I continue to be surprised that so many guys consider that there is some purpose in increasing their level of aggressiveness based on bitcoin price dips rather than figuring out their level of aggressiveness from their level of discretionary income and the strength of their cashflow management.  

Sure a guy could purposefully choose to hold back some money for buying dips and he can have some plans for buying dips at various price points, if such price points were to happen, yet I would consider it not to be so common that some surprise dip levels end up happening in which there would be needs to increase aggressiveness based on such price dips.. especially since if a guy is already buying bitcoin regularly and on a weekly basis, then he is not necessarily going to have extra money available for buying on dips except the money that he had set aside, and then if he is using his set aside money to buy on BTC price dips, then I am wondering how he could still have extra money?  The only way that he has extra money (unless he had surprisingly received some extra money) is that he had been setting aside even more money, which is not any sign of aggressiveness but instead a sign of lack of aggressiveness, and even inclinations to gamble rather than to invest.


He seems to be mixing up DCA and buying on the dip.

Sure, it is possible to mix DCA with buying on the dip, yet that is a different strategy than a pure DCA that does not necessarily account for changes in the BTC price. Within a strict DCA approach, there is a bit of presumption of not being able to know the short-to-medium BTC price direction, even though there is a bit of a presumption that over the longer term there is decently good likelihood that the BTC price will continue to slope upwardly.. .so that with the passage of time, the more and more likely the accumulated BTC will be profitable - even though at the same time, such long term profitability is not guaranteed.


Buying dips can be part of any investor's chosen investment strategy, yet he is running risks if he waits for dips that do not end up coming... and surely no investor is prepared for UP if he has not sufficiently bought BTC.. so in that sense, it would seem that any investor should make sure that he is buying regularly, persistently, consistently, ongoingly and perhaps even aggressively in order to prepare for UP...

Sure, there can be some preparations for down, such as buying dips, even though buying dips seems like it should be a supplementary approach to BTC buying rather than a principle approach, since sometimes the dips might not happen to the extent that any person might set up his dip buying terms.


It does seem that guys who are buying regularly might get excited rather than discouraged or fearful of dips, and perceptions of BTC price moves can be a product of preparation.  Any of us should be buying bitcoin within our discretionary income and with money that we can afford to lose in the event that the bitcoin investment does not move in a positive price direction after our investment into it.  Some guys might become afraid of dips if they do not have confidence in the investment and/or if they might have had overinvested with money that they cannot afford to lose.

Guys who employ stronger cashflow management practices would be less likely to get emotional about BTC price moves, whether they are going up or down, yet it still tends to be difficult to completely remove emotions that may well be felt when the BTC price moves a lot in one direction or another.


Of course in the past 2 or even 3 years a person would have had been very profitable to have had been aggressively investing into bitcoin throughout that whole time. All of their investments into bitcoin would have had paid off, and that is part of the dynamics that have existed in bitcoin over several periods in which the BTC price is going up, and surely exists in bitcoin during ATH periods like we are experiencing right now.  There have also been periods in which there have been several years of price corrections.  We should be judging the totality of bitcoin merely on a short period of time, even though surely it is good for guys to get through 2-3 years or more and to be continuing to invest into bitcoin.

We also know that there are some folks who are just coming to bitcoin right now, and so the newest of folks still have to decide whether to get started or to wait, and I still think that getting started is important and ongoing buying of bitcoin for at least 4 years is likely important too.


I would imagine that anyone who has been in bitcoin for less than 4 years should be buying bitcoin ongoingly, persistently, consistently, regularly and perhaps even aggressively for at least 4 years without even thinking about prices.  It is difficult to know of cases in which normal people would be able to get enough or more than enough bitcoin within less than 4 years, unless they are reallocating from some other investment(s) - otherwise if they are merely investing from their discretionary income then it likely takes more than 8 years to get to a decent place in regards to bitcoin investment size.