Maximizing gains is a trading, rather than an investing concept.

Sure if we are able to buy on dips, then we would be able to buy more BTC with the same amount of fiat.... yet if we are holding back and waiting for dips, we might end up with fewer btc (satoshis) than what we would have had by just buying BTC persistently, consistently, regularly and perhaps aggressively.  

In other words, no problem taking advantage of dips if you happen to be in a position to take advantage of such dip, yet hopefully not too many BTC accumulators are causing too much whimpiness in their BTC accumulation strategy based on waiting for dips rather than buying BTC regularly.


Your agreement with me is wrongly summarizing up what I said including that I said that ATL (all time low) = $0... since bitcoin started out at zero.  Bitcoin did not start with a price, so don't be retarded by using the term ATL to describe what bitcoin's price is doing over a cycle or over some short term period since it is misleading, confusing, and unnecessary to use such description, unless you are wanting to say that bitcoin goes to zero every cycle.  Any normal person and with basic English skills should be reasonably able to describe a local low in bitcoin's pricer or you can describe a cyclical low and be more accurate in your description rather than using inaccurate and misleading terms like ATL (all time low) to describe cyclical or local low BTC prices.


Over the years, Motley Fool has not been very informed about bitcoin, and they have frequently said pretty stupid stuff about bitcoin, showing that they have not understood bitcoin, and based on their disclaimer at the bottom of
their article, they still seem to not understand bitcoin since I am pretty sure that they are not recommending it within their top 10 picks (which I cannot see their current picks since it seems to be behind a paywall).

In other words, it would likely be best to take whatever Motley Fool says about bitcoin with a decently-sized grain of salt - since they still don't seem to understand bitcoin even though they have been talking about it in their various articles (and even much of the time recommending against it) for more than 10 years... now they seem to potentially be warming up to bitcoin a wee bit more.. but still luke warm at best.


Even if you might have learned some lessons, you are speaking with a lot of vagueness, and maybe you want to  be more specific in regards to describing how you might act in regards to buying dips versus DCA versus lump sum.

What are you doing?  Are you planning or acting or are you doing both?  And how far  does this experience go back? It can  take a long time to build up a BTC portfolio, and  you have ONLY been on the forum for less than 6 months.. have you been buying BTC the whole time or have  you been merely planning and regretting that you did not buy earlier?  I doubt any lessons are learned merely from regretting that you did not take action to buy BTC earlier.  We have many people in the world with those kinds of resentments, but still ongoing, persistent and consistent failures/refusals to act.


Your use of the term leverage can be misinterpreted, since many times we don't need to employ any leverage, and first thing is that we should be putting solid systems in place that involve good cashflow management and then probably buying bitcoin regularly with our discretionary income, and our level of BTC accumulation aggressiveness may well depend both on how strong our cashflow management systems but also how much BTC we had already accumulated.  

Once our systems are more solid then we might play around with ways that we might use financial tools or higher levels of aggressiveness, such as leveraging.. yet those are more advanced systems rather than any parts of regular building of systems in which buying on dips may or may not be feasible for newbie bitcoiners.  I would imagine if someone might have front load his investment a lot, then he might hold back some value to be able to buy on dips if such dips were to come.


Bitcoin is not guaranteed to be profitable.

If you do not use leverage then you are guaranteed that the most that you could lose is 100% of what you invested.  It is misleading to proclaim that bitcoin is guaranteed to make profits.

Many folks invest into bitcoin aggressively because they believe that the odds are pretty high that it is going to have a higher value (price) in the future as compared today and even accounting for the debasement  of the dollar.  There are also a lot of upside scenarios that make bitcoin amongst the best (if not the best) of asymmetric bets the upside, but even if bitcoin is amongst the best, it still is not guaranteed to be profitable in the future as you are proclaiming.


Bitcoiners get themselves into trouble when they start to narrowly tailor their own perspectives regarding bitcoin price moves including the extent to which short-term price moves matter and/or if there are singular causal forces that are pushing BTC prices in one or another direction in the short term... and yeah in the short term all kinds of shit can happen and seem to be moving the BTC price in one direction or another, yet we still likely need to keep our eyes on the prize and continue to consider our own ongoing stacking of bitcoin.. or the extent that we might have buy orders coming up during the weekend or if we might execute our weekly buys on other days of the week.  

So, sure sometimes we can adjust our time that we buy BTC from time to time in order to take advantage of dips in the BTC price, yet hopefully we are also not getting too distracted or even staring to believe that one quasi-degenerate orange-headed dweeb politician has any substantial and/or meaningful affects on bitcoin fundamentals - even if he claims to be behind bitcoin or even if their might be pushes to pump bitcoin (or to dump it), we cannot necessarily get sucked into believing some of the short-term causals explanations. .. and hopefully keep our focus.. whether we are still accumulating BTC (which seems to be where a lot of guys are - or should be) or if we might have made it to a higher level of over accumulation of BTC, which truly some guys seem to have reached that higher level.. but some guys believe that they reached over accumulation of BTC status prior to their actually having had truly reached such status..so surely guys are responsible to figure out their own status in order to help them to figure out what they should be doing.. do they have enough BTC or not and if they don't they should be continuing to buy BTC regularly whether they are able to catch the dip or not.