I'd suggest you wait for 12 December or at least before SEC stance on ETF is clear enough. Anything that happens after that will greatly affect the market, even if you pick a very good coin there's still possible that you'd end up losing your money when Bakkt launch gets postponed or ETF got denied or being delayed again. After that, you can use your strategy. Hell, even if you pick shit coins it will still give you decent profits in a bull run.
I don't see how anything other than an ETF approval will actually affect the market. Another delay or rejection is already calculated in the price because most people already know it won't be approved.
In other words, nothing will happen at all on that front. I had a look at the charts, and it seems that the first months of each year aren't the best months for Bitcoin, which means that an increase is even more unlikely.
In a previous reply in a different thread I was referring to tax sales being a factor to focus on with how we are dealing with more startups, hedge funds, VC's, and so forth. It means more selling pressure in and after January.
I rather remain on the side waiting for the market to signal bullishness before digging in. The risk v reward ratio when it comes to trading right now is very poor.