I think the biggest mistake we make in bear market is that we put all our funds in one go to buy digital asset when it starts recovering after crash hoping that market is oversold, and price recovery has started. Unfortunately, this recovery process is short lived and price slides down further and we are not left with any funds to do dollar cost average our portfolio. The best strategy is making buying in at least 3 steps by when you see opportunity on weekly or monthly technical charts.
DCA can be an optional strategy but what is wrong with what you said is when they invest in a recovering market. That's not a proper way to invest but we should observe first if the market is getting stable and it seems the bottom is already reached out. That should be the time for us to invest and not when it's recovering because that can only be a bull trap. Bull traps have happened many times during this bear market.
I just noticed that the op included short term investment but I think there is nothing wrong with that because volatilities are also active whenever there is a bear. It's always possible for us to buy low and sell after some small recovery.
But the question is, how you would consider or able to find out that the market is already bottoming out? This is the toughest thing on where we do really face on which we can't really be able determine on where.
But cant really be denied that this is the most common action where people do really be able to do so on which they are really making investment or buying decisions on the time that the market is really going up.
Dont know on such scenario but this is really he behavior of most investors we do have here on crypto space.Mistakes are inevitable since we are really just that too emotional but with proper knowledge that
we could really get on real experience then we would able to bare and get used into such condition and realize that its never been easy and realize on when is the ideal time for us to get in.