SMH

MaxwellSmart07

I feel your disappointment. The Boglehead orthodox are still insisting, after the fact, that I should have been into VOO, VXUS , BND &/or AVUV over the last decade instead of SPMO, QQQ, SPLG, VGT and SMH. The situation now is in flux. Will you abandon international or retain it and dca into domestic growth? FYI: IDMO is far better than VXUS.

Spankynpetey

In my experience, there’s one of these lessons every 10-15 years and every other is bad enough that they start by calling it a collapse and usually back down to an adjustment. Really, they’re just reactionary panic to change. Amazing it doesn’t happen every 4 years. SMH...

Krammsy

Not one stock in my portfolio doesn't have options to counter it. Delta adjusted - VIX calls / short UVIX, SPXS calls / SPYU, SMH puts / SOXL ...etc. My most common mistake is not buying enough on dips, when others are getting stopped out by algo hunting, my limit buys kick in.

psychcloud

55k —-> 96k —> 44k —> 33k —> 12k —> 65k —> 25k —> 40k. My journey since July 2020. I’m going to 250k and will never give up.  Current QQQ leaps, SMH leaps, TSLA July 18th calls Pray for a rrtard brahs

MinyMine

SMH is good rn

wtf_is_up

I sold my calls last week since they were up 40% in a couple weeks. MU has been on a real rip. But I have enough exposure in SMH. Will be very interested in their earnings tomorrow, specifically HBM guidance.

Reasonable_Sector500

1% Africa etf… just why😭. I am 20 and by no means an expert, but I’ve asked the same questions you have and I have put myself at 70% SPY, 15% QQQ and 15% SMH

yaris205

SMH nearing ATH

wtf_is_up

Nice open for SMH

HeHateMe337

You can't fight a war by tweet...SMH

reddittorbrigade

SMH. This clown again. \-Iran and Israel people.

False_Comedian_6070

Yeah the income funds are better if you come into a ton of money and want to collect dividends as extra income or if you’re retired and want to live off of dividends. But you have a lot of time for investing in more growth. Personally I am tech heavy with FTEC, SMH, and IGV.

Designer_Coffee3782

I’m counting on it! SMH

Designer_Coffee3782

Something is seriously wrong with this man. This is weird . SMH

nicholasCageSucks

Man $GOOG has to be the most unfortunate stock out there. Waymo which actually works is going to NYC and Enron's stock with his stupid fucking demo project goes up 10%. SMH

ZombieRickyB

The odd amount of short dated SMH puts are now beginning to make sense

betagainsttheodd

A ceasefire after they complete their missions...SMH

Aggressive-Pace-596

thats like all those RE 'investors' that bought houses in the 90's ... they all fancied themselves as RE moguls, but when the '08 crash came along they all blamed the banks for taking advantage of them. SMH, luck is NOT skill

moosewithamuffin

Sold calls on BITCOIN this morning and of course it rallies up right after SMH

Mysterious_Revenue_6

You called it Kevin! SMH

Boys4Ever

Been in the S&P 500 since the 90s. Ask AI to project investing in S&P 500 based on data starting from which would reflect retirement being today and starting at age 27. Want to get clever and blow your mind. Tell it current salary. Assume x% contributions per pay check based on salary with merit increases of 3%-5%. Granted past experience isn’t likely to repeat but it shows you the power of compounding on the broader market which based on fundamentals always expected to grow including surviving frequent crashes. Having said that. Today perhaps tech a better option such as QQQ or semis such SOXX or SMH or 25% in all four thereby having increased diversity.

