Use the money to buy bitcoin using the dca strategy instead of keeping it to buy when bitcoin is dip, what if bitcoin doesn't dip? That means you won't use it to buy bitcoin?, add it to your Discretionary income instead and increase your bitcoin or even if it dip it may not go to your expected price to buy there is nothing wrong if you still add it your Discretionary income buy bitcoin and still hodl.
There is nothing wrong if an investor decides to have a reserve funds for buying the dips so long as it is not preventing him from the regular dcaing.reserve funds can be used to buy the dips whenever it occurs,since during the dips an investor is offer the opportunity to accumulate bitcoin aggressively if the extra cash is there .so there is nothing wrong if an investor decides to set aside part of his discretionary income as reserves for buying the dip while investing the other using DCA .
Using your reserve funds for accumulating Bitcoin during dip is a good way to go, reserve funds is different from emergency funds, reserve funds can be used to accumulate Bitcoin when there's a dip but emergency funds can't be used for accumulating Bitcoin when there's a dip, for me the main reason i have a reserve funds is so I can use it to accumulate aggressively when ever there's a dip in Bitcoin, some people thinks reserve funds and emergency funds are for same purpose, emergency funds are only for emergency situations like health, accident, house issues like fire out break etc while reserve funds are for situations you feel is needed like buying aggressively during the dip or enlargement of business however you can still decide to use it for emergency situations when you have exhausted your emergency funds.
If you don't have a reserve funds and a dip comes and you start using money meant for paying of bills to accumulate aggressively it will affect you and even lead you to dip hands into your Bitcoin investment later in the future but if you use only your reserve funds to do that it won't affect your finance or your Bitcoin investment.
A reserve fund is meant for it's purpose which is to be in reserve to support the emergency fund in the case of unforeseen circumstances. Using up the reserve fund because you feel the emergency fund is also there may still lead you into selling all or part of those your bitcoin accumulation before your supposed time. Reserve fund is there because no one knows the gravity of any emergency that may befall at anytime. You can't tell the amount of money you need at any given situation which is why you need to narrow down your investments to discretionary income. Once money is meant to be in reserve or emergency, it should be left untouched in order not to cause a premature selling of your bitcoin.
Yes, the importance of an emergency fund to keep an investment safe is very high, because unexpected events are a normal thing in a person's life, and they can come at any time. And therefore, the main purpose of an emergency fund is to maintain your financial stability in those unexpected situations, so that there is no negative pressure on your investment or your holdings are not damaged.
In fact, an emergency fund is very necessary in the case of a long-term investment, but investors do not understand this at first, when they face such a situation, they understand it, but at that time they have no alternative, and they have to sell their holdings compulsorily.
So, caution should be taken from the very beginning, every important thing should be kept in mind first, and steps should be taken accordingly first.
Bitcoin is an asset to be held for the long term, so to ensure that there are no obstacles to this holding, one must first make proper financial planning, make all kinds of financial management (emergency fund, reserve fund, uninterrupted source of income), and continue to hold it for the long term using the right strategy.