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Talk to me about DRIV, QCLN, ICLN please. Anyone trade them?
CNRG massively outperformed TAN, ICLN, and QCLN in the clean energy sector
26 year old personal brokerage holdings (looking for feedback)
Is there a free website that shows all the underlying companies' financials in the ETF?
Just got $1500 from a tax return and want to invest it into a green energy company or ETF
Am I living under a rock has tastyworks turned to dogshit?
Clean Energy is a necessary Hail Mary. Buy 2023 Leaps on $TAN, $ICLN, $PBW, $QCLN
Is Apple’s stocks app the problem here or are there other forces at play?
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Assuming those holdings are in a taxable account, selling LAC and QCLN at a loss gives you a tax offset. If your VTI and SPYG gains are under that $100 offset, you can sell them and clean the slate tax free.\\n\\nIf the gains are larger, you don't have to sell. Just turn off dividend reinvestment for those funds and point new cash to VOO and QQQM. The old shares can sit there without triggering a tax bill.\\n\\nKeeping VOO and QQQM simplifies things, but you're still layering the same beta. Apple and Nvidia make up about 13% of VOO and 16% of QQQM. Adding SMH and individual NVDA shares on top concentrates your money in the same few companies.
QCLN making a move again Hooray!
QCLN Easy add to every portfolio.
QCLN ICLN Just a quick friendly reminder.
In a fit of optimism, I bought a bunch of "green" ETFs in 2021 at their heights - QCLN, ERTH, PBW, TAN. They have been recovering very very slowly and I sold off a bunch at a loss. My thinking was that either they would do great, which means less dependence on fossil fuels, or if they did poorly, it means our future is screwed. (Our future is screwed)
Look into ETFs; QCLN & ICLN first
ICLN CNRG TAN PBW ACES QCLN EARTH all gonna boom, either we have a functioning climate or there won’t be a stock market, it s a safe bet unless God reverses all climate change and bad infrastructure to good infrastructure overnight
Hey all, I’m 26 and working on a long-term DCA portfolio (10–15 year plan). I’m already maxing my Roth and putting 20% into my 401k. For my brokerage I’m doing: NVDA $41, AMD $22, ARKK $38, SMH $50, QCLN $25, SOFI $25, XBI $25. Wondering what you all think — too much overlap or risky concentration? What should i add or drop ? Appreciate any honest feedback.
my AI overlord says: Turning $250K into $1 million is ambitious—but absolutely possible with the right mix of strategy, time, and risk tolerance. Let’s break down a few realistic paths someone could take, depending on how fast they want to get there and how much risk they’re willing to stomach: 🧠 Option 1: The Long Game (10–15 Years) - Approach: Invest in a diversified portfolio of broad-market ETFs like VTI, QQQ, or SCHG. - Expected Return: ~8–10% annually (historical average) - Outcome: At 10% annual growth, $250K becomes $1M in ~15 years. - Risk: Moderate. Market volatility, but historically reliable over time. ⚡ Option 2: Accelerated Growth (5–10 Years) - Approach: Tilt toward high-growth sectors like tech (SMH, AIQ), clean energy (QCLN), or biotech (XBI). - Expected Return: 12–15% annually (with higher volatility) - Outcome: $250K could 4x in 8–9 years if trends hold. - Risk: Higher. Sector-specific downturns can delay or derail progress. 🎯 Option 3: Aggressive Strategy (3–5 Years) - Approach: Mix of individual high-growth stocks, 0DTE options, or leveraged ETFs like TQQQ or SOXL. - Expected Return: Potentially 25–40%+ annually—but highly variable. - Outcome: $250K could hit $1M in 3–4 years, but with serious drawdown risk. - Risk: Very high. One bad year could cut the portfolio in half. 🏘️ Bonus Option: Real Estate or Business - Approach: Use $250K as a down payment on income-generating property or seed capital for a business. - Upside: Leverage and cash flow can accelerate returns. - Risk: Depends on execution, market, and management. If this were a real scenario, I’d suggest building a tiered plan: anchor with stable ETFs, layer in some growth, and carve out a small slice for high-risk/high-reward plays. Want to sketch out a sample portfolio or timeline based on one of these paths?
