It's easy to hold when you're committed and that's why most of the profitable people on this market are long term holders. I won't invalidate the good traders that can make decent profits during short term trades. It's possible but it cannot happen to everybody and for that reason, if trading isn't for you it's best to stick to holding and accumulation. Failures do come for both sides but the majority that has made most with money are from the ones that have held for so long and have a long term vision to this market.
My concern based on what you have just said right now is not about the commitment to hodl for long term period, but the important question that am concerned about which you haven't perhaps grasp is
what coin are you holding? You could have the patience to hold for long but then you might have just been holding onto the wrong coin(s) for so long. I don't know if you understand what I mean. Like I have seen people who hold a particular coin for over the span of 4 years believing it could grow some value but it rather dumped and never made any value . So it's more about holding the right coin even if you want to hold for very long.
If we can be patient with the wrong coins, we're more patient with the good coins that we have like Bitcoin, Ethereum and other top ones. I understand what you mean and I have been there. Hold some and sold some, sold at a wrong time, held for the wrong coin for a long time. I've been there and done that and that's why I understand the point that you've said. It's just so hard to stick to the plan when you're not committed when you see the market dropping a lot and it's disturbing your mind that you did the wrong decision. But if it's with the good coins, et.al, BTC, then you know that you're doing the right thing there.
Holding might that easy to hear but on the time that you are really that getting involved or being updated on whats happening in the market because when you are really that being active on seeing then it will be that making you that emotional specially when the market is really that dropping down. There are some people who are really that emotionally that unstable on which if they do saw that negative price into their portfolio then there's that tendency that you will really be that selling out in no time. Actually it will be that situational because there are those who are that active on checking prices but still do able to held up their positions without any issues. This is why its really that it really depends.
There's no such thing about being best because if we do speak about the methods or strategies then we do have tons of it. It will really be just that basing up or depending on how a certain trader will really be that making out such trades on which we know that this isnt something that could really be known when it comes to the outcomes or results. We do know that each person will be having its own actions or strategies that they will be that using at the time or moment that they will be doing trading.
That is right, we can be emotional and that could trigger us for removing that commitment to ourselves. It's hard to fight on with that but make sure that whichever path you'd take, you think of it for so many times.