The Benefits of Dollar Cost Averaging

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Dollar cost averaging is psychological. It has the same benefits that sometimes when the market's down, you get to buy more shares for the same amount of money. Two out of three years the market goes up. So you're better off getting your money in there as early as possible. If you know this money's for retirements, for your long term investments, invest it when you get it. Don't hold on to it for six months and then invest it, hopen the market goes down,. Most of the time doesn't, and you'll come out behind doing that. Rit if you'll recall what happened to me last month, i tend to invest around the fifth of

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