You seem to have a misunderstanding of the DCA strategy in total.
The DCA strategy is not for poor people or for those with little income, it has nothing to do with how much you are earning the DCA strategy is simply dividing your capital into parts and investing or buying at intervals and this is done for some reason which is to.reduce the impact of volatility on yoir portfolio, you know that bitcoin is still a very volatile asset and to avoid situations where by you buy at a price and then the price dips and you portfolio would be at lose, but with the DCA method you get to buy at every intervals and price points so those fluctuations in price would not affect you, and why it is recommended here is beach it sis more beginners friendly and you don't need much knowledge other than to know how to buy and hold to get started with the DCA unlike the buying the dip strategy that involves some level of timing the market and more knowledge to be very successful at it. So yeah there is no barrier in using the DCA strategy.
I see that DCA is for anybody that has a steady source of income that can be able to accumulate as little as $5 to $10 per week because if you want to be rich I don think you would be able to accumulate. When you are talking about little income, you should be able to clarify the type of income. Each an everyone has its own source of income generation and the capacity it can carry . Provided that the amount he receives can be able to help him accumulate btc and emergency fund just like everyone has been saying in this thread, I believe he has to go. Everyone has the amount dey revieve it ranges from $50 $100 $200 $250 $300 and so on. In a situation where you receive any of this amount, you can schedule or program your self on how to arrange the DCA, emergency and reserved fund . So if you think you need to be rich before you invest in bitcoin then am afraid you are delaying your HODLing journey.
months or such intervals and you decide to divide that amount into parts and invest them on intervals instead of buying with all the amount at once, so yeah the idea of having a steady income leads to the fact that for DCA and accumulating bitcoin to give you the best results you have to be kind of steady and consistent in doing so, so some folks that haven't got a steady income can at times pause or stop due to their money getting exhausted and at times even us up their reserves if they have quite the appetite for buying bitcoin, and your emergency funds also has nothing in to do with steady income, its just like that savings we never touch and we build just to insure that we never sell our holdings based on misfortunes or emergencies and this should be up to 3 months of your expenses to be potent enough.
I might not be a regular poster here but with the little I have read in this thread it needs a steady income to be able to withstand the accumulation process. The 3 to 6 months you are talking about, looks like the lump sum method which may not work for every bitcoin investor. Gradually investing what you can afford is better than waiting to invest big. Sometimes the little investment you see as nothing will shuck you when you see the results after so many years of regular investment. And not every body is opptunesd to see money in bulk. We should be able to manage the little we have than expecting so much before investing. You should have been in beter position to know by now because you are one of a regular poster here as I have read you posts here.
I still seriously feel you hardly read anything as you said cause you just misunderstood me or quoted the wrong person, I never said that a lump sum investment would be more perfect for the guy than the DCA method and more over the hypothetical or illustration was used to explain a guy with irregular income that decided to not invest at once since he had an inconsistent income and felt that if he divide the allocation into parts and invests on intervals, then Jay went further to explain that if his income is irregular that they could even some uncertainties in knowing if the money would come or not and if we are sure that this money would come on as 3k in 3months then we can easily do the maths and figure out how much would be going into his expense which comes first and some part might be fixed and some part not, and while this calculation or budget seems to be most important for this guy is cause he has to make sure he doesn't run out of cash to cover for his expenses before he receives another cash, so yeah he has to keep his floats, reserves and emergency funds good from this cash, then with whatever discretionary income he has he might chose to hold maybe until his investment time is over or untill he receives another pay cheque.
I think you should read for yourself and have a better understanding from his quote below.
You seem to have a misunderstanding of the DCA strategy in total.
The DCA strategy is not for poor people or for those with little income, it has nothing to do with how much you are earning the DCA strategy is simply dividing your capital into parts and investing or buying at intervals and this is done for some reason which is to.reduce the impact of volatility on yoir portfolio, you know that bitcoin is still a very volatile asset and to avoid situations where by you buy at a price and then the price dips and you portfolio would be at lose, but with the DCA method you get to buy at every intervals and price points so those fluctuations in price would not affect you, and why it is recommended here is beach it sis more beginners friendly and you don't need much knowledge other than to know how to buy and hold to get started with the DCA unlike the buying the dip strategy that involves some level of timing the market and more knowledge to be very successful at it. So yeah there is no barrier in using the DCA strategy.
