Procrastination which is said to be the act of delaying something important despite knowing the consequences of doing so, is one of the reasons why many people miss out on big opportunities.
Procrastination can be because of your hesitation, uncertainty or it can be your lack of investment budget.
If you don't have investment budget, you only can work and in the meantime, have to procrastinate your investment.
Don't be hurry and borrow money to invest because you don't want to procrastinate.
If you have investment budget but hesitate to do it several months before a halving, you must look at history of bitcoin and its price after past halvings.
I definitely agree with your statement.
Even if the halving is slowly coming, this should not be a reason to disregard the basic rules of investment. If you do not have sufficient resources in order to purchase BTCs as of the moment,
never take out a loan to proceed your investment. A risk in itself should not create further risks.
In order to maximize this event, it is recommended that a person should allocate and budget their resources for investments entirely. Like what OP mentioned, avoid procrastinating and investing at the last hour- this is something that should be well-prepared and saved.
Actually, we've had a few members here, mostly newbies, who claimed to have borrowed money or taken a loan in order to purchase Bitcoin.
It is not just newbies who engage in various kinds of use of debt in order to leverage their bitcoin bets (whether to the upside or the downside), and margin trading has been in bitcoin since about 2014 or so.. with more and more options in order to play around with financing that might not necessarily have been discussed in forum threads.. people sell houses (chairs) and do all kinds of things in order leverage (and sometimes overly leverage) up on bitcoin purchases. A large part of our various corrections in the last year (especially rearing itself in mid-May 2022 or so) had to do with a variety of degenerate gamblers, some of whom quite experiences, and we were witnessing more and more examples, in the last year in which people were not ONLY leveraging with their own money, but surely the better thing to do is to leverage with other people's money, right?.. so yeah, some of that would also be unethical and/or illegal, and another matter is proving it... but part of my point, is that leveraging for UPpity is not just a newbie practice/behavior... including Michael Saylor (and MSTR) who has engaged in a lot of creative ways of "leveraging for UP."
It's still unclear if their story is valid or if it was an attempt to seek attention, but despite what it truly was, I'm positive that there are members who actually went ahead and invested with borrowed money. I'm curious to know how it turned out for those people.
Everyone's story is going to be a bit different in terms of how they employ leverage, how much they employ, and whether they have alternative funds to back up their bitcoin investment in case their leverage does not end up paying off. I have used leverage for years whether in bitcoin or for other sometimes risky investments, but it tends to be better to use leverage in ways in which you have funds to cover your leverage in case your investment does not work out.. so for example if you take out a loan for $20k that you have to pay in 2 years, and you use that money to buy bitcoin, and you are able to either pay your loan with other funds (in the event that bitcoin does not out perform the terms of the loan), or you have income that is coming in that can pay the loan, then you might be using the loan to front load your investment into bitcoin based on money that you currently do not have but that you are largely able to generate in the coming 2 years (and not even from your bitcoin investment)... you still end up gambling whether taking the loan pays off or not, but you likely do not need to use loans in such a way that you put yourself into a position that you are not able to deal with the consequences in either direction.
While I understand and admire their enthusiasm about Bitcoin investing, I find the whole argument extremely risky and reckless. There's a great chance these people lost their money.
So what if they lose their money or not... it is ONLY "extremely risky and reckless" if they expect their bitcoin investment to pay their loan terms, and sure some people do end up overly leveraging themselves (also known as gambling rather than investing), and if they want to be dumb like that, then that is their choice, and hopefully they learn their lessons.. but it is also true that some people make mistakes and then they continue to make the same mistakes over and over because they have a gambling disease and they have not figured out how to use leverage in ways that is mostly going to benefit them rather than to either reck them or to cause them to never really be able to get ahead because they just gamble over and over and over and they even believe that they have to gamble in order to make money --- or they want to make up for their past mistakes.. such as GO BIG or go home, which are not healthy ways of thinking, and likely not to be prosperous, even if there also might be some examples of some folks who have gotten lucky from their gambling techniques.. but part of the problem is that many of those gambler types won't even know when to stop or when to take profits because they can never get enough so they likely will loose their gains sooner or later, even if they might get some "lucky breaks" along the way.
I fully get that the halving is due to happen and people are both frustrated and enthusiastic about it, but that's no excuse to disregard basic common knowledge; this shouldn't even be investment advice that you must not spend money that you don't have and can't afford to lose.
I have no problem with those kinds of ideas/suggestions.