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I love these tard bulls all puffed up about SPY records. Murica! Stonks go up. Well, they don't really go up much, actually. 2025 YTD: SPY: 5.86% EZU (Euro stocks): 26.6% EUAD (Euro defense): 71.04% IEV (Euro Stocks): 21.95% EWJ (Japan Stonks): 11%
Before making any decisions, I think it would be prudent to read the prospectus of your investment—you should do this before buying into *any* fund—and understand foreign currency risks and ways to mitigate it. Moreover, I think it's good practice to just have a plan and stick to it rather than try to anticipate or time market movements, e.g. "I'll stay out of US equities for a year." And being 90% or more international is... well, that's a choice. Also, nothing is "real" until you realize it. 🙂 Gains from foreign currency rates can be as real as anything else. And who is to say when the dollar will swing back up versus Foreign Currency X? Who is to say it doesn't drop further? In any event, foreign currency risk is a real thing, as many people are discovering lately. If you want to try to eliminate this, there *are* ETFs that hedge against exchange rate changes to neutralize that effect, but (a) it's not perfect, (b) it can be more expensive, (c) it eliminates the opportunities when you benefit from relative currency strength. An example would be iShares Eurozone ETF's EZU (unhedged) and HEZU (hedged). While they're both up over the past 6 months, from March they diverge quite a bit. Unhedged is +24% in 6 months, hedged is +14%.
I did the same and moved like 40% into international and up 23% on it lol, ill have to check out EZU. The US market going forward is going to be a shit show but picking up strong companies on sale is the way.
EZU sounds like a good deal
I'm not in cash, but early this year, *I moved a lot of money out of US equities* into non-US equities. In my retirement accounts (most of my wealth) **I went from 25% non-US stocks to 58% non-US stocks**. It's been the only major change I've ever made to retirement accounts in 20 years of investing. In my non-retirement accounts, I made smaller moves but purchased a few Europe-specific country ETFs (like EWG and EWI). I'm happy with that decision of course, because * US stocks (VTI) = +2% YTD * Non-US stocks (VXUS) = +17% YTD. * **European stocks (EZU) = +28% YTD**. If US economic policy recovers its sanity, I'll move some back. Or within a year or so, if no major recovery, start DCAing some back into the US.
When that happens, it will likely be even better news for Europe than for the US. Europe is more dependent on Russian oil than the US, as the US is far more energy-independent. European stocks were hit really hard when the invasion happened, and stand to benefit when it ends. So I think the "Ukraine war will end" bet is ticker EZU.
Given that stock returns year to date are: * US (ticker VTI): **Down -0.2%** * Eurozone (ticker EZU): **Up +23.8%** * Shanghai index (mainlaid China): **Up 2.3%** * Hang Seng index (Hong Kong): **Up +18.5%** I don't think this "cheat code" is working well.
DAX, EZU, ME6M25 (if you’re up for risk),
The regular Eurozone index. It's called MSCI Eurozone, and covers (as the name implies) all the countries that are part of the Eurozone. [https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/EZU/](https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/EZU/) Click on this link and then hit "YTD" to see their returns from Jan 1 to present. It's weird. People on this sub aren't aware -- and somehow don't believe, even when presented with data -- that Tariff madness made the US underperform the rest of the world, by a lot. It's underperformed Asia by a little bit, and underperformed Europe radically. The beneficiaries of Tariff madness are clearly EU (and to a lesser extent Hong Kong) as they will pick up pieces of trade we are shutting ourselves out of. It's like not going to a party, and saying confidently "I bet no one else will show up either".
I'd look at the euro etf similar to the S&P 500, like VGK, EZU, FEZ, STOXX. Maybe an INDA, or INDY if you think the tarrifs are 2+ years and India get more transfer directly. I am going rebalance with new funds in portfolio to ~30% EURO/India.
