DCA strategy is always a long term profitable strategy. The DCA strategy is for middle-income people, that is, those who don't have a lot of money but are interested in investing in Bitcoin. If such a person had started investing in Bitcoin 5-10 years ago, he would still have made a lot of profit.

As an example I am showing a DCA chart for the last 5 years:

Here you can see that if a person had invested $50 on a monthly basis using DCA 5 years ago today, his total investment portfolio would have been $3000 today, and holding these 5 years his profit portfolio would have been worth $6926, which is his investment, 230% more than that, and his total savings would have been $9926. Also it's current price is $56,185, so imagine if you continue investing like this, and when Bitcoin crosses 100K, then how much be your profit? This will benefit you considerably. So always think of DCA, it is the best way to invest. This will benefit everyone in the long term holding.

The thing is that comparing DCA with lump sum will always depend on the actual prices in the period of time involved.

Using historical data you can always move around your window until it fits either DCA or lump sum as the better strategy.

So, in some cases DCA will be the better strategy and in others it will be lump sum at the beginning.

In a simplified way, if the price goes up, lump sum is better, but if the price goes down DCA is better because you end up with more Bitcoin for your fiat in the end.

The idea is indeed better to make purchases weekly so that BTC will increase much faster, but the problem is when the cash flow is unstable and they do not have weekly capital to make purchases.
Why this reason can be justified because buying using the DCA pattern against BTC will be much more profitable because this asset will continue to get an increase moment for each period even though it cannot be separated from the correction process.

DCA is not appropriate if the asset purchased does not provide certainty like BTC so that the basic capital will be suppressed with a much lower selling price.
This is the reason why DCA is more suitable for BTC investment in my opinion.

Largely the reason that I suggest weekly buys is to attempt to have newbies interacting with their bitcoin portfolio on a regular basis, and so perhaps to be attempting to learn every week too, so there would be a kind of making bitcoin as a priority, yet surely some folks might ONLY be able to invest $10 per week rather than $100 per week, and so they can ONLY invest in accordance with their budget and the amount of their discretionary income, and yeah, there are going to be some folks who are not only poor but also they might have uncertainties in regards to finalizing their cashflows and expenses each month. 

In my opinion, if a person already has uncertainties in his cashflow, then he is going to be in a better position to keep some extra cushion and cash on hand to deal with some of the uncertainties, and so maybe he keeps an extra few hundred dollars to deal with uncertainties, but also $40-$50 so that he can at minimum make his $10 per week BTC purchases.. And, yeah devil is in the details, and some people have so much uncertainty that they never have any extra cash, yet it seems that part of the responsibilities of investing is to create various kinds of securities and cash cushions in order to be able to be investing rather than gambling, and the cash cushions give those kinds of protections to make it less likely to have to tap into the bitcoin investment at a time that is not of their choosing.. and to even not spend too much time thinking about the price fluctuations taking place in bitcoin for 4-10 years or longer, and surely some folks may well have investment timelines that should be in the 15-20 years or longer timeline yet of course, from time to time, revaluations can be made in terms of whether any changes in the ways of investing into bitcoin need to be made or if the person might have gone from a BTC accumulation stage into a maintenance stage.

Cash cushions also relate to various kinds of back up funds that can be labeled as emergency fund, reserves and cash floats, and someone who has very uncertain finances might take more than a year to merely build up his emergency fund and his investment into bitcoin to amount to 3 months of his expenses in each of those, and surely it could be possible to both invest into bitcoin and to build up the emergency fund to at least a minimum of 3 months at the same time, yet surely whenever the emergency fund is less than 3 months, then there would be a risk that the BTC might end up serving as part of the emergency fund in the event an actual emergency happened in which cashflow  disappeared and/or expenses were to go up.

If a person cannot figure out the extent to which his income exceeds his expenses or even that he has erratic cashflow, yet he can see that he has expenses that are coming up in 3-6 months, so that he is not able to commit to investing into bitcoin for 4-10 years or longer, then that means that his discretionary income is not high enough to invest in bitcoin, and if he chooses to invest into bitcoin he would be trading or gambling with his expense money rather than investing, especially since we cannot know which direction the bitcoin price will go in the period of time that he already knows that he is going to need the money... and another thing is that we don't even know that bitcoin prices will be profitable 4-10 years or longer down the road, yet we invest with a certain level of willing to commit that we could end up losing the whole of the investment, yet if we do not engage in leveraging of the investment, then the most that we could lose is 100% of what we put in, so even though we are investing with anticipation that our odds for up are greater than our odds for down, and we even consider bitcoin to be amongst the best of places to put money (if not the best), we still are not guaranteed to be in profits at the end of our investment timeline, even if we have a relatively long timeline.


We are not guaranteed that BTC prices will increase, and surely if BTC prices increase, then we would have had been better off to front-load and to buy all in the beginning rather than DCAing, yet one of the difficulties in front loading and/or lump sum investing is that people do not tend to have an ability to front load or to lump sum invest, and so they might not even invest at all into bitcoin or anything else if they were not to be taking a reasonable amount from their weekly discretionary income...  Frequently DCA allows someone to invest continuously, persistently and ongoingly with some reasonable amount of money that ends up adding up to way more money than he would have had been able to save up on the side.. so there is a certain power in stacking away that value and putting it into bitcoin, which has decently good chances of not ONLY retaining the value but appreciating in value better than other investments (again, it is not guaranteed to appreciate, even though bitcoin's investment thesis remains strong and each of us are taking chances that bitcoin's investment thesis could end up collapsing during the period of our investment into it).


