I hate when DCA-buy day falls on a market high for VTI. What could I buy instead? I am trying to invest 5k per month

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VTI, timing the market usually fails

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Yeah what….. buy it

Better yet set an automatic investment (vtsax if your brokerage can’t auto invest etf) and stop checking the price and wasting your time

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^^^

If it’s always the market high, than last month and the month before, when you thought it was the market high, it was NOT the market high. See how that works?

Keep automatically investing, but maybe keep some cash on the side for a true market crash. But when the market does crash, see if you truly have the fortitude to buy. It’s really hard. I bought some stocks when the market crashed 2 years ago, but not as much as I could have, because everyone else was selling and I was scared. Then I waited and waited for the market to crash more and it didn’t.

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I stuck to the plan and bought...🚀⏱

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Allocate 10% of your DCA to crypto

That is not how DCA works lol. You’re picking the same day every week or whatever to avoid the temptation to try (and likely fail) to time the market.

But could you break up into smaller deposits more often to give more peace of mind? I do daily small deposits.

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