Your examples are not bad,, yet you can have a variety of scenarios in terms of which way the BTC price might move in any particular period, and yeah of course, we don't know bitcoin price moves in advance, and newbies likely need to be erroring on the side of not watching price and largely getting a stake in bitcoin, depending on their other assets/investments, too.

If you have an income and you are already DCAing with a portion of that, such as $100 per week as I had given in my earlier example, then you have some money coming into bitcoin no matter what for however long you keep that set up and going.

If you have $5k to $10k, you could invest parts of it lump sum right away, yet even the parts that you would defer by DCA or by buying dips, you would set up the parameters, the amounts and the time, so the DCA could be over 5-6 weeks or it could be over 5-6 months or some other timeline, and if the BTC price generally trends down during the period of your DCA you are better off for deferring yet if the BTC price generally trends up during your period of DCAing you would have had been better off to buy right away with that portion.  You cannot really know price direction with certainty, even though you could have some hunches that might end up being or not being correct.

Similar with the buying on dip, you can set the total amount that you will dedicate for buying on dip and then increments of dip needed for each and the quantity to buy for each dip, and sure you run the chance of the dip not happening and/or not happening to your expectations.. you could have a portion that buys $200 for every $2,500 price drop for 10x buy orders going down $25k (that would be $2k dedicated for that).. but then you might have regrets holding so much money to buy to dips that do not end up happening.

Besides also figuring out how much to put in your emergency funds, guys will sometimes also have dilemmas about holding back some amount for buying on dips, so maybe instead of buying $100 per  week, you buy $75 per week and hold $25 per week for buying dips... but your $25 per week might build up quite a bit, yet you still have to figure out how much of a dip you need to use the dip buying money for buys.

There are trade offs for any of the techniques, and many of us have participating in this thread have concluded that it is better for newbies to error on the side of buying more and regularly rather than employing waiting techniques and as your bitcoin holdings grow, the size of your bitcoin holdings and also the strength of your cashflow management systems might help to inform you both in terms of changing your bitcoin buying/accumulating techniques and/or changing the level of your aggressiveness.  Usually it is not good to come out aggressive because you might accidentally act too aggressively, yet the more experienced you are in cashflow management and investment might help to justify higher levels of aggressiveness without devolving into gambling behaviors.

If you really want to be a bitcoin investor then you should be striving to employ investing techniques not trading and/or gambling techniques.. and if your timeline is 4-10 years or longer, your persistence, prudence and ongoing buying is likely going to measure where you are at 10-ish years down the road rather than a few of your smaller investments along the way, even your first few buys (whether lump sum or DCA) since I would imagine that you would be ongoingly buying for several years , maybe 4-10 years or more of ongoing buying, rather than putting in all of your investment at one time and then just sitting on it... yet those are choices in regards to figuring out if you have some target level of how much you want to put in or how much you think is enough to have had put into bitcoin as compared with other places that you might put it.


Of course we can use various funds as our emergency funds, yet we still have to think in terms of the liquitity of such funds (how accessible are they) and the volatility of such funds... There is value in a certain amount of cash, such as maybe even a couple of months of physical cash, yet sometimes there could be big ticket expenses in which the money is needed immediately and other times there might be an ability to absorbe extra expenses over a few months, even though presumptively during some periods your expenses would be greater than your income.  The more and more that we are building our wealth, then the more that we might have various emergency funds held in various assets, yet we still might not be able to get away without holding at least a couple of months of cash without unduly putting ourselves and/or our bitcoin at risk of being tapped into at a time that is not of our choosing...

and for sure, there is going to be variability based on how much wealth a person might be building and the extent to which he wants to keep some of that wealth outside of bitcoin and to potentially be serving more than one purpose.  By the way pension funds are usually not available to cash into, even though other forms of retirement funds might be, but there could be penalties to use those kinds of funds as if they were emergency funds when they might not serve as well for immediate emergencies largely due to their accessibility... sometimes emergencies or short falls of cash, might only last for a few weeks or maybe a couple of months, like a car accident or your roof falling in.. and you might need the money right away in order to not lose more.. and if you don't have mommy or daddy to fall back on.. (or some other alternative way of getting money, including the use of debt), then you have to come up with the resources in a short period.


Let's say that you had an ability to invest $4k when you got started, and then another $100 per week, so maybe you got started in 2020 (two years before your forum registration) and you invested your $4k and your $100 per week into shitcoins, so after around two years, you had invested around $14k into shitcoins that could have had been invested into bitcoin, and maybe you were able to recover that and redirect that towards bitcoin in and around April 2022 after you registered on the forum.. .. . so you maybe you were not able to completely transition right away and transfer your  shitcoins into bitcoin, but little by little you might have have redirected your funds into bitcoin and then maybe even figure out ways to increase your weekly investing to $200 per week - especially after building up your cashflow management and your back up systems and practices.   

So in many senses there can be a lot of financial and psychological comfort to recognize yourself to be building on solid grounds and not on a bunch of marketing fluff that may or may not pump into the future in a way that allows you to get out prior to their rug pulling you or even some of those shitcoins and their projects will crash and crash and just continue to crash without really knowing if they might recover at some point.. and even their recoveries might not be built on anything other then their further nonsense pump that is not really based on anything meaningful.

Sometimes it can take a bit of time to transition into bitcoin and to truly remove that trading/gambling/shitcoining mentality with a meaningful commitment to bitcoin, and sure, I have not been opposed to guys continue to dabble in shitcoins, trading and/or gambling with some relatively small portion of their bitcoin holdings, such as no more than 10%, yet it can be a slippery slope to stay in shitcoins and/or trading in any kind of way, so sometimes it may well be a lot better to change your mentality and just say no to shitcoins/trading and focus exclusively on bitcoin.. maybe for at least a whole cycle or more before even considering shitcoining and/or trading, and surely many guys who focus on bitcoin for a whole cycle or more, they might not even have any further inclinations to shitcoin and/or to trade and/or to put their well earned (well built) stack of bitcoin at risk.. by diverting it into unnecessary extra risk-taking.