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Money Guy Show

DCA: Maybe the Most Important Investment Decision You Will Ever Make

Money Guy Show

Brian Preston, CPA, CFP®, PFS and Bo Hanson, CFA, CFP® | Fee-Only Fiduciary Advisors

Education, Investing, Business

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2009

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

So once again this week's show topic was inspired by real life events. You would have to be living under a rock to not notice the gains we have been experiencing in the stock market over the past few weeks. But is it real? Complete show notes and more information can be found in our show notes at http://www.moneyguy.com/2009/05/dca-maybe-the-most-important-investment-decision-you-will-ever-make  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's Brian Preston, the money guy, restoring order to your financial chaos, retirement,

0:07.0

investing, taxing.

0:09.0

You've got financial questions, he's got financial answers.

0:12.6

It's Brian Preston, the money guy.

0:15.7

We got a good one for you today.

0:16.9

This is your host, Brian Preston, and let me go ahead and read you this huge title that

0:22.9

we put on the top of this one.

0:24.2

It says, D-C-A, maybe the most important investment decision you'll ever make.

0:29.0

Now what is D-C-A?

0:31.3

And D-C-A is something we've all talked about, we've heard about, but in light of what

0:36.1

has happened in 2008 and the first two months of 2009, a lot of people probably quit practicing

0:41.4

D-C-A because they got scared.

0:43.8

So D-C-A, probably a lot of you already know, is dollar cost averaging?

0:47.7

What we're going to be talking about is, you know, should you put this thing on autopilot

0:51.7

and not try to figure out the ups and downs of what's coming your way?

0:55.1

But how do we get into this is that once again, we get topics, not, you know, a lot of times

1:01.6

you guys are inspired by writing me emails and you can continue to do that by writing me

1:06.1

at Brian, B-R-I-A-N, at money-guy.com.

1:10.0

You can also go check out our show notes at money-guy.com, but like I said, we typically get inspired

1:17.2

by not only your emails, but we also get inspired by just what's going on in our life.

1:22.6

And you would have to live under a rock to really not notice how much the stock market has

1:28.6

made back in the last few weeks to a month and a half.

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