I promise you get used to it

I got into crypto right after the crash of 2018. After 3 years in this market, and after going through a long and hopeless bear market, I promise you get used to the price going all over the place. You just become numb to it.

Trading was never really my thing, I just bought and (mostly) held BTC and ETH throughout the following months and, eventually, years. I tried to trade a little bit at the beginning, but it just made me lose money. Like I said, it was a bear market, your didn't see your favorite shitcoin 15x overnight just because Walmart might collaborate with them in the future, you'd wake up with your portfolio dripping blood.

For those of you who haven't gone through a bear market yet, you guys should understand the downward trend isn't constant. Some days are up, some are down, most are sideways. I used to read articles from so-called ''crypto experts'' calling for golden triangles, golden arcs and golden dicks in the charts, pointing at shit that doesn't really make sense, but they sound confident so they must be right!

You believe them at first, you get your dose of hopium, you feel good, but you then realize pretty quickly they don't actually know what they're talking about and they're as clueless as you are lol.

A bear market isn't complete despair, you do get a little bit of hopium from time to time. You see your portfolio up 5% in a day and you're like ''THIS IS IT! THE BULL MARKET IS BACK!'' and then it dips 7% the next day.

Or the market going sideways for months, everybody's waiting for something to happen. Suddenly there's a rumor something's big coming in a week or so. You don't know what will happen, but you're hoping for the moon.... and then it crashes another 35% for no apparent reason.

Holding through a bear market is tough when you haven't gone through one, sometimes it does feel like you're throwing money out the window (I didn't think BTC would ever go back to 20k, let alone triple it at its peak), but the payoff is incredibly worth it. You knew the sentiment was ULTRA bullish when people spammed ''IT'S OVER 9000'' (the OGs remember).

Anyway, this post doesn't really have a purpose, i'm legit just talking. I guess what i'm trying to say is that you might feel down right now, or anxious, or whatever negative emotion. You might be looking at your portfolio 24/7 with thoughts of quitting racing through your mind.

I can't tell you if you should or not, crypto might be going to 0 in the long run, nobody knows. Just be happy that you were there for the ride. I know I am anyway.

My only advice is this: if you ever feel like predicting tomorrow's price, do the opposite of what your gut is telling you, or in other words, inverse what you think is the most logical play to you. You're usually wrong.

P-S: I barely look at the prices anymore, but I still wanna thank the people in this sub for letting me know if the market's up or down. Your reactions, clueless explanations and fake confidence are pretty entertaining to watch ngl. Love you all <3