Since this thread does not exclude presenting ideas of trading, it becomes fair game to talk about ideas of investing versus trading, yet frequently it can become quite difficult for any traders to suggest some systematic way to trade in such a way that it is going to be profitable to sell bitcoin either as a means to gain more bitcoin or as a means to increase performance of bitcoin holdings (potentially gaining fiat from the trading behaviors).  I have no doubt that some traders will have success, yet part of my overall point is that the various trading strategies are not replicable in ways that ongoing buying techniques are replicable. . so in several ways, we can show that merely buying and holding bitcoin has been a profitable strategy and bitcoin has been amongst the best of investments, especially the longer the period of time that we might compare bitcoin to other possible investment assets.  EarnOnVictor seems to be proclaiming that there are techniques that could be even more profitable than a pure buy and hold strategy, and sure that could be true, yet I have my doubts that it is worth it to put bitcoin at risk in order to improve upon bitcoin price performance that historically has already been good, and there is no reason to believe that bitcoin's investment thesis is weakening  - even though EarnOnVictor claims bitcoin's investment thesis is weakening too in terms of bitcoin having lower upside performance possibilities as compared to bitcoin's historical performance. EarnOnVictor is not completely wrong in regards to bitcoin's growth curve likely tapering off, yet I still doubt that it is either worth the risk to sell BTC (or trade) or that the tapering off is so detrimental to BTC's performance to make it an inferior investment in terms of buy and hold, which seems to be another of the implications of his assertions.


Maybe I have been pushing back more on EarnOnVictor since he seems to be having these various kinds of seemingly sly ways of trying to suggest that DCA techniques can be improved upon by trading the known swings, which truly might be true, yet I doubt that it is a good idea for most regular people to be fucking around with trying to trade, especially if they have already concluded that they are fairly early in their BTC accumulation journey, and there are a lot of ways that people can screw up their whole BTC accumulation journey when they get distracted away from the employment of ongoing buying techniques and start to consider that they might be able to sell and buy back cheaper, which frequently contributes towards people losing on what should be a winning investment.


Trading does not seem to be off topic in this particular thread.. even though trading versus investing is also not really the main focus of such a thread in which the thrust seems to be asking about the road to $100k, which surely can conjure up all kinds of ideas that could relate to either trading or investing.   


Even your description acknowledges that the road to $100k can have a lot of perspectives  that might even include questioning whether it will really happen or even questioning if it is an important milestone or not.


Sure, EarnOnVictor is likely showing some of his inabilities to conceive of value in terms of holding onto bitcoin if fiat cannot be extracted from it, so in some sense, he is reflecting the values in which traders will frequently consider that they are profiting through the various dollars that they are extracting from the asset along the way, and surely they want to get back their principle too.

It could be that a trader does not necessarily want to tie up his capital for too long in any particular trade unless he sees it to be profitable, and so will have some difficulties recognizing value in regards to investing that ties up capital for a long period of time...so someone like EarnOnVictor will see even more value if he is able to extract dollar value several times on the up and down price moves, and maybe even extracting value in either direction, and so he is trying to describe such process as being easy and maybe even placing himself in smart person's group who is able to accomplish profits in ways that others are not recognizing and/or executing.

And, so yeah his buy and sell techniques might even be way more profitable more frequently than it is not, yet if BTC  prices go from $53k to $58k and he extracts $1k in profits, he is happy, even if BTC prices end up going up to $74k and don't return to his sell prices. He will just reinvest at some point that he sees a dip and upside potential or perhaps find some other trade, and he might even end up missing out on large BTC upside moves, yet he does not consider them to be losses because he had extracted dollar value from several of them.

I have my doubts whether he or even guys like him outperform the DCAers or the other guys who are mostly just buying and holding, and so several of the BTC buyers/holders/long term investors made multiples and even magnitudes of profits in regards to their strategies, in part due to compounding value, yet frequently the traders are not coming even close to similar levels of profits as compared to bitcoiners who mostly errored on the side of accumulating (through buying only) and holding.


I doubt that EarnOnVictor's generally vague and smarter than everyone else statements are very replicable, so sure, he might actually have better profits than the average DCAer, but it still seems problematic to be selling trading as if it were some kind of a common sense and basic kind of an approach to bitcoin.


It could well be that proclaiming DCA and/or my various discussion points about bitcoin as static is a kind of strawman fallacy, especially since I am not ONLY stuck on ONLY that approach, even though surely many of us recognize that DCA is a very powerful approach that can be very useful for beginner investors, and it even works well for advanced investors too, yet of course, some investors are going to have more tools available to them, especially if they have an ability to consider lump sum investing and also if they have a high level of discretionary income, then they are likely going to have more options too.

I mostly am open to all kinds of BTC buying techniques as a means to accumulate bitcoin, yet I think that one of my differences of opinions with EarnOnVictor is that either he does not really seem to consider accumulation of BTC to be a goal and/or if he does consider accumulation of BTC to be a goal, he considers that selling BTC from time to time can serve as a means to increase the quantity of bitcoin accumulated without necessarily having to invest more dollars in order to accomplish such increasing of the quantity of BTC accumulated.