No stop loss... the lower the price goes the more I'll buy, because I don't trust the market price, I trust my instincts. That's another basic investment concept 

then what's your guys' target price?

i had a stop loss, a few weeks ago.

i put $1,600 into mining equipment in march, and i figured i'd hold 200 BTC on an $8 sell contract, just to be sure i could get the USD out.

but i got rid of that contract.  made no sense.

i figure i'm better off spending the BTC back into the community, to help it grow.

you're in or you're out.

No idea... trying to "name the correct price" on something so new, revolutionary, volatile, and downright crazy is a fool's errand. Or in other words, target price is between $0.10 and $10,000 per coin. SO many variables, and the timeframe for every variable is also a variable.

I'm buying them because I believe in the concept, and in the market need for frictionless free-market money. I have no idea what the right price is, but I know these are wildly valuable to humanity - we'll see if humanity recognizes this =)

well said.

I think you have this backwards. You're supposed to buy when it's low, and sell when it's high.

I don't buy them back, never. I just mine them. My question is always whether I should hold on to the coins I mined because they have the potential to go to $100, or whether I should sell them before they go to $0.

Are there people who prefer a coin over $15, but then days (or minutes?) later prefer $10 over a coin?

If you're just mining, and not speculating at all, then just sell them as you get them.

Then don't do a wire transfer. Pick one of the many other, cheaper methods. Problem solved.