I just checked out the thread about buying the DIP, and it’s a solid reminder for newbies on how investors can take advantage of the dips by snagging assets at lower prices while FOMO pushes others to sell when volatility kicks in and prices start to rise again.
For everyone who jumped into that thread but didn’t scoop up the Dip, thinking the prices would drop even lower before buying, I totally get how frustrating that must feel now that the market is bouncing back. I mean, it’s great that you participated in the discussions, but if you’re feeling regret about missing out on the gains, that’s on you.
And hey, it’s not too late to buy in now while there’s still potential ahead.
It's nice that the eye of some people are now opening to the buying of Bitcoin's dip during the bullish phase. I remember saying this is one of the smartest moves an investor could make, though the thread you referenced are filled with those who believe in only HODLing, and nothing else, for a reason best known to them. They believe that buying the dip to make more money by being smarts, especially when the price of Bitcoin is high is expensive is not good. I don't know how it feels when they always miss the dip while others enjoy it many times in a year.
Every smart investor would always take advantage of every opportunity that presents itself and in the case of Bitcoin investment, it's buying when there's a dip. There are people who feel that because Bitcoin dropped to $109k it can go lower for them to rake in more profits when price goes up, whereas there's also those people who once it dipped a bit, they used it as an avenue to accrue more.
Sometimes the greed factor plays a major role in some investors missing out and sometimes too, there may not be enough funds at the moment to able to purchase when there is a downward movement in price too.
Those who are preparing to buy Bitcoin when the price is low will readjust their buying plans. Actually, there is nothing wrong with planning to buy when prices drop; it's just that sometimes our predicted buying price is not reached at that moment. Those who are not stressed are probably the ones who buy Bitcoin gradually at any price. Now, Bitcoin prices are rising again, hoping that October will reach a new ATH.
That thread has been running for a long time even before bitcoin got to $100k. some participant don't take it serious until they see the market getting bullish and they start to regret failing to buy using the DCA method at the time they hard the opportunity of doing so. normally, opportunity present itself to us every now and then but the issue has always been that we tend to assume that we always have time and sometimes procrastinate till it eventually becomes way too late.
Even now, it is not too late to buy, we are still far from where we will get to in the future so, failing to buy now will still yield more regret in the future because bitcoin will still become far more bullish than what we have now.
You get the point. Buying at the Dip is literally a strategy while the thread itself is served to orient newbies and the skeptics know that there are still good fortunes in the Dip other than just when the price is high. So investors can strategically buy and accumulate bitcoins buying at the low rate at price drops even while traders panics to sell out of Fomo.
A lot of people had been on the interest to buy only when the price is high and thought of making profits in the given time believing the price will keep rising while ignores its a volatilize asset. Meanwhile, there are still those who would regret not buying at the recent Dip kwo that bitcoin price has risen.
I have regrets too, but we cannot just dwell on the past. You are right, every early stage is still a chance, and we can buy now if we want t,o because we don't really know what the future holds.
It's expensive, that is true. But imagine the worries of the buyers of Bitcoin when it doesn't have much value yet. The fear of losing money if it sinks to zero, and the doubts and fears that are being spread all over social media and different forums. Now, it has value, and I believe it will grow more. If we have a chance to buy, take it.
There are always people who are sorry, whether he does not buy Bitcoin or he sells when loss because having fear has become a bad art in investment, we have witnessed it every cycle, even today there are still those who ask, is it still too late to buy bitcoin?, Like that very much and I think it is normal.
If you think long -term, it's never too late in buying Bitcoin, but if you buy to pursue the end of the cycle, we are at the end of the cycle, it is not the right thought.
Honestly, every single time there is a bottom, there are many people who miss that chance, and should not be that weird to see that now too. The price literally hit under 20k and people were not certain about what's going to happen and they were worried it would go down more and did not buy, look at it now. It's such a clear case that we would see it go up, and yet they did not and I do not know why.
It should have been a simpler situation and shouldn't have been this way, we should have seen it go a lot higher. I think it's clear that we are not going to end up with anything proper here, it's clear that we should have stayed stronger and bought at that point and waited. If you can't do that then you won't make maximum profit.
This is the coolest strategy I know since Bitcoin has become expensive, and those who think they can still enjoy Bitcoin in terms of return on investment like before are only deceiving themselves. A Bitcoin of $500 is not a Bitcoin of over $120,000, only smartness can make one gain more with the current Bitcoin.
You can imagine someone who bought Bitcoin around $100,000, and still holds it till now. He would mostly be in profit in 2025, but his profit couldn't have exceeded 23%. But I can assure you that the person who has been buying the significant dip and liquidating at the peak must have gained over 300% doing that this year.
