What happens if prices are not quite so accommodating? If the stock or stocks selected by the dollar-averager turn sour, and never recover to the starting point, is it still possible to salvage any of the investment? Reference was made in the introduction to the oft-voiced theory that "any plan is better than no plan." In dollar averaging, this may be literally true, and the hypothetical case history presented in Table 2 is a good demonstration of this. It would be difficult to find a stock which was so highly regarded prior to the 1929 crash and at the same time so totally lacking in true investment merit as Radio Corporation of America. Manipulated by a highly skilled and superbly organized pool operation, the stock, which had never paid a dividend, was pushed to a mid-1929 high of over 500.

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