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Check out the AFK etf. [https://www.vaneck.com/us/en/investments/africa-index-etf-afk/overview/](https://www.vaneck.com/us/en/investments/africa-index-etf-afk/overview/)
barak hussein ravida is AFK
AFK. ETF so maybe cheating but feel confident about the economic future of African stocks
I have found that for every person like your wife there are at least 10 fuckers who spent their “wfh” time napping, doing housework, watching kids etc. so many of my coworkers would show as green on teams but obviously be AFK, not responding to messages. Things improved dramatically when we had RTO and I could go find someone to get an answer instead of waiting for them to finish folding laundry or whatever the fuck.
Doesn't matter now, the only people who can get rid of him are AFK in Congress.
Hey Yankee doodle dandys half of Europe is blocked from trading until Tuesday because of their pagan socialist 'Easter' ritual sacrifice holiday, so quick reminder you guys have the opportunity to do like the funniest thing while they are AFK
Been AFK, just checking in for power hour. We having fun yet here?
Berrorist here. AFK to rub one out. BRB.
A few tickers for you to consider; most are "value" from a "I think the Friday close was a reasonable entry point" rather than low P/E or small-cap value but, FWIW, I have positions in all of the below. - LUMN - Lumen Technologies. Enterprise fiber (legacy phone line provider) that I think/hope is on a successful turnaround path. I first entered <$2 a few years ago and had been trimming a large position...but I picked up more when they dipped following earnings earlier in the month. I think this is a $10-15 stock in 2026. - HEI, Heico Corp. Aerospace/defense component provider that unexpectedly dipped following an earnings beat last week. Heico makes the components that keeps the Air Force/Navy flying, and I think they're going to continue to run with all of the military deployment activity. Every hour of flight time eventually translates to revenue for HEi. -TXT, Textron. Industrial/Aviation conglomerate (best known brands include Cessna and Bell) with a very interesting defense business; I particularly like what they're doing with drones. P/E still under 20. - VEU, Vanguard ETF- all World not including US. This (plus a ton of commodities) is my play on the US debasement trade. I also have EWJ (Japan), FLKR (South Korea), AFK (Africa), and EPU (Peru) as specific country/region ETFs. - NVO, Novo Nordisk. Huge growth as the first GLP-1 provider...I think they're oversold now as the market is afraid of competition. This is a recent entry for me; they're now at pre-GLP 1 prices, with a P/E ~10. All that said, I think value is hard to find right now...but the current volatility makes for a lucrative (but risky) environment for swing trading.
Yeah AFK has been doing pretty good! I keep my contrarian investing to a pretty small amount. I’m not sure what %. But maybe around 5% like you. Contrarian investing stuff is just fun to me.
I'm 5% of total portfolio on AFK. I'm up like 60% in 18 months
I enjoy a bit of contrarian investing! It’s not at all the main focus of my portfolio but it is fun, so I dabble just a bit in it. First focusing on geographical regions everyone talks about America, China, Europe, even Latin America on occasion. I never hear people talk about Africa or Australia. So I bought a little bit of AFK (African ETF) and FLAU (Australian ETF). Also any ETF focusing on global small cap would be good right now I think. I might add that to my portfolio next time I get paid. Stocks - SCI. They make stuff for funerals. Basically, as long as humanity doesn’t figure out immortality, they will be in business. It’s a quiet stock I never hear anyone talk about and it just moves along nicely and pays out a decent dividend. As long as people keep dying, I’ll keep holding. A few other stocks I have that are doing well and tend to often not ever make the news: CR, BAESY, ORI, and ETN. All boring ass companies that just keep going up and even if there is a sizable US market correction, I don’t think these companies will get destroyed in the downturn. I’m overall a bit of a value investor, so I don’t get excited for the big sexy growth stocks that monopolize headlines. Investing in that shit always has me checking stock prices way too often and I find my emotions get caught up in them. I like the good boring stuff.
I’ve been so confused as to why you guys have been complaining so hard about this market being impossible, because though it’s certainly harder than 2024 easy mode there have been a lot of opportunities. Then I remembered that you only AFK buy tech and high Beta memeshit and it all made sense
I haven’t seen AFK mentioned yet. It’s been one of my best performers in the past year. Africa is gaining in global prominence and has a lot of room to grow.
