Bitcoin is dropping again… so let’s make this fun instead of panicking.

[TastyChillySauce00]

The dip boys are shouting in X to fill your bags but the danger of falling even deeper is always at the horizon, trade smart don`t follow the FOMO

That's why only DCA don't buy the dip all at once in one go. When doing DCA the worst scenario would be price dumping and you can buy at lower price to lower your average cost. That's it.

Starkly different with buying the dip kind of speculation where there might be another dip after dip.

[capokmerah]

The old traders said, "Don't worry, it'll go up eventually." But their faces were pale, their voices starting to crack.
I just smiled, holding back tears. Watching the candles fall like a kindergarten slide. But it's okay, life has to remain optimistic,
Even if your portfolio is like a red calendar every day. Today it's down, tomorrow it might go up again.
If not... well, let's laugh again. We enjoy many things. We are grateful for the few things.
What is panic ?
It's not in my dictionary, yours, or any of ours!

[Derekfunds]

The dip boys are shouting in X to fill your bags but the danger of falling even deeper is always at the horizon, trade smart don`t follow the FOMO

Are you seriously suggesting or advising people to trade their Bitcoin? Because of the dip or what? Well you must be really joking because I know a real investor will never listen to your advise neither will they do anything stupid because if I'm not mistaking this the opportunity and the kind of dip some people have been craving for especially those that saw Bitcoin around 80-$90k but didn't take advantage and I'm sure right now they are getting as much Bitcoin as possible in their portfolio likewise what I'm doing now, I hope it stays at this range for sometime while I get enough of it though even if it still surge I will still continue like I have been investing even when it was at $120k plus. Trading your Bitcoin will do you no good and my advice for you if you have a portfolio, is to allow your Bitcoin I mean hold it and continue accumulating more because soon you won't see this price.

[JayJuanGee]

The old traders said, "Don't worry, it'll go up eventually." But their faces were pale, their voices starting to crack.
I just smiled, holding back tears. Watching the candles fall like a kindergarten slide. But it's okay, life has to remain optimistic,
Even if your portfolio is like a red calendar every day. Today it's down, tomorrow it might go up again.
If not... well, let's laugh again. We enjoy many things. We are grateful for the few things.
What is panic ?
It's not in my dictionary, yours, or any of ours!

Surely one of the risk of trading is that you may well run out of money when you keep buying on the way down and then if you want to get your capital back, you might have to wait a long time for the price to bounce up higher than your entry price.

It is not nice to laugh at the pains of others, even though I am not very sympathetic to BTC traders, since I consider bitcoin to be an investment, not a thing that we trade.. even though the investors are also not doing very well in recent times, since it might have had taken a person who had been investing 2 years or longer to be in profits, since many of the investors who have been buying BTC for less than 2 years, they may well have average costs per BTC that are higher than the current price, which should stimulate them to keep buying BTC during our current dip, to the extent that they have any money left to buy...

Sometimes guys buy BTC fairly regularly (perhaps weekly) and they might also buy the BTC price dips in times like this, but when the BTC price keeps dipping, at some point, they run out of money to continue to buy more... so they just have to wait until their next pay comes in to be able to buy more... and the BTC price may or may not recover during the time that they are waiting for their next pay to come available.

[MusaPk]

The old traders said, "Don't worry, it'll go up eventually." But their faces were pale, their voices starting to crack.
I just smiled, holding back tears. Watching the candles fall like a kindergarten slide. But it's okay, life has to remain optimistic,
Even if your portfolio is like a red calendar every day. Today it's down, tomorrow it might go up again.
If not... well, let's laugh again. We enjoy many things. We are grateful for the few things.
What is panic ?
It's not in my dictionary, yours, or any of ours!

