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đ¨đ¤Admit it, youâre doing crypto the wrong way
Like a merchant, youâve repeatedly bought and sold several cryptocurrencies. Itâs fascinating that digital assets have created a space of equal access to objects of financial improvement. Regardless of your social caste and financial hierarchy, there is only a little barrier between you and your next cryptocurrency purchaseâŚor sale. Millions have trooped in, and in only a decade, the number of cryptocurrency investors has grown as fast as bitcoin's price. In the right sense, itâs a bit faster.
Buzzwords apart, cryptocurrency and blockchain are both impressive stuff. The solutions and how everything is structured are welcoming. Well, crypto Twitter can be toxic, but isnât it the same with social media as a whole?
Youâve been fortunate enough, and your net cryptocurrency investment has been greatly profitable for you.
Congratulations, if thereâs anything the past month has taught us, making crypto profits isnât as easy as it seems.
As long as you make profits, the conviction is that youâre doing it right. Thatâs exactly how it looks. If itâs the other way around, you feel youâre not getting it right, in the short term. Investors who have mastered the art of âflippingâ can relate to swinging profits for profits⌠sometimes.
But if you can relate to any of these, then you are doing crypto wrongly. Regardless of whether youâre in profit or not.
Doing any of these is, in fact, the wrong way:
đšď¸Fear of missing out [FOMO]
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So, you just heard that this project is about to announce a âhugeâ partnership maybe they already did. Price is going haywire, and the Twitter thread is going in the same direction. Youâre scared, scared to miss out on the next 1000x. youâre not alone, we are all in this together.
The most ridiculous cryptocurrency price rages are fueled by investors jumping in with little or no resistance. The DYOR rule is quickly forgotten, and the dumb money keeps flowing in. Sometimes this works. Other times, the dumb money becomes exit liquidity for earlier investors, and bag holders are made. Well, someone needs to take the shot, âscared money makes no moneyâ anyways.
Buy high, sell low.
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Alright, you just aped in. The fear of missing out won. Now youâre sitting on a bag of a token whose price keeps dropping. Sometimes the price is only stagnant, and itâs easy to get impatient when those long green candles arenât coming. Whatâs the move? Time to move on? I guess so; unto the next âgemâ. This move is common and sometimes could save your investment, other timesâŚwell, the bloodbath continues.
Cryptocurrency investments require well thought out patience and deliberation. Good research should also influence your decision to move on and test different waters.
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đšď¸Fear of getting stuck [FOGS]
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Pretty much like the above, you simply donât want to be the last holder of this token. The charts arenât looking great most importantly, the community isnât impressed anymore. The most anticipated move is more dumps. Price is already down, youâre probably in loss or reduced profits. Without due research, holding on to your bags doesnât feel like the right thing to do. Cryptocurrency is âcruelâ and getting stuck is a very possible situation. Oh well, if your fears win, you take the dump; otherwise, bag holding will continue. Whichever one, youâre probably not wrong.
Living on delusions
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For some meme coins, a $50 purchase gets you millions or even billions of tokens. For some investors, this is a sure bet to the millions. If the token ever hits a dollar, youâll be on the same list as Jeff Greene. Delusional, a popular hopium. For a project with over a trillion tokens, reaching one tenth of a cent is a face melting move. As face melting as that of Dogecoin and Shiba Inu. Well, many Shiba Inu holders are waiting for the dollar mark to cash in on their millions.
Itâs risky to use the word âimpossibleâ in crypto, but some outrageous expectations are simply not thoughtful and wrong. Who doesnât wish to turn 50 into a million? Anything can happen if $8,000 could grow into over $5 billion. But accepting reality is more relaxing than living in delusions.
Admit it, you can relate to at least one of the above. Fortunately, investing in cryptocurrency doesnât have any known formulae. The only thing that exists are tactics that work most of the time. In the real sense, even the cleverest strategies could fail, and the dumbest ones could end in mind blowing success.
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