You seem too committed to the DCA method that you tend to have forgotten that there is another method of buying called buying the dips. There is nothing wrong with setting aside some funds to buy when price dips and when waiting, using the DCA method to continue buying without stop and waiting for the dips to buy lump sum. This is a kind of combined method which is very effective. I think most experienced investors apply this method and I recommend the method for anyone who want to fully take advantage of different market conditions.
I'm pretty much aware that they are other nice strategy out There for accumulating bitcoin. But they all have their time ( depending on market conditions) . For instance you can't just keep waiting for the dip always before one should consider accumulating, So is better for to continue with his DCA purchasing , having some funds set aside (which known as reserved funds) to purchase the dip whenever any occurs. The other way of accumulating are also helpful when it comes to bitcoint accummulation, but being consistent with your DCA is just the best too, and also making use of the other strategy for instance, spreading out your reserved to purchase the dips ( or you can all in at once but still prefer spreading it), have some nice amount of money to spare as a normies you can go all in at once with the use of lump-summing strategy, depending on the market condition, So if you look at it we are clearly on same page here.
From what JayjuanGee thought me, that there are meaningful concepts and functionalities of various strategies hence, the idea of having a lump sum buying completely has nothing to do with market conditions. However, the idea of lump sum buying is having some amount of money that you are holding right now and you decided how much of that money that you are going to invest right now with that amount that is made available to you to use and buy right now whether there is a dip or not but rather it is much connected to your own personal decision regarding how much of that amount that is available right now that you would want to use and buy Bitcoin right now.
I don't think if the lump sum buying is subjected to any market conditions or buying when there is a dip or which ever way you may have but a sole decision of an investor irrespective of any forms of market conditions, and I think it is just a misconception of concepts, and also open for corrections if any.
@tmoonz your very correct about the lump sum buying, it has nothing to do with any market condition, not to long ago Jay made some clarification on the concept of lump sum, and just as you said its buying irrespective of market condition, let's say that I've been DCAing 25% of my 300$ weekly income into bitcoin and I had an extra cash that came in about 6000$ and after I had done some calculations, I realised that I still had an extra 2000$ available that I could use to buy bitcoin, I cam just put that whole money into bitcoin and that would be a lump sum, and at times our lump sum buying should be higher than our normal DCA buying cause based on its original definition from the Internet they would call it a whole buying, meaning buying I'm whole, so this means that a lump sum buying is mostly associated with buying with huge amounts.
Talking about which strategy is the best doesn't really matter although each one of them has their strengths and weakness and also have a way that you can use them to counter for each other, like the DCA method helps to protect us from market volatility but buying too much with DCA at very high prices could make you have a higher buying average and at times you need to buy more at dip to be able to balance it out although as long as you keep consistency with your DCA strategy it shouldn't matter much, buying on dips is a good strategy but if its yoir only strategy then you are bound to miss out on other buying times and timing the market is not a good idea when it comes to accumulating bitcoin cause every times is a good time to buy.
So a better idea would be to have a good mix and figure out how we can exploit all this strategy to be on top in our accumulation, an example would be keeping extra cash in your reserves to buy when the price dips, and using DCA strategy to continue your weekly buying routine and to have an edge over volatility if you buy in high prices, and using lump sum to front load our investment in times when we have an excess of extra disposable funds that we can still use to buy bitcoin.