But if you are afraid to trade and decide only to invest because the movement is still unstable and can decrease the price like it is now, you can buy and hold it for a while. And even though the price may increase again later, even to the $30k mark, it still seems like a good price to buy bitcoins since the last ATH was at $60k. So buying bitcoins at $60k can still be considered an investment price.
When I talk at the moment in this case I really mean at the moment, so it is not about this year or for several months. I expect that bitcoin will go down soon enough for short term traders to buy it cheaper and then sell again costlier (it is not an advise, my predictions are not even close to 100%, so I can be very mistaken). So investing at the moment is still good as if you hold long enough less then 25k for bitcoin is a good price, but short term trading has other senses (and I prefer not to play with it as I'm not experienced enough for that).
But if the price can't increase this year, next year, or the next few years, it won't be a problem because we still have the opportunity to get those big profits. But holding bitcoins is not easy. Not many people can do it because most people will panic or worry when they see the price increase and eventually decide to sell their bitcoins instead of worrying every day.
if we remember the price of bitcoin was 17k and that was a good price to buy and a lot of short term traders sold when the price of bitcoin was 20k-21k which was only a few weeks, and it repeated many times. Then buy at 20k-21k traders sell at 24k-25k and so on I think bitcoin price will reach 28k-29k in March.
So I think now is a good choice to trade short term if you do it right and it would be better to trade long term or invest in bitcoin even any investment has risks but if we believe and have strong patience I believe it will work.
And that panic only happens mostly to beginners because those who have been in this industry for a long time see that they are very familiar with bitcoin and know its tracks which in my opinion does not make them panic even when they are down. Because believing that it will bounce back eventually and in the long run is the best and safest choice, and also short term trading is good when the market is on a gradual rise.