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Re: Buy the DIP, and HODL!
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Olatundespo
on 28/03/2025, 16:41:40 UTC
But saying that we should invest with an amount you can afford to lose makes it looks as if we are gambling or we are trading,  this is an investment, no Investor will be happy losing his hard earned money, so in my own opinion, the right statement for such phrase is invest with an amount you can do away with for a very long period of time.
You are making the statement very complicated. Losing money does not mean that you are going to lose the money or that you will easily lose it. You can take this word to mean money that you will never need to meet your daily needs or meet basic needs. Or even if that money is ever lost, it will not affect your quality of life or you will not be paralyzed. I will not say that after investing with losing money, you will not regret it if it is somehow lost, this sentence is not realistic at all. A person's hard-earned money is always valuable and if its amount is very large, then you will definitely regret it if it is lost.

Choose money for investment that if it is lost one day, it will not have a negative impact on your quality of life. I find the definition of losing money as you have mentioned a bit confusing. According to your definition, if you need the invested money before achieving your goal, then what will you do or how will you mention it?
This s the most important and effective point. An investor should use such amount of money for investment that his life will not be adversely affected if the money is lost from his life. Yes we know money is very important in every person's life but still but to achieve success in life people have to take financial risks. Many times investors do that they invest all their savings at once and get excited when after investing they don't see good results in a short period of time.  

Investment but not job that here I invested some amount of money and at the end of every month my profit came from it. Before investing, investors should invest with a clear understanding of the fact that after investing, his money can be lost and profit can be made. Investing does not mean that he will make money for sure. But if you have enough patience and believe in the market, investors can definitely get a good result at the end of a certain period of time.
Investing what you can afford to lose means that money which you can dash out, that money which you can use for ice-cream, that money which you can use for shawama, that money whish you can use for drinking without having any effect on your pocket or any other of your expenses or having effect on your emergency and reserve fund, when you bring out such little amount of money for investment you don't feel the impact at all, using DCA strategy to accumulate for long-term of 4-10 years now makes it more easier and valuable for you, but along the years of investment and you happen to lose it, it will not be heartbroken compared to investing what you cannot afford to lose that is investing a huge amount of money.
It is almost maximum certain that there is no possibility of losing money in Bitcoin investment, yet these messages are spread to prepare investors in advance. In my opinion long-term investment is not a gambling game that has the possibility of losing money. Or it should not be a trading endeavor that has the possibility of losing money.

In example is that you invest the amount you can afford to lose. This literally means that you should plan your investments in such a way that your floating cash balance remains intact and your real assets do not decrease. Another meaning is that you should always be prepared for the volatile price of Bitcoin to have financial security to keep you safe from any price level.

The ability to lose money does not mean that you will lose all your money. Another meaning I consider is that there is a level of risk in investing and that smart investors should plan for losses so that they do not have to regret it if the price drops too much. The positive side of having a negative mindset is that you are mentally prepared for a bad economy and if the market situation improves in the meantime, it will increase your level of financial stability.

Talking about the risk involved investments, it is not a new new thing because life is full of risk it self, so as a good investors one should always have it in the back of his mind that there are two things that is common which is losing and profit, which i see that, the losing aspect of Bitcoin is very rare once you make use of buying the dip and hold in a longer term investment, so we should risk to win because it is only those investors that is not afraid of the risk involved in Bitcoin that is making it  bigger, so is good to risk to win.
Long-term investment is not by buying and holding dips, you have to save regularly then it will be parfect investment, for you especially for Bitcoin investment. If you consider risk, it will be in the investment from any side and Bitcoin investment can be considered as a quantitative reduction from it. The loss aspect of Bitcoin depends on your investment strategy, for example, if you are accumulation through the DCA method and it's should from discretionary income for you.

The idea of ​​taking risks to win is correct, but in the case of buying/investing in Bitcoin, reducing the amount of risk is a strategy (DCAing). Here you can win in the end but you should consider that point which is considered easy for you and suitable for you. Every time we recommend new investors to have a long term and extra money saved from earnings and daily needs / discretionary income. It does not carry any risk for you. Bitcoin holding.