This is basically an exact copy of my plan. Except I'm all in the house money as is. I never use margin or credit. If I can't afford to buy it I don't buy it. I have lots at two different cost bases. If it gets close to 3 I'd like to turn over my higher cost basis holdings and then remain holding of the lower cost holdings in anticipation of a potential squeeze. Big mistake I made was being busy during the very volatile days earlier this week. I really had the opportunity where I could have unloaded everything and then we bought later in the day and had a much stronger position. I was completely AFK
BF6 has an AFK kick time of 2 minutes. that's fucking insane. I can't even get to my bathroom and take a piss that fast.
Please god if McD's goes to 300 again I promise I'll full port and AFK for the year Ty. and pls make it happen tomorrow
Yes. I bought AFK because the US traded with Africa the least, therefore they would be least affected by tariffs. But long term, the main thing holding Africa back has been access to quality free education. With wireless internet spreading like crazy, millions of Africans are suddenly going to get access to all the world's knowledge all at once. How often do you use YouTube to figure what's wrong with your car, when to plant seed, how to build a computer tower, help with your math homework, etc. I expect Africa in terms of growth to out pace everywhere else over the next 30 years. I have VT at 40%, VEA at 20%, VWO at 20%, AFK at 5%, bonds 5%, individual stock 10%
I suggested AFK a year ago and everyone laughed at me.
# Never again, I will not say one, negative word. I will not feed. I will not troll. I. Will. Not. AFK. Guaranteed.
Flipping LUNR calls. Been buying and selling since it was around $9 it’s trading just under $19 now and still bullish AFK
My gut is telling me down, but my heart is telling me up. Brain is currently AFK
NVDA can drop 50% before I AFK call into next year. It’s happened before, and it’ll happen again.
Never again I will not say one, negative word. I will not feed. I will not troll. I. WILL. NOT. AFK.
There used to be an “AFK” ETF, if I recall correctly.
I've been AFK all day. What is causing 🌽 to sink so dramatically?
Just going AFK until Christmas
MAGS is some good shit been AFK collecting cash for years now while watching people argue about which mag7 earnings to play
AFK up 50% this year. And still down 30% over 10 years. VGK not quite up 100% in 10 years. And has now just barely passed 2007 peak. There is a reason people invest in US markets long term
For the hundredth time, acting as if the S&P being up 15% YTD when the dollar is DOWN 12% YTD is fucking stupid. VXUS: +28% AAXJ: +32% VGK: +29% AFK: +53% Every other regional index on the fucking planet is kicking the shit out of the S&P that's basically just 5 companies holding up the index while the rest of the country collapses. But we still get these dumbass posts talking about "the rally". There is no fucking rally bro.
I'm not puzzled anymore. The S&P 500 still has 500 names on it, but 75% of its gains this year have come from a handful of AI stocks whose own CEOs are starting to say publicly that it's a bubble. On top of that, being up 15% in a year where the dollar is down 12% is not impressive. Especially when you look at the alternatives. Other regional indexes are beating the shit out of the S&P. VXUS, AAXJ, VGK are all up about 25% and AFK is up 50%. Other countries' markets are doing much, much better than the US'. Meanwhile, the US' fundamentals just aren't there for long term growth, we're not investing in next gen infrastructure, we're not funding research, we're making it cost prohibitive and unattractive to bring highly skilled workers here, we're gutting our educational system when we were already falling behind in the STEM skills that have fueled market dominance for the last half century, we're adopting isolationist, erratic trade policies that are permanently cutting US producers off from the markets that have been a major source of revenue for decades.... What I was saying back in April was that you can't just look at charts, you have to think about what the numbers actually mean in terms of the real world. And it's really bad still.
