so perhaps is very important to be able to distinguish between investment through DCA and holding because they are actually two different things and however most people believe that since almost everyone that intend holding uses DCA for accumulation they assume that holding is the same thing as DCA because even me I was thinking the same way until I realized they are not the same.
Holding is obviously not the same as investing using DCA methods, it's even better to compare holding to trading because that's where people normally make mistake from but comparing holding to the DCA methods of bitcoin accumulation is just same as saying that winning the world cup is just same as participating in the world cup tournament.
There is something you seem to be making difficult for me to understand. Investing in DCA method is not the same thing as holding but you will agree with me that the DCA method by its design encourages holding Bitcoin at least for something and during the peak of the accumulation process. Using the DCA method, you are buying amount that will be regarded as small quantity with respect to your total income, this small amount could just be spared money you don't have urgent need of, so you decide to invest it in Bitcoin. Because the amount invested through the DCA method is not part of your basic expenditure neither will it impact on your reserve funds, you tend to hold it for a long time. This is what I feel make people connect the DCA method to holding Bitcoin. DCA is closer to holding Bitcoin that trading is because traders do not hold. So yes, I do not agree with your line of argument
@moreno you are in fact in the right direction as both holding and DCA holds shares same similarities. Holding has to do with when an investor buys bitcoin and decides to hold on to it for a long period irrespective of price fluctuations while DCAing patterns to a regular investment of a particular amount of money (fixed) for a period of time , still irrespective of the fluctuations of bitcoin price. The two strategies are directed towards investment for a ROI after a predetermined period of time, so I don't understand why @hewlet is seriously confusing the two in this discussion.