"Am learning to take profits earlier, instead of riding them all the way up, and all the way down before selling"
Amen. I am trying to do the same thing and very quickly running into how difficult I personally find that. Essentially no difference from investing in TradFi - when to buy and set a "buy up to" price which you never exceed and when to sell ...
Piece of cake easy?! Well, I don't think so, but definitely a work in progress to try and get better at it.