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The case for $5 a day: what four years of auto-save looks like

Small daily amounts add up faster than most people expect. We ran the numbers on four years of steady buying.

Portrait of Hana Prasetyo

Hana Prasetyo, Head of Research

Coins stacked beside a savings jar

Five dollars a day sounds small. Over four years it adds up to more than 7,000 dollars set aside, without a single decision about timing.

How the numbers work

Buying the same amount every day means you buy more grams when the price is low and fewer when it is high. Over time your average cost sits below the average price.

Making it automatic

Turn on auto-save once and pick a daily, weekly or monthly amount. You can pause it any time, and every purchase shows up in your vault statement.

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