This period do not encourage trading or investment but at the same time when price is down is good opportunity to buy cheap and when its explode you will gain it. Nothing is lost in bitcoin, those holding for long now are the great benefactors but if you buy this period is more safer.
If I have money now, I would buy half of bitcoin because in next three months it will double the current price. This is real because it always occur this way after 5 years remember in 2011 and 2017 from the market charts and caps. And this year will break more even.
You are right the best formula to earn os to have patience and hold holder is a gainer in crypto based on what we saw in the past, if we are holder we can have many opportunities to have a big profit specially when we are in a bull season and the price is always rising if i also have money i will buy btc now and hold for the future.