I guess that one sign that you are being sufficiently aggressive is that you are having to struggle in order to continue to carry out the regular buying.
Of course, you do not want to end up in a situation in which you have over done it.. so you gotta make sure that you are otherwise managing your money and keeping sufficient funds for emergencies so you do not have to dip into your bitcoin until it reaches a decently high and profitable status.. That would be the better case scenario... so ultimately I am glad that you were able to reach $100 per week investment/buying levels.... and of course, only you know your personal circumstances and how much sacrifice that you are having to make in order to continue to dedicate your $100 per week to buying bitcoin.. Congratulations.
Actually i am not agressively making strategic DCA investments but with my concent and having fund management in advance.The struggle to invest in bitcoin is real but it's fun at the same way knowing how much secure my future would be with these investments today.
We might be quibbling about definitions in terms of what is sufficiently aggressive, here?
I would say that having a budget in which you are having to stretch your funds to make sure that you buy enough bitcoin every week while having some hesitations regarding if you have enough money including that you have your emergency fund and other expenses covered would be sufficiently aggressive.
If you are engaging in gambling and leveraging and taking from your expenses to hope that you have enough money 3 months down the road because you put a lot of it in bitcoin and you are worried about the bitcoin price going out so you can use that money to pay for your expenses, then I would say that is overly aggressive.
I suppose on the other hand, if you are holding onto a lot of extra cash and waiting for a dip, and each week you have several hundred extra coming in that you could invest into bitcoin, but you are ONLY investing $100 into bitcoin, then maybe you are too whimpy in your bitcoin investment..
Actually, there is a bit of a sliding scale here because I would not consider some kind of formula that is 1/2 or even 2/3 of the extra cash to be saved for buying on the dip to be overly whimpy.. but surely 2/3 would be getting on the borderline, at least for me, for considering that to be overly whimpy... so for example, you might have a certain budget for buying on dips, and maybe you have already allocated some of that money for buying on dips, but the recent BTC price action causes you to conclude that maybe you do not have enough for buying on dips.. so therefore, you allocate more for buying on dips as that money comes in.. so then the question becomes in the event that your BTC stash is not even close to fuck you status and is pretty damned small, then how much of that incoming cashflow are you actually spending every single week (right away in other words) to buy BTC... so if you are spending a lot of your incoming cashflow, then seems to me to be sufficiently aggressive, but if you are holding back a decent amount of your cashflow then you might be neither sufficiently aggressive and bordering upon whimpy status... hahahaahaha
We all need to take some risk and return associated with them will be delivered with time and for bitcoin I am pretty much sure the revival and growth opportunities are enormous as more countries are accepting it and each company wants it on balance sheet so just imagine the returns for that later on.
You likely do not need to convince me or too many other regular bitcoiners about the bullish case for bitcoin, and for sure, part of the reason to be aggressive with your regular BTC buys and even to be "sufficiently aggressive" is to attempt to better prepare yourself for those bullish case scenarios playing out and the risk that if you are less aggressive or even whimpy in your preparations, you will likely be kicking yourself when the bullish cases for bitcoin end up playing out.. and for sure, I am not even suggesting that the bullish case for bitcoin scenario is guaranteed.. but there is an angle to being sufficiently aggressive that allows the consideration that ongoing investing in bitcoin remains an asymmetric bet to the upside, and sufficiently aggressive investors are likely to feel much better in the years to come than those who had decided (or ended up) playing out whimpily or overly whimpy in their BTC investment/accumulation approach.
Speaking of funds I was having sufficient funds to carry on with my regular investment like in the past but the funds emergency arised was of known one and he needs money and I couldn't say him No so there was certain imbalance on my part of DCA investment so was having some funds left around $350 to invest for the month so decided to give it extra shoot of $50 and go on with $100 weekly so that this journey is not disturbed at all.Till now the money inflow is fine from job and all expenses are also sorted out and also have some funds stored in case of need so that set aside for bitcoin is only for it.
From your description, I would categorize your situation as sufficiently aggressive... when you are somewhat struggling to continue to maintain at least $100 per week, then those struggles are real...
Actually, you likely recall that I have been telling people about bitcoin in real life for years and years.. and I have a relative who has a pretty decent budget, and she is buying less than $100 per week, even though she could likely be quite a bit more aggressive based on her own finances and based on what bitcoin represents.. but she chooses to be less aggressive... and for sure there is some choice involved and for sure, it is better that she is investing something rather than nothing.. but for sure, she does not seem to really understand the bullish case for bitcoin very well.. ... and there are quite a few others like that who are just making token investments into bitcoin, and sometimes I wonder if some of those folks might be selling at a loss during times like this... I have not checked in with my relative since late November, so I am not really sure if she continued her previous regular DCA .. even through December, January and February... Sometimes I am afraid to check in because I am afraid of what she might tell me and it has to do with her seeming ongoing whimpiness.. but she did start around the same time as you.. probably around $50 per week or something like that. Maybe you could have a little friendly competition with her? hahahahahaha... see who does better?
My food habits are also good and it's not like that i have left the junk for life and whenever i feel some cravings say once or twice a month i eat them at restaurant or order online so it's also good.Meanwhile having some healthy diet is also good for me and now I am used to it.Till the time i have funds it can go on the similar way.
For sure, your starting premise in OP has to do with cutting some of your expenses, and the fact that some of the expenses that you were cutting were likely NOT good for your health created another double benefit... but many of us know that there are likely a lot of ways that we can shave some of our expenses in order to be able to start some kind of investment into something else.. and surely, if we do not really have extra cash.. then it is likely that we have to make some kind of conscious effort to consider what we are able to cut in order to add our new investment into our regular weekly/monthly budget.
When I was quite young and first living on my own (moved out from my parents), I already figured that I needed to put 10% of my income aside and to save and invest with that 10%.. and so I started that kind of a practice quite early in life.. but I was not always successful in the ways that I ended up investing it.. and I felt like I was a bit of a ignorant person for my choices.. but for sure, there were not so many options that were available for relatively small investors..
and for sure, I can see why some currently young investors get attracted into shitcoins because they are options that are available that compete for attention that might otherwise go to bitcoin.. and so by the time that I got into bitcoin in late 2013, I had already established a pretty decent investment portfolio that I could just figure out a strategy to allocate into bitcoin, so I did not do the same kind of beginner levels of removing expenses.. because I had already been doing that for more than 25 years by the time that I got into bitcoin... but the removal and adjustment of expenses is a practice that any of us can do, especially if we might not want to change our investment practices in some other areas, and if we are wanting to add bitcoin to our investment portfolio..
I understand that a lot of people (both young and old but probably particularly young folks) do not hardly have any other investments besides bitcoin and cash, so there only investments might be deciding whether to hold bitcoin or to hold cash.. but if they build the size of their overall savings, then they might want to try to have other assets too, such as property and equities but I have no problem if people first want to build their portfolio based on ONLY bitcoin and cash before diversifying into any other investments, and then once their bitcoin portfolio starts to get bigger, then they might want to consider other investments (not necessarily shitcoins) based on their own circumstances and comforts.