Crypto Trading: The Soggy Biscuit

in #cryptocurrency7 years ago (edited)

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If you have been crypto trading, even a little over the last few months when largely the market has been very positive, you might be looking at the oceans of red in your portfolio in abject horror.

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Perhaps you are wondering if you have taken a snide ride.

Well I am here to reassure. To do so, I will relate the practice of the soggy biscuit and explain how it pertains to the dangerous roller coaster of crypto.

As ever I will make clear that I, quite clearly am a buffoon and any decisions you make in the crypto world should be made without being influenced by others, including myself.

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Only you can do whats right for you.

That's quite a good one, I should write those motivational posters!

So what is this soggy biscuit? Well, if you are tender of the heart I would read no further because it is quite the minging affair.
Minging - British slang for rather disgusting

It is told that one of the many manly locker room antics of Rugby players is to play the game of Soggy Biscuit.

(Rugby - A strange game similar to american football but with more torn ears and jizzum)

The rules of Soggy Biscuit are simple. A group of chaps cluster around a biscuit, most likely a digestive/jacobs cracker. Each chap frantically chunters at their nethers and tries to issue forth upon said biscuit. As each one does, the pressure mounts on the rest until there is only one left who has not spoinged forth their seed.

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In a strange reversal to what you would expect, this man is not heralded as the winner. Instead he is the loser and as such has to pay a forfeit. That forfeit being... can you guess?

Eat the soggy biscuit.

That's right. What this proves or does not prove is open to conjecture but none the less I don't think there are many that would like to play, let alone lose that game.

So how does this hook up with Crypto Trading?

Well, when the markets are in a horrifying state of red such as the slump of the last two days, people start to panic sell.

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Panic selling can be likened to the first couple of chaps sowing their seed onto the biscuit. As the pressure mounts, more and more people sell. The price is then pressured downward.

No one wants to be the bagholder who has to eat the soggy biscuit. So everyone starts to sell.

Still a little opaque?

My advice. You do not have to play that game. If you look at the long term holdings of most crypto coins there are highs and lows and these are all part of normal trading. If you leap in and sell everytime their is a dip you are only adding to the problem.

If you really want to avoid that soggy biscuit do not be led into selling because everyone else is.

So leave the soggy biscuit to others and instead wait it out, heck, even buy when things hit rock bottom.
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In the end, when the market turns you will be the emperor of crypto, carried aloft on the shoulders of the weak, yoghurt lipped biscuit eaters.

Don't eat the biscuit!



Again. Please be aware that my eccentric opinions do not constitute real trading advice.

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Haha, the biscuit talk made me laugh!

But I do agree with the conclusion of this post! I hope to add some to my position one of these days!

If things keep going down it is definitely the smartest move!

Thank you for posting @meesterboom.

Someone had to write about it......the total beating the cryptos are taking....however as one gold seller put it....he said the cryptos reflect the free market and nothing else does these days.....the market is volatile therefore the cryptos are volatile.

Thank you for the laugh.....^_^

Wishing you and yours all the best. Cheers.

A side note.....did you see the eye on your pocket in the lead photo/artwork....which is superb btw.

HA! I never even noticed that! It is totally like an eye! Cheers @bleujay!

Cryptos are volatile. I think because a few people might be new to it all they are probably horrified that the goose which seemed to be laying the golden eggs has turned into a rabid dog. :O)

All the best!

I wasn't sure how you were going to pull all that together and then, voila. I don't want no soggy biscuit. Ruggers are an interesting lot.

They are an interesting if slightly mental lot! Yes, Iworrried I was rambling too much at the start but managed to round it back up for a nice finish!

ocean of red in portfolio is a chink of opportunity I thought :D

it's just another correction no?

It is an opportunity. Things seem to be turning around today.

Just yet another one They happen in cycles. Everyone was so used to it going up and up endlessly I think this one surprised them!

yes.. we tend to forget it cost cents and ones back then

Yep yep, I made a post with a similar point, allow me to share a meme I made for that post. :)

Lol, Excellent!

Can't remember the last time I've had such a good laugh reading a Steemit post. Thank you! Thank you for all the effort put into this one :):)

Cheers mate! It's good to present a slightly less serious view :0)

A very good analogy my freind...I am buying steem and powering up because am in on the long run Hiyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

That's the stuff dude, it will go back up. It's a long journey but we will get there!!

absolutely, am in in the long run

Oh god I would never be able to look at a digestive cracker the same ever again >.<

As someone who doesn't sell even when the market has exiled the investment I am holding, cast if off as a pariah, thrown rocks at it and such, I fully support this life lesson. In the crypto wold, red means GO. And that doesn't mean "GO SELL". People often feel like they have to abandon a sinking ship, when in reality, the ship might not even be sinking at all. Maybe it's just building momentum before it launches itself to the moon. TO THE MOON!

