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Should I buy btc now or wait? Have about 3000 bucks for my first entry

I've got around 3000 bucks ready for my first btc buy, but I'm stuck between buying now or waiting for a cleaner dip. Btc is around $59.4k right now, after moving between roughly $59k and $60.6k over the last day. It does not look like a clean breakout, but it also is not much of a discount unless we roll over again. My first thought was to split the money into a few buys: a small entry here, then lower orders in the mid-$50ks and maybe near $50k if it gets there. The problem is I might just keep moving the goalposts and never actually enter. I've been looking at setting up a dca bot on bydfi instead, basically to force smaller buys over time without me staring at every candle. The trade-off is that it still buys into whatever market I set for it, so if my range is bad, the bot is not fixing that. For a first btc position, would you rather use a DCA approach, leave manual lower limit orders, or just buy spot and stop obsessing over the entry?