ARKK

Uniball38

ARKK is down. But ARKK also outperforms BRK since the former’s inception

Uniball38

ARKK has substantially outperformed BRK the last 3 years

No-Way1923

Buying ARKK is like throwing money in the ocean, you never know what day of the month the big wave 🌊will come.

zangor

Im looking through ARKK’s holdings break down just to really soak it in. I actually did lose money on it back in 2021, would have been cool if I had taken profits but I didn’t. The only ETF I’ve ever seen that lost money over a 3 years period.

cwalking2

Volatility gamblers: ARKK Annual Total Returns (NAV) * 2025: +35.49% * 2024: +8.40% * 2023: +67.64% * 2022: -66.97% * 2021: -23.38% * 2020: +152.82% * 2019: +35.58% * 2018: +3.51% * 2017: +87.34% * 2016: -2.00%

sunstersun

ARKK?

SkepticalInvestor21

The fundamentals you're considering are solid - ARKVX does give you exposure to private unicorns that you genuinely can't access otherwise. The SpaceX and OpenAI angle is real. But the structure deserves scrutiny: - **Liquidity risk**: ARKVX is an interval fund - you can only redeem quarterly, and redemptions can be limited if too many investors try to exit at once. This is very different from ETF liquidity - **Valuation opacity**: Private company valuations are marks, not market prices. ARK sets them based on models, not trades. In a downturn, these marks can lag reality significantly - **Fee load**: Expense ratios on interval funds like this tend to be high. Check the exact fee structure carefully - management fees plus expenses can run 2-3%+ - **ARK's track record post-2021**: ARKK dropped ~75% from peak and has had significant outflows. Worth considering whether their private company selection will be better than their public stock picks The underlying assets (SpaceX, Anthropic) are legitimately interesting. The question is whether this specific vehicle is the right way to access them, at this fee, with these liquidity constraints. Are there secondaries markets alternatives you've looked at (like Hiive or Forge) for more direct private company exposure?

95Daphne

Ehh, I have my reasoning for saying 2021 here. I still think many of the names that benefitted from Trump being elected are now toast, this thesis gets tossed if ARKK passes its fall highs tho.

Michikusa

Lost $8k on ARKK and ARKG

drew-gen-x

I don't own Berkshire but the whole idea of a diversified fund is to not get too high or too low on market swings. You're more than welcome to own $ARKK or $QQQ. They look great when tech is popping. They didn't look so great from Jan-March 31st vs nearly every other ETF. You have to take the good w/ the bad in life.

Zealousideal_Owl2388

Cathoe Woods is one of the worst investors of all time, just look at the all time chart of ARKK

richard-b-inya

I remember in 21 a guy that had a "Road to 1M" going. He was heavy in ARKK, lol. Meanwhile I was shorting it in late 21.

WrexyWrex

Starting on January 1, 2019, Cathie Wood's ARKK was once beating the NASDAQ QQQ by more than 100%. Now, she's underperforming it by -210% (think about that swing) and has destroyed more than $13 billion in investor capital.

tech01x

A lot of hate comments here, but ARKVX is up more than double in the past 2 years. It seems a lot of people remember the growth stock drop of 2022-2023 and presume that remains the case. Even with ARKK, look at the 5 year chart. Yes, big drop off from peak in 2022 to bottom of 2023. But then look at bottom of 2023 or 2024 to current, and it is up more than double.

Puzzleheaded_Tie5967

ARKK is 🗑️🚮

95Daphne

Straight to the trash with you talking macro fundamentals unfortunately. I'd expect for vibes to probably win out overall until you see Trump exit office and then all bets may be off. For real though, we might be back to the 2021 like situation where ARKK style/software has set THEIR top, but the Nasdaq manages to find a way with diminishing returns breadth wise for a year before all hell breaks loose later on.

MyCactusTeacher

ARKK is actually retarded

spellbadgrammargood

I looked at ARKK stock and I just realized it's still down 45% from 5 years ago... Oh Cathie..