I think you are correct, yet you are still framing the issue in terms of guarantee, which bitcoin is not guaranteed, and I think that a better way of framing the matter is that DCA ONLY works when the investment asset (in this case bitcoin) has strong enough fundamentals that its odds of going up are greater than its odds of going down, and so part of the reason that we can potentially invest blindly into bitcoin for 4-10 years or longer in a DCA kind of manner is that it could well be one of the assets that we have a certain level of confidence that if we fell into a coma and were not revived for 10 years, then we would still be glad that we are in bitcoin rather than having our money in some other asset, even the dollar or wherever else we might put value, there could be some need to have a certain level of confidence to be able to just sit on the investment for a decently long period of time, such as 10 years or longer and have a certain level of confidence in it retaining its value and perhaps even appreciating in value... and yeah, sure there are going to be folks who need to have investment timelines that are shorter than 10 years too.. yet every time new value is invested into bitcoin, the timeline for that new value that is being injected should be 4-10 years or longer, even if a person might have already been investing into bitcoin for 4-10 years, if he injects new value then the new value should have a 4-10 year or longer timeline in order to be considered as investing rather than trading with that portion. 

At some point during a person's investment, they might decide that they have accumulated enough BTC, so they might either change their way of BTC accumulation or stop accumulation of BTC, yet merely stopping accumulating need not mean that they go into selling mode, so they could just maintain their stack until they reach of time that they might decide to start to withdraw from it based on price based withdrawals or perhaps based on time based withdrawals, and they might ONLY be selling very small portions of their BTC stash once they enter into such withdrawal period.. perhaps also assuming that they are supplementing other sources of their income that they would spend prior to spending their BTC.


DCA works for bitcoin, but not necessarily for shitcoins (which you seem to be mixed up if you are talking about cryptocurrencies, since if you are talkiing about bitcoin, then talk about bitcoin.  The term crypto currency is ambiguous and perhaps even misleading in regards to what you are talking about - unless you were just trying to sound smart, but the thing is that when you use vague and misleading terms then you look dumb rather than smart, in the event that you weren't being purposefully misleading in your choice to employ such term rather than just saying bitcoin if you had been meaning to talk about bitcoin rather than referring to some vague and amorphous idea that might mean that you don't know the difference between bitcoin and shitcoins and you wrongly believe that DCA works with shitcoins when it doesn't since DCA is a investing strategy not a trading strategy, and shitcoins would fall into the trading rather than investing camp since there is no way to really rely on any of them to have any long term potential.

This happens actually quite simply from the reason they do when they buy every week rather than every month for beginners it is based on the thought that they only want to try to buy when they are still very capable of doing it especially this is a form of condition where their enthusiasm for buying is still very large so that they don't really care about other things besides buying while they have money that they will not use in a certain period of time so that this buying spirit is still quite good even though in the end over time this kind of intensity must be rethought especially when it is indeed a burden other than buying while they have money that they will not use in a certain period of time so that the spirit of buying is still quite good even though in the end over time this kind of intensity must certainly be rethought especially when the burden we take in buying is too large from the budget we have planned before.

But it is undeniable when a beginner who is in the focus of buying everything must feel the same way and I also feel that I have done something like that where my thinking is still very simple when i want to keep buying when i can do it without bothering to think about other things because the most important thing is buying and getting bitcoin is the main focus .

The thing is that lump sum could obtain the same outcome, as in, you just put all the money into it right now and forget about it, without checking the prices all the time.

This also has the benefit of not having to worry about fees or making sure the transactions are done correctly, etc.

Having said that, most people won't have a big chunk of money that can be used to buy a large amount in a single transaction, so DCA is usually the most common strategy.

But from a point of view where you want to maximize the amount of Bitcoin, then lump sum could be better than DCA, depending on the future price of Bitcoin.

But all really matter depend on your cashflow or financial situation, but if they are capable to use this strategy then its fine since this is also proven working for people who also want to earn for long term investment.

If they cannot afford to do that our doubting then they still have another option to use DCA which is perfect for everyone. Everything is all depends to the person on what suitable to them, but they could try to use both so that they can gather experience since for sure every information or knowledge they get for trying it will be worth it since they gain something useful that can help on their bitcoin investment.

No one really knows what? When to buy? I think you are wrong, we all know what Bull market and bear market looks like, what you should be warning others about trying to time the bottom or the top, but the bottom and the top doesn't happen in a day, it takes time for corrections to happen.

Use Bear market for buying and use Bull market for profit taking, it is that simple, DCA is best for the long term but when Bitcoin is massively over valued I won't keep buying just because my plan is long term, that's plain stupidity.

The market will bottom in a bull market, bad news always happen after Bitcoin tops out, once that happens start buying, the best time for DCA is in a bear market, I  won't be buying the tops just because I won't to hold for long term, never.

You will not enjoy the real importance of DCA and hodli for a long term if you are only after buying at the bear and sell at the bull run as a trader. You will only get little profits instead of a good amount of profit from your bitcoin investment due to the compounding value of your investment if you increase and hodli your bitcoin overtime.

However, if you are cool with what you are doing, that's fine but I am investing and saving for the future and that is why buying and selling within short-term is not for me.