Traders are fucking around with short term price moves and likely to get fucked in times like these when they are likely selling too much too soon.. and investors do not sell until they have already reached a decent status, that is most likely going to be over at least a whole cycle and maybe even at least a couple of cycles, and investors may only sell parts of their holdings rather than all of it... but hey, there can be quite a few variants of both traders and investors.
I don't know if there is any word known
as Short term investors, I would have used the word for Traders. Traders are only present in the market for instant profits, whereas Investors are long term viewers of the market.
Most bitcoiners are likely to get drowned this season because of price movement and greed. Those that are selling now should realise this is just the beginning, if you are selling now it should be a little but i don't see the need of selling this time and soon regret will kick into the market because of this panic sells and the failure to understand that price moves up and down in corrections, the main priority now should be accumulating, holding and buying more bitcoins.
Even though there is high temptation not to call traders investors, the reality is that they are actually investors because they invest their time and money with the hope of making profits. The only difference is in the nature and manner in which they go about the investment and what will likely be the outcome of their investment. Now that I realize that not all investors will make money because some investments can go bad as it is with even conventional investments, it becomes clearer that trading is an investment that can go south very fast.
Traders are actually short term investors as they target their profit within a short interval of time. Consequently, the risk in trading is compounded, the reason many people struggle to know that trading is actually investment or similarly to reckless gambling. Long term investment have always proven to be the way to peace of mind and reliable profiting, and many people are toeing that line.