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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marshall, post: 7677658, member: 21705&quot;]What you say is true to a point. But the risk of the total loss of the investment is mitigated by taking profits at opportune times.</p><p><br /></p><p>A collapse often happens before an average investor has a chance to liquidate their holdings and winds up taking a greater loss than the brokerage firms.</p><p><br /></p><p>But timing is everything and not trying to squeeze every last dollar out of a market usually works better than going for perfect timing.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was taught about dollar cost averaging many years ago, but my work timing sucked. I always wound up preparing for the job that went from high demand to no demand six months before the completions of my prep.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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