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Hi all,

I came across a video earlier saying if you had invested £5 per day in a certain crypto for 3 years between 2018 to 2021 you would have ended up with £1m at the top of the bull run in November last year.

I want to do this for the next 2 years and was at first going to go with Bitcoin however the profits will be a lot larger If I go with a riskier Altcoin, just not sure which one to go with.

Has anyone done this or currently doing it?

What is the best exchange to do this with? Obviously one with little fee's as possible would be best.

You are making the wrong choice between getting a small but more real profit and losing your money. Since not every altcoin, much less a "risky" one, will be able to survive a bear market. Maybe you shouldn't take unnecessary risks and choose a time-tested BTC for your investment?

I am thinking of doing £5 per day on Bitcoin & £2 per day on another strong altcoin, leaning towards Algorand as I believe that it will be around for the long term.

I haven't invested in Bitcoin yet as it has always been too expensive for me but now it is around £15k It feels like a good time to get involved and this £5 per day strategy could be a good way of doing it.

DCA is the best strategy for beginners but you just have to not be greedy and be patient and you only invest in Bitcoin or currencies that I have done thorough and in-depth research on (and even after in-depth research it is better to invest in Bitcoin)

If you have excess money and you will not need it during the next 5 years, investing in Bitcoin may bring you good profits.
As for the strategy, it is better to buy every 15 days £125 instead of £5 per day.

for next 2 years investing in BTC will be good but will not give yo 1M return.

Why is DCA every 15 days better then DCA every day?

Yes I understand Bitcoin will not return £1m - this is why I want to do a riskier altcoin too which will return a lot more then Bitcoin will.

Go on youtube and search Bob Sharpe - it is one of his latest videos.

Instead of investing in bitcoin, you pick a riskier altcoin because you do not believe it will bring you £1 million in the future. Have you thought it through? Nobody can advise you on which altcoin to invest in, and nothing is certain it will bring you a million in two years.

You have to be willing to take high risks if you want high profits, there is nothing that is highly profitable without risk at all. Investing in altcoins will probably lose you more than it will gain you. In your case, 2 years of risk is a huge risk, so I think that you should think carefully before making a decision.

I am not saying I expect £1m in 2 years using this strategy on an altcoin. I am saying the returns are likely to be greater then doing this with Bitcoin.

I don’t smoke and I don’t drink much, many smokers I know spend £50+ a week on cigarettes so spending £35-£40 per week on this strategy is nothing and worth the risk to make thousands in a few years time when the next bull run comes.

Since bitcoin has increased tens of thousands of times since it was created, so it is probably still correct to assume that bitcoin will not be able to yield as large returns as altcoins because new coins if good enough will get hyped by sharks and profits can be up to 100x, 1000x. However, that would be very risky, since such new projects would not have much to look for, so you would have to spend a lot of time and money to find it.
You can try it if you're determined to take the risk and it doesn't affect your daily life. Good luck finding that hidden gem.

I do not think that the calculations you were told are accurate or correct. To help with this, I will ask you to use this site ---> https://dcabtc.com/:

 - Based on your talk, the user invested about $7 per day from 2018 to 2021, with an average of $7,672 which turned into $30.889 or 302.63%.
Percent Change
 - If the opposite happened to me investing from 2018 until today, then you invest about $10,227 and get $40,994
 - If you start from 9 years, the total investment is $23,009 and the return is $1,309,449 at current prices.

It's not a get-rich-quick model but it's better than nothing.

It was not Bitcoin I was referring to it was different altcoin which returned much higher returns during the 3 years.

Thank you for showing me however how little you do get when you do this strategy with Bitcoin compared to altcoins though.

I am thinking of going with £4 Bitcoin £2 Algorand each day. I believe Algorand is going to be pretty big in the next 2-3 years and if it is this strategy will return a good amount.

It will make a lot of sense if you are using 5euro to DCA on Bitcoin everyday, your success rate is higher than any other altcoins, also now isn't a good time to start DCA in BItcoin because I believe this bottom is when you should be buying with what you have on you.

How can you be sure about this?

You saw the volatility is more with altcoins and I think that you're optimistic about it. There's nothing with that if you think you'll make more with altcoins because, with this bull run, too many of them have pumped.

But just look right now at how low most of them are and thanks to bitcoin. They're all affected with bitcoin's drop and that's why if you think that you'll be getting more profit with riskier altcoins, think about it again.

The altcoin you can try that DCA stunt should be a low cap gem that has a good potential to moon. It shouldn't be a top 10 coin obviously, though those ones are less risky and more popular. But always do your DYOR

It would have been best if you are decided to do this with Bitcoin especially because you are planning to do this for years. It would really be so risky doing this with an altcoin. But if you are really decided to this with an altcoin, avoid committing the mistake of choosing a new altcoin or one which is only rising to the top very recently. They're not yet solid. Their popularity might not even last a year. If I do this with an altcoin, I would do this with ETH, XMR, or LTC. These are the top solid altcoins that have already proven a lot of things in their long track record.

Dollar-cost average is the safest strategy for me if you want to invest into crypto.

