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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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Why won’t Reddit let me save this beautiful meme SMH.
Good. I've got SMH covered calls that are deep itm. Crash a little so I can get out.
I mean you could get most of that with an ETF like XLK or SMH.
SMH and SOXX haven't even began to pullback. Imagine if they do..
Shoulda bought GOOG instead of MSFT SMH
MSFT below 400. I'm a generational bag Holder. SMH
Lost all the gains from 2025 already. Back to square one SMH
Capex for mega corps like Google, Meta, and Amazon is higher than ever as they invest into expanding their AI projects and a huge portion of that money is going directly into chips/semiconductors which means the "AI bubble" fears miss the reality of semis getting record profits for at least another year or two. Because of this, I believe the outlook is still moderately bullish for Nvidia and highly bullish for semiconductors as a whole. Personally, I'm betting on the latter with the semiconductor ETF is SMH so you have broad exposure (vs. betting on Nvidia)
SMH green but AMD still down 2.5%. Classic. 😆
it was high because at one point I really wanted to sell but didn’t like the price so I sold a deep itm call so I can make a quick buck and it actually went down ~10-15% and I made 10% of the value from that one call I think it was somewhere around 20-25% over 4 or so months because the stock never kept going down 🤪. Bought right at the peak last year and sold for an 17% loss and put all of the money in to SMH.
RKLB entire move yesterday gone in pre market SMH
Woke up right before close and saw I only made $300 on puts WTF so I made a last minute call on Google certain it would print...SMH
Dude I forgot that fucking stop losses don’t work in AH. Ffs 15% loss in like 10s SMH. At least I was only in for 290 shares. Still sucks though…
Had no cash so couldn’t buy the googl dip SMH
If I hadn't made like $800 on $SMH puts I'd be pissed. Same results as last time dumped that trash 20% and this time it ends up flat despite no improvement whatsoever.
I’m down $1k over the last two days, which is 50% of my gambling account. SMH
Didnt think the dip would keep dipping 😭😭😭 And to make it even worse i had 2k into SMH ETF lmaooo , but those my long term investment , I have 2k into VOO and 2k into SMH
"APH is suffering from 'Guilt by Association.' It’s heavily weighted in the same ETFs (XLK, SMH) as the big semiconductor names. When funds dump Nvidia and AMD (which they are doing aggressively this week), they inadvertently sell APH too because of how the baskets are structured. Nothing is wrong with the company itself, it’s just a liquidity event in the sector. If you liked it at $70, you should love it here. This is a classic 'baby out with the bathwater' scenario
Lots of crying in the casino and we ain't even too far down from ATH. SMH
I am losing my house WTF is this garbage? SMH
SMH I know people love to blame everything on Trump, but come on. Money is at stake here and I do not support lying because y'all have TDS It's outsourcing and a cultural shift where companies are fine running with skeleton crews and only want to hire unicorns with rare skills Maybe look if the largest employers are remotely impacted by tariffs before espousing misinformation? Also the downtrend in hiring outside fast food began a year or so before tariffs
$SMR more like SMH bruh getting railed
It's fucking insane that the entire SMH gains from January were wiped out in 3-4 days.
Copper is literally brown gold and y’all ain’t buying SMH
I am currently sitting on my hands and in cash and sold mostly everything last week after making a nice 4.5% in January. I am resisting the urge to buy back in until things settle more this week. The only positions I am holding are VDE, SCHD, and SMH as SMH is the hardware for AI and not software. SMH got caught in the AI drop but I think will recover. Microsoft is in the penalty box for awhile. and is in a tough spot. If the IRAN/USA conflict continues to heat up, I am going to push into energy and back into GOLD (SGOL) since it will most likely ride up again. IRAN sent out a drone today to attack the US fleet and this will only provoke the Department of War. I predict if the US is going to attack it will be on the new moon, around Feb 17th also depending on weather.
SMCI 6% for a massive beat. SMH this game is so rigged.
If SMH and SOXX pullback its a long way down
35%. This year 75-80% SWPPX and the rest in QQQM/SCHD. Maybe SMH again.
I’ve been loading up on SMH since 2018. Didn’t expect it to rise this much or this quickly but happy with the results. All because I read about it somewhere on Reddit and had a bunch of cash in my retirement accounts at the time. SMH and VOO have been my bread and butter…
Damn everything I touch seems to turn red, none of my usual type plays are working SMH
I had SPY puts at open, but decided to sell them and buy calls at 691 SMH.
I kept Averaging down on Hood and mfer kept going down ! SMH
Were seeing a regime change there is bound to be some fluctuations. SMH
Look into SMH.. that way you can play the semis.
SMH or SMGB (UK) Hold them all, ooh and some FLRK for the sweet SK Hynix, Samsung.
Yeah I mean that’s fine, but consistently I see people dumping on others for doing very reasonable things like allocating to SMH or individual megacap stocks. These are layups. People shouldn’t be shitting on others for having conviction. Being too scared/stupid to take calculated risks and playing it off by being smug about it online is loser shit
Have SMH for 15 months now. This thing is unstoppable.
