I largely agree with your response Sim_card - even though at one point you proclaimed that the size of your discretionary income determines your level of aggressiveness, which is not true, since a guy chooses his level of aggressiveness within whatever size discretionary income that he has, like your example points out that a guy with $70 discretionary income per week would be investing more aggressively if he chose to invest $55 per week as compared to if he would choose to invest $20 per week. 

Maybe if the guy had a discretionary income of $490 ($70x7) per week, then on a percentage basis his level of aggressiveness would be similar to the guy investing $55 per week if he were to invest $385 ($55 x 7) per week, and similar to the more whimpy one if he were to be investing $140 ($20x7) per week.  The size of his discretionary income does give him more options, even though he can choose his level of aggressiveness within his discretionary income, and the amount of his discretionary income does not cause him to be more aggressive or less aggressive merely because the size of his discretionary income is different.  Each guy chooses his level of aggressiveness within the amount of his discretionary income.. and sure the guy with more discretionary income has more options to spend more on bitcoin, yet he still may end up deploying a relatively whimpy investment into bitcoin if he chooses to use relatively large portions of his discretionary income for buying other things and only minimally investing into bitcoin.. so in my above example, if the guy with $490 weekly discretionary income chooses to ONLY invest $140 into bitcoin, then sure he is investing more into bitcoin than your example of the aggressive guy who ONLY had a $70 discretionary income and was investing $55 per week into bitcoin, but my guy who has $490 of discretionary income is still investing into bitcoin fairly whimpily when he is choosing to only invest $140 or less into bitcoin and likely by definition of his having the discretionary income available, the guy with $490 weekly discretionary income has chosen his $140 or less invested into bitcoin level of investing into bitcoin..

In regard to your front-loading example, we know that guys do not always have options to front-load invest into bitcoin, and surely they could already establish a system of investing weekly into bitcoin, and they could become more bullish with the passage of time, and thereafter decide to look for places that they could reallocate some of their funds from other investments that they have into bitcoin.  So then we might consider frontloading as an option to become even more aggressive in investing into bitcoin when such funds can be found or the funds come available, and sure they could come to bitcoin with extra funds already available and choose to front load with some of those extra funds or they could also just establish a system of regularly investing into bitcoin, yet at the same time, receive bonus cash amounts that come to them from time to time during the year, and accordingly, they might be able to front load their investment into bitcoin from those extra funds that come to them through the year... and sure my point is that not everyone has options to front load their bitcoin investment. even though the longer that they are in bitcoin and they might become more bullish about bitcoin, so they might start to try to creatively think of ways that they would be able to get more money such as increasing their income sources, perhaps selling things they own or even cutting some of their monthly expenses in order to increase their level of investing into bitcoin and/or attempting to frontload their bitcoin investment by putting more money into it during earlier times in order to potentially have abilities to not put in as much value into bitcoin at later times..

I also agree with your point that guys are frequently seeming to describe buying on dips along with being aggressive, and that way of thinking does not necessarily lead to more aggressiveness, since we cannot necessarily determine if the BTC price is going to dip and how much, so surely we can put systems into place in which we are trying to buy on the dip with part of the money that we have available, but that does not automatically result in being more aggressive during dips since the dips might not end up happening at our chosen level, and we could have had been buying bitcoin all along and even ongoingly staying focused on buying bitcoin rather than getting sucked into waiting strategies that might contribute to our losing our bitcoin accumulation focus.


Sure each of us has a choice in regards to whether we invest the $5k right away or if we defer by time (DCA) or defer by price (buying on dips that might not happen).

If a person with $5k to start already has $100 per week that he is investing into bitcoin, then over a year, the $100 per week adds up to $5,200.. but having an extra $5k there are more options, and there is no correct answer about how much to invest right away and how much to differ if any and how to structure those deferred amounts.   


The mixing of strategies allows us to customize our money to our own circumstances and to attempt to maximize our preferences, yet our merely dividing up our funds into three parts does not guarantee that we are going to choose correctly, and also it could ensure that we have inferior performance as compared with if we had guessed (gambled) correctly.  Sure, I personally prefer to at least consider all three possible ways of using a lump sum (buy right away, DCA and buy dips), but however I choose to divide does not mean that I am going to end up getting superior performance, even if I was able to tailor the methods to my preferences.