I will settle for 5 digits even, might be better to have a steady gain long term.     The strategy for buy the dip is best combined with observing previous major turning points which gives us the possibility of higher volume vs market thats already sold hence it can mean a bottom price.   It might be required to buy a dip several times, I dont really advocate aiming to buy just once and hope that is for sure the bottom price.     Bottom is a process not an event and only known in retrospect, thats advice from a trader I try to remember as we cannot call out one price for sure and know it will be the lowest price just like those a high price can be hard to guess.
   I look for trends as that gives a trading gain possibly, a series of low prices is often opposite to a series of highs, hopefully we do get both heading upwards but I continue to keep checking and looking for that confirmation.

Short term looks not too bad, maybe 7600 today.



However slightly concerned that the previous high was a "lower high"...
This is a 7-day chart for those who didn't notice.

Actually, it been hard for me to tell if a certain coin goes dip. For example if bitcoins dip I having a second thought if I will buy right away or wait for more dip to come. However, I always ended up buying as the dip comes. I think it is better to buy right away rather than waiting on the big dip that might not come. Buying at low price and then HODL is the best strategy I can think of to survive in this bearish market we have now.

I confess that was a big fail (on the short term). Cannot win every time 

Still, I expect 6.5k soon as the famous fractal indicated (see Twitter account of @NebraskanGooner). And after that 8k-ish, if everything goes well. so back to my chart 7.6k should be fairly easy again, in the next seven days probably.

What do you guys think to the idea of a continious long sideway/bear market to flush out the halving bulls through pretty much of 2020? Plenty of opportunity to buy some dips then.

^^^As Wind FURY says, that's what all the big guys want us to see, and that's what's been keeping them in business all these years. Since the time I joined until today, my mission is the same. Get as much as I can. When I have my target I'll probably not stop either. The lower the price, the sooner I get my target, because that moon day is coming, just how far into the future we can't tell yet.

Dip buy underway seems like, just needs to confirm above 2 day average shown as blue line and I'll be convinced

Buy what dips?  The whole market is limping sideways, and if you're a long term holder like me any time is a good time to buy right now and has been for months.  We're all anticipating another bull market, and it's going to happen eventually.

Prices of everything in crypto are depressed to the extent that they probably couldn't get more depressed.  Everything is on sale right now, so I wouldn't even wait for the little dips to happen.  That strategy works well in a bull market when prices are steadily going up, but that isn't the kind of market we're in at the moment.

You don't need to predict when dips are going to happen.  That's the whole point Op was making.  You buy when you see them happening.

I strongly disagree with you. Buying the dip is a dollar cost average method, but instead of buying every week,  you just buy every 10-25% drop.