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December 18, 2013Origins & cultureCulture & communitydocumented

“I AM HODLING”

A forum user posted a misspelled, half-drunk defence of refusing to sell during a crash.

The post argued that the writer was a bad trader and that people who sell in a panic mostly lose to those who do not. The typo in its title became the community's shorthand for holding through volatility.