What are you doing when the market is panicking?

[KryptoBull]

Crypto investors are on a roller coaster, and President Trump is the conductor: we've just experienced a lot of volatility in the past week from the US's tariff announcements on trade partners. Global stocks declined, and the BTC price also dropped to 75K USD, which has made many investors panic because it could suggest a break of the uptrend and confirmation of a downtrend.

None of us were prepared for a trade war between the US and China, so it's truly a black swan event for the entire global economy. Many of my friends have panic-sold their tokens, and worse, many have had their Futures accounts liquidated. Many KOLs are starting to confidently declare that this season is over and that the uptrend + altseason won't come in 2025 because ETH has been deemed a failed token. I remember they were just as confident a few months ago when they declared that BTC would reach a minimum of 200K USD this year, while altcoins would succeed with a series of spot ETFs.

Although I took profits on 20% of my BTC holdings when 1 BTC = 100K USD, I'm still quite scared facing this crazy volatility. Compared to the best time, I've lost a lot of profit, but luckily, I haven't suffered any losses thanks to my long-term BTC DCA strategy. I still have some stablecoins, and I'm waiting a bit longer to start buying some potential altcoins with strong recovery potential. I had intended to keep these stablecoins until the end of the season to buy BTC in the crypto winter of 2026, but it's hard to ignore the opportunity from this black swan event.

We are only in Q2 of 2025, and the opportunity for an uptrend is still intact. I have a feeling that the market situation right now is quite similar to May 2021: everyone is pessimistic, but the market will recover and reach a new ATH in Q4 of the same year right after the trade war was settled and the economy was eased. I really hope history will repeat itself, and the most deserving investors will have the opportunity to take profits while the rest are busy FOMOing and buying at any price.

I'd like to know your opinion on this:

• Are you selling or buying tokens?
• Has the uptrend given way to a downtrend this season?
• What is your assessment of the market for the remainder of 2025?

Note:

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[tequilla_sunset]

It may all be a Bull trap, sorta - we would bounce from there and get to a better price, if the tariff war won't be going on and escalating.

I am still buying more BTC, mostly.

[albon]

It's the same with crypto, we buy when the market is going down. Investing is about reaching your financial goals and for that you need to keep an eye on the rewards in all kinds of market conditions. Because some coins will be down at this point and it will take a long time for the price to recover in the future. However, buying good coins at low prices can be a smart strategy especially if you believe in the long term potential. You need to diversify your investments and keep in mind what coin I am buying, what its future holds, when the price might increase, and what the risks are.

[bitbit97]

Numerous posts, topics and articles about Bitcoin death, situations when price go down first, but in few months recover taught me to hold and nothing with crypto when market is panicking or suddenly turn red for a moment. Tactics of wait and observe always worked well for me with BTC. With altcoins this is a bit different, that is why majority of my portfolio is BTC. I also believe, if panic has already started in crypto market, it is already too late to act. Either you must spot incoming storm, or hold/keep crypto, wait and face your fate.

[milewilda]

Numerous posts, topics and articles about Bitcoin death, situations when price go down first, but in few months recover taught me to hold and nothing with crypto when market is panicking or suddenly turn red for a moment. Tactics of wait and observe always worked well for me with BTC. With altcoins this is a bit different, that is why majority of my portfolio is BTC. I also believe, if panic has already started in crypto market, it is already too late to act. Either you must spot incoming storm, or hold/keep crypto, wait and face your fate.

If you are just that new into this market then you would definitely freak out on which basing up into the actions on which it do shows specially on a dumping or bearish scenarion, but if you are someone who do have already that kind of experience and awareness on how this market works then you would definitely be having the idea on what are the things that you would gonna do. So it will be that up to you on how you do deal up with it accordingly. The key on here is to make yourself that being versatile on whatever the price it would be showing. You cant just that make yourself having those kind of conclusions that you can be able to make profits and believing that you do know on where market would be going because it will be giving out that huge disappointment.

[gunhell16]

It depends on the op, if I am sure that there will be a downtrend in the coin that I am doing trading activity with, I will sell my holdings for sure, and I will observe through monitoring what is happening here on the cryptocurrency market chart.

It is a good opportunity to sell when we see that many are panicking to sell, then I will analyze its trend in which I will find out where its price is likely to go before it bounces again so that the price rises once again.

[LogitechMouse]

I'd like to know your opinion on this:

• Are you selling or buying tokens?

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• What is your assessment of the market for the remainder of 2025?

1. I'm doing both. I mean we can maximize the volatility through trading through it. I don't recommend doing futures though, but doing spot trading alone would be fine as well. You can still make money.

2. As an optimistic investor, I'm still expecting that the market will have another leg pushing towards the upside just like what happened in 2021. I said it in the past, but what we need is just one CATALYST that could push the price upwards. What will it be? That, we don't know. It might be the pausing of the tariffs for 90 days. It might be something that's related to tariffs or maybe the US government buying Bitcoins as their strategic reserve, or maybe the FED cutting down rates. I mean we don't know, but any positive news can be a reason for Bitcoin and the market to go up.

When many are panicking, it's always good to stay calm, and stick to a strategy. This is why we always need to have a strategy whenever we are trading, or just simply investing. Learning how be calm will help you make better decisions moving forward.

[Findingnemo]

I'd like to know your opinion on this:

• Are you selling or buying tokens?
• Has the uptrend given way to a downtrend this season?
• What is your assessment of the market for the remainder of 2025?