It's very important to tackle such situation with patience. If we panic in current situation then we can only do more loss. The current dip started on 10th Oct 2025 when US president threatened China to increase tariff. Now there are also news that whales are selling due to which price is  going down quickly. Those who were waiting for Bitcoin price to go down so that they start buying, now they have that opportunity at there disposal. Bitcoin is for long term and if someone feel that Bitcoin will touch 150,000 or 200,000$ then it's the right time for him to buy

[Bigjoe33]

. Now there are also news that whales are selling due to which price is  going down quickly. Those who were waiting for Bitcoin price to go down so that they start buying, now they have that opportunity at there disposal. Bitcoin is for long term and if someone feel that Bitcoin will touch 150,000 or 200,000$ then it's the right time for him to buy

Whales and some other investors might sell due to there high level of Panic, maybe the fall have created fear in there minds if it will ever rise again, above there entry point to fetch them profit. Some might also sell because maybe they accumulated too aggressively, beyond the financial level that they can afford to loose, and now that there is a decline in price, in a bid to save or recover some of there money, they sell some. Smiles. But that's why it is always advisable that we buy Bitcoin from our discretionary, and maybe the Dip or lump sum from extra income, maybe reserve funds kept for such purpose, so to avoid such panic or quick sell options when price begins to Dip.

However, when we talk of long term investment, and ability to Hodl Bitcoin, here it is. I mean in moments like this, we are now sustained by our long term investment mentality and our proper investment pattern. If you can't Hodl in periods like this, because the price has declined, then you are not an investor.  Did you invest rightly, knowing that maybe moments like this might come. Can you Hodl, if yes, then you are an investor

[Sim_card]

Sometimes guys buy BTC fairly regularly (perhaps weekly) and they might also buy the BTC price dips in times like this, but when the BTC price keeps dipping, at some point, they run out of money to continue to buy more... so they just have to wait until their next pay comes in to be able to buy more... and the BTC price may or may not recover during the time that they are waiting for their next pay to come available.

This is where your reserve funds play a major role in boosting up your bitcoin portfolio. Setting various price dip levels to buy is also good so that you don't buy and exhaust your reserve funds while the price keeps dipping. At a given price dip level, you buy. Let me say, at $85k you buy, and wait till $80k before buying again. When it's pay day, you have to buy at whatever, price the market presents to you. I manage my reserve funds currently with buy orders.

[ndutndut]

I'm not good at poetry; I just have a reminder for myself when Bitcoin's price drops.

Don't worry about the decline. Bitcoin's price fluctuations are normal, and it will definitely rise again, even if we don't know for sure. But when you lose confidence remember Bitcoin has a halving cycle. Hold on for a few years, and your smile will be wide again. So turn this decline into an opportunity. That's the advice I heard earlier.

I'm not worried about the decline I'm worried about not having enough money to buy at such a low price. Since the decline I've always taken advantage of the moment so that when it rises I can make a big profit.

[Pandorak]

An investor would have already thought about/prepared for a price decline like this, so nothing should change, they will continue as usual, waiting for money from their real life income, fulfilling their basic needs first, and then using the remaining money (discretionary funds) to buy Bitcoin. Therefore, this decline does not have a significant mental impact and does not cause excessive stress. They understand that volatility is a natural part of the market cycle, so every decline is not seen as a disaster, but rather as part of a process that has been accounted for from the start.

[JayJuanGee]

Sometimes guys buy BTC fairly regularly (perhaps weekly) and they might also buy the BTC price dips in times like this, but when the BTC price keeps dipping, at some point, they run out of money to continue to buy more... so they just have to wait until their next pay comes in to be able to buy more... and the BTC price may or may not recover during the time that they are waiting for their next pay to come available.

This is where your reserve funds play a major role in boosting up your bitcoin portfolio. Setting various price dip levels to buy is also good so that you don't buy and exhaust your reserve funds while the price keeps dipping. At a given price dip level, you buy. Let me say, at $85k you buy, and wait till $80k before buying again. When it's pay day, you have to buy at whatever, price the market presents to you. I manage my reserve funds currently with buy orders.

