Technical analysis, fundamentals, Pump and Dumps!
XRP was an easy call but there are so many moon-boys pumping things up! You never know which day to the next where things will land. The only strategy that has worked is the one where I just bought at what I felt was the bottom. Although that's emotional and we shouldn't trade emotionally; every time I was right.
Etc Etc
There are so many crypto-big-boys who 'different' things in their VIP which of course costs money. I'm really starting to see that many of these channels and their 'fib' channels, 'fib' charts, longs and shorts are completely different then what they are saying day by day.
I have lost a lot of money listening to what is 'sound' and ignoring my own due diligence. The only time I made crypto / fiat is when I bought when I felt the time was right. Every time I heard increasing FUD I moved to stable coins and of course I kept losing on trade backs. Even if it was sound, the exchange fee's, gas fee's just eat away at my gains.
To HODL and not to HODL. I ask myself this many times and I always circle back to the same argument. What am I doing this for? More FIAT? Do I need the fiat bills that badly?
Governments are broke and will continue to print. Sure they will hide the inflation; but we all know the game is rigged. I don't want to play! So I want different assets that are in my private wallet. Swapping and exchanging for more ETH or BTC is always on the table; but again I have also had bad experiences with exchanges and hidden fee's.
Diamond Hands are what I will have going forward. I will hold what I believe are good projects and ride the ups and downs. HODLing isn't a great way to make gains, but at this point I'm tired of this rat race and losing to bad advice. I truly do believe many of these guys double talk and like to spread FUD while doing the exact opposite in their VIP channels.