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For those of you having problems reading this text, please place your cursor over the text and hold down the control key on your keyboard, (CTRL), and with the wheel of your mouse, roll the wheel towards yourself. This will increase the text size. The race for President is almost over, or so they tell us.

This is the continuation of the first article on Dollar Cost Averaging. That article is located here. Now, we shall look at dollar cost averaging in action. Consider the scenario below: Let’s say you invest in a unit trust fund, starting with $1,000, and you add up $1,000 to your investment every month.

In this article, we shall look at what exactly is Dollar Cost Averaging. This will be looked at in the perspective of an investor (i.e. persons whose investment horizon is more than 12 months). For traders out there, hang on yeah. I will write about dollar cost averaging for traders pretty soon.

During trying times I think it is very easy for many to get pessimistic with all the negative news and let their ultimate goals slip away. Simple rules to live by include keeping debt to the lowest level possible and having clear cut goals of where you want to be in 5, 10, and even 20 years.

At times like these it seems almost impossible to be optimistic about the future.  The stock market is reeling, yields on high-quality bonds are anemic, and everywhere you turn there’s a new disaster.  Wall Street banks are bleeding red, mortgage companies are dropping like flies, commodity prices

An exception worth making. This link has nothing to do with India and the blogger isn’t Indian either. But Warren Buffett has many admirers in India, from soon-to-be investors to market veterans. With the Sensex and Nifty now almost household names, it’s always good to get gyaan from the Oracle of Omaha.