Of course, it might work out for you, but there still is the tendency that the money is going to run out.. Even in this dip, maybe a person started buying around $110k and then every $5k on the way down?.. and yeah maybe they already have their BTC buy amounts and their increments figured out.. but they still can end up running out of money.

Furthermore maybe some guys ONLY had enough funds for a few dips, so they put one at $107k and then next at $102k and then the last one at $93k.. but then sure maybe he has more money, and perhaps it would feel quite extreme and not a very good use of funds to have more money if the buy orders go down to $60k.. That is a lot of money tied up for dips that might not happen.

How a person deals with these matters might depend upon how early they are in their bitcoin accumulation process.  For sure if they are in bitcoin for longer times, then they might be more than willing to wait for BIGGER dips as compared with a guy who is still in his first cycle of accumulating.

I also have no problem having the buy orders set in advance and that they go down to the amount that you would like to keep them or the amount that you feel that you have cash enough to cover such dip level possibilities.

Sure, you are coming on 3 years of being registered on this forum,. yet I wonder how productive it would be for you to be holding back a lot of value for buying dips that may or may not come rather than dedicating the money to just ongoing, consistent and regular buying of BTC.

Let me give you a hypothetical, and let's say that you have an income around $30k per year (of course you can adjust this however) and you had been accumulating BTC fairly aggressively which is at about $100 per week (which 9s 17% of your income), and then let's also say that towards the beginning of your investment you already took care of your emergency funds, so you are all good with that part, so then the rest of the matter is in regards to the scenario that I painted, how much reserves would you be able to build up and you may well would have had used them up from time to time, too.

Let's say that in the drop from $109k to $74k in the beginning of the year, you had used up most of your reserves, so then are you saying that you would have had been letting them build up, and wouldn't you have had been sacrificing preparing for up?

It sounds like a fantasy to me if all kinds of money is coming in when so many guys struggle to even be able to invest something like 10% to 20% of their income into bitcoin, so there may not be a lot of money left over are available without changing the facts and suddenly proclaiming that you make more money or that a relative died and left you $50k.  Thse are not likely scenarios, just as it is not even likely that a guy who is in his first cycle and fairly aggressively buying bitcoin at 17% per year at $100 per week is able to save 1k or $2k to buy more dips.. and even if he did have some extra money for buying the dips, how would he have any money left by the time the price got down into the lower $80ks since the most that he was likely able to buy the dip would have had been the lower $90ks.. because he ran out of money.

If you have money where you getting it from?  You aren't robbing banks, right? 

I stand by my earlier point, unless you can explain some kind of a scenario in which some normal guy (assuming you to be a normal guy) is able to continue to buy the dip with any meaning.

I will mention what I have done in the past.  I will buy the dip at a certain pre-planned rate, and so then I have my buy orders set to go down 20% or 30% and maybe even more, yet when almost all of the buy orders have been filled, then maybe I will cancecl some of them and then spread them out to go even lower, yet that just means that the amount is even lower, so maybe within the hypothetical, I am buying $10 each dip aand it is not even as much as my regular weekly buys... since my oint is that so many times, I have been in bitcoin and mostly runing out of money... and sometimes completely running out of money when bitcoin is at the best of prices.

I tend to be kind of judemental about the guys who supposedly have money still available to buy the dip of the dip.

Call me a skeptic of the assertion that: "this is where your reserve funds come to play."

I'm not worried about the decline I'm worried about not having enough money to buy at such a low price. Since the decline I've always taken advantage of the moment so that when it rises I can make a big profit.

So you just want to be able to trade the dip?  You are in bitcoin just to be able to trade it?

[bounceback]

An investor would have already thought about/prepared for a price decline like this, so nothing should change, they will continue as usual, waiting for money from their real life income, fulfilling their basic needs first, and then using the remaining money (discretionary funds) to buy Bitcoin. Therefore, this decline does not have a significant mental impact and does not cause excessive stress. They understand that volatility is a natural part of the market cycle, so every decline is not seen as a disaster, but rather as part of a process that has been accounted for from the start.

