To gain profits when crypto is dropping is very simple and common as well, i have two patterns in which we can use to determine for this.
1. You can be profitable as the market is falling and then you're taking advantage of buying the dip and investing, then you hold for the time being before it start to rise.
2. You can also be profitable when the market is falling by being a trader, whereby all you do is in taking short positions, but you must have seen it that the market is with all indication to be going down than rising.
And for both of this, in my experience. It's more profitable to become an investor in these times when the market is falling. The accumulation in the falling times is great because that gives the better stack when cheap price of Bitcoin is there. We don't see it at most times when the price aren't that much. This time, we're seeing all time highs and this is what most of the people like to buy, when the price are moving at the top and no idea when it's going to be in the peak. But when the price are dipping, they don't wanna do it because they're demotivated for the price is going down and they think that BTC is going down forever. It's an emotional battle per individual.