Just have more patience. Prices on cryptocurrency is so volatile that even those traders that have been in this industry for more than a year cannot predict it. Read more books and blogs about trading and start learning other techniques from them.
Earning bitcoin does not have to do with patience. Patience will not bring food to your table, patience will not buy you a house or a car or anything good you may need. Even if you want to invest in bitcoin and watch it grow in value, you will still need funds to do that and apparently patience will not give you that money. My point is that you just have to work for it and stop depending on luck to earn. Even luck is busy working.