Honestly, for someone in their early 20s with a long time horizon, this is a pretty solid mix — well-diversified and definitely leaning into growth while still hedging a bit. You’ve got U.S. broad market (VTI), tech (QQQ), international (VEA/VWO), and a sprinkle of thematic plays like clean energy (QCLN), biotech (IBB), and even a dash of crypto. Love the ambition. If anything, you could maybe simplify a bit — QQQ overlaps a lot with VTI already, and QCLN/IBB can be spicy, so just make sure you’re okay with the ride if things get choppy. Also, 5% in bonds (plus VGSH) is totally fine, but might not move the needle much at your age unless you're really set on some stability.
I’m approaching my 40’s, live in the US, and have somewhat steady income. Back in the beginning of the Biden administration, I thought (like many others apparently) that green ETFs (ICLN, QCLN, TAN, PBW) would be good investments. Ironically, they did better under Trump 1, and I lost around 60% of my original investments over the course of the Biden administration. This was never money that I really needed, but I was hoping that this would sort of help with my retirement. I’ve been watching them slide and people have been telling me to hang onto them, but now we’re back with Trump, the EPA is being gutted, and I wish I had cut my losses way back. I would like to continue investing and supporting green energy, but I’m not sure that’s going to work out. I especially think I would like to dump the QCLN, which is about 7% TSLA, and I think TSLA is going to tank. So, I’m thinking about taking that QCLN, and possibly more, and pivoting to just solar, and specifically FSLR, which is in a dip. I read that solar has been having a great two years and is currently the fastest and cheapest way to power anything. I know the head of the EPA is boosting natural gas, and Trump hates wind, but he has said in the past that he “likes" solar. FSLN is US based and not Musk. I guess I’m just wondering if it makes sense to pivot, from QCLN and possibly those other holdings to FSLR and maybe other things in the green space that might endure Trump 2. Again, I don’t have an acute need for this money at the moment. It would be great if I could just have some extra padding on my retirement in 20 years or so.
ICLN and QCLN are the main two that I have heard of. I had no idea about the Paris funds you mentioned. There must be more somewhere? Maybe some of the esg focused ones? I found this on Nerdwallet with a quick search: "USNZ Xtrackers Net Zero Pathway Paris Aligned US Equity ETF 44.08% NETZ TCW Transform Systems ETF 20.82% USCL iShares Climate Conscious & Transition MSCI USA ETF 17.50% SPYX SSGA SPDR S&P 500 Fossil Fuel Free ETF 15.73% JCTR JPMorgan Carbon Transition U.S. Equity ETF 15.64% PABU iShares Paris-Aligned Climate MSCI USA ETF 14.98% Source: Finviz. Data is current as of Aug. 5, 2024"
You’re telling me - one of my biggest allocations is in QCLN, in 2021 👀🤣
I like grinder too and I’m in TAN which is practically identical to QCLN.
QCLN - Green energy ETF just dying to pop after the rate pause. UNH - Good time to buy. Under $500 for this in 2024 is a steal compared to a lot of the rest of the market. GRND - it’s got meme stock written all over it. Cheap for a ubiquitous househd name for a demographic that’s known to spend $
QCLN, TAN, FAN, ERTH, CGW, FIW. Only one I truly regret is ERTH - it contains 15% REIT and has just been hammered beyond recognition.
I *WISH* I started buying QCLN now… and not at $85.75 like when I started
QCLN has been my weakest holding for a while now. Doubled my position on Friday at close. Brought my cost per share way down. It has Tesla, Rivian, Enphase and more. Not expecting to break even anytime soon, this is a long hold for me. I’m just happy I didn’t catch a falling knife for once in my life— I let it sit with a big loss for like two years before I started to buy more.
What makes QCLN such a stinker? I have posted about it before. I have been taking little nibbles at it for the last 3 years and it is by far my worst performing stock (down 38%).
