Re: Buy the DIP, and HODL!

Newbie or no newbie, it is not advisable to invest all your money in bitcoin. No matter how much you think is in your emergency funds account. It is advisable to always keep your sources of income open even though you have kept emergency funds aside. Because you don't know the kind of emergencies that might come up tomorrow. It could be an emergency that will consume all your emergency funds at once. So at that time you have invested all your money in bitcoin and the emergency funds you have kept cannot solve the problem, at that point what will you do? You will definitely go to your investment. But if you had kept your source of income flowing, you won't be in that situation.

If you invest all your money in bitcoin to only depend on your emergency funds, equally mean that you have a short term hold mentality. Because you are just waiting for a slight upward trend to sell off.

Emergency funds is crucial for a well sustained investment be it short or long term. No matter how short it may look like in between those space the investor can be faced with extreme life expenses that requires immediate attention and emergency funds should be rightly available to solve such problems, mostly at the early stages of accumulating Bitcoin. One other thing to clear off is that our emergency funds is separate from money kept aside to carry out living expenditures, so it is not right to invest all we have into Bitcoin all for the sake of getting out of it a bigger profits.

Experience is applied during the process of accumulating, it cannot be reversed when already put into action by investing more than should have, getting out of it with the only option is to sell too soon which is not recommended, so to avoid this from happening, investors are advised to invest more deligently according to availability of funds.

Short term investment is just like trading and that does not require much of emergency funds because if you understand what emergency fund is, you will know it is best suitable for long term investment because it serve as a protection of the investment itself because that is what the investor resort to when there is issues that need urgent attention which was not accounted for or expected to happen. If someone buy bitcoin and hoping to sell when price rises a little and he see reasonable profits, I do not see the need to keep emergency funds. Therefore, emergency fund is indeed crusial to sustain the investment but it is mainly for long term investment.

Short term investing is like trading, but there is risk involved in investing for a short period of time. However, having funds is the most important thing when it comes to investing. If you don't have funds, you can't invest. If you have enough funds, you can invest some amount from there. When you invest you may face loss due to volatility in the market but if you have funds at that time then you can reinvest and get profit from it. So I also think it is very important to have an emergency fund to sustain the investment and an investor has a high expectation of profit in it. But long term investment is best as compared to short term placement and profit is easy here.

Don't be the person who will be looking back in time in 15 - 20 years and remember that you SOLD one of the fastest surging assets in modern history. We plebs should put as much Bitcoin in - cold-storage - as we possibly can, then FORGET about them. Purchase more using DCA and/or purchase more on large DIPs. I'm very confident you'll be telling a very good success story for your future children. Cool

Wind_FURY you are right i know for sure Bitcoin will make history and i really want to be part of that history, i have a job and I'm okay with my pay, so i started investing in Bitcoin because i feel this will be the best gift i will give my unborn children when I'm about living this world, Bitcoin will hit a price that will surprise everyone in the world and i don't want to regret.
Bitcoin is one of the best investment right now in the world and should be taken seriously, 10 years ago if someone tells me Bitcoin will be this great i will have a little doubt but look at how great Bitcoin is today, in the next 20 to 30 years everyone constantly accumulating and holding Bitcoin will all become very successful.
I pray we don't met problems or emergency that will eat of our backup funds and still make us dip hands into our Bitcoin investment, Amen.

Although, shitcoiners could make/invent the same debate/argument about their shitcoins, my counter-argument for THAT is - For an investment strategy of Buy the DIP/DCA, and HODL with low time preference, we need to be HODLing the asset that will actually continue to exist in 10 to 20 years. That's Bitcoin, the others in crypto are risky and MOST might start dying after 2 or 3 cycles.