of junk makes for a great investment. If that were the case, the investment game would be quite boring—certainly not one of the most exciting human games, as it is today.

There are bunch of carelss traders and all they want is to make profits from trading. They don't care about the gravity of risks they are taking to make that profit. Some can earn up taking too many risks that may not worth the level of profits they are aiming to add to their capital. Follow the trend can be confusing for some traders and investors. They may think that once a token is trending, it's time to go fully in and make money why it can mean a different thing all together. Every trend needs to be observed thoroughly before going in to accumulate or trade.

[L E G E N D A R Y]

You see the difficult part of investing is being able to draw the line between an asset that’s temporarily unpopular and one that has completely lost its value. For very many investors, they mostly hop on the investment with the loudest hype and noise, they be like, since everyone is doing talking about it, then it means it’s actually a good one. That’s why a lot of people can not invest in bitcoin because not many people are talking about it and the thought that they can’t get anything in the short term alone drives them insane and make them uninterested.

[osasshem]

I think this plays best with altcoins, as they are assets that are always hot and you wouldn't want to hold it till it gets cold. Bitcoin no matter the time, it is a best action to always hold for as long as possible, only when there is a need or an exception where there is a need to sell, either on emergency or to buy back when the price is at its lows.

[Dareo]

You see the difficult part of investing is being able to draw the line between an asset that’s temporarily unpopular and one that has completely lost its value. For very many investors, they mostly hop on the investment with the loudest hype and noise, they be like, since everyone is doing talking about it, then it means it’s actually a good one. That’s why a lot of people can not invest in bitcoin because not many people are talking about it and the thought that they can’t get anything in the short term alone drives them insane and make them uninterested.

Indeed, human nature makes people obsessed with this dream of becoming rich overnight, which causes them to follow hype or excitement without paying attention to the fundamentals. And when there is less noise in the market about a certain asset or the market becomes boring, that is when smart money or big players start quietly accumulating it. Many people join them after being tempted by the temporary hype of memecoins or shitcoins, but in the end, most of them turn out to be zero.

On the other hand Bitcoin might not make you rich overnight, but it will definitely give you the best protection for your assets in the long run. It is a very common statement in the financial market that the market is nothing but a machine where money moves from the hands of impatient people to the hands of patient people. So it is also entirely true in the case of crypto too. Those who give up on Bitcoin after witnessing its temporary silence fail this patience test.