Fluffy-Structure-368

Index Funds. SPY, QQQ, DIA and a little bit that I would trade with in VOO and SMH, etc

teslakevee

I see your portfolio. Full port on calls and shares. SMH

HamchNY

Imagine making that comment thinking anyone would agree. All while you sit in mom’s basement. SMH

Zestyclose_Slip5942

Silly boy. Two atom bombs on Japan and nothing ended. SMH

Kirko_Cousins

SMH.. locals are already talking about filling up the vehicles before... god forbid $5 gas. Nothing 🍔

Chance_Prior9819

Hey yall. First I wanted to thank this sub, learned alot from it. I'm a beginner investor and would appreciate feedback on my allocation for long term growth. 29M. 50% core fund - CSPX 50% growth 18% SMH 14%SPMO 12%SCHG 6% IBIT Thanks in advance!

Chance_Prior9819

Hey yall. First I wanted to thank this sub, learned alot from it. I'm a beginner investor and would appreciate feedback on my allocation for long term growth. 29M. 50% core fund - CSPX 50% growth 18% SMH 14%SPMO 12%SCHG 6% IBIT Thanks in advance!

teslakevee

Tesla invites went out for Sunday… 3 days before. SMH

warl0ck05

SMH Etf

FatHighKnee

Look long term. What's coming innovation wise after AI? Im working unfer the assumption that quantum computing is the next big thing. Followed by genomic editing in order to cure illness and disease. Then space exploration & mining. Followed by who knows after that. But even after AI is here we will still need a metric F ton of chips, CPUs and GPUs. Tech is here to stay. Now you can make an argument that perhaps some other company overtakes NVDA at some point. Which is a fair concern companies rise and fall. Thats why besides my NVDA and AVGO positions ive also got SMH which is a semi conductor ETF. I figure that way I let the fund managers add and subtract companies as they go up and down, and I dont need to pay attention. Just keep watching the gains

Otterpoopie

Bruh, the world doesn’t have the cards. SMH $BRO

Gunzenator2

Stock is up 300% and you think you can long it? I’m sleeping in and doing nothing Friday because of this post. SMH

Enough_Bite_123

Just Banks and Government. They same entity that enslaved blacks in the first place. SMH 😑

abroadbroadband

Yet another embarrassing performance by the mods New day Same thread SMH

BrokeSingleDads

Those aren't LEAPS...SMH I have 2027

OptionSellingRegard

had an investor that committed $100k to one of my RE deals back out 2 days before closing claiming he got margin called SMH probably full ported into puts after liberation day

slinkysmooth

My play has been to buy all the dips. Every single one. Started doing this during COVID (against my conscience) and it’s paid off quite nicely. Just VOO and SMH (my aggressive play).

yahoo_determines

I don't think we ever see 180 again SMH my head

SnS2500

Do you like to gamble on things you don't understand? If so, NVTS is a decent gamble. If you want to make a longterm profitable mainstream bet on semiconductors, buy SMH.

werk_werk

What is your thesis beyond price action? If you are laboring over what to invest in, but you still like the overall semiconductor industry, consider SMH. Also, I would argue that AMD is finally in a position where it can compete with nVidia. They may never catch nVidia, but AMD is finally demonstrating an AI rack scale product that hyperscalers are interested in, and they are doing this while still dominating the CPU/embedded market. I'd say its hard to predict. Personally, I am invested in AMD, and it's my only semi stock other than ASML.

ryallen23

I guess a couple things. If you're investing rather than trading, you're placing a higher value on the expected return the further away it is. Literally nothing available to us has a better track record of succeeding on that parameter. Additionally, the intrinsic value accelerates at a faster rate than most things because of how aggressive their reinvestments are. Think about it. 40 year record of 20% annualized returns, PE of 12 or 13, and the price is down on the year while dividend yield is growing at an unbelievable rate with no signs of slowing down. And most of the positions are doing well anyway on price growth alone. If you're uninterested in safety, I totally get it. Go buy HOOD or SMH or whatever. I do quite a bit myself. But BRK is the closest thing we have in markets to a guaranteed excellent return. Until it finally stops doing that, I think it's pretty baseless to say their holdings are outdated. They keep outperforming SPY.

