Does the DCA strategy inspire newbies to invest?

[KawasakiNinja1_]

The DCA strategy can certainly encourage new investors to invest since they would not have to struggle to purchase the stock at an ideal price. Novices are often afraid of volatility. but can learn to invest small sums on a regular basis. with discretionary income. which makes the process less stressful. I also concur that reserve funds are as well crucial as emergency can compel individuals to trade their Bitcoin too soon. Long term investing can only work when the daily expenses and emergency requirements have already been taken care of. That is why discipline. patience and right financial planning are of more essence than having to invest big sums at a time.

You can buy large amounts of Bitcoin when you have a lot of experience and can reach a risk tolerance level. Buy large amounts of Bitcoin with funds that are not needed for daily and family needs and that you have as an extra.

DCA method is especially recommended for inexperienced and new investors who have a reason to be afraid. DCA method is important for them during the learning period with discretionary income. You can continuously accumulate Bitcoin in this method without taking investment risks. With increasing experience in the market, you will increase the amount of Bitcoin buy with large funds. There will be an emergency fund to meet emergency needs when holding Bitcoin for the long term. DCA is the best strategy for inexperienced investors as they are afraid of price volatility. They can continuously accumulate Bitcoin from their financial control.

You are right that the DCA method is especially recommended for inexperienced and new investors, but imagine that now Bitcoin whales or legendary investors are keeping the investment process active in this method more than even new ones. So we cannot compare that DCA is only for newbies.

Indeed the main point of this method is that the "start" of investment is built with a small fixed amount. Therefore it can also be called a learning stage because just as every child learns to walk after crawling in childhood, this method you described is also the same. Actually through this method, one can become a legendary investor from a completely inexperienced stage if Bitcoin is deposited in everyone's portfolio regularly, with discipline and for a long time.

[ZeroVinsonN]

The DCA strategy can certainly encourage new investors to invest since they would not have to struggle to purchase the stock at an ideal price. Novices are often afraid of volatility. but can learn to invest small sums on a regular basis. with discretionary income. which makes the process less stressful. I also concur that reserve funds are as well crucial as emergency can compel individuals to trade their Bitcoin too soon. Long term investing can only work when the daily expenses and emergency requirements have already been taken care of. That is why discipline. patience and right financial planning are of more essence than having to invest big sums at a time.

You can buy large amounts of Bitcoin when you have a lot of experience and can reach a risk tolerance level. Buy large amounts of Bitcoin with funds that are not needed for daily and family needs and that you have as an extra.

DCA method is especially recommended for inexperienced and new investors who have a reason to be afraid. DCA method is important for them during the learning period with discretionary income. You can continuously accumulate Bitcoin in this method without taking investment risks. With increasing experience in the market, you will increase the amount of Bitcoin buy with large funds. There will be an emergency fund to meet emergency needs when holding Bitcoin for the long term. DCA is the best strategy for inexperienced investors as they are afraid of price volatility. They can continuously accumulate Bitcoin from their financial control.

You are right that the DCA method is especially recommended for inexperienced and new investors, but imagine that now Bitcoin whales or legendary investors are keeping the investment process active in this method more than even new ones. So we cannot compare that DCA is only for newbies.

Indeed the main point of this method is that the "start" of investment is built with a small fixed amount. Therefore it can also be called a learning stage because just as every child learns to walk after crawling in childhood, this method you described is also the same. Actually through this method, one can become a legendary investor from a completely inexperienced stage if Bitcoin is deposited in everyone's portfolio regularly, with discipline and for a long time.

The DCA works for everyone but it is especially advantageous to newbies, someone who been investing in bitcoin long enough will already know how switching investment strategies will affect their investment, they also don't need to switch strategies too, they can just use multiple strategies at once depending on their preference but a newbie switching between or even combining different strategies can be seen as being experimental and can usually derail their focus, it will be better for them to just stick to a strategy that is beginner friendly and there is none better than the DCA in that regards.

[Futurexxx]

Is backup funds really meant for emergency? I doubt, Emergency funds is different from backup funds and shouldn't be classified as one.

You are not just getting the point, are you?
When you heard of backup funds, what exactly comes into your mind?
Because in my own understanding emergency funds and reserves funds are all part of a back up funds, just that it's splitted into two, since they both have different functions, but the end goal of it is to protect your bitcoin holdings.

But you’re right about discretionary income alone not been able to make a perfect investment, because if for instant a financial crises occurs, your discretionary income which you would have already invested into Bitcoin, shouldn’t be tempered with to meet that financial crisis. Your emergency funds is meant to.

Without putting down measures like emergency and reserve funds in place to safeguard your Bitcoin investment from any real life emergencies, you are likely going to temper with your Bitcoin investment now or later in the future when faced with real life emergencies, so they are very important for the protection of your Bitcoin investment against any unforseen emergencies.

