If actually Bitcoin is the subject matter then buying and selling within the period of one year apparently has nothing to be called anything related to investment but trading because one year is too short for your investment to experience the power of compounded value of your investment, a cycle which is four years would have been better to be described as a short term investment in my perception while four to 10 years or more can be called a long term investment.
Okay I have learned something today, atleast you have given a timeline for short and long term Bitcoin investment. Most people who target to buy during the Bitcoin halving are short-term traders, and that's a very wrong investment approach. I know people who are currently disappointed with the price of Bitcoin because they thought it would have reached $150k. But long term investors are not perturbed because they are still on profit or are not selling.
I so much believe that learning always took place in everyday of our life, because knowledge is really power indeed, so talking about short-term investment, those investors that always make use of short term investment i see those investors as a gambling, because they are betting not investing,
they are just for quick money making not to wait till dip finally happen, so buying in the dip and hold in a long term investment is the best.
Buying at the dip isn't the best accumulation strategy for a new investor because it keeps you on the waiting zone making you to miss out the opportunity of building and growing your bitcoin portfolio in a fast pace. Waiting is never a good strategy for anyone, because you are waiting for the dip that may or may not occur.
DCA accumulation strategy has given you the opportunity to build and grow your bitcoin investment with part of your discretionary income for 4-10 years and above. As long as you are persistent in accumulating bitcoin every week consistently, your bitcoin portfolio will increase in size overtime. Don't mislead new investors that waiting is the best option for a no-coiner and a low coiner because regrets will be the end when you only have little bitcoin in your portfolio.
I will prefer to accumulate as many bitcoin as possible with DCA disregard of the price of bitcoin, so that in future I'll have a good size of portfolio than to be waiting and have a small size of bitcoin portfolio at a cheaper rate. It's the quantity of bitcoin that you were able to accumulate that will determine your success in your bitcoin investment journey.