Can YOU tell when the bear market is here? Is it now? Isn't it supposed to be a bull now? You don't know, do you?
I mean it is not really that difficult to guess when the bear run is here, when the price is 80% down, you know the bear is there. I mean when the price goes from 68k to under 20k, you know that is bear, you can see it, you are aware of it, get it there and hold it until it goes over ATH again, when it is back to 70k then you can consider selling, it may go even higher but you already made your profit that way.
I do not mean about figuring out the time frame of bear market is easier , but it is not as impossible as you think it is, we are not in the bear market now, we are in the bull market give or take, it has already gone up a lot from the bottom. I am not saying don't buy now, but I am just saying where we are with the market, reading it is hard, but living with it will definitely tell you where you are in something.
DCA guys. Look it up. Practice it. Forget trading, forget ever asking again if BTC is ok to buy at ABC price.
DCA might be possible for the people who are into a regular income stream. I am into DCA all the year as I get paid in bitcoin and I just hold it. People usually look to trade bitcoin to generate an income stream. So, such people may not adapt DCA.
It's ALWAYS good to buy with DCA.
Even I am not against DCA, I would suggest to go one shot buying when bitcoin trades 80% down from ATH. This happened in 2014 and 2018 and then in 2022. That must be a "good" buy for both short and long term investors for sure.