DRIPS were my favorite way to invest, for a decade, and I blogged about them extensively. When the stock market became a casino, around the summer of 2007, I realized that no one could handle investing for years, with month after month of dollar-value investing, only to see their nest egg crushed within three trading sessions, by hedge fund hooligans "outwitting" one another. It's like trying to grow a victory garden while a bunch of idiotic teen-agers "backyard wrestle" in your plantings.
The Ups and Downs of Drips [View article]