EKG
First Trust Nasdaq Lux Digital Health Solutions ETF
stock NASDAQ ETF

DCAing through a bear market is just acquiring cheap sats. The magic of DCA is that if price goes down, it feels good that your next buy is cheaper than your last buy. If price goes up, it feels good knowing that you got some at the lower price.
Alternatively, the magic of DCA can also be taking the emotion out of it completely. Don't even look at the price, it's not gonna change the DCA schedule. Just smash buy once a week. You save yourself the roller coaster of watching the price move like an EKG. You're not tempted to sell or having to convince yourself to hold because you become a price insensitive buyer.

My portfolio chart looking like an EKG

What follows isn't advice, it's narrative..and it's exactly what I would have appreciated having imparted a few years ago (the day Russia invaded Ukraine) when I started trading: The US stock market is the purest expression of unrestrained capitalism and it rewards the owners of capital more than borrowers or leasees of capital. It is also where every type of investor is welcome and constraint of law is minimal. Keep this in mind because every position is a like a casino gaming table so those who pay attention profit from knowing who they're running elbows with. Example: Positions with mutual funds or inclusive indices are similar to playing dice alone with the croupier. Positions with speculative pre-production startups and/or IPO's are like taking the last chair at a black jack table filled with degenerate gamblers. In between is a gamut of safe, moderate and outright dangerous risks. The point is knowing who is investing in your position is as important as the P/L and Balance sheets of the company you are investing in.
My income ($9,100 in July with an average of $52,400 in a position and $11,300 in reserve cash on business days) is from gamblers like those at the above mentioned black jack table tempered with a thorough understanding of the position's fundamentals and in market behaviors; i.e. buy 10 shares of 20 different positions that you have a basic understanding of and just watch and learn how the companies and the shares behave. Read about their inclinations and quarterly reports for 2 quarters then concentrate on the 10 most comfortable. Keep an open mind. HUMA (.71 a share) & PSEC (2.23 a share) generate decent occasional returns where IEP (7.71 a share) generates dependable returns. RZLV (2.65 a share) generates phenomenal (over 5k on one day a few times since April) & PLTR made me self sufficient all by itself since 2023 including 1k by simply buying up 30 shares yesterday hours before their quarterly earnings report sent shares up $35. PLTR has always crushed analysts predictions going back to their IPO which leads to why the four stocks listed are worth owning and why buying SPCX put $500 on my sheet today playing it like PLTR yesterday. They are all solid companies delivering desirable products/services and are generating rising revenue streams TODAY. Which is as close to a guarantee of future results currently available. RKLB is on my sheet for the same reasons. Their rockets take off on time and deliver their expected payload to the agreed upon coordinates which is why my SPCX play was a day trade because as of now, theirs do not.
Pure day trading is beyond my abilities. Keeping a stable of 10 -14 familiar positions that tend to rise and fall like an EKG isn't. Stable worthy stocks attract the impatient, all-in type of investor that hands over their money on a regular basis so above all be patient. Good companies rebound quickly and rumors of their newest milestone attract stacks of cash the impatient get tired of waiting for.
Parting gift: RZLV has an earnings report call in early October which is why there are 14,444 shares purchased @ 2.46 on my sheet. They have already paid out over 12k in 3 and a half months and widely published disclosed guidance already revealed an extreme revenue rise through contracted sales this year, expanded contracted customer base and a generous shares buy back license has been approved by the board of directors. Put it this way, imagine a poker game that you are always the no limit 5 card draw dealer and you can look at everybody's hand, see every card drawn and discarded plus fold at any time while taking anything you wagered back. Sounds profitable enough as is but consider that in early October the chance of you dealing yourself a draw three cards ace high flush drop to horse race odds, or lower.
Again, this isn't advice, it's what I did, am doing and why. And it helped me review by writing it out.
PS change your 10-15 years to 1-1.5 years & get a Schwab account for your phone if you're going to get in. Which is where I would have been instead of the 3-4 years if a SERV automated sidewalk robot waiter hadn't collided with a driverless TSLA UBER. My luck - 3 positions on my sheet actually ruined each other's sh$t in one impossibly perfect storm...

