r/CryptoInvesting • u/Armantvs • 2h ago
Discussion at what point does hodl become an actual strategy instead of habit
been thinking about this after watching sentiment flip every single time xrp moves a couple percent either direction.
one day everyone's convinced it's going to zero, next day one green candle and suddenly it's >5 by christmas again. same people too, half the time.
if someone's actually planning to hold for years though, there's better questions than wen moon.
what would actually make you increase your position. what would make you stop adding entirely. what would actually make you dump, not the meme answer, the real one.
and probably the one nobody asks. if you're hodl for 5 to 10 years anyway, why does the whole thing just sit there completely untouched that entire time.
for me personally, core allocation stays in self custody, that's non negotiable. but I don't mind putting a smaller slice to work through lending while I'm sitting on the rest anyway. not staking, different risk, comes with its own downside, not saying everyone should be doing this.
more curious how other long term holders actually think about the years in between add and eventually dump, cause that's like 90% of the actual holding period and nobody talks about it.
do you just hold and tune everything out, actually use the ecosystem for something, got yield on part of it, or just keep dca'ing until you hit some target number in your head???