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Space companies - The real underdogs
I am trying to buy calls, but this stock keeps going up. SMH. Is this the next MU?
Forced to sell early because I had an exam @2:00 SMH
I want to diversify significant NVIDA position into AI specific ETFs- How would you think about this?
After 200% gains - i’m out. (B-B-BUBBLE!)
32 y/o Canadian Investor , Need honest suggestion please.
Aschenbrenner Blinked
I feel like it’s very difficult to get a read on the AI trade… (chips, smh, intc, bubble)
Straddle rule between similar but no identical ETFs like SMH and SOXX
NVDA beat earnings, semis rallied hard, and institutions spent the day selling calls into strength. What does that tell you?
Leopold Aschenbrenner just filed his Q1 2026 trades with the SEC His tracker's been live since March 5th It's up ~78%, even with the delay Today the portfolio was rebalanced to match his latest trades. Screenshot from: Stock Insider App
Leopold Aschenbrenner's 13F just dropped Check this out, this is absolutely INSANE. Every major name. All brand new this quarter: SMH VanEck Semi ETF – $2.04B NVDA – $1.57B ORCL – $1.07B AVGO – $1.01B AMD – $969M MU – $584M TSM – $535M ASML – $494M INTC – $159M
Actual performance of Leopold fund Semiconductor PUTS
$20k in SMH - thinking of selling the ATH and going all-in on MU or NVDA before earnings?
You don't have to make up losses from the stock that caused them
Can someone ELI5 why SMH would be a better investment in the current market than a 3X leveraged ETF like SOXL?
Anchoring Bias. Why is it so hard to buy GOOGL & AMZN at all time highs? Why do we chase 10x underdogs over proven winners with 1x upside?
SMH Other Subreddits are so behind on the news cycle
And Another Ai Bubble = SMH. ( this isnt normal)
Why does the market keep pushing toward highs even when the macro backdrop still looks bad?
New to US market, Need advice for SIP in Tech Etfs
I wrote a full thesis on why AI hits white collar jobs first and credit markets next. Here’s my position.
Add more on Monday? (Added $40k on Thursday)
How do you evaluate infrastructure stocks beyond surface level AI hype?
How's this ETF portfolio for a 15 year monthly investment plan?
How's this ETF portfolio for a 15 year monthly investment plan?
It’s a dang shame I took $22 and turned it into over $1100. SMH sure wish I would’ve bought more of this.
TSMC earnings lifted the whole semiconductor sector
24 - Give me stocks for an AI play long into the future. Rate my portfolio
China to Approve Nvidia H200 Purchases as Soon as This Quarter ✅
2025 Recap: Silver +139%, Critical Minerals +86%, Space +65%, Gold +61%, Semi +47%, Nuclear +47%, AI +44%, Quantum +33%
YTD 2025: Silver +164%, Critical Minerals +94%, Space +67%, Gold +70%, AI +50%, Semi +50%, Nuclear +50%, Quantum +35%
Eternal question. Buy the market now, or wait? Got rid of my individual stock portfolio and decided to get back into ETFs
Should I (would you) sell VGT/SMH/FTEC/XLK and maybe MGK and just buy something else?
Should I (would you) sell VGT/SMH/FTEC/XLK and maybe MGK and just buy SPYM or something else?
Is the "Dot-Com" Setup to 50% Complete? - Crypto Tax-Selling, The Authors Guild v. OpenAI Inc., Ukraine War and the BoJ Trap.
Is the "Dot-Com" Setup to 50% Complete? - Crypto Tax-Selling, The Authors Guild v. OpenAI Inc., Ukraine War and the BoJ Trap.
Stock and ETF portfolio with real world utility for the next 40+ years
401k investing in ETFs that have lots of overlapping companies
26 year old personal brokerage holdings (looking for feedback)
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World was never calm last 100 years, social media nowadays highlights & amplify more. Market digest it and move on. $MSFT $META $NVDA $GOOG $AAPL $AMZN $TSM global tech sector use by whole world, 8.5 Billion population. BigTech combine revenue over 2 Trillion. $QQQ $SPY $SMH
I've been patiently waiting for $SMH to go sub-$500. Seemed impossible a week ago, but looks possible by EOW.
