How best would you DCA 5k investment monthly?

New to investing and want to learn your rationale/advise if you’d recommend a different approach to invest 5k in a sustainable way monthly for long term 👋🏼🫶🏼

Essentially I’m DCA-ing into interactive broker (breakdown below). + I schedule them to be a different Monday in a month to manage the risks:

- VOO twice monthly, total 3k
- BRK B, monthly 1k
- QQQ, monthly 700
- VXUS, monthly 300

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I would switch VOO to VTI

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He feels guilty earning that extra .7 % with VOO

I would go for whole number shares. I have never been a fan of fractional shares because they are locked up in the arbitrary rules of your brokerage. If you can focus your efforts for 8-12 months at $5K you may be able get 100 shares so you can sell covered call options on your position. Picking a conservative 0.5% to 1.0% per month return target price could be a nice income source over time. If you ever get assigned you'll have a huge chunk of cash to play on a different index.

Can you explain this more? I just put down the dollar value to DCA without having visibility on price up and downs

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