ARKK

DaFlyingGriffin

lol ARKK is drunk 🥴

95Daphne

If you weren't around for 2021-2022, I'd suggest reviewing what occurred to popular names from then, such as ZM, FSLY, TDOC, etc. Or just ARKK. And then if you hold RDDT, I'd strongly consider booking partial profits. The most likely case is that the Trump era won't be invincible to the same things that happened under Biden and some of the names that benefitted from a Trump election will end up getting hammered...heck, there's even similar divergences starting to appear in the Nasdaq to the lead up to 2022.

Johnmcslobberdong

$ARKK

jm838

The fund that’s down over the past 5 years? That ARKK? Woods is the broken clock that’s right twice a day. You too could dump all of your money into high risk shit with no cohesive investment thesis and watch it have big swings upward and downward.

Wowmuchrya

She's also destroying everyones performance this year with ARKK... so... mama Woods?

gamjatang111

$SARK is short ARKK ETF

gamjatang111

To be fair ARKK is having a pretty amazing year

Stocks_N_Bondage

>*I actually had some amazing positions that would have tripled my money (or even more), but I sold too early and held on to the losing trades.* This story is as old as time: take profits too early and let the losses run. The story of literally every losing trader. The secret is: take losses early and minimize them, and let the winners run. Literally the opposite of the strategy employed by the OP. As far as what OP should do, if he has no other assets, and minimal income, then declare chapter 7 bankruptcy. If he does not qualify for chapter 7, then pay it off. Each month put 5% of income into ARKVX, ARKK, SPY, and QQQ.

Major-Bookkeeper3830

You can always tell that asset prices are high when Cathie Wood starts shilling her ARKK funds on CNBC.

joe4942

ARKK -4%. So, it's a bad day for a lot of people's portfolio lol.

Gelatostonk

All in ARKK calls! Impossible to go tits up!

95Daphne

The news is what goes up must also come down. I don't know if that was IT yesterday, but it's likely many of the names that benefitted from a Trump election eventually get pounded.  If you weren't around for 20-22, I'd evaluate what we saw out of ARKK or QQQJ (next gen NDX100) and then I'd probably book some profits.

95Daphne

alrighty, this is getting a wee bit ridiculous here. I don't think it begins playing out until late this year at the earliest, but I think chances are increasing of a 2022-esque disappointment next year by the tech sector. And it may not just be the "hot stuff" like ARKK, which is what I was pondering about. Might include semis/AI.

Sawftswerve

Same - I remember the hype behind her ARKK investment when it was huge- been averaging down for ages 😂

Charlesknob

ARKK 2019 did this to me. 13k >100k>0k. Been VTI holding and occasional apple calls ever since.

esr_productions

Does anyone know if tax loss harvesting can be applied against 401k withdrawal taxes? I made the same rookie mistake…ARKK & ARKG turned $50k into $23k for me.

Optionstradrrr

I agree ARKK as a whole is doing well. Hold long enough and most things will go up. But this guy needs to understand she’s buying these as long term holds not near future options isn't

EasilyGod

Hey I agree he’s dumb but I started adding ARKK since last year to my Roth and I’m up 38% currently

blamethevaline

ARKK calls lets ride

bearhunter429

#ARKK is up almost 100% since April LMAO🤌

cinJESUS

then some rich fuck is dumping 4 billions dollars into ARKK before every IPO and taking it out right after

cinJESUS

some institution is buying ARKK to get exposure to the IPOs and then dumping ARKK immediately after LMAO🤌

theineffablebob

TSLA up big but ARKK is nearly flat. How is this

Chatni555

ARKK /s

PraiseBogle

YTD is an arbitrary time period. ARKK dominated the sp500 at one point too. There is always something that will.  The point of investing in the total market is to get market returns over a long time period. 

elpresidentedeljunta

ARKK is up pretty nicely. Can´t say the same for myself.

Seattleman1955

Skip ARKK and TQQQ and put most in QQQ and some in IBIT.

cripky

many of us would have been better off buying ARKK and it shows 😔[](https://emojipedia.org/pensive-face)

Antique-Flight-5358

SOL Strategies, Partnered with ARKK gets listed tomorrow. $STKE currently HODL on TSX. I think itll moon

jer72981m

Aren’t most of her original ARKK plays down like 80-90%

MyOtherActGotBanned

Reddit won’t like this but ARKK. Up 70% in the last 2 years

Rav_3d

You mean the same Cathie Wood that allowed her flagship ARKK to lose over 80% in 2022? If anything, this would be a contrarian indicator for me. She is a wealth destroyer.

smshah

I went -20% from 2021 on her ARKK fund before calling it. Never again.

brannock_

QQQ is still exactly where it was 6 weeks ago. ARKK hasn't budged since early July. SMH hasn't moved in a meaningful direction since the week after July 4th. This is called distribution.

