1/ The Fed continues purchasing treasury securities but swap lines and repo lending are down. That means another week of contraction of the balance sheet.
Down US$ 88 billion... but you can barely see it on the chart... 👇
2/ This balance sheet contraction is not a surprise though. It simply follows the end of the emergency measures. The same thing happened in 2008.
After that expect the #Fed to do more #QE and more balance sheet expansion. 👇
3/ And this is leading to nothing else but currency debasement.
From 1980 to 2019 the M2 money supply averaged a 5.85% growth every year with occasional spikes at 10%.
It is only July but already in 2020 the M2 money supply is up 20%!
Facts about dollar cost averaging:
• How often you DCA doesn’t really matter.
• There is no such thing as a best day to DCA.
• You can lose money with DCA, so choose your asset wisely.
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You can dollar cost average an asset daily, weekly or monthly, over the long run it doesn’t matter.
The only thing that matters is that you are consistent.
Just do it.
You might want to “optimize” your dollar cost averaging strategy by picking the best time to buy.
This is pointless. Pick any day of the week to DCA, that makes virtually no difference over the long run.
Sorry to break it to you, but dollar cost averaging isn’t the ultimate investment strategy.
If you are looking to maximize your return on investment, look elsewhere.
Let's see why and how to improve it.
You all know what dollar cost averaging is. Pick an asset:
- Buy a fixed $ amount of that asset.
- Do that at regular time intervals.
Continue until you are tired of it.
If you started dollar cost averaging the SP500 at $100 per week in 2012 you would now have:
- Deployed $50k.
- For a profit of $27k.
- Or a ROI of 54%.