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The actual POINT of what I have posted is - at the end of the conversation, YOU do YOU and what works for YOU. Personally, buying the DIP during the 2019 bear cycle WORKED for ME with MORE SUCCESS that I have expected/projected. It didn't feel REAL and I merely want the same sort of success and happiness for my fellow plebs in BitcoinTalk.
I'm not here to have a debate whether DCA or Buying the DIP is better. I'm just suggesting something what plebs could do that WORKED with massive SUCCESS for me.
Of course, we tailor our approach to our own circumstances, yet if you are choosing inferior practices and suggesting that it was the right thing to do then you are fantasizing with yourself and continuing to spread the same fantasy ideas about methods.
You could have started buying bitcoin in 2016 when BTC prices were between $420-ish and $900-ish. Instead you proclaim that you were a genius because you waited for the sometime after you began to have confidence that they 2017/201 correction was over and you started buying in 2019 when BTC prices were between $4,200 and $6k-ish.
You don't want to argue, but you don't want to deal with facts either, and sure eery guy has to consider his balance and the extent to which he might balance DCA, buying on dips and lump sump buying, and part of what he does might also have to do with his income, his other investments and his cashflow management practices.
If he has absolutely no bitcoin, then he likely is not going to be advantaged by waiting and/or studying the market for 1-2 years or more... even if he thinks that he can figure out which way the BTC price is going. He is likely going to be better off with some kind of a buying practice, even if he starts out fairly conservatively.
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The only point I'm making on why Buying the DIP might be better for plebs, or maybe some of the plebs, is gives the buyer more units in Bitcoin for the same amount of fiat.
If you see something you want to buy is on sale/at a discount, then of course the practical decision is to buy it while it's there, no? We'll never know what the price is next week, but we know what the price is right now and what it was last week. If it's at a discount, then why not buy the DIP?
If you are trying to time dips within your weekly buys or even your monthly buys, then I suppose that you can do that, but if you are waiting several months or even more than a year then it seems that you are not being very realistic and/or serious about your bitcoin investment - a bit more activism is likely better, I suggest weekly buys even if a guy might choose to hold back 10% to 30% for buying dips that may or may not end up happening.
Guys waiting for dips.. especially newbies and/or no coiners, are likely not approaching bitcoin correctly in terms of their making sure to ensure that they are sufficiently/adequately prepared for UP in the event that up might happen sooner than expected.