Those are all solid companies, with LLY/NVO/VRTX being very different in type and circumstances from DIS/CMCSA, so interesting choices. KLAC is nothing but a money machines for the longterm. Renewable energy stocks have a bright future but the present is not so good because they usually rely on borrowing money, which is terrible when interest rates are high. Consider ETFs like TAN, GRID, QCLN and ICLN in the future but avoid them now. Also, instead of individual stock picking, consider establishing base positions with broad market or industry ETFs rather than only pick stocks.
Explains why my QCLN shares lost so much, love the loss, embrace it, and you shall never pay capital gains, amen.
Sell all Ark. Ark funds work only for Cathy. Sell plug on rise Sell QCLN on rise
Bums me out what a flop QCLN turned out to be. I had this stupid idea that I was doing something of high moral value when I would, say, buy a share of a giant tech company, to buy a share of QCLN at the same time— the presumption that I was doing something to support the planet. Well, I’m almost at 100 shares and I’m 40% down.
The best clean energy ETFs are TAN, QCLN and ICLN. They should all have a great future.... but not this year or next with interest rates so high. These companies need to borrow and customers usually borrow too, so it is a terrible time for these companies. Put them on a watch list or buy one share, but even though they have a bright future, the next many months probably will send them lower so you can do better buying them later and using your money on something else in the meantime.
I got some TAN, ICLN, and QCLN and boy did they crash hard. I'm hopping for a resurgence
ICLN and other clean energy ETFs were the most profitable ETFs going back fives years from September _2022_ or so, but in September 2023 they have been getting killed all year because (especially the solar aspect) the whole business chain involves borrowing money... and borrowing money in a high interest environment is a catastrophe. Take a look at ICLN, QCLN and TAN around next May at the earliest, probably more likely toward the end of 2024. They will be very likely great buys with a favorable environment when interest rates return to low again. That ain't happening tomorrow.
TAN and QCLN are among the top ten most profitable non-leveraged ETFs for the past five years. ICLN used to be too. But this year only QCLN is even in small profit because these are generally small companies than need to borrow who sell stuff to people who also need to borrow to buy the products. Interest rates are killing them. Longterm TAN should be a solid winner; this year it should lose. If you want to open a small position now, definitely do QCLN, but most important, when interest rates start to go down, reevaluate and look to get a large position then.
Check out ICLN or QCLN they're clean energy ETFs I have ICLN for a long-term hold I bought it because it has a lower expense ratio but if I had it to do over I would probably buy the QCLN it has a higher expense ratio but much better returns hope this helps
Look into the etfs TAN, ICLN and QCLN, and the underlying companies in each. All three ETFs are good longterm buys tho they are are not doing much this year.
TAN, QCLN and ICLN (maybe also including GRID, SMOG and PBW) are clean energy ETFs. They are among the bets performing ETFs for the past five years, tho very blah year to date. You could consider investig in them, or you could go through the holdings of all of them to discover dozens of green companies.
I’m kinda not happy with my QCLN, it’s clean energy fund hasn’t done good as I thought
It’s really hard to cherry pick winners in a market that are still evolving, but I agree with you that if you go long-term, this is a great industry to invest in. I ended up deciding to use ETFs for Green Energy as I do not own the knowledge to really do “my research” effectively. I’ve been DCA the following ETFs since early 2022: PBW, QCLN and TAN
There is an ETF with a dividend, QCLN
QCLN and done....it is an ETF. There may be some better, but it fits the bill for this. Look into some of those to spread out your risk!
my stupid ass thought gaining on tesla through QCLN was a good idea.. that ETF ruined my life... Bought in and it went in like 40% and never got back again..
QCLN begs to differ. It has been begging to differ for years now. Ruining my whole portfolio since I've put a good chunk in it because I wanted 'TSLA' exposure.. I wish I didn't..
Yeah, they made the mistake. When in doubt always go to the issuing company website, in this case ishares/blackrock. I don't know how taxes work there but you can always buy it back, or get whatever the UCITS are for TAN or QCLN as a replacement, both of which have done better ytd.
