Short term goals are not classify as HODL. The word hodler, are used for bitcoin investors that keep their bitcoin investment porfolio for 4yrs and above before they can think of taking profit and the investment is still existing i.e they still have some bitcoin with them. While a short term investors is classified as a trader, the reason is because bitcoin investment is beneficial when you invest in long term to get a good profit compare to short term. The reason why short term are traders is that they can sell after one year and after that bitcoin price pumps 2x or 3x the year after they have sold, this shoes that they have missed out from the long term hodling profit.

Imagine that you are running a new business that you just set up and after one year when the business has not stand and it is still facing challenges to grow, you sold half of the business, will that business survive, ot because you have made little profit, you decided to sell the business to someone else and walk away with your capital and little income. If you have left the business and continue to manage it that your little profit that you made will be use to invest back into the business and continuously. A time will come after a very long time that the business has flourished that when you take a reasonable amount from the business profit, it wouldn't affect the business. Same way you should look into bitcoin too.

This is why have the long term goal plan and invest, then increase your bitcoin portfolio through DCA frequently, and you will see that you will grow in your bitcoin investment, the longer the timeline, the higher the chances of making profit based on the size of your bitcoin portfolio.