If You Can’t Handle the Downside, You’re Not Ready for the Upside

Everybody dreams of bitcoin hitting $150k or more (I’m in that crowd too lol). But no one wants to see it drop by 30%. The reality is you can't have one without the other. Volatility isn’t a problem; it’s a filter that shakes out the tourists and tests our resolve. Lately, I've noticed a bunch of people whining about the market (and yeah, bad days can sting), but that’s just how it goes. Anyone who's been around knows this. Instead of freaking out, plan for the dips (because they’re coming, prices can’t just keep rising). Don’t let the dip dictate your strategy. Planning for dips doesn’t mean you stop buying, especially if you’re a low or no coiner. Only those who’ve hit their accumulation targets can buy at any price drop. But if you’re new or don't have many coins, save up some extra cash for when prices fall, especially now when they're dropping. Because when the next rally hits, the amount of BTC you picked up during the fearful times will really boost your gains. Just keep stacking and HODL.

There is no up without down, the bear market guarantees that there will be bull run someday that how everything works, falling gives you and edge to rise. But regardless, op don’t you think this belongs to one thread here in the board because literally there is no thread that goes in on this board that doesn’t have the elements of this thread so what’s the difference that leds to this thread.?

The up together with the down is what constitute the market movement, both must happen to respect the forces of demand and supply. Those who are smart welcomes the down because that is where money changes hands, a time to be aggressive in buying and intentional about it. Only those who are not ready to get maximum gain in Bitcoin begin to doubt or contemplate to sell during time of down trend such as we have now. As long as we know that Bitcoin will recover and even make a new ATH no matter how long it takes, we should HODL and continue to buy more.

Sometimes I wonder what people want from the market. In my view, Bitcoin performed well in this bull market. Anyone who has bought Bitcoin should have been aware that there will always be a bear season. Do they want the bull run last forever? My guess is that those who are complaining bought during the peak of the bull run and expected Bitcoin to keep rising. Their plan was to invest and take profit within a short period. It's quite unfortunate that it didn't work for them as planned, that's the risk involved in Bitcoin investment. They would either wait till the price goes up or sell at a loss. The bear season is a good time for long-term holders to refill their wallets..

How do you know? Some people want bitcoin to fall to zero, these are bitcoin critics. Some people want bitcoin bear market to come in a way bitcoin can still fall more than 50% so that they can buy bitcoin at a lower price again and hold. I have seen many people that are happy as some people do not like the price fall, but some people want to buy bitcoin at a lower price and they have been waiting for a for this moment. This is a very good advise, bitcoin is one of the asset of this century that is very predictable, which can make the plans easier.

In essence, we have gone through the storms that hit the crypto market and the fall in Bitcoin prices as well as the rise of Bitcoin, We have felt this kind of phenomenon many times, remember different actors, Elon has done it, now Trump is the main actor. So, Bitcoin has experienced changes several times, where it happened before the halving and after the halving, the cycle occurs once every four years, please let us or anyone including you speculate on Bitcoin, but the decline and rise can be stemmed, if the time falls it still happens and when the time is good Bitcoin continues to rise, nothing can stop it, that is the fact and reality of what is happening. That said, while it's time to buy and invest in Bitcoin why not do it, stop babbling when the price of Bitcoin is really skyrocketing, there's no point in the proverbial "dog barking the caravan goes by" so buy and hold that's the genius move.

I always say this, if you think that the market would have continued in the bullish direction for more than it did, then you simply don't understand how the market works. The continuous bull trend started showing signs of bears coming in, but many overlooked it and we're trading out of Fomo. We saw how last year ended and it was a surprise to many investors, most especially short term traders how it turned out. Now that we have been bearish, it shouldn't be the time for anyone to hold back and sit down waiting for signs of the bulls to continue.. you may want to play smart but you are essentially missing out on good opportunities to top up your BTC investment.. no one can predict the market. We can continue going down, but what matters is even if it takes long, definitely we would see the green season once more and it would only pay those who had the courage to hold..

Continuous accumulation and holding is very much possible with people that are already delighted in Bitcoin, they don't pay attention to noise that will distract them from accumulating more Bitcoin, these people delighted in Bitcoin are always ready for every up and down of Bitcoin, but you will also have those people that have their personal ups and downs which doesn't permit them to ready for the different cycles of Bitcoin. Some people already have some things that they are going through which force them to sell when they are not supposed and you would think they are not ready for Bitcoin. How to prepare for the down of Bitcoin is to start keeping money in fait and you have to start on time so that before the market starts falling, you have already hold enough fiat to buy more Bitcoin.

It can't be stopped when some holders are starting to shake and they can't help themselves but to panic. But that panic can be stopped from materializing into selling at losses. I think what everyone needs to remember is that if you're holding Bitcoin, hold onto it and don't sell. You might be at loss for now as the price go down. Yet, once it recovers it will also to recover the losses you've made. And from there, you get to decide whether to sell or not in the few profits you've made or by breaking even.