FarrisAT

Anyone here trading stocks or even just investing should ask themselves if 2026 is analogous to 2022. The economy is weaker than 2022, therefore inflation shouldn’t spike to 10% like 2022, but this time the US is directly involved in war. 2022 made it very clear that avoiding losses in an inflationary environment is difficult, to say the least. Oil went from $120 to $70 by December. Tech down 40%. Smallcaps down 45%. Banks got hammered. ARKK trash down 60%. Oh and gold? Down 15%. Fed rate hikes coupled with inflation spikes = pain.

dvdmovie1

> garbage like ARKK ARKK past 5 years: -43% Cathie is a prime example of the kind of mentality that I've seen more and more of since covid - "I'm not wrong, the market must be wrong". Talks her book all the way up in 2020/21, keeps the same thing all the way down while going on CNBC talking about how great her names are and what good deals they are, never entertains for a moment the possibility that maybe her 2020/21 playbook stopped working in 2021/she happened to be in the "right investing place at the right investing time", gives back all the gains and eventually takes a nearly $22B realized loss across the entire fund family, including at least a name or two that were 0's. Does she admit she was wrong after taking massive losses? Of course not, she goes on twitter and posts (which she later deleted) about how those enormous losses are a good thing. I totally should have bought SARK earlier this year.

GoldenHulkbuster

Energy longs + inverse ETFs on garbage like ARKK and quantum stocks have been working well. Glad the market is starting to ignore the fake TACO attempts to pump the market.

Independent-Tree-985

An ARKK?

Portelio

**Long-term investment portfolio, age 30, budget $150k** 1. VOO – 40% 2. QQQ – 20% 3. GLD – 10% 4. BSV – 5% 5. VGIT – 3% 6. TLT – 2% 7. FTGC – 10% 8. SPMO – 5% 9. ARKK – 5% Now, let me explain why I designed it this way: 1. VOO is a fund that invests in the S&P 500 index. 2. QQQ is the Nasdaq-100 index fund. 3. GLD is a gold fund. 4. BSV is a short-term U.S. Treasury bond fund. 5. VGIT is an intermediate-term U.S. Treasury bond fund. 6. TLT is a long-term U.S. Treasury bond fund. 7. FTGC is a commodities fund (aluminum, iron, steel, copper, barley, wheat, palladium, platinum, and more). 8. SPMO is a momentum stock fund. 9. ARKK is a technology fund. I’m waiting for your comments.

Flacko305

&ORBS putting a strategic investment into OpenAI and Beast Holdings. Also starting to see some big players invest here from ARK Invest $ARKK, $KRAKEN and $BMNR. Tom Lee has also joined the board of directors. Very bullish

nifai

https://preview.redd.it/ur90a802dtqg1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=c990251d2703ec37b353f9208112fa3c82402b0d ARKK Consultancy (Look under Protein) QSI is positioned forefront for the 5 biological layers market opportunity tapped in at roughly 1.2 Quadrillion in total alongside the likes of Illumina and Tempus AI. A PENNY STOCK LIKE $QSI.

Spare-Afternoon-559

ARKK was the dogs bollocks back then, if I wasn't a broke student I would have drained my account into ARKK

Pure_Equal2298

ARKK and T worst stock

SlapThatAce

I remember people talking about dumping all their retirement into ARKK because a) it's an ETF b) Kathy is an all knowing God, and c) it's all tech and innovation. I wonder what happened to all those people. 

Mysterious_Help_9577

Seeing ARKK just gave me PTSD

joe4942

Tough time in the market but on the bright side, I'm only down -2% YTD which comparatively isn't too bad. By comparison: * QQQ: -5% * XLK: -6.3% * IVES: -8.8% * GRNY: -4.6% * ARKK: -11%

guy_cloutier

Next bull market is when ARKK is under 50

SunriseSurprise

For what it's worth, while it's easy to laugh at him, Cathie Wood's ARKK is still down nearly 43% in 5 years while MSTR is up over 100% in that time, a bit better than QQQ over that time. She's worth a quarter of a billion dollars from being right once more or less.

