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12 Stocks to Hold in 2024 to Beat QQQ, SPY and SMH (or SOXX)
Why VOO and chill over other ETFs that outperform VOO over 1/3/5/10 yrs?
I am a ex-prop trader trading US equities and these are the stocks on my watchlist (1/8).
$KO outperforms half of the Mag 7 in 2024 because of $NVO and $LLY
Fidelity, brokerage link and NAV funds vrs ETFs
Good month. Fidelity sucks and hasn't updated 178k at end of day Friday though from their glitch. SMH
When you can tell which way a stock will go but don't know the time frame, should have just Shorted this ish instead of a PUT. SMH.
20k gain. Haven't sold the rest in my other brokerages yet
SAVE is a BUY... changed to discussion post. SMH
How to get rid of my trading habit to invest properly! Fear of losing the money!!
Wall Street Week Ahead for the trading week beginning August 14th, 2023
[M25] International Student in the US - How to prepare to move assets overseas
A detailed DD for AMD in AI (Instinct MI300 breakdown)
Does this mean Robinhood is short selling SMH?
ETF and Market Evaluation for week of 02/27/2023
ETF and Market Evaluation for week of 02/21/2023
ETF and Market Evaluation for week of 02/21/2023
ETF and Market Evaluation for week of 02/21/2023
Wasn't Elon hurting to make cash with Twitter? He hosts Tate's DOA comeback match and didn't even think to charge PPV. SMH
All Hail US President Musk! What has this world come to (SMH)
The SMH ETF Indicates Why The Markets Are Showing More Strength.
This has got to be one of the most funniest subs I've been on. Hilarious
Powell did exactly as i thought yesterday which makes me even more bullish now
Semiconductor Sector and profitable Large Caps is where i would be putting my money
Awww man, I set up my 401K earlier this year.. they got me in all the wrong stocks SMH
BBIG Options trap totally manipulated by market makers. This will close below a dollar so options expire worthless. This is legal mind you. SMH
Is it too late to short the market? I still feel the market is going to break the June lowest point
Buying 10 stocks in one industry verse investing in an ETF?
Nancy Pelosi’s husband buys millions in computer-chip stocks before big subsidy vote
Biden travels to Ohio to highlight $86 billion for troubled retirement plans.. SMH
$CEAD called it at .95 enjoy the gains.I got banned on this sub on my original account(sammy2607)for saying buy puts on ater SMH
Something fishy with DTC anyone else confirm
Rug pull of the week.. 🕳🚶🏼♂️ SMH 🤦♂️ this was being blasted so hard in here, was “THE squeeze” “BEST setup” “ yadda yadda, what the hell happened? Why is no one talking about it now? $BBAl
$GFAI called it in the short squeeze sub at .39 since you guys banned me here,SMH but get in this play NFA
War for Fun and Profit: Discuss Best Plays for China’s Looming Invasion of Taiwan?
War for Fun and Profit: Discuss Best Plays for China’s Looming Invasion of Taiwan?
May Update To The Largest Bet In WSB's History!!!
I'm not strong like you guys. Go ahead and make this play for me - Intuit Calls for Friday.
I heard you guys want to see loss porn. I touched 300K and didn’t sell. SMH
Hedgies played the uno reverse ladder attack card. SMH
My starter growth portfolio is 10 shares of MSFT, 4 shares of SMH and 1 share of GOOGL. What do you think?
Remember the guy that called the breakout on $COVID? Should have bought calls SMH.
Y’all hated on me when I posted this last week. SMH true apes woulda followed me to the moon 🦧🦧🦧🦧🦧
Cash in on Pelosi and the CHIPS and FABS Acts
Cash in on Pelosi and the CHIPS and FABS Acts
CDC manipulating the stock market SMH
$KTTA Killer Call Here , Entry Price Posted .30 BEFORE The Move 🚨 Some Haters Gonna Say A $2 Move Isn’t A Squeeze SMH , You Guys Focus Too Heavily On Supernovas In Here 😂
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And the unemployed old guy can’t even muster energy to raise his hand. SMH.