DCAing through a bear market is just acquiring cheap sats. The magic of DCA is that if price goes down, it feels good that your next buy is cheaper than your last buy. If price goes up, it feels good knowing that you got some at the lower price.
Alternatively, the magic of DCA can also be taking the emotion out of it completely. Don't even look at the price, it's not gonna change the DCA schedule. Just smash buy once a week. You save yourself the roller coaster of watching the price move like an EKG. You're not tempted to sell or having to convince yourself to hold because you become a price insensitive buyer.

My portfolio chart looking like an EKG

What follows isn't advice, it's narrative..and it's exactly what I would have appreciated having imparted a few years ago (the day Russia invaded Ukraine) when I started trading: The US stock market is the purest expression of unrestrained capitalism and it rewards the owners of capital more than borrowers or leasees of capital. It is also where every type of investor is welcome and constraint of law is minimal. Keep this in mind because every position is a like a casino gaming table so those who pay attention profit from knowing who they're running elbows with. Example: Positions with mutual funds or inclusive indices are similar to playing dice alone with the croupier. Positions with speculative pre-production startups and/or IPO's are like taking the last chair at a black jack table filled with degenerate gamblers. In between is a gamut of safe, moderate and outright dangerous risks. The point is knowing who is investing in your position is as important as the P/L and Balance sheets of the company you are investing in.
My income ($9,100 in July with an average of $52,400 in a position and $11,300 in reserve cash on business days) is from gamblers like those at the above mentioned black jack table tempered with a thorough understanding of the position's fundamentals and in market behaviors; i.e. buy 10 shares of 20 different positions that you have a basic understanding of and just watch and learn how the companies and the shares behave. Read about their inclinations and quarterly reports for 2 quarters then concentrate on the 10 most comfortable. Keep an open mind. HUMA (.71 a share) & PSEC (2.23 a share) generate decent occasional returns where IEP (7.71 a share) generates dependable returns. RZLV (2.65 a share) generates phenomenal (over 5k on one day a few times since April) & PLTR made me self sufficient all by itself since 2023 including 1k by simply buying up 30 shares yesterday hours before their quarterly earnings report sent shares up $35. PLTR has always crushed analysts predictions going back to their IPO which leads to why the four stocks listed are worth owning and why buying SPCX put $500 on my sheet today playing it like PLTR yesterday. They are all solid companies delivering desirable products/services and are generating rising revenue streams TODAY. Which is as close to a guarantee of future results currently available. RKLB is on my sheet for the same reasons. Their rockets take off on time and deliver their expected payload to the agreed upon coordinates which is why my SPCX play was a day trade because as of now, theirs do not.
Pure day trading is beyond my abilities. Keeping a stable of 10 -14 familiar positions that tend to rise and fall like an EKG isn't. Stable worthy stocks attract the impatient, all-in type of investor that hands over their money on a regular basis so above all be patient. Good companies rebound quickly and rumors of their newest milestone attract stacks of cash the impatient get tired of waiting for.
Parting gift: RZLV has an earnings report call in early October which is why there are 14,444 shares purchased @ 2.46 on my sheet. They have already paid out over 12k in 3 and a half months and widely published disclosed guidance already revealed an extreme revenue rise through contracted sales this year, expanded contracted customer base and a generous shares buy back license has been approved by the board of directors. Put it this way, imagine a poker game that you are always the no limit 5 card draw dealer and you can look at everybody's hand, see every card drawn and discarded plus fold at any time while taking anything you wagered back. Sounds profitable enough as is but consider that in early October the chance of you dealing yourself a draw three cards ace high flush drop to horse race odds, or lower.
Again, this isn't advice, it's what I did, am doing and why. And it helped me review by writing it out.
PS change your 10-15 years to 1-1.5 years & get a Schwab account for your phone if you're going to get in. Which is where I would have been instead of the 3-4 years if a SERV automated sidewalk robot waiter hadn't collided with a driverless TSLA UBER. My luck - 3 positions on my sheet actually ruined each other's sh$t in one impossibly perfect storm...