Sure there is value in experiencing our own mistakes, yet we do not have to experience all mistakes in order to learn from the mistakes of others or even to learn that there are better courses of actions when we get down to thinking through what we are going to do.

No matter what, we should be attempting to tailor our bitcoin investment actions to our own circumstances, and surely it can take a bit of time to build up a bitcoin investment and then to perhaps learn as we go, which might also cause us to change our minds from time to time.

There are quite a few of the longer term bitcoiners in this thread who changed their bitcoin investment plans through the years, and they even evolved into becoming more investors rather than traders.. since many of us have really personally experienced the value of both erroring on the side of buying and holding, but also not selling too much of our bitcoin too soon.

Since bitcoin is so volatile, it can be quite difficult to not get lured into some attempts to try to trade, yet I think that guys who concentrated on building their bitcoin investment over one or two cycles have tended to get to a point in which they have enough BTC or more than enough BTC, as compared with some guys who end up selling too much too soon within a cycle or maybe even they might sell too much too soon, and they are barely into their second cycle, which may well might not have had been enough time for bitcoin's value to sufficiently compound upon itself.

But yeah, guys have to figure out their balance, and this thread can serve as a way to bounce around ideas, even to frame some of our concerns in the framework of hypotheticals.

Since you are new to the forum (only a few days) and to the thread, we might assume that you are also new to bitcoin, even though we know that some forum members had gotten exposure to bitcoin investing (buying/accumulating) prior to their registration date.