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How to stop panic selling and buying back at the worst times

Every time Bitcoin crashes I panic sell at the bottom, then buy back in when it recovers, and I have lost $15,000 doing this exact thing four times.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Loss aversion combined with recency bias creates a destructive cycle where emotional reactions consistently override rational strategy.

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