Most Common Reason Why People Lose Money In Crypto .:. WorkerBee PH-Pool Week 180

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After 7 active years in crypto, watching charts, following the markets, diving deep into different cryptocurrencies, mining with GPUs different coins, staking, and creating tokens, I still have doubts and temptations to jump into new projects... I suppose that the only difference between now and then, is that, very often, I resist those temptations and I don't do it... 😃

Jumping from tree to tree, or flying from one flower to another is probably one of the main reasons why people "fail in crypto"... I suppose that most traders fail because they buy the top and sell the bottom, but in this case, I'm talking more about "investors" that are buying and HODLing tokens for some time... And I will bold those two words, SOME TIME...


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With investing and HODLing the pattern is similar to trading, but except for "betting" if the price will go up and down, we "bet" if one token will outperform the other... So, when your fiat money runs out, you exchange from one token to another and try to "earn more" with your decision... But, the main "actors" are the same, FOMO and FUD... I saw it in myself, and I saw it in others many, many times...

You buy a token that has potential, you HODL it, it goes up, and you are happy, counting profits, but not selling... 🙂 Then, another token pops out, doing some crazy numbers, going up like crazy, and yours slowed down a bit... You think that the new one will continue to run like crazy, so you swap the old token for the new one... Obviously, the new one after a huge run stops, goes down, and your "ex-token" begins to run again...

That's probably the most common pattern of how to lose money, instead of gaining... Chasing the new shiny tokens, because they are new, and because some YT influencers said that new tokens in the first cycle will do better than the old ones... The story about cycles is true, but not for ALL tokens, especially when we have thousands and thousands of them...


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I'm not immune to this either... By not doing that and ignoring some "new tokens", I missed gains of BNB a few years ago, and probably TON gains recently, as I had doubts about buying both when they were much lower than they are now... In the end, I didn't buy them, so I missed potential profits...

On the other side, ignoring some shiny tokens saved me a lot of money as a lot of them performed much worse than BTC, for example...

Another important thing is the AMOUNT you invest in new shiny things... That's something that I changed during these years... Before, I would swap over 50% of my "old coins" (sometimes BTC), into some shiny token... Now, I'm much more cautious, doing numbers under 3-5% of my long-term portfolio...

In conclusion, do not chase new shiny things, and if you really, really want to invest in some new token, don't invest all your savings and don't take out from your long-term portfolio... Not financial advice! 🙂


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Back to the pool numbers! In the last report, I mentioned that the WORKERBEE token price went up, and maybe that was one of the reasons why one person undelegated tokens from the pool... No judging... 🙂 Also, we had some additional delegations from other pool participants... Thanks, guys!!!

This week we mined 110 BEE tokens in total!!!

This POOL doesn't have fees and you get up to 20% MORE by delegating to it!


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What about the bonus tokens?

We could apply the story from the beginning of this post to our today's bonus tokens... As the SPS tokens went down in value, I bet that many HODLers decided (or will decide) to sell the tokens out of fear that the token price would go to zero... While that is always one of the possibilities, there is another possibility that the token has hit the bottom (or it is close to it), and that price will recover... I'm not a psychic and can't tell you which one of the two will happen, so it's up to you to make a decision...

But, for example, going out from SPS to buy some token that went a lot recently, would be exactly the "trap" that I described at the beginning of this post... Going out from a risky token to get into another risky token is a double risk... But, going out from risky tokens into more stable tokens, could be a different story...

There will be distributed 320 SPS tokens to the delegators of the pool as a bonus reward today!


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As always, in the end, let's give the exact numbers for this week... 110 BEE tokens and 320 SPS tokens will be distributed as a bonus... The APR (without the bonus) was 5.977%, and when we added the bonus it went up to 7.149%!

I have calculated the ROI approximately with medium prices for all tokens at the moment of creating this post... So, those numbers are valid if you bought WB and sold BEE tokens at the middle HiveEngine price...

Do you want to sponsor the PH-Pool with your tokens, receive a short SPONSORED segment in this post, and raise awareness about your front-end or dApp? Please let me know in the comment section, or contact me through Discord or Twitter and we will find the best solution for both parties...


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If you want to join the WorkerBee PH-Pool, the only thing that you have to do is to STAKE tokens to YOUR account and DELEGATE your staked WORKERBEE tokens to THIS account (@ph1102)! Every week you will get your portion of mined BEE tokens and BONUS rewards!

.:. DO NOT STAKE TOKENS TO MY ACCOUNT!!! Just DELEGATE! .:.


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All payments will be made after publishing this post...

If you have any questions, please leave them in the comment section!

You can find more about this pool in the initial post here https://inleo.io/hive-119826/@ph1102/workerbee-p-h-ool-let-s-help-each-other

Thank you for your time,

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None of this is financial advice!!!


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IMHO if you decide to get rich quick it's not gonna work. Like IRL it takes time, hard work and dedication to achieve something. (not a crypto expert)

Well, it's not crypto advice that you said... It's more a life advice as in any job that you do if you are not doing your best, you will not be the best... 😃

Most people don't want to catch a falling knife, they forget that most times, these knives that are falling ends up becoming floating balloons. It's painful to buy at the bottom, so people prefer to buy when it's already going up.

I think the decision to stick to the things you know helps you to avoid humongous losses.

^ This is FOMO and it's true.