Agolf_Tweetler

I mean... I won't invest in ARKK bec this is such a redic valuation.

russwestgoat

ARKK

Honest-Acanthisitta3

I’m heavy on speculative plays, but keep most thematic ETFs at 1–2%. Avoided ARKK since I’m not a Cathie Wood fan, but honestly it would cover a lot of my themes with less clutter. Appreciate the input!

F0rtysxity

Nice. Feel like this looks like my portfolio minus the exposure to foreign stocks. (I think. I'm not looking up all the ETFs.) Based on what you have here, not based on what I have or would recommend, I would suggest the best way to simplify is: 60% QQQ 20% ARKK 20% BTC, ETH, SUI (Forget XRP. It does have use case and partnerships but all those if for their payment rails which does not create scarcity in the tokens and raise the price. That does not mean it won't do well. SHIB can do well. Any crypto can do well. But why not have 2 chances for it to appreciate in value ie use and sentiment as opposed to just sentiment?) Personally I would take 10% from QQQ and 10% from ARKK and put it in a foreign ETF like IEMG. Good luck!

thot_tendie

Speaking of Cathy Wood, I've got some ARKK leftover from 2021 in my roth, I see that it's at a 52 week high but I'm still sitting at a 45% loss 😂

Meakmoney1

Look at ARKK recently

Jordanington1

I also bought ARKK and ARKW in 2021. I convinced my wife to let me invest our emergency fund. Lost 40% of it. I was sick to my stomach. Finally, last year I decided to sell it and take the L. I’ve since recovered the 40% and am now up 20%.

ixoraa_

I'm in the same boat with ARKK from peak 2021 Thanks Cathie lol

bearhunter429

#ARKK is up almost 100% since April's low LMAO🤌

Eves98

Oddly enough I've done pmcc with ARKK. Which is another ETF

NiceEfficiency157

ARKK still down 16% on 5 year chart 😬

No-Improvement3164

ARKK up 73% 1yr. FAANG trash now?

ITCHYisSylar

I won the Powerball back in 2016.  After taxes, I totally wanted to invest in the S&P500, but I totally knew there would be some kind of pandemic happening in the near future after watching the special features of I Am Legend DVD. And... Holy shit I was right.  So I put all my money in VOO in March of 2020, instead of in 2017. Also, my sister got her inheritance during the pandemic because she was the favored one and I was the bastard.  But she didnt want to invest it in 2020 because the market could go in a recession and the covid dip recovery was a bubble.  And sure as shit, she was right.  Instead of investing it all in Auguest of 2020 in VTI, she instead invested it all during that little baby recession September of 2022. Now all this is a joke of course, but if you look at the VOO/VTI history of the last 10 years, you will hopefully get the point. Here is a real one for you, not made up.  I cashed out my life savings and invested it all into the market Feb of 2022.  Still in there.  You think I regret it at all?  Just the 15% of it I put in ARKK.  Thats it!  Other than that, the remainder of 2022, I doubled down (VOO, not ARKK).

Due-Sea4841

ARKK? Cathie Wood sure lose money for you.

DanielZel

Not sure. Maybe ARKK or something similar.

mhoepfin

Maybe put a comfortable amount in a thematic etf like ARKK or BLOK and then you can both sleep at night and know you are in the game.