SMH. All I had to do was put the money in LLY instead of NVO in early August and I would be up 50% instead I’m …. 😞😞
https://preview.redd.it/70s57sathbzf1.png?width=1344&format=png&auto=webp&s=7b196c27130b3ec5023dab519af948a85b37f005 34% drawdown on this specific set for 670s is roughly $5k in size. Keep in mind these trades pictured are only for SPY & Qs. I am also short a few other names like NVDA, SMH, AMZN, AAPL, BAC, JNJ, etc...
I own VGT, SMH, and added IGM and SMHX as extras. VGT and SMH (which is just semiconductors) serve well. I wanted also to grab some of the rapid AI data center buildouts happening and grabbed a crypto miner ETF because many miners are expanding into AI data centers. I landed on etf WGMI. (I wouldn't otherwise buy the miners unless i wanted an indirect bitcoin investment because before they expanded to data centers, the miners stock price just rose and fell ( a lot!) with crypto- their only value really was the value of the crypto they were mining. All of these have really rallied this year. I wouldn’t consider that typical
Can never rely on AMD to do anything right SMH
Told you fucking bers it’s time to buy calls SMH
SMH my head. We just say “bingo”. 5/7, perfect.
I sold IREN too early two weeks ago SMH
Just woke up, why didn't PLTR get culled? Barely red SMH
On its worst days the SMH still goes up 1% as a default, every day. I don’t understand how people can be losing money in this market
I would divide among ETFs of different types to be exposed to the Tech Upside and track the S&P. 25% - SMH/SMHX - here's your NVIDIA, Broadcomm, etc. 25% - SKYY, FDN or similar - here's your tech and exposure to the big AI gains with more risk. 25% - VOO, VYM something with a larger # of holdings to help with diversification and other companies outside of Tech. VYM or similar will give ya some dividends too.
Some of em are younger! SMH!
This is not always a better option and is a slippery slope, you can make the same one for BTC or another fund like SMH and see even better returns. VOO is picked for stability and stress-free investing. QQQ is fine if there's a small allocation and very long term horizon.
Anyone hoping for a $SNAP pump after 11/5 earnings? My bags are heavy. Bought shares at 8.27 weeks back. Full port as well. SMH.
I only trade ETFs now because I've been burned too many times by individual stocks. And I trade them on 3-month momentum. My 3 current favorites (which along with GLD and TLT make up my whole portfolio) are: ICLN, SMH, XBI [This is what they look like](https://imgur.com/a/jebeFaQ) over the past 3 months. If they continue that average 9%/month rate for just the next month or two, capture it with the \~3x leverage of 80-90-delta LEAPS Calls. And when those taper off, find replacements.
I'm just a little mouse buying VOOG and SMH sense 2012 not one night of lost sleep.
I used to work in manufacturing. I was in electronic assembly and then an electronics buyer. Company was bought by a company in Singapore or I'd still be there. I understand how important chips are. I would be in SMH along with you but I already own 7 individual stocks of the top 11 and have been in and out of 6 others. NVDA, MU, AVGO make up 33% of my holdings. The only thing I love more than chips is Cheetos.
I am buying $2880 per month into $SMH over the next four years then at 67 I will increase it to $10,000 per month dollar cost averaging into $SMH for another 8 years. I believe in dollar cost averaging into SMH vs bonds. Chips will outperform everything over the next 12 years in my opinion.
VGT is my fav. Maybe VGT/SMH combo. I kinda hope they crash so I can load up, way way overpriced right now. But idk in 5 years they will probably be 3x
Yeah that looks beautiful. Too bad for the fall for all of us. I didn’t expect such a big drop off and didn’t sell at open like I planned (WORK! SMH)
I am dollar cost averaging bi monthly into $SMH and with DCA all market action is fine. It no longer matters as I DCA into $SMH. I do the same with $ACHR to capture the evolution in the global eVTOL industry.
I like semiconductors the most, SMH and FSELX
SMH puts if you want to make some good money on a 1-2 week tactical trade.
CEO lives in a shipping container SMH
The real economy is crumbling literally all around us. The MAG 7 are only up on cope and hope of AI actually producing results that usher in a new age a la dot com era. I invest in both VTI and VOO about evenly but then I also invest in SMH and QQQ to lean heavier into tech.
