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Board Speculation
Re: Buy the DIP, and HODL!
by
Merit.s
on 22/09/2025, 16:26:24 UTC
One major thing i took note of about your statement is that everything in life has it's benefits and disadvantages, although the DCA is the best strategy for managing risks in Bitcoin investment but it still has it's own down side which is that someone that's not commited to tasks would find it difficult to invest with it since it's something that should be done consistently according to the period the investor can regenerate their discretionary be it weekly or monthly but in general the DCA is more positive than negative when it comes to Bitcoin investment, one thing i love about the DCA is that it helps an investor to invest consistently regardless of market volatility.

You made some solid good point here. Like I used to say, there isn't any strategy that is bad to invest in Bitcoin. Both buying on dips, DCA and lump sum are  all good strategies, but the choice of strategy must align with your investment goals. If it doesn't align with your goals that is where it becomes a wrong strategy that you use.

There are many people that invested using DCA and they are successful, while others used lump sum and occasionally buying on dips yet they are successful. On a normal day the strategy doesn't really matter but how you utilizes these strategies to your own advantage is what truly matter.
You’re right, I think every strategy is quite different and simple, but you have to choose which approach will suit our investment plans depending on the amount of discretionary income that we can usually have in a weekly or monthly basis, right now I understand there are people who are buying the DCA and are doing very well, and there are people who are also buying through the lump sum and are also doing very spectacular, I think people also try to buy the dip by waiting for the dip which I think from my own experience it’s not a very good strategy of buying bitcoin, but buying the dip when the opportunity presents itself and still keep buying on a regular basis which I think it’s the perfect way.

So all strategy are just magnified but it all depends on our ability to stay consistent.
Yes there are no bad strategy in investing what might be wrong is how we utilise or approach these strategies, the DCA, the lump sum and the buy the dip method are all effective ways of accumulating bitcoin. A situation where an individual uses DCA but is not consistent it becomes a wrong move or a situation where a no coiner or low coiner decides to wait for the dip before he/she can start buying it’s a wrong move, it’s better to in the game than be on the sidelines waiting for dip… These methods are here to enable us accumulate more bitcoin according to our capabilities.
A good or best approach involves a mix of all strategies to give an efficient and effective result.
I don't think that it's a wrong move for someone who was DCAing and later got hit with financial problem and couldn't DCA again because he has no regular discretionary income or during that time his expenses got increased and ate up his discretionary income. He can stop buying and wait till when he has his discretionary income again.

It becomes a wrong move when you sell but provided you didn't sell and just hodli to start DCAing again later, it is good. No one can tell what will happen tomorrow that will put you in a position that you wouldn't be able to accumulate bitcoin weekly and regularly.  The most important thing is that you should always look for a means to improve your income in order get a regular discretionary income for a consistent and persistent bitcoin accumulation for 4-10 years and above and if possible even aggressively.

When you are not regularly buying bitcoin weekly/monthly, you are not DCAing.