The decision of how much and how often to invest is one of the most essential elements of DCA. As an illustration, you may choose to invest a certain sum of money each week, month, or quarter. Rather of investing your entire savings all at once, the goal is to spread it out over time. This strategy can result in lower total expenses and helps to moderate market volatility. Another tactic is to automate your DCA plan, which would cause frequent automated transfers of funds from your bank account to your investing account.
This is all true, and many of the times you can take the money from a lump sum that is available or you could take the money from cashflow that is coming in, so you might measure what is the difference between the amount that you have coming in and your expenses (which would be your disposable/discretionary income), and if you try to use high portions of your DCA for buying BTC or any other investment, then you may well get yourself into trouble... so if you were to end up engaging in some kind of automatic DCA, then you would want to make sure that the amount is reasonable and not going to lead you into trouble... yet at the ame time, I am personally a little bothered by some of the automatic DCA systems since they may well not permit you to choose the exact time of your purchase, so anyone using automatic DCA might want to consider if they are doing the DCA buys at a certain time of the day or are they allowing you to customize your automated DCA buy time.
You're correct that Automatic DCA can be a pain the a$$ sometimes because it doesn't let you choose the timing of when to make your investment but we can't also overlook the importance of automatic DCA.
The convenience associated with automatic DCA is one of its primary advantages. The system will take care of remembering to make your investments on a regular basis, so you don't have to. This might be especially useful if you're busy or have a tendency to forget to invest. We are aware of investors who, because to their hectic schedules or excessive activities, occasionally forget to DCA for the day.
The ability of automatic DCA to lessen the emotional impact of investing is another benefit. When the market is highly volatile, it can be difficult to maintain discipline and follow a strategy that you've initially set to follow, but automatic DCA can help you remain on course.
Well, It actually depends on your unique situation and choices, though. However, it can be worthwhile to think about manual DCA rather than automatic DCA if you're someone who is at ease handling your own assets and doesn't mind the additional work. In this manner, you will have greater control over your tax status and be able to select the precise timing and amount of your investment.
In as much the Automatic DCA has an advantage it must surely have disadvantages, it can never be too perfect, we are now left with the choice whether to follow such a pattern or not.
Making use of the automatic DCA strategy should be activated only when their is a close interval between the time of DCAING, like trying to DCA in every 3 to 4 days period then applying this will help reduce the work load of consistently purchasing without skipping any day.