There are probably better HODLers than me, and I consider myself a bit of a contradiction because ever since mid-to-late 2015, I started to put into practice a sell on the way up strategy, and when I first started doing it I made quite a few mistakes, but I have honed my system several times over the years.. and there are quite a few members who criticize me for such practice with claims that I should not sell any of my BTC, even if I am saying that I have it already figured out in such a way that I can sell and that I never will run out of BTC.
I understand the resentment that comes with selling Bitcoin especially when you make it public. I think it ought not to be because without buying and selling, the natural sequence of buying and selling will be distorted and it becomes difficult to measure the liquidity of Bitcoin and impact of Bitcoin. Selling of Bitcoin is not bad but how you go about the selling can actually turn out to be harmful to your asset and at variance with the very reason you accumulated the Bitcoin.
You have no business selling your bitcoin when your maturity date has not actually been completed as a long term investor. Whatever happens in the market is none of your business. Your primary concern is buying from those that are selling. It could be that those that are selling are those who bought many years ago and their maturity date has completed and they have seen adequate profit that they are comfortable with. Yes buying and selling cannot stop in the market because of the day traders.
Every Bitcoin investor will, at some point, think about how to liquidate part of his assets for the funds to be used in other things that make life worth living. The selling can be in such a way that the investor does not run out of BTC, just like JJG recommended in his withdrawal strategy that I am still going through. Many of us may not know the power behind that piece of information because we are still probably in the accumulation phase. But a time will come that we will need something like that to be able to withdraw some of our Bitcoin without harming the entire portfolio.
For beginners like us we don't have to concern ourselves much about this information. We should only concern ourselves with informations that are related to buying and holding. This is a thread and many investors of different capacity are always visiting this thread for information, that's why JJG always makes information available to suit everyone according to their needs. Those who are in the accumulating stage should forget about knowing or talking about withdrawal information. This thread will always be here for many years to come and when it's the right time you can always refer to it.