Fantastic-Balance454

ARKK, you'll get tired of winning.

TheKingInTheNorth

This is the $ARKK etf

95Daphne

Will be pretty surprised personally if there isn't some kind of negative response by the majors to what's happened to ARKK style again, but that negative response may just be saved for 2027 at this point considering the factors I see (markets are very hedged and for whatever reason VIX cannot get over 22ish). It'll either be saved for 2027 and you'll get something that is sort of like a mini-2022, or we may do 2015 and have a vol spike and sort of mini-crash again.

SunriseSurprise

Cathie Wood in a nutshell. Literally happened to pick the right stuff at the right time once (mostly TSLA), rode it into the ground, and while all the sort of stuff that would make up ARKK has mostly recovered to ATH or not far off and QQQ is up nearly 100% in 5 years, ARKK is down 44% in 5 years. Why tf anyone listens to her anymore is beyond me.

Gloriam_Insights

1. Yes, if you want minimum headache with solid returns, just keep investing into the S&P 500. It has shown strong results over the last few decades and will most likely continue. Of course, nobody can guarantee that — it's possible that America gets pushed off the pedestal as the leading economy, and as a result the S&P becomes less relevant while other countries and indices outperform. But realistically, predictions like that are nearly impossible to make. 2. As for growth ETFs and individual stocks — it helps to think of it as a risk scale. If we're only talking about stocks, here's roughly how it breaks down from least to most risky: 1. Global ETFs (VT, VXUS) - widest diversification across countries, continents, and sectors 2. Broad market ETFs (VOO, SPY, IVV) - S&P 500 and similar, strong track record 3. Sector/narrow ETFs (QQQ, ARKK, SOXX) - more growth potential, but more volatile 4. Individual stocks - closest thing to a casino. Nobody can guarantee with 100% certainty that a company won't change direction, replace its CEO, or run into unexpected problems. The general rule: the younger you are, the more it makes sense to lean toward the riskier end of this scale. If those bets pay off — great. If not, you still have decades until retirement to recover. But the higher the potential growth, the higher the risk. That tradeoff is always there. The good news is you don't have to pick just one. You can combine them — keep the S&P 500 as your core and add a smaller allocation to something more aggressive. The key is deciding how much risk you're actually comfortable with.

OkJelly7192

Fuck this. going all in on $ARKK

brannock_

... do you think I'm bullish ARKK?

brannock_

ARKK was tracking the market then ripped straight up +2% in like 10 minutes and has been trading flat since then. Legitimate.

North-bound

Actively managed ETFs update their holdings daily. They usually don't give detailed theses on why, and their returns aren't phenomenal (see: ARKK), but they are institutional investors.

eeaxoe

Time traveler from the future here with a warning for y'all: This is the next $ARKK.

ychuck46

Her flagship fund, ARKK, is down 56% since hitting its high in 2021 on the back of one stock pick, TSLA. Meanwhile she continues to siphon off .75% of all assets as a fee for her "expert" stock picking ability. Even with the downturn in assets she is still worth $250M or so. Congratulations to all her account holders for enriching her so nicely.

JanetYellenNudes

Where did the ARKK tards go? They said it was actually a genius 5 year hold. Well anty up bitch it's Xmas, post your losses.

TheNewOP

While she was the finance GILF, many people on this sub called ARKK a dogshit investment. One of the few times the sub was right

cgimusic

Not really. ARKK is her flagship fund, and if you'd stayed invested in it since inception in 2014 you'd be slightly worse off than if you'd invested in the S&P 500 (not even accounting for fees). In the last 5 years it's done particularly badly. If you'd invested in the S&P 5 years ago you'd be up over 50%. If you'd invested in ARKK you'd be down over 60%.

Shitty_UnidanX

She got lucky around 2021, but has been doing TERRIBLY since. In the last 5 years SPY is up 75% and ARKK is down 54%.

