Bagholder
trading
An investor who continues holding a cryptocurrency after major losses, often hoping for a future recovery.
A bagholder is someone left holding an asset after its price has fallen sharply, especially when liquidity, fundamentals, or market interest have deteriorated. The term is usually critical or humorous, but it describes a real behavioral risk.
Bagholding often comes from sunk-cost fallacy, confirmation bias, anchoring to a prior high, or fear that selling will lock in a mistake. Holding through volatility is not automatically bagholding; the key issue is ignoring changed evidence.
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