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Kelly Trinh

Backoffice technical at financial services firm

06 Mar 2020

Stocks

Have lump sum, should I invest now or DCA into market?

Suppose I have 20k ready to invest. Is it better to place all into market now or to space out the market entry via DCA approach. Any view for latter on frequency (monthly over half-year, quarterly over a year? others? )

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If u do not want to time the market, you should dca into the investments as it takes any emotion out of the picture.

Anyway is possible. Having the current market dips,

this random situation is a good entry point, you could

invest 50% now and 50% in 6 - 8 weeks.

But anything is O.K. at this scale.

Teck Lun

10 Dec 2019

Computer Science / EEE at NUS / NTU

Reading a little on this matter, more into DCA to spread out the risk.

Invest in knowledge first :)​​​

Unless you are buying into an ETF, I don't suggest a particular frequency.

Look at the valuations o...

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