I think you sold it under the panic selling wave pressure and yes, I can understand that it is difficult to sustain in such conditions especially in the early days of investing. Since price is started to rise now, I am sure you must have learned a lesson from this incident and it will help you every time in the future during such fluctuations in the price. In such kind of market conditions, I would say go with buy orders but will lesser units and higher frequencies so that it will be cost averaging for the period. (I might be completely wrong, please do your own research before investment).