I think I am Trading Wrong

Let’s say you know that your app needs exactly 1 trillion cycles to run every day.

Day 1: Price of ICP is 100 SDR. You buy 0.01 ICP at a total cost of 1 SDR and convert 0.01 ICP to 1 T cycles to fund your app.

Day 2: Price of ICP doubles to 200 SDR. You buy 0.005 ICP at a total cost of 1 SDR and convert 0.005 ICP to 1 T cycles.

Day 3: Price of ICP drops to 50 SDR. You buy 0.02 ICP at a total cost of 1 SDR and convert 0.02 ICP to 1 T cycles.

But the catch is that you need to buy ICP right before you plan on converting it to a known quantity of cycles, so it requires continuously purchasing new ICP to fund your app. Whereas you’re thinking of a use case where someone wants to pre-purchase ICP in bulk to later convert to an unknown quantity of cycles. Is that accurate?

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