First of all you sound like a trader from your statement. Bitcoin is not to be bought a hodli for few years because you are not going to make any good profit and you will regret your actions in future. The least year that bitcoin should be held is 4 years which is a whole circle and a newbie or a new investor will not just buy and hodli but will continue with his gradual bitcoin of his bitcoin stash by buying weekly or monthly using DCA method all the time for 4-10 years and above while he continues hodli his bitcoin.
The best way to invest in bitcoin is to invest in a very long period of time because that is only when you can make profit due to the compounding effect of your bitcoin portfolio overtime. A new investor like you might not be able to acquire enough Bitcoin or reach your bitcoin target within 10 years because as time passes by the price of bitcoin increases so reaching the fuck you status might take up to 20 years. It is only if you are after short-term profits that you will think 3 years is a long time.
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Only buy something that you would be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years." Warren Buffett.And that in a nutshell is what investing is about.
A great deal of all of those that consider themselves investors fail to meet its most minimum standards.
As much as this kind of statement holds ground theoretically and goes to explain the need to believe in whatever asset one is investing into, we can't be too certain on what will become of Bitcoin if the Bitcoin market shuts down for a period of 10 years. And even when we consider another asset, it's not all that easy to keep HODling an asset after 10 years of its value shutting down except you're left with no option than to keep HODling since you've invested too much already.
The idea of HODling is from a standpoint of giving yourself enough time that allows you to accumulate a lot of Bitcoin and so I wouldn't totally agree with this quote that tend to suggest that the yardstick for measuring which asset you're investing into or how long you're HODling your asset is based on your mere long term believe in the asset. Primarily, everyone that's investing in Bitcoin already believes that Bitcoin is the best digital asset to HODL and that's the reason why we keep buying both at the bears and even during the bull using the DCA methord and by consistently doing it for a number of years upto the point when we've reached our goal, it's not just because we want to HODL for a very long time as though it's how long we have HODLed our Bitcoin that guarantees the profitability of our investment, it's just that buy continuous DCA with respect to time, we are placed at a better position where we have a large amount of Bitcoin which determines the profitability of our Bitcoin investments.
So in summary, it's not about how long you've HODL but how well you utilized those period and how much Bitcoin you're able to buy within such space of time. Some of the long term HODLers only buys an initial Bitcoin or ceased it from a source and might succeed in holding it for 10 to 20 years, you can't compare the rate of profitability of such holders to how profitable another person that DCA consistently for 4 to 8 years considering that the amount of Bitcoin the latter must have bought would be more than what the initial person has and held unto.