If someone is using the DCA method and then due to a little change in price the person panic, it means they are not long term holder but a trader.
I agree with you dude. Long-term investors don't usually panic unnecessarily when they're supposed to be standing strong. They are always firmed in their investment holdings with the assurance that their benefits or rewards isn't now but in years to come.
However, things isn't that hard as we think, is just a matter of choice and the way of approach towards it. Once you've made up your mind to hold regardless, then emotional at that point means nothing to you. All you're concerned of at that minute is how you can reach the peak of your investment journey. Therefore, achieving this is not difficult if we are determined, only when you're a trader, that is when you will always want your rewards like now. And I doubt if you can get anything better in such manner.
Panicking is a normal thing. We are all human, and I see it that it is somehow normal for an investor to panic if he sees Bitcoin dropping. He has been saving, and hoping for more increase in price so he could make more profits, and now it begins to drop in Price, even more drastically day by day. The human mind will panic, at least for a bit.
The more concern should be how he takes in the decline and what he does, I mean the investors action, that's what matters, and not if he panicked or not. However, at that point, a trader might panic and sell, while an investor, who is in for a long time investment will panic, overlook the market and stull HODL, because he believes in Bitcoin and in the value Bitcoin can create in a long time. Thus, your actions matters, not necessarily the immediate panic.
You can divide investing into two parts. One is attack and the other is defense. Attack helps you grow your investment fund, for example, buying strategies and achieving goals. The most important part of long-term investment success is the defense part of the investment, acquiring the knowledge (related to financial management, risk management, investment management, etc.) necessary to sustain the investment fund in the long term
I feel the both are very important. Buying is as important as HODLing, because if you don't buy, or keep buying consistently, what then would you be HODLing, an empty sack of zero BTC? While you learn to HODL, also learn to buy, and consistently too. It's better that way.
The amount of Bitcoin you deposit in the investment fund does not determine your success, but how long you can hold the fund.
You are laying too much emphasis on HODLing, as if buying is not important. You must buy to be able to HODL.
No doubts that holding BTC for long yields more income, that's true. But investors must also bear in mind the importance of consistent buying.
Take for instance two investors who are buying Bitcoin.
Mr A buys $50k worth of BTC and STOPS buying at the end of 2025, and is determined to HODL till Bitcoin hits a new ATH market price.
While MrB also buys $50k worth of BTC at the end of 2025 and is still ongoingly buying BTC consistently in 2026, using the DCA, determined to keep buying and HODLing. And hopefully, Bitcoin hits a new ATH market price at the end of 2027. At this point, who makes more profits??
Is it MrA who bought $50k and stopped buying at 2025 while HODLing till 2027 when Bitcoin had a new ATH? Or
MrB who bought the same amount($50k) at the end of 2025, and kept on buying through 2026-2027 till Bitcoin hits a new ATH?
Obviously, MrB would have made much more profits than MrA because he bought more and also HODL. Thus, while we are laying emphasis on HODLing, we should also know that buying consistently is also very much important in your investment journey.
