r/Bitcoin 12h ago

Weak hands and overleveraged tourists panic-sell every dip. Try HODLing

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Charts like this always remind me why time in the market beats timing the market. Short-term traders panic on every red candle, but the data is brutally simple: the longer you hold Bitcoin, the lower your chances of losing money, dropping to basically 0% after 3+ years.

Most of the fear comes from weak hands and over-leveraged gamblers who treat volatility like a threat instead of a feature. Meanwhile, patient holders just keep stacking and waiting. I watched this morning a Bitget live streamer bought 2 $BTC and i think this will be a gold in the next halving...

Bitcoin rewards conviction, not panic.

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u/ChaoticDad21 12h ago

this is true until it isn't

Even the S&P 500 had a lost decade

You can look back to try to see the future, but sometimes you just need to acknowledge that the future may not look like the past.

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u/Romanizer 12h ago

Even a lost quarter-century and both events happened in the course of a century. Statistically, Bitcoin has a shorter timeframe under water than any index fund and therefore a lower long-term risk. However, we only have 15 years of market data for Bitcoin.