If you are more of a conservative investor, then I'd rather go with Ethereum than in Algorand. I heard that coin already but as a conservative, most of the time I'm investing in Bitcoin and Ethereum only.

In the end, it's your money, but Bitcoin and Ethereum is the safest approach if you will ask me. Now if you want to be a more aggressive investor, I think you should invest on the other top 10 coins but remember, not all coins on the top 10 right now will remain at the top a few years from now. Just look where EOS, IOTA, BCH, NEM and TRON is right now. There is a chance that projects in the future will eliminate coins such as SOL, ADA, DOT on the top 10. Maybe try to invest into XRP or LTC if you want :D.

DCA ing altcoins is very risky and not recommended, you might DCA ing wrong coins and become worthless in the future.

While Bitcoin even you think the profit wouldn't be larger than altcoins, but DCA is a strategy for long term holding and you need to check how much the Bitcoin APY to know how profitable to invest in Bitcoin.

We are in a bear market , I feel now is a good time to start this strategy. Yes Bitcoin might go down to $10k, but it will go back up no doubt one day.

Bitcoin price prediction varies from $250k to $1m by 2030 so as long as it heads in that direction starting this strategy now will work out fine in the end.

Exactly! Then it makes no sense in investing into alts and shitcoins. If you really want to do long term investments, invest in 3 coins - Bitcoin, ETH and BNB. That's it! I don't think you need anything else to invest into. These are excellent coins and had already shown phenomenal returns during last bull cycles.

Riskier shitcoins may not be able to survive a bear season. But these rock solid coins are going to stay for a real long time. So invest wisely and don't look for unrealistic cryptos to invest.

If you see a reply of mine earlier in the thread, I will be doing Bitcoin and 1 other altcoin which I believe will still be around in 2-3 years and that is Algorand.

£4 per day on Bitcoin & £2 on Algorand so £42 per week total - money I can afford to risk and feel it will be a good investment in the long run betting on Bitcoin & Algorand.

Spread too thin and you get nothing decent enough. I think you should save that £5 per day till it was around £500 and wait for when the market dip enough to invest in. This way, it is easier for you to manage your investment because you know at what price you are in and what price you can take profit. Unless you really don't care and just want to get hold of a coin and keep on it for a very long time.

This is what I am thinking, I should just pick one not two to DCA daily as the returns won't be as good if I DCA daily into two.

I will think about it , up till now I have just been buying the dip every time the market drops significantly.

You are skipping the most important step, you want for the community to give you the name of a coin which by investing 5 pounds per day is going to give you such profits in three years, but the truth is that even if such a coin exist there are too many obstacles for you to actually get those results.

You need to find the coin, perform the strategy you want no matter what, even if things got worse during the next months, you need to keep holding the coin and then you need to sell at the right time, if any of those steps goes wrong you will most likely sell for a loss, which is the most common scenario that happens to the people which try anything similar to what you are trying to do.

That's the mistake absolutely all beginners make, they always try to increase the risk in their investments, not decrease it. No one wants to get rich slowly, they all want to become millionaires in a couple of years. I can tell you that with 99% probability you won't become one, because you don't understand risk management. You are not willing to invest in projects where there is minimal risk, but in those that offer more profit. That's what the whole altcoin industry is built on, to lure in more people who are expecting quick profits and to just as quickly bankrupt them all.

Buy only those assets that have moderate risk, like bitcoin, buy at any time with free money and in 3-4 years you will earn good money. That's what investing is, and your plan is not investing, it's gambling.

I do not expect to be millionaire in a couple of years but in 2-3 years you can return £2/300k with this strategy but it is just about finding the right coin.

Question is if I should play it safe with Bitcoin or go with a medium risk coin like I have mentioned with Algorand which would return a lot more in 2-3 years IF it lasts the distance which I think it will. I am not talking about a meme coin here, Algorand is one of the sponsors of the FIFA World cup later this year and has a lot of potential.

Have decided to go with Bitcoin, £4 per day until it hits £200k so will be a few years at least doing this but it is the safest option and one which will bring good return in the long run.

I will continue doing what I have always done with Algorand and just buy the dip every time price drops 5-10%.

I don't know what coin you've seen and talked about, but I'm not sure that's a reasonable idea for you. First, reframe how much you understand this market instead of following someone's opinion, and then when a mistake occurs at some stage, you will suffer the consequences. Personally, I don't want to complicate matters when I have to pay too much attention to the cryptocurrency market every day. Instead, I'd rather spend more time on the work that you feel you do best with and, instead of DCA on a daily basis, it may be better than weekly or monthly for you to have a good mind. I figure with a monthly spending of $ 150, what brings profit after a long time is also a lot with the funds involved with the leading coins in the market, such as ETH, BNB, DOT, etc. If you really trust them, you can buy and wait till you make a profit for yourself.

You can facilitate the fulfillment of your task and make a purchase not every day, but once a week. In this case, you will have more chances to stick to the coin purchase schedule and will take less time. I do not know why you chose Algorand as the second coin to invest in, but I would prefer investing in ETH.

