Personally, I consider it to be not very helpful to be focused on profits, even though we might well presume that our odds of being in profits will be quite good after 4-10 years or more... but at the same time, our focus should be on ongoingly growing our BTC stash.. sure no problem to buy dips from time to time if we think that we are able to do that within reason, yet the more important part if just realizing that we continue to have little to no clue regarding short-to-medium term BTC price movements and we should largely be ongoingly accumulating bitcoin rather than trying to figure out whether or not there might be a dip, unless some kind of impending dip seems obvious and it is not going to distract us from our accumulation to merely wait a few days or some reasonably short period of time, and hopefully we are not delaying investing by several weeks, if we had been tending to be in the habit of buying bitcoin every week.
There is every tendency that anyone who is investing in Bitcoin with the mindset of profit making will definitely not go far in his or her investment because they will sell of there investment whenever they see a little profit do to market value appreciation, therefore anyone that is interested in accumulating and holding for long term should take away the mindset of profit because they will surely be tempted if they already have this in there thought before starting the investment. Buying the Dip shouldn't be an option for someone that is starting Bitcoin investment rather they should focus on the DCA method of buying and holding and then if peradventure Dip happens and they are prepared, then it is advisable but it is not advisable to take advantage of the Dip when one didn't prepare for it because they will definitely run into...
Of course anyone investing regularly into bitcoin, such as weekly, he will likely ongoingly see his bitcoin holdings to be increasing on a weekly basis, whether it is going up or down in terms of its dollar (or fiat) value.
so in some sense the bitcoin account amounts can be considered as a kind of savings that may or may not end up going up in dollar value with the passage of time... and surely we hope that 4-10 years or longer our bitcoin account will be in profits, even if we also realize that i tis not guaranteed to be in profits, but it still may well have a lot of value, whether it is in profits or not.
I know every investor is always happy whenever they see there investment going smoothly and sometimes it makes an investor go extra miles ( though within there capacity) because they believe there is going to be more but whenever an investor sees his or her investment not going as planned they will began to have some thoughts but since we are investing for long term we should not be dismay or discourage whenever there is Dip because the ups and the downs is the beauty of Bitcoin and is a fact we should accept and know it and anyone who hold from 4-10 years will definitely benefit huge from it depending how well they invested .
I think that you are correct Derekfunds. There is some kind of a ambiguity and possible contradiction in the ways that MusaPk is talking about the building of capital.
MusaPk might be saying the right thing though but the way he/she used the world and sentence may not be correct because it was sounding more like trading because it is only trading you will see people talking about profit and increasing capital and someone who is new can be mislead because of how the information was been passed across it, and even in school it do happen sometime, a lecturer can be saying the right thing but will not present it well and the student will write exam and fail likewise the student too, sometimes they will have an idea but they won't write it well so we should try to make everything simple and easy for the sake of investor that are new here.
It seems to be reasonable to presume that over time, such as 4-10 years or more that bitcoin's price trend it more likely to be up rather than down or sideways, even though surely it is not guaranteed to be up, even in a longer time period. surely we have to figure out how to invest in accordance with our budget and in accordance with recognizing bitcoin is amongst the best, if not the best, place to put time, energy and value, even while at the same time recognizing/appreciating that profits are not guaranteed.
In 4-10 years time there is every possibility that the price of Bitcoin will go up but that still doesn't mean the behavior or characteristics of Bitcoin is only upward and just like you said the upward movement sometimes is not even guarantee but because of the potential Bitcoin has and have proven over the years, we can say that it will go up in this time interval and like I said earlier we shouldn't worry about the up and down since we are investing for long term.