I have definitely been thinking about dollar cost averaging as an investment strategy a bit these days. My last post about Dollar Cost Averaging In A Declining Market and the discussion in the comments has really helped me get my thoughts together and crystallize just exactly what I was thinking and trying to communicate. [...]

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If you haven’t been living in a hole for the past few weeks then you have probably seen what has been happening to the stock market. It has been falling deeply into oblivion, wiping out trillions from retirement systems and equity accounts nation (and world) wide. Since the beginning of the year, the [...]

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In my recent post on dollar cost averaging I said that I think of this investment purchasing strategy as “mak[ing] a lot of small bets.” What I meant by that is that through dollar cost averaging you mitigate your timing risks by entering the market at many points in the hope that more of [...]

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I am a very new investor and I am historically very risk adverse. I have always like the idea of earning money from other people’s labor, but until recently I have always been pretty scared to invest. Right now I am working hard on acquiring $2,500 to open an account with an internet brokerage [...]

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