I'm no expert by any means and I'm new to the concept, but something like a currency-hedged international ETF would benefit from a weakening dollar. For more, see [ETF Hedged vs Unhedged](https://vittana.org/etf-hedged-vs-unhedged-which-one-is-better-and-why) Full disclosure: my first experience with hedged ETFs was buying 100 shares of HEZU on Monday, which is the hedged version of EZU. Probably went through the same thoughts as you.
Just hold the FXI and the EZU. Both up YTD compared to the sagging dick market here
I only know of EZU and VGK for europe stonks. Might be time to gamble on europoors
I did some basic research on this around December and the two that jumped at me were VGK or EZU. I ultimately chose EZU, because while it pretty much has the same exact stocks as VGK, it has a higher allocation of manufacturing and defense companies. One thing to consider about EZU is that it includes stocks from the Eurozone (so it wouldn’t have any stocks from non-EU countries), if that’s important to you.
If anyone is looking for swing trades or longer term trades/investments, I honestly, very strongly, think it’s time to go into European industrials and defense. Defense is way harder to invest in and the better etfs are on European exchanges but there are a couple ETFs here. Also some industrial names are dual listed (EPOL IEUR EZU SIEGY BAESY). Also Poland has been buying a lot of South Korean military equipment. Theres definitely going to be a preference for domestic production but you have to fill the gaps. Finally, I think Canada is going to look into providing EU energy.
IVV QQQ IJR IJH EZU VTV SCHF BND more heavily weighted towards IVV and QQQ with everything else just about even.
>EURO Stoxx 50 ok. that's good to know. i looked it up: The two most popular Euro Stoxx 50 ETFs are the SPDR Euro Stoxx 50 ETF (NYSE: FEZ) and the iShares Euro Stoxx 50 ETF (EUE). Other popular ways to gain exposure to major European stocks include: The Vanguard MSCI Europe ETF (VGK) The iShares S&P Europe 350 Index (IEV) The iShares MSCI EMU Index (EZU)
Do you have income now? What's ur plan you goin to school? 1)I'd probs buy a cheap car 5 10k 2)Take another 10k put it in a 4%+ hysa so you have liquid 3)Put 6500 in a roth and buy a 2070 target retirement fund, do this every year that you are eligible and able 4)And put the rest in a brokerage and buy a few ETFs, maybe somethin like: 25% VTI 25% QQQM 20% SCHF 10% IJH 10% IJR 10% EZU Would be a good set and forget portfolio you can and should start adding to once you've got cash flow.
FEZ, EZU. EPOL, EWW, maybe GRK.
It's performance has been poor since its inception, pitiful the past turbulent years, and is a loser ytd while VOO is doing 10% better. It's heavily weighted to financials and oil, which would have made it more of a buy a year ago, but not now. I use VOO as a benchmark. If something hasn't done better than VOO, or have clear reasons to do better going forward, I wouldn't consider it. I don't know the UK equivalents you have, but besides VOO for the US, if you want international exposure consider FEZ, IMFL, EZU or VGK. VGK is a Vanguard product.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LEKwQxO4EZU No one ever knows what the future brings, but some seem like they know what they're doing, so why not follow them?
Sold covered calls on EZU yesterday and regretting it. Probably going to print today and leave me stuck until April.
Anyone notice how much Europe is outperforming? (EZU)
While things people are saying is true…European index ETFs offer better dividends especially for the price. US based ETF’s are at least several hundred percent more expensive than international ones. US stocks come at a PE premium. Trailing PE of S&P currently is 18, PE of EZU(iShares Eurozone etf) is 11.
European stocks suck. Their indexes (VGK,EZU) haven’t made a new ATH in 15 YEARS 🤮
EZU (Eurozone ETF) is already at or near -2 stdev. I'm not saying it couldn't get worse, but it's already waaaaaay down. Betting against it here is statistically a bad risk/reward.
