A profit or loss isn't realised until you sell. However, if you are holding Bitcoin for a long term gain, then you may be missing the chances to increase your holding by scalping or other trading.This is why I keep a small balance of fiat/Bitcoin in wallets with Coinbase, and I have made a few gains with these whilst the market is moving sideways.

Now i understand what you mean by encash and I strongly support your claim, I once have a token am still hoding on to till date, I bought as high as 10usd per token and it fell to 4.5usd per token, but I haven't loose my investment as long as am still hoding on to my token. HODL!!!

It's called deemed profit or deemed loss. The same thing applies in real world stock market as well. Once you bought in a some equities, your deemed profit or loss depends of that equities' market price. Same happens with bitcoin or similar instruments as well. What's the bottomline of your statement??

You just missed the opportunity to profit but I guess that is OK as long as you haven't move any amount of Bitcoin from your wallet, But that big chance to get it all is already there but you can not change the fact that you still lost on that time frame where you can profit from it, you surely haven't lost anything but you just lost profiting at that moment when the price exceeds everyone's expectations, but I guess you are not regretting anything back then so it is alright as well, but I think you should focus on the now because you can not get that back and try to get a double profit in the upcoming new all-time  high.

That's the basic investment rule in the investment into cryptocurrencies. You only lose when you sell your cryptocurrency in case you bought at a very high price. The best decision is to hold on with your bitcoin for a very long term or you can invest into some potential altcoins that you see on the market. Some altcoins are good to invest and can generate huge profits.

It depends on your definition of making a profit or loss. If you don't care about paper profits or losses and 1BTC is always 1BTC, then there is no way for you to lose. In that case you keep hodling.

Most people however think differently because they only care about what goes back to their bank account in fiat. I can perfectly understand that too, because crypto can be a very lucrative investment tool from time to time.

I personally don't care too much yet, mainly because I believe Bitcoin has much more room to grow in the coming years, but I would lie if I said that I don't pay attention to the price in the short term.

It's difficult not to pay attention to it because we're living it almost 24 hours a day, because this market never sleeps. I'm happy that I found somewhat of a balance between 1BTC is 1BTC and the short term price activity.

I think most people knew this method especially if they see the market's going down then they must have to HODL for a bit until the price rise back. And do some scalping if the price gains a little growth if they were an active trader. But for newbies, this might be a little problem for them if they don't know how fast the fluctuation of a cryptocurrency move.

I have heard this before, and have been in the situation many times. In fact, I hold many shitcoins with the same idea - Can't loose if I don't sell, even though the coin is -97%.

You know,
You cannot loose and you cannot profit...
You have 100% of the funds trapped.

Regardless, how ever you want to spin it - It's currently sitting at a loss and this statement is just a way of saying "I f*cked up" but lets look on the bright side of things...

If you are holding, this is true, in a long term you should not worry about price fluctuations

If you are trying to do some trades, you can always try to sell and buy again in a dip, so it's better to make a plan and stick to, obviously the plan need some adjustments, but this way is better

In my plan, I'm trying to accumulate as much BTC as I can, but sometimes I buy at a price and in a few hours the price falls, I only have the option to wait, as you said, you will only lose if you sell.

That's an golden rule of trading that never sell your coins in a loss. If you have the ability to hold, then you can never lose in trading. You will hold your coins until they again reach your buying price and then you may sell.  There are only few cases where you invest in scam projects and there is no chance of the recovery of such coins.