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Dallar Cost Averaging is the practice of investing a fixed amount in the same investment at regular intervals, regardless of what the market doing.
Dollar Cost Averaging
You have $15,000 you want to invest in Sprint stock. The date is January 1, 2000. You have two options: you can invest the money as a lump sum now, walk away and forget about it, or you can set up a dollar cost averaging plan and ease your way into the stock. You opt for the latter and decide to invest $1,250 each quarter for three years.you invested your $15,000 in January 2000, you would have purchased 264.46 shares at $56.72 each. When the stock closed for the year in December of 2002 at $13.69, your holdings would only be worth $3,620!
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