๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ธ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐™ˆ๐™ค๐™จ๐™ฉ ๐—ฆ๐—ฎ๐˜๐˜€ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐™‡๐™š๐™–๐™จ๐™ฉ ๐—˜๐—ณ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜

Unless youโ€™re ๐™ง๐™š๐™–๐™ก๐™ก๐™ฎ lucky, and just happen to buy bitcoin at the bottom of a dip, youโ€™re not going to be able to time the market.

There are professionals who make a ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ out of technical analysis and trading, and even ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜บ are often wrong.

So how can you stack the most sats, without even breaking a sweat? The answer is ๐——๐—ผ๐—น๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ฟ ๐—–๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—”๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด.

Read on to learn more๐Ÿ‘‡

Dollar Cost Averaging, or DCA, is the practice of ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐˜†๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฎ ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ป๐˜ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ฒ๐˜ โ€” in this case, spending fiat for #Bitcoin โ€” ๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ด๐˜‚๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ฟ ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜ƒ๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜€, ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ด๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ๐—น๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ ๐˜ƒ๐—ผ๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜๐˜†.

But wouldnโ€™t it be better to wait for a dip and ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ go all-in? The problem with that is you might miss the dip, and then the price may never go that low again. Or, if you ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ go all-in on a dip, then it may continue dipping lower for a while.

When you DCA into Bitcoin, you will sometimes buy high, and sometimes buy low, but it all evens out in the long-run. When you try to time the bottom, you may give-in to your fear that the price is going to continue falling, and youโ€™ll miss your chance. Or you may go all-in, and then the price ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด continue falling, and your bitcoin loses purchasing power until the next bull market.

๐—•๐˜‚๐˜ ๐——๐—–๐—”๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜€๐—ผ๐—น๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐™—๐™ค๐™ฉ๐™ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—บ๐˜€. Thereโ€™s no cause for fear, because youโ€™re ignoring the price and buying whatever your fiat can get. And if the price ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด drop right after you buy, thatโ€™s okay too, as youโ€™ll buy again later and a lower price, and the average price you bought at will still be low.

Donโ€™t believe me? Letโ€™s look at an example of Alice and Bob. They both have $3000 to spend on bitcoin, and they both start on 17 December 2017, at the height of the 2017 bull run. Alice starts buying $10โ€™s worth each week, and Bob goes all-in with the $3000.

What would they have now? Alice would have kept buying until last September, and she would have ๐—ท๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜ ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐Ÿฌ.๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฒ ๐—ฏ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ถ๐—ป. Bob, on the other hand, would only have ๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜ ๐Ÿฌ.๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฑ ๐—ฏ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ถ๐—ป.

The only way Bob could have stacked more sats than Alice is if he had made a lucky guess in timing the market, which by definition is merely gambling. But Bitcoin was never meant to be a tool for gambling; ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐˜€ ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—น๐˜† ๐˜€๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ, ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ณ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ฒ, ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜€๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜†. Would ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ risk losing that through gambling?

๐——๐—ผ๐—น๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ฟ ๐—–๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—”๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฒ-๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐˜† ๐˜๐—ผ ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ธ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜ ๐˜€๐—ฎ๐˜๐˜€. Itโ€™s fine if you want to gamble by timing the market, but the most important question to ask yourself is whether you want to end up with more ๐˜ง๐˜ช๐˜ข๐˜ต or more ๐˜ฃ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ. If your answer is fiat, then Bitcoin is only a speculative asset for you, and the question of when you should buy or sell is an educated guess at best.

But if your answer is bitcoin, then ๐™ฌ๐™๐™š๐™ฃ ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ง๐™ฉ ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™–๐™˜๐™ ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™™๐™ค๐™š๐™จ๐™ฃโ€™๐™ฉ ๐™ข๐™–๐™ฉ๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ง, ๐™–๐™จ ๐™ก๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™–๐™จ ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช ๐™๐™ค๐™™๐™ก ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™ ๐™š๐™š๐™ฅ ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™–๐™˜๐™ ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ข๐™ค๐™ง๐™š.

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What do ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ think? Are you the kind of person who tries to time the market, or do you DCA?

Tell me in the ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€โฌ‡๏ธ, and if you DCA, tell me what platform you use!

Be sure to ๐—Ÿ๐—ถ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐Ÿค™ and ๐—ฆ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐Ÿ”„ this, so others can also learn why they should DCA.

And ๐—•๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ธ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ธ๐Ÿ”– it so you can find it easily later!

Iโ€™ve been on a daily DCA since May of 2018 via various places over the years. Currently using River and Swan.

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