# Staggering ((value) averaging; staggering)

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## Definition

The purchase of a security when its price has fallen in order to reduce the average cost of owning the investment. - Investment strategy in which initial assets are not invested all at once, for example in the stock market, but spread over several months. This is a kind of hedge against high initial losses because one never enters a bear market fully invested. Experience shows that a partial loss of the initial capital (here: initial investment) hurts far more than the later loss of a part of the profits made. - See cost-average effect, daimonion, gambling effect, tag, loss perception, incongruent, loss trap. Attention: The financial encyclopedia is protected by copyright and may only be used for private purposes without express consent! University Professor Dr. Gerhard Merk, Dipl.rer.pol., Dipl.rer.oec. Professor Dr. Eckehard Krah, Dipl.rer.pol. E-mail address: info@ekrah.com https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Ernst_Merk https://www.jung-stilling-gesellschaft.de/merk/ https://www.gerhardmerk.de/

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