Can small investors actually make good profit with bitcoin ?

[AprilioMP]

I believe that smal investors can make good money off bitcoin,  but I can only advice that you buy and hold, that's the only way you can make profit. You really don't have to care about how much you are accumulating,  but the most important thong is the consistency. You don't have to care how much other people are investing,  but you little investing and your consistency can help you make good profit in the long-term. It's true that their are other means, but I think they are very risky, so the best advice is that you just accumulate and hold for a long time and I believe that you will definitely make good profit in the future.

This is the same as saying that small investors can still profit by investing in Bitcoin. The problem is that people today are only concerned with profits and lack the patience for a long-term approach—especially when making small, frequent purchases—and often experience momentary panic when they check the estimated value in their wallets as prices decline.

The profit you’ll receive depends on the amount invested over a specific period. When the market finally turns truly bullish and reaches a new all-time high (ATH), the profit is calculated based on the number of Bitcoins held. The profit is guaranteed by the price appreciation.

I suspect there are still people who lack knowledge about Bitcoin investing—such as not fully understanding how the Bitcoin market works—and who make large purchases all at once, which makes them prone to panic when the market price drops below their purchase price.

[Barikui1]

The reason a phased strategy is highly recommended over going all-in or waiting for the perfect moment is that gradual purchasing prevents panic if prices suddenly plummet after you buy.
Since Bitcoin has proven to be a robust, established asset for long-term holding, beginners should focus on discipline and consistency rather than trying to predict prices. Keep accumulating, ignore the noise, and let time do the work.

No I disagree with you on your sentiment here bro. Gradual accumulation or dca accumulating strategy has nothing to do with panicking or not panicking when their is a dip, because it is an accumulation strategy that makes accumulation easier.

What I believe that makes an investor not to panic during a dip, is when the investor invest only what he can afford to lose, because since he is investing what he can afford to lose, he will still be able to control his emotions because the outcome of his investment cannot affect him emotionally, unlike someone that invested what he cannot afford to lose, to such person, every dip is a big problem that they will think that it's the end for them.

[Tungbulu]

Holding back cash just to buy the dip  isn't that waiting for the dip? And that money that person is withholding, temptation can even make the person to blow the money up on useless expenses just because the person didn't buy, but was waiting for the dip to come. I don't see why person shouldn't just use just use all the whole percentage of discretionary income they can afford to use, for their ongoing investments. Because it will be so pointless to be waiting for dip that may never happen or dip that can make person to miss out and buy at the top.

Another reason holding back money to wait for a DIP is not such a great strategy is that, no one actually knows when next a DIP is actually coming, you might end up waiting for a whole cycle without even seeing your expected DIP. There are folks who eventually still waiting for Bitcoin to go as low as $40k so they can deploy a huge amount of cash they’ve left lying around for years now, while inflation is actually busy, carefully and quietly reducing the value of that money.

[hedgeh0g]

I suspect there are still people who lack knowledge about Bitcoin investing—such as not fully understanding how the Bitcoin market works—and who make large purchases all at once, which makes them prone to panic when the market price drops below their purchase price.

In fact, many potential bitcoin investors lack the friends who would tell them that it is not such a difficult task to invest bitcoin, especially if you use the only correct DCA strategy. But, unfortunately, many are afraid to take the time to understand bitcoin and blockchain, and therefore they are not participants in investing. I also want to note that in today's fast pace of life, many people succumb to the false idea that money can and should be earned quickly, but in fact 4-10 years is not such a long time that will pass unnoticed if you just set out to invest your discretionary income using the DCA strategy. I think the most important thing for such investors is just to develop a habit, psychologists say that this has been happening for the third time. Therefore, it is easier than it seems to embark on the path of sound investment.

[LuckyCrypto777]

Another reason holding back money to wait for a DIP is not such a great strategy is that, no one actually knows when next a DIP is actually coming, you might end up waiting for a whole cycle without even seeing your expected DIP. There are folks who eventually still waiting for Bitcoin to go as low as $40k so they can deploy a huge amount of cash they’ve left lying around for years now, while inflation is actually busy, carefully and quietly reducing the value of that money.

