Re: Buy the DIP, and HODL!

That is the point of the problem, sometimes we are not unwilling to allocate our income every monht in a large percentage amount, but with the economic situation that still has to divide on other things that ultimately make us as minimal as possible to allocate it. That is not something wrong either, because there should be no compulsion that makes us ignore other needs, because if we do that it is something that is not wise either.
The most important thing when we do this is consistency, for me it doesn't matter when the percentage is more flexible, especially when our financial situation is up and down.

30% is a fairly large allocation because for me it is a very aggressive step in investing.

I disagree with you. 30% is a good amount to start investing in Bitcoin. Its not large at all its accurately a good start in investing and should not be considered as aggressive investing. For instance elf you earn 100$ a month and you use 50% for upkeep and sorting of that month expenses. 20% can be kept for savings or emergency fund and you can invest the 30%. If the economic situation is favorable there persons who would prefer to invest up to 40%. But i would not advice this bold step to family owners because need for other things may arise within the month that could take up some money. Bitcoins price is on the range of $34k it will take a long time to get 1 Bitcoin if you invest less than 30% when your earnings is low. But if you make good money like a $1000 a month even investing 10% a month can give you a good amount of Bitcoin at the end of the year. One thing for sure is that within this period of accumulation the price of Bitcoin might go increase or dip and it will affect the amount of Bitcoin you can buy with that 30%.

It is said than done. I see 30% as something too big for newbies to start with, 10% is very cool and if the person has little income, he can start with 5%. what matters is the investors regular buying without skipping any week or month and before you know it in 10yrs time, you will be surprise to see the quantity of bitcoin that you have accumulated. Take note that there are some kind of emergency that one will be faced with, that might take up to 50% of your monthly income sometimes. I have so many needs that arise and emergencies from here and there, if you accumulate aggressively, it will become a problem in your bitcoin journey because, you might go back and sell from your bitcoin investment portfolio when you are short of funds, and this might chatter your bitcoin target goal.

It is good to use the money that you can use for regular DCA, no matter the challenges that you are facing and whatever emergency that comes your way, you can still continue with your DCA strategy because you have a bitcoin target. That is why I see 10% as the best option because you will have enough reserve funds to handle any expenses that comes your way. And if it happens that your reserve funds is piling up and you still have more cashm you can keep it and use to to buy at the dip or better still use it to add to your DCA funds. If you use 30%, there will be no way that you will be able to have excess reserve funds for other purposes.

I am talking from experience, there was a time that I decided to invest above my regular 10% DCA and I increase it to 20%, for the first three weeks, I was fine but later, I observe that the cash left after buying bitcoin for the week, is not always enough for me to use to take care of other needs and there must be an emergency that will occurs and I will have to take care of it. I got angry on the 6th week towards myself because, the cash on me couldn't take care of my family needs and other emergency. I got broke three days after I got paid because the moment I get paid, I just buy bitcoin instantly with the budgeted amount. This made me to think of selling some fraction from my bitcoi. But because I know where I went wrong and immediately, I asked my colleague at work to lend me some money to take care of major responsibility for that month. The moment I get paid, immefiately I went back to my normal 10% budget, and I was able to clear my sebt and could still balance other expenses. Since then I have never come up with the thought of goin above 10% with my present income. It is better to use 10% because this will not have effect on your income when you use it for DCA. Remember, slow and steady win the race.

This is great advice and thanks for sharing from your personal experiences. It really shows a healthy perspective, and your ability to be pivot/be flexible. I think that’s key to any investment. When people talk about investing they even go a level deeper and ratio out the split of investments from that 10% of your income.

My deduction from income ranges between 5-25%. Sometimes have richer months and sometimes more expensive so the amount has variance. Recommend ya use excel or google sheets to work it all out for you. I also don’t do the allocation all at once and spread out the “investing” over a month. Sometimes things come up and I don’t like to be over extended, but certainly by month end they are done.

Then out of the amount I split my investments like this.

%56 BTC
%5 add to emergency fund
%17 dca stock
%12 cash savings
%10 into my business

If you see someone say they are high allocated into something this is probably what they mean.

Every year I re-asess this ratio normally near year end. I do feel like I have over allocated into btc this year but maybe that worked out, we shall see.

Keep calm, hodl and dca on

Since I last posted I have learned something about my self, some people might draw parallels or may have already learnt this about themselves. I was angry that the price went up, and it was the first time I was angry at BTC price even throughout the bear of going/dropping down. I realised too late I hadn't fully prepared for Uppity. I thought I had, I thought I would be happy with double digit value returns. I could handle other asset returns across other investments so why couldn't I project that confidence and experience to BTC. Well what caught me completely off guard was the suddenness. In most if not all other asset classes value add is gradual. You know you build wealth slowly, but like 5K$ increase in BTC price threw me into a loop. I was more angry I hadn't invested more at lower levels than the fact i had just got more returns from one asset in a day than any other asset I have ever owned. The magnitude of that was drowned out by my anger.

Well why I am writing this, what happened, what did I learn. Pretty simple I didn't fully understand, when people said be prepared for uppity, what that meant. I also put too much of my investment money looking at a bargain. I should have put it 100% into dca vs split of DCA and BTFD. I fooled myself into thinking my system was flawless because i didn't prepare for uppity properly. I went back through all my BFTD buys and then compared this to increasing DCA during the same time period. DCA would have out won with this 5k$ uppity.

Shifting my strategy I'm not going put as much emphasis on BFTD vs DCA for a while, there is more severe uppity to come but I have learnt my lesson.

Stay calm, learn shit, and dca on.