Do understand that you're trading and not investing. Traders only care about profits and don't basically have to believe in a project before they can start trading it. This believe are what make you hold a project but traders don't need that to succeed, they just have to get the technicalities right. You can trade shitcoin get your profit and move out without been attached like what most newbies investors are currently experiencing.

That been said, as a trader you must have your stop loss option plugged in at all point to avoid you been in losses or minimizing your loss so you can live to fight another day. Your stop loss though don't have to always been in the negative side of the market, you can use this option to your advantage by constantly adjusting it to take profits as the trades flavours you.