These are different strategies in accumulating Bitcoin. Some investors use DCA strategy, others prefer buying the DIP strategy, while some DCA and also reserves funds to also buy during the DIP and some accumulate with lump-sum (Rich folks). All these approach are decisions made individually with what suits our bitcoin investment goals. Of all the strategies waiting to buy bitcoin during DIP alone without applying DCA strategy might slow your bitcoin investment growth because the price might not DIP to your desired levels and timing the market can be stressful.
Any strategy can work in investing in Bitcoin as long as the investor is consistent and do not deviate from accumulating enough Bitcoin as well as holding it for long. The decisions will make is what matter at the end, whether we chose to sell along the line taking gains (which is not advisable as it may slow the accumulation process) or we choose to hold our investor for longer purposes (quite the best approach) and benefits.
So why wait for the price to dip when you can be accumulating bitcoin through DCAing consistently to ensure steady accumulation, peradventure if it DIPs to your desired amount and you have extra bucks to buy fine but if it does not your accumulation through DCA continues to progress. DCAing can be done alone regardless of market fluctuations as long you keep it consistent but I don't see any need to wait for the DIP alone to accumulate bitcoin rather combining DCA with buy during DIPs can further enhance portfolio growth by taking advantage of lower prices when they occur.
Yeah, it is true, no matter what we do we should not stop buying Bitcoin as long as we have the funds or have decided to b allocating some percentage of our funds to investing in Bitcoin. Buying the dip is not bad at all but waiting for the dip is dangerous It may lead us to not invest in Bitcoin because we keep waiting and waiting for a dip, what it never comes. My approach to such situation is that i see every time as a dip which makes me buy more.
The truth is that dip happens every time in the market, it is what the investor is expecting that's the might differs. The level of dip that the investor is looking for is what's going to determine if he/she is going to keep waiting for long. If you check the bitcoin price movement in coingecko or coinmarketcap, you will see that in every 24 hours there is always a high and the low, so if an investor is waiting for a dip it will be difficult to actually know what kind of dip he is looking for. Dip is a sharp drop in price of bitcoin, so if bitcoin was trading at $70,000 and within the next 2 hours it now starts trading at $68k or $65k that's a dip, although the investor who's waiting for the dip might not see it as a reasonable dip, but in the actual sense dip has really happened. So for me it's not just enough to say you are waiting for the dip without being specific on the level of dip you are waiting for.