I'm hodling til Mu hits 3000$, then i'll sell all the memory stuff and only leave some in SMH.
my plays for this upcoming week: SMH puts, USO calls, buying BTC and ETH
Then sell deep otm SMH like this maybe. https://preview.redd.it/g42lwpb0yp5h1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7f23752cb63dd20d745ec6f9ee046516c3059797
Wash the macro out of your brain. Flows > macro Call skew on SPX was 100th%ile Call skew on SMH was 100th%ile Avgo “miss” caused a cascade in semis. Ndx and spx are weighted. Tech weighted. When baskets of **levered** etfs sell off it can bring down the index. Customers were short puts at the 7415 SPX strike and it acted as a magnet for price.
I'd consider SMH a satellite, not part of the core. It's a theme ETF with 26 holdings, not a broad market index. And I'd also count your individual stocks as satellites. That'll give you a more realistic view of your core/satellite ratio (i.e., your overall balance between broad market diversification and focused concentration). Nine stocks also seems like a lot for smaller positions, but it's probably not a bad place to start. Over time, as you get more familiar with these companies and figure out what you like or don't like with each, you might want to put more focus into the ones you've got higher convictions in. Otherwise seems like a solid setup... I'm not a huge fan of theme ETFs, but that's the beauty of the C&S portfolio - so long as your core provides broad index diversification, you can basically do whatever the hell you want with your satellites.
50% loss (im a dumbass and my diversification strategy was full port into 5x leveraged CFD of SMH and micron)
Buy the dip of SMH or Soxx shares only
SMH özelinde, yarı iletken sektörünün son dönemdeki güçlü kazanç raporlarına ve AI kaynaklı talep artışına bakarsak, OTM put'ların maliyeti ve getiri potansiyelini iyi dengelemek gerekir. Bu tarz bir korunma stratejisi, piyasa koşulları ve şirketin temel dinamikleriyle uyumlu olduğunda daha anlamlı sonuçlar verir.
I'm still up 30% on SMH after today
Stress test is right mathematically for the vol assumption it made but the test assumptions are wrong in first place. For the Aug expiry, low gamma puts - factoring 100% vol upside, vega and vaana will show that kind of PNL mathematically. On top of it if broker use BSM, it assumes constant vol surface. In real-world a 10% drop in SMH will never expand the back-month, 75-day implied volatility curve by 100 absolute points in a single session. The front-month might spike by 10 or 15 points, but the back-month curve experiences heavy volatility dampening (the term structure flattens). Is this by default stress test in ibkr ? Then it's really bad.
That looks like it is assuming volatility doubles (volatility +100% listed on the top as an assumption). Volatility did not double in SMH. Those puts were like $165 OTM at the start of the session. Not exactly what comes to mind when I think of protective puts.
Minus 3%? The fucking Nasdaq just dropped 5% intraday, SMH just had a -10% day.
I felt it in my gut to buy MSFT puts on Monday but I chickened out SMH
I’m watching SMH doing the same
June 2027 mostly but some Jan 2027. DRAM, MU, MRVL, SMH and AAOI
loaded up SMH/EWY puts at the close, please no TACO
Stock market is still ATH. Although SMH already corrected today. One more such day, SMH will be in bear market, which brings us back to only 3 weeks ago. Wall street earned so much in March down, April and May surge, and now June crash starting today. Their portfolio chart is like US debt chart.
Dividend stocks were green. I sold JPM and trimmed UNH so there is a 99% chance they open 3% up Monday. I’m going all VOO, VXUS. Then SMH when it’s appropriate.
Happy I sold CCs on my SMH shares and will reap the premium on 06/18. I'm saving dry powder to buy more early next week if it keeps dropping. Finally a chance to hop back on the Semis train.
