I was walking from my office to the building where my wife has her office the other day when I came across this little guy hanging out in front of the doors to her building. I decided to snap a few photos of him before I picked him up with an Ethernet cord and deposited him into the grass.
He wasn't very cooperative with me, so most of the photos I took I won't bother to share because the concrete is in focus and the mantis is not. I did manage to grab a few good ones though.
Kind of the same way many of us may have snatched up a lot of alt coins in the past bear market and we are hoping at least a few of them come out in focus for us. More likely, in the end we will all just end up with a hot blurry mess. That's at least what it feels like right now. Just when it seems like a rocket ride might be in the books markets market and things fall back into this ocean of slow rolling waves.
I've actually been thinking a lot about the bear and bull markets lately and wondering if I am really cut out for all of this. What I mean to say is I am pretty much an absolute pussy when it comes to trading tokens. In fact, this is the first time I have actually been able to keep some HIVE liquid waiting for that big pump when I move it back into HBD.
And that's the problem
I always have my eye on these pie in the sky numbers and I am too scared to take the risk of moving tokens.
Here's a great example... As you most likely know by now I have been following a token from Chintai called CHEX. I bought it at a fairly low price and watched it rocket up to close to $1 per token. Again, if I wasn't such a pussy, I would have sold at or near that top, but like a fool I was waiting for it to top that $1 mark or higher and I got left holding the bag.
Similar to how I spent last bull run waiting for BTC to cross $100K (fun fact, it didn't), and ended up not taking gains when I should have.
Like I said, if I had been smart and I had faith in the CHEX token like I do, I would have taken some gains close to the top, held onto that, and then bought back a few weeks ago when the token dipped back below $.10. Then if the token were to finally pump the way people are talking about, I would be in a much better position.
Trust me, I understand this relies on a lot of faith, speculation, and luck. That token could just as easily never recover, but I would still at least have those gains right? Worst case it moons and I realize I sold way sooner than I should have, but let's be honest, how often does that happen?
CRO
I'm not sure if you have been following CRO at all, but that is another token that I have been following. I picked up a small stack a long time ago when I was hoping I might get one of those cool Crypto.com VISA cards. I kind of forgot about it, but more recently I noticed the price of CRO had dipped kind of low, so I picked up a little more.
Just the other day CRO made some big announcements. A few of them tied to "he who shall not be named" and the price of the token has been taking a bit of a ride lately. In fact, just this morning I think CRO broke back into the top 20 of market cap.
It's still a ways off from the ATH of ~$1.00, but I am going to be keeping an eye on this one and potentially selling some off when the time is right. Assuming I am not too much of a pussy.
Fair notice, I have been warned by a reliable source that CRO isn't a good play. Apparently there has been some shady stuff going on (not surprising) and to paraphrase they wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. Honestly, if I hadn't already been holding some I probably wouldn't buy any now. I'm just kind of along for the ride at this point.
Silver
I kind of feel the same way with silver. The price keeps creeping up to a point where I am not sure I am going to want to pick up anymore, but since I am probably more of a collector than a stacker, I likely won't be selling any of my stuff at these higher prices either. I'm not really sure where that leaves me, but it's kind of an uneasy feeling. I've seen a fair number of people in the #silvergoldstackers community indicate some kind of correction might be incoming, but I'm still pretty new to all of this, so I really don't know.
HIVE
Finally, as I mentioned before, I've got some liquid HIVE sitting ready for some big moves, but I think besides the fact that I need to stop being a pussy, I also need to temper my expectations. While we are all praying for some moon numbers like the friendly mantis above, I have to remember that small gains are still gains.
I think it's easy for us to look back at the (short) days of $3 HIVE and have all of these big expectations. It's also important to remember that when you earn/buy your HIVE at $.20, selling it at $.50 is still a gain.
Small gains are still gains, and there is nothing wrong with that. Now, if I can just make myself believe that!