Welcome to Earth. On our planet TAN is the #1 performing ETF for the past five years. QCLN is third. ICLN is 10th.
I bought QCLN (green energy index fund) last summer and it is down 20% lol. Nothing else in my index fund portfolio is down more than 2% since July/August. Definitely a risky buy if you do decide to do it!
https://etfdb.com/compare/highest-5-year-returns/no-leveraged/ TAN +213%, QCLN +190%, ICLN +123%, SMOG +100%, GRID +99%, LIT +99%, PBW +98% 7 of the top 17 non-leveraged ETFs for the past five years have been clean energy of some kind. TAN and QCLN are far ahead of the others. They all have decent volume except SMOG. There is decent overlap, but also uniqueness. TAN is strictly solar. QCLN has lithium and TSLA while ICLN does not. To get five, just don't include SMOG and PBW and you'll have a solid group of holdings.
What’s up y’all! I’ve been at this since last July and finally starting to dive in. This is a Fidelity account from a previous employer that I recently maxed out on the yearly contribution. I will have some employer contributions with my new job however in the form of an IRA and ROTH IRA. Moving forward the plan is take full advantage of the 1.5 to 1 match and build a separate account. Any and all feedback is welcome. I did plan to move some AMD soon, but I would be interested to hear what folks have to say. Current total value $7508 VOO 30.16% XOM 15.41% GOOGL 12.92% TQQQ 8.49% XSD 8.23% AMD 5.51% QCLN 5.43% PLTR 4.41% AAPL 4.13% AMZN 2.67% META 2.33%
I started buying into QCLN... Nice ETF with a mix of EV and solar companies. Tesla is number 2 holding I believe. It also has Rivian, Lucid, ChargePoint, EvGo, Blink.
QCLN sure looks better after the past three weeks of both the EV and lithium markets kicking ass. :) In the long run TAN, QCLN, ICLN and REMX should all be considered for a place in a portfolio that wants to benefit from clean energy exposure.
I like QCLN because it includes the EV market (Tesla, Rivian, Lucid, ChargePoint, EvGo, etc). Probably why it's underperformed TAN over the past 5 years but it could also be what makes it outperform over the next 5+ years?
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The three largest clean energy ETFs are three of the four best performing ETFs by a wide margin for the past five years. https://etfdb.com/compare/highest-5-year-returns/ TAN is solar, ICLN and QCLN are broader clean energy. Beware of QCLN for the short term because it is 15% TSLA/RIVN/LCID which are woefully underperforming currently.
Managed to time things decently with the drop and looking to reinvest for long term (10 yr) holding. Here is what I’m looking at: ASML BRK.B ENPH iCLN IWF QCLN QQQ UEC VTI YORW Basically some ETFs around tech and clean energy, a bit of diversification, with a few stocks of interest. I had done so well with TEAM over the last few years, was tough to drop them. Any thoughts?
Tax loss harvested $11k worth of losses and reinvested that money into GOOG, DDOG, VOO, QCLN, GRND, PAVE and BN. Most likely not going to sell any more in 2023, but DCA into these guys and a handful of other favorites.
TAN for sure, best performing ETF of any kind for the past five years and really the only solar focused one. Clean energy longterm: ICLN and QCLN in equal parts. Short term, just get ICLN until TSLA at least starts acting like the stock of an actual company as opposed to the meme of dipshit rich guy.
ICLN is kicking QCLN's butt for the past month and six months because QCLN has both the TSLA/NIO/RIVN and lithium stocks. These did great in the past but have had a miserable December particularly. Just be aware that for the short term QCLN will be a relative dog, but obviously you believe those electric car companies so you believe QCLN will come back. Longterm an equal balance of them seems good, short term you might want to up the ICLN until TSLA starts behaving more like a corporate stock rather than the toy of an egotist dolt.
