Stellar is not a coin for which I would hold on with all my might. Therefore, most likely you did the right thing, now you need to find a more stable alt.
I actually would prefer to hold on stellar than a lot of other altcoins including waves, ripple or even monero. Stellar currently has a massive use case and adoption, there are also quite a number of projects been run on the stellar network,it as well isn't doing bad in terms of daily volume or market cap. I believe in few years time XLM will indeed be way higher in price