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Question: Closing BTC Price June 28:
$0 - 5 (2.6%)
<$7,000 - 4 (2.1%)
$7,000-$7,499 - 0 (0%)
$7,500-$7,999 - 0 (0%)
$8,000-$8,499 - 1 (0.5%)
$8,500-$8,999 - 3 (1.6%)
$9,000-$9,499 - 4 (2.1%)
$9,500-$9,999 - 27 (14.2%)
$10,000-$10,499 - 26 (13.7%)
$10,500-10,999 - 15 (7.9%)
$11,000-$11,499 - 14 (7.4%)
$11,500-$12,000 - 17 (8.9%)
>$12,000 - 59 (31.1%)
>$20,000 - 15 (7.9%)
Total Voters: 190

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September 02, 2017, 09:58:32 PM


I wish. I had to pay an exorbitant 6.8% buy fee but at least I seem to have caught the bottom (for now). Just a few hundred bucks worth but everything helps.

If it goes back down below $4.45k I'll do it again.

Jimbo:

Do you keep track of your average cost per BTC?  Since you buy and never sell your average cost per BTC must be going up and up and up?  I understand that you started buying in the double digits (or at least I recall that), and I think that you responded to this kind of question from me previously, so sorry about the redundancy.

I do believe that your system does go to show (even with various fees) that you can come out much ahead, even by employing a BTC hodl and accumulation strategy without selling (except maybe selling when it comes time that you really feel that you need to cash out of some of those babies)

Recall that I started buying at $1200 in late 2013, and after about two years of buying at lower prices, my average price per BTC dropped to a bit more than $500.  It could have been much lower, except I had blown a larger portion of my wadd at buying in the $600 and $400 price territories while experiencing some quasi-unexpected cash flow issues in 2015...

Thereafter, starting in late 2015 I engaged in trading that employed a good system of buying back with money that I had gained in selling, and largely brought my BTC stash up while bringing my average cost per BTC down to below $400 by early 2017.

There seems to be some advantages to limiting your interactions and using paper storage because my keeping some coins on exchanges has resulted in various losses through hacker sophistication to get into my personal credentials and also through exchange vulnerabilities, so sometimes these kinds of exchange related losses and interacting by sending BTC around can end up taking away some BTC profits to lower the total amount of bitcoins held and/or raise the average cost per BTC. 
 
I think that the punchline for me, is that my total number of BTC is lower than it had been in late 2015 because of losses - but my average cost per BTC is less (at least in the $400-ish territory), but mostly due to BTC price appreciation of selling higher and buying lower - even though I am buying back at much higher prices than my average, my average price per BTC keeps going down because I am selling at prices higher than I buy.

Your system seems much more hands off, even though you run out in your pajamas at 2 in the morning.  hahahahaha  Cheesy Cheesy