I've worked with a lot of lithium stocks. It's plainly a sector that has well above average potential for the next five year. Pilbara is my current favorite, with CXO/CXOCF, SGML, AKE/OROCF next. ALB and SQM are the current two biggest. If you don't count Chinese companies, Pilbara is third. The Chinese lithium companies have been hammered this year like all Chinese stocks but are now coming around... which leads me to focus on the lithium ETFs instead of the individual companies. I like REMX best. It's a good mix of Aussie, Chinese and other lithium stocks... except it oddly doesn't have ALB and SQM. It's up triple digists for three years but down this year because of the Chinese stocks, which means it should rocket up when China starts consistently performing more in line with the rest of the world. The other main lithium ETF is LIT... it has ALB and SQM, so in the longrun I intend to have a mix of REMX and LIT, but in the shortrun LIT is held down not just by some Chinese stocks but the woeful performance of Tesla, Nio and Lucid. REMX doesn't have those. QCLN, a clean energy ETF performing the second best over the past five years also has a significant lithium exposure. If you don't like ETFs and want to pick stocks, go with Pilbara for a current miner, and consider SGML, CXO and LAC as future miners. I'd rather bet on the whole industry though via the ETFs, even tho the China thing is problematic.
QCLN. Green energy ETF with 80% domestic stocks. Domestic stocks will do well because of the money you mentioned as well as the investment tax credits, DoE grants, rebates and similar from the BIL, IRA, and BBB. It'll take patience though. This is the ground floor in a paradigm shift to a new (clean, renewable) energy source that drives the American economy. The upgrades to the grid, the onshoring of manufacturing, workforce development, and regulations will take time. However, over time it will do well and the sector will be resistant to downturns as utilities have historically been a strong sector.
TAN (solar energy) is the second best performing ETF of any kind for the past five years, 240%. QCLN (clean energy including lithium) is the third best, 190%. (note big difference with TAN) ICLN (clean energy no lithium) is eighth best, 150%. Past three years TAN is third, QCLN third and lithium ETFs REMX and LIT are fifth and seventh. Clean energy ETFs as a group have been the best performing ETFs over the past five and three years, and the forward looking horizon looks better for them than the past few years.
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The best ETF for this is QCLN. You’re welcome
I have no idea about specific companies, but in terms of emerging industries: Green Energy & Blockchain. The consumer electronics industry is saturated. FANG had their 10 Years of Innovators to Laggards. These companies will be tangentially related to next growth industries, but their outsized growth is done. You need to be looking at the next innovators and emerging industries. Green Energy (QCLN) and Blockchain (BLOK) is where I'm putting my money - mostly into ETFs. I also have ON, WOLF, INTC, MP, MU.
BEPC is pretty high exposure for a single entity. I prefer QCLN to ICLN. As for big tech, XLK and QQQ have much better longterm results than SUSL (but then I'd never heard of SUSL before now, so maybe there is some recent thing to make you like it). SMH and SOXX have about the same longterm results, but they have different mixes of semiconductors so in the longrun you might like to have both.
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The two best performing ETFs for the past five years, by far, are TAN +250% (solar) and QCLN +206% (clean energy). Next best is ROM at 168%, the 2x version of XLK. With the recent US law, solar and clean energy should even more outperform the market than they have in the past. But... even they aren't currently beating the market. Aside from PFIX ("Simplify Interest Rate Hedge"... meant to go up if interest rates go up) conventional energy ETFs have done the best this year. But... even they aren't currently beating the market. If you want to get into both, I'd reccomend against individual stocks like XOM and instead get ETFs, specifically TAN/QCLN and PXE/IEO. They outperform both their peers and the overall market.
QCLN has been meh for me. But I guess that is all stocks right now.
Yes, I would only put a small portion of your high risk money on TECL/TQQQ, and then only during clear upward moves. The folks who want to buy and hold those don't realize that moving in and out is better. In terms of ETFS for the past five years, the only thing that outperforms QQQ are the XLK/VGT-type, then a bit better SOXX/SMH, then quite a bit better TAN/QCLN (solar/clean energy). For the middling term, I'll bet a lot on QCLN outperforming QQQ since it includes solar and clean energy and some of the best lithium companies. There currently isn't a good lithium EFT, otherwise that would top my near terms list. If you aren't familiar, you might enjoy the different ETF performance lists here, ranging from the past week to five years: https://etfdb.com/compare/
The three best performing non-leveraged ETFs for the past five years are all clean energy: TAN/+310%, QCLN/+262% and PBW/+177%. The fifth best is also clean energy, ICLN/+170%. TAN and QCLN are second and third for the past three years (after LIT/Lithium). While TAN and QCLN are only plus a small amount for the past year, that's still better than most stuff. Picking individuals stocks is lot more dicey. Clean renewable energy is a no brainer sure thing in the future. Which companies will dominate, that is a completely different question. Focus on the ETFs.
