For someone who doesn't invest full time, yes
I think dollar cost average is the best way to invest.
When it comes to mutual funds, like those typical in a 401k plan, I certainly
think dollar cost averaging is a good way to go.
I think dollar cost averaging is a good strategy.
Not exact matches
Think of a bond fund like something of a perpetual
dollar cost averaging vehicle.
What do you
think of these purchases and my ongoing strategy of using Loyal3 as a
dollar -
cost averaging tool?
From Jim Jubak of MSN Money, we get an article detailing 5 blue chip dividend stocks he
thinks long term investors (10 Years + time horizon) will do well by
dollar cost averaging in now and reinvesting dividends.
I am
thinking long term and keep investing using
dollar cost averaging.
People bucket housing as a different mental, I
think, capacity than they do say
dollar cost averaging into stocks, despite the fact stocks will do better, probably, over time.
With
dollar cost averaging, I
think the returns get smoothed out better.
I
think this is why
dollar cost averaging is so smart and you don't have to worry about timing the top or bottom of the market.
«In much the same way investment advisors and the investment industry preach
dollar -
cost -
averaging and investing small increments of money over a long period of time, as opposed to one lump sum of money all at once, I
think that just goes to justify the benefit of taking the payments over the long run,» says Heath, «Especially if one didn't have a lot of financial aptitude.»
By automating the process of paying yourself first and keeping the size of your incremental investments negligible, you can employ the power of
dollar -
cost averaging to secure your financial future without ever having to give it a moment's worry or
thought.
I
think the best approach is to have some cash on the side to take advantage of the dips and while staying the course when it comes to payroll deduction based investing using
dollar cost average model.
Andrew: For investors
dollar -
cost -
averaging into or out of something, I
think it may be best to use traditional mutual funds rather than ETFs so as to eliminate the commissions completely.
My
thought is that
dollar cost averaging is purely a Wall Street marketing mechanism, not an investment mechanism.
Dollar -
cost averaging with a lump sum is appealing to many investors who
think it reduces risk, but that's largely a myth: in most cases it just ends up resulting in lower returns.
I
think I will keep this investment strategy for the upcoming year and keep
dollar cost averaging the market!
If you prefer to
think monthly, most people will fall into an
average cost of between ten and twenty
dollars per month for a basic policy.
But I don't
think that this way of looking at
dollar -
cost averaging gets to the real issue — namely, whether it's an effective technique for managing risk.
I still
think it is a viable long term strategy as long as you are doing some
dollar cost averaging.
I
think that you want to set up a modified bond ladder that
dollar cost averages slowly into stocks and / or other income vehicles.
So, I
think it's important for those with influence to begin to consider departing from the «wisdom» of the past (buy and hold,
dollar cost averaging, etc) and to start discussing what we all really need to accomplish our financial goals: investment methodologies which don't depend on emotion, shaky data, «experience» or any other type of non-quantifiable «faith» in the markets.
However, you used the phrase «
dollar cost averaging» in your post, and DO N'T
think this IS
dollar cost averaging.
I probably would have used
dollar cost averaging or value
averaging, but now that the market is already so much lower I
think the risk is much tolerable and timing won't make a significant impact on future returns.
So if you are pursuing a
dollar -
cost -
averaging approach using low -
cost index funds (something I
think many would benefit from as I wrote in
So if you are pursuing a
dollar -
cost -
averaging approach using low -
cost index funds (something I
think many would benefit from as I wrote in Why Passive Investing Is an Excellent Default Choice — an Active Investor's View), by all means continue with that approach.
I believe in
dollar cost averaging my investments since I don't
think that I am smart enough to time the markets.
Whether or not you believe the Morningstar estimate that the
average American spends $ 600k on interest in his lifetime, I
think we can all agree that the
cost of interest paid by most people in their lifetimes is likely in the hundreds of thousands of
dollars.
The other way to look at this issue is by stepping back and really
thinking about what you're doing when you
dollar -
cost average.
The reason Investment
Dollar Cost Averaging is so popular, is because it's a proven sales technique, most investors don't understand asset allocation, and so when they
think of «the market,» they're only
thinking about the U.S. stock market (S&P 500 type stocks).
That and I
think it's important to quote Prof. Sharpe exactly, which is, «The
average actively managed
dollar will underperform the market, net of
costs.
And if I had many such stocks in the portfolio with a long - term value, and the upside returns were very attractive, but in the short term, because people were afraid and people were
thinking about the worst case scenarios and pricing it in, they were selling off the stocks, we were actually
dollar cost averaging down.
Some of you might be
thinking this policy is expensive, but the national
average cost of renters insurance is just fifteen
dollars a month.
If you prefer to
think monthly, most people will fall into an
average cost of between ten and twenty
dollars per month for a basic policy.