For sure, it can take a long time to build up your investment portfolio to a level in which you start to feel comfortable with the size.. maybe it starts to reach 1 or 2 years of your annual salary (or the amount that you need to live for one or two years), and then you may well start to feel the value of being conservative and building over the many years that it took you to get there.. perhaps it took you more than 10 years and maybe even close to 15 or 20 years to get to the level of having 1-2 years of living expenses in your investment portfolio... and sometimes as you get your investment portfolio larger, then it may well start to compound on itself in greater ways..
and surely the power of bitcoin has good potential to help any of us with the compounding effects of our investment and it is not as likely to happen if we are pissing around with trading rather than ongoingly building
Going by your points here, it is eminent that we take cognisance of what category of an investors we belong to, many people thinks that this is what they get into and must within a short period of time behold it result in their hands, but bitcoin investment is beyond that, when you buy the dip, hodl the coins, get secured and leave the asset to mature to an extent of being profitable whereby you experience a massive increase on your investment.
It usually take upto four years before such may occur since every halving takes place within this same stipulated interval, then comes the increase you least expect from your digital currency bitcoin which turn to a profitable investment or asset after your holdings, but hence if you can't endure this hodl for long the other alternative is to trade under a short term basis.