dvdmovie1

"That makes me think the Nasdaq’s growth potential could be even bigger." The Nasdaq's growth potential might be bigger over the long-term but you talk about 30 years; what if there was another 2000-2010 (although especially 2000-2008) period within that 30 years where other things had leadership? I see that as highly likely and probably in the early first half of the next 30 years. Too many people run the risk of every potentially compelling growth theme/concept as being "the next big thing" when there have been a number of things that have not even in recent years. 2020/21 was an example of a very broad disruptive growth bubble, where even something like BYND soared and because the stock went up, price = narrative ("meatless will be what everyone is eating!") Cut to less than five years later: stock is $2.50 and https://foodinstitute.com/focus/beyond-meat-on-the-verge-of-financial-ruin/ During covid, TDOC soared and everyone thought that that was the way doctor's visits will go. The moment covid subsided, so did telehealth, then others started to compete and it was clear there was no moat. I did extremely well during covid with LVGO, which was then bought by TDOC for $18.5B. TDOC is now worth 1.2B. Everyone thought every EV company - even one with three wheel vehicles that did a banjo concert on a conference call - was the next Tesla. A lot of people on here were going all in on ARKK - last year Cathie had $22B in realized losses across the ARK funds. The last 5 years growth has done so extraordinarily well that I think it has created unrealistic expectations and there is still some degree of the mentality that every popular growth theme will work out extraordinarily well. Some will - but what popular growth theme isn't already priced as if thats the case? Some will not. When people start asking about "why not TQQQ" or "why not just own the nasdaq" I do get a little concerned; not saying this as harsh to op or anyone but admittedly, these are not questions you see on here in March 2020, 2022, early 2025 - they are the kind of questions that appear more in 2021. I'm not saying the markets will crater tomorrow, but I do think that some of what I see is not sustainable. It feels to some degree like we're already 2021-ing with Chamath doing a SPAC again and other things going on. What causes more of a lasting reset a la post dot com I don't know, but if that isn't the eventuality than perhaps this time is actually different. It feels like we are in a cycle of "escalator up" (2020-21, 2023-24, 2025 post April low; "price to narrative" valuation; everyone focuses on growth), "escalator down" (2022, early 2025; all the sudden valuation matters in a hurry, many got 100% risk-on and their only option is to rapidly scramble to de-risk in a puke of popular/crowded themes/names; people rent value and out of favor names while looking for a sign to go back to growth gambling again.)

b-rad2016

Still praying that SNDL and TLRY can hit the moon. ALE and ARKK are purchases first thing in the morning tho.

hardervalue

Cathie lost almost all her investors money in two funds she blew up before ARKK, and ARKK has trailed NASDAQ since it was started. ARKK has had one great year in her entire tenure and been a near disaster the rest of the time.   Shes clearly one of worst professional investors ever, almost no one else gets a third fund after sucking as bad as she sucked. She still thinks her dumb “disruptive” picks will pay off, making her only the second most delusional person behind lying OP pumping his fake returns with this video. 

spellbadgrammargood

i just realized ARKK is still down 18% from 5 years ago.. lol.. who is trusting Cathie with their money?

Pink_Squadron_Medic

Long ARKK

95Daphne

Ehhhhhh, this one is different because the indexes are holding just fine and low key junk is getting hammered. PLTR is your gauge here, if the dip gets bought quickly, there is nothing to this, but if not, we're going to learn if anything has changed since 2021 and if ARKK style getting hammered can harm the Nasdaq this time.

bearhunter429

🎤 Live from Jackson Hole “Welcome to the 2025 Jackson Hole Monetary Policy Awards! Hosted by Jay ‘The Rate Slayer’ Powell!” Best Portfolio Performance: 🏆 Goes to… Cathie Wood for “Turning Volatility Into Poetry: ARKK’s Wild Ride” 👏 Runner-up: That guy on Reddit who YOLO’d NVDA calls and bought a yacht named “Theta Burn.” Best Risk Management: 🏆 BlackRock, for still pretending cash is a position 💀 Honorable mention: That one guy who bought options the right way and didn’t lose everything. A rare species. Best Actor in a Recession Forecast: 🏆 The bond market 💬 “It’s been predicting 12 of the last 3 recessions with award-winning drama.” Best Supporting Role in a Rally: 🏆 AI hype 🤖 “Without me, semiconductors would just be fancy sand.” Lifetime Achievement in Vibes: 🏆 Warren Buffett 🎩 Accepts the award by saying “We just buy good companies, but yeah, sometimes the vibes help.” Best Meme Stock Revival: 🏆 GameStop, for its “I’m not dead yet!” tour 📈 Stock up 80% because the CEO tweeted a GIF of a raccoon holding a dollar. Best Picture (Chart): 🏆 The S&P 500’s climb despite literally everything 🎥 “Stonks: The Resilience Saga” 🎶 Closing Musical Number — Performed by JPow himself: “🎵 Don’t Stop Believin’… Hold on to that Treasury… Yield curve’s inverteddd…” 🎤🎸

Xanderson

ARKK just bought TTD’s dip

Ok-Cook8381

I finally found the Cathie woods OF link. HMU up if you need it. PROMO CODE: “ARKK”for 30% off