OR

I'm a total idiot, and the ship has not only sunk to the deepest part of Tartarus, but it's trying to bargain for the removal of its existence in the annals of history.

Well you know me... the second option has crossed my mind but I am fully behind the first!! I geuinely believe that decent crypto will keep on rising over the long term. Given that most of us steemians have purchased it with steem we are on a win win :O)

It is fould isnt it. It must have some basis in fact but the whole thing is bogging!!

I DON'T LIKE BISCUITS...cookies maybe but NOT biscuits.. This crypto business is the only business in the world where people are happy when the price of biscuit go up!

You definitely wouldnt like these ones. That aint sugar frosting!!!!

I love a good cookie, I had one today, it was one of those really chewy good ones.

I think thats cos crypto folk are a bit nuts :O)

You've some quality posts Meester! Soggy biscuit was a game I didn't participate in when I was in the cadets, but it was suggested. :-) Resteemed.
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Thanks mate!

Wow, someone who has had first hand (nearly) experience of the game! I can't even begin to think of the foulness of it!

Haha! You're a funny guy Meester! Being the one minute kid helps you avoid 'coming' last and having to eat a gooey biscuit. A hob knob would have soaked it up better though. ;-D

Hobnobs would cetainly add some texture, aaargh!

Am never eating the soggy biscuit, not selling any of my bitcoin. Am gonna keep holding and if I get any extra cash am gonna buy steem and power up my account. Thanks for sharing that analogy, so smart and creative of u :)

Thank you! I think thats a great idea. There may be tough times ahead but we will get there in the end!

And I thought the elephant march was bad enough. Ya' topped it. Luckily or un-luckily, I'm too short a McDuck to be dabbling in the pool. Hopefully someday.

There is always something worse! Something horrifying to repel the senses!

One day mate you will be in that pool, paddling away!

Not sure I'll ever take up the sport. Not a post-game ritual I'd relish. Hope you're right...one day, I shall be twaddling away in the deep end of the inflatable trading pool.

I dont think there are many that would relish that one!

Yes you will be in there with your armbands and goggles looking around in joy!

My grandmother wore those floaty armbands...'Schwimmflooggles' she called them.

Quite the monicker!

"Someone had to write about it" says the bird in the top comment LOL, hahaha, that is definitely not the first thing that came to my mind to say, though I am laughing quite ridiculously and that comment added the perfect extra oomph.

I have definitely never heard of the business of the buscuit, and might have gone my entire life merrily never having heard it. I also might have gone my whole life merrily never knowing what Two Girls One Cup meant either if not for a similarly minded chap....hee hee hee

Oh lord, dont get me started on that horror. It was like chocolate ice cream. I dont think I ever got past 5 minutes into that madness!

Hehe, I am glad I have enlightened some into the seedy underworld of Rugby antics! Hoaching isnt it!

Love the entertainment factor, When anything goes UP it will eventually go down > It's expected in life. Knowing this fact early on helps to keep our heads. So, it makes sense holding on and buying more of what has been doing well for us.>

Why do so many people forget this simple fact
when it comes to investing money?

Horray for the Biscutes for these forgetful ones!
You are a funny man in the times of investor's crisis. The best of comedians do the same thing. Saying all that I am looking forward to your future youtube comedy standups.
Here is your biscutes for all those who come to you in need.
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That dog has em all!!

Hehe, I might not be so funny in the flesh. All ums and erms hehe! Then again I do make a crowd laugh!

Hey... there you go.
Making a crowd laugh is no easy task.
Lookie there. You may have a new door opening on steemit.
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Gross.. I would never eat a soggy biscuit xD Makes me nauseous just thinking of it right now :D

It sure aint my first choice on the dinner menu!! :O)

Yeah no, I definitely can agree with that xD

lol, nuff said :D

Haha...you had me at Soggy Buscuit Don't typically follow on a name alone, but I think I need to make an exception.

Much ❤
@Tayken

Why thank you :0)

Love your sense of humor!

Thank you very much, I do try to amuse! :0D

heck, even buy when things hit rock bottom.

YES!! This is the best advice!! Buy when there is blood in the streets, but don't try to catch the falling knife (even though I stupidly try to)!