[Zackz5000]

The DCA strategy can certainly encourage new investors to invest since they would not have to struggle to purchase the stock at an ideal price. Novices are often afraid of volatility. but can learn to invest small sums on a regular basis. with discretionary income. which makes the process less stressful. I also concur that reserve funds are as well crucial as emergency can compel individuals to trade their Bitcoin too soon. Long term investing can only work when the daily expenses and emergency requirements have already been taken care of. That is why discipline. patience and right financial planning are of more essence than having to invest big sums at a time.

You can buy large amounts of Bitcoin when you have a lot of experience and can reach a risk tolerance level. Buy large amounts of Bitcoin with funds that are not needed for daily and family needs and that you have as an extra.

DCA method is especially recommended for inexperienced and new investors who have a reason to be afraid. DCA method is important for them during the learning period with discretionary income. You can continuously accumulate Bitcoin in this method without taking investment risks. With increasing experience in the market, you will increase the amount of Bitcoin buy with large funds. There will be an emergency fund to meet emergency needs when holding Bitcoin for the long term. DCA is the best strategy for inexperienced investors as they are afraid of price volatility. They can continuously accumulate Bitcoin from their financial control.

You are right that the DCA method is especially recommended for inexperienced and new investors, but imagine that now Bitcoin whales or legendary investors are keeping the investment process active in this method more than even new ones. So we cannot compare that DCA is only for newbies.

Indeed the main point of this method is that the "start" of investment is built with a small fixed amount. Therefore it can also be called a learning stage because just as every child learns to walk after crawling in childhood, this method you described is also the same. Actually through this method, one can become a legendary investor from a completely inexperienced stage if Bitcoin is deposited in everyone's portfolio regularly, with discipline and for a long time.

The DCA strategy for all investors that wants to accumulate Bitcoin and for hodl for long it's both for new investor and also old investors, that it is also called the DCA strategy doesn't mean it must be with small fixed amount of discretionary income it depends on the financial income of such person as you keep investing the more you keep learning more about Bitcoin, the DCA is a strategy of accumulating Bitcoin and not a way of learning about Bitcoin.

[Olatundespo]

The DCA strategy can certainly encourage new investors to invest since they would not have to struggle to purchase the stock at an ideal price. Novices are often afraid of volatility. but can learn to invest small sums on a regular basis. with discretionary income. which makes the process less stressful. I also concur that reserve funds are as well crucial as emergency can compel individuals to trade their Bitcoin too soon. Long term investing can only work when the daily expenses and emergency requirements have already been taken care of. That is why discipline. patience and right financial planning are of more essence than having to invest big sums at a time.

You can buy large amounts of Bitcoin when you have a lot of experience and can reach a risk tolerance level. Buy large amounts of Bitcoin with funds that are not needed for daily and family needs and that you have as an extra.

DCA method is especially recommended for inexperienced and new investors who have a reason to be afraid. DCA method is important for them during the learning period with discretionary income. You can continuously accumulate Bitcoin in this method without taking investment risks. With increasing experience in the market, you will increase the amount of Bitcoin buy with large funds. There will be an emergency fund to meet emergency needs when holding Bitcoin for the long term. DCA is the best strategy for inexperienced investors as they are afraid of price volatility. They can continuously accumulate Bitcoin from their financial control.

You are right that the DCA method is especially recommended for inexperienced and new investors, but imagine that now Bitcoin whales or legendary investors are keeping the investment process active in this method more than even new ones. So we cannot compare that DCA is only for newbies.

Indeed the main point of this method is that the "start" of investment is built with a small fixed amount. Therefore it can also be called a learning stage because just as every child learns to walk after crawling in childhood, this method you described is also the same. Actually through this method, one can become a legendary investor from a completely inexperienced stage if Bitcoin is deposited in everyone's portfolio regularly, with discipline and for a long time.

The DCA strategy for all investors that wants to accumulate Bitcoin and for hodl for long it's both for new investor and also old investors, that it is also called the DCA strategy doesn't mean it must be with small fixed amount of discretionary income it depends on the financial income of such person as you keep investing the more you keep learning more about Bitcoin, the DCA is a strategy of accumulating Bitcoin and not a way of learning about Bitcoin.

This method is worthy for investors of all incomes. The reason why DCA method is considered easy for Bitcoin is because it does not put any additional pressure on investors. Depending on the amount of your discretionary income, you will accumulate Bitcoin if it is equivalent to $10 per week. A group of investors may have their discretionary income increase or decrease as their weekly income increases or decreases. Sometimes family needs may increase and the amount of discretionary income may decrease. You will need to accumulate Bitcoin regularly, regardless of the amount, when personal financial liquidity decreases or increases. Consider a long term accumulation period (4-10 years or more).

[Promocodeudo]

You are right that the DCA method is especially recommended for inexperienced and new investors, but imagine that now Bitcoin whales or legendary investors are keeping the investment process active in this method more than even new ones. So we cannot compare that DCA is only for newbies.