Meh, too much of VXUS is tied up in the Eurozone and in boring companies to be interesting as an aggressive play. You get 16% Financials, 12% industrials, 10% consumer discretionary, and 38% Europe. Europe is literally worse than bonds. Lifetime (2009?) annualized EZU return is like 2.27%. AGG (2004?) is 3.3%. VXUS is 3.7%. If you're going aggressive, and want international, make a call on China and/or India. Of course it's risky, but that's where the crazy international growth is going to be until Africa becomes non-basketcase. But honestly, 100% VOO is probably easier.
Not sure if you wanted some actual theory: We’re in this period of widely accepted globalization. No matter where you live as an investor, the reality is most of these big global companies will continue to make revenue. Lets look at some options competing with SPX: IVV (us low risk, high reward) EZU (europe low risk, medium reward) WCHN (china high risk, high reward) EPI (india even higher risk, low reward) EWJ (Japan less risk, low reward) EWY (south korea less risk, medium reward) No matter where you live, you are most likely buying something from the FAANG stocks. They make up 19% of the spx 500. The market is a reflection of what the world thinks about the future given current events. People are buying spx500 bc they think it’s low risk high reward and that is a better choice compared to the other options.
I didn’t realize the Red Hot Chili Peppers were actually selling albums in like 1984 god damn, listening to this early song and I’m getting strong Oingo Boingo vibes https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3XxdGTi_EZU
I have a mix. Puts: EZU (Europe ETF), Home Deopt, KB Homes, VMBS (MBS), BKNG, AAPL Inverse ETF Shares YANG, SQQQ Calls YANG
Up 80k on puts lol. BKNG SEAS EZU HD FDX VMBS KBH
BKNG, HD, FDX, VMBS, SEAS, EZU, KBH puts YANG calls and shares Down on SQQQ shares
BKNG 2300p/Oct EZU 43p/Aug FDX 240p/Oct HD 310p/Nov KBH 36p/Oct SEAS 60p/Sep VMBS 50p/Feb
Mid july, cpi, bank earnings. Late july, tech earnings at most. Maybe we see 410? Wouldnt shock me. This market rallied to 420 end of may because of a rumor we pause hikes in September. This market is not rational so I like closing well before expiration. Position wise, I closed all my july exp puts and some August. Only August I have open are EZU and LQD. looking at closing my LQD position. I'll keep EZU open till it expires though.
Good actually. I'm short BKNG EZU FDX
I have 200 43p/EZU August. Europe goes first, then the US and Asia.
My current positions or past ones? I can go over what I have currently. BKNG: high Euro (currency) exposure. This is going to absolutely destroy their earnings. Also overvalued with stagnant growth. Revenue is the same now as before pandemic but a 160 PE ratio. LDQ: I followed a whale here. Saw, multiple now, Whales with multi million dollar puts here. Think rising interest rates will squeeze corp bonds. EZU: Europe ETF, they gonna get crushed even harder than we are on energy costs. Less consumer discretionary spending= recession. Home Depot: Consumer discretionary play. In their last SEC filing they demonstrated a large increase in inventory. As housing corrects less wealth effect on homes= less spending on improvement. KB Homes: Less interest in homes as we correct. FDX: increased fuel costs, less margin. Also their EPS estimate is way too high. SeaWorld: Been there recently? Place is falling apart. No one goes here. Yang: Betting on another run up in this. If it expires worthless I will load another 200k on my 2 million dollar lottery ticket. I will probably do this forever till it hits, 6 month out calls.
200 44p/Aug EZU lets go!
Try VGK and EZU, two of the large Europe ETFs.. You can also try the country-specific ETFs of some of the weaker European countries like Portugal, Spain and Italy.
For Europe I'm short EZU and EUFN.
Long dated :P I just felt like memeing the people posting "OMG HOLDING 20K IN CALLS OVER THE WEEKEND PRAY FOR ME" BKNG 5 2300p/Oct EZU 200 43p/Aug LQD 200 113p/Aug SEAS 60p/Sept EUFN 200 19p/July YANG 500 13c/Oct (Inverse fund.. its like a put in spirit) APPF 20 115p/July
I'm currently short EUFN and EZU. My thesis is that Europe falls first on huge energy inflation pressures. My plan for US equities is to roll the rest of my portfolio into WMT, TGT, DKS, HD, and LOWES puts targeting Q2 earnings. Discretionary is the play.
