Buy Buy Buy or Sell Sell Sell?

[laspol65]

You sound very sure that a dip will come and that investors will get a better buying opportunity. How do you know that? Can you tell us when the dip will happen and how deep it will be? If not, why base an investment strategy on something nobody can predict? The problem with this your advice is it encourages investors to hold cash on assumption that a dip will eventually come. What if the market keeps moving higher? What if the dip happens at a price that still higher than today's price? Then what was the benefit of waiting?

Instead of keeping money aside and hoping for a future dip, it more sensible to increase your regular DCA amount if you have extra discretionary income available…. This way, you're consistently accumulating without relying on market predictions.

I agree with you waiting for the deep is wrong because no no investor knows when the dip will occur I think I agree with you 100% don't wait for the dip the only way an investor should buy the dip is when the dip occurs he will only see the dip as an advantage and opportunity to buy the buy rather than waiting for the dip because nobody knows when The dip will occur, so why not use the funds to DCA instead of waiting for the dip.

The Bitcoin market can change at any time, so you can never be sure that there will be more dips and market prices will fall. So you should never wait for the price to fall, because this wastes your time and patience. So a more modern and better and more suitable method than the price fall is DCA,
if you invest in Bitcoin according to the DCA method, you will definitely be successful. Success will become an easy plan for you, so the more Bitcoin purchases you follow the DCA method, the more purchases will be made on the price. And it is better to use the DCA method to buy Bitcoin as it is more economical than buying at a one-time price fall.

[Jody.Drummer]

You sound very sure that a dip will come and that investors will get a better buying opportunity. How do you know that? Can you tell us when the dip will happen and how deep it will be? If not, why base an investment strategy on something nobody can predict? The problem with this your advice is it encourages investors to hold cash on assumption that a dip will eventually come. What if the market keeps moving higher? What if the dip happens at a price that still higher than today's price? Then what was the benefit of waiting?

Instead of keeping money aside and hoping for a future dip, it more sensible to increase your regular DCA amount if you have extra discretionary income available…. This way, you're consistently accumulating without relying on market predictions.

I agree with you waiting for the deep is wrong because no no investor knows when the dip will occur I think I agree with you 100% don't wait for the dip the only way an investor should buy the dip is when the dip occurs he will only see the dip as an advantage and opportunity to buy the buy rather than waiting for the dip because nobody knows when The dip will occur, so why not use the funds to DCA instead of waiting for the dip.

The Bitcoin market can change at any time, so you can never be sure that there will be more dips and market prices will fall. So you should never wait for the price to fall, because this wastes your time and patience. So a more modern and better and more suitable method than the price fall is DCA,
if you invest in Bitcoin according to the DCA method, you will definitely be successful. Success will become an easy plan for you, so the more Bitcoin purchases you follow the DCA method, the more purchases will be made on the price. And it is better to use the DCA method to buy Bitcoin as it is more economical than buying at a one-time price fall.

The price drop that can happen is true but we don't know when it will happen, waiting for prices to drop to buy or start is an idea that is not recommended even though it can be done but it would be better if we start right now (when we already have income) or have discretionary income. By using this DCA strategy, we can do it competently, after all, this DCA Strategy makes it easier for people who want to start investing and this is better than waiting for prices to fall. And actually there is no certainty that it can also be fully successful because the risk is still the risk that exists, it's just that this is a way that can be applied because it is easy for anyone to do and whether or not we are successful or not we don't know but what is clear is that we expect the best from the efforts we make.

[JayJuanGee]

Ive been hearing about situations where someone buys a coin for a certain rate and not quite long after,  the said coin drops in value, or  someone sells his coin for a certain rate and then it appreciates just after.
What's your take on this? Given the period we're in is it buy time or sell time?

Let's take for instance the bitcoin market, it is clear that there are two seasons, the bull market, and the bear market, but their are reasons why your Bitcoin drops in price after buying or appreciate in price after selling. It is quite understandable that the cryptocurrency market is very volatile , and therefore price of bitcoin can drop or rise within a short period of time. But if you have been in bitcoin investing or understand how bitcoin works, during the bear market, you should expect more of bitcoin price fall than rising, and during the bull market too, you should expect more of bitcoin rise than falling. Based on this facts it is necessary to understand how the bitcoin market works as an investor so that you will be able to know the best time to buy your bitcoin, and the best time to sell.

