Coin prices not easy to guess. So without prices, details you will be not able to invest. Without prices knowledge you will be getting more lose. Wait and lear the market prices what time to up and down. This information to helpful for the check the market prices and invest. But before invest will be choosing the best coins then invest. Invest is future saving process. So chose the best one invests and process.
The steps you convey are correct from the price side, they are quite aggressive in pumping up and down, always becoming their own rhythm. When it goes up, they buy in droves and when it starts to get high, it is pushed down again, causing many holders to follow suit.
I personally want to enter too, but only 5 percent of my portfolio and no more than $10, I allocate it for meme coins, more than that I will put it into my favorite coins BTC, ETH.