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To: slacker711 who wrote (169799)	5/27/2014 10:39:25 AM
From: Ryan Bartholomew	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213173

His point was that if you were using dollar cost averaging and bought at the absolutely worst point, you still would made money. Of course. And this would be true of a plethora of other stocks that have negative returns during a period where the peers had double-digit gains. Similarly, it could have underperformed by an even greater margin with poorly timed additional investments in each. There's not much value in saying, "if you're lucky enough to have selected this precise reinvestment schedule, a stock's relative performance doesn't mean much".