Dollar cost averaging question

[Scallywag]

How often do you dollar cost average? Once a week? Twice a month? Once a month? Now that most brokerages do not charge trading fees, is it better to dollar cost average more frequently?

[rennigade]

I thought I saw someone do a real analysis years ago...the more time in the market the better. Ive been moving money in twice a month. It makes me feel better buying more often, but in reality, it doesnt have much of an impact.

[bjl584]

i do twice a month with my 401K.
Once a month with my taxable account.
And almost daily if you count the dividends that I receive.

[disneysteve]

My 401k contributions go in every 2 weeks when I get paid.
I make a monthly contribution to our taxable accounts.

Over the long term, I don't think more frequent purchases would make a significant difference.

[cypher1]

Over the recent years with Roths (and taxables initially starting out) I've been doing more lump sum investing with contributing earlier in the year. Moving forward I'm trying to do 2-4 purchases each month within taxables, and plan to do the same with Roths next year.

[LivingAlmostLarge]

i don't want to do DCA. I can't stand having to move money. But I might have to as well. I usually do in chunks when our savings account hits too high I transfer a big chunk to the taxable and i was just buying in chunks