Your holdings of Bitcoin cannot get liquidated
Except you trading a derivative.
Everything boils down to the investor goals, capital and capacity
So there isn't any universal answer.
Personally I believe it's cheaper getting or starting in a Bear market and continuously accumulate
To a level you satisfied with.


Campaign does this for me
While I use my personal funds during dips
Though I usually separate them
Don't want to complicate the average price.

This one, I think it's better to do DCA if the price is really very low specially if you are a small investor. The only problem is that it will be long and tough as it might take years to do it and so it's not just about the budget, but how mentally ready you are to go into a long haul.

Although motivation is obviously the big profits, so you have to look at the bigger picture to somewhat overcome that psychology. For me personally, I think about it this way, if others can do it, they why not me? So yes, if you are just average joe investors, then you might want to look or start your DCA when prices at a discount, and this could happen during the bear market.

But think about it, if we got into a bull run at around $180k, then the next bear market is around $50k lowest low, isn't it still too high for us in the future?

The point of DCAing is to take the emotions out of investing.  You just steadily put money in over time, buying more when prices are low and less when they're high.  but your average cost evens out. You shouldn't stress about daily price swings.  Just invest on whatever schedule you decide - whether it's every week or month.  Doesnt matter if the market's up or down.  The amounts stay fixed.

Stick to the plan through bull and bear cycles alike.  It works out in the end if you stay disciplined.  Timing the market's impossible anyway.

DCA is for all investors, not only small investors. A big example is Microstrategy and El Salvador with their Bitcoin DCA investments recent years and they have been continuing it.

You don't know difference between purchasing bitcoin in spot market for your DCA, and trading in Leverage or Futures market. No centralized exchange will liquidate your position if you purchase bitcoin in Spot market, I am sure.

If you want to find best price to DCA, it is no longer DCA and with newbies it is more challenging. Every investors want to find best entry prices but they fail, and DCA strategy is here to help them purchasing without headache of thinking and finding best prices.

If you are very experienced in this market, you can try to wait for red days to DCA, but with beginners, they won't be able to do this.

Ideally, DCA is designed to be independent of market conditions, focusing instead on the regularity of investments. However, some inavestors might choose to adjust their DCA strategy during significant market downturns to take advantage of lower prices, provided they can manage the associated risks and psychological impact of investing during a bearish market.

In its purest form, yes. The concept of DCA is to make regular investments regardless of the market price. This approach helps to avoid the pitfalls of trying to time the market, which even experienced investors can find challenging.

Your aim for doing DCA is for long term so paying attention is not best action towards doing this strategy so if you look forward to earn when price goes up for more then you should not get worried about the price and you can start to accumulate at what figure currently show up in the market.


You need to do it consistently since if you wait for the dip then provably it will just give you a doubt to decide to buy, since those small dumps would provably bother you and that one could destroy your focus.

So just be consistent on accumulation and don't pay much attention on pumps also dumps since you are not doing any short term trades.

There is no best time to buy when using DCA method because you are buying every week or month constantly irrespective of the price of bitcoin and DCA is not done at a special time, otherwise it's not DCA.

Of course, that's it. The reason of DCA is for you to buy with little amount gradually consistently every week so that you can keep on growing your bitcoin stash overtime and it has not specific market timing, because if you stop, your bitcoin portfolio remains stagnant and wouldn't grow. Is just like you have a savings of 10% of your income to build a house in 5 years time and whenever you get paid, you keep that 10% in a bank every month till it piles up to the required amount. You don't stop saving that money monthly because the cost of cement is high or cost of sand is high or bricks.

The best market time to buy is in the bear market and that is the best time to DCA ideally. When the price is low. But for you to do this you need knowledge and know the right timing. But if you don't mind you can buy in a small quantity even now when the price is almost $100k

There is no exactly strategy that I use. I prefer to use the investment strategy of DCA and also just putting in significant amount when it comes my way. The DCA is automatic for me and the only time I stop is when I am facing a very serious challenge that is financial in nature.

the DCA model is about just auto-paying. where people just make auto deposits and buy at whatever the price is at

however this is not the most efficient way to make the most of opportunities.
even when people do their employment pension payments automatically, there is a pension fund of traders that then deal with the efficiency of timing the buys at the best opportunity. so even pensions are from the employee side seemingly DCA but not actually DCA at the trade side of inside the pension fund

i say this because if everyone was to blindly DCA, alot of people can end up buying on the monthly high's and missing out on the dips.

so for those that want to be more efficient, sure deposit fiat every month, but instead of blindly buying bitcoin at whatever price is, as soon as the deposit is made. just take a look at that months trade market swings and see if the price is on that months low or high to judge if its best to buy or wait for a lil dip. .. ofcourse if by month end no dip occurred you can still feel that warm DCA feeling of blindly then buying in before next months deposit arrives.. but for some, wait for a dip if the deposit day is at a market high, it might help make some better buys if buying at a lower rate

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many agenda mindset people want naive investor to just do the blind DCA, because the agenda minded people want naive other investors to "just buy" at any price.. in short be the naive people buying at the high when the smarter traders are selling at the high.
so yes there is a big reason you see people screaming to "just DCA" "just buy" at any price. as everyone knows, you cant sell at a high unless you have a buyer willing to pay the price

The entire point of DCA is to allow people who aren't savvy enough to read the market trends or want to avoid the entire hassle of trying to time the market. If you're able to correctly analyze market movements, discern between the market cycles, you might be able to earn more than the average person who DCA. However, if you're unable to do so, then DCA is better. FWIW, most people can't and definitely not the smaller investors.