You like AMZN as a long term hold, yet you sell a covered call. SMH
just look at how the bottom feeders talked a few hours ago SMH gonna use the strong pimphand to keep them in place next time
i meant to gamble on x3 QQQ 610puts for tomorrow but ended up buying x33 SMH…
Almost like the CEO who did Chipotle is now at Starbucks. And somehow they think he’s good. SMH… it’s the same profit enshitification game.
I should've held on to my $GOOG calls, I was up so much just from yesterday I wanted to lock in gains SMH
Had higher hope for DFLI SMH barely any movement
Yeah what’s the harm of putting more radioactive material in the atmosphere? SMH
Moron order to test nuclear weapons asap!.. SMH .. keep the distractions going
Alright guys I spent it all. This is what I did. VOO - 35% QQQM - 20% VGT - 10% SMH - 10% VXUS - 10% O - 5% EPD - 5% Play money - 5%
He even averaged down...... lol SMH
SMH, NLR would be my recommendation but not what I would do. Instead, I look at top 10 holdings of ETFs i believe in and only buy their top 3-7 holdings. My return year to date is triple S&P. I'm looking at drone stocks and nuclear power lately.
Too many ETF's to be a boglehead, not enough risk to be accepted by apes or WSB degens. Most of my port is in VTI. Then I have a mixture of themed ETF's like: VGT SMH SHLD SPMO % wise right now VGT and SMH are far outperforming my VTI but that's because of Nvidia. Something something past performance something future results.
Sounds like winning to me... SMH
It’s funny, if you invested all the money you had in those rocks and minerals into SMH, you’d be up pretty good this week.
I got stoned from all the rocks and minerals I held to long. SMH
I just sold NVDA covered calls yesterday when NVDA hit $193. Thought that was the top ::SMH::
Sounds like you've made a lot of progress, and I'm glad my trading plan fit with other things you've heard and thought. Once you started looking at ETFs it was eye-opening, wasn't it? If we can find those ones doing 30, 40, 50% per quarter and ride them for a month or two of that, then we ought to be able scalp some of that return ourselves. And then the leverage of LEAPS Calls makes them all the more worthwhile. Good for you starting to sell CCs! They're the simplest thing you can do with options, but few do them. They do have drawbacks when the stock runs too hard and they cap gains, but I like the dampening effect they have when the stock goes down. So read up on them more, and play with them more, but know that you literally can't lose money if you sell them above the Cost Basis of your stock. Yesterday I put on these 5 ETFs in my sister's rollover IRA, and today the same 5 in mine and my wife's: GLD TLT ICLN SMH XBI Gold and Treasuries will always be part of my accounts, then 3 ETFs chosen on momentum. 20% in each. As the momentum choices flatten and roll over, they'll be replaced with the current best ones.
VRNS getting sold like it’s gonna get delisted, SMH
> B-b-b-but holding SMH, QQQ, and NVDA in addition to VOO is uncompensated risk 😱 Pretty sure I just got compensated bitch 😂😂🤣
How many billions of dollars of legal cannabis do they have to sell illegally before enough is enough. Maybe if they deschedule, they can use the tax dollars to reopen the government. SMH
Y'all thought "get a tech job" meant "work with powerpoint"? SMH.
Ah, I see now that I did promise to capture fills on all 3. In my mind it was only on XBI, because that was the one So-I-Fink had called out specifically. SMH & ICLN spreads were much tighter, and I was able to walk them in from the beneficial side of Midpoint also. When I've decided to buy, I just buy. I should wait for a down day at the very least, but I don't have the patience. I figure it all works out in the end.
Thanks for the update. I assume you didn't go for SMH and ICLN? Just trying to understand how one makes decisions when buying
She can offset gains elsewhere with it without needing to realize the capital gains, unlike a normal cash donation. This is a unique situation, retard. It depends on the total numbers, but yes, this can work out for a net gain. C avg high schoolers can't even solve a two variable equation still SMH
I was worried. I moved from slightly risky plays to the slightly safer ones. Sold stuff like SMH to move to QQQ. As we know now, staying with SMH was a better choice, but we don’t have 🔮 yet, and I have no guilt for taking profits and derisking.
