this is a precious experience for you right here.
next time don't bag hold altcoins taht are in a bubble and will get dumped hard as soon as the whales find an opportunity to exit. try and look for coins that have been getting pumped and invest in those instead of mindlessly holding on tight to certain "names" that are big.
The whales are getting into pretty much any coins that's out there. It's impossible to know which coins are going to skip having whales jump on.
Diversification of the portofolio is the solution. And right now it's natural for the market to go down.
That is the reason why the whales will always win and most of us are just tag along. I understand how much the whales will always have a good time having their fun with some of these alts in the long run, either in the bear moment or bull moment, but the only safe way is to know when to just opt out, rather than trying to gamble anything.
A lot of us have learned this lesson from the past and while everyone keeps shouting HODL, which is good, but sometimes, the whales just make it unbearable and you start asking if it was worth holding after all or learning how to trade to utilize those moments to your benefit.