There is such a term as "forced investor", and it concerns precisely those people who did not guess the entry point when buying bitcoin and because of this they sit and wait for the price to at least return to their initial entry point, for example 120,000, so that they can simply sell bitcoins and regain their funds. And this is a very bad situation in which a person is mentally exhausted and at the same time he is not a full-fledged investor.
But if he had bought in stages, as the DCA strategy advises, this would never have happened to him, because he would have distributed his buying points in bitcoin over time, which would have caused the price to constantly average, and he would have felt like a truly free investor who was moving towards accumulating bitcoin, and would not have been sad looking at his an unprofitable position.

[Luzin]

So consistency matters alots than trying to make a huge entry, the best is know how to manage your risk and learn along the line and then let your long-term Bitcoin accumulation goals grows higher, by exercising patience enough, then for the newbies, know how to control your discretionary income you put in, how frequent you do it and be able to identify whether you truly have the patience to stay consistent over a period if time.

Unfortunately, not all beginner investors, whether they have small or large capital, think this way. It can be really hard to maintain high consistency in mindset and discipline. Even professional investors seem to need a lot of time to achieve that. I myself, over nearly 11 years, still sometimes make mistakes. Many people want to become investors with the goal of getting rich quick, but very few can last long. So don’t think about how big your earnings are; instead, learn to be consistently persistent. Any amount of capital can help you last longer, which is the ultimate goal. Psychological mindset will play a big role in this investment.

[adultcrypto]

So consistency matters alots than trying to make a huge entry, the best is know how to manage your risk and learn along the line and then let your long-term Bitcoin accumulation goals grows higher, by exercising patience enough, then for the newbies, know how to control your discretionary income you put in, how frequent you do it and be able to identify whether you truly have the patience to stay consistent over a period if time.

Unfortunately, not all beginner investors, whether they have small or large capital, think this way. It can be really hard to maintain high consistency in mindset and discipline. Even professional investors seem to need a lot of time to achieve that. I myself, over nearly 11 years, still sometimes make mistakes. Many people want to become investors with the goal of getting rich quick, but very few can last long. So don’t think about how big your earnings are; instead, learn to be consistently persistent. Any amount of capital can help you last longer, which is the ultimate goal. Psychological mindset will play a big role in this investment.

It would be nice to know the type of mistakes you still make despite the number of years you have been on bitcoin. I'm not saying that anyone is above mistakes, I'm just asking so that other people will also learn from your experience. Assuming you are using a method like the DCA strategy and you put in this number of years into it, maybe you would have made more progress and even eliminate some of those mistakes. I have also spend some years in bitcoin and it took me learning about the DCA method to eliminate some challenges I was facing such as FOMO, trying to get rich very fast and all that.

[Saltysugar99]

There is such a term as "forced investor", and it concerns precisely those people who did not guess the entry point when buying bitcoin and because of this they sit and wait for the price to at least return to their initial entry point, for example 120,000, so that they can simply sell bitcoins and regain their funds. And this is a very bad situation in which a person is mentally exhausted and at the same time he is not a full-fledged investor.
But if he had bought in stages, as the DCA strategy advises, this would never have happened to him, because he would have distributed his buying points in bitcoin over time, which would have caused the price to constantly average, and he would have felt like a truly free investor who was moving towards accumulating bitcoin, and would not have been sad looking at his an unprofitable position.

Your forced investor concept may be useful in explaining some situations, but I wouldn’t take it as the main explanation for the Bitcoin investor’s problem. Suppose a person bought Bitcoin for $120k at once and now the price has gone down. If he is just waiting for $120k to come back. He can sell it at $120k and get his dollars back, then the first question that comes to mind is what was his real goal? To accumulate Bitcoin, or to take a price trade and take a fiat profit?

For a long-term investor, his initial entry price is not supposed to be an exit line. The focus of the investment is more on how much Bitcoin is being accumulated, depending on how sustainably he is buying according to his cashflow.

Now, let’s talk about DCA.

Yes, if a person had bought over time without pouring the entire available amount into $120k, subsequent purchases could have reduced his average acquisition cost as the price went down. This is a practical benefit of DCA. Suppose he bought regularly at $120k, $100k, $105k and $90k. His average cost has come down, but if BTC is at $70k, he may still be in unrealized loss. Here it is understood that dca does not stop the risk of loss or completely eliminate it. A single entry point reduces the need to guess correctly and helps in accumulation over a long period of time. So if you bought at $120k and today your only thought is, When will it be $120k so that I can get out?, then maybe the real problem is in the mindset. This cannot be an investment in any way, it is a trading type mindset.

