my sincere advice to newbies will be that if you can afford both (i.e trading and investing long term) you can go about it. But if you can't afford both, it's better you just buy and forget about it for very long time.
This is a wrong advice and very misleading. How will you advice brand new investor who doesn't have any bitcoin investment to go about trading the little bitcoin that he can afford to buy, that's a dumb idea. Do you know that it is impossible to serve two masters at the same time, because you will love one more than the other. If you eventually want to do both at the same time thinking you are smart enough, there is a high chance that you will end up being a trader than a long-term investor, because when you run at loss, you will definitely take from your bitcoin investment to cover up so that you can trade again, and gradually you lose it all.
Trading is a big distraction and I will advice brand new investors who plan to be a long-term investors and hodlers not to think about trading for any reason, no matter the little profit that you see in your portfolio, because it can tempt you and make you lose focus on your regular weekly DCA approach and you will miss out the opportunity that bitcoin holds for us in the future because you will not have the size of portfolio which you can use to enjoy those benefits of bitcoin exponential value. It's good that you sacrifice now and take your time to build and grow your bitcoin portfolio gradually to a certain level with your regular weekly DCA approach and mixing it with lump sum because bitcoin has big things to offer us in future.
There are people who are making cool money in trading despite the loss after all loss is paramount when it comes to trading or investment, those who are into trading sometimes do even more better than ordinary investor reason because, some of them anytime they made profit in their trade, they split the money and use some to invest while they are still trading, knowing how to this is very good and interesting.
I disagree with you that in the long run traders will always outsmart bitcoin long term investors when they are gambling with their bitcoin and will lose it in the long run. It's easy said than done on how you guys hype trading because I haven't seen an wealthy business man that is popularly known who made his money from trading but there are hodlers who have made millions from only buying and hodling of their bitcoin overtime. Why do you think that US government wants a bitcoin reserve because they have seen the in hodli of bitcoin and they learnt from El Salvador.