I try to add well. It bloody hurts when it keeps going down!!

It really does! I should have sold off more of my ETH when it was nearing $400... Oh well!

I know, I sold mine after it had peaked. Still made but not as much!

At least you sold some off! I still have 50% of my holdings I think of it.. :|

Damned crypto! :O)

Hitting that buy button double time.

DON'T EAT THE BISCUIT!

Love how you put it in words. Couldn't be more entertaining to read about a "bloodbath". Captioned cause it ain't one! It's only going to recover even stronger than before.

I say people should stop hesitating and if they still are, hopefully this isn't the last train stop for y'all to get ON! Cheers!

#follow4follow

Yeah. Its just the way Crypto is, peaks and troughs. Gotta look long term on decent coins. Not shit coins obvs lol

No, I won't play that discussing game. Won't sell any for a long time. Maybe 10 years or more.

Then I think you will be rich in ten years time!

In America, that game is called "Ookie Cookie". Ookie meaning like icky, yucky, or gross.

Man, it really transcends borders that game! I like that version a lot, ookie!

I am happy with this drop for now. It gives me a cheaper investment point...

It does, I have bought some myself :0)

I like my biscuits nice and crisp.

You wouldn't like these ones then!!

HODOR!!!!!!!!!!

Lol, HODLOR! ;0)

Love it @meesterboom ! Masterful !! Oceans of red......Violets in bloom ! This is what is sounds like . . when . . !

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... hehe! Yes, exactly then!!! :0D

Don't react to the market, make the market react to you!

Quality advice!!!

Funny but with a point as usual. Well done.

There always has to be a point doesn't there! :O)

HAHAHAHA. I remember the first time I heard about this game, only I heard it as soggy toast, I was so disgusted lol. I never thought I would read about it as an analogy to the crypto market, but you're right, it fits! Now thank you for putting that horrible image in my head for the rest of the day...

You are welcome to that horrible image! I am in turn horrified even further by the thought of it being toast. I hate wet bread or toast. It seems even worse!! lol

I think we can both agree that this is terrible no matter what the food is! lol

Yeah, definitely!

Great post and I am being serious this was a great post - they are all great, before you take umbrage :-) but this really explained the current situation in the crypto world. I've dipped my toe and In think that I might just wade into the shallow end of the crypto market :-)

Its a terrible mistress!! Only venture in if you dare! When it bottoms out, probably tomorrow you should maybe get in then!

I have no idea if it will bottom out tomorrow.

What a mess! And a biohazard. Hahahah

Here is the way I view crypto going down. A complete WTF?

Lol, I haven't seen that one before!

This is also where the band Limp Bizkit gets its name supposedly.

Really!! Right enough, that doesnt surprise me, they did have the chocolate starfish album!

I totally share your opinion dear friend @meesterboom, these are moments of being calm, on the contrary if there is a reserve available you have to buy even, all that rises tinene to go down, as well as also what low has to return to subrir is the cycle of Every business, it matters to know where the point of inflection is.
Thank you very much dear friend for your words and experience
Have a great day

It has never not gone back up yet so I completely agree with you @jlufer!

Have a good one too!

As I will probably have a difficult time eating any biscuits in the near future, I also have difficulty holding cryptos that have dropped 40% +. But the only way you lose is if you sell low; I just started with cryptos recently and actually used to buy high, sell low - go figure. Now I'm in it for the long haul. Awesome article. Thanks :)

It is hard to hold on to them because you get that fear that they are just going to keep losing but I aint seen it yet when they have never recovered.

Unless its straight after an ICO and the dump has just happened!

The Soggy Biscuit lol. :-)

Bogging, isn't it!

haha, that was hilarious!

Cheers man!

very good advice nice post.

Thank you, I try to help!

This is quite strange and hilarious, but there is a logic in it. BTW have a look at my India Tour.

Do people munch cream coated biscuits in it?!? Yeek ;0)

that's good to know I like this post thanks a lot for sharing and keep on posting ;)

Thank you for reading!

hah. really love your sense of humour. thanks for sharing

How do you know how its played????? Have you played it? Did you lose? 🤢

I would never play such foul games! For me it was always hide the purple monkey with the girls!

I hope the purple monkey wore his raincoat, cant be to careful these days haha

That was back in the golden days lol

I vaguely remember those days, I was a good girl so wouldn't have had a clue what you were on about :)

LOL KAREN, hahaha!!

Hey I was a good girl :P

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Soggy Sao?

Yeah, #teamaustralia gets me.