It's impossible for you to time the dip or wait for the dip to reach your price target, you will end up missing out the bottom line of the dip. This is why if you are on regular weekly DCA, you wouldn't miss the dip because you will always buy at all price intervals. However, the dip is only for those who have extra cash on them when it comes if your DCA isn't ongoing.
Honestly there's nothing to regret.
If you had bought bitcoin the volumes and volumes of misfortunes brought to life are likely to have made you sell. Or even if it wasn't misfortune, already a 10x is good enough for most people and truth be told most of us would have needed the money.
There are very slim occasions where one wouldn't have sold willingly. And the fact of BTC changing hands is why the price could go up so much.
Anyway.
The moral of the story is, don't despair. To make life changing earnings you would have needed to invest a lot or be wealthy enough to sustain waiting for so long without needing the gains anyway. Which slims down the chances also.
The mistake most people do is waiting for the perfect dip to occur which usually result in missing the best entry point. And the fact is that there is no one that can predict the exact bottom which is why gradual accumulation and holding is best strategy and has worked well for investors who exercise patience. ....Currently as the market is also showing us signs of recovery, it is still not too late to accumulate, and what should matter must be our consistency and mindset
[a bit off]The thread is beyond Buying the Dip only infact, it was changed to Buy every dip at some point by wind furry.. Im very sure not everyone on that thread are actually doing what they post but the thread itself set me up properly ..i actually started doing the right thing after joining the thread although i hold BTC anyways.
The thread actually focuses more on DCA instead of waiting to buy Dips so most conclusions would be, anyone in their accumulation journey waiting to buy Dips might just not be doing the right thing and could be left out.
Now Back to your post, i dont know how you knew there are users that actually did that but you would still be right based on assumptions anyways.. All i know is buying now is more like FOMO again unless they are willing to to hold for longterm but i doubt tha,t a drop could make them PANIC again..
The key is just holding for long term, DCA and avoid unnecessary headaches.
What I found was that you cant really wait for the perfect dip to buy bitcoin.
Most people heard about it during a strong bull market and big pullbacks are rare in a strong bull market. Most will wait for it to dip further and it never does. Then 6 months later, it finally does dip further, they buy and keeps dipping and then later it turns it out that bitcoin already topped and all those dips ended up being dead cat bounces.
So its better to just buy the top like Michael Saylor is known for. It seems dumb to be buying when the ATH breaks but you are better off doing so because at least you will be in a little profit if you sell instead of waiting for the big dip which ends up being nothing but a dead cat bounce.
I highly doubt that most people in that thread are buying anything. It's full of merit fishers.
That's right, DCA is the best strategy, and you can forget about trying to guess the market highs and lows. Although when the price has fallen significantly, you can contribute extra, DCA is a slow and sure way to improve your financial situation. A lot, if you stick with it in the long term.
And unfortunately there is no such perfect time in buying at the Dip because quite strict waiting for that very aimed Dip will only eat your times and while you keep waiting for that perfect time on the Dip is the more you are missing out to take position and at the current bull event.
Infact, if we must talk perfect Dip time, then we can just say we are expecting bitcoin to fall at the bottomless where it was struggling to gain value or like the earliest times when it actually bitcoin was actually worth nothing and was affordable for everyone. But that will be a wasted efforts because bitcoin price can never be dumped to such value that the Dip would be sighted the perfect time because the perfect was those early days it was introduced with the very low marketcap.
The people who waiting for the dip of the dip 100% will never buy from my experience. When they see current price they think it's too expensive then the dip happen and they thought price can go deeper and when it did go deeper they become afraid.
The real winner are the people who just buy at every dip regardless because they're doing DCA and didn't just buy in one go. I bet there are so many people who failed to catch the dip out there and regret it.
Except for those who always bargain with the market, always feel regret when the price goes up and feel fear when the price goes down, and never buy bitcoin. They will regret it even more in the future.
But for those who didn't buy bitcoin during the last correction or didn't buy when it was above $100k for other reasons(strategy, plan). There is nothing to regret because bitcoin is volatile, it will not go up vertically and there will always be another chance for them.
The bull season will end and the bear season will soon come, and there is still a chance for us to buy bitcoin below $100k. There is nothing to regret, the important thing is when the price is under $100k, do we have the courage and money to buy it?
We will not worry if the price goes up because our goal is long term. Buying the Dip is difficult to determine because no one knows when that will happen. So we can just buy at a low and hope that the price will not go lower. But if the price is still down, we can't do anything although we can buy back at another low price.
But that can make it difficult to manage the fund because there will be many times when the price goes down. If we just buy at a low price many times, our fund might be used all without having a chance to buy at another low price. So no need to feel regret if you can not buy at a low because there will be lower prices coming.