Anonymous

20 May 2020

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General Investing

How long should I be monthly cost averaging into a stock for? 6 months or 1 year?

In other words, how much money should I be pumping into a single stock . Should I stop once I have 10k, 50k or maybe even 100k invested into the stock?

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Aaron Leow

17 May 2020

On Stock Picking:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstrac...

TLDR Version: With over 60,000 firms and stock data, the best performing 811 firms (1.33% of total) accounted for all of the net global wealth creation.

On Dollar Cost Averaging and Lump Sum Investing:

https://www.morningstar.com.au/learn/article/th...

TLDR Version: Most people should not be following a DCA strategy if they have a pot of gold. DCA strategy works best for people who want to invest from their monthly cash-flow.

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Wilson Nid A Break

17 May 2020

Should cost average until its no-longer in value range and/or X weightage in your portfolio

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Elijah Lee

16 May 2020

Senior Financial Services Manager at Phillip Securities (Jurong East)

In my view, if your available cashflow is enough to sustain the DCA with a transactional cost of les...

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