Dollar Cost Averaging: When Not Playing The Game Can Make You A Winner

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Dollar Cost Averaging: When Not Playing The Game Can Make You A Winner



http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/exte...g-the-game-can-make-you-a-winner?source=yahoo

 

[craigerv]

The author of this article thinks he is comparing a buy and hold approach vs a market timing approach. He is in fact comparing three nearly identical buy and hold approaches. Of course they are nearly identical.

 

[Birchtree]

I have around 219 dividends plus or minus that are reinvested every three months, rinse and repeat. This is the slow money grind up. I now have 30 dividend increase announcements so far this year versus 158 during all of 2013 and 136 in 2012 - another strategy of a slow money grind up. I leave it all to fate. My dividend increases are like a cola and will continue as long as the economy is growing. Sometimes slow money is the best money and dollar cost averaging provides opportunity no matter where the market is trading.