Everyone talks about Dollar-Cost Averaging (DCA) when the market is green, but the real psychological warfare begins when the market turns blood red. When a high-conviction U.S. stock you own drops 20-30% due to macro noise rather than fundamental failure, the urge to "double down" and average your entry price is overwhelming. Yet, there’s a thin line between buying a high-quality discount and catching a falling knife.

I want to mathematically and emotionally structure my capital deployment so that market crashes become opportunities rather than nightmares.

#MyStocksQuestion : When executing a long-term DCA strategy during a severe market drawdown, how do you dynamically allocate your fresh capital between broad-market ETFs (like VOO) and individual high-conviction growth stocks (like TSLA or NVDA)? Do you use specific technical indicators (such as the RSI on a weekly chart or distance from the 200-day EMA) to trigger heavier buying blocks on individual equities, or do you strictly stick to a time-based schedule regardless of how deep the discount is? #MyStocksQuestion