Indeed the main point of this method is that the "start" of investment is built with a small fixed amount. Therefore it can also be called a learning stage because just as every child learns to walk after crawling in childhood, this method you described is also the same. Actually through this method, one can become a legendary investor from a completely inexperienced stage if Bitcoin is deposited in everyone's portfolio regularly, with discipline and for a long time.

DCA strategy is for all invetsors of different financial status or level whether you're a newbie or OG, you can actually invest in Bitcoin using the DCA method, there something we need to understanding, even buying very big can at some point decide to buy gradually although why the DCA method is suggested for newbies or will I call them beginners is that some newbies may not have the knowledge that they can actually invest in Bitcoin with just their discreationary income at first, some of them thinks that it has to be with huge amount but one they get the knowledge that they can do their DCA with what they have as their discreationary income, they get relieved from what they had in mind earlier.

[Victorybit1]

You are right that the DCA method is especially recommended for inexperienced and new investors, but imagine that now Bitcoin whales or legendary investors are keeping the investment process active in this method more than even new ones. So we cannot compare that DCA is only for newbies.

Indeed the main point of this method is that the "start" of investment is built with a small fixed amount. Therefore it can also be called a learning stage because just as every child learns to walk after crawling in childhood, this method you described is also the same. Actually through this method, one can become a legendary investor from a completely inexperienced stage if Bitcoin is deposited in everyone's portfolio regularly, with discipline and for a long time.

DCA strategy is for all invetsors of different financial status or level whether you're a newbie or OG, you can actually invest in Bitcoin using the DCA method, there something we need to understanding, even buying very big can at some point decide to buy gradually although why the DCA method is suggested for newbies or will I call them beginners is that some newbies may not have the knowledge that they can actually invest in Bitcoin with just their discreationary income at first, some of them thinks that it has to be with huge amount but one they get the knowledge that they can do their DCA with what they have as their discreationary income, they get relieved from what they had in mind earlier.

The beauty of the DCA method is that you don't have have a specific amount you buy with and also it's for everyone whether a newbie or a veteran investor. Once you have your discretionary income available you can start immediately with immediate effect and that's why I feel that anyone complaining that they don't have enough money yet to invest in Bitcoin is probably never going to start the process at all and some newbie have gotten the wrong approach elsewhere thinking they will need to have a substantial amount of money first before they invest and also feeling like they would need to wait for the price to go dip before they can get buy and anyone thinking or having the set of mentality is just going to be a no coiner because there is no perfect timing to buy and you can't perfectly predict when the market is going to dip so why wait and this where the DCA method is beautiful since you would just need to start up with a pace suitable for your discretionary income and income grow your discretionary income so that you can buy aggressively or adjust when the whether or moment doesn't feel right to invest your usual amount. The truth is that there are different methods but the DCA method is the most friendly and efficient way too to get started immediately without wasting much time and calculations.

[Derekfunds]

You are right that the DCA method is especially recommended for inexperienced and new investors, but imagine that now Bitcoin whales or legendary investors are keeping the investment process active in this method more than even new ones. So we cannot compare that DCA is only for newbies.

Indeed the main point of this method is that the "start" of investment is built with a small fixed amount. Therefore it can also be called a learning stage because just as every child learns to walk after crawling in childhood, this method you described is also the same. Actually through this method, one can become a legendary investor from a completely inexperienced stage if Bitcoin is deposited in everyone's portfolio regularly, with discipline and for a long time.

DCA strategy is for all invetsors of different financial status or level whether you're a newbie or OG, you can actually invest in Bitcoin using the DCA method, there something we need to understanding, even buying very big can at some point decide to buy gradually although why the DCA method is suggested for newbies or will I call them beginners is that some newbies may not have the knowledge that they can actually invest in Bitcoin with just their discreationary income at first, some of them thinks that it has to be with huge amount but one they get the knowledge that they can do their DCA with what they have as their discreationary income, they get relieved from what they had in mind earlier.

You are right that is why the basic knowledge is always advisable and recommended so they don't misplace things because I have seen people using money meant for their expenses and some discretionary income to invest in Bitcoin ( random Investment) and the reason for this was because they don't have the basic knowledge about Bitcoin else they would have known they are doing the wrong thing and up till now some people still do this, not because they want to trade but because they don't have the knowledge to use discretionary income alone. The DCA method is for anyone who wants to invest in Bitcoin and you must not have big discretionary income before you can use the DCA that is why it's very preferable.

[Jody.Drummer]

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if you are investing in bitcoin, you need to have an emergency funds it’s your safe net as an investor it is a place you can always fall back to when you are having some financial difficulties, if you don’t have it, then I think you need to pause your bitcoin investment and build your emergency funds or reduce your bitcoin accumulation and focus on building a strong emergency funds.

Any of us who are considering starting to invest in bitcoin have to figure out the extent to which we have discretionary funds so that we are able to invest in bitcoin, and then we have to consider the extent to which we already have back up funds. If we are not sure about our back up funds level based on the chaos of our income/expenses and/or maybe some debts that we have, then we likely need to figure out that stuff so that we can be sure that we are investing from our discretionary funds and not money that we need for our expenses.

