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For clarity attempting to time the market before making purchases of Bitcoin does not define DCA strategy because by definition it entails buying Bitcoin without any form of timing the market so any investor attempting to time the market before buying Bitcoin has already gotten a shift from the use of DCA to another strategy which should be the buying the dip and can no longer be considered as DCA even if he DCA from the previous buying, timing the market is not associated with the real definition of the DCA strategy and usage it doesn't tally.

DCA means Dollar Cost Averaging. it is an investment strategy. where you do not have to invest a large sum at once. you can buy bitcoin with a fixed amount weekly or monthly. for example if you want to buy $120k worth of bitcoin but you do not have enough money. you can following DCA method. you can buy $10k of btc each month for 12 months, and after a year, your target will be reached. the advantage is that when the price drops, you buy more btc, and when the price rises you buy less. at the end of the year, you get an average price.

For example:

- month 1: btc price $100 → invest $100 → get 1 btc

- month 2: btc price $50 → invest $100 → get 2 btc

- month 3: btc price $200 → invest $100 → get 0.5 btc

total spent: $300 total coins: 3.5 btc average price per btc: $300 ÷ 3.5 = $85.71

advantages: you don’t have to worry about market ups and downs. long-term investing can increase profit. mental stress is less. beginners can invest easily.

disadvantages: if the market only rises, buying all at once could be better. if investing short-term, DCA may give less profit. DCA is a method of gradually investing in bitcoin over time to reduce losses and get a good average price.

For an investor being intentional about taking investment decisions based on market conditions doesn't seem to be an effective strategy for me, if the plan is to buy and hold for long then whatever price you consider to be high as when the price rises will still a dip tomorrow when Bitcoin will make new highs, am not encouraging the idea of being intentional about buying less when the price rises and buying more when the price drops, buying with the available % of discretionary income I will choose to invest with without considering the market conditions more effective for me because I will be free from any form of fear and greed index over the market fluctuations.

If an investor is investing in Bitcoin with a long term mindset, and the investor is depending on the market conditions to accumulate Bitcoin, that's not an effective way to invest in Bitcoin. The investor won't accumulate a good quantity of Bitcoin even if he/she has good discretionary income because if the price of Bitcoin doesn't drop to his/her taste, he/she won't be willing to invest in Bitcoin, and it will cause him/her to miss a lot of good opportunities to accumulate Bitcoin. Bitcoin investment is best done when you are very consistent in accumulating Bitcoin with your discretionary income when it is available without waiting for any market condition. So even if investors will want to invest in Bitcoin when the Bitcoin price drops to the level they will be satisfied with, they should have an ongoing DCA strategy so that it will help them to be consistent in accumulating Bitcoin to a chance to accumulate a good quantity of Bitcoin.

You make a lot of sense in your statements, I think if I’m investing in bitcoin with the purpose of long term plans, it’ will not be reasonable for me to be waiting for the market price to drop before trying to buy bitcoin, that will be a very poor and unreasonable decision, because the more effective method of investing in bitcoin is staying ahead and consistent with buying and accumulating bitcoin because waiting will make and individual miss out on tremendous opportunities of buying and accumulating bitcoin, as long as I have a discretionary income I think it will be more ideal if I’m able to keep buying and holding, the reality would just be that considering the volatile nature of Bitcoin we wouldn’t always have a comfortable market price, but for someone that understands the full potential of Bitcoin would keep buying and accumulating.

What do you mean by this? Is it not important to be comfortable and treat every market price with comfort even for someone that understands the full potential of Bitcoin and would keep buying and accumulating consistently? I think it is a must to find comfort in every market price regardless of the volatile nature of Bitcoin for you to be able to accumulate Bitcoin without being emotionally stress out which will affect you in either slowing down in your accumulation process, if the focus is on taken position to add and increase the size of Bitcoin portfolio and not the market price and every market price will be considered comfortable.