Jim Lebenthal
speaker
650 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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I personally believe that you should really dogmatically lay that out.
So if I'm going to invest $100,000, $1 million into the market, I'm going to do it over three months, and that's going to be four equal tranches of $250,000 or $25,000, whichever number you're using, starting now, then one month after that, then one month after that, and one month after that, I'll be finished.
It's very important that you do it dogmatically because what it does is it takes some of the psychology out of investing.
People get worried, hey, if I buy something today, the stock market, I'm not going to look right now.
Maybe it's 1% off of its all-time high.
I don't want to put it all in and then see it go down.
no matter what Jimmy says about will be fine for the long run, I don't want to see that.
That's going to upset me psychologically.
Dollar cost averaging makes sure that you don't drop all of your money in at the worst time.
It also makes sure that you're not going to buy everything at the perfect time, but you're going to have some of each of that.
I find it's a very important psychological tool.
Now, Ryan, if you and I were computers, we would say to each other, we should never dollar cost average.
The numbers actually say that you're going to do better just investing all at once.
Yes, once in a while it'll go wrong, but over time it makes up for it.
Still, as an advisor, and this does have to do with how you establish trust, you meet people where they are.
You understand they're human beings with emotions.
You empathize with them.
Dollar cost averaging, DCA was the abbreviation for it.
That's a good way to just get people comfortable with investing and with you as an advisor.
Ryan, the degree to which you are an objective person is way outside what the average person is.
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