true story of crypto trader :- Bought in January with my inheritance and $700k of my parents money after I convinced them to let me invest in cryptocurrency.
I thought I just needed to figure out a strategy. at first I decided I would do hours and hours of research and then go all-in on a single project, to maximize my return on time spent researching. I picked ODN. bought at $1.70, held way too long because "muh fundamentals" and then finally sold in March for $0.14. Already I only had $90k left. I was ready to kill myself for losing so much. But I figured I could hit a few pumps and at least be back at $500k.
The reason I sold ODN (thank fuck I finally did) was WAN had just been listed on Binance and I was sure it was going to go to $40-50 dollars. I bought WAN a week or two after it went public on binance around $4, then panic sold at $5 sold after nothing was happening after a small pump, thinking I had better just take a little profit then. of course, when it hit $6 I couldn't help throw $30,000 at it. and again at $7. at $8 I was all in again. when things started going down again, I did something very stupid. I thought "I'll just hold it, iron hands, and not even look at the price for a while. when I come back, ill be rich!"
well when I looked at the prices in June I wasn't feeling so good about that approach anymore. I sold and had about $42k left. I thought maybe I needed to diversify. I bought REQ, IPSX, FSN, HOT, 0xBTC, UUU, DRGN, NANO, ZIL, ETH, and BTC. except all my ETH and BTC always ended up being converted into other other crap. I might make 10% on one trade and lose 30% on nine others. it was so depressing I stopped tracking my trades, because I didn't want to know how much I had left.
finally in October I liquidated all my shit coins and bought BTC. I had 2.17 BTC total, around $18,000. I was ready to kill myself, but I figured I had one chance left. I transferred 2 BTC to bitmex, got lucky a few times, then got liquidated. just have the 0.17 BTC left.
I thought I just needed to figure out a strategy. at first I decided I would do hours and hours of research and then go all-in on a single project, to maximize my return on time spent researching. I picked ODN. bought at $1.70, held way too long because "muh fundamentals" and then finally sold in March for $0.14. Already I only had $90k left. I was ready to kill myself for losing so much. But I figured I could hit a few pumps and at least be back at $500k.
The reason I sold ODN (thank fuck I finally did) was WAN had just been listed on Binance and I was sure it was going to go to $40-50 dollars. I bought WAN a week or two after it went public on binance around $4, then panic sold at $5 sold after nothing was happening after a small pump, thinking I had better just take a little profit then. of course, when it hit $6 I couldn't help throw $30,000 at it. and again at $7. at $8 I was all in again. when things started going down again, I did something very stupid. I thought "I'll just hold it, iron hands, and not even look at the price for a while. when I come back, ill be rich!"
well when I looked at the prices in June I wasn't feeling so good about that approach anymore. I sold and had about $42k left. I thought maybe I needed to diversify. I bought REQ, IPSX, FSN, HOT, 0xBTC, UUU, DRGN, NANO, ZIL, ETH, and BTC. except all my ETH and BTC always ended up being converted into other other crap. I might make 10% on one trade and lose 30% on nine others. it was so depressing I stopped tracking my trades, because I didn't want to know how much I had left.
finally in October I liquidated all my shit coins and bought BTC. I had 2.17 BTC total, around $18,000. I was ready to kill myself, but I figured I had one chance left. I transferred 2 BTC to bitmex, got lucky a few times, then got liquidated. just have the 0.17 BTC left.