This stuff only works out great for short term bull markets. ARTY would be in the red if you brought at the peak of early 2021. ARKK would be red over 5 years and I'm red on my 5 year ARKG hold. XLK is great, SMH is good for exposure but VONG isn't giving the growth you'd want with the mega caps dominating. Future can't be determined, but most would do VOO over VONG.
The simple sucessful ETF portfolio I had used in the past is below. It's over- weight in tech, but thats where the returns have been the last couple of years. You can add other EFTs for other sectors to target, Xbi-biotech. I use the VOO/VEA combination before for non-US stocks and emerging markets. I like having a Cathy Wood's active managed ARK fund to boost returns, ARKK, ARKG or others. 1. VONG 80% 2. SOXX or SMH 5% 3. XLK %5 4. ARTY 5% 5. ARKK 5% I like VONG, 1000 Large cap growth over the plain VOO, S&P-500. I'm retired now with more time on my hands and have migrated over from hold & forget ETFs to pure stocks. Good luck.
To think I sold last week SMH
Too much short tsla posts over the weekend. SMH
And again: Canadians are not paying more, AMERICANS are paying more. SMH
Well okay, there's a theoretical point there I guess. But how would you practically account for it? Take the top 10 holdings of SMH, find their earnings dates, and then not trade that ticker during that window? That same window every single quarter? Leaving you what, maybe 2 months each quarter to hold SMH? Or here's an idea: find SMH when it's flat, check if that was due to a mega-cap earnings miss, then buy it to play the rebound? I hear what you're saying: an Nvidia miss will depress the whole sector for a day or three, but I wouldn't personally bother trying to avoid its earnings. Or TSM, AVGO, AMD, etc. Sounds like there might be a pattern there a smart guy could play though.
Nope not a bot. Bad/good earnings on a mega cap held by an ETF like SMH will definitely influence the market - even if its small fraction of their holdings. Imagine if NVDA misses their earnings.
International stocks did very well the first quarter of this year but the last 6 months, domestic stocks have performed better especially tech etfs, SMH, FTEC, VGT.
I use SMH personally. Much higher quality of stocks.
Similar fees. iShares MSCI Global Semiconductors lacks China exposure and pays a higher dividend on a quarterly basis. VanEck Semiconductor ETF pays an annual dividend and has China exposure. My preference is to avoid funds holding Chinese stocks, but I'm an American. USA version of SEC0 is SOXX. SMH has outperformed SOXX since late 2023.
I jumped into SMH in Feb. Up 37%. I'll take it! I own a heap of nvidia and amd. But like to have the greatest hits package as well. About to buy another chunk next week (ditching Eli Lilly.. But which will probably pop after earnings 😂).
Yes; I have a non-trivial chunk *of my long-term portfolio* in semiconductors, including SMH.
SMH is one of the best etfs like QQQ and VOO. I always try to mix SMH with QQQ for investment purpose.
SMH, wonder if I should hold this one forever…
Worrying about missing out is not how you invest. You do your due diligence and buy it if you like it. Your thinking is like regretting not being born in 1960 so you could have bought all the stocks when they were a $1. That accomplishes nothing. You yourself said you think it will keep growing. You have made your decision. In 2023, I was telling people on reddit to buy VGT even though it was always an all time high. It reminded me of the dot com boom of the 1990s, which was around a five year bull run. 2023, was year 2. VGT and SMH are a lot alike. Although, SMH is a vertical market, whereas VGT is not a vertical market. Now, we have semiconductors, AI, and Quantum. The Quantum boom might have added another five years to the tech stock boom. I agree with your assessment, the market is going to keep growing.