[Lembo69]

It would be nice to know the type of mistakes you still make despite the number of years you have been on bitcoin. I'm not saying that anyone is above mistakes, I'm just asking so that other people will also learn from your experience. Assuming you are using a method like the DCA strategy and you put in this number of years into it, maybe you would have made more progress and even eliminate some of those mistakes. I have also spend some years in bitcoin and it took me learning about the DCA method to eliminate some challenges I was facing such as FOMO, trying to get rich very fast and all that.

Your plan and decision to learn DCA strategy was very good. But for those who want to get rich very quickly, Bitcoin is not an investment. Many people think that investing can make them rich in 1-2 years. But that is not true. Investment should be made in such a way that it will be helpful to you in the future.

For example, if you have a plan to build a good house or buy a high-end car and plan to do it after 10 years or after 5 years, then you can expect a profit more than the amount you invest at that time. Maybe you may not get the profit according to your plan. But you will be sure that you have an asset - like a goose that lays golden eggs. When the time comes and it lays an egg, you can make a lot of profit from it.

But if someone dreams of getting rich from Bitcoin all at once, then he may not be able to go far. At some point, he may lose interest in Bitcoin due to despair.

How should we actually view Bitcoin investing?

The simple answer is—Bitcoin investing should be viewed as a child. Just as you raise your child and hope that your child will be your support when you are old, Bitcoin will play a childlike role in your retirement and help you stay financially secure.

[DubemIfedigbo001]

I suspect there are still people who lack knowledge about Bitcoin investing—such as not fully understanding how the Bitcoin market works—and who make large purchases all at once, which makes them prone to panic when the market price drops below their purchase price.

Making a large purchase isn't the problem, as long as the investor makes it from his discretionary income and can hold for long. Not everyone who makes a large purchase would panic. Lump sum is still a valid accumulation strategy and if the investor has a large discretionary income at his disposal, then he can go ahead. Where it becomes a problem is when you go beyond your discretionary income to make a large purchase, which is overaggressiveness.

A small investor can win a lottery, raffle or be gifted a huge sum of money and he can choose to lump sum with a major part of it into Bitcoin and continue to hold. It is a good thing when investors seize rare opportunities like these to get much ahead in their accumulation journey and still follow up with their consistent buys to reach their accumulation target. It's better that an investor who comes in contact with such large discretionary income puts a good share of it into Bitcoin to protect its value instead of leaving it in fiat which will still depreciate.

[GeorgeJohn]

Another reason holding back money to wait for a DIP is not such a great strategy is that, no one actually knows when next a DIP is actually coming,

That's why it's says " bitcoin investment is unpredictable, secondly, in bitcoin investment it doesn't necessarily require delay when you wants to invest...for me, the best time to invest in bitcoin is when your discretionary income is available, not basically by Dip, but some people have programmed themselves without Dip they will not invest in bitcoin...but the thing is that investing in bitcoin anytime you feel like, it's a personal choice...

you might end up waiting for a whole cycle without even seeing your expected DIP. There are folks who eventually still waiting for Bitcoin to go as low as $40k so they can deploy a huge amount of cash they’ve left lying around for years now, while inflation is actually busy, carefully and quietly reducing the value of that money.

anyone who is to drops at 40k before investing or accumulating it bitcoin..it's the personal decision, because their's every tendency that the price maybe drop or not falls, but it will be encouraging for investors of bitcoin not to have such target, because it might wait for two years, yet the price will not to such extent...

[JoyceBTC]

I suspect there are still people who lack knowledge about Bitcoin investing—such as not fully understanding how the Bitcoin market works—and who make large purchases all at once, which makes them prone to panic when the market price drops below their purchase price.

Even people who have knowledge about bitcoin still panic when market price drop. I don’t think it is about just having the knowledge, it solely the depends on the level of the individual on how they handle the dip.
Once an individual understands how volatile bitcoin can be, then it is left to them to make the decision of holding or selling, knowing fully well the importance of holding but emotions would actually make some persons sell, since profit aren’t guaranteed while self control and patience will make some hodl.