It is quite likely that you don't even know what the fuck bitcoin investing is @AmaGold70.  You use the term "investing," yet you are talking about buying and selling and trying to figure out if bitcoin is in a bear season or a bull market.  How is that investing rather than trading?

And perhaps you think that you have it all figured out, yet you have ONLY been registered here since March 2024.  Did you get into bitcoin before March 2024?

I really doubt that there are very many traders who could beat a bitcoin buy and hold strategy that is 8 years or longer, and surely the longer the investment strategy, the more likely the trader will end up screwing things up, even if he might have had been able to get lucky with some of his trades over the years.

Let's say for example,  person had been buying $100 worth of bitcoin every week for the past 10 years, and maybe he had invested somewhere around $52k, and he would have had accumulated right around 10 bitcoin.  I have a hard time imagining too many traders that could have had beaten those kinds of results in the past 10 years, and it seems quite likely that investing in bitcoin is going to continue to be a better path than trading, yet of course, every guy is free to chose for himself in regards to how he wants to proceed with his involvement with bitcoin whether he is going to invest or if he is going to fuck around trying to trade, and you seem to have some degenerate inclinations to believe that trading (gambling) is better than investing when it comes to bitcoin.

[Solokan]

Combining strategy can be very advantageous because it will help an investor grow or increase their portfolio so easily, just imagine someone I mean an investor who is using the DCA method and at same time front loading or been aggressive when there is Dip, the investor will grow more than someone that is just using the DCA method but it is not compulsory to combine two strategy in Bitcoin investment especially if it is not convenient for the person otherwise there will be a problem.

I also think combining strategies is a good idea because it will certainly make it faster for those who do it to accumulate BTC, provided they use money they can afford to lose or discretionary income. We're currently in a bearish season, and using a strategy like the one you mentioned would be very suitable because there's certainly potential for BTC to continue falling. During this decline, we can buy BTC while DCA is running.

However, I think if you have extra money, definitely money you can afford to lose, it's better to use DCA aggressively. For example, if you're buying BTC once a week, you could increase it to twice a week, regardless of whether the price drops. However, in this case, the decision is ultimately yours.

[Primark]

You sound very sure that a dip will come and that investors will get a better buying opportunity. How do you know that? Can you tell us when the dip will happen and how deep it will be? If not, why base an investment strategy on something nobody can predict? The problem with this your advice is it encourages investors to hold cash on assumption that a dip will eventually come. What if the market keeps moving higher? What if the dip happens at a price that still higher than today's price? Then what was the benefit of waiting?

Instead of keeping money aside and hoping for a future dip, it more sensible to increase your regular DCA amount if you have extra discretionary income available…. This way, you're consistently accumulating without relying on market predictions.

I agree with you waiting for the deep is wrong because no no investor knows when the dip will occur I think I agree with you 100% don't wait for the dip the only way an investor should buy the dip is when the dip occurs he will only see the dip as an advantage and opportunity to buy the buy rather than waiting for the dip because nobody knows when The dip will occur, so why not use the funds to DCA instead of waiting for the dip.

if you invest in Bitcoin according to the DCA method, you will definitely be successful.

DCA reduces the pressure of guessing market prices. It helps you save regularly with your discretionary income. But it is quite difficult to say for sure that following the DCA method will definitely lead to success. You should not forget that DCA is just a strategy and no investment strategy promises guaranteed success. The DCA strategy can reduce the risk of taking on emotions, and can gradually build a habit of saving with your discretionary income, but this does not mean that the results are guaranteed. Because if there are mistakes in your planning, cash flow, emergency fund, financial management, then you can still make mistakes even after following the DCA strategy.