You’re absolutely right before investing, we need to make sure we have enough funds set aside for both investments and other expenses. In other words, we shouldn’t invest with funds that aren’t financially stable. Additionally, we must also pay attention to our emergency funds; it’s advisable to adopt sound financial management practices, as this can make the investment process easier. And if income or expenses aren’t well managed even after making a sincere effort it’s best not to invest honestly, prevention is certainly better than cure.

[PhilosopherKing]

Is backup funds really meant for emergency? I doubt, Emergency funds is different from backup funds and shouldn't be classified as one.
But you’re right about discretionary income alone not been able to make a perfect investment, because if for instant a financial crises occurs, your discretionary income which you would have already invested into Bitcoin, shouldn’t be tempered with to meet that financial crisis. Your emergency funds is meant to.

Emergency funds is all part of backup fund. Backup fund is there so person ongoing accumulation don't collapse when unexpected something happens. And backup fund is splitted to three places
>emergency funds
> reserve funds
> float

[Cossyblack]

Is backup funds really meant for emergency? I doubt, Emergency funds is different from backup funds and shouldn't be classified as one.
But you’re right about discretionary income alone not been able to make a perfect investment, because if for instant a financial crises occurs, your discretionary income which you would have already invested into Bitcoin, shouldn’t be tempered with to meet that financial crisis. Your emergency funds is meant to.

Emergency fund is part of a backup funds. Back funds comprises of your emergency fund, reserve fund . This funds are not the same thing but they both share a common goal which is to protect your bitcoin investment from any real life emergencies. Whether you like it or not if you don't build your emergency fund and reserve fund you will likely sell your bitcoin investment when face any emergency situation. An emergency fund and reserve fund stands as a safety net for your bitcoin investment, having an emergency fund and reserve fund  is important because without having them to protect your bitcoin investment you will likely sell some or all of your bitcoin investment sooner or later when face with real life emergencies.

[Zanab247]

In the case of investment, we have to be sure that the money we are investing, we can hold this invested money in all kinds of situations without any problem. If we use the necessary money in the case of investment, we will naturally not be able to hold it for a long time, because we will need the money only when we need it and at that time we will not have any other money except this invested money, as a result we will have to face the obligation to sell our investment. And this can make us face losses at that time, because the price moves with volatility, as a result we may have to sell at a loss at that time.

If you are investing in Bitcoin then you will not be in profit all the time i.e. there will be times where your portfolio will be in huge loss and things will get worse if you need money at time while you don't have emergency funds to counter that situation. Your whole investment strategy will collapse if you don't use discretionary income to invest in Bitcoins. You don't need to be ultra rich to have discretionary income but you just need to be wise enough in order to maintain a balance between your income and expenses. It's up to you to spend all your income on luxury life style or invest in Bitcoin for better financial future.

Because you are not going to be selling your BTC every day or every week. That is why is good to understand how this DAC method work before you start involving your money to BTC, because you have to hodl your BTC as you are accumulating BTC and it will favour you when you are ready to sell or trade in the future. Don't allow anything to push you to use all your money to invest in BTC, because you will not be able to bear what the market will display.

This is the reason professional in BTC hodling keep advising newbies to have the knowledge of BTC and how to apply the DAC before involving what they can afford to lose in BTC investment, because some time what you expect may not come quick but if you can endure for a while you will smile with the kind profits you will earn from your long time hodling.

[Bright0515]

we need to make sure we have enough funds set aside for both investments and other expenses.

To be honest, I'm not trying to say the other part of your comments which I removed are totally wrong but the bold part of your comment seems wrong because it sounds like one must save to invest with the money same money they saved (correct me if I'm wrong here). It also seems like you are trying to say that if one doesn't have a stable income they shouldn't invest yet, which is misleading. Truth is that if you save money before you invest you might end up not investing at all because you will want to save up to a certain amount before you start and you might end up procrastinating in the future (today, tomorrow) and it might take forever before you get started. One is certain that you might definitely miss out some good opportunities from the market.
One thing I'm sure of is that if you are waiting for things to be 100% okay or let's say too perfect (which is always not) you will never learn early, so it's better to start buying Bitcoin with the little money you have on your discretionary income, and same time try to understand your cash flow more and also create opportunity for other side hustle if you have the opportunity to do so.

I guess you don't remember that saving alot of money without investing with it will reduce its worth, because inflation will definitely affect your savings in no distant time. However, I guess only fear can make an investor to save money instead of investing with it but truth be told that inflation will affect it.

[Sim_card]

Is backup funds really meant for emergency? I doubt, Emergency funds is different from backup funds and shouldn't be classified as one.
But you’re right about discretionary income alone not been able to make a perfect investment, because if for instant a financial crises occurs, your discretionary income which you would have already invested into Bitcoin, shouldn’t be tempered with to meet that financial crisis. Your emergency funds is meant to.