[Homemade-IQ]

Even people who have knowledge about bitcoin still panic when market price drop. I don’t think it is about just having the knowledge, it solely the depends on the level of the individual on how they handle the dip.

Am really interested to know why you think that not panicking during the dip depends on how you hand the dip.
I think that you are wrong, because knowledge or having more composure as you think will not save you from panicking if you invest what you cannot afford to lose, but if you want to be calm when the market dips, then investing with what you can afford to lose is the best because even though your investment is going against your wish, you wouldn't panic or be in fear, because the money invested is what you can afford to lose .

Panicking is unavoidable when you invest what you cannot afford to lose, so we should do well to avoid that, in other not to panic when the dip comes.

[JayJuanGee]

There is such a term as "forced investor", and it concerns precisely those people who did not guess the entry point when buying bitcoin and because of this they sit and wait for the price to at least return to their initial entry point, for example 120,000, so that they can simply sell bitcoins and regain their funds. And this is a very bad situation in which a person is mentally exhausted and at the same time he is not a full-fledged investor.
But if he had bought in stages, as the DCA strategy advises, this would never have happened to him, because he would have distributed his buying points in bitcoin over time, which would have caused the price to constantly average, and he would have felt like a truly free investor who was moving towards accumulating bitcoin, and would not have been sad looking at his an unprofitable position.

Your forced investor concept may be useful in explaining some situations, but I wouldn’t take it as the main explanation for the Bitcoin investor’s problem. Suppose a person bought Bitcoin for $120k at once and now the price has gone down. If he is just waiting for $120k to come back. He can sell it at $120k and get his dollars back, then the first question that comes to mind is what was his real goal? To accumulate Bitcoin, or to take a price trade and take a fiat profit?
For a long-term investor, his initial entry price is not supposed to be an exit line. The focus of the investment is more on how much Bitcoin is being accumulated, depending on how sustainably he is buying according to his cashflow.

Now, let’s talk about DCA.
Yes, if a person had bought over time without pouring the entire available amount into $120k, subsequent purchases could have reduced his average acquisition cost as the price went down. This is a practical benefit of DCA. Suppose he bought regularly at $120k, $100k, $105k and $90k. His average cost has come down, but if BTC is at $70k, he may still be in unrealized loss. Here it is understood that dca does not stop the risk of loss or completely eliminate it. A single entry point reduces the need to guess correctly and helps in accumulation over a long period of time. So if you bought at $120k and today your only thought is, When will it be $120k so that I can get out?, then maybe the real problem is in the mindset. This cannot be an investment in any way, it is a trading type mindset.

In the last 12.5 years since I have been in bitcoin, I have heard many times guys whining about how they had bought at the top and how they know about other people who bought at the top.

I frequently would say: "So fucking what? If you were serious about bitcoin at the top, then our current prices should be really good."

Many guys think that they are locked in when they start at the top, and sure, perhaps part of the problem is that some of them think that they blew their whole wadd at the top, so that they do not have any money left (or that they want to put into bitcoin).

Many times the problem is resolved by ongoingly investing.

In late November 2013, when I started to buy bitcoin, I started at the top, so my very first purchase was for bitcoin at $1,200 (which was higher than the top because of various fees in the way that I had gotten it), so then sure I continued to buy bitcoin and my average cost per bitcoin continued to get lower because the BTC price continued to go down throughout 2014 and then to pretty much stay flat at the bottom (around $250) for the whole of 2015.  So by the time we got to early 2015, my cost per BTC was in the upper $500s and then  by the time we got to the end of 2015, my cost per BTC were slightly below $500, but my holdings were still largely in the negative based on the then BTC prices.. but I continued to buy and even having my own cashflow problems that made it difficult to buy very much bitcoin in 2015 when the prices were the lowest.

Part of the value in NOT blowing your whole wadd at the top is that you are prepared to continue to buy if the price goes down. 

Part of the value of continuing to buy bitcoin tends to be that your average cost per BTC continues to go down so that BTC prices do not have to reach the previous ATH for your BTC holdings to come into being "in profits" on paper.

