DCA strategies/schedules?

[cypher1]

I can't remember if this was recently brought up in another thread; but with recent markets so volatile, for those that use dollar cost averaging, how frequently are you purchasing funds per month or week? Or do you have a preference of scheduling earlier in the week/month or later?

I'm more guilty of doing several larger sums (index funds) earlier in the year for Roths, depending on the funds/prices I'm tracking. Taxables I don't really have a set schedule either, but looking at DCA moving forward. Curious what others are doing or how their strategies may have evolved recently.

[rennigade]

I found myself doing smaller amounts, more frequent. I did 6 transactions in the last month...when normally, I would only do 2 transactions. My roth were the same amounts, $500 each time, but my other account, vtsax, I did $250 3x throughout the month.

[kork13]

I've normally done bi-monthly investments, but once all of the volatility started back in late-Feb, I moved to once weekly. I'm buying ETFs in taxable, MF's in retirement... I think the retirement is going in on Mondays, and taxable in on Wednesdays....but that's not really a part of my strategy at all.

Retirement is still just set for normal, slow, steady investments (though I did triple the total monthly amount I'm sending in, to frontload the accounts & max out in ~June). For taxable, I basically set up my limit orders a little bit below current prices, and wait for the volatility to trip them. If all of the orders execute, I'll set up a second round for that week, but I cut myself off there. So with values currently up, I've got 3 sets of orders in right now... Last week's second order, this week's first, and a "really bad day" set of orders, to trigger in the event of a major drop (without checking, I think the RBD set is ~20% below today's values).

[cypher1]

Retirement is still just set for normal, slow, steady investments (though I did triple the total monthly amount I'm sending in, to frontload the accounts & max out in ~June). For taxable, I basically set up my limit orders a little bit below current prices, and wait for the volatility to trip them. If all of the orders execute, I'll set up a second round for that week, but I cut myself off there. So with values currently up, I've got 3 sets of orders in right now... Last week's second order, this week's first, and a "really bad day" set of orders, to trigger in the event of a major drop (without checking, I think the RBD set is ~20% below today's values).

I like that strategy. I may slowly go that route from VTSAX to VTI in taxable.