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Money Guy Show

Dollar Cost Averaging Explained!

Money Guy Show

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

Education, Investing, Business

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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What exactly is Dollar Cost Averaging, and how should you think about using it in your financial strategy? We'll walk you through that question and more in today's Q&A episode! Jump start your journey with our FREE financial resources Reach your goals faster with our products Take the relationship to the next level: become a client Subscribe on YouTube for early access and go beyond the podcast Connect with us on social media for more content Bring confidence to your wealth building with simplified strategies from The Money Guy. Learn how to apply financial tactics that go beyond common sense and help you reach your money goals faster. Make your assets do the heavy lifting so you can quit worrying and start living a more fulfilled life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You know, you talked about dollar cost averaging.

0:09.5

So how often do you recommend doing that?

0:12.7

And can you explain what that means?

0:13.9

Should it be monthly, weekly, daily, what do you think?

0:17.6

So dollar cost averaging, Webster's Dictionary, which I don't have in front of me, someone

0:22.3

to butcher this, is just the process and concept of buying a fixed dollar amount on a fixed

0:28.8

schedule through time, right?

0:32.6

So allow me to realize, with your 401k contributions, it's one of the most natural ways that we automatically

0:37.2

dollar cost average anyways.

0:38.4

We put 5% of our pay or whatever the number is, into our 401k every pay cycle, where your

0:43.6

dollar cost averaging over a weekly basis, or if it's two weeks or if it's a month month,

0:47.5

you're already dollar cost averaging.

0:49.3

That's really what it means.

0:50.3

It just means instead of investing all of my money at once, I'm going to ease it in over

0:55.7

time.

0:56.7

So most of us, the dollar cost averaging that we implement is dictated by the employer

1:02.1

for whom we work.

1:03.1

If we have a monthly payroll cycle here to bound, monthly payroll cycle, Ruby, you don't

1:07.9

get a choice.

1:08.9

You dollar cost averaging your 401k and a monthly basis.

1:10.9

I don't even have that.

1:11.9

Great.

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