The whole crypto space is littered with 'buy the dip' and the primary counsel before that advice seems to be fading away but without that primary advice, you might cease to exist in the space, most especially if you have used up all of your savings in the course of that investment. When you want to consider buying a dip, firstly, pause, DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH before you activate that buy button.
The idea of HODL is entirely up to you and your greed level. If you wish to have trust in the project, then, its entirely up to you.
You can't want something that really buys today and profits very big in the future because in essence Investment is not like that. We need more time to get results.
Talking about DYOR doesn't that mean you still have to look at other people and always buy what other people say so that the word DYOR is there? you have to have your own beliefs, friend, because if you keep doing things like that (following other people's words), then you definitely won't be able to survive here and I'm pretty sure losses will continue to come because your mindset is actually not wrong but not quite right because it's just expecting something a bit quicker or instant.