[Princess Leah]

Let's take for instance the bitcoin market, it is clear that there are two seasons, the bull market, and the bear market, but their are reasons why your Bitcoin drops in price after buying or appreciate in price after selling. It is quite understandable that the cryptocurrency market is very volatile , and therefore price of bitcoin can drop or rise within a short period of time. But if you have been in bitcoin investing or understand how bitcoin works, during the bear market, you should expect more of bitcoin price fall than rising, and during the bull market too, you should expect more of bitcoin rise than falling. Based on this facts it is necessary to understand how the bitcoin market works as an investor so that you will be able to know the best time to buy your bitcoin, and the best time to sell.

It is quite likely that you don't even know what the fuck bitcoin investing is @AmaGold70.  You use the term "investing," yet you are talking about buying and selling and trying to figure out if bitcoin is in a bear season or a bull market.  How is that investing rather than trading?

I really doubt that there are very many traders who could beat a bitcoin buy and hold strategy that is 8 years or longer, and surely the longer the investment strategy, the more likely the trader will end up screwing things up, even if he might have had been able to get lucky with some of his trades over the years.

Every guy is free to chose for himself in regards to how he wants to proceed with his involvement with bitcoin whether he is going to invest or if he is going to fuck around trying to trade, and you seem to have some degenerate inclinations to believe that trading (gambling) is better than investing when it comes to bitcoin.

I think the idea is there but the problem is that the person you mentioned keep missing up words which makes it looks more like a trader than investor, some people in this thread are used to that, starting a statement with a good investment point but get readers confused along the line with the idea of a trader.

 Some people feel that with the right management and analysis they could be successful traders but in reality only 10 in 100% manage to succeed the rest 90% keep suffering from loses and hope for a chance to recover their lose. It's never like that with Bitcoin investment cause people who invest the right way likely succeed overtime, in other words depending on chance is never better than investing.

[ruykeri]

Combining strategy can be very advantageous because it will help an investor grow or increase their portfolio so easily, just imagine someone I mean an investor who is using the DCA method and at same time front loading or been aggressive when there is Dip, the investor will grow more than someone that is just using the DCA method but it is not compulsory to combine two strategy in Bitcoin investment especially if it is not convenient for the person otherwise there will be a problem.

I disagree with you. The DCA method involves waiting to buy in a DIP or arranging a separate fund that goes beyond one's discretionary income, rather than accumulating more Bitcoin, and the holding is likely to weaken in the future. It is okay to DCA more aggressively if you see the price going down and it must be within discretionary income. DCA aggressively is not a combine strategy. But thinking about buying in  DIP or waiting to buy in  DIP becomes a trading mindset. Which inspires an investor to get timing right. If the mentality changes, then in the case of long-term investment, instead of doing DCA, if the price is slightly lower, he will continue to buy Bitcoin in an over-aggressive manner. After that, if the price decreases further, he will regret it or if it increases a little, he may make the wrong decision to sell. Which will prevent him from making long-term profits. So, for me, I just need to continue investing in Bitcoin regularly with the DCA method in mind for long-term holding. As a result, Bitcoin holding will be strong.

[Marvelockg]

Combining strategy can be very advantageous because it will help an investor grow or increase their portfolio so easily, just imagine someone I mean an investor who is using the DCA method and at same time front loading or been aggressive when there is Dip, the investor will grow more than someone that is just using the DCA method but it is not compulsory to combine two strategy in Bitcoin investment especially if it is not convenient for the person otherwise there will be a problem.

I also think combining strategies is a good idea because it will certainly make it faster for those who do it to accumulate BTC, provided they use money they can afford to lose or discretionary income.

Aggressive DCA is also something that can work if you are trying to reach your investment goal faster enough. It is as simple as increasing your accumulation amount and that way, you are still doing your DCA but technically, you are still combining other buying strategy with the end goal of reaching your goal within the shortest possible time.

The fundamentals are that you are investing what you can afford to loose and once that is fully factored into place, the other thing is to ensure that your investment strategy is allowing your to buy at your convenience and that you are becoming better positioned to even increase your investment allocation when the need arises. an aggressive buying that happens in-between your DCA is a good on but the one that makes you procrastinate and to wait only for the DIP before buying is not the rights way to buy aggressively. any investment strategy that makes you bring a sense of procrastination to your investment should be seriously avoided.

