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This should be especially good news for those who want to dollar cost average.
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Two, in all conversations I have with investors, I recommend dollar cost average buying of companies using free cash flow growth to shrink the trading float of shares.
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Of course, if your aim is to dollar-cost average your share purchases over a long period of time, this is not a factor.
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This may be the wrong reason to dollar-cost average, but it feels less riskier than putting a lump sum into the stock market right now, at a time when I expect drama and volatility to increase approaching the end of the year.
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During the strongest markets, though, dollar-cost averaging produced 19.2% less wealth than lump-sum investing, while during periods of average market performance, averaging in produced 3.6% less wealth meaning that, in typical markets, dollar-cost averaging will cost you 3.6% of your holdings.
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