One of our articles sparked a heated discussion.
Many write: 'I bought in 2014, held on — and now I'm in huge profit!'
But let's be honest.
You earned not because of holding on, but because you accidentally chose an asset that returned.
Now imagine an alternative:
### 🎯 If you had taken instead of BTC:
- AXS at $100 → now ~$1
Would you have ridden it out –90%? –95%? –99%?
- LUNA Classic at $120 → $0.000…
Would you have ridden it out to zero?
- ICP at $450 → ~$10
- FIL at $180 → ~$3
- DASH, BCH — minus 95–99% from historical highs
- And hundreds of altcoins that never returned
It's convenient to remember only successful stories.
But the market is statistics, not emotions.
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## 🧠 Riding it out is a bet, not risk management
1 successful example
against
forty failures.
If a coin fell by 90%, it needs +900% to return your money.
Most projects simply cannot provide such growth: teams leave, liquidity disappears, the ecosystem dies.
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## ✔️ The main thing
"To ride it out" is hope disguised as a strategy.
A professional doesn't hope — he manages risk.
It's better to lock in –20% than to watch the asset fall into the abyss and turn to dust.
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Let's analyze when riding it out is indeed justified — and why it's a rare exception, not a basic strategy.
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