75 and 80 TQQQ puts were fucked today ngl. Grab some 70s at open and ride the wave I lost 37K today while have SOXL, SMH and TQQQ puts… 🤦
SMH is still +45% from 3 months ago, today is nothing regards
I put 2k into SMH at peak just to alleviate a little fomo pressure, seemed like a good strategy... still have \~200k in dry powder ready to go
DRAM and SMH stops both just triggered. Dammit, guess I'll be paying the IRS next year. Time to wait for a safe reentry point.
Username does not check out SMH
Brutal. Same. I might have lost money in after a month of gains. ZEC crashed, my AVL went negative DRAM and SMH is most my account. I invest like a degenerate gambler. I deserve this pain.
SMH is down 7% today. Putting it's price back to where it was 14 days ago on May 22. They are calling it, The Lost Fortnight. WSB is crushed. May never recover.
$IWM $SPY $QQQ $SMH $NVDA $META $MSFT and all big down. Time to load positive cash flow. Not negative cash flow hype. Stock market burst like Blue origin lunchtime burst last week, for another rocket SpaceX IPO
There’s some genuine strategies to this, if you’re actually curious. Semiconductor stocks / ETF’s are clearly booming. That’s as clear as day right now, AI is in enormous demand with a supply shock. This is why SNDK for example has gone literally 45x in a year. Same with MU lately (memory / HBM has been super in demand). As for your actual question? A solid little idea is to actually just jump onto something like [SMH’s holdings](https://www.vaneck.com/offshore/en/investments/semiconductor-etf-smh/holdings/), and check the weighting of them all, especially the very lowest weighting. Those with the lowest weighting can either be enormous winners where you end up getting in early before it soars off the ground, or it perhaps doesn’t move that well. SOXX is another great ETF where you can apply the same strat. But even the biggest majors like MU, AMD, MRVL etc are still absolutely worth buying right now. Personally I prefer just buying SOXX since I’d rather a small cluster of semi stocks that are all moving while not having to pick which stock is today’s or tomorrow’s winner
TBH, if mango really wanted to pamp it, he should just say something like he heard rumors of a rate cut. Dude doesn't even know how to pamp his own casino SMH
SPMO, QQQM, VONG, AVDV, VXUS, FLKR, SMH, XLK, lots of single stocks.
Just a quick reminder: SMH +50% on the 3m
All this AI investment and we can’t even get a sexbot with decent image or video generation SMH
Hyundai will be a winner no matter what. The business, I mean….hopefully that translates to share price appreciation. FLKR holds a lot of Hyundai, in addition to Samsung and SK Hynix. That’s kinda my thesis on buying FLKR (plus SMH) instead of DRAM. Great E/R, too.
Its too diversified imo. DRAM and SMH are more concentrated bets.
What about SMH up 40 percent in 2 months ? U gotta do some time series analysis 🧐
Wow, this is how the Koreans pay us back after helping them in the war? SMH
Lol. I bought more SMH
>worth the risk? Personally, I feel worth the risk going QQQ, but that is me very agreesive attitude. I would prefer to have 50% SMH and 50% QQQ (again, my own personal choice).
I thought the same when SMH was $500 a month ago, now it's $600+. It's more likely you keep missing out than you end up buying the top.
Dip buying opportunity of a lifetime in the SMH today. Too bad most of the sub was calling an end to the semi and memory trade
SMH will 5x SPY tomorrow if you actually want to make money
It’s crazy how red we were overnight/this morning and now it’s looking like it will recover by close today 😭😭😂😂. Generational buys if you bought in at like 9 am this morning. I bought more DRAM & SMH at their bottoms.
crazy timing on how just couple of days ago Suzie Orman was a guest on cable news (forgot if it was CNN or MSNBC) and was saying to get in on SMH.
I was this close to buying to close my 8 contracts of naked SMH short calls yesterday but thank god I didn't
Semi stocks are digital gold. The only true store of real value left. I will pass on SMH shares to my grandkids.
