The only way to escape loss of your altcoin is by hodling. As long as you don't sell, the price is nothing but a number on the paper.
This is a very wrong way to go about it.
The price is something and a slight dump in price usually rekts so many capitals. So you need to relearn your strategies to fit in with the realities in crypto currency trading today.
Hodling aimlessly is not rewarding, there must be strategical news, rumors, updates that you are expecting before you just hodl for the longer time