Shitty_UnidanX

Over the last 5 years SPY is up 75%, and ARKK is down 54%. She’s impressively terrible at picking stocks.

rebel-capitalist

“The ARK Innovation ETF (Cathie Wood) completed a 10-day losing streak earlier this month, its longest on record. Over the past half decade ARKK is down more than 50%, even as the Nasdaq 100 has seen gains of 80%.” It’s too late, nobody can fix her

AyumiHikaru

She also made a killing for herself and ARKK is still fine. LOL

Makaveli_is_back

I got the perfect portfolio for you buy every single week. No matter if it’s $10 $20 $40 whatever you can afford buy the same amount every week and you will be fine also if you are trying to set it up for retirement just buy on a Roth IRA account pay for gold and get the extra 3% match VOO 24% QQQM 24% ARKK 15% ARKX 15% NUKZ 12% SCHD 10%

applejack21

She keeps preaching negative inflation and that’s all I needed to know and get rid of ARKK

researchanddata

According to her wiki she’s not doing that bad: “In late June and July 2025, Cathie Wood’s Ark Investment sold $47.9 million worth of Coinbase shares (137,075 shares) after the stock surged 37% in the preceding month, buoyed by optimism around crypto regulation and new product launches. Despite the sale, Coinbase remains the second-largest holding in Ark’s flagship Innovation ETF, accounting for 8.4% of the portfolio. Ark’s funds rebounded in 2025, with ARKK up 23.4% through Q3, far outpacing the S&P 500's 6.8% gain.”

FrostyFire

Another wsb regard that only reads headlines, ARK trades are literally public on their website, published daily, and TSLA is still 10% of $ARKK, as always. In regard terms: stonk go up they sell, stonk go down they buy

Odd_Onion_1591

Who knows but my ARKK doubled since it put money in it so she must be good 😂

Kind-Wolverine5841

My best short was ARKK at 150 in 2021

VirtualMoneyLover

The ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK) experienced a strong recovery in 2025, returning approximately 35.49% for the year, significantly outperforming major benchmarks like the S&P 500.

blindnlearning2see

The S&P and ARKK are both roughly ~250% up since 2014. However, the volatility has been not equal at all. SPY has had one down year since 2014 (5 points lost that year), while ARKK has been losing since 2021, with big swings. You're supposed to get a premium with increased volatility but she's not getting that for her investors. They'd be all better off going with a low risk boglehead etf like VT or VOO.

kmw45

I think the issue is when most retail investors heard about ARKK, it was during the pandemic and those investors have largely lost money if they bought during the run up. Inflows during the early years was negligible relatively speaking.

Pazzaaaaaa

I’m confused, ARKK is up 250% since it debuted in 2014. Roughly around the same as SPY since that time. Where are the losses?

Former_Island_4730

Would. But wouldn’t invest in ARKK.

ZealousidealSector19

To be honest I forgot ARKK existed until I just saw it in the headlines of Bloomberg

inetkid13

>Here are the other sectors I noticed had the Dunning- Kruger effect over the years. Crypto (blew up), 3d printing (blew up), weed stocks (blew up), internet stocks (blew up), housing before the gfc (blew up), SPACS (blew up), ARKK investors (blew up but has bounced back some), Gene Editing (blew up). > Sounds like you're just salty because others made a lot of money and you missed out on something. Lmao.

mark000

BTC way below neckline. MAG7 and ARKK just broke theirs. XLF right on its. Highest risk is now off. Soon, the rest.

JRshoe1997

Thats a stock I haven’t heard about in a long time. I remember that one during the 2021 stock market craze with all the ARKK stuff.

GoZukkYourself

ARKK is down 38% in the past five years. It's hard to suck this much as a bull. https://preview.redd.it/5xkksvek4lig1.jpeg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c98dc79bd0b99a544f6d02118aff93ae1700933a

95Daphne

The story like 2021/2022 is confined to tech and especially, speculation. I'm not sure if whether this is 2021 or if whether this is 2022 and, in all honesty, the question likely will remain unresolved until QQQ either breaks below the Nov lows from last year or breaks above the $630 hard line in the sand so far. I just have my personal doubts that SPX is going to just easily thrive for 2026 with oil and staples being the winners and when you talk about how selloffs work, typically they shoot the trash first and then quality gets shot next. The rest of the market outside of the risk off areas is likely not going to fully survive what's going on in ARKK style. It just could wind up being a 2027 thing.

