I remember when I had multiple BTC when it spiked pretty high summer 2019, and I almost tripled my money from Dec but I was poor and only bought 2 BTC, but made a good chunk..
MAN IF I WOULDA HELD ONTO THAT :(((
You can't time the market, but shits scary right now TBH - but when stocks are this low we're entering a recession, and traditionally they last anywhere from 10-40 months.. We just went through an insane multi year run (minus COVID dip which lasted about 6mo?).
I personally would buy some stocks and don't look at it in 5 years, you always gotta look at the max year charts not the 1 year. Look at BTC's max chart as an example, but I still wouldn't touch crypto on the BTC level due to how high it is and can drop. It's different for $VTI for an example, where it may drop $20