Uploaded June 2020 | Updated September 2026, 11 hours ago
Warren Buffet’s mentor and founder of value investing, Ben Graham, lecture on DCA (Dollar cost averaging). A popular strategy for building investment positions over time. When you dollar cost average, you invest equal dollar amounts in the market at regular intervals of time. The idea is to get the best deal on a desired investment by controlling for market fluctuations. Rather than trying to time the market, you buy at a range of different price points.
In this video Benjamin Graham covers:
Dow theory
Yale University System
Dollar average method
Dollar averaging & Formula Plans
As with most investment strategies, there are pros and cons to dollar-cost averaging.
The complete Ben Graham lecture, which covers other aspects of investment and speculation, can be viewed here youtu.be/bZNjSFqqDwQ
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Warren Buffet’s mentor and founder of value investing, Ben Graham, lecture on DCA (Dollar cost averaging). A popular strategy for building investment positions over time. When you dollar cost average, you invest equal dollar amounts in the market at regular intervals of time. The idea is to get the best deal on a desired investment by controlling for market fluctuations. Rather than trying to time the market, you buy at a range of different price points.
In this video Benjamin Graham covers:
Dow theory
Yale University System
Dollar average method
Dollar averaging & Formula Plans
As with most investment strategies, there are pros and cons to dollar-cost averaging.
The complete Ben Graham lecture, which covers other aspects of investment and speculation, can be viewed here youtu.be/bZNjSFqqDwQ
Notice:
You must make an independent decision regarding investments or strategies mentioned on this channel. Before acting on information on this channel, you should consider whether it is suitable for your particular circumstances and strongly consider seeking advice from your own financial or investment adviser.
IDP and the narrator do not guarantee any specific outcome or profit. You should be aware of the real risk of loss in following any strategy or investment discussed on this channel. Strategies or investments discussed may fluctuate in price or value. Investors may get back less than invested. Investments or strategies mentioned on this website may not be suitable for you. This material does not take into account your particular investment objectives, financial situation or needs and is not intended as recommendations appropriate for you.
All opinions expressed by the people in IDP channel videos are solely those people’s opinions and they do not reflect the opinions of IDP or affiliates, and may have been previously disseminated by them on television, radio, Internet or other mediums.
You should not treat any opinion expressed on this channel as a specific inducement to make a particular investment or follow a particular strategy, but only as an expression of an opinion. Such opinions are based upon information the person speaking or quoted considers reliable, but neither IDP nor its affiliates warrant its completeness or accuracy, and it should not be relied upon as such.
The analysts, IDP, its affiliates are not under any obligation to update or correct any information available on this website. IDP channel participants or sources of information may be professional or non-professional, successful or unsuccessful, traders or investors who may be actively involved in securities and businesses discussed herein, on behalf of themselves, their companies and their clients.
