I'm not a day trader and I have never pretended to be one, some times I make some coin purchases thinking long term or because I get a tip from someone who actually know what the hell is happening - or at least knows more than me, because nobody actually knows what will happen - and then I buy a couple hundred dollars worth of the coin, I set an alarm on my CoinGecko app and when it reaches it - usually 15%-20% I sell it, and since I am not a greedy dude, it usually works out for me.
My portfolio consists of around $3,500 usd, not much but also not a meaningless amount, all my other crypto is powered up on Hive - before you ask, yeah, I had a lot, but had to sell a fuckton of Hive when it was around 20c because Covid, the economic recession in Mexico, and a couple of deaths in the family (yeah, great year) - and it's not a lot, but I do have an alt account with a few thousand Hive.
Anyway, as all thecryptopreneurs on YouTube say, I don't have all my eggs in one basket, even though Hive is definitely around 70% of said basket, just like it's supposed to be.
Well, not today. Yesterday night at 2 am before going to bed I decided to go all in and put all my eggs in one basket, and I decided to sell all my shitcoins and use it all to buy Hive:
And I was scared, I was terrified as fuck because in the past, I've made terrible, terrible decisions regarding Hive, and maybe that's putting it too smooth.
But I thought not today, I'm going to have diamond hands, I'm going to hang on and go with Hive until it hits 10 dollars, then I'll sell, buy back at $4 and stay until it hits $100. You know the drill.
And during the whole day today I've had the coingecko price chart open on my second screen, and I was pretty happy I made the right decision. But hey, today I had an important meeting at 14:00 and, since I've went all in and I am not a chill person regarding money, I set a stop-loss sell order at a price of 0.00003000...
Which is something I never, ever do. This was actually my first stop-loss sell order I ever, ever set.
I guess I was just too scared of coming back from the meeting and seeing the Hive price back at 80c and repeat the story I've been part of a couple of times - funny story, I bought 20k USD worth of Hive at 80c a couple of years ago (when we weren't Hive yet) and the price plummeted, shit happened at home and I had to sell a big part of it at around 12c.
And well, my fear and small balls made me pay the price.
This is the sell order that happened at 14:30, and the shitty part is that the price just went down a few sats, but enough to trigger my sell order.
The funny part?
Do you really want to know?
I spent all the afternoon and evening, and part of the night (until right now that I am writing this post) watching the price chart go to the moon and thinking "wow, I'm fucking happy for myself, but I am actually happier for all those who have been stacking Hive for years and haven't had the necessity to sell, they are the real MVP".
I didn't even realize the stop-loss order had been triggered, and there I was watching the rocket go to the moon thinking I had a ticket, when in reality I was the mom of the astronaut that gets to watch him fly. The mom's happy for her son, but it would be better to be the son.
I'm the mom.
This is the price of Hive at the moment of writing this.
And I can't do anything but to take it as a lesson of not setting stop-loss orders if it's not my thing and I have never done it, I always do things manually and it has worked wonders for me.
All I can do is find the fun part: I'm the mom of the astronaut. The good part is, it's not all bad news, I have some Hive powered up, and my alt has a few thousands so, all we can do...
Is keep stacking.
I hope you are having a better night than I am, and I hope that tomorrow morning we all wake up a little bit happier than tonight seeing the price of Hive rocket launch itself to the moon and beyond.
Oh right, if you are going to ask for the pic source at the beginning, you are too old for the internet and you should up your meme game bruh. That's Bad Luck Brian and if you are on Hive, you should increase your meme culture. After all...
...We are all blogging and consuming content on an obscure, digital money-generating, anti-establishment fighting, pseudo-anarchy supporting, deep-web-money-laundering related, taxation-is-theft promulgating, inflation-kills-economies believing, conspiracy-theories accepting, self-definition living, off-grid-mentality acquired, revolutionary-mindset thinking, North Korean crotchet weaving, Latvian-Origami making, Norwegian Guerilla training, ecosystem.
An we should act like it.