I came in a crypto world where "HODL" was akin to religion. Everyone "who got it" was all about the "HODL". Wait and never sell, you'll get there was the mantra. A few people disagreed: the traders.
There weren't many of them but they were vocal. Back in the ol' days ( last year), people did not trade as they do today. No, sir! They HODL.
Then, July came and the HODLRs felt they were winning the ideological war. Oh look, these be the pump we all waited for. Some sold but the cries were - strangely?! - more vocal than EVER.
HODL
HODL!!!!!
H O D L!!
In August, all the HODLRs started to realize that their portfolio is getting killed in BTC. Some started to trade ( with the same effect).
Some just HODLed and cried themselves to sleep.
Most FOMOed.
It was a trader's paradise and for a while there, it seems that crypto was not all about those hodling gains. FUD, fury, disgust, a lot of HODLRs thre the bags to the ground.
NEVER AGAIN!
A new mantra started to take hold:
Sell your pumps!!
Then the last month came and the HODLRs could finally be smug. The HODLRs could finally laugh at the pump sellers:
You thought that was a pump...uhm, booooi you did fk up...
PUMP after PUMP after PUMP left people dumbfolded. What was going on? How could this coin keep going and going? Surely a correction was coming?
Surely...this is a bubble?!
And so they waited. The biggest saddest bunch of crypto world: those lefts without bags!!! ( there should be a name for them!).
In the other camp, the HODLRs profits were bigger than ever, most than most better traders. Day by day they got richer, and more annoying.
They finally did it.
They were living the dream. And they were looking down on all non-believers and early sellers and the traders. not so smart now, huh?!.
And of course they won't sell come hell or high water.
Of course, I'm in the wrong camp here. But that's because being a HODLR was always dubious to me. "Do nothing" and profit? Sounds like hogwash. Surely,I have to do something, right? This is the opposite of everything the real world tells us: work hard and good things will happen. Never: be idle and you shall make gains!.
Maybe it's a zen thing.
Nice story. But what is next?
Will the tables turn?
We'll find out in a bit. Stay tuned for the next episode of the ever-entertaining -narrated by your truly -:
THE CRYPTO SHOW!
So what are you?
HODL
TRADER
Vote in the comments!!