Why Dollar Cost Averaging Beats Market Timing Every Time

I pulled the brokerage statements at 4:30 PM on a Friday. Another retail portfolio shredded by trying to catch a falling knife in small-cap tech. The investor had $45,000 sitting in cash since January, waiting for ‘the right entry point.’ By July, the market had ripped upward by 18%, and he was still sitting on the sidelines, waiting for a correction that never hit his arbitrary price target. Classic mistake.

In our field audits of retail investor accounts, market timing is the single largest wealth destroyer we encounter. Not high expense ratios. Not minor tax drag. Pure, unadulterated emotional hubris disguised as strategy.

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Dominic Sinclair

Award-winning investigative reporter with 16 years cross-referencing corporate PR statements against public inspection records and paper trails.

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