SolanaToTheMooon

You're better off buying SMH

SchwiftySchwifferson

I bought COIN calls but didn’t even buy Lockheed Martin calls. SMH

Promotion11

Obvious BS. I can post the letter Santa wrote me last year too. Wanna see? SMH

10thcrusader

This was the whole problem of why Obama and his staff didn't want to hit them before because nobody could give Obama assurances that they could get everything or that they didn't already have some type of nuclear weapon that could reach Israel I guess we're going to find out SMH

Shlagnoth

SMH, such blood lust. I save stuff like that for the Russians.

International-Key561

I need help bad! I started with $1500 but can’t get over $1200. SMH!!!

Pacfishslayer

Dip shit pulled out of the nuclear agreement in 2018 and couldn’t get a new one done, inspectors had access until he did that and now we are risking going to war on Israel’s trust me bro word! SMH

OrdinaryMix4013

sleepy would have been impeached 4x if he had even told Iran to evacuate. SMH.

oouncolaoo

**6,400 comments and no titties** SMH

Impressive_Day_5969

I haven’t bought any individual AI stocks yet, but I’ve been looking into AI ETFs like BOTZ, SOXX, and SMH. Check their holdings breakdown and historical returns on moomoo, which makes it really convenient to compare them side by side.

ThatChrisGuy7

If we nuke Iran we would do it all at once in many many missles. Just shooting a few would be foolish because they’d just fire all theirs off too. SMH

Narcissist_X

SMH

Belly_Laugher

2008 - My buddy at Schwab told me to pick up some Netflix at $6/share… Told him I didn’t think DVD’s by mail were going to catch on. SMH

Ndongle

Theta burn with zero margins for profit. SMH my head he really is regarded and belongs here.

Illustrious-Coat3532

You can always just buy the ETF SMH.

MoneyIQ-AI

I also hold NVIDIA and have done so for some time and I'm still very optimistic about its future and long-term growth potential. Yes, competition is clearly ramping up, particularly from AMD and custom silicon efforts by major cloud players, but I believe NVIDIA holds, and will continue to hold, a strong lead in the market. Their software ecosystem, especially CUDA, remains foundational to most AI workloads, and their execution continues to impress. Product is paramount, but it means little without operational excellence, and NVIDIA consistently delivers on both. Financially, their data centre revenue grew over 70% year-on-year in the most recent quarter, and free cash flow reached $26 billion, clear evidence they have the resources to keep innovating aggressively. Even with near-term margin impacts from export restrictions, their non-GAAP gross margin was still above 71%, which is strong by any standard. I aso know some investors are wary of valuation, NVIDIA's P/E ratio is around 45, which is high in absolute terms. But when you consider that AMD is trading above 80, and other AI-exposed growth companies are even higher, it's not that unusual for a market leader in a rapidly expanding industry. At this stage, growth expectations are driving valuations more than traditional metrics, and NVIDIA is still delivering against those expectations. What’s also impressive, and a key part of my long-term conviction, is their expansion beyond GPUs into major and fast-growing markets like autonomous vehicles, robotics, and digital twins. So even if the AI hype cools at times, NVIDIA has its hands in enough high-potential sectors to remain well-positioned. Of course, they’ll need to stay agile as the ecosystem gets more competitive, but so far, they’ve handled that exceptionally well. In terms of adding to a position, I plan to keep building mine. That said, if you’re looking for broader, lower-risk exposure to the AI space, combining a NVIDIA position with something like QQQ or SMH can help spread risk while keeping exposure to key players. The only other thing I’d add is around FX risk. I’m assuming you’re based in the US, in which case this may not apply, but if you’re investing from outside the US, currency movements could impact your returns. For example, if, or more likely when, the Fed begins cutting rates, the USD may weaken. Buying now from a stronger base currency might seem advantageous, but gains could be eroded when converting back later if your home currency softens. In other words, if you're holding NVIDIA stock in a comparatively weaker USD and eventually need to convert proceeds back to EUR or GBP, for example, some of the upside could be lost. It’s not a major concern if you're investing for the long term, but it’s worth being aware of unless you’re hedged. Hope this helps...

