Am starting to think this hodling process is easier done if you have a small stake to grow, the whales with deep pockets will continously buy and sell coins to realize any small profits at any given opportunity which is the smart way of investing if you ask me... Buying the dip now and throwing the key away to your stash will just bring headaches and should be discouraged, times have changed and we need to adapt with the new game!
In order to try to be topical, you seem to be attempting to suggest that it is better to trade and perhaps value your wealth in dollars rather than valuing your wealth in the accumulation of BTC ... and sure maybe you might concede that if the dollar value of your BTC has gotten higher, then you are in a better position from holding BTC during such period in which the BTC has gone up in dollar value.
Sure any of us can try our hand at trading BTC and also trying to build our trading skills, yet it seems that establishing some kind of an ongoing BTC accumulation strategy is going to continue to be the better (and preferred) strategy, just as it has been historically in relation to BTC.
We know the expression that past performance does not guarantee future results, yet it appears that the case for investing into BTC continues to grow stronger rather than weakening in any kind of meaningful or significant way.
I personally believe that the use of selling BTC as a strategy to accumulate BTC is way less of a solid strategy than figuring out ways to accumulate through ongoing buying, whether DCA and/or buying on dips, and once any of us gets to a certain level of BTC accumulation (and perhaps even over accumulation) then we might be able to figure out some strategies to sell BTC on the way up and to be able to use or to have that cash available in case the BTC price dips.... nonetheless, selling in order to buy back lower comes with quite a few risks, including either that there is luck involved or there are some solid abilities to be able to figure out BTC price direction movements and then perhaps developing some strategies to deal with risks of selling too much BTC too soon if the price moves up when you had anticipated that it would correct within a timeline that would be sufficiently convenient for you to buy back the BTC that you sold (plus additional BTC) and it does not correct within such anticipated timeline.
I am not completely against the employment of trading techniques for guys/gals who have such skills or are able to develop such skills - but it is far from any kind of guaranteed or better way forward, as you (Woodie) seem to suggest trading to be.
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Read your own post again after three years, OK? The current price, and the DIPs from the current price are the BEST opportunities to buy that have been given to everyone during this part of the cycle. It's THE SAME opportunity. Don't tell us we were merely just lucky in 2025. NO, because we paid attention when it was THE right time to pay attention.
LOL I like your sense of humor but am not going to regret or swallow my word's because adaption is the name of the game and to survive these crypto waves one has to think like a trader to buy when market enters into a bullish state and to sell at a premium when markets are in a bearish state....
Fuck crypto Woodie. Do you even know the topic of this thread? We are not talking about crypto, here. We are talking about bitcoin. Do you know the difference? Do you know what is bitcoin? Maybe you are so damned caught up upon trading that you do not even given any shits about what asset you are trading, and that seems to be a topic of another thread. This thread is about bitcoin..
In order to attempt to be on topic, maybe reconsider your so far posts in this thread in light of bitcoin rather than crypto and then come back to thinking about what are you going to do if you are ONLY talking about how to accumulate bitcoin...
I am not even suggesting that you would not be able to accumulate bitcoin through other means (besides dollars), but when you get into shitcoins and various other means to accumulate bitcoin, then you are likely getting a bit off topic, so either the topic that already exists in another thread or should exist in another thread.
We have to be opportunists at the end of the day because you real intention is to make a profit. Bitcoin is not a collectors item which will always appreciate with time unfortunately so Hodlin in 2022 is not the same as it was 10years ago!
Of course, if you are able to stick to discussing dollars and bitcoin, then you would not be going as much astray in your desire to lecture or your expectation that it would have been better to trade than to just stay in BTC as an investment.
Sure, retrospectively we could look back at BTC's price moves of 2021 and 2022 and see that we could have been advantaged if we had known the price moves in advance, and if we had been willing to trade on knowing that information in advance. Part of the problem is that we do not necessarily know BTC's price direction in advance, so your "I told you so" angle comes off as a bit too pretentious in terms of your desire to advocate for trading strategies rather than accumulation and hold strategies that would de-emphasize trading as a bitcoin investment strategy or as a means to manage wealth (in the event that you might not be into the idea of "investing").
Buying every dip is easy to say, but difficult to identify the dip (for me at least!)
Every time the price of bitcoin drops I am afraid of the point that it is going to stop or it will be ongoing for a long time. Looking at charts and trying to make my TA sometimes prove me wrong!
Yes, buying Bitcoin in the bottom in the market is very difficult to some people, because the movement you think you have purchased in the lower bottom, then you will beginning to see the price decreasing more that will make you to feel bad of purchasing at that particular price. I think, buy low is more favourable in the bear season, because it will help you to make a passive profits in the future when the price move higher in the market.
I understand that some guys want to attempt to maximize the ability to buy BTC at as low of a price as they believe that the price will go, and likely they will end up causing themselves more stresses in going through those kinds of attempts to predict the bottom exercises and may well end up buying way less BTC than they should have because they were spending too much time and hesitating too much to buy on a regular basis.
Frequently the newbie BTC accumulator can spend more time to figure out his/her cashflow in order to figure out a range of what kind of budget is possible and then to just divide that budget up in order to make regular purchases at any price and then other purchases that are intended for various dips (without getting too worried about if the buying is at the exact greatest dip).
Generally, I agree with you about buying during bear season, and perhaps even trying to buy more during bear season, yet frequently it can be difficult to figure out the extent to which any of us might want to hold back buying when the BTC price goes up because we are anticipating a future dip that may or may not end up happening. From my way of thinking, it seems way more important to figure out your own particulars related to cashflow and your BTC accumulation goals rather than to be playing around too much in regards to the BTC price (whether we are in a bear market, bull market or if the price might correct to levels in which you would make a larger purchase).
Of course, you are likely going to develop a lot more knowledge regarding your BTC position and also comfort in regards to understanding how many more options that you begin to have as your BTC stash grows and as your BTC stash gets further into profits. Of course, the growth and the level of profits is going to vary a lot from person to person, and sometimes it could take a large number of years to start to get into sufficient profits in order that you start to feel that you have more and more options. In other words, I would suggest that it would not be very fruitful to be considering strategizing your BTC buys with a large amount of attention until after you have already built up your BTC stash, then maybe at that point you would be better informed in regards to how much you believe strategizing your BTC buys might advantage you.
The knife can cut both ways in terms of buying on a regular basis and then figuring out that you could have bought at lower prices if you had waited, and on the other hand, when you build up a sufficient size of BTC, and you are in profits, you sometimes might start to feel that you can become more brave in the ways that you strategize your BTC purchases or you might end up just reverting to default regular buys and consider that it is better to just buy BTC regular rather than trying to figure out if you might save a few dollars here or there when your stash has become way more valuable rather than the seemingly small relative sizes of your regular additions to it.