That is the reason why strategy is very necessary when investing with bitcoin because with a strategy we will not experience excessive panic when faced with a declining situation like the current one, some of the smart investors will not stay silent when the majority of the market is in tension those who are mentally prepared will usually make the current decline as a momentum to accumulate some bitcoin into a portfolio at a discounted price so that they can get more bitcoin with limited funds when making purchases at lower prices.

[sotelorene]

An investor would have already thought about/prepared for a price decline like this, so nothing should change, they will continue as usual, waiting for money from their real life income, fulfilling their basic needs first, and then using the remaining money (discretionary funds) to buy Bitcoin. Therefore, this decline does not have a significant mental impact and does not cause excessive stress. They understand that volatility is a natural part of the market cycle, so every decline is not seen as a disaster, but rather as part of a process that has been accounted for from the start.

That is the reason why strategy is very necessary when investing with bitcoin because with a strategy we will not experience excessive panic when faced with a declining situation like the current one, some of the smart investors will not stay silent when the majority of the market is in tension those who are mentally prepared will usually make the current decline as a momentum to accumulate some bitcoin into a portfolio at a discounted price so that they can get more bitcoin with limited funds when making purchases at lower prices.

Strategy is not really the reason why some people panic in their Bitcoin investment rather the major reason why some.people panic is because of ignorant that is using money meant for their expenses to invest in Bitcoin. Our Bitcoin investment funds should come from our discretionary and our discretionary is our leftover and it is a money we can afford to loss but the moment someone use a different money that is money outside their discretionary income to invest in Bitcoin they have jeopardize their investment and they are automatically in chaos and sometimes the problem is that some folks don't know how to get their discretionary income.

[Umulala-alala]

An investor would have already thought about/prepared for a price decline like this, so nothing should change, they will continue as usual, waiting for money from their real life income, fulfilling their basic needs first, and then using the remaining money (discretionary funds) to buy Bitcoin. Therefore, this decline does not have a significant mental impact and does not cause excessive stress. They understand that volatility is a natural part of the market cycle, so every decline is not seen as a disaster, but rather as part of a process that has been accounted for from the start.

That is the reason why strategy is very necessary when investing with bitcoin because with a strategy we will not experience excessive panic when faced with a declining situation like the current one, some of the smart investors will not stay silent when the majority of the market is in tension those who are mentally prepared will usually make the current decline as a momentum to accumulate some bitcoin into a portfolio at a discounted price so that they can get more bitcoin with limited funds when making purchases at lower prices.

Strategy is not really the reason why some people panic in their Bitcoin investment rather the major reason why some.people panic is because of ignorant that is using money meant for their expenses to invest in Bitcoin. Our Bitcoin investment funds should come from our discretionary and our discretionary is our leftover and it is a money we can afford to loss but the moment someone use a different money that is money outside their discretionary income to invest in Bitcoin they have jeopardize their investment and they are automatically in chaos and sometimes the problem is that some folks don't know how to get their discretionary income.

Your discretionary income is still your income even though you can let it go, as human that we are there will be this feeling in us when our investment is not doing so well some times we can panic but doing so shouldn't also mean we should sell our BTC since the investor could be selling at lost, so the best option is hodl your bitcoin even when the the market is at dip, you can also be buy if you have more discretionary income or hodl your accumulated bitcoin if you don't have a discretionary income or a reserve fund to buy bitcoin.

[Asyifiah]

I'm not good at poetry; I just have a reminder for myself when Bitcoin's price drops.

Don't worry about the decline. Bitcoin's price fluctuations are normal, and it will definitely rise again, even if we don't know for sure. But when you lose confidence remember Bitcoin has a halving cycle. Hold on for a few years, and your smile will be wide again. So turn this decline into an opportunity. That's the advice I heard earlier.

I'm not worried about the decline I'm worried about not having enough money to buy at such a low price. Since the decline I've always taken advantage of the moment so that when it rises I can make a big profit.

