The main thing is when you know where you want to end up, whatever it is, I believe you quickly manage to get the different actions you have to do to achieve it. Like if I can't put in money into crypto right now because the sites are just saturated, I try to interact as much as possible on this site and put as much interesting posts, replies and comments in order to at least get steem and hold it, this is still interesting even if it is typically something oscillating between 5 and 15 dollars.
But anyway, you can still convert it when you want. And I guess the judicious strategy is to convert it on a high with a promising cryptocurrency which is on its low, that's the best way of trading I guess; but you gotta set up limits in order not to be waiting, freaking out and telling yourself "when should I buy" :D
I know you don't have to be too emotional in this market, but what disappoints me the most is the fact I was planning on buying Ethereum just after christmas and before new year, as I predicted there would be a main fall there, it happened.
But because of the sites that took even longer to verify me and are still processing (I will write an article about my awful experience with them so far, as the only site where I managed to sign up and be verified doesn't accept fast credit card, payment and as I don't wanna have to deal with my banks and eternal bureaucrats' queries...), I just wasn't able to put my strategy into action at the right moment. So basically this is the only thing that frustrates me. I could have got Ethereum when it was still at 700$ provided I didn't depend on Internet to get it. Where I am there are literally no physical distributors, there is the "house of bitcoin" in Paris, but the fees are very high and it doesn't provide ethereum yet.
Buying Bitcoin right now is just crazy. Some people are still doing it. Even if it gets to 80 000, it won't reach that in a year, and when it does reach it, you will only have a multiplication factor of 4, which is very low in that cryptoworld. I believe Bitcoin is just the "transition" currency which allowed this market to be actually created, but now Ethereum seems to be the future, with smart contracts, faster transactions, so a more complete way of doing it; Bitcion is the "good old" coin; it will stay up for a time, keep going up, but its destiny is to be replaced by something more efficient...anyway, nothing's lost, I guess Ethereum can't keep on going high.
There are always new opportunities to buy at a low I guess. In any case, most predictions are saying Ethereum will hit several thousand dollars next year. So it is an interesting coin to keep, whatever amount of it you have. Then there are also companies that literally pay you in cryptocurrencies if you want.
Ideal thing is working for an ICO that is likely to burst and pays you in Ethereum or whatever else that increases in time ; if you trust it, you can hold it for 1 or 2 years or even more :D
To sum it up, I totally trust this world, because people are just sick of banks, I mean generally. I don't see why this market would not replace banks at a time, so what I'm investing is really based on my trust. I don't believe any single second this market is not here to stay. This is the future of money for me. Technology replacing the oil companies and the banking directors. At last :D