I still think the American economy is absolutely fucked. Almost everything I said would happen by now has happened. Like I said repeatedly back in April, the full consequences of Trump's incoherent, impulsive trade wars and hostility to our own allies will take years to come together fully. I said then that we'd see the dollar lose value and we have (-12% YTD), I said we'd see countries that had been our trade partners move to replace American goods with goods from other countries and we have. I said then that we'd see the cost of living rise and we have. The fact that one industry composed of a small handful of companies that don't employ large numbers of people are responsible for keeping the S&P afloat and that their own CEOs say it's in a bubble is not good. And even then, a significant chunk of the S&P's growth since April is explained by the dollar losing value. Meanwhile, while people like you are patting yourselves on the back for the S&P hitting an all time high, you're ignoring that it's falling behind literally every other regional market in the world for the first time in decades. When was the last October the VOO was doing *worse* year to date than VXUS, VKG, AAXJ, and AFK? So yeah, congrats for ignoring the doomsayers and holding strong to hit 17% growth YTD while everyone who saw the clusterfuck Trump was brewing and moved their portfolios to international indexes doubled your gains in the same time frame. Pat yourself on the back. Meanwhile, everything we buy is more expensive, farmers, contractors, and manufacturers got fucked because Trump doesn't know how supply chains work, unemployment is up, the dollar is sliding down the toilet, and domestic paramilitary forces are making up wars in cities that voted too Democratic.
I've made twice my salary as an AFK Boglehead. This game is broken.
People don’t look at charts but just be making false statement based on vibes. Preaching to the choir here. Great tickers. BTW, Italy EWI is up 43%YTD, Africa AFK is up 55% YTD. Didn’t realize Spain was up that much, crazy number. I guess Denmark is probably the only bad one because of NVO being such a large component.
Dude’s been AFK since 2021 just waiting for the sale
AFK, because I think it fits my mind set.
Have a popsicle stick taped to an oscillating fan that’s been gently moving a PlayStation joystick. Last I checked it was at over 1,500,000+ XP. Been at it for about 5 hours. Exploiting these AFK maps before they get patched. This is the life of a part-time gov contractor.
Everything is on pause like a video everyone is AFK
Ignore all short term noise. Market averages 20%+ gains 1y from when fed is retarded enough to cut at market ATH. AFK enjoy 20-30% more money due to money printing.
Time to ALL IN QQQ / voo and AFK 10 Years.
Spy is great but the returns are kind of bad after inflation and taxes. For people who want to AFK for retirement, seems really good! Active management just offers an infinitely better return if you aren't being a retarded gambler
You may want to bounce the holdings against of US based Van Eck Africa index ETF (AFK) holdings of 79 market weighted stocks. Mostly South Africa followed by Nigeria, there’s also UK, US, and Australia plus Indonesian; no doubt multinational mines but also Royal Caribbean cruise line. Franklin Templeton has a frontier fund for Europe (“UTICS”) you can check too, though think Kazakhstan has the biggest company in its holdings. The Franklin-Templeton company has been in emerging and “frontier” markets for several decades for their “load” mutual funds, and is belatedly getting into ETFs. If anyone has the connections to make a better fund/ETF in the future, they do.
You could buy individual ADR's and make your own Africa ETF, but the ADR fees would amount to 0.5% or more. There aren't really any equivalents that are cheaper. It's expensive to invest in Africa for sure, but AFK isn't exactly a rip off.
Well what sold me on buying AFK was the raise of the Internet in Africa. It used to be you had to leave to learn things. Now they can Google shit like everyone else.
NPR's Marketplace just did a fantastic piece called "Demographics is Destiny". Essentially, the amount of high schoolers and immigrants entering the American force isn't enough to replace those retiring out of the workforce. That means in many cases, if the business wants to add labor, it can't do it in the US, simply because there isn't enough labor to go around. That could lead to stagnant growth here, and large growth where there's more people, particularly Africa and SE Asia. I bought AFK to supplement VXUS because VXUS doesn't have enough exposure to Africa. It's up 43% YTD.
Been AFK, but NVDA’s mooning after a stellar earnings, right?
I've made about 30% gain investing in EZA or the south Africa ETF this year and about 14% on AFK the continent wide ETF. that to me is the way to go. South Africa has good reporting mechanisms, but the rest of the continent is a lot more iffy.
