The extent at which most people talk about always buying at dip can be somehow discouraging to most people in terms of changing there focus from regular accumulation to buy only at dip because they always sounds very convincing as if buying at dip is what guarantee there increment of there investment portfolio, sometimes I feel that most of those who always talk about buying only the dip has little understanding about investment if not they would have only seen that dip is just a temporary opportunity brought through the Bitcoin price drops, so at that moment those who have extra funds will increase there investment or buy at once and move on there DCA instead of just depending on the dip.
It is important to buy the dip if you want to be profitable.
although I am not a part of this conversation but I would like to add a little even as JJG may have replied you. the way you sounded @SatoPrincess look somewhat like buying the dip is the most profitable method in the whole investment strategy neglecting the DCA and also lump sum method. to me its a bit problematic, if you check from the statement of Roseline492, he made an exquisitely nice point, very clear and precise about how people talks about buying the dip and making it look more important than regular DCA, and yes that can be misleeding because it makes everything looks like a quick way of making money from bitcoin, presumably trading. despite whatsoever we shouldn't forget so soon that bitcoin investment is a long term investment and not a short term investment which should not be neglected. and also reffearing buying the dip as the most profitable while DCA strategy to be done as trading is misleading.
Just because you’re using DCA strategy doesn’t mean you should ignore basics of trading and buy bitcoin at ATH. Because if you buy bitcoin at the top, you will be losing money when the market corrects itself. For example you buy bitcoin at 70k, how long do you think you can hodl the bitcoins before the price breaks 70k zone? DCA strategy is good for newbies who are just starting out but for those who have the knowledge of trading, they apply DCA in a more efficient manner.
the fact that you presume DCA is good for newbies as a starting point doesn't mean that old Investors can not use same method. if an investor choses to only buy bitcoin the way you presume, definately there will be no DCA rather buying only the dip. because according to your narrative it implies that we should apply DCA strategy in efficient manner, that is buying bitcoin when the price is low and not when it is high. for example as you said if we buy bitcoin around $70k how long do we have to HODl it before it breaks the zone? fine.. surely if a person buys bitcoin through DCA within the period when bitcoin is high within the $70k and it dips to $65k or $55k then you buy the dip from your reserved fund, and this is the important of having reserved fund for buying the dip, DCA and lump sum because bitcoin is volatile. if you even buy Bitcoin the way you think you are smarter than others as you think, maybe buying only when the price has dipped, you may be supprised that it will still dip more and your sudgested low price may even become a once all time high that need alot of time to come back. for example you made reference of $70k to be a high price to buy, what if $70k dip to $50k and you buy thinking it's low and $50k dip to $30k and take time to recover to $50k so invariably you become frustrated so the best way is to buy using a regular DCA and buying the dip and Also lump sum when you have a fund to lump sum. so your sudjestion was trying to completely eliminate DCA method but as the case may be what can you say now. you can't really be smarter than others in bitcoin investment.
The elephant in the room problem is that sometimes the BTC price does not dip, and another thing sometimes there is way too much wasted time strategizing about whether the BTC price might or might not dip and there might not even be that BIG of a difference between buying right away or buying regularly and fucking around trying to figure out if there might be a dip or not and if there is going to be a dip, then how much of a dip there might be...or not and does it really make that much of a difference, especially when it cannot even be known anyhow whether there will be a dip or not, even when there are strong feelings that there might be a dip, that does not always end up happening, so then time is wasted that could be spent in more productive ways.. perhaps even ways to figure out how to earn more money or to cut some expenses in order that more bitcoin can be bought or perhaps ways to figure out how to secure coins in a solid way that is not going to result in putting coins at risk or potentially having a bunch of UTXOs that are overly small.