Whether we are talking about shore term or long term, there is no guarantee of profit, yet I frequently like to suggest that we are not really investing unless we are planning to stay in at least a whole cycle...otherwise there is just an attempt to play the swing.. and even someone with a 4 year timeline might be trying to play the swing of the whole cycle.. which I would not really consider that to be investing either..
But any event, anyone who has been investing is advantaged by having had been investing... surely you are correct about that.
So then the next question for everyone else is that if they have not been investing, then they have to figure out if they are able to establish some kind of confidence regarding their disposable income and if they have any of their disposable income that they are able to allocate towards bitcoin.. even if it might ONLY be $10 per week... it is likely better than nothing.. but surely, I like to suggest $100 per week, even though I know that some people do not have that level of disposable income, so they just have to figure out how much disposable income they have and that they can allocate towards bitcoin in order to have good chances of having more options for themselves 4-10 years or longer down the road.
Well nice to for suggested, Your advice seems to work, but when a person has a weekly income of $100 or less, I think they should follow the DCA method and deposit at least $10 per week. After 10 years it will be seen that he has been able to make a good profit.
What I think is most important here is that if a person wants to invest even $10 per month, then after 10 years he will be different from others and profitable.[\b]
Bitcoin investment is not buying of candy, and you are investing for the future, because the value of bitcoin tends to move in an upward trend more than downward. This is why you must venture into something realistic, and worth sacrificing more for. $10 for one month like you said is $120 in a year and in 10 years, it is $1200. Is this the best you can do. How would you transfer your coins from an exchange to your private wallet, is it after 5yrs or 10yrs because your transaction output matters a lot. So that you don't end up having small output, and later in future if tx fees are high, you end up using almost all your profit, if not all for transaction fee, when you are ready to sell your bitcoin in the long run. I believe that as time goes on, and bitcoin price keeps increasing, your $10 will be worthless. This is because the unit it will buy you would hardly have any increase to your portfolio.
Big up mate, if you don't have much on you or cannot afford to invest in bitcoin because of low income, you should try to look for a second means of income to increase your total income or cut down your expenses, so that you will use the excess that you will not be needing for long to invest in bitcoin regularly through DCA. In ten years time, when you look at your portfolio, you will be proud that you increase your income, and used to reasonable amount to DCA regularly. Don't forget that the size of your bitcoin portfolio determines your profit.
Ultimately it is good for each of us to get our priorities straight, including that a lot of people fail/refuse to invest, and maybe they do not have opportunities to invest, so they may end up working their whole lives without really being able to stop because they don't have enough money to be able to stop or even to slow down without suffering from their lack of any kind of meaningful nestegg.
Bitcoin provides an opportunity for anyone and everyone to invest, even with a relatively small amount, but like you suggest Sim_card, there should be some kind of a meaningful amount in order for the outcome to have some kind of potential for meaningfully impacting the person.
Frequently, I suggest to shoot for 10% of your income and/or expenses, so then at least after 10 years, you would have had invested a whole year's of income. even though surely income levels and expenses are likely to increase over the years, but it seems that investing in bitcoin has a good chances to keep up with and perhaps even outperform inflation(and/or the debasement of fiat currency values).
In the end, it seems to be a matter of priorities, even though surely there are some folks who really do struggle to figure out ways to earn an income that is high enough that they are actually able to invest, so it is hard to blame people for those kinds of circumstances, even though bitcoin does seem to be amongst one of the best ways forward if they are actually able to figure out a way to earn more than their expenses and to stock (stack) some of their value away in some kind of savings/investment - including the need to maintain an emergency fund, too.