So sure there were likely some guys who bought at higher prices and they may even could have had bought "too much," yet I would think that if they continue to have an income it likely could be a good thing to continue to buy, yet surely guys have to make these decisions for themselves and surely guys do get worried about an ongoing and continuing (and never stopping) spiraling down of the price, so that they continue to buy but the prices continue to get lower.. So yeah, guys might have that fear, yet they still have to decide what they are going to do...and sure some guys do end up choosing to buy high and sell lower than their buy price rather than to just keep buying.. since there are no guarantees that the BTC price is going to go back up or even go up enough to recoupe losses.

And, yeah some other guys continue to buy but then as soon as they get into "profits" they end up selling, and yeah, those are choices.  The ones who sold at $500 in 2016 were likely regretting it. Even the ones who sold at $1,200, or any place under $3k were likely regretting it, yet people do what they are going to do, even dumb shit (maybe their level of dumb is not realized until several years later, too?).

[Nheer]

This is the reason why you have to find the perfect market entry when buying bitcoin. It's best if you can buy bitcoin when the price is in dips so that even with a small amount of funds, you can still increase the amount of your purchase. With DCA, and patience in buying and hodling, eventually your bitcoin portfolio will grow in time.

However, whether you're small or big investor in the market, profits are guaranteed as long as you never sell your bitcoin lower than the price you first
bought it. It's just that, the more bitcoin you'll save, the bigger amount of potential profits you will gain in the future.

Profit are never guaranteed when investing in Bitcoin regardless of how much you put into it. Let's not forget that every investor has his/her reasons and goals on why they invested in Bitcoin. Some investors do invest in Bitcoin for the purpose of saving and building and preserving wealth for the future while some others may investment in Bitcoin for self custody or maybe earn some profit but profit are not never guaranteed.

There's never a perfect entry, it's best to know that waiting for the perfect entry is never ideal, as it leads to waste of time and even opportunity. It mostly results to not investing because the perfect time is never clear enough. There's no reason to delay your investment, as soon as discretionary income is realized you should invest immediately. DCA even helps to minimize the risk of volatility that's why it's not necessary to target the market when investing.

[katanic97]

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In the last 12.5 years since I have been in bitcoin, I have heard many times guys whining about how they had bought at the top and how they know about other people who bought at the top.

I frequently would say: "So fucking what? If you were serious about bitcoin at the top, then our current prices should be really good."

Many guys think that they are locked in when they start at the top, and sure, perhaps part of the problem is that some of them think that they blew their whole wadd at the top, so that they do not have any money left (or that they want to put into bitcoin).

Many times the problem is resolved by ongoingly investing.

In late November 2013, when I started to buy bitcoin, I started at the top, so my very first purchase was for bitcoin at $1,200 (which was higher than the top because of various fees in the way that I had gotten it), so then sure I continued to buy bitcoin and my average cost per bitcoin continued to get lower because the BTC price continued to go down throughout 2014 and then to pretty much stay flat at the bottom (around $250) for the whole of 2015.  So by the time we got to early 2015, my cost per BTC was in the upper $500s and then  by the time we got to the end of 2015, my cost per BTC were slightly below $500, but my holdings were still largely in the negative based on the then BTC prices.. but I continued to buy and even having my own cashflow problems that made it difficult to buy very much bitcoin in 2015 when the prices were the lowest.

Part of the value in NOT blowing your whole wadd at the top is that you are prepared to continue to buy if the price goes down. 

Part of the value of continuing to buy bitcoin tends to be that your average cost per BTC continues to go down so that BTC prices do not have to reach the previous ATH for your BTC holdings to come into being "in profits" on paper.

So sure there were likely some guys who bought at higher prices and they may even could have had bought "too much," yet I would think that if they continue to have an income it likely could be a good thing to continue to buy, yet surely guys have to make these decisions for themselves and surely guys do get worried about an ongoing and continuing (and never stopping) spiraling down of the price, so that they continue to buy but the prices continue to get lower.. So yeah, guys might have that fear, yet they still have to decide what they are going to do...and sure some guys do end up choosing to buy high and sell lower than their buy price rather than to just keep buying.. since there are no guarantees that the BTC price is going to go back up or even go up enough to recoupe losses.

And, yeah some other guys continue to buy but then as soon as they get into "profits" they end up selling, and yeah, those are choices.  The ones who sold at $500 in 2016 were likely regretting it. Even the ones who sold at $1,200, or any place under $3k were likely regretting it, yet people do what they are going to do, even dumb shit (maybe their level of dumb is not realized until several years later, too?).

