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exactly JJG I agree with you on one, especially those who are still in their accumulating stage which their bitcoin investment is not up to 4 years, if they sell their bitcoin with the mindset of buying back cheap it we be very difficult for them to get back on track or they might still end up buying back at a higher price, because bitcoin may not dip to the exact price they expecting to buy back, yes we know bitcoin is volatile, but people shouldn't expect bitcoin to dip to an extend of buying back cheap when you sell at a certain price.
It's not really a matter of not being up to four years or more when someone starts considering Bitcoin for investment by themselves, but most people may not be able to be patient for four years even though there are many who have realized the four-year cycle in Bitcoin like what happened in 2017 when there was an increase and then the following year it immediately went down again. Likewise in 2021, the increase was much greater but in the following year it also experienced a prolonged correction until early 2023, although the price of Bitcoin in early 2023 was not much different from the highest price in 2017 when there was an increase in price at that time.
And now everything is different so that we all don't have to wait for the price of Bitcoin to go back down if we want to make long-term investments from now on because the work of investors tends to buy more often than sell often in terms of any asset including Bitcoin. So investors must know the function and path of work they are taking so that they are not confused in making decisions because investors and traders are very different so that their decisions and plans will never be the same in any way.
If we go by your forum registration date, then you have the luxury of being involved in bitcoin for 9 years, so it is not like you have not had opportunities to accumulate enough bitcoin.
I don't see how beginners to bitcoin get out of mostly trying to accumulate bitcoin for 4 years or more if they still hafe not had a whole cycle of accumulating bitcoin, unless they had been able to front load their bitcoin investment at some point in time.
So I hardly see any purpose to suggest to beginners to be worried about whether a correction may or may not end up happening this time around, and they likely should just be spending most of their efforts buying bitcoin regularly and persistently, at least for a whole cycle, unless if they might be able to front load their bitcoin investment.