SMH 6/26 $550P (will not be taking it myself as it’s a bit too risky for me but think it will print)
Very dramatic opinion…..but shift positions right now, realize the meme losse, and rebalance the rest to 1/3 SMH 1/3 VOO 1/3 QQQ or full port SMH and say f it 👀
I figured the SMH would be down ~6% AH. She’s barely phased
Kospi/SMH finna take a quick dive tomorrow
Regards selling AVGO because they see the price falling when they haven’t released earnings yet. SMH
VOO is 6.5% google and SMH doesn't hold it, and not sure of your existing allocation but IMO no. After taxes, google would need to outperform SMH by at least 25% (assuming long-term capital gains tax of 20% on SMH) before you were back to even. SMH is +156% YoY whereas GOOGL is +116%
If I have VOO and SMH is it worth selling part of my SMH and move some into Google?
You don't need any more nvidia than what is in SMH.
I've got a stock screener that returns 7,100% over the last 20 years compared to your 1,500%. "SMH"
I'm hoping RACK is the next SMH. Just bought some this morning
A lot of my port is SMH. I’ve made a lot this year.
I wonder if anyone will ever get punished for buying too much SMH. Its not looking like it… I suppose it is an ETF. An ETF of stuff that only melts up.
\> I'm trying to cover the components that are necessary for AI growth, \> Am I missing any big opportunities here that fit what I'm going for, Then look at ETFs rather than individual stocks. Take a look at AIS, DRAM, TCAI, EUV, FOTO, AIPO, CHAT, SMH, etc.
SMH is crushing that garbage LMAO 🤌
“maybe trade a little forex, low budget stocks and options or crypto”. Wow…SMH, or is this a joke post?
I like ETFs that cover sectors that I’m bullish on (medium to long term) and can’t pick 1 stock out of it. I’m currently rocking:- SMH - semiconductor etf IVLU - international developed FIDU - industrials VDE - energy / O&G I used to believe in the VT / VTI thing until they became incredibly lopsided, so I moved to more focused ETFs. Energy ETF will remain for a couple years as Iran shithousery will take years to work its way through (rebuilding extraction/processing infrastructure as well as restocking strategic reserves — likely to a higher level than previously), as well as sustained increased demand from data centers.
SOXQ & SMH up, SPY down.
Pick a broad market etf for your core holding. That’s why I did at your age. This should be atleast 85% of your portfolio. Keep buying this every week. The remaining 15% you can play with and see how hard it is to actually pick individual stocks. Maybe try a sector etf like NASA for space or SMH for semi’s. The key at your age is to have a core holding and do not touch it. Let compounding interests do its thing.
I remember buying at $72 and selling at $99 SMH. It wasn't a huge amount but still, would've been mid 5 figures in profit. We'll played.
Had a similar response. Mostly VOO, and some other ETFS, maybe a stock or two.. I would go VOO SMH QQQ and a pick or two on individual holdings. DRAM is a little too out there for a 5k portfolio, and high expense ratio. I have passed on it even with a larger portfolio as it is too easy to just buy the stocks it contains, minus sk hynix.
I would recommend $3k or so in S&P 500 VOO. and with the remaining could do maybe $1500+ in VGT, QQQ, SMH, and $250-500 in individual stocks that you beleive in.
VT for everything. Add SMH if you want more chips. Don't buy single stocks yet.
My ai exposure is pretty boring. My model in my head is to be roughly: > 30% in mostly compute and mostly in NVDA, SMH, AMD > 30% in what I call infrastructure (VRT, EQIX, VST) > 10% in the scalers (Google, Amazon, Microsoft) because that’s where I started parking when I started the ai investing schtick. > I target 30% in early stage (through syndicates, some direct; but it’s in three sleeves and I don’t like to overcommit) The actual numbers usually drift from the target because of market moves and deployment pacing, but that’s the radar screen I'm aiming for.
