Well it is and has being a bear season in the cryptocurrency space. I would advice that any coin that you want hodl this moments should be held smartly to avoid substantial losses.
Studying the project is very well essentials before doing any actions, bitcoin is far better than any coins around crypto if you want a long term investment better to hold each coins that you have and keep buying little by little, as you grow the numbers of your holdings the value will be more higher from time to time, bitcoin was been like this and each new investors and new updates that will be spread out it will add more attracted traders to hold and continue to play smarter.