it is important to take your profit before the bear cycle unless like you said you are willing to wait for a long time when we talk about bitcoin being a long term investment we really do mean for a long period of time which if you are relying on bitcoin for survival, it will not be ideal to wait for that long this is why some people talk about giving their investments as inheritance to their kids because they know that maximum profit will be attained if they hold for a long time
You're right. It is necessary to take profits before the next bearish season. I think we don't miss the chance of taking profits in this bullrun season. If we want to hold again, we can buy the coin at cheap prices in the next bearish season. Holding 3-4 years is quite a long time, it seems most people prefer holding 3-4 years. It is because they can buy again in the next bearish season. It is quite rare that people will hold 7-8 years or longer (2 cycles or more).
But, bro... we only know that the bearish season has arrived when we have seen it directly... even in the next 1 day there are still many possibilities for cryptocurrency prices, whether it will be bullish, whether it will be bearish, whether it will be sideways, or others.... moreover, a wrong bearish indication will actually make us regret it too...
For example, we analyze that there will be a bearish season in three days, but it turns out that whales manipulate the market until the cryptocurrency price becomes bullish... actually that is the right time to take advantage, but because we misjudged the market, what happened was the opposite, our failure to predict the bearish season actually made us regret it...
Predicting the cryptocurrency market is not as easy as we imagine, my friend.