We have three types of backup funds namely :

Emergency funds: This is the most important of all backup funds and should be prior to the rest because it's use as a back up funds to your bitcoin investment so that, you don't sell your bitcoin investment when it's not of your will just because you are hit with real life emergency. You emergency funds shouldn't be tampered with for no reason only to solve an unforeseen circumstances that will add more problems to your life if not solved. If you tap from your emergency funds, you should refill it as soon as you can because it must be at least, three months of your monthly expenses.

Reserve funds: This funds has a lot of flexibility purposes because you can use it to buy at the dip, to solve real life emergency before touching your emergency funds if your reserve funds isn't enough to tackle the problem.

Float: This is the funds set aside for unexpected expenses that will pop up during the week before you get your next paid.

These are all categorized as backup funds.

[Gost ms]

Is backup funds really meant for emergency? I doubt, Emergency funds is different from backup funds and shouldn't be classified as one.
But you’re right about discretionary income alone not been able to make a perfect investment, because if for instant a financial crises occurs, your discretionary income which you would have already invested into Bitcoin, shouldn’t be tempered with to meet that financial crisis. Your emergency funds is meant to.

Emergency fund is part of a backup funds. Back funds comprises of your emergency fund, reserve fund . This funds are not the same thing but they both share a common goal which is to protect your bitcoin investment from any real life emergencies. Whether you like it or not if you don't build your emergency fund and reserve fund you will likely sell your bitcoin investment when face any emergency situation. An emergency fund and reserve fund stands as a safety net for your bitcoin investment, having an emergency fund and reserve fund  is important because without having them to protect your bitcoin investment you will likely sell some or all of your bitcoin investment sooner or later when face with real life emergencies.

Emergency fund and backup fund are two different things and there are many similarities between the two. Emergency fund is created to deal with financial crisis and expenses like getting sick, losing a job etc. Backup fund is created to deal with extra expenses or small expenses. For example, you can buy a table for your home or office from your backup fund. The two are almost the same but there are some differences.

However, our first priority should be emergency fund. Emergency fund is the first step of our security. After creating emergency fund, a person can create all other funds

[Obulis]

I have a target of $30 per week, for example, but I have to strive to allocate more than my usual minimum, not less. I know we can invest any amount without overexerting ourselves, but we have to push ourselves.

Perhaps I'm very excited when doing DCA, so that's what makes this strategy not boring, but in fact, the opposite. Because in my experience, something boring is an activity where I'm not excited about what I'm doing.

I did a quickie look at your forum profile and some of your post history @pusaka, and you have only about a year less than me on the forum, yet at the same time it appears that you spent a lot of time with shitcoins, gambling and maybe other behaviors that did not help you to stay focused on ongoing and persistent accumulation of bitcoin through buying of bitcoin through the years - since surely if you would have had even invested as low as $20 per week into bitcoin since your forum registration date in April 2015 (congratulation for having had gone to more than 11 years on the forum), you would have had invested around $11.5k, and you would have had accumulated close to 6 BTC.

Of course, we cannot cry over bygones and/or what we should have had done, and we have to deal with where we are at, what we are doing and maybe if we might be able to learn from whatever we had been doing in the past to make improvements to our circumstances.

I understand that sometimes it ends up taking guys some time to figure out how to make sure they stay focused on accumulating bitcoin through buying bitcoin on a regular and consistent basis... and surely, many times, any of us can run into cashflow issues, yet we can also try to make sure to ongoingly build our bitcoin holdings, even if there are likely going to be a lot of ups and downs in the bitcoin price along the way, which likely is going to continue to happen in bitcoin's future, even though at the same time, there are always going to be uncertainties in regards to the future, whether referring to bitcoin and/or referring to various other macro-factors.

Last month (26 April) made pusaka eleven years herein, wow (congratulations). If the case of pusaka had been on shitcoins and gambling then the regret is probably for sure. What JJG just pointed out here is the compounding power of DCA strategy. Far back 2015 the price of Bitcoin is such that $20 per week buying is more powerful than $20 now.

So many people are in regret that they never ever entered the Bitcoin market but I guess it is more regrettable when you are around the Bitcoin market but busy always wanting quick gain by dinning and whining with shitcoins and gambling like pusaka did. You might say it doesn't make any difference but what about the possible losses from gambling? That is a big difference indeed.

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I understand your point here, and I must agree completely that Dollar-Cost Averaging in bitcoin doesn’t have to boring as some people see it, the truth Is, many investors adapt it to fit thier cashflow, just has you explained here and that flexibility it actually what make it a more sustainable long-term. However, the main priority in Dollar-Cost Averaging DCA is just disciplne and consistency, having the minimum commitment irrespective or the market conditions at any moment.

You have actually highlighted a good example of how newbies or the experienced investors can build on that foundation easily and still succeed, DCA actually removes the stress of one trying to predict the prices, but it doesn’t actually stop anyone from being active. By knowing how much money comes in and how much goes out, after one can be able to know his discretionary income to invest in bitcoin, also people don't actually need to stress thierselves about the exact price, instead they should give thierselves a very convenient time frame to make thier weekly purchases regularly without overthinking the price movements.

