Quote from: Rgram on Today at 09:42:15 AM

Just today, I read the title of this post again “Buy the DIP and HODL” and decided to go over the OP again.

You know, buying the DIP is a good strategy but, that’s a strategy for those that really understand chart analysis or have to go over chart analysis before buying. That isn’t what we often see from the content of many comments on here, it’s more about DCA which doesn’t require any analysis to buy but just funds that you can spare or invest with and some knowledge on where to buy and what wallet to save it in.

Thats why, i feel the “DIP” in this title, could it have been Buy using DCA and HODL… not my thread but just a thought.

The OP was written in early 2019, towards the beginning of that pump, and the Author of the OP has bounced back and forth in his thinking about buying dips as one of three BTC accumulation methods, and surely many active participants in this thread have become more sympathetic to DCA as a preferred BTC accumulation method.

Even though the topic of changing the title of the OP has come up from time to time, and author of OP has even changed it a few times, I doubt it is reasonable to change the title of the OP, even though many posers in this thread consider buying the dip as an inferior BTC accumulation strategy as compared with DCA and/or ongoing buying - even if there might be some circumstances in which it may be practical to supplement DCA with buying the dip.

Quote from: Rgram on Today at 09:42:15 AM

Quote from: JayJuanGee on August 14, 2025, 06:10:32 AM

If you are new to bitcoin, it is likely better to just be buying regularly rather than trying to figure out if there is a dip or not.

The DIP is always eluding, you never can tell until it’s back up and waiting to find where that is can also lead to reasons why people would procrastinate and never invest. So DCA saves you all that and keeps you actively investing.

For sure, buying the dip is likely to be an inferior strategy, yet it could be a good supplemental practice for someone who might start their bitcoin investment with a lump sum and then maybe wanting to hold back some of the initial injection money for possibly buying dips after their having had initially bought with such a lump sum amount... for example, if a guy had started out investing $100 per week into bitcoin, and then he remembered that he had right around $2,600 extra that he had in savings. He realizes that $2,600 is about the same as his investing for 26 weeks, and so he considers whether to buy with the $2,600 right away and/or maybe to defer using time (dca) with part of it and/or whether he might structure some buys of the dip with some of it.

Maybe he also knows that once or twice a year, he gets a bonus that is anywhere between $1,500 and $3k, depending on how well his company does...so he can consider those bonuses to potentially be eligible for buying BTC right away and/or DCAing and/or buying on the dip. He could divide the amount into three parts and/or he could put some of the money into his back up funds, whether in his emergency funds and/or reserve funds. Nice thing about receiving a lump sum amount is having more options, and perhaps prior to getting into bitcoin, a guy might have just considered some things that he might buy with the extra funds, but then after learning about bitcoin, he learns how to invest with the money and perhaps have some hope that he will be better off to invest into bitcoin rather than not doing so.