TAN, QCLN for longterm energy. PXE, IEO for short term energy. XSD and SOXX for semiconductors, but I'd wait on those till the market was clearly moving up. On the other hand, I'd gladly bet AMD, ON, KLAC, SNPS and CDNS as a group will outperform the semiconductor average over the next year and few years.
And Tesla is in QCLN. What's your point? Tech overlaps into other segments.
I've been picking up the following: VOO, COST, MSFT, QCLN, TAN, VONE. my main issue is I'm getting over-committed to some of those so I'm hesitate to buy in more on them...but I also firmly believe they are good buys.
I held Vestas for years and sold it for a good profit recently. It's still the best in the wind space, and a great company, but the fundamentals are just terrible now for some reason. I'm sticking with green energy ETFs for now to get broader exposure until more definitive winners in alt-energy become apparent. (I have positions in CNRG, ICLN, QCLN, FRNW.)
I mean if you look here: [https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/CHPT/holders?p=CHPT](https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/CHPT/holders?p=CHPT) You can start looking at some of the ETF's/Funds that hold CHPT. I think QCLN might be something you are looking for.
I don't know of specifics, but there are ETF'S like FAN, TAN, RAYS, ICLN, QCLN
It has a P/E over 200 and has a 5Y return of over 32,000% Not sure what exactly is going on, but seems incredibly over valued for a solar company. My guess is a lot of it is momentum and it is a top holding of QCLN and ICLN and a few other energy ETF. It seems like a solid company, but not at a P/E of over 200. My theory is that a lot of money flowing into it is a result of people dumping money into Green Energy ETFs.
I loaded up on ARKK TAN QCLN MGM MELI MRNA APPS up 35% for the year now.
SFT and QCLN are still my big plays Missed crisper and enphase already
Depends on your risk level.....SPY / DIA super safe! I'm making a killing on TAN / QCLN but a little more risk.
I was told one time that it's not generally a good idea to have more than 5% of one's portfolio in any single stock. Additionally, since 50% of your positions are super tech heavy, any bumps hitting the tech sector will impact your portfolio. Finally, since VOO already invests in TSLA, you're doubly exposed to risk there. Personally, if I had that portfolio, I would bump VOO up to 30%, and drop AMD, TSLA, and COIN down to 5% each. That would then give you 50% of your total amount to play with. To balance things out - and to better weather significant upturns or downturns, I would then consider maybe put 20% in a Bond ETF like BND, maybe 10% in a Real Estate ETF like VNQ, and another 10% in a Clean Energy ETF like QCLN. After that, I would pick 2 more individual stocks outside the Tech industry to put 5% in each.
I love some of the suggestions in this thread. Here's my current allocation on marketgoats and my personal PA (only $3000): 50% VTI 20% AVUV 20% VTV 10% Sector plays (ICLN, QCLN, KRBN, PXE, FCG) Anyone else competing on marketgoats? It's an ETF investing competition.
Ooh nice But in total, ICLN has more Tesla than QCLN?
Also looking at icln. I notice you have tesla as well. You should look at QCLN which is basically ICLN but with tesla and some other EVs in the fund. I only rate icln higher than qcln because of how heavy it is in tesla
Look into some ETFs.. LIT, DRIV, BATT, QCLN all come to mind. My EV portfolio has done the best so far this year for me compared to my blue chip type portfolios (voo, vxus, avuv, etc)
Wonder how much of it's going to be rolled out with on-site renewable production. Might be time to look into ICLN and QCLN holdings.
