That's why if you wanted to be a holder, you need to have a lot of mental toughness. What I mean is that you should not just look at the everyday price because you might be thinking that you are not making money because of the worsening market conditions.
But as traders, you really have a chance to gain profit, but you need to have the expertise and the knowledge, otherwise you might lose in the beginning and became to question yourself and then you felt you are just wasting money and time and easily will get burned and quit.
hodling is really really difficult specially of you do not have an influx of cash on a weekly/monthly basis. but of course there are always alternative altcoins which you can study and give focus to hodl like the ilcoin. take a look and you'll be amaze of its non stop development.
Although difficult to hold you will need to hold on to market conditions If a currency is the best and it is likely to rise later you will be able to earn a lot of profit by holding it. But I think it is good to trade the market situation now All currency prices are much lower.