bilingualbunny

Isn't that the same as 2x leverage instead of 3? Why not just use margin and buy SMH? or if there's an alternative to SOXL but in 2x leverage? I bet those puts cost alot right now

AliveSurvey2183

VGT, SMH, SCHD. You need nothing else

joetacos

Recently I made money with Circle and CoreWeave IPO. Backed out of AIRO when their IPO got delayed. I'm missed out but pround I showed some restrant of buying a company I don't know much about. Robinhood has a page of recently launched IPOs, alot of them failed. I would keep most of your money in VOO. SPMO SMH FBTC are also good ETFs. Sit and wait for the right IPO. A company that you know that has a good product. I made money off of Roku and Cloudflare IPO. I knew those companies they have a good product. I didnt get all the share I wanted with Cirlcle at IPO price on Robinhood. The next high indemand IPO I'm going to split it between different brokers. Rember if its a good company even if it drops your didn't loose money until you sell. You can always sit on it. It can always go back up. CoreWeave didn't drop much but took a little while to go up. Even if it takes you a couple years sit back and wait for that one good IPO. If you got 5 grand and go all in on 6 good IPO trades. Your trading whole yearly salaries. You could be eventually living off 1 trade a year. Try not to go all in but you have to go in huge if you want hugh profits. I bought about 5 IPOs and they all did good. They have to have a good product.

MindmyBusinessJoe

SMH.

ZealousidealEdge1328

The shills and bag holders are out bad today. SMH. 

Historical-Ad-2551

Iran is currently attacking Israel and yall are bullish SMH

SchwiftySchwifferson

Party foul bro. SMH

GrizzleTheGod

Israel is going to fucking bankrupt us. SMH

StrategicPotato

If you're unsure, inexperienced, and risk averse but seeking consistent growth - nothing beats the classic 90/10 split into a 3 stock portfolio (or, to simplify it even further, just VT or AVGE instead of VIT and VXUS or something equivalent). I'd throw in a small amount of Bitcoin as well just for exposure, but I wouldn't do more than 5-10% personally. Sometimes the most "exciting" play is the one that's basically just the most guaranteed to make you money. Lump sum 100k now and DCA the rest at a rate of your choosing until the remaining 200k is exhausted (keep it in SPAXX or something in the meantime). That's what I'd do simply because agonizing over the lump sum vs DCA optimization will drive you mad, especially when putting down a large amount like that at once. Beyond that is when you start getting more speculative obviously. Honestly, there's so many conflicting events and factors currently affecting the market that I find it difficult to believe anyone who thinks they know what's going to go up. Personally, I'm about half VT and half split between SPMO/BRK/SMH. I think NVDA/AMD/SMH are still good buys for the foreseeable future despite what people think (hell, NVDA has mathematically been able to justify it's value year-over-year and isn't slowing down and AMD is pretty much the only company in the world poised to compete with them despite the current lag). I'm not really well versed enough in other sectors to sniff out potential bets in them though.

Straight-Annual8687

Boeing goes down because a couple of retarded pilots forgot to put the flaps out for takeoff and crashed due to the resulting stall - 100% pilot error, obvious from the video - SMH

Krammsy

Heck yes, also SMH / SOXL. I prefer to buy 30-60 DTE puts or bear etf calls or index options against leveraged ETF's, the difference in leverage being the trick.

Ok_Airline_3746

Bears really on the same level as a doomsday prophet just trying to stoke fear. SMH

Spankynpetey

No. He hasn’t. He’s also not predicting doom and gloom or he wouldn’t be tripling his bank’s investment in AI. Warning of an economic pullback due to the current administration’s policies is a no brainer. Even the orange emperor back peddled on his plans. If they break the bond market with their bs tariff games and foreign policy, we will all be screwed. Luckily, there is a voice of reason or two in Washington and NYC. Dimon happens to be one of them and his voice is heard. SMH...

