It’s not easy to keep patience for a long time. We will want to see market conditions all the time. We will always pay attention to the price of the coins we have purchased. The best way to hold it is to uninstall the APP after purchase and not pay attention to any software.
Yes long term hold is difficult if we are monitoring the market from time to time. Continuous dump for a week will surely make us worry. But if we ignore the market and believe on the coin that we are holding, we can make the long term hold easy. My friend did it. Her small amount of bitcoin left from her earning in 2017 was still on her wallet right now. I don't know until when she will hold it but knowing the difference of btc price in 2017 and 2018, she already gained a lot.
Good traders knows how to deal with the market cycles, before taking any decision they already created sets of plans,
Making sure that they will not be affected of anything that happened around the market, they are just minding their own business waiting to how they
will execute their trading position. If you have this kind of plan, you'll not going to panic since you know and understand that it will going to your favor if
you know how to deal with it the right way.