Hehehe... In my posts, I like to use sayings and catchphrases, but we can use them in both directions... Like you did with "falling knives" and "floating balloons"... Everyone sees what he wants to see... or a knife, or a lifetime opportunity... But, if we add some research behind our decisions, those things lose their FOMO and FUD heaviness and get REAL facts, less emotional...

@tipu curate

Thanks for your curation! Appreciated!

Haha yes! Never chase shiny coins! Hmm now that you mentioned this, I wonder if SPS will really go to zero (like some of those Layer 2 tokens). Hmmm...
!LUV

I would like to know what will happen with SPS, but I lost my crystal ball... gotta buy a new one... 😜

Hehe!

Jumping from token to token is one of the biggest mistakes many do in the bull market. A few may be lucky (or know what they are doing), but most people will lose money this way.

I did a lot of that... Lately, I'm probably still doing it, but luckily, with smaller amounts... 😃

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It’s not good to put all our eggs into one basket and at the same time, it’s not good to jump from one project to the other
We should be able to focus on the little we feel we can monitor
That’s the best!

Focus is important, but thinking clearly and keeping out emotions in financial decisions is also very important... When to quit can be a money saver...

Not sure if hoela and keep hodling is the best option, but it worked fine for me for now. Yup, lost some on tokens that went down to almost zero, but in general, it’s been ok. Bnb being one of them ;-)

See? It works... 😃 Especially when you HODL quality tokens, and those that have use cases and are used by people... There are hundreds of blockchains that nobody uses...

True! Usecase and technology behind it are most important for me. There are indeed tons of blockchains that are set up for the gains, and nobody uses them. Unfortunately there also great systems with loads of potential that are way underused. Not always easy…

I think if one does not invest with the money they will need in the future, they won't sell the bottom. At least, I do so :)

That's easy to say, but not that easy to do... 😃 Rational thinking disappears when FOMO and FUD hit... But, it is possible to learn and practice control over them... It just needs time and experience accumulation... 😃

Some great info. If you like the token falling, you could also buy it back lower increasing your bag.

It depends on many factors, but if you are convinced in your decision, I suppose what you said makes sense to do...

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Not really interested in the pool part of this article of for the latter, I think the reason people fail in crypto is that which its roots are psychological visible, so Eq improvement is highly needed as well as the awareness of other psychological problems which are not really known and how to counter them should be available.

In your case you learnt from experience, I'm glad you still got to where you are friend thanks for sharing.

I suppose that we all know the theory around trading, investing, fud, and fomo... But, the problem is practice, and when we meet these things and experience on our own skin... that's changes our perspective... 🙂

That's really true, just asking did you backtest your strategy before using it live.

Chasing things generally tends to be bad. Most of the time, the people have already made the money and you are picking up scraps. I like the idea of a longer term play because you have to believe that a project will succeed.

Thanks for running the pool and for the BEE/SPS tokens.

Long-term play is harder to do, as you have to resist to many temptations... ANd not many can do that, which is probably the reason why it is a better "play"...

Hmmm... Why is my delegation still 191 in the report? I updated it to 200 in early June (June 4, 2024, 22:41 - UTC). Could you check again, Mr. Zoltan for the next week? Thank you 👍

Huh... I'm sorry for that... I have no idea what happened but it looks like I made a mistake when I was adding delegations and 9 WB tokens were added to another user...

Thanks for checking out and letting me know!

I have edited the spreadsheet and it shows the right numbers... It will be visible in the next report!

PS. Sent you 3 BEE tokens for the psychological damage caused by this... 😃

Nice 👍 I'm looking forward to next week's report.
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Investing is ultimately a very strange thing, man. You're sending your hard-earned money somewhere and your goal is to multiply it several times over. Or you can aim for more. But it always makes you hesitant. The fear of missing out never leaves you XD

But it always makes you hesitant.

That is true... But, when you invest money that you can afford to lose or do smaller investments, it's not that stressful... I was moving some very uncomfortable amounts for me before, but I'm not doing that anymore... and I sleep much better :)

I sleep much better :)

That made me laugh a lot but it's more than true 😂😂

I you accumulate through opportunities such as Hive together with a modest DCA strategy I don't see how people lose... it just requires a long-term dedicated approach. However, sometimes life can interrupt your plans...

What you said makes sense, when you accumulate 1 token... But, people tend to jump from one to another... Pay attention when the next MEME token run happens, you will notice how people are jumping around from one to another... hahahaha

True... human behavior. It's rather stubborn.🙃

Knowing when to exit... it's not when you think it is. It's usually hodling for longer than you imagined, but also selling when you never thought you would sell. There are always shiny things somewhere else trying to get our eyes off what is the good investment, has been a good investment and will likely continue to be a good investment. "But this token made some peopole 500% gains!" Nope. If we sell the trustworthy investment, to buy the shiny "500% gains" we would ride it all the way down to oblivion!

Knowing when to exit... it's not when you think it is. It's usually hodling for longer than you imagined, but also selling when you never thought you would sell.

That's a great explanation! It is always at least one step behind, or in front, where you think it is... It's like when you are doing some job, and the opportunity is waiting behind the LAST corner... But, there are a lot of corners and obstacles until that point... And you can't look behind the corner... 🙂

Sticking to a long-term plan and avoiding FOMO is so important in crypto. It's as simple as that, thanks for this brother

It is simple to say... not that simple to do... 😃 I think that everyone failed to fomo or fud at least once in their life (but probably more than that 😃)

You're absolutely right brother, not that easy to do