You gave a good example from your own experience, which ultimately turned out to be a very good and profitable one. At least i know quite a few people who still regret selling back then when they shouldn't have, and i always hear the same "what if" stories.People simply don't have that kind of patience. The moment the price starts going down, that fear kicks in that they are going to lose everything, and they end up pulling out everything they invested.As you said yourself, you kept investing even during some difficult periods. You were patient and waited. Some people put their entire savings into BTC and, out of fear of losing everything, pulled their money out at a much lower price.That's why i think that, above all, people should educate themselves and learn more deeply about this subject, hear other people's experiences, like your story for example, and only then decide what they should do and how they should approach it. I've made some mistakes in the past that i would never make today, so i learned a lot from those experiences and also learned how to be patient

[JayJuanGee]

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In the last 12.5 years since I have been in bitcoin, I have heard many times guys whining about how they had bought at the top and how they know about other people who bought at the top.
I frequently would say: "So fucking what? If you were serious about bitcoin at the top, then our current prices should be really good."

Many guys think that they are locked in when they start at the top, and sure, perhaps part of the problem is that some of them think that they blew their whole wadd at the top, so that they do not have any money left (or that they want to put into bitcoin).
Many times the problem is resolved by ongoingly investing.

In late November 2013, when I started to buy bitcoin, I started at the top, so my very first purchase was for bitcoin at $1,200 (which was higher than the top because of various fees in the way that I had gotten it), so then sure I continued to buy bitcoin and my average cost per bitcoin continued to get lower because the BTC price continued to go down throughout 2014 and then to pretty much stay flat at the bottom (around $250) for the whole of 2015.  So by the time we got to early 2015, my cost per BTC was in the upper $500s and then  by the time we got to the end of 2015, my cost per BTC were slightly below $500, but my holdings were still largely in the negative based on the then BTC prices.. but I continued to buy and even having my own cashflow problems that made it difficult to buy very much bitcoin in 2015 when the prices were the lowest.

Part of the value in NOT blowing your whole wadd at the top is that you are prepared to continue to buy if the price goes down. 

Part of the value of continuing to buy bitcoin tends to be that your average cost per BTC continues to go down so that BTC prices do not have to reach the previous ATH for your BTC holdings to come into being "in profits" on paper.

So sure there were likely some guys who bought at higher prices and they may even could have had bought "too much," yet I would think that if they continue to have an income it likely could be a good thing to continue to buy, yet surely guys have to make these decisions for themselves and surely guys do get worried about an ongoing and continuing (and never stopping) spiraling down of the price, so that they continue to buy but the prices continue to get lower.. So yeah, guys might have that fear, yet they still have to decide what they are going to do...and sure some guys do end up choosing to buy high and sell lower than their buy price rather than to just keep buying.. since there are no guarantees that the BTC price is going to go back up or even go up enough to recoupe losses.

And, yeah some other guys continue to buy but then as soon as they get into "profits" they end up selling, and yeah, those are choices.  The ones who sold at $500 in 2016 were likely regretting it. Even the ones who sold at $1,200, or any place under $3k were likely regretting it, yet people do what they are going to do, even dumb shit (maybe their level of dumb is not realized until several years later, too?).

You gave a good example from your own experience, which ultimately turned out to be a very good and profitable one. At least i know quite a few people who still regret selling back then when they shouldn't have, and i always hear the same "what if" stories.People simply don't have that kind of patience. The moment the price starts going down, that fear kicks in that they are going to lose everything, and they end up pulling out everything they invested.As you said yourself, you kept investing even during some difficult periods. You were patient and waited. Some people put their entire savings into BTC and, out of fear of losing everything, pulled their money out at a much lower price.That's why i think that, above all, people should educate themselves and learn more deeply about this subject, hear other people's experiences, like your story for example, and only then decide what they should do and how they should approach it. I've made some mistakes in the past that i would never make today, so i learned a lot from those experiences and also learned how to be patient

For sure, I am not suggesting that bitcoin is guaranteed to go up from here, and there are chances that bitcoin can continue to spiral down from here and forever into the future, so guys have to make choices, even the ones who might have started investing in bitcoin anytime after the 2024 "Trump pump", so they might have had started out buying bitcoin at quite a few price points in the supra $100k price territories, including all the way up to $120k before the BTC price returned back below $100k and then we got caught in mostly below $80k prices since February of this year.