Sure. One thing is the extent to which DCA benefits us as compared with other ways that we might attempt to accumulate bitcoin, and the comparison point of the guys proclaiming that DCA is boring seems to be that trading is less boring, yet even if trading is less boring, it is quite questionable the extent to which we would be actually benefitted from trading as compared with DCA and practices around DCA.

To tell myself the truth, the only thing boring about DCA is the time required for result but altogether DCA strategist is the boring winner. The other way round, what is actually the point of comparison? Is it the few minutes spent weekly/monthly DCAing or hours per day trading digging dip into market analysis?

If you want to increase DCA, you should try to increase income. Because only when discretionary income increases, you will get the opportunity to make DCA with a higher amount.

Sure, there is nothing wrong with trying to increase income (or increase discretionary funds by increasing income and/or decreasing expenses), yet it does not seem that pusaka has given us enough information to be proclaiming that he needs to increase his discretionary funds at this point in time.

In trying to increase DCA, increasing income is the option for some people but sometimes it's actually a matter of reducing expenses for others even if trying to increase income.

[BluebloodCXVI]

DCA is not necessarily boring, especially if you ongoingly work on your cashflows and figure out ways to increase your aggressiveness.

There could be some "boring" aspect in terms of not needing to give much if any emphasis to bitcoin prices, so for example, maybe a guy has a plan to try to prioritize bitcoin investing, and even though on average he is investing around $100 per week bitcoin, yet some weeks he is able to invest close to $300 into bitcoin (based on his cashflows that week) and other weeks, he is only able to invest around $40 or $50.. even though he might have had set up some side funds so that no matter what he buys $40 per week, and another thing that he did is to set his buys to happen anywhere between Friday and the following Thursday.  He tends to get paid on Fridays.. and so he will sometimes strategize his buys within the week (at least when he has time, since some weeks he has several activities on his schedule and he might not have time to manually make his weekly buys).. so if he has a plan that if by Thursday at 8pm, he had not made his weekly buy, he will buy at any price at that time, since on Friday, he will have a new paycheck that comes available.

Maybe he had been carrying out his plans for 6 months, and he has been also building his cashflow management, which is another thing that he considers to be interesting about his carrying out of his cashflow management for the purpose of freeing up more discretionary funds, if he is able to figure out some ways to do it.

Yeah, I actually agree with this. DCA isn’t really boring the way people make it sound, especially if you’re actively trying to improve your cashflow. Once you start earning more or just managing your money better, your DCA kind of adjusts on its own. some weeks you can go heavier, other weeks you keep it light, but the key thing is you’re still showing up and stacking consistently.
I also like the flexibility in that approach you highlighted about setting a minimum so you don’t miss your buys, but still allowing yourself to take advantage of weeks when you have extra cash, I think that’s a solid balance. It keeps you disciplined without making the whole thing feel too strict or robotic.
And honestly, that’s where it gets interesting. The strategy itself is simple, but the real work is in how you manage your money behind the scenes. Figuring out how to free up more cash, increase your income, and put more into your investments over time, that’s the real game. That’s what separates someone who is just casually buying Bitcoin from someone who is actually building something meaningful.

[AYOBA]

To hold an investment for the long term, we need to have financial security, because the financial situation is not always normal, unexpected dangers can come at any moment, so we need to be careful, and we need to create an emergency fund for financial security. So all in all, as soon as we start investing, we should create a good fund as soon as possible, so that there is no risk on our investment. There may be many obstacles to holding it for the long term, so we need to be careful from all sides, so that our holding is sure.

This is the reason why they said that if we come to investments we should invest the amounts of money that we can able to afford to lose, because a person who is plan to hold for a long period of time will not carry all the money he/she have to invest without any backup like emergency funds as you stated earlier.

That’s why it’s good for every investors to have steady income so that once they invest they won’t be thinking otherwise about the investments or financial insecurity, and because of the unexpected dangers that will come our way during holding; which is why is very important for each an every investors to be vigilant.

[B-BossMan]

yeah dca saved a lot of people from panic selling at the
bottom, no strategy is more boring and more effective
at the same time

DCA is not necessarily boring, especially if you ongoingly work on your cashflows and figure out ways to increase your aggressiveness.

There could be some "boring" aspect in terms of not needing to give much if any emphasis to bitcoin prices, so for example, maybe a guy has a plan to try to prioritize bitcoin investing, and even though on average he is investing around $100 per week bitcoin, yet some weeks he is able to invest close to $300 into bitcoin (based on his cashflows that week) and other weeks, he is only able to invest around $40 or $50.. even though he might have had set up some side funds so that no matter what he buys $40 per week, and another thing that he did is to set his buys to happen anywhere between Friday and the following Thursday.  He tends to get paid on Fridays.. and so he will sometimes strategize his buys within the week (at least when he has time, since some weeks he has several activities on his schedule and he might not have time to manually make his weekly buys).. so if he has a plan that if by Thursday at 8pm, he had not made his weekly buy, he will buy at any price at that time, since on Friday, he will have a new paycheck that comes available.

