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This investment strategy beats dollar cost averaging (with Josh and Nick)

The Compound and Friends

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Introduction

Nick Majuli wrote about the difference between lump sum investing and dollar cost averaging. He found that it's almost always optimal to go in all in at once, no matter what time period is. Putting the whole lump sum into stocks historically has been better than lump sum investing over time because of the market's tendency to go higher over time.

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