I knew my boys in Europe wouldn't let me down in starting the Greater Depression. EZU and EUFN puts LETS GO
APPF 115p/July (profitless real estate software) BKNG 2300p/Oct (Travel with high Euro exposure) EUFN 19p/July (Euro Financials) EZU 43p/Aug (Europe) LQD 113p/Aug (Corp Bonds) SEAS 60p/Sep (Fuck Shamoo) YANG 16c/Oct (Inverse China lets call this a put too)
Long dated puts: SEAS, EZU, EUFN, APPF, DDOG, RKT, LQD Weekly puts: JWN. about 800k of puts
I'm up 10k. Down on MOS calls, CTRA shares. Up on EUFN puts, EZU puts and APPF puts.
Total Returns since the stock market peak in October 2007... S&P 500 ETF: +256% MSCI Eurozone ETF: -5% $SPY $EZU
VGK and EZU puts one month out might see some volatility .. also what is up with UVXY and SOXS I’ve never seen this many Green Day’s on those ETFS
This is all based on what is available on US exchanges. EMXC and FM will give you access to virtually all emerging and frontier markets - beware the risks. I like EMXC because it excludes China, which is my preference right now. VWO is best if you want China as a major component. As for FM, it's the only frontier market etf on US exchanges. It has a high yield and has been pretty steady. EMXC and FM are both lower volume, but not to the point of being a big issue unless you're looking at considerable sums of money. You can also invest in country specific etfs; EWW is the largest volume Mexico-specific etf. Virtually all etfs that are country specific are from Blackrock (iShares). [Blackrock EWW Mexico ETF](https://www.ishares.com/us/products/239670/ishares-msci-mexico-capped-etf). Regional specific etfs exist as well. AFK for Africa (disproportionately South Africa & Nigeria). ILF offers the biggest Latin American stocks. ASEA for Southeast Asia (disproportionately Vietnam - which is good, imo, though not enough Singapore...). EZU for the European Union. I'd suggest pursuing etf options, particularly if you aren't especially knowledgeable about which countries offer the best options at the least risk. ​ As for your specific country choices, Mexico is rather risky as a single country investment (though could do well). I wouldn't add it alone, and I'd take only a small position if you are really deadset on it. There is also a Greece-specific one which... well, it's your money... AFK has a really high yield for Africa, though I'd recommend just going with FM if you really want African and other frontier markets.
ITM Put Credit Spreads mostly... a lot of them so sometimes you just get tagged. Today's early assignments for example. Assigned 1 EZU 2022-02-18 54 Puts Assigned 1 EWS 2022-02-18 24 Puts https://imgur.com/a/qtJsEks
Rats are smart and leave the ship. Stupidstonk are ants in a [slow death spiral](https://youtu.be/LEKwQxO4EZU)
VGK, EZU have decent though not complete coverage. Would be good to have a Eastern and Central Europe ETF too, lots happening in Czech, Hungary, Romania 🇷🇴 and such.
BRKB, LUMN, UWMC, Ethereum, SPDW, EZU, SPYD, SPY, DIA, all been good performers for me this year.
Until 2008, Vxus especially EZU ( Europe ) was leading VTI ( US ) big time. Then it changed. The idea is to have exposure to the major asset classes because we don’t really know when the switching happens. Last March 2020, Bonds were the thing for two months. No one wanted stocks in March. This is a typical pitfall of backtest if, it loads up on assets that have been outperformers. But they can be the laggards in the future. BTW, how did your run generate 44% annualized returns?
Looks like those ant colonies when they go into [death spiral](https://youtu.be/LEKwQxO4EZU)