How often should I be investing?

We got a question this week at equitymates.com/contact from Kate about how often we should be investing. Is there an optimum? If you want to be investing regularly and dollar cost averaging into the market, but your brokerage cost is $10 each trade, should you literally be investing every week, or should you be saving it up?

We talk about the factors you need to be considering here: brokerage costs, expected stock market returns and the interest you earn on savings, and how these three things work together.  

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Our compound interest calculator is here: https://equitymates.com/compound-interest-calculator/

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