Bitcoin is a volatile market, and its trend is not always the same. When investing in Bitcoin, it is definitely better to think of long-term investment. Excessive expectations have various negative effects on long-term investments. Those who expect quick profits in their investments get disappointed when the market is volatile. When an investor expects the price to increase and if the price falls, he gets disappointed and loses the ability to make decisions. Just as excessive expectations have a negative effect on investments, sometimes not being able to make decisions at the right time also causes negative effects. Determining the right time to enter the market is a challenging issue for investors because the Bitcoin market is volatile. Many investors wait before entering the market so that it may increase further but in the end it is seen that time has run out and they miss their opportunity. If the objective is long-term, excessive expectations should be eliminated. It is important to follow a fixed plan in long-term investments.
The efficiency of the dca strategy is answerable to investors quest of attempting to time the market, it is no longer a challenging issue to those investors that understands the basics of using the DCA strategy of accumulating Bitcoin because it allows investors to accumulate Bitcoin in different intervals irrespective of the price points and by so doing mitigating the short term volatility, the DCA helps investors to be on time in the market without any form of timing the market, for an investor with a long term perspective his focus will be more on increasing the size of their Bitcoin, consistently and persistently without timing the market provided that their investment money is readily available because what they are thinking of is the future and not to be distracted by the present.
the DCA strategy can be an effective way for investors to accumulate bitcoin over time, just as you have said regardless of the market fluctuations, which we all no as investing a fixed amount of money at regular intervals, investors can sometimes mitigate the impact of short term volatility and avoid the challenge of trying to time the market. Mostly if you take note investors with a long term vision or perspective do focus on accumulating more over time rather than trying to time the market.
I find it not just myopic, but also stupid in timing the market when you are seriously lacking behind in your Bitcoin accumulation process, because on a normal day, their is no point timing the market before buying, if as you are buying and in the process their is a serious dip in the market you can decide to buy aggressively if you can afford it without it disturbing your ability to finance your daily expenses, but timing the market before buying as a low or no coiner is even more myopic and stupid because you are going to miss a whole lot of buying opportunities that may arise in the future.
Buying the dip is not bad at all but timing the market is not encouraging at all , yeah the market might be experiencing some significant volatility recently due to some economy disturbance , which have lead to some dip in the market recently, does not me that you will have to start timing the market , we all know that the market can go two ways , so imagine you where waiting for the dip , and at the end prices end up surging instead you will
Miss a lot of buying opportunities, causing you to missed out.
I won’t lie this is a very nice opportunity (the recent dip ) to purchase more bitcoin at cheaper rate rather than panicking like you are holding some kind of shitcoin or something, because bitcoin is one of the assets with fast movement when it comes to price fluctuations, you can see bitcoin at $75k and few hours later it’s already at $80k+ , while some shitcoins may even take months or years to go back to their previous ATH, just stick to your dca accumulation, try and accumulate as much as you can without over doing it , like going to the extent of touching your emergency funds .