AyumiHikaru

Just look at ARKK. Fake dump

GoZukkYourself

She's the CEO of ARKK?

bearhunter429

ARKK is up 93% since April LMAO🤌

lifeiswutumakeit

Just woke up from coma. How are my safey bets ARKK ARKF doing

95Daphne

The reality is that this time, unlike April (where you can state a case that other stuff wasn’t helping either and tariffs just poured gasoline onto the fire), you’ll probably need to see the IEEPA tariffs allowed to stand legally and clear evidence of a major slowdown/inflation rise for stocks to be hurting. Idk what’s going to happen for sure next year, but I can tell you that before the inflation bear market of 2022, you already had clear signs that the Nasdaq was trading off inflation worries. It’s just not occurring at all here. The market is seemingly convinced that if you do have a lengthy period of inflation rising, that it won’t be much worse than 2018. If you get a long period where it struggles and drags on the market next year, not just a 10-12% or so dip, it’s probably going to be because of ARKK style running too hot or capex hitting a wall.

CanYouPleaseChill

There was plenty of speculative retail activity in 2021 (remember ARKK?) and yet in 2022, there were massive losses in many stocks. Tech shitcos fell over 80% while Big Tech fell between 40-70%.

Least_Rich6181

Man lost all his money and then decides to invest in ARKK

solariscalls

Lol ARKK. yea that ship sailed along time ago friend. 

-darknessangel-

ARKK? looooool!

rascallyrascal1511

ARKK? Personally, I would stay away from anything managed by Cathie Wood.

DaemonTargaryen2024

>I will be adding 200$ a week splitting between. SHOP, ARKK, TSLA, PLTR, NVDA, CSRP. Considering adding AMD as well. What? You haven't learned your lesson OP. Buy a broad market index fund.

cambeiu

[ARKK over the past 5 years](https://www.google.com/search?q=ARKK&rlz=1C1CHBD_enMY1019MY1019&oq=ARKK&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyEQgAEEUYORhDGOMCGIAEGIoFMhIIARAuGEMYxwEY0QMYgAQYigUyDQgCEAAYgwEYsQMYgAQyBwgDEAAYgAQyBwgEEAAYgAQyBwgFEAAYgAQyBwgGEAAYgAQyDwgHEC4YChiDARixAxiABDIHCAgQABiABDINCAkQLhivARjHARiABNIBCDEwNTVqMGo3qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8). [VTSAX over the past 5 years. ](https://www.google.com/search?q=vtsax&rlz=1C1CHBD_enMY1019MY1019&oq=VTSAX&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqDAgAECMYJxiABBiKBTIMCAAQIxgnGIAEGIoFMgcIARAAGIAEMgcIAhAAGIAEMgcIAxAAGIAEMgcIBBAAGIAEMgcIBRAAGIAEMgcIBhAAGIAEMgYIBxBFGDzSAQgyMzgzajBqN6gCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)

NBAFAN2000

Thanks for reminding me I’m almost only 40% down in ARKK!

joe-re

Why the hell are you suddenly comparing to those three? I've been holding GOOGL since 2021, and I am quite ok with the increases. Not amazing, but considering your oh-do-amazing Cathie's ARKK lost 50% since then, I feel fine.

Echo-Possible

APPL is up 91% in 5 years. GOOGL is up 161%. AMZN up 40%. AMD up 92%. Meanwhile ARKK is down 10%.

Echo-Possible

Stop getting so defensive. Stating the truth does not make you a hater. ARKK has massively underperformed the tech index since its inception in 2014. You can pick random short time horizons to make any fund or stock look better than the index.

Echo-Possible

ARKK is down -10% the last 5 years. QQQ is up 109%.

Glizzock22

ARKK was at $165 back in 2021. It could go up another +100% from here and she’s still be doing terrible in the last 5 years lmao

Kantmzk

ARK Innovation ETF ARCX: ARKK 74.13 USD**▼ -8.36 (-10.13%) past 5 years**

Kantmzk

**Teladoc Health (TDOC)** was **ARK Invest’s worst-performing position during the year ending July 31, 2024,** with **$1.50 billion in realized losses** attributed to that single stock in Cathie Wood’s flagship ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK)

WildInjury

So basically ARKK?