1. Buying since it is the best time to buy since we got the prices on discounted sales than ever.
2. Bitcoin was supposed to be on the uptrend but due to the lot of external factors that is affecting the whole economy not just the bitcoin there is some effect on bitcoin too.
3. IMO, we are good until Q2 of 2025 and from that we might go for a spike or the beginning of bear.

[Lucius]

None of us were prepared for a trade war between the US and China, so it's truly a black swan event for the entire global economy.

I would disagree that no one was prepared for what is happening, because the man who is responsible for everything that is happening today has been talking about it for years, and he did something similar in the period 2016-2020. Therefore, there is no point in talking about a black swan here, those who read between the lines knew what chaos was coming.

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We are only in Q2 of 2025, and the opportunity for an uptrend is still intact. I have a feeling that the market situation right now is quite similar to May 2021: everyone is pessimistic, but the market will recover and reach a new ATH in Q4 of the same year right after the trade war was settled and the economy was eased. I really hope history will repeat itself, and the most deserving investors will have the opportunity to take profits while the rest are busy FOMOing and buying at any price.

Anyone who tries to predict something at this moment, when it is only a matter of a few days or a few months, is only shooting at the target blindfolded from a long distance and, moreover, does not know in which direction the target is located. Maybe it would be time for people to finally sober up from the delirium they fell into thinking that some kind of magical times are coming with the new US administration, and on the other hand, we are facing a time of general chaos, mass layoffs, inflation and very likely recession.

On the other hand, we endured the pandemic and all the craziness they imposed on us, so I have no doubt that we will endure 4 years of craziness that will come from the US.

[Stompix]

None of us were prepared for a trade war between the US and China, so it's truly a black swan event for the entire global economy.

None?
Trump has campaigned for months that the first thing he will do will be add more tariffs on China!
That's what he did when he was first president, that's what he has promised and that what every Republican voter wanted!
Whoever didn't see this coming was living in a bubble!

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/trump-china-second-term/

One of Trump’s key promises on the 2024 campaign trail was imposing 60% tariffs on all Chinese imports to the U.S., a drastic increase from when his previous administration raised tariffs on most Chinese products to 25%. Trump has said that tariffs “are the greatest thing ever invented,” and will protect American manufacturing and businesses. The president-elect also promised to revoke China’s trade status, which was meant to provide mutual advantages such as low tariffs and other trade advantages.

We are only in Q2 of 2025, and the opportunity for an uptrend is still intact.

Keep dreaming!
Until the whole thing goes away, the only uptred you will see will come from the devaluation of the USD.

[legend45]

It depends on the op, if I am sure that there will be a downtrend in the coin that I am doing trading activity with, I will sell my holdings for sure, and I will observe through monitoring what is happening here on the cryptocurrency market chart.

It is a good opportunity to sell when we see that many are panicking to sell, then I will analyze its trend in which I will find out where its price is likely to go before it bounces again so that the price rises once again.

Selling early before there is a downtrend is the right decision because we can buy again at a lower price and then hold it until the price goes up again.
This is the strategy that I often use, but always monitoring and studying the market requires focus and free time, all must be done in between our real world activities.

[Promocodeudo]

It's the same with crypto, we buy when the market is going down. Investing is about reaching your financial goals and for that you need to keep an eye on the rewards in all kinds of market conditions. Because some coins will be down at this point and it will take a long time for the price to recover in the future. However, buying good coins at low prices can be a smart strategy especially if you believe in the long term potential. You need to diversify your investments and keep in mind what coin I am buying, what its future holds, when the price might increase, and what the risks are.

You just stated the hard truth, the best thing to do when the market is going down is to hodl tight and buy aggressively, I think some people still don't understand this, the crypto market is very volatile it dips and recovers constantly but that should not make us to panic, I see people that panic during the dip or when the price of Bitcoin decline very bad as individuals that are not real investors, as an investor, the first thing you should know is the nature and concept of that particular investment, even as a newbie you should have a set goal but you've to understand how the crypto market works, once you see yourself in the digital money space, you should be ready for long-term especially when it comes to do with Bitcoin.

As for diversification, you can only diversify when you've reach the level of your satisfaction in Bitcoin acumulation aside that we don't shouldn't have any reason to diversify to any other crypto when we know that Bitcoin remain the best coin unless we are talking about investing in real estate thats if we got all it takes to do that.

[target]

I also panicked since the time when BTC dips below 86k, I was already thinking of bear that is coming and it will not be coming back to have a new ATH. Thats why I sold more than half of my BTC, the few that's been on the other wallet is left.

I am still undecided on what else to do with my USDT. If I ever buy back, I want to make sure the price will not dip anymore. There is no way to secure funds for the erst of the year because we don't know what will happen next.

[MrSpasybo]

• Are you selling or buying tokens?
• Has the uptrend given way to a downtrend this season?
• What is your assessment of the market for the remainder of 2025?

1. I haven't sold any tokens in this cycle. I believe the bullrun is still ongoing, and altseason will arrive soon. There's no significant reason to exit the market right now.

2. I'm confident that the potential of BTC and ALTs in this cycle hasn't been fully realized yet. Altseason hasn't happened, but it will at some point later this year.

3. 90 days should be enough for the market to recover if agreements are signed and China concedes to the U.S. The FED might lower interest rates, and more stimulus packages will be implemented, which is an opportunity for crypto. In case the macro environment worsens, we only have the last 6 months of the year to catch the deadline with BTC reaching $150K-$170K ^^

[robelneo]

I've seen this so many times, and I always looked at it as a great opportunity to buy. Honestly, I thought Bitcoin would not go down anymore during Trump's tenure because of his support, but here we are. The market is dipping, and if the market is dipping and you want to make a profit in the future, you should be at your greediest.