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- From: bucknerb@bnr.ca (Brent Buckner)
- Subject: Re: Stocks vs. Bonds
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.021048.5873@bnr.ca>
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- Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ontario, Canada
- References: <1992Nov10.203122.729@fs7.ece.cmu> <1426500295@igc.apc.org>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 02:10:48 GMT
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- In article <1426500295@igc.apc.org> mcaldon@igc.apc.org (McAldon International Inc.) writes:
- >
- >|This is similar to idea of dollar cost averaging: you are
- >|buying the most shares of your mutual fund when it is
- >|performing the worst.
- >
- >Looks to me as if what you're recommending is averaging down. Dollar-
- >cost averaging entails investing a fixed amount at regular intervals,
- >without regard for market pricing.
- >
-
- No, this is actually a simple form of value averaging. It
- tends to perform slightly better than dollar-cost averaging.
-
- >|If bonds are performing badly, that means that they have
- >|become cheaper relative to stocks. Similarly if stocks
- >|are performing poorly relative to money, they have become
- >|cheaper and that is the time to buy more of them.
- >
- >Also known as bottom fishing; easy to say, hard to accomplish'
- >
-
- Not on an automatic rebalancing system (as described).
-
- >|You want to buy at the bottom, and sell at the top.
- >|That would mean that you want to buy stocks just when
- >|they are performing the most badly, and to sell them
- >|just when they are performing the best. So, the
- >|trend may not always be your friend.
- >|-Larry Watanabe
- >
- >Have you found that fabled bell that rings at bottoms and tops?
- >We've all been looking for it. DMcKenzie
-
- People following value averaging formulae are not making any
- such claim.
-
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