Tell that to my Africa ETF "AFK". I'm up 39% YTD
Meanwhile with my meager net worth of 15k I’m checking yahoo finance premarket, during market, after market, constantly checking the pulse of the market in various social media platforms, meanwhile OP buys calls with 350k and goes AFK, truly built different.
Nah fuck them 401k boomers. This market is pumped to fuck because of boomer AFK buying garbage with no fundamentals whatsoever. Not my fault if they YOLOd their retirement at the top, sometimes it takes old trees to fall to make new ones grow
I bought AFK index fund (Africa stock market) because it's the farthest thing from Trump. I'm up over 20% YTD
Another good day to be AFK in lots of MAGS looks like 🤑🤌
> shouldve just put spy in the beginning and AFK Literally. you wouldve more than doubled your money today and save yourself alot of stress.
Yeah that was back when we actually replaced people these days everyone is just too AFK to notice the other AFKS
Same. I saw this coming in the winter and switched to international ETFs because I thought the US would go down hard. Made 10% off those (particularly AFK). Sold it and bought the dip of the US almost at the exact bottom. Up probably 20% this year. I set goals of "if the US market goes down 3%, I'm putting 25% back in, if it goes down 5% I'm buying another 25%, if it goes down 7%, another 25%, and 9% down put in the rest. I was content knowing it could down another 20% and I'll miss out on that. If at any point the market back up to what I sold at, I would buy it all back.
Rivian Compass Pathways Any cannabis stock Quantumscape GE SCI - This stock will be great until. We uncover immortality. Not a stock but, AFK
Algo AFK buying mode again :D
They left a book on the buy button before going AFK to the Hamptons for summer
AFK bols be like: https://preview.redd.it/55ofubbdsl6f1.png?width=1035&format=png&auto=webp&s=2ce9c28854bf3968b4def515955892f1ebc72cd2
Awww, want me to wave like 700k of gains in your face? That I got being an AFK bull with 0 effort?
of mine has a phone app, in fact that's been a gripe, they put more focus on the app than the desktop. I'd lose my mind trading solely on an app, though I do when I'm AFK.
taco being AFK for so long is so strange
Holy fucking shit. Was AFK for 2 hours and came back to being up 5000$ on my futures equity longs, gold shorts, and forex trades.
Classic MODS AFK don't know market is closed tmrw SMH 
3 day weekend makes this unpredictable, could limit down if people set stop losses for the weekend and went AFK
after scoping my entry, I will immediately open the 'close' window and monitor the price changes with my mouses over the up and down arrow in the Limit price. can turn into a lot of clicking but I can exit immediately with controlled risk/profit-take. you can also set up a stop-loss/ profit-take %'s so you can effectively go AFK and the functions will be automated at the %'s you specified. I'm actively trading at my desktop so for now I just babysit the price action.
Leading admins and mods of their discord and subreddit have actively been aggressive and continuously break site-wide rules. They don't know how to lead a community because their best bet in the discord was to not allow people to swear, then they allow people *on their own staff* to circumvent the rule against swearing to shout racial slurs and other curse words against members with bearish opinions. Subreddit mods and discord mods/admins are AFK when new members with bearish thoughts get attacked. So yeah, they don't know what they're doing. It's incredibly obvious to someone who's done this before time and time again.
This market is an actual clown show the price action this completely devoid of reality retail is low volume pumping in the afternoon after institutions dumped in the morning this has been happening everyday. If institutions are selling to retail who do you think is going to be left with the bag. The only player right now is the fullport Bitcoin and AFK for three months come back to spy 350 and we're still trying to negotiate with only twenty countries the other 150 still haven't respond
Warrengts are AFK powell can kick you in the ass with rates + increasr
Bull ads ate AFK puts is sleeper build
Interesting mix. I can definitely see why you’ve gone this route because I’ve done the same using a very different approach. With that said, you can probably get the same result from a tighter selection. If I may offer: it might be controversial to say cuz Vanguard is popular, but SCHY is possibly a stronger choice than either VEA or VGK over the long run. Perhaps stronger than least some of the others as well. It’s a bit more expensive at 0.08%, but it offers coverage of every ex-us region, similar to VEA. Pays a higher dividend, than both. And has stronger fundamentals plus a bit lower volatility than both. I’m not a Schwab shill so to offer another potentially solid option could be TLTD. Unfortunately, the expense on this one is much higher. However, Seems to offer fundamentals as strong as SCHY. Also offers a higher div, wide regional coverage. To cover small and mid-cap with rhe same qualities, FDNC pairs well any choice imo. For regions you feel underweight in, specific etf like AFK and FBRL might be worth a look.