LoveNature_Trades

I should be the only one with access to LLM and AI! you all are peasants and not worry of anything in life. just down right Ls! JOB just over brokie! not deserving of anything SMH

SPaniardz

Often, I get no good info from this group. The SQUEEZE group has better info and smaller players. SMH.

MrEdTheHorseofCourse

Kinda like Mexico is paying for the wall SMH

AmpersandTheMonkee

Oh wow he got a "Full magnets" concession?! What a deal! SMH

xsquintz

Just paid 87% for 5 partially assembled PCBs yesterday. The boards cost me $397 shipped. The setup cost alone to have the produced locally is $300. When I compared the quotes I figured the tariffs would need to be 400% for me to buy locally instead. So.. All the tariff is doing is causing me to raise my prices so I can still buy from China and make the same profit as before. The only person paying here is my customer. I get that things don't look fair. But this isn't the solution. The only person getting richer here is Uncle Sam. It would be one thing if the tarrifs were used to subsidize our own factories to ensure we keep our capabilities up for security reasons. But that is not the case. Instead we're spending tax dollars on fighting protesters. SMH

Advanced-Prototype

If it’s such a good deal, why is the stock market down? SMH. (Be careful not to get those magnets wet else they lose their magnetism.)

JellyfishOpening

I put 26% of my annual income into my Roth 401K. Fill up the max $23.5K 401K limit, then the rest goes into Megabackdoor Roth. Mostly put it in a variety of ETF's (QQQM, XLK, SMH). I also have a rental that I put any after-tax rent (2k/month) into a CEF (BST) that pays a monthly dividend at an 8% annual rate. Trying to generate some additional stream of cash.

MinyMine

This is why i SMH

95Daphne

Semis already been on fire lately, the question is going to be if they maintain and don't sell. $260 SMH is an important point.

Miserable-Tie-3436

SMH. Last quarter can beat by 25%, but if they say that next quarter they project making 1 penny less than last quarter then it will tank 50%. Let's see how far GTLB will fall.

DessuTheDank

How should I go with making my portfolio more efficient? My portfolio has decent diversification, but it probably could be more risk-efficient. My current holdings are NVDA 29% FLIN (FTSE India) 13% SPY 15% SMH 15% FEZ (SPDR EURO STOXX 50) 28% I like my assets and I believe they reflect the way I want to invest: I still believe in American domination and semiconductors while I also want to own some quality companies from Europe and also want to take part in an emerging market (India). The current weights are due to me making some moves and buying the dip in some instances. Now that the prices are up I have a conundrum since I don't know what I really want to hold long term. I'm not really sure how much I want to have in NVDA/SMH since SMH is basically a less riskier version of NVDA due to diversification. 30% in Europe could be a decent weight but especially the SPY, SMH, NVDA weights are the problem. I am in my 20s and I have decided that I won't be liquidating my portfolio for many many years. So I am willing to take more risks than what I currently have going on. If you don't have exact answers, I also appreciate links to any resources. Thanks

Ripl0024

Yeah I guess. SOXL is basically the levered version of smh. If you want an actual view of how beaten down the underlying assets inside the etf are pull up a chart of smh. And then read about options decay in levered ETFs to see why SOXL looks so much more beaten up than SMH. But you definitely shouldn’t buy a levered etf if you don’t fully understand what I’m talking about.

Big-block427

And Tesla continues to rally back impressively. The entire AI trade & SMH is just exploding with billions of dollars being raised privately and seemingly these capital raises are oversubscribed. A 2 mile long train traveling at breakneck high speed can take forever to stop. Just sayin what I’m seeing.

