what am i missing exactly?
The point of dollar-cost averaging is to buy an asset daily/weekly/bi-weekly/monthly
regardless of price. Basically a "strategy" that acknowledges that you can't time the markets so you're just going to average in instead. Starting to DCA only at a certain price sort of somewhat defeats the purpose.
I'm not saying that you shouldn't do it or that what you said is a bad strategy; but it's not DCA.