Of course people can't enjoy bitcoin benefits while holding for short term and short term doesn't yield any proper benefits for the investors unlike altcoin that is being manipulate at every single moments. I must say for someone to invest and enjoy their investment they most for long term ranging from 3 to 11 years time so that they could see their dividence from their investment.
Each investor has a different goal. Even if we hold Bitcoin for a short term, I'm sure we also can enjoy the profits. You can learn the price change of Bitcoin in the last year and this year. If we buy Bitcoin in the early of 2024 and we sell the Bitcoin in this year, we still get enough profits. Investing in Bitcoin isn't a must for many years, it can be for few months or a year. However I agree that the profits will be high if we hold more than 5 years. Holding 10-11 years will have huge profits for sure.
If you do it with good calculations, then, as you said, holding bitcoin in the short term will still be profitable, especially in the long term according to the halving period, the profits you have will certainly be even more perfect.
Agree that you don't have to invest in bitcoin in the long term, because if you can analyze it well in the short term, it will still be profitable, but when compared to the long term, it is clear that the long term will produce the best.
For short term investments it depends on how smart and calculative you could be to have target it at the right time to make investment, yes and is true when you target the market before or during halving you could definitely make a good investment and make profit from the investment.
Short-term investments made after halving should involve observing the crypto market and making proper analysis, because usually the crypto market will be more volatile and difficult to predict.
After halving there is every tendency of market increase and anyone who is that smart enough could utilized that medium to invest in the market and makes good profits from the crypto market, but that must be Bitcoin investment as most altcoin doesn't make progress immediately after Bitcoin halving. Except during the altcoin season we could see them making progress uncontrollably, but for the past halving never see that coming as altcoin season haven't yet occurred.
Usually it is, as you said, that halving is a form of notification that bitcoin will increase later and many will take advantage of the situation as best they can to get a profit.
But it is not always that, after halving that, altcoins cannot move better because there are some that are able to be the same as bitcoin to increase.
But indeed, at this time, the altcoin season has not happened, and we are still waiting for further developments, maybe after bitcoin reaches its latest ATH.