There are many people who had the opportunity to buy Bitcoin at a low price in 2018 but they did not buy Bitcoin at that time. They did not buy it even in 2022 and 2023. Today, in 2024, the price of Bitcoin is close to 100k. If they do not buy it yet, then in the future they will have to try to buy Bitcoin at 1 million. And at that time, many investors will not be able to buy Bitcoin as expected even if they try. As expensive as Bitcoin seems today, tomorrow this price will continue to increase. So the decision should be taken as early as possible.
People may be not confident to buy Bitcoin at that time. The price of Bitcoin was still rather cheap, there was no country that made it as a legal tender. There were many bad issues about Bitcoin, it was also predicted to not last a long time. So, people became afraid to buy Bitcoin, they prefer to buy other assets. In 2022-2023, Bitcoin was below $30k, it even was below $20k. But people also still didn't have no courage to buy Bitcoin. People just feel confident to buy when it reached its ATH again in Q1 of this year. Well, this is the nature of human, they often feel afraid.
Fear sometimes makes people miss the opportunity to gain profit, it is a fact that always happens. I also often experience the same thing, that's why I started doing research and making analysis. I bought bitcoin 2 years ago and still hold it until now, I plan to sell it next year. Back when bitcoin was first launched, many also underestimated bitcoin, and now they may regret it.
Two emotions that should be controlled when investing are fear and greed. Both are very dangerous, because greed makes us do things that are not in accordance with what was planned, such as holding longer to get more profit and we never know what will happen in the crypto market because sometimes the market suddenly drops. While fear also makes us not dare to take a chance.
I totally agree with what you said, because we will find it difficult to control ourselves and accuracy to anticipate because of the two problems we face.
Planning is good, but when greed has hit it, it is no longer realistic and always expects more than what has been determined, so that the momentum is lost, and we do not get what we should have gotten.
As well as the fear of executing because of the inability to read the existing situation so that we do not dare to decide to do it on time.