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Yes. Dollar-cost-averaging continuously into a diversified total market index-based fund beats the vast vast vast vast majority of non-insider-traders. Check out the boglehead philosophy of investing. And the logical conclusion to it, the VT and chill strategy.
There are three ways to make money in the market. Gamble, know the result beforehand, or dollar cost average. The second and third options have a 100% success rate and Iโm not a senator so I know what I picked.
As a non-native english speaker, your first real sentence very much broke my brain. Good point, tho
It is pretty grammatically complicated, I had to read it a couple times as a native speaker. Don't be disheartened!
I'm native, would you mind explaining what difficulties you had so I can consider it in my responses?