I see that DCA is for anybody that has a steady source of income that can be able to accumulate as little as $5 to $10 per week because if you want to be rich I don think you would be able to accumulate. When you are talking about little income, you should be able to clarify the type of income. Each an everyone has its own source of income generation and the capacity it can carry . Provided that the amount he receives can be able to help him accumulate btc and emergency fund just like everyone has been saying in this thread, I believe he has to go. Everyone has the amount dey revieve it ranges from $50 $100 $200 $250 $300 and so on. In a situation where you receive any of this amount, you can schedule or program your self on how to arrange the DCA, emergency and reserved fund . So if you think you need to be rich before you invest in bitcoin then am afraid you are delaying your HODLing journey.
It doesn't necessarily need to be a steady income, I could be a money that comes once in 3 months, 6 months or such intervals and you decide to divide that amount into parts and invest them on intervals instead of buying with all the amount at once, so yeah the idea of having a steady income leads to the fact that for DCA and accumulating bitcoin to give you the best results you have to be kind of steady and consistent in doing so, so some folks that haven't got a steady income can at times pause or stop due to their money getting exhausted and at times even us up their reserves if they have quite the appetite for buying bitcoin, and your emergency funds also has nothing in to do with steady income, its just like that savings we never touch and we build just to insure that we never sell our holdings based on misfortunes or emergencies and this should be up to 3 months of your expenses to be potent enough.
Your right, DCA must not be for those with steady income, although it would have been netter if you used some illustration like Jay does, let me try if I cam get this right.
Let's assume a guy might have received a government fund that comes 4 times a year on equal or irregular intervals and this amount is 3k, so he decides to invest 1k into bitcoin and yeah he should just go and buy Bitcoin right away with all the funds but instead of that he decides to divide that money into 12 parts which should be 83$ each approximately so that it would meet up till the next time that money comes, and one good advantage of this, is it that you don't have to worry about volatility or price changes, so for many reasons we mostly recommend it for beginners and I guess you should try it too. Hope your right now@ berry2d
Of course, if you are going to attempt to describe some kind of an unsteady or irregular income, you would attempt to describe what it is, and there might be some certain aspects and there may well be some uncertain aspects, so it usually is not going to be exactly known, especially if it is an income that happens so infrequently.
But yeah, if he knows for sure it is going to be right around $3k every 3 months, then that does allow him to figure out how much he has left after expenses, yet even expenses, may well have some aspects that are certain and other aspects that vary. Some aspects of the expenses are discretionary and some aspects are somewhat fixed. Housing costs, utilities and transportation might be somewhat fixed (within a small range of variability) Food expenses might have some upper and lower boundaries, and surely there might be choices to spend a bit more on good quality food, and to cut back on eating in restaurants.. yet there still could be some variability that helps to dictate how much funds need to be held in reserves or as a float.. and surely the emergency fund would ONLY end up being their in an actual emergency rather than being used as a float or as reserves.
When the income is so irregular, there may also be some preference to hold back on any investing that it made, so maybe the person knows his expenses are somewhere between $500 and $700 per month, so that is going to leave him with between $300 and $500 of discretionary income per month, but he is afraid to spend his discretionary income until towards the end of the investment period or maybe even after he gets his next payment.. so he kind of holds all or most of his discretionary income in reserves until his next paycheck comes in.. .. Another thing that he could do is to spend $30 per week no matter what on bitcoin, so then that would largely mean that he is already making a choice, and he would have to subtract $120-ish each month from the remaining part of his discretionary income, and he would decide what to do with any of the extra when either it comes close to his receiving his next check or maybe not until the next check is actually in his hands.. since we cannot really know that we are going to have the money until we actually have it. .so we might have to keep some extra spare money, especially if our payments are so infrequent. .and even worse if they are irregular too... .since sometimes the date of payment and the amount might be uncertain.. but maybe worse case scenarios it is ONLY $1,200 every 3 months and best case scenarios it is $4,800, but most of the time, it is right around $3k every 3 months, and plans should be made around any of those kinds of particular irregularities, including that sometimes guys are able to add extra sources of income in order to help to lessen some of the pressures of the extent of the irregularities that they are experiencing.
