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A piece of investment advice that is always hard to carry out in practice is to let go of emotional attachments to assets that are either underperforming or have no intrinsic value to you. As more and more retail investors are being exposed to the direct trading of assets via low fee stock trading platforms and cryptocurrencies, it is a lesson that many people are learning the hard way... by holding assets and cryptos too long due to emotional attachment and finding that they are the last people holding the bags...

Well, for quite some time... I've been prone to holding these lovely Gold Splinterlands cards for too long, and not cashing them in for STEEM/SBD/DEC which could be better used to bolster my existing deck of mostly Beta cards. The gold cards hold very little utility value for me, as they are often less powerful than the vanilla cards that I hold, and the DEC bonus from playing them in the game is minimal at best. I don't even have enough gold cards to qualify my for Gold card tournaments!

So, I was definitely holding them against all rational reasoning... something that was brought home after reading this post by @slobberchops and a brief chat in the comments. From there, I was committed to letting go of the shiny gold attachments and would sell any gold cards that weren't being fielded in the battlefield.

This last week, I finally took the plunge and listed the shinies... There were a couple where they were still dominant over the vanilla cards, and so those useful ones I held onto... they were only a handful though... and only two that will have lasting power, it is more than likely that the other ones will be superseded as soon as the vanilla cards start leveling further.

Just seeing how many gold cards that I've been hoarding was a bit of a surprise... it's a page that I don't look at often... and there is quite a decent chunk of stored value there if I can sell them on the market. It is also a testament to lost opportunity, as the value stored in those cards could have been better redirected towards useful investment in Beta cards. Now, the Beta packs have run dry... and thus the cost of Beta cards is significantly more than before... sigh... spilt milk....

... and here is the list! Since listing these, most of these cards have sold.. and I have stuck to discipline, any gold cards sold from this list goes directly to boosting my Beta cards... to be honest, I have really seen a decent boost in the power of my cards, it's really something that I should have done a long time ago... however, this is how you learn! So, any gold cards dropping my way in the future are going to be dumped straight onto the market... after all, no utility value to me means no value to me!

It is the story of the Cock and the Gem all over again!

Splinterlands (aka the best blockchain game out there!)

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