Actually when the value of Bitcoin drops, we should not panic and make the most of the opportunity to collect Bitcoin and save it for the future. As you said, Bitcoin has a halving cycle, so every few years the price continues to increase. For me, the problem right now is that I don't have much money to buy some Bitcoin and I save it until the price increases again.

[ejikeme24]

That is the reason why strategy is very necessary when investing with bitcoin because with a strategy we will not experience excessive panic when faced with a declining situation like the current one, some of the smart investors will not stay silent when the majority of the market is in tension those who are mentally prepared will usually make the current decline as a momentum to accumulate some bitcoin into a portfolio at a discounted price so that they can get more bitcoin with limited funds when making purchases at lower prices.

I understand where you're driving to, DCA right?

Though you may be right when you said about strategy, and truly majority of those that invest using the DCA strategy might just feel a little bit pressured while most of them would see this as a life changing opportunity because it's been long since they have been waiting for a time like this to come for them to front load their investment, which most of these DCA guys might as well hope for this situation to last for some time so as for them to fill their empty drums so that by the time the market will eventually bounce back then, they must have go far with their accumulation journey.

[Rampagoe004]

The old traders said, "Don't worry, it'll go up eventually." But their faces were pale, their voices starting to crack.
I just smiled, holding back tears. Watching the candles fall like a kindergarten slide. But it's okay, life has to remain optimistic,
Even if your portfolio is like a red calendar every day. Today it's down, tomorrow it might go up again.
If not... well, let's laugh again. We enjoy many things. We are grateful for the few things.
What is panic ?
It's not in my dictionary, yours, or any of ours!

The method you described is very encouraging for new traders who have bought at high prices. However, the market suddenly reverses, causing portfolios to constantly be under pressure. This doesn't require panic. People who understand trading know that crypto prices fluctuate every day. We should enjoy many things over the few important things that have just been done, which will be a great experience.
Panic no longer applies to experienced traders; they have a lot of experience, and even the strategies they have in mind will eventually rise again. The important thing is to be optimistic about what we are doing.

[Mallampue]

An investor would have already thought about/prepared for a price decline like this, so nothing should change, they will continue as usual, waiting for money from their real life income, fulfilling their basic needs first, and then using the remaining money (discretionary funds) to buy Bitcoin. Therefore, this decline does not have a significant mental impact and does not cause excessive stress. They understand that volatility is a natural part of the market cycle, so every decline is not seen as a disaster, but rather as part of a process that has been accounted for from the start.

There are even investors where they sell bitcoin at high prices, say $125K at the time and then they prepare themselves for the readiness of the market to fall but not for anticipation but readiness to buy again during the decline because this is one that many investors are waiting for.

Maybe you already understand for old investors how they accumulate bitcoin when the price drops, now it should be when starting DCA while any decline should not be overly stressed make it a benefit where you can buy cheaper.

[arufox]

I'm not good at poetry; I just have a reminder for myself when Bitcoin's price drops.

Don't worry about the decline. Bitcoin's price fluctuations are normal, and it will definitely rise again, even if we don't know for sure. But when you lose confidence remember Bitcoin has a halving cycle. Hold on for a few years, and your smile will be wide again. So turn this decline into an opportunity. That's the advice I heard earlier.

I'm not worried about the decline I'm worried about not having enough money to buy at such a low price. Since the decline I've always taken advantage of the moment so that when it rises I can make a big profit.

Sometimes what worries us isn't the falling Bitcoin price, but our stagnant finances. As long as our finances are stable, we won't panic when BTC prices drop, as we know that price fluctuations are normal. Indeed, as long as we understand the cycle and don't panic, those red-hot moments can actually be a golden opportunity to accumulate as much as possible. But I applaud the strategy you're implementing, and I wish you success.

[Sim_card]

I was unable to write a peom in the beginning, but feel it's good to encourage weak hands with one.

Don't panic because of the blood bath running on the street.

Be a diamond hands and don't allow the market Downity sweep you off your feet.

