Quote from: hamba laeh on Today at 10:44:19 PM

Quote from: Viscore on November 20, 2019, 09:46:20 AM

I like to share my story being a crypto enthusiast, a trader and an investor at the same time.

I started in this forum in year 2015 when altcoins are still a good investment and Binance is still not the most popular exchange in the market.
I trade with Poloniex most of the time, sometimes I trade with Bittrex but then I realize that I am not so profitable with trading since I cannot focus on it due to the reason that i have a day job to prioritize.

Therefore, I started to invest for long term and I was entice by how the market moves and I was so optimistic that long term could really change my life.
So to make the story short, I invested with different altcoins and have help it until now.

Now, when the bull run comes, I still couldn't sell right away as I was getting greedy thinking I could earn more when I still hold.
of course, who would not HODL when all your friends in the group chat are also doing the same, even if the price rise high already, they are still saying HODL, and I really do it, and just sell a small portion of my investment to reward myself temporarily was I was into a big goal with my remaining investment.

And then, the correction comes started in year 2018, and I still didn't panic, continue to hold and even accumulate a bit when I see price has really dump a lot, just imagine ETH drop 10 times, so its really cheap and really tempting for any investors. So here I am now, I am still holding at a big loss but at the same time I am still hopeful one day my dreams will come into reality.

So top 10 of my portfolio consist of the following based on my blockfolio.

1) Atlant
2) Edgeless
3) Centra
4) Humaniq
5) Matchpool
6) Lunyr
7) KIN
8.) FUEL
9) SONM
10)NPXS

Please tell me if I should still expect I will be profitable or just give up now already.

maybe you misunderstood the word "Hold" .. because "Hold" in cryptocurency has a maximum time limit. if you pass this time then you will incur a big loss. and in the end you will be wasted. In addition, you are holding some coins that have no good development and potential in the future so you feel fooled like now.

I wouldn't say hold (actually HODL) stands for the maximum holding time of your investment. There is really no maximum time to hold an investment. The investment itself must be completed sometime. In HODL, the idea is not to worry about large price drops, because sooner or later the deflationary structure of the cryptocurrency will defend itself and the price will go higher than the previous ATH. So answering the question from topic of this thread - no it's not stupid - HODLers are always winning so far.