Plan 1: Buy BTC and ETH only. Spend $50 and buy 50% BTC and 50% ETH. No schedule and buy on dips.
How long will you plan Holding your coins ? this is important question because you did not clarify the full details and you only mentioned about the plan of buying but no specification when to sell.
Plan 2: Buy BTC, ETH, and LTC. Weekly, regardless of the current cost of each coin. Alternate between coins so 1 week buy 50/50 BTC and ETH. Next week buy 100% LTC. Next week buys 50/50 again.
I will be Biased about these 3 , because i support all of them so i guess the plan is cool and you may be earning great in 1 or 2 years time?
HODL both obviously.
Again the span of time , it is important.
Also at what point is a hardware wallet required?
When talking about Holding , it is required from the beginning because our coins will always at stake if you are not Holding your own Private Keys..