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by toast_coder 3760 days ago
This is only true if there were no fees associated with investing, which is ridiculous. If you went to a stock broker with a dollar per day, you would be very lucky to end up with $0.01 in equity that day.
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You could just do it in lump sums twice a year or similar. Plus unmanaged funds like indexes have lower recurring fees than managed funds.
That would reduce the ROI, because doing it often (every day) approximates continuous exponential growth (e ^ x) while doing it in batches reduces to power growth (1 + r) ^ x. See the effect this has in the example given here:

http://math2.org/math/general/interest.htm

Until you include fees...