Quote from: kireinaha on August 28, 2014, 06:34:29 PM

This is the dumbest thing I've heard here today. You can make a shitload of money in any market if you had psychic powers and knew exactly how the market would move.

Talking in absolutes, how grand. All I have to do now is find one market (absent of shorting) that defies your statement and then it's wrong. Of course hindsight shows you all the points where you could have bought/sold your way into massive profits, that's the point.

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about one of the worst investment decisions anyone could make

And it also could have been one of the best depending on how you played your cards.

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The prominent investment strategy on this forum is to HODL!!1!, and anyone who was dumb enough to take it to heart has lost 50% of their portfolio since the beginning of this year.

What does the prominent investment strategy of Bitcointalk have anything to do with the average person making an investment? What, is it some sort of pre-requisite to have an account on Bitcointalk and subscribe to the echo chamber to open a wallet and/or exchange account? No, that's stupid, just like ignoring the fact that people could have also made a killing in 2014.

But we get it. You sold your position and now Bitcoin needs to go to shit so you feel validated.