To wit, one moving average method that I use is designed simply to keep the portfolio out of the stock market during some portion of an extended bear market decline. (jayonthemarkets.com)
Using that approach (what I called the Anomaly of Averages method) would produce a very unstable, unreliable temperature record indeed. (skepticalscience.com)
This articles expounds further on the idea of Cost Averaging method of investing and actually takes a look at its advantages, disadvantages and how it fares when the stock market moves up, down or just steady. (peratree.com)