Diamond shines in the dark, it's time to stack up more coins before it's too late.

Hodlers are winners, traders gnash their teeth.

Sometimes guys buy BTC fairly regularly (perhaps weekly) and they might also buy the BTC price dips in times like this, but when the BTC price keeps dipping, at some point, they run out of money to continue to buy more... so they just have to wait until their next pay comes in to be able to buy more... and the BTC price may or may not recover during the time that they are waiting for their next pay to come available.

This is where your reserve funds play a major role in boosting up your bitcoin portfolio. Setting various price dip levels to buy is also good so that you don't buy and exhaust your reserve funds while the price keeps dipping. At a given price dip level, you buy. Let me say, at $85k you buy, and wait till $80k before buying again. When it's pay day, you have to buy at whatever, price the market presents to you. I manage my reserve funds currently with buy orders.

Of course, it might work out for you, but there still is the tendency that the money is going to run out.. Even in this dip, maybe a person started buying around $110k and then every $5k on the way down?.. and yeah maybe they already have their BTC buy amounts and their increments figured out.. but they still can end up running out of money.

I have to agree with everything you said because you're more experienced than I am bitcoin investment. it's difficult not to exhaust your reserve funds with your buy orders when the market continues to dip especially, in the bear market. Thank God DCA saves the stress and keep your bitcoin accumulation ongoing.

[JayJuanGee]

The old traders said, "Don't worry, it'll go up eventually." But their faces were pale, their voices starting to crack.
I just smiled, holding back tears. Watching the candles fall like a kindergarten slide. But it's okay, life has to remain optimistic,
Even if your portfolio is like a red calendar every day. Today it's down, tomorrow it might go up again.
If not... well, let's laugh again. We enjoy many things. We are grateful for the few things.
What is panic ?
It's not in my dictionary, yours, or any of ours!

The method you described is very encouraging for new traders who have bought at high prices. However, the market suddenly reverses, causing portfolios to constantly be under pressure. This doesn't require panic. People who understand trading know that crypto prices fluctuate every day. We should enjoy many things over the few important things that have just been done, which will be a great experience.
Panic no longer applies to experienced traders; they have a lot of experience, and even the strategies they have in mind will eventually rise again. The important thing is to be optimistic about what we are doing.

I am not sure how much good "optimism" will do in the event that we are not following very good practices.

To me, it seems best to put goodf practices into place, and then just continue to follow the practices whether the BTC price is dropping or not.

With bitcoin, I doubt that it would be good to put practices into place that are dependent on BTC's price, and likely for anyone building their bitcoin holdings, one of the better practices would likely to have systems in place that allows the buying of bitcoin no matter what is the price at around once a week or so, in the event that buying every week is feasible.

In other words, good psychology likely follow from having good practices rather than the other way around.

I'm not good at poetry; I just have a reminder for myself when Bitcoin's price drops.

Don't worry about the decline. Bitcoin's price fluctuations are normal, and it will definitely rise again, even if we don't know for sure. But when you lose confidence remember Bitcoin has a halving cycle. Hold on for a few years, and your smile will be wide again. So turn this decline into an opportunity. That's the advice I heard earlier.

I'm not worried about the decline I'm worried about not having enough money to buy at such a low price. Since the decline I've always taken advantage of the moment so that when it rises I can make a big profit.

Sometimes what worries us isn't the falling Bitcoin price, but our stagnant finances. As long as our finances are stable, we won't panic when BTC prices drop, as we know that price fluctuations are normal. Indeed, as long as we understand the cycle and don't panic, those red-hot moments can actually be a golden opportunity to accumulate as much as possible. But I applaud the strategy you're implementing, and I wish you success.

I am not very excited about practices that change the level of aggressiveness based on BTC price changes.  it is better to put good financial managment practices in place, and if you have strong financial management practices, then you can put more aggressive bitcoin accumulation practices in place based on the strength of your cashflow management rather than based on BTC price changes.