HODL (long-term holding) is the biggest brainwashing lie in the crypto world. If you hold and donโt sell, youโre just another sucker.
Every day, I see a bunch of people in the communities shouting โHODL,โ โfaith never dies,โ and โwatch the project grow with it.โ Itโs both pitiful and ridiculous.
Let me be blunt: when you talk about โvalue investingโ and โlong-term holdingโ in crypto, itโs just an excuse you use because youโre afraid to cut your losses.
Ninety-nine percent of projects canโt survive more than two bull-bear cycles: of the Top 20 star tokens from the last cycleโs bulls, how many died halfway through? You think youโre helping it grow, but the team and VCs have long cashed out by crushing the price to buy mansions.
Decentralization is a fake issueโliquidity is the real one: retail investors love to talk about โfaith,โ but the whole market is propped up by myth-making, speculation, and fabricated liquidity. Even BTC has already been controlled by Wall Street and ETFsโso youโre still talking to me about the ideal of decentralization?
If you donโt lock in profits, gains are always just numbers on a screen: unrealized gains that arenโt realized get dumped back in a bear market. People who refuse to take profits at the end all become โexit liquidity toolsโ that send money to the traders.
There are only two ways to play this game:
When a trend explodes, enter to arbitrageโonce you reach the target price, immediately lock in your profits.
Treat crypto as a lifelong faith, and in the end youโre effectively paying the bill for the project team.
Stop comforting yourself with โfaith.โ You come to crypto to make money, not to be a paladin.
If you agree, hit like. If you donโt, feel free to leave a commentโtell me: youโve been holding a small coin for more than two years. Are you back to break-even yet? ๐
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