Maybe he had been carrying out his plans for 6 months, and he has been also building his cashflow management, which is another thing that he considers to be interesting about his carrying out of his cashflow management for the purpose of freeing up more discretionary funds, if he is able to figure out some ways to do it.

What I felt and experienced while doing DCA actually gave me a new activity, and it wasn't boring. I was required to continue managing my finances well to ensure my DCA program ran smoothly. Everyone's financial capabilities are different, and I positioned myself to remain productive so I could generate additional income besides my main job.

It seems to be true that for some guys, perhaps especially traders, that the ONLY way for excitement (or a lack of boredom) for them is to be constantly having to monitor bitcoin prices so that every once in a while (depending on how active they are trying to be) trades can be made in order to potentially increase the profitability of their coins (by lowering the buy costs) or by shaving off some dollars (that they were able to scalp without any costs. 

Even if we might recognize that there can be some fun in regards to buying and selling and trying to either skim off some extra dollars or to lower the costs per BTC (including the idea of stacking more BTC for the same amount of dollars invested), the use of our time in these kinds of attempts might not be as greatly used as we might consider the fun to be.. and it seems that playing around with the price to try to get more dollars and/or bitcoin might not be as much of a great use of our time as we are perceiving it to be. 

I understand that sometimes guys can find planning and keeping track of the bitcoin and even projecting future cashflows, future BTC accumulated and future cash accumulated to be somewhat uninteresting as compared with the titillation of trying to trade and to skim off some dollars/bitcoin for free, yet it also seems to me that there can still be ways to help to make keeping track of bitcoin/cash holdings and projecting the future and then later comparing future results to projections as ways of being interesting and fun... and perhaps even to be more stress free in terms of ways to recognize and appreciate ongoing growth that likely comes from investing in terms of the up and down possibilities (and stress) that comes from trading... and yeah, guys might even consider that even if they have considerable down possibilities, there are ways to structure their various trades that if they "hit the jackpot" every once in a while, then the one win will make up for the various times that they had lost - which truly seems like a gambler's fallacy and also likely outcomes of gambler fallacies too, especially with an asset like bitcoin that we should be able to look at historical charts and see that guys who had errored on the side of building and HODLing of their coins, they had ended up with considerable profits, yet guys who had been trading, they had been continuing putting at risk the various profits that their bitcoin holdings were building up when they would sell with an expectation to be able to buy back cheaper and ongoingly putting themselves into a waiting posture rather than a posture in which they would be ongoingly, persistently, regularly, consistently and perhaps even aggressively buying bitcoin (during times that their various back up funds were otherwise strong). 

So, maybe there can be differences in regards to what guys perceive as fun (not boring)?  I will surely admit that with something like bitcoin, there have been so many times that historically, bitcoiners had gone through periods in which their ongoing building of their bitcoin holdings were not showing progress in terms of dollars, and sure maybe they were building the quantity of their bitcoin and maybe they were even making sure that they always had cash on hand and their levels of stress in regards to ongoing available cash were becoming fewer and fewer because they were getting better and better at their cashflow management and not stressing themselves out into cash shortfalls, as had been the case when they might have had been trading and/or during times prior to their having had learned how to make sure that they were reasonably and ongoingly stacking bitcoin within personally acceptable boundaries.

There are likely a lot of ways to try to establish excitement in our lives, including figuring out ways to try to increase our discretionary funds and/or decrease our expenses, so that we will feel comfortable to keep on building our bitcoin stack size every single week, even if some weeks the dollar value of that stash seems to be dropping way more than the amount of new cash we are putting in and when our new cash put into bitcoin  does not seem to be growing our bitcoin stash by large amounts, and maybe some weeks we are only adding 10k satoshis or some other modest bitcoin quantity, yet we can look back any records that we are trying to keep and we can see that our satoshis are ongoingly growing, every single week (or every single month if we are keeping track in that kind of a way).  So sometimes there can be excitement in both taking various actions, but also ongoingly monitoring the progress in the actions that we had been taking, and surely if we have a period of 2-3 years that we had generated weekly and/or monthly data, we can experience some excitement in seeing how the various data points evolve and even having some other cross comparisons of our historical records to remember where we were at during various historical points and to see the progress over decently long periods of time that likely becomes even more exciting once we get through a whole cycle or through a cycle and a half and we can see that we had kept stacking the whole time.. and maybe even trying to learn from what we did or did not do at various points in our stacking and if we might have had been able to handle the situation better, since we know that at the time we were going through various BTC price points and various BTC stacking points, we did not really know the future at that point in time, except maybe having expectations that at some point in the future the bitcoin price would go up, and we might be able to recognize and appreciate our own resilience (as not being boring) to go through those various difficult periods in our bitcoin accumulation journey.

