Bitcoin historical perspective

On December 25 2016 Bitcoin was trading for $878 per share. As a matter of fact if you had invested $100 each in the top 10 coins and just held them and sold at a correction today, you would still be significantly richer today than a year ago. The top ten coins on coinmarket cap one year ago were:
Market Cap Price on 12/25/16 Price as of 12/22/2017 (19:30 est)
1 Bitcoin BTC $14,115,686,122 $878.81 $14,106.60 USD (-9.67%)
2 Ethereum ETH $635,758,852 $7.29 $689.09 USD (-15.27%)
3 Ripple XRP $229,739,227 $0.006381 $1.17 USD (-1.30%)
4 Litecoin LTC $213,217,070 $4.35 $267.16 USD (-14.76%)
5 Monero XMR $131,066,727 $9.63 $355.24 USD (-13.44%)
6 Ethereum Classic $96,018,116 $1.10 $31.71 USD (-24.55%)
7 Dash DASH $69,149,318 $9.91 $1,218.36 USD (-14.07%)
8 MaidSafeCoin MAID$47,160,299 $0.104210 $0.681325 USD (-16.87%)
9 NEM XEM $32,531,505 $0.003615 $0.868102 USD (-12.08%)
10 Augur REP $31,752,514 $2.89 $63.63 USD (-22.71%)

Lesson from the above chart is patience and a steady hand will make you a very happy person on 12/22/2018.