Traders can never be considered as an investor because they don't hold a particular asset for long because they are there moving their assets from exchange to exchange seeking for coin and shitcoin to buy that could possibly give them 2x 10x, and possibly 100x within the period of their investments. They don't care if bitcoin gets whatever amount what they think is the little profits they scratching up from their trade, and of course the best assets to hold is bitcoin currently they won't know what they are doing because they thought price of bitcoin could continue to be this cheaper as they think, and the best place to sink their capital is bitcoin.
I really don't think you get the clear picture of trading bro, when you talk about trading, you are definitely talking about the future market, which is totally different from buying, holding and selling when the coin you bought has appreciate, and that is the spot market,
in the spot market you can't lose your money as long as you don't sell.
Where did you got this your idea from?
And who told you don't lose your money in spot market if you don't trade, okay go buy shitcoin in spot market and don't trade it allow it to be there maybe during bear season if your holdings in shitcoin won't goes to zero.
The likelihood of your assets turning to zero depends on the kind of coin you are holding and I guess you are the one misquoting yourself not me. As I said before bitcoin still remains the best coin to hold for long.