3K VOO (sp500 etf), 1k DRAM (memory etf), 1K SMH (semiconductor etf)
That garbage sat in the low 10s for a minute now look at it SMH after I dumped my shit in the 8s
$BTC.X $SMH $SPX $XLK $QQQ $NDX $DXYZ Bitcoin, $BTC.x no new theme , it’s fading Once Madoff gave nice Theme to investors, got Ponzi. Once Theranos gave new Theme for blood test. Once FTX-SBF gave new Theme for Crypto. Now many CEO gives new Theme for AI, also changing theme to keep AI pumping going. Moment Theme Fade, it crash like Bitcoin. Mater of time.
$BTC.X $SMH $SPX $XLK $QQQ $NDX $DXYZ Once Madoff gave nice Theme to investors Once Theranos gave new Theme for blood test Once FTX-SBF gave new Theme for Crypto Now many CEO gives new Theme for AI, before theme fade, they change theme to keep pumping going Bitcoin $BTC no new theme, it’s crashing
SMH, DRAM and chill
Small PP energy. Trying to look smart in a room full of geniuses. SMH.
Who tf buys puts on SOXS just long SOXL or SMH calls
Nothingburger. SMH to infinity.
because the index that matters (SMH) is up 75% ytd and 160% yoy
5 seconds looking at the 200SMA 'Yup that's some solid DD right there' SMH
FTEC: +50% SMH: +74% *nervous gulp
$BTC.X soon Semiconductor stocks can crash like Bitcoin Because high capex, less margin. Higher energy and higher interest rate on top strain earnings $SMH can crash 60% easy
Hey team! I'm new to investing and recently rolled over my 401(k) to a Robinhood IRA. Luckily, I picked up a few solid ETFs, including a utilities/power fund and SMH for semiconductors. My portfolio has jumped 38% in less than 4 months! I know I haven’t done anything wrong, but every time I look at my account, I feel like I stole something. It honestly feels too good to be true! Has anyone else experienced this psychological weirdness when starting out?
$BTC.X $SMH $SPX $XLK $QQQ $NDX $DXYZ $MTUM Once Madoff gave nice Theme to investors Once Theranos gave new Theme for blood test Once FTX-SBF gave new Theme for Crypto Now many CEO gives new Theme for AI
yeah, it is hard to predict the upside when a stock has already ran up so much. Look at MU. I thought it was overpriced at 700 a few weeks. Now it's over 1000. SMH
People always asking about the straights of hormuz, no one ever asking about they gheys are hormuz SMH.
Literally all their competitors. Nvidia, Broadcom, Credo, AMD, Astera Labs, Lumentum, Coherent, AAOI, etc. Just buy them all via SMH and perhaps the new ETF called EUV (low volume though).
It’s in DRAM. Alternatively, you can buy SMH and FLKR to get a lower expense ratio with the same top holdings and sector/industry diversification.
It takes on average 20 years' worth of salary to buy a house where i live and rising by 12% yoy, whereas in the US it takes only around 7 years and the US also scores the second spot on the house affordability index. That ain't a bubble SMH
Thanks, i will monitor them. Though does that mean you think SMH as a whole will also continue to trend upwards despite any corrections?
Bro just buy NVDA, GOOGL, SMH, and SOXX. You can still sleep at night.
I'm from Taiwan. I invested in US S&P and growth ETFs, but only made $2,000. The Taiwanese stock market is crazy; $30,000 left for a year would become $60,000. The South Korean stock market has risen even more sharply than Taiwan's. I chose the US stock market, so I can only continue down this path, but I'm considering putting more money into SMH later.
SMH is too NVDA heavy. SOXX has better growth names and it’s showed for the past 6 months. SOXX outperforming SMH by 20%
Why SMH vs the other semi etfs? Soxq, soxx, fselx, xsd, etc.
Any semis etf will do. I'm in SMH myself. Depending on your risk appetite DRAM/memory names is where all the money is running to at the moment.