If you believe in your asset in the long run you don't need to risk your asset with trading, just hold and add up whenever you can! That can be very profitable if you choose the right coins to accumulate!

People who sold in the bullish period are waiting for the bear trend to buy again! We all use USDT for those purposes, to keep our capital safe when the prices are dropping, so I guess by "safe my asset proper way" you mean something like that! Simply buy USDT and wait for the perfect buying opportunity! Which is the bottom of course, but nobody knows where it is exactly!

In crypto, there's always some profit with trading, if you wait long enough for some coins to rise/drop so you can sell/buy! Fluctuations are simply present all the time! Will you catch those changes and hit some profit, or you will lose trying depends on many factors!