I do both, sometimes I sell coins and use my profit to invest in other coins. In this way, I safeguard my capital and let my profit continue playing.
Honestly, we need to be wise in this bear situation, we use to take advantage of the volatility of the market as we can't just rely on holding but to play with it. Making a few bucks is a single coin like just holding for a month or two isn't bad actually as we never waste time. I even applied this strategy to Bitcoin as well and I see it works find.