So guys have to make choices, and yeah, maybe some guys were trying to front-load their investment into bitcoin through late 2024 and even through most of 2025, so then after 2025, they were starting to feel that they did not have a lot of money remaining in their budget to continue to put more value in bitcoin.

So then in the end, they still need to decide what are they going to do?  continue to buy bitcoin? or just wait it out and not buy more?  or worse to sell some or all of their bitcoin at lower prices?

and guys have to choose what they are going to do while realizing that there are no guarantees in regards to the outcome, and they might not even realize the extent to which they made good choices or bad choices for several years down the road.  In 2015, there were all kinds of folks in real life and even in online forums who were laughing at me and at guys like me, and they were proclaiming that bitcoin was dead. I recall even having some arguments in person with some folks who would proclaim that it would be better to take some value out, and I would say, that they are giving me "advice" about bitcoin while they have hardly any clue about what bitcoin actually is.  All they see is that bitcoin had gone up to $1,163 and then in these recent times, bitcoin is mostly bouncing around between $220 and $240 for months and months and months.

Another thing is that if guys have enough money to cover their expenses. I had a business  in which my business partner had abandoned the business in that time, and I had to negotiate with some vendors to spread out the payments and even the landlord regarding not paying rent for two months, and so otherwise the bills were still being covered and there was a path forward in which the income was still coming in, even though at a rate that involved less income and more expenses... but at the same time, the worst of it was only a few months...and yeah, an easy way out could have had been to slice some value off of the bitcoin, yet I did not do that.  I just had to set bitcoin aside for a while in terms of not being able to buy any bitcoin for several months (during months that the BTC prices were the lowest, or at least in a trench).   So sometimes we might have to juggle things around to make sure that the income and the expenses line up.. to maybe figure out ways to try to increase income and to decrease expenses, even though certain kinds of expenses might not be able to cut back on since if there are some troubles with the business, then there might be some additional expenses that might also come from the transition of the business.

[jjohnatahnnn]

yre better off investing in something less shifty & unpredictable than bitcoin at such a rate if ur looking for real profit, not a smart idea, try ur luck if u want but i wouldn't bet on it

[LUCKMCFLY]

I have also spend some years in bitcoin and it took me learning about the DCA method to eliminate some challenges I was facing such as FOMO, trying to get rich very fast and all that.

That's one of the strengths of the DCA method for BTC: it allows you to be actively participating in the market, constantly monitoring and seizing opportunities.

If the BTC market price rises, nothing beats HODLing and continuing to buy the portion of BTC allocated to the method. If the market experiences dips, natural market pullbacks, we can't abandon the DCA method; we must adhere to it even more closely. And if fiat currency is available to gradually buy BTC during the dips, we can accumulate even more BTC even better.

In any circumstance, we must take advantage of market opportunities.

[JayJuanGee]

yre better off investing in something less shifty & unpredictable than bitcoin at such a rate if ur looking for real profit, not a smart idea, try ur luck if u want but i wouldn't bet on it

Investing may well be 4-10 years or longer, and surely if OP (or anyone similar) is young and poor then they might be looking at investing for longer than 10 years.

Of course, there aren't any guarantees with any investment, yet I doubt that there are any investments that are objectively better than bitcoin for a guy who might be starting out now.

Now if you are so focused on profits, then are you thinking of a shorter timeline? If so you may well be thinking about trading rather than investing, even though you are using the term "investing" you may well be actually talking about trading, but perhaps not able to realize the difference.e

By the way, your first post on the forum and proclaiming to know bitcoin and to know investing while at the same time focused on "profits", and sure, maybe you have experience in other places, yet traders tend to focus on "profits" and investors might try to consider the extent that some asset, such as bitcoin might have more of a tendency to go up in the long term, and not get wrapped up into whether there are "profits" in the short term.  Furthermore, you speak in conclusions without really backing up what you are saying, which also makes it difficult to take you seriously since you might be an anti-bitcoin no coiner who doesn't even really know either investing or bitcoin, but still wants to state an opinion on the topic..