DrWorstCaseScenario

BTO 2x ARKK 8/8 73p @1.30ea

WillyFista-Gash

Puts on ARKK cuz I hate that B.

rando9999912

My ARKK put leaps are percolating

bocageezer

ChatGPT says it better than I can: Cathie Wood, founder and CEO of ARK Invest, has developed a controversial reputation in the investment world. Her bad reputation among some investors and analysts stems from several key factors, even though she also has a strong following and notable success in certain periods. 1. Aggressive Bets on Disruptive Tech Cathie Wood is known for making concentrated bets on high-growth, speculative technology companies (like Tesla, Roku, Coinbase, and Zoom). While these bets paid off spectacularly during the 2020 bull market, they crashed hard in 2021–2022 as interest rates rose and tech valuations fell. Example: ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK) was up ~150% in 2020, but then fell over 70% from its peak by 2022. 2. Dismissal of Traditional Valuation Metrics She often dismisses traditional financial metrics like P/E ratios and discounted cash flow (DCF), favoring long-term thematic growth narratives (e.g., AI, genomics, blockchain). This approach has drawn criticism from more conservative, fundamentals-driven investors. Critics argue this is storytelling over substance, which can lead to poor capital allocation. 3. Poor Risk Management ARK’s ETFs are highly concentrated, often holding 30–40 stocks with significant weightings in a few names. There’s limited sector or factor diversification, and ARK regularly trades in illiquid small- and mid-cap names, which increases volatility and liquidity risk. For example, her funds were forced to sell on down days due to redemptions, compounding losses. 4. Public and Bold Predictions Wood has made bold price targets — e.g., Tesla to $3,000/share, Bitcoin to $1M — and continues to double down publicly even when the market moves against her. This high conviction style is admired by some but viewed by others as reckless or promotional. 5. Underperformance vs. Broader Market From 2021 onward, most of her funds have significantly underperformed benchmarks like the S&P 500 and Nasdaq. Long-term investors who entered during the hype cycle (late 2020–early 2021) have seen major losses. 6. Transparency as a Double-Edged Sword ARK is known for publishing daily trades and research. While this is praised for transparency, it also makes her moves easy to front-run or critique, and exposes her to real-time judgment. ⸻ Summary Cathie Wood’s reputation suffers primarily because of: • Extreme volatility and losses in ARK funds post-2021. • A disregard for traditional risk metrics. • High-profile predictions that often appear unrealistic. Yet, she’s also admired for being a visionary, long-term thinker with conviction in disruptive innovation. Her style suits speculative growth investors, but for most others, her funds are viewed as high-risk and poorly timed.

Ascle87

That old man clearly lost his touch. ARKK is a much better performer. Wait. Wrong timeline. History often rhymes and such.

WillyFista-Gash

Really thinking about puts on ARKK this week.

95Daphne

Yea, there was a point up to probably mid-July where we were starting to see hints of this getting as bad as 2021, but ARKK/IWM haven't been anywhere near as impressive and there are wide splits between the Nasdaq Composite and NDX for a reason.  It wound up turning out that large cap tech wasn't as doomed as once thought with steadily higher rates. It bounced back well in 2023 with 10's holding well above 3% and got back to a record in 2024 with 10's spending most of the year over 4%.  I do recognize that layoffs and AI have helped though.

Fenderstratguy

Absolutely look at all the retail investors that piled into the ARKK funds only to lose 90% when it came crashing down.

49ers4life71

And get puts on $ARKK

hybridhighway

Sold TSM in Feb 2021 for ARKK.

rando9999912

ARKK finally dumping brings me joy

rando9999912

My ARKK put leaps shall rise from the dead

rando9999912

I’ve been treading water for 2 months, taking longs and buying calls, but under the surface, my portfolio is deeply leveraged in short beta garbage and ARKK puts 😈

Princess-Donutt

I know at least one person who purchased ARKK near the peak excitement in 2021. RIP

ExcellentWinner7542

Buy more SOXL JNUG TQQQ ARKK TSLA AAPL RIOT VOO

Ghorardim71

That's what you would have said about ARKK. Remember when it was only going high?

dimethylhyperspace

Thinking about 60dte puts on ARKK

rando9999912

My only substantial losses this year are calls on ASML earnings and LEAP puts on ARKK. No ragurts

Katamali

Is anyone here optimistic about ARKK and her other ETFs now, in 2025? There are so many new trends and changes since a year ago...

DryBicycle5629

She just bought GOOGL and AMD. Also ARKK is up 35% YTD. She’s doing fine for this year