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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials
AMAT 322.51+6.1%Feb 6 9:30 AM EST
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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (37929)10/6/2000 2:11:53 PM
From: Gottfried  Read Replies (1) of 70976
 
Jacob, good post. >During every downturn, there are investors who start dollar-cost averaging, at levels way too high. Every time the stock goes down another 5 points, they say, "This has got to be the bottom, I can't see any rational reason for it to go any lower." If they compound that mistake by using margin or options, they face disaster.<

Reading the threads I see a lot of that averaging down.
I don't know how prevalent it is, though, because more
savvy investors tend not to post as much [with exceptions
to this rule].

Gottfried
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