Crypto Trading: The Soggy Biscuit

in #cryptocurrency9 years ago (edited)

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If you have been crypto trading, even a little over the last few months when largely the market has been very positive, you might be looking at the oceans of red in your portfolio in abject horror.

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Perhaps you are wondering if you have taken a snide ride.

Well I am here to reassure. To do so, I will relate the practice of the soggy biscuit and explain how it pertains to the dangerous roller coaster of crypto.

As ever I will make clear that I, quite clearly am a buffoon and any decisions you make in the crypto world should be made without being influenced by others, including myself.

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Only you can do whats right for you.

That's quite a good one, I should write those motivational posters!

So what is this soggy biscuit? Well, if you are tender of the heart I would read no further because it is quite the minging affair.
Minging - British slang for rather disgusting

It is told that one of the many manly locker room antics of Rugby players is to play the game of Soggy Biscuit.

(Rugby - A strange game similar to american football but with more torn ears and jizzum)

The rules of Soggy Biscuit are simple. A group of chaps cluster around a biscuit, most likely a digestive/jacobs cracker. Each chap frantically chunters at their nethers and tries to issue forth upon said biscuit. As each one does, the pressure mounts on the rest until there is only one left who has not spoinged forth their seed.

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In a strange reversal to what you would expect, this man is not heralded as the winner. Instead he is the loser and as such has to pay a forfeit. That forfeit being... can you guess?

Eat the soggy biscuit.

That's right. What this proves or does not prove is open to conjecture but none the less I don't think there are many that would like to play, let alone lose that game.

So how does this hook up with Crypto Trading?

Well, when the markets are in a horrifying state of red such as the slump of the last two days, people start to panic sell.

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Panic selling can be likened to the first couple of chaps sowing their seed onto the biscuit. As the pressure mounts, more and more people sell. The price is then pressured downward.

No one wants to be the bagholder who has to eat the soggy biscuit. So everyone starts to sell.

Still a little opaque?

My advice. You do not have to play that game. If you look at the long term holdings of most crypto coins there are highs and lows and these are all part of normal trading. If you leap in and sell everytime their is a dip you are only adding to the problem.

If you really want to avoid that soggy biscuit do not be led into selling because everyone else is.

So leave the soggy biscuit to others and instead wait it out, heck, even buy when things hit rock bottom.
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In the end, when the market turns you will be the emperor of crypto, carried aloft on the shoulders of the weak, yoghurt lipped biscuit eaters.

Don't eat the biscuit!



Again. Please be aware that my eccentric opinions do not constitute real trading advice.

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Haha, the biscuit talk made me laugh!

But I do agree with the conclusion of this post! I hope to add some to my position one of these days!

If things keep going down it is definitely the smartest move!

Thank you for posting @meesterboom.

Someone had to write about it......the total beating the cryptos are taking....however as one gold seller put it....he said the cryptos reflect the free market and nothing else does these days.....the market is volatile therefore the cryptos are volatile.

Thank you for the laugh.....^_^

Wishing you and yours all the best. Cheers.

A side note.....did you see the eye on your pocket in the lead photo/artwork....which is superb btw.

HA! I never even noticed that! It is totally like an eye! Cheers @bleujay!

Cryptos are volatile. I think because a few people might be new to it all they are probably horrified that the goose which seemed to be laying the golden eggs has turned into a rabid dog. :O)

All the best!

I wasn't sure how you were going to pull all that together and then, voila. I don't want no soggy biscuit. Ruggers are an interesting lot.

They are an interesting if slightly mental lot! Yes, Iworrried I was rambling too much at the start but managed to round it back up for a nice finish!

ocean of red in portfolio is a chink of opportunity I thought :D

it's just another correction no?

It is an opportunity. Things seem to be turning around today.

Just yet another one They happen in cycles. Everyone was so used to it going up and up endlessly I think this one surprised them!

yes.. we tend to forget it cost cents and ones back then

Yep yep, I made a post with a similar point, allow me to share a meme I made for that post. :)

Lol, Excellent!

Can't remember the last time I've had such a good laugh reading a Steemit post. Thank you! Thank you for all the effort put into this one :):)

Cheers mate! It's good to present a slightly less serious view :0)

A very good analogy my freind...I am buying steem and powering up because am in on the long run Hiyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

That's the stuff dude, it will go back up. It's a long journey but we will get there!!

absolutely, am in in the long run

Oh god I would never be able to look at a digestive cracker the same ever again >.<

As someone who doesn't sell even when the market has exiled the investment I am holding, cast if off as a pariah, thrown rocks at it and such, I fully support this life lesson. In the crypto wold, red means GO. And that doesn't mean "GO SELL". People often feel like they have to abandon a sinking ship, when in reality, the ship might not even be sinking at all. Maybe it's just building momentum before it launches itself to the moon. TO THE MOON!

OR

I'm a total idiot, and the ship has not only sunk to the deepest part of Tartarus, but it's trying to bargain for the removal of its existence in the annals of history.

Well you know me... the second option has crossed my mind but I am fully behind the first!! I geuinely believe that decent crypto will keep on rising over the long term. Given that most of us steemians have purchased it with steem we are on a win win :O)

It is fould isnt it. It must have some basis in fact but the whole thing is bogging!!

I DON'T LIKE BISCUITS...cookies maybe but NOT biscuits.. This crypto business is the only business in the world where people are happy when the price of biscuit go up!

You definitely wouldnt like these ones. That aint sugar frosting!!!!

I love a good cookie, I had one today, it was one of those really chewy good ones.

I think thats cos crypto folk are a bit nuts :O)

You've some quality posts Meester! Soggy biscuit was a game I didn't participate in when I was in the cadets, but it was suggested. :-) Resteemed.
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Thanks mate!

Wow, someone who has had first hand (nearly) experience of the game! I can't even begin to think of the foulness of it!

Haha! You're a funny guy Meester! Being the one minute kid helps you avoid 'coming' last and having to eat a gooey biscuit. A hob knob would have soaked it up better though. ;-D

Hobnobs would cetainly add some texture, aaargh!

Am never eating the soggy biscuit, not selling any of my bitcoin. Am gonna keep holding and if I get any extra cash am gonna buy steem and power up my account. Thanks for sharing that analogy, so smart and creative of u :)

Thank you! I think thats a great idea. There may be tough times ahead but we will get there in the end!

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