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Dollar-Cost Averaging (DCA)

Investing a fixed dollar amount at regular intervals regardless of price.

In depth

Reduces impact of market timing and emotional decisions. Lump-sum investing has historically outperformed DCA on average (markets rise more often than fall), but DCA reduces regret and sequence-of-returns risk.

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