Candid_Skill_4520

SMH, I fucking rolled them at the start of February, right before it took that dipped that would have ended this shitshow, but nope, too late, already rolled them to 12/26, at 140 (168 break even) ☠️

95Daphne

It isn't really what matters in regards to potential continuation or not, the number, actually two numbers to place in your back pocket are SMH $260 and NVDA $150.  If they can't get further, there probably isn't a world where the S&P gets further than 6100.

yaris205

SMH is popin off and thats with AVGO lagging behind

brealio

And MY POINT is we live in a different world than 70 years ago, a world of meme stocks pumped by dipshits, bitcoin, meme coins and stocks all led by the dummest worst taco president in history and every other country in the world seems to be following suit in some fashion. Past performance does not guarantee future returns. SMH Good luck!

brealio

And MY POINT is we live in a different world than 70 years ago, a world of meme stocks pumped by dipshits, bitcoin, meme coins and stocks all led by the dummest worst taco president in history and every other country in the world seems to be following suit in some fashion. Past performance does not guarantee future returns. SMH Good luck!

licenseddruggist

You can leverage with stocks as well. That's something I'm considering as I sell my second property. Take that 120k, and the broker will quadruple that in my margin account. Then, invest that into a diversified portfolio. Getting margin called is the big issue, but foreclosures are also an issue. We as a society tend never to really appreciate how possible real estate downturns and foreclosures are. I will admit that the probability and speed of a margin call is higher than a foreclosure. Deciding how big of a difference that is would be up to each investor. My biggest regret was not utilizing margin since beginning in 2018. I should have parked that borrowed money into SMH and Spy. This past April was a no-brainer to use at least a bit of margin as my stocks were still insanely up from Covid.

Jimmytootwo

Why would you go to cash ,you can't time this shit. Now you missed a huge move and are feeling FOMO SMH

newplayer28

In tech, if you are not first, you are last. They are very far behind NVDA. NVDA holds 90% of the market share in AI training chips with its CUDA software platform. AMD is not industry standard and assuming all future projects keep using NVDA due to their technology advantage, AMD will slowly lose its 3% AI and data center market share overtime. Now I do believe there is some huge upside to AMD as well but it will not overshadow NVDA because NVDA is sector leader. If semi conductor stocks see surge, you best believe NVDA is also up. But if NVDA is down, it will pull the rest of the sector down with it, including AMD. As they say, let your winners run, so I would argue that I could see NVDA with 4t easily vs the market share AMD would need to take away from its competitors to get to 300b market cap. Its easier for Nvda to eat that market share. I am long on semi conductors in general, I believe long term it will be one of the best sectors for investment (and possibly humanity). So while I do support and believe in AMD, I believe in the whole sector, but NVDA will be the cream of the crop in this sector for now. This is one time where a semi ETF I think is gold, they hold all important companies, non fluff, irreplaceable tech such as ASML (lithography), Applied materials, qualcomm, Texas Instruments and more. Long $SOXX $SMH

bearbeard427

Seems like we need universal income and introduce a startrek era... But with how things currently are the heme unfortunately seems to be you're on your own.... prove you matter folks... SMH

Some_Ganache12

How can he lose if he didn’t sell? SMH

lrg4lyfe

Sell low, buy high. SMH

FIicker7

The concept of Authoritarianism VS Democracy and the idea of Liberation from Authoritarianism is beyond Trump's ability to imagine. SMH

wtf_is_up

I bought about $450k of VTI/QQQ/SMH between 04 Apr and 09 Apr. Had it sitting in SGOV. Then bought some KKR/APO/AMD/GLD here and there. And just now some IWM and MU leaps.

QuesoBirriaTacos

Some hoe and her jagoff boyfriend ate an apple from a tree 5000 years ago and now i get to lose money on options SMH

95Daphne

Hate to say it again here, but the Broadcom deal (if this is referring to that) was so easily readable, that I was able to read it. Just be glad the Nasdaq and SMH are absorbing it and it appears we'll continue to drift to a major test zone that will likely decide if uptrend resumes for the Nasdaq or if we're going to stuck ranging for the rest of 2025.

Brubiu

Remember guys, this is the average user and their loss on wsb. When people in the daily talk about being wiped out this is what they mean. SMH.