[Nheer]

Combining strategy can be very advantageous because it will help an investor grow or increase their portfolio so easily, just imagine someone I mean an investor who is using the DCA method and at same time front loading or been aggressive when there is Dip, the investor will grow more than someone that is just using the DCA method but it is not compulsory to combine two strategy in Bitcoin investment especially if it is not convenient for the person otherwise there will be a problem.

I disagree with you. The DCA method involves waiting to buy in a DIP or arranging a separate fund that goes beyond one's discretionary income, rather than accumulating more Bitcoin, and the holding is likely to weaken in the future. It is okay to DCA more aggressively if you see the price going down and it must be within discretionary income. DCA aggressively is not a combine strategy. But thinking about buying in  DIP or waiting to buy in  DIP becomes a trading mindset. Which inspires an investor to get timing right. If the mentality changes, then in the case of long-term investment, instead of doing DCA, if the price is slightly lower, he will continue to buy Bitcoin in an over-aggressive manner. After that, if the price decreases further, he will regret it or if it increases a little, he may make the wrong decision to sell. Which will prevent him from making long-term profits. So, for me, I just need to continue investing in Bitcoin regularly with the DCA method in mind for long-term holding. As a result, Bitcoin holding will be strong.

I might not get what you are trying to say but due to what I understand you're just making everything complicated for yourself.
DCA doesn't involve waiting to buy in a dip, it is buying consistently without delay. Trying to wait for a dip or trying to save some money is a waste of time and that is why DCA was introduced, to eliminate time wasting and also make investing affordable to everyone.

It's true that aggressive accumulation is very good and when the price of Bitcoin drops one can accumulate aggressively if it's within their means and it won't result to buying Bitcoin with non discretionary funds. There is nothing wrong with combining strategies to increase your accumulation as long as it's done within one's discretionary income. All strategies are investment strategies that can be used so each individual need to decide how they want to get aggressive and which strategy to use.

[Gallar]

Because of their extreme greed, people begin to make judgements that would undoubtedly land them in dire straits. They begin buying aggressively during the price decline in the hopes of obtaining short-term success; they buy Bitcoin with money they cannot afford to lose; and they buy Bitcoin with the necessary funds, believing that Bitcoin will provide them with a profit shortly.

However, as a result of such short-term judgements, they stand to lose significantly. Bitcoin should be understood: Bitcoin is not for short-term success; if you invest here, you must hold it for the long term, and we should surely invest in Bitcoin from a financial capacity that allows us to hold it for the long term in any situation.

It is certainly true that many people are currently caught up in the FOMO (fear of missing out) surrounding Bitcoin, and what is concerning is that they do so solely to seek instant profits. In reality, it is not as easy as imagined; trading Bitcoin is far from simple. Many people have suffered losses because they engaged in short-term Bitcoin investment—or trading. Therefore, when looking to invest in an asset, one must approach it rationally rather than with a narrow mindset.

Fundamentally, investment is a long-term endeavor; those unprepared to commit funds to Bitcoin for the long haul should not invest in it at all. Forcing the issue can be extremely dangerous—imagine using your money to buy Bitcoin hoping for a quick profit, only to end up with a loss. That is a terrible outcome. Thus, when investing in Bitcoin, you should use only discretionary funds—money you can afford to lose—rather than funds intended for other purposes.

[samadam007]

We're currently in a bearish season, and using a strategy like the one you mentioned would be very suitable because there's certainly potential for BTC to continue falling. During this decline, we can buy BTC while DCA is running.

However, I think if you have extra money, definitely money you can afford to lose, it's better to use DCA aggressively. For example, if you're buying BTC once a week, you could increase it to twice a week, regardless of whether the price drops. However, in this case, the decision is ultimately yours.

You're presenting some things with more certainty than they deserve. Nobody knows if BTC will continue falling or start moving higher from here. The market I cant be predicted correctly, that is why most investors use DCA .
Confidently saying that were in a “bearish season” and tha BTC have strong potential to keep falling can push people to make decisions base on assumption and not fact. DCA is designed to reduce the need to predict price movements….the goal to invest consistently over time. I also don't think it right to say that using DCA more aggressive is better.More purchases do not guarantee better results. Folks should focus be on consistency, risk management and long term mindset instead of assumption about future price movements.