For example, right now, there could be guys who had been investing in bitcoin for right around 3 years, and they might be feeling questionable levels of progress in their own bitcoin holdings, and maybe they came to bitcoin in early to mid 2023, and they decided to buy $100 per week in bitcoin and to simultaneously shore up their back up funds, so that maybe in the 3 years, they ended up putting around $16k into bitcoin, and they had accumulated around 0.3 BTC.  Let's say that their monthly expenses are right around $1,500 per month, and perhaps in the past 3 years, they had built up their back up funds from around 3 weeks of their expenses (maybe starting at $1k), and right now they have right around 3.5 months of their expenses (right around $5,500) in various kinds of cash-related funds in which some of the funds are more liquid (such as in local cash) and other funds might take a week or two to access, and so they are in a way better financial/psychological position based on where they are at, and maybe they had been controlling their spending through that whole time, too... so they were still able to spend on consumable goods, yet they were purposefully living in a way that they were not being wasteful with their money..and yeah, guys might consider some aspects to be boring and less exciting, since maybe they see their peers (guys with similar income levels) to be spending in ways that are much more luxurious, so the information about their prosperity or if they have been doing the right thing to be building their bitcoin and strengthening their cashflows.

It could be that such a guy is still really early in his bitcoin accumulation journey, and he may consider that it may well take him more than 10 more years to continue to accumulate bitcoin, and he might be trying to consider if there might be ways for him to increase his discretionary income and he is not sure if he will ever build up to one whole BTC, even though he believes that he is not likely going to even going to need a whole bitcoin, especially if he is considering t10-15 years from now, he may well be in a pretty good position even if he is ONLY able to accumulate somewhere between 0.5 BTC and 0.7 BTC by that time, yet he is not very sure about these future targets and he is largely just accumulating bitcoin within his own means and continuing to try to keep his bitcoin accumulation as interesting and fun.. and even with his current bitcoin stash size, he had been spending some time learning the various ways to keep his accumulated bitcoin secure... and maybe he ONLY moves bitcoin from the exchange (if he is buying on exchanges) to his private wallet every few months.... but he wants to get the bitcoin amount (or the dollar value of the amount) up to a certain threshold level before he moves those coins to a private wallet.  He might even be trying to learn lightning network and/or various ways to have some of his wallets as hot wallets, some as medium wallets and some as cold wallets, so he might be considering ways to manage his wallets and to try to preserve both security and privacy. These are not boring things to learn and to practice... so for example, if he is ongoingly looking out for opportunities that he might be able to spend his bitcoin, yet he already knows that since he is in his early bitcoin accumulation phases that if he spends any of his bitcoin, then he will likely try to make sure to buy back at least 10% to 20% more bitcoin than the amount that he spent... and those are his personal goals to try to make his bitcoin accumulation interesting (and not boring).

This is nothing but factual about many folks who actually choose trading instead of stacking bitcoin for a long-term investment. The truth is, some people believe trading gives quick excitement and also short-term goals,by looking at the market every minutes, trying to buy lower and sell higher, trying to outsmart the market, well to me it's actually a time consuming and very risky because alots of yhen ended up losing. However, constantly stacking bitcoin steadily and  make improvements on your cashflows may look slow at first, but it's very far more reliable and less stressful over time, the most interesting part about bitcoin stacking is, you can still be looking at your stacking progress and learning along the way, and seeing it growing steadily every week months Nad years give you joy, so this kind of progress actually build one's confidence and peace of mind.

Also, have excitement from short-term price movements today and tomorrow being depressed doesn't really making any sense. But from seeing your own resilience and financial growth over many years of holding actually make one feels special. Again I also saying this to some peole that " seeing your own money growing in  a strong and comfortable assets brings real peace and good fortune, not the emotional highs and lows that actually comes from chasing market movements. Moreover, patiently and constantly stacking usually rewards people than constant gambling with the market

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To hold an investment for the long term, we need to have financial security, because the financial situation is not always normal, unexpected dangers can come at any moment, so we need to be careful, and we need to create an emergency fund for financial security. So all in all, as soon as we start investing, we should create a good fund as soon as possible, so that there is no risk on our investment. There may be many obstacles to holding it for the long term, so we need to be careful from all sides, so that our holding is sure.

This is the reason why they said that if we come to investments we should invest the amounts of money that we can able to afford to lose, because a person who is plan to hold for a long period of time will not carry all the money he/she have to invest without any backup like emergency funds as you stated earlier.

That’s why it’s good for every investors to have steady income so that once they invest they won’t be thinking otherwise about the investments or financial insecurity, and because of the unexpected dangers that will come our way during holding; which is why is very important for each an every investors to be vigilant.

What's needed is the discretionary income, it absolutely doesn't have to be steady as long as you can generate discretionary income from it then you are good to go on accumulating bitcoin, most people think they can't generate discretionary income if their income isn't steady, my income isn't a steady one but that doesn't mean I don't get any discretionary income out of it.
What an investor or a potential investor should be looking out for isn't a steady income but one they can generate discretionary income out of.