One of the problems of failing/refusing to sufficiently and adequately prepare for UP is that you end up getting screwed when the price ends up going UP while you had been waiting for bargain prices that had way lower chances of happening than you had projected them out to be.

Accordingly, there had been opportunities to get BTC for $13k to $14k cheaper than current prices, so now if you have a bunch of fiat in your hands (bank accounts) that had been dedicated to buying bitcoin, you have tough choices regarding whether to buy now, and it even could be the last time that you are able to get BTC for under $50k.. when surely you had around 2 months to buy BTC much cheaper.. even less than two weeks ago you could have still bought some BTC in the $30ks.. so yeah, surely problems with trying to time the market.. when DCA is frequently a bit of a better strategy, at least if you are trying to prepare for UP.. even if with DCA you might end up buying some BTC at higher prices, at least you are able to contiunue to stack it. and sometimes you may well not even notice the difference if you bought some at $35k versus $40k versus $43k.. especially when later the prices are touching upon $47k without any guarantee that they are going to be going much if at all lower than that.