Total_Schedule591

ARKW and ARKQ and ARKK all have a lot of Broadcom instead of a Qualcomm I think. ARK Invest is the managing company

DawgNinja

Yeah, if you look at ARKK, it's amazing how it structurally looks like a mini 2021 right now. The Nasdaq held pretty well initially, but then it also gave in and dropped 35%. I'm not very optimistic that what's happening in speculation is just going to be meaningless for the main indexes. They typically come for the trash first and then what follows is that quality will get shot too. Only thing that I think can be ruled out is a full on 2022 like decline.

Sir_Grindalot

ARKK ytd: -14.82% My small gamba port ytd: +0.05% Lmao Cathie

Glock7enteen

ARKK went from +8% ytd To -11% ytd In 2 weeks

Glock7enteen

ARKK went from +8% ytd to -8% ytd in the span of 2 weeks

TomatoSpecialist6879

Yeah it's called ARKK and God is directly telling Cathy what to buy and sell, that is how we know God is on the spectrum and belongs here

shawman123

Do not touch ARKK with a barge pole. its a terribly run ETF. Other 3 are anyway heavily into tech and I feel is redundant. That said if you need the money in 2 years, investing in market comes with a risk. if overall market is down like 10-15% QQQ could be down like 30%. Only risk free return is from investing in fixed income for short term. if you want to invest in tech believing in AI boom cycle go ahead and put it in QQQ or VUG. I dont know if you need both of them.

joe4942

ARKK just about below the 200 day moving average again.

Iceberguncharted

I can't tell you where ARKK will be in 2 years, but I can tell you that it is a high volatility etf. That means it might go up a lot or down a lot. What you're looking for is 20% in 2 years, or roughly 9.5%% per year. If you expect average returns over the next 2 years, the S&P500 and the NASDAQ would both do well enough and not expose you to a crazy amount of risk, but there is still the risk of the markets dropping substantially if things go downhill. The safest things you could put your money in would be etfs like SGOV, VRIG, and CSHI, but they're only going to return 3.5-5% per year which would result in you having closer to 275k than 300k. I think the best middle ground would be to play with housing etfs which is likely to have less beta compared to the price of the house you end up buying because it's in the same sector (Plus O has averaged around 13% per year since the year 2000). Additionally you could do something like XLP since it tends to do fairly well even when the markets pull back and also still makes around 6.5%/year on average. That being said, this is not financial advice and I am not a financial advisor. Do your own research and don't just blindly do what someone on reddit suggests.

Chuque

ARKK is junk. Invest all in QQQ but in several chunks

HSuke

The whole MSTR curve reminds me a lot of ARKK.

g0kartmozart

As an ARKK bag holder, yes please

ThickUnderstanding22

I’m more invested into tech, I’ll leave you my portfolio Mine is 7.90% ARKK 8.18% CVX 8.42% NVDA 13.60% AAPL 16.05% GOOGL 16.85% SPY 28.96% LMT

Usual-Date8420

I can share my personal experience, for whatever it’s worth. I subscribed to Motley Fool for about a year (Nov 2021–Oct 2022). I joined largely because of their long-term marketing narrative around early calls like Amazon, Netflix, etc. However, their 2022 recommendations were, in my experience, very poor — performance-wise it reminded me a lot of ARKK ETF that year. Many of the stocks they were emphasizing felt similar as well: companies with low or negative earnings and very optimistic growth assumptions, which got hit extremely hard when the market regime changed. Fortunately, I only tested and allocated a small portion of my portfolio (under 10%) to ideas from Motley Fool, so the damage was limited. I ended the subscription after that year. Afterward, I started looking for alternatives and eventually subscribed to Opes 15 ([https://www.opesway.com/opes15](https://www.opesway.com/opes15)). It’s a monthly list of 15 stocks. What initially stood out to me was that they show historical performance transparently and let you review past picks without subscribing, which made the track record feel more plausible rather than purely marketing-driven. I’ve been using it for a while now, and over the past \~6 months especially, the outperformance has been very strong. Several of my best-performing positions recently came from that list. Obviously, no service is perfect and past performance isn’t a guarantee, but relative to my Motley Fool experience, this approach has worked much better for me so far. Just one data point, but hopefully helpful for anyone comparing options.

