you can also see reasons with me that lump summing is more better during a drastic DIP even though you don't continue the DCA for sometime again so you could regain the cash that you used in lump summing at a DIP from your conspicuous income that you would have used to DCA and it now stands as a reserved funds.
It is wrong for you to think of using your DCA money over a period of time to plan in buying at the dip. The problem with the dip is that, you cannot time the dip to know when it will come because it comes like a thief in the night. Also how will you know the bottom line of the dip. You might think that you have seen the lowest dip, and buy with your DCA funds overtime, and the price of bitcoin continues to go dipper than what you bought, and maybe stay for long.
This is why DCA is good because it makes you to continue stacking without caring about the price of bitcoin at that moment. Someone that is DCAing will have the opportunity to always buy bitcoin when the price dips to the bottom line, because he is consistent with accumulating his bitcoin often. I would not say that it is a good practice for a new beginner or a low coiner to use his money that he has set aside to DCA overtime to buy bitcoin when the price dips and keep waiting till he has recovered back before he continues with his DCA. DCA should not be stopped, because it will terminate the purpose of accumulating and growing your bitcoin portfolio faster to reach your bitcoin target.
Lump sum can be done anytime that you have the money, you just buy right away without waiting for the dip, but you should make sure that you are on your regular DCA accumulation weekly or monthly and it shoukd not be tampered with. Money that we don't need and feel it is good to put it into bitcoin is good for lump sum. For instance, you sold your car because, you don't need it anymore and not because you are broke or it is giving you problems. Such money can be used to lump sum right away since it is not part of you regular income.
However, a beginner may not comprehend these various strategies at the start of their investments as they will be more focused about the DCA because it is easier and doesn't allow regular monitoring of market prices. I am not trying to complicate between lump summing, buying at a dip price and the DCA but I am more concerned about lump summing only when a dip occurs and continue to DCA some other time that is for someone who have understood the activities of the market.
It is a wrong perspective, because instead of keeping the cash waiting for the dip and the dip did not come you might use the cash for other unforeseen challenge that might arise. Also you don't need to understand the market before you can DCA, all you need to do is to know how much is your discretionary income from your cash inflow, and how much can you use from your discretionary income to buy bitcoin that will enable continue buying with that amount always, without any problem and hodli for long. If you don't have a discretionary income then you look for another means of income. So that part of your income from the second job can be used as your discretionary income.