Cycle-aware DCA planner
Should you DCA
Bitcoin today?
Enter the budget you want to put into BTC. CryptoTIDE reads today's live cycle position (TIDE) and turns it into a plan: whether to buy now, how much to deploy immediately at market, and three buy-the-dip limit orders to stage below. Educational, not financial advice — everything stays in your browser.
Your plan
Immediate entry + 3 buy-the-dip limits
| Order | Price | Spend | ≈ BTC |
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Place the three BTD rows as limit-buy orders (good-til-cancelled) on your exchange. They only fill if price dips to those levels — your immediate buy is the guaranteed entry, the limits are bonus discounts. More of the budget is weighted toward deeper dips.
How it works
Budget in, cycle-aware plan out
The planner reads the live TIDE score (0–1) — the same cycle reading shown on the homepage — and uses only your budget and the BTC price. It does three things:
- Verdict. Low TIDE (deep-value Accumulation) → buy more now; high TIDE (Euphoria) → buy little now and wait for dips. See the TIDE definition.
- Immediate entry. A share of your budget to buy at market today. That share is larger when BTC is historically cheap and smaller when the cycle is hot.
- Three buy-the-dip limits. The rest of the budget is laddered into three limit orders below the current price, with deeper dips (and bigger size) when the cycle is hot — so you only add aggressively on real discounts.
| TIDE | Zone | Today's stance |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 0.15 | Heavy accumulation | Deploy most now; shallow dip limits |
| 0.15–0.35 | Accumulation | Buy now, ladder the rest |
| 0.35–0.55 | Neutral | Balanced now vs limits |
| 0.55–0.75 | Distribution | Go light at market; deeper limits |
| > 0.75 | Euphoria | Minimal now; deep limits only |
Not financial advice. This is a transparent, public-data sizing rule for manual spot-BTC orders. It does not know your portfolio, risk tolerance, taxes, exchange, or cash constraints, and it is not a prediction. Markets are risky.