TimujinTheTrader

I lost 4k on ARKK trying to catch the falling knife.  Spooked me into mainly buying index funds.

Roxorek

Cathie Wood ARKK 5 year performance -42.5% Net worth \~$500 million though 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Ok_Smell_453

I know how/what you're thinking cause the news covered her and buffet for how many months. I don't invest in ARKK, never plan on it. But credit has to be given where it's due. Numbers don't lie, people do.

ATUGA

Remember when ARKK hit all time highs in 2021? 😆

slbnoob

ARKK bag holder from 124

QuesoMeHungry

I lost my ass because of investing I ARKK, I got out but that shit is down 41% over the last 5 years.

TreGet234

ARKK was at 150$ at one point in 2021...scary stuff. But man what a shitfest of an etf.

MutaliskGluon

Have you looked at the top holdings of IWM? It looks like ARKK circa 2021 filled with shitcos and massively pumped bubble stocks.

gassygeff89

I remember a conversation with a friend about palantir. I thought it was all hype and convinced him to invest in ARKK instead. 🤡 big whoops.

Ohhmama11

Mixed and hard to determine how much he won or loss. Puts ARKK- win Spy- Loss QQQ- Loss Apple- small win Tesla- Loss

EyeSea7923

I was going to say an ARKK gambler, but that's basically the same thing.

unaffiliatedaf

ARKK, QQQ, VTI. In my experience never as much hyper growth as you can earn in individual stocks though

burner70

2007 x shares PLTR CB $11, 1 x MSFT, 35 x VTSAX, 119 x SOFI, 10x ARKK

altabuse

Since my downvoted post above from 9 months ago: TSLA 264 -> 475 (80%) PLTR 85 -> 190 (123%) SMH 200 -> 365 (82%) NVDA 110 -> 190 (72%) IWM 198 -> 250 (26%) ARKK 48 -> 79 (65%) SLV 30 -> 79 (163%) SIL 39 -> 90 (131%) For an average return of 93%. I do this professionally, but retail traders hate listening.

jauch888888

Cool list, but let's add some context: Most of these are either: Sector bets (gold, silver, copper miners) -extremely cyclical and volatile. They crushed it in 2025, but check their 3-year or 5-year returns. Many were deep red before this run. - Leveraged/niche plays** (3X miners, thematic ARK funds) high risk, high reward. ARKK was down -67% from peak to 2022. One good year doesn't erase that. International diversification (EZU, VEA, EEM) - these lagged the S&P for a decade. They're finally having their moment, but that's mean reversion, not sustained outperformance. The real takeaway: You can beat SPY/QQQ... if you pick the right sector at the right time. But that requires timing and luck. Most people who chase last year's winners end up buying high. Boring truth:A diversified portfolio (like VT, XEQT, or even just SPY) won't top this list in any single year, but it'll keep you invested through all market cycles without trying to predict which sector pops next.

ShitTierTrader

Remember when ARKK was a thing?

DesperateHalf1977

ARKK - finally. Magic lies in doing the things that you’ve been avoiding.

Loose_Log997

Man, you're reading my mind. I trimmed 30% of my TSLA position last week, thinking a correction was coming, and now watching it rip higher every single day is absolutely gut, wrenching. I'm terrified to jump back in, though. It feels exactly like the lead, up to the ARKK collapse in 2021. This constant tug, of war between the FOMO and the fear of being the ultimate bagholder is just too real

Legitimate-Space8847

Just like ARKK