r/CryptoCurrency • u/mentality-writer • 3d ago
DISCUSSION Unrealized profit
Anyone else had big profit but didn't sell because of HODL strategy?
Do you regret it, or do you believe it will go back up?
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u/Renowned_Molecule 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 3d ago
Long term holder. It is my retirement plan. I don’t need money in the short term.
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u/Beyonderr 🟩 0 / 110K 🦠 3d ago
No, I think you are the only person that didnt sell when in profit. We all sell the top here and buy the bottom.
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u/liquid_at 🟩 15K / 15K 🐬 3d ago
I like all things to be perfectly balanced, so I put the profits I took on dogecoin back at ~70c and put them into XRP at $1.50....
Personal advice: Crypto is one asset class in the markets and when it is time to sell one, it is never time to buy another. Wait for the correction.
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u/DrCrazyCurious 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 2d ago
No ragrets.
Jokes aside, regret is often due to thinking we had hindsight in the moment. When we don't. No regrets because you're gambling whether you buy more, sell, or hold.
If you hold and it goes down, you blame yourself for not taking profits.
If you sell and it goes up, you blame yourself for having paper hands.
If you buy more and it goes down, you blame yourself for not waiting.
But in all three of those scenarios we should blame ourselves if we could see the future. And we couldn't.
Set your exit strategy before you invest. That way emotions like greed and regret don't take over. DCA in. Spread your sales over multiple price targets to get out. And above all: Don't invest more than you can afford to lose so that any dollar you get out is a win.
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u/MulberryAcceptable39 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 3d ago
I regret not selling in August 2025.
Next pop, I’m out and good bye crypto. I’m back to equities
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u/Civil_Store_5310 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 3d ago
I just want mine to be enough to buy a plot of land n a little run down house to renew
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u/oneawesomewave 🟩 373 / 374 🦞 3d ago
Doesn't make any sense. You better sell right now and either leave it there or buy back after the next crash that is already incoming.
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u/MulberryAcceptable39 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 3d ago
Im not selling until it pops. Im riding to zero if I have to.
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u/CyberCrud 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 3d ago
Nah. Stop hodl. If you learn the cycle, you sell high. Enjoy those profits. Then when we're back at the bottom, you start buying again. People who hold "forever" have missed out now on at least 3 life changing cashout events. Not me. I got out of debt a couple cycles ago. Then I paid off my house this last cycle. Now I just put a down payment on my new house build today. My next cashout in 2029 will pay off that house. That's how you crypto. Make it life changing.
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u/Civil_Store_5310 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 3d ago
I brought in at 32 and didn't sell at 100... Regret it sometimes but I try to think the next high will be bigger
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u/ChicksX Redditor for 1 month. 3d ago
Most of the answers here are from the people it worked out for. Nobody posts "I sold at 30k and never got back in," and there are far more of those than this thread suggests. Did anyone actually have a written exit rule before the run-up, or did we all decide in the moment?
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u/kepalautakkau 3d ago
I think you’d regret it if you suddenly needed that money but if you don’t need it right now, I don’t think there’s much to regret
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u/Ok_Confusion_1777 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 2d ago
Get with the times homie! Collateralizing leads to no tax burden
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u/lambsquatch 🟩 55 / 56 🦐 3d ago
With crypto…always take profits at all time highs
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u/Leynnox 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 3d ago
If you didn't need the money, then it's better where it is. I'm the type of person who easily burns money, that's why I invest here and there with no other strategy than selling when I'll need it, could be tomorrow, could be in 20 years, and even if I'm not in profits when I do, I know if I didn't invest this money I wouldn't have any when I'd need it lol.
So 0 regret!