Quote from: atrocityx on February 12, 2018, 09:57:39 PM

Quote from: traderperspective on February 08, 2018, 06:30:16 PM

What do you feel you have learned from the crash (if anything)? I think the market has gained a little bit more stability now, and therefore it is nice to look back on your own thoughts and the decisions you made when experiencing such a crash.
Personally, I learned that I need to continuously, as markets grow, 'take off some risk' and allocate some profits from alt into ethereum and bitcoin.
In the same regards, I will also begin to allocate small percentages into $ so that I can gain more on crashes like this one.
Lastly, I once again got confirmed, that in crypto we see huge volatility and that is just something we have to live with - for now at least. Never panic sell in corrections!!!

I'd say for me personally because this crash was more severe when it comes to alt coins its better to buy on confirmed reversal instead of trying to catch the falling knife.. I underestimated how far some coins would fall and could have made more profit waiting for that trend to break..also need to cover the bottom better with my positions.. need to ladder more sells as they go up after the crash to cover the bottom if it crashes again.. didn't get out of enough positions to effectively min/max the market.. paired with my falling knife bad decisions I probably only cleared about 12-15% profit where as it could have been 35-40%... next time I wll be more prepared and patient.. and really give the maximum time for things to fall as they do and bleed out on the ground

Catching a falling knife is one thing that most people have always done and they always end up not liking the effect. The good thing about cryptocurrencies however, is that there is always that second chance for everyone as the market always recover in a better way as time goes on, thereby giving those who can be patient enough to benefit from their waiting period even though it can be tiring and boring sometimes.