Dollar-Cost Averaging

Definition:

To invest, as in shares of stock, fixed amounts of money at regular intervals so as to buy more at lower prices ad less at higher prices

Dollar-cost averaging means that if you put the same amount ineach year, you’ll buy more investments, such as shares of a mutualfund, when prices are down and fewer when prices are up. The endresult will be that you’ll pay a lower average price than theactual average price of the investment during that period.

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