Many usually forget that is not there bitcoin that’s going down is the value. So no matter are bitcoin deep their bitcoin will still be in their wallet unless they end up falling as victim to some fraudulent act. What they should focus more is what is ahead and the fact that bitcoin is always going to keep recovering from any condition it founds itself . You as a holder is to keep holding till the right time to sell which will also be determine by you and market condition, rather than selling in losses .

And some people who don't want to be involve in BTC accumulation they are really missing from BTC, because there are some years you will hodl your BTC reach you don't need people to tell you that you will make big profits when you sell your BTC. Not that some don't want to be accumulating BTC  they don't have the mind to start accumulating BTC during bull and bear market, because they don't have such financial power to hodl more than two years like the way some hodlers use to hodl for 5 years before they can trade their BTC. If you watch many people that are ready for the market,you will discover that majority are the ones that are ready to sell once the price of BTC hit above the amount they bought BTC.

We can't tell anybody what to feel or think and the actions they can take, this fomo stage in the market is normal and expected since most people came into the market by following the bull trend and now that the market took the bearish direction they will definitely jump ship at any cause, but for long term investors, there is always the motivation to carry through this current phase of the market.

People are really greedy what they want is to win all the time and never to actually test loss even for one time and that’s definitely not going to happen because this is an asset which has its market price based on demand and supply so if there is high demand them high supply will definitely follow in the future. How can one be in bullish trend for more than a year and gets disappointed in the market for just 6 months bearish sentiment. It might hurt but I agree that bitcoin bear market is actually needed for new adopters to even join and for old adopters to accumulate more. Most bitcoin holders today weren’t able to buy early but due to bearish trends they got some very good discount to bitcoin even after not coming so early

It is the people who want bitcoin to fall to zero, those who are anti bitcoin will continue to criticize bitcoin until whenever, when the price drops they will make the narrative of bitcoin worthless. Bitcoin fell to 50% some people panicked, some people were happy to be able to buy at low prices. Every bitcoin cycle goes up, bullish season we sell, bearish we buy again, it's that easy.

It seems that, because we reached 100k so easily, we now assume it was also easy to hold that mythical level (a level that was reached like a tsunami). The thing is, we forgot it: the 100k, not the new 10k. If you were around back then, you’ll understand what I mean. It was a difficult level to break, and then we saw one of Bitcoin’s most significant rallies, yeah, but back then Bitcoin lost about 80% of its value. So historical data leads us to think we’re in a correction that we simply need to weigh up.

A good title is like a very good motivational word from a wise person there, just like in the Quran which has the same way of working in its meaning "every difficulty there must be ease", difficulties are certain to exist in our lives in accepting the process of life, we should not avoid it instead we have to go through it to get to the point we want, the difficulty in investing in bitcoin is the difficulty of accepting our bitcoin portfolio's value going down, because we are not used to it so we feel uneasy with the sluggish market conditions, but if we can maintain it, continue to convince ourselves in bitcoin, he will surely have a good investment mentality in the future and profits will certainly accompany strong hands that are trained from the many obstacles in price fluctuations.

Keep accumulating and hodl has been the key to every successful investor here because we know that, that is the way forward if we want our portfolio to be what we want it to be, to be profitable, in the sense that we bought at low and sell at high. Many investors has being this part of buying at low and selling at high. They won't like to accumulate Bitcoin gradually when it was low, they will wait till the time Bitcoin increases, that's when they have the zeal to invest, forgetting the opportunity was right before and didn't make good use of it

you are right about this . Infact this is something that should be known by all investors, there will always be a bear season as much as there is a bull season. A dip is something that should be anticipated and investors should always prepare for it in other to avoid panicking and then not act impulsively whenever there is a dip. The understanding that bitcoin will always dip will remove the emotional turmoil that usually comes with the dip

It's cyclical, but the most important time to accumulate is during the bear market. Because it's obvious that during the bears, market price is down, Bitcoin is cheap as compare to it's last previous all time high and so you're right to accumulate using DCA and then HODL. And that is no secret, but the thing is that not everyone recognizes this pattern. Some might be very afraid to invest on Bitcoin and will go on other assets like Gold and Stocks. But we can't blame them, might be hard lessons for them to learn and probably will wait for the next cycle to make the corrections.

The most important time to buy bitcoin isn't just when there is a bear market. This your statement is a misconceptions and it may leave some newbies to think that it will be best to wait for the bear season before they can think of buying bitcoin. The most important time to buy bitcoin is whenever the discretionary income is available. Talking about using DCA strategy, the DCA strategy doesn't give room for waiting for a bear season before buying bitcoin. Infact any investor that is waiting for a bear season or when the price is low before they buy isn't doing DCA but buying the dip.