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    July 08, 2026, 07:25:00 PM
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    But yes, it is very good to have our emergency fund at the initial level when starting investing. If a person starts investing without an emergency fund, it is extra risky
    For us not to have an emergency funds at the earlier stage of our investment journey is pretty risky because one can't actually detect the exact time problem comes. Unplanned situation just showed up without giving signal. Therefore, preparing ahead of time is an additional advantage to your investment journey and set you prepared in case of any emergency so you won't be forced to sell at lost just to fix up things.

    One of the main ideas in bitcoin investing is to try to start to invest into bitcoin as soon as you can from whatever financial position that you are at, so long as you can determine that you have discretionary funds.

    Accordingly, the level of back up funds, to start, largely only needs to be enough to make sure that you are not investing beyond your discretionary funds, and thereafter, once you get started, you could well build your back up funds and your bitcoin investment at the same time, even if you might choose to emphasize on one end or another.  If you absolutely have  no back up funds, you may well want to emphasize the back up funds until it reaches 2-4 weeks of expenses, and then maybe once back up funds are at least 4 weeks of expenses, then there might be a preference to emphasize the money put into bitcoin..

    so perhaps if a bitcoin newbie has $120 per week of discretionary funds,

    1) maybe the first couple of months of investing:  he might emphasize $60 into back up funds $40 into bitcoin buying and $20 into discretionary consumption.   

    2) 2-6 months after starting to invest: he might emphasize $40 into back up funds $40 into bitcoin buying and $40 into discretionary consumption.   

    3) 6-12 months after starting to invest: he might emphasize $30 into back up funds $60 into bitcoin buying and $30 into discretionary consumption.

    There can be a variety of ways to divide matters up, and surely if guys can figure out ways to increase their discretionary funds by increasing their income and/or decreasing their expenses, then they also will feel that they have more money that they can work with, which tends to be a good feeling, even if a person has systems in place and if they receive some extra money, they may well already know how they want to allocate it in terms of buttressing up their back up funds, but also considering the three ways that they can buy bitcoin namely: 1) right away, 2) defer by time (DCA), and/or 3) defer by time (buying on dips that might not happen).
    I am highly impressed with this breakdown of yours because at first it look confusing but when I seat down to look at it very well, i realized that this is the best strategy for someone to use to succeed in accumulating Bitcoin. At first I said why in the first month the emergency fund is huge? but I realized that it is the best to have it that big so that you can be able to plan for your investment properly, for instance this first emergency funds can go very long way since you are just starting and it reduces when it goes.

    Honestly, with this your explanation I now realize that the discretionary consumption is also very important and all these are wants not our needs and they are very important in our life, in this case both WANT and NEEDS to be considered to allow a smooth running investment. All this while I only consider the NEEDS forgetting about WANT, so now we have to deal with both Discretionary Consumption and Non-Discretionary Consumption.

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