Plus people in the topic who are convinced that there will be "NO MORE MAJOR DIPS" should stop thinking binarily and start thinking in probabilities. Because with the macro-economics looking bad in major economies like China and the United States, it could start a systemic event that might take the economies in different regions around the world with them.
The unemployment data in the United States will be a leading indicator in knowing if there will be a sudden crash, and if Jerome Powell starts to pivot - For the wrong reasons. The "soft-landing" might not happen. It will be "higher for longer" until something will break.
Instead of the stress of how to think and how not to think, why can't someone just engage in the buying already since that is what we are here to do? Why bother ourselves with if price will dip or not when we could have just start the buying and allow the market decide? I have come to realize that there is no perfect price for entry and the moment one have the mindset of waiting for the dip (aka perfect entry), then doubt and confusion will creep in and the end will most likely not be pleasant.
I have followed your conversation in this thread lately and you seem to have settled for waiting for dips to buy. I understand the advantages but I don't consider it efficient because of the uncertainties that follows it and the chances of poor judgement and emotional torture that it is prone to. So to compensate for the concerns I already stated, one can be waiting for the dip with some portion of the budgeted funds while applying the DCA with part of it. In this case, if the supposed dips happens fine and if it doesn't, then the DCA will suffice, just that the amount invested in this case will be lower than it would have been if one used the entire funds for the DCA.
In addition, isn't it too stressful focusing on economical and fundamental data in making your Bitcoin investment decision when you know that those data are not 100% reliable? I have seen several situations where supposed positive news was followed with massive dump... they will always conjure jargon to justify it. This approve to be has all the attributes of short term investors or traders, hence, my preference of the DCA method.