True, but generally irrelevant. Here on the weekend the spreads are especially wide, but when the market opens Monday they'll tighten up some. And even if they're still wide, you generally get filled very near Midpoint. Whether it's the Market Makers being nice guys (ha!), or my brokerage (Schwab) giving me Best Fill, I'm usually filled within in a penny or two of Mid. In fact, I'll do an experiment for us: I'm going to buy 80-delta LEAPS Calls on these 3 ETFs Monday (SMH, ICLN, & XBI) and I'll take a screenshot of my orders, capturing the spreads in the shot, and then my fills. I'll post them here and we'll finally know whether wide spreads on thinly-trade tickers matter. RemindMe! 39 hours (Capture fills on SMH, ICLN, XBI)
Thank you! **SOXL** is triple-leveraged, as you probably know, so watch that dude closely. Those 3 in the screenshot above are the ones I'm going to put my sister's money in Monday, so I'm comfortable recommending them to anyone. But have you seen [how I screen ETFs on Barchart](https://imgur.com/a/screening-etfs-on-barchart-zLCc55F)? That's what I did today, and those 3 above (**ICLN**, **XBI**, **SMH**) are the ones I picked based on their smoothness. You can find "higher," but you won't find smoother over the past 3 months. Do you know how to calculate the leverage you're getting with LEAPS Calls? If you really think about the insane returns they offer, you'd be happy to 'settle' for smoother returns over **volatile** potentially-higher ones. Cheers!
I just average into QTUM slowly over time. Set it and forget it style. Same with SMH for the semiconductor industry.
yes! the best thing I can do is just sell a lot of covered calls on SMH... like, it is going to go down eventually but I'm not going to be the guy who watches it go up 5X again.
Holy smokes, what a way to go out.. via the red lentil. SMH
Ya think? Pray for America. SMH. 🤦
https://preview.redd.it/jlodh5soi4xf1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=25a35d81b1f27d5936dbd0e6e5fab6b773bafe6c It’s not funny, I am now a copium member of the community and I am not even vegan 🥗. SMH 🤦♂️.
SMH any rate change was priced in today boys and girls
SMH, he doesn't know how to spell despite. Some president
If you traded as much as you studied game show trivia, you wouldn't be so damn broke. SMH fml atm
And today stocks pump on fake data. SMH
[https://i.imgur.com/HsCVFh4.png](https://i.imgur.com/HsCVFh4.png) What the hell is this red candle? EURONEXT:SMH-ETFP on TradingView
LOL this is tanking. Just like it should because nobody eats that horseshit. Hey let's not eat real meat let's eat a bunch of chemicals SMH. Dumb.
Given your limited time and long runway, I’d simplify by capping any single stock to <5% and gradually moving those into broad, low-cost funds (either a target-date fund in the plan or a 2–3 ETF core: total US, total international, and bonds), cut overlap (IVV/VOO, QQQ/QQQM), watch the heavy tech/SMH tilt, and set auto-rebalancing; you can find more info at mr-profit com.
Many 5 years of 20 stocks. I was a ETF guy before, VONG, SOXX, ARKK, XBI, etc... But my returns have been higher with stocks over the last 5 years. But sometimes when I can't decide which semi-conductor company to buy, Sometimes they all look good, then I just park my money into a EFT, SOXX or SMH to own them all.
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.
Bro became someone’s exit liquidity! SMH!
Newb gonna get trounced! SMH
Robinhood halted trading of BYND. SMH.
wtf is up with these posts? 1) OP has zero clue about near term volatility in ANY investment…fking in terms of days SMH 2) blame their investment strategy on somebody else 3) come crying and whining on Reddit on a down day.
Yeah, mad I sold GameStop early. SMH.
Got in at $0.72 and thought about buying more when it dipped but bitched out SMH
Stahp! You're gonna give it traction and make people lots of money SMH
I’m looking into QQQ and SMH calls. TOPT is a new ishares etf focusing on the top 20 Sp500 stocks, like the Janus top20 fund
you do know they have leaps on the index funds like SPY, QQQ and some of the more concentrated ones like for semis SMH? Dont have to stock pick to access leverage.
I put a couple hundred bucks in when it was at $29. Stupid. What are the chances I ever see a return on this? It was up 24% that day and the one time I fell victim to FOMO, I got slapped. This market is senseless right now. The best quantum stock, QBTS has seen the biggest drop because the dopey CEO sold a huge pile of shares when it was taking off. So frustrating, but I'm going to ride it all out. I'm in QBTS for $19/share so still up, but I am SMH that these two stocks (HOND and QBTS) should be generating excitement, not a sell off. Anyone else have hope? Sticking to my guns but it's hard.