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Article: Option to ease your way back into stocks; Dollar-cost averaging; When investors move a set amount each month into an investment.(Business)
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- The Seattle Times (Seattle, WA)
- Article date:
- July 19, 2009
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Byline: Gail Marksjarvis; Chicago Tribune
Now for the hard part.
Fleeing the market a few months ago might have seemed an easy decision -- potentially painful, yes, but easy, because your gut told you to stop losing money fast. Now many investors are in the confusing state that comes after a mass exodus from stocks.
The question: How and when do you get back into the market?
Andrew Flamm is among those struggling with it. An empty-nester in his early-50s, he recently wrote me: "Fortunately, my wife and I moved some of our assets from stocks to cash before the market fell, though in hindsight we wish we had moved more. Now, we feel we ...