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DCA is going to be quite problematic for any coin or project that is generaly trending downard in its price... One thing about any asset with strong fundamentals would be that even if it is trending downward for very long periods of time, if the fundamentals are strong enough, then the downward trend should end up reversing, and sure it is not guaranteed to reverse, and sometimes we might not know that something is a shitcoin until it never ends up recovering.
Surely there are some shitcoins that end up having second lives, and so there could end up being some value in DCAing into them and then getting out during one of their recovery periods... but yeah, would we call that investing? Probably we would call it trading and/or gambling... depending on how wild the coin is and if there might be some reasons that the coin/project actually has meaningful/substantial value beyond pumping and dumping.
But JJG the difference is that we do some analysis here and know that sometimes you trade fundamentals or you can trade the sentiment or information you have. Too many people are still stuck with terms like market capitalization or coin price. They have no idea, don't read basic material about bitcoin, fall for the most fancy techn language and check coinmarketcap for low market cap coins in hopes to see those rice to bitcoin levels. That is where it becomes stupid. You know these sentences "but bitcoin very expensive, trashcoin only $0.05, much potential". Some don't even understand the concept as mentioned above. When there is a coin that costs 1/1000th of bitcoin, but there are 1000x the number of bitcoins, they still think that it takes less money to push the price of that trashcoin that to push bitcoin upwards.
Lots of people lack the most rudimentary fundamentals and then I would certainly call it gambling when they buy something other than bitcoin. If someone really puts effort into following a certain portfolio of coins and identifies some pattern, then I would more lean towards calling it trading.
Whenever someone asks me to do what to do to get involved first, it is bitcoin and then go from there, see how the market works, what kind of news might have an impact, take time to get into the little details, and if somebody then decides to give some other coin a shot because the person now is able to contextualize any coin within the bitcoin ecosystem, then feel free to do so. But people wasting their money on some coin from page 288 from coinmarketcap because they hope there will be some dead cat bounce or so, please no...
And one thing that I experienced when I tried holding one trash coin that I tried to catch up some its gains months back was that I wasn't having this peace of mind, Because right inside me, I know there's no guaranteed future, even though that the coin looked promising and later performed well but I wasn't still having that peace of mind I have holding my portfolios in Bitcoin, and obviously I can tell from this experience that holding those trash (shitcoins) is just gambling your funds.