They had to ambush 🥭 while Navarro was AFK https://preview.redd.it/hzbb0jwmzpve1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fa0d55c5204be1fb2c753c05e5059be270e1f859 
https://preview.redd.it/oyg4oe4wypve1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a439cd967797c745908dc5be3f9584a04ac1e9ce They had to ambush Trump while one player was AFK 
https://preview.redd.it/u3aazd6ijpve1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0447b3cd0539fda72ea1eca5d068d04df4a4d115  they had to ambush Trump when one player was AFK
I was going into a work meeting right when the big sell off started so I entered a stop limit at a 25% profit which unfortunately hit when I was AFK. Figured I take profits now vs wait till expiration and get screwed by a bounce/theta/tariff changes. I believe in NVDA long term and am playing with house money with the SPY put gains, but I am still just learning options at this point
AFK?! Are you nuts? US is full griefing right now and selling their allies right up shit creek. People are rooting for anyone who opposes the orange shit stain and his magat fuckwit cronies
People aint rooting for China. They are just discovering that USA has gone AFK.
🥭 busted his load and is AFK watching golf. We’re cooked
South Korea went AFK and everything worked out while not having a president to negotiate terms with America.
Plunge Protection Team? Yes, he's AFK now. Do it.
Holy shit you're not kidding, there's no comments on anything All of the superbulls that were loading up Wednesday have been AFK since lol
it can and probably will go down more but if you're the type of person who didnt do anything for -17% and is now talking about selling your long-term holdings here. dont, it's way too late for that, just ride it out now. plus you're a retard if u didnt see this coming so never actively trade at all. DCA and AFK.
Umm.. no, they're the largest taxi fleet company in the world! With a switch of the button, thousands of users will turn their soulless Tesla cars into full self driving taxis to make money for you while you AFK at home! Tesla cars will appreciate with time and buying anything else is foolish.
 simply not making things worse sounds pretty good right about now. Make presidents AFK again 
Oh man what happened with VVPR at 2 pm? I was AFK and missed it lol
Brandon was AFK and everything was just fine 
Fire trump wtf. He could've had ATH market if he just AFK
Market could’ve had ATH everyday if mango just AFK the entire time
Why? AFK ceo universally hated. No one buying those cars. Creepy robots never coming. Rather take a Waymo than a nazitaxi. BYD killin it abroad.
Thanks. I was waiting for spy to touch 583.50 to buy calls around 11am pst. I expected a bounce at that support. It got to 583.53 but I was AFK and it rocketed to 594. Needlessly to say missed out on big gains (around 4-10k) Idk if I’m pissed for missing it or happy for calling that sheetz confidently.
I went AFK at noon because the market wasnt moving anywhere was super dead. Had a couple of meetings and came back and looks like clifford came all over everyone 
Why do you think that? Not trying to be mean, but I see no indication that it will not easily decline to at least the pre-election value \~$200 with sales down everywhere, and CEO AFK. The only positive indicators imo are wsb bearishness and a possibility of elon phony hype to his cult following that could really happen at any time.
\>"lol me buy NVDA on Robinhood" types that are pikachu shocked face that you can't just AFK buy stocks and print money permanently of course i know him. he's me.
The fun for these people isn't picking, but winning. A lot of individual stock picking portfolio investors are bullish. I don't think many people are shorting/using put options. During these crazy bull markets, they became accustomed to this idea that they were doing the right thing and were good investors. A good investor wins in both bull/bear markets, but playing on the short/put side requires a bit more finesse than the "lol me buy NVDA on Robinhood" types that are pikachu shocked face that you can't just AFK buy stocks and print money permanently, esp if you get cold feet and exit trades the second it goes against them.
We can have someone who is a vegetable and AFK and thats better than that fucken fruit