Exactly, this is why I am still holding my stable coin, with the recession coming I believe a new low will come, I heard that even Binance and FTX will soon run out of fund because they keep standing for other platforms that got in trouble will the market crashes, too early to think that bear market is over.

I agree with you. The recession is still going and we haven't bottomed out from the bear market yet. Anyone who invests all of their funds now instead of just DCA really doesn't know anything, and fall for FOMO despite all of the signs.

These are just your expectations, which may have nothing to do with reality. Have you ever tried investing in any altcoins for more than 1 year? Many of them are good only at short distances, and at a distance they often fail or stagnate in one place. I can say the same about Algorand. It's a coin, which didn't give a new ATH in the previous bullrun, and stomped on the place in terms of conquering the price tops. This may indicate that this project is not suitable for long-term investment. There's a 90% chance this project will still be trading in the range it traded in two years from 2019 to 2021. The World Cup is not a fundamental indicator, it is just a reason for short-term growth, the World Cup will pass and everything will go back to the way it was before.

That is a good approach because that means you will be able to actually make sense of the market and that will bring you a lot of profit. I get that it is not going to be a lot of money for everyone, but that means if we are talking about just a regular teacher, or just an accountant, or a clerk at a shop whatever we are talking about, that means they could all do it and they could all profit from it.

This isn't some method for the wealthy alone, this is a method that every single person in the world could follow and do, which is why it is such a great idea. If you do this, doesn't matter how rich or poor you are, you will end up with a good profit eventually.

If you have a large amount of money, it is better to put the 50% of your capital will goes to buy Bitcoin then hold in the long term.
While the rest 50% must goes to altcoins depending in your own way of research in which of them for you is a good to apply in a short-term trading to make you have a passive income anyhow in your pocket. And better to Binance, kucoin and Houbi.

So you're saying that he need to hold until 100 days to buy the coins that he wanted to buy? What's the difference between DCAing 5 Euro for 100 days and waiting 100 days to buy the coins? which one you think have better volatility?

If you said waiting 100 days have better volatility then you're dumb since a coin doesn't change so much in a day, holding for 100 days is obviously higher volatility.

Exchanges coins are literally doesn't have any use cases except the bonus if you hold their coins and using their exchanges, if the exchanges collapses, then the coins will collapses too.

So, do you know which coin to use?
I think spending too much time every day buying them is also not necessary, and believe me, you will easily be affected by it over time and gradually become dominated by it if you care about it too much. I also like to refer to some of the successes achieved by others as a lesson for myself, but things don't always work. I would rather choose DCA with a monthly surplus to buy BTC or ETH, and until everything moves, that capital will be reallocated.

Why not post the video so we can verify what you're saying you're not even posting that certain Crypto so we can check if the data is correct we are left speculating what it is.

Bitcoin is still the safest investment you will have to risk investing in altcoins that will not give you you're expected profit, its a big risk or gamble investing in altcoin if the community know where to invest you won't see people complaining of losing their money


Have done it before but not the kind of yield that you posted I accept whatever profit my investment yield as long as I'm not losing.

Altcoins imo are better investments for the short term, not really something I'd recommend that you'd do DCA on. Bitcoin would be your best bet, especially if your goal was in a 2 year span since we'd be able to see the next halving in the next 2 years. Maybe extend it to 2 1/2 to better feel if the halving could bring up something or not. The profit you'd get wouldn't be as big if you took the risk in some altcoins, but it's more reliable compared to looking for altcoin investments. If you really want to profit more, do shorting on altcoins instead of DCA'ing on it.

If you want to invest other than bitcoin then you have to choose some potential altcoins, if you want to bear all the risks then you have to be ready to lose your assets if later the coins you hold do not meet the expectations we expected, top-ranked altcoins such as ethereum and BNB I think are suitable to be held at this time because of the price drop in the coin so for the next few years we will definitely get a big profit.

In fact, a regular DC plan is a way to give a lot of security to an investment. If the OP can buy an altcoin that you feel has long-term potential, don't worry too much about the price. Even now, be more confident in your ability to profit from a long-term investment. However, I think the matter of daily monitoring is not a very wise choice. Instead, I spend more time and buy them weekly. I have also applied to buy BNB and have amassed a wonderful fortune with it.

Because if he spread his DCA too much, every day of 100 days, his average with be all over the place, hard to keep track of what the actual price for him to take profit or cut loss. It's also not a good move since you disregard the market's situation to use it to your advantage. 100 days is roughly 3 months. If 3 months ago he started his DCA with £5 per day up to now, he brought all the way down with his average higher than today's price. If 3 months ago, he save that £5 per day up to now to buy the dip, he would have a nice entry point for both long-term and short-term hold. Don't tell me you don't know that, the market has shown signs of recession and bearish market months ago so most investors stay their hands as well. Even right now, no one DCA all their fund, still looking for some dips to buy in.

We don't know if the $17k for bitcoin was already the bottom. But, it's true that we might see another low and it can be lower than $17k just to show the bottom.

It's okay if someone who invests all that he got understands what he does and is aware of the risk that he's taking. What's wrong and don't know what they do if they're just listening to the crowd and did it out of pressure and without analysis.