- 20% US small/mid value (SLYV, DGRS, EES) - 10% Developed small/mid value (DLS) - 10% Emerging small/mid value (DGS) - 10% Emerging large cap/core (SPEM) The rest of my portfolio is sector funds and individual stocks. - KWEB - FINX - ARKG - QCLN Et cetera.
What energy stocks would you recommend for long holds? I'm looking at QCLN, ICLN, UNG, VPU, VDE, an USO.
50% SPY 10% IJS 10% VGT 10% QCLN 10% XAR 10% Stock Picks (Unity Software, Netlist, American Battery Technologies)
50% SPY 10% IJS 10% VGT 10% QCLN 10% XAR 10% Stock Picks
QCLN buddy. First clean energy ETF, don’t listen to anyone who tells you there isn’t an alternative. Most of them are on the pink sheets you just have to look. INTWF is a free one from me ;)
Oh my b I sub to a lot of investing subs forget sometimes which one I’m on. Try QCLN
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I think you may be right. I did my best to avoid too much overlap (and I included the REIT ETF's because I like the idea of the dividends they pay out), but I've internally debated whether I should get rid of them as well as QCLN and CHGX. Even though the idea of ESG ETF's (like QCLN and CHGX) is attractive from an ethical investing standpoint, most of the ESG ETF's I found had essentially the same top funds invested as VOO, but with higher expense ratios. And while QCLN and CHGX do invest in different stocks, I have my doubts whether investing in Clean Energy will see good pay outs in either the near or medium terms. It may be better to just invest for maximum growth and then donate a share of the proceeds to a cause that matters to me down the road. I'm still likely to keep EUSA, because I really like the idea of investing in the little guys as well as the bigger fish, but I think I'll take your advice and at a minimum sell my shares of QCLN, CHGX, one of the Bond ETF's, and one of the REIT ETF's and some of the individual stocks and put them toward VOO.
Any thoughts on TAN / QCLN?
I have QCLN etf due to it being the NASDAQ for clean energy.
Oil has been a terrible investment for years, so I wouldn't count on the current uptick lasting. Gold has almost no use beyond currency hedging, so it's risky. Personally, I'm in copper miners like FCX and steel recyclers like NUE, which are ways to play both commodities and equities at the same time. However, I wouldn't give up on other stocks either. Tech may be hitting a bottom. Green energy/transport plays like TAN, QCLN and TSLA are rising from last year's dip. I'd stay away from financials, however.
Well personally I hold Tesla through QQQM. I preferred ICLN to QCLN also because of it's geographical diversification. Worth checking again if it was the right choice in a couple of months. I got into ICLN end of Jan (2022).
I’ve lost my A$$ on QCLN. I felt like a year or two ago society had started making clean energy more main stream. Now I kind of think we may have been ready but industry wasn’t. So maybe now industry is ready.
QCLN… get your renewables with a bit of tech/EV. Gives you exposure to TSLA and NIO. It trades similarly to ICLN, but with a tech lean. Yesterday it traded inversely to oil, lead by ICLN, and today got a boost from the tech rotation.
QCLN... +6%. Bro wtf is this market 🤡🤣
QCLN pumping. This is an etf doing 5%! Wtf.
Down about 400K but still green in the last 2 years ARK etfs, ICLN/QCLN, SQ and PYPL. Thankfully I'm well diversified and also have a good chunk in the Boggle head stuff. But it does hurt. Long term, learn to put loss stop on you risky shit. I cashed in on NVDA, AMD and TSM big time so I'm ok but seeing your portfolio drop 20+ % still freaking hurt.
QCLN, although I was on the fence about ICLN/ZCLN. I like that QCLN is more diversified with not just renewables, but also tech, batteries, and EVs. I know that it exposes me to some Tesla meme-stock shenanigans, but in my eyes EVs are such a big part of a renewable future, that it is silly to ignore.
I thought they were a good idea too. Everyone did. ICLN, QCLN, TAN, and PBW got so much hype and people bought in, including me. I pulled out of all of those but at a loss. But thank God I’m not holding anymore