1 Almost everyone has the qualifications and ability for dollar-cost averaging.

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The dollar-cost averaging strategy includes the following key points: What exactly is the asset? How long is the long term? How long is the regular interval? What is the minimum amount invested each time?

2 The securities trading market is the ninth great wonder of the world.

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People always think that “choosing stocks” is a very difficult thing—but actually, it’s not difficult at all! Because that so-called “difficulty” is entirely caused by habitual thinking. In reality, it is merely the result of people being unwilling or afraid to use the simplest, most direct, and most effective method. This method is so simple, so unbelievably simple: simply choose the stocks that everyone in the market favors the most.

3 Is there really an investment asset that only rises and never falls?

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Therefore, Buffett always recommends that ordinary people buy the S&P 500 index fund—in China, the corresponding asset for the S&P 500 is the CSI 300 index fund. The advantage of index funds is that they are essentially equivalent to “following the market.” You don’t have to gamble on the luck of a specific company; instead, you gamble on the luck of the entire nation, or the luck of the entire world—in any case, the human economy is constantly growing in the long run. Look, as long as it’s the long term, it suddenly stops being a gamble, because in the long run, the risk can be diluted to almost nothing.

4 The only correct way for ordinary people to invest.

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Those who “go all-in” (bet everything) cannot endure the pain for too long—in fact, no one can endure pain long-term. This has absolutely nothing to do with so-called “strength.” From another perspective, this isn’t foolishness; it’s just ignorance. After the pain of one month, or two months, three months, and even when it seems like you are about to get through it, that is, around the sixth month (or slightly before), many people will exit for various reasons—in the trading market, this behavior is called “cutting losses.” Look, the leeks (retail investors) cut themselves, and what they cut are bloody pieces of meat.

5 Why few people use the dollar-cost averaging strategy.

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6 The profound mechanism behind the magical power of the dollar-cost averaging strategy.

Highlight(yellow) - 6.1. Everyone should cultivate their proactive personality > Location 472

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Stay away from those who complain all day—they don’t know what they are doing. They complain with righteous indignation and great spirit about unfairness, as if Heaven itself is on their side. They never want to know the truth: this world is unfair. Using a more accurate, unbiased, and neither humble nor arrogant term to describe it, this world is full of asymmetry, just as it is full of uncertainty.

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Their own future will not improve as parents; their children are unknowingly turned into “passive people regarding themselves.” The correct choice should be: parents should proactively make themselves better and better; thereby making the children desire to improve out of envy, and the children will take the initiative, even if it is merely superficial imitation that is a good start.

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Whether a decision is significant or meaningful can be judged by just one standard: Is it a choice directed toward the trend?

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Highlight(yellow) - 6.5. Dollar-cost averaging is the best strategy for practicing “proactive passivity” > Location 680

Highlight(yellow) - 6.6. Just how powerful is the passive force of following the trend? > Location 772

The longer the investment cycle, the greater the passive advantage; the larger the investment amount, the greater the passive advantage.

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The truth has no obligation to cater to your emotions.

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If you feel desperate, it is simply because you are poor right now. If your feeling is very desperate, it is simply because you are truly poor right now.

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The poorer you are, the more patience you need. What is courage? Courage is the only virtue that cannot be faked.

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One rise is not a trend, and one fall is not a trend; a rise plus a fall constitutes a cycle; judging the trend requires at least two cycles. After two cycles, the two fluctuations can only constitute one of three trends: rising, horizontal, or falling.

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More than ten years ago, I occasionally heard two middle managers from a large company discussing how to make their subordinates obedient: “Sigh, how did you manage to make them obedient?” “I’m really worried!"—But isn’t it simple? Organize a ‘wife team’ (group of wives) to go look at properties! Let me tell you, don’t look down on them now that they are acting so powerful in front of you. As long as they buy a house and pay the down payment today, tomorrow they are mine! No doubt about it!

7 The difference between stupidity and ignorance, and passive wisdom.

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8 Some people are always on the correct side.

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For all ordinary people, the dollar-cost averaging strategy is absolutely viable, completely genuine, and relies entirely on yourself. By “ordinary people” here, we mean people regardless of race, nationality, region, gender, age, height, weight, beauty, or ugliness, or sexual orientation… The key is that they don’t even differentiate by IQ and education level!

9 The general condition of sentient beings on the other side of the mirror world.

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Their explanations are always astonishingly consistent: “Sigh, I am just too greedy!”

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10 Dollar-cost averaging is the essential choice for ordinary people.

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The three conditions that determine a person’s wealth are: background, luck, and effort; and among these three, effort is the most negligible.

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Conclusion

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Within your proactive boundary, continuously strengthen your psychological construction and desperately find ways to make money outside the market. At the same time, outside the proactive boundary, proactively choose an asset that is absolutely worth holding long-term, and use the money you earned outside the market to invest regularly… Over time, you can harness the magical passive force generated by the trend, not only potentially break free from the shackles of class solidification, but even change your destiny—ultimately, achieve freedom.

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The national destiny seems to be an ultimate asset; I should dollar-cost average the S&P 500.