It may be worth it not betting on one but taking a little less of a risk on SMH.
If you like ETFs, consider a semiconductor ETF like SMH or SOXX
If you want to be aggressive without being too reckless, i suggest that you go 70-80% QQQM or SCHG and 30-20% SMH or VGT. Since you're just starting up and have "a few dollars", use a broker that allows fractional shares. Also, it is better to add small increments consistently than waiting for the best time for a perfect entry.
SMH went from -3% to +0.5%, lol. NVDA still struggling so GOOGL may lap it in the near future.
You holding short dated calls over the weekend still haven’t learned. SMH
I see that you are only considering two options, but what about the third - wait for some signs of strength in IGV in general and MSFT in particular? Yes, MSFT isn’t just software, they have a cloud component and some AI plays. But the software sector has been demolished recently. Maybe some big players estimate that soon the software can be custom made by AI for pennies on the dollar compared to current prices. MSFT itself is in a downtrend ever since the earnings gap and crap. I personally tried playing some bounces, but that was a net negative. Looking for bounces to sell seems to be the play at the moment. The stock is currently below 200 daily SMA, which typically is a sign to stay away for some institutional investors. It is in a peculiar spot at the moment technically - there’s a recent gap above, but also a gap below from the earnings move that really kick started the grind up last year. It’s unclear if there are more dip buyers willing to close the overhead gap or more sellers waiting for a lower high to hammer it down to close the gap below. The market as a whole, especially Nasdaq, has lost the momentum ever since the October 10th sell off. Nasdaq still hasn’t able to even reach the ATH despite the SPX hitting 7k. Clearly there has been a rotation out of big tech (despite SMH going on a monster run). I would suggest waiting if this is the amount of money that is meaningful to you. There are no clear buy signal on MSFT chart.
If you didn't go down to your local numismatist and purchase bullion coins or bars......... SMH... only hold physical metals, people!
Why would anybody believe this publicity stunt? This is leading up to a huge money grab for Musk to get him out of the debt he built with his Tesla stocks. SMH... no thank you.
Assuming I already had an emergency fund, probably VOO. But, if it was me, I would split it between several things: VOO SCHG Bitcoin GLDM SMH
It’s funny how I find myself losing money as part of these “historic” events. At least I can say I’m part of something. SMH
You put a sell order in with a trailing stop and a percentage. What is a trailing stop? Trailing stop are "Set and Forget" (Automatic): Most brokerage platforms (Fidelity, Schwab, Robinhood, etc.) have a specific order type called "Trailing Stop." You enter a percentage (e.g., "Trailing Stop 10%"). If the stock rises to $100, the stop sits at $90. If it climbs to $150, the stop automatically moves to $135. You don't have to touch it. However, according to Schwab they use 3rd party data for the stop and aren't responsible if things go sideways. You don't want to keep the percentage too small that if there is volatility your stock sells itself and and you miss out on potential gains. I try to keep my stop wider than the volatility band (hi/low) for the day if I want to keep the stock and think it is a going up, like SMH or Gold for the past month.
I setup trailing stops at %10-%15 depending on the volatility. For example, SMH 15% trailing stop, Gold 10% trailing stop Trailing stops aren't guaranteed and the data comes from some 3rd party instead of the brokerage which takes no responsibility if something goes wrong. But yes, if you want to protect your profits you needs to sell into strength every now and again and set stop losses. For the past 30-days DOW +1.09% S&P +.062% NASDAQ +.18% Me +4.50% With all the volatility I have been trying to manage my buys/sells/stop everyday at lunch. It is my new lunch time activity :) I really started managing on Jan 1st and have been the DOW, S&P, & NASDAQ. Taking profits, setting stops, buying fear like the Capital One bounce (COF). Also, I have been using Gemini Pro to analyze news and earnings reports to give me more insight into buys and sells. This has saved me from a few panic decisions, especially on Trump's Greenland scare.
Americans who allow other Americans to be slaughtered by vicious illegal MS13 gang members or other dangerous immigrants need to have a family member of their own slaughtered too for a fucking wake up call!!! You people make me sick. Over 30 young American woman and men have been murdered by illegals, yet it never makes it to the MSM!! SMH… only this ICE BS does. MSM and George Soros have paid and weaponize organized protests which are getting people killed. The blood is on their hands!!
Been bouncing up the last hour. What are you looking at. SMH
Short-term (1-1.5 years) you might wanna consider SOXX or SMH. Long-term VT, VTI, VGK, VTXS. VXUS depending if you think US / EU / Ex-US is gonna outperform or you think the US have a serious debt problem.
Dudes hands never went for the weapon or high enough for a threat. SMH shit stupid
Software is down in general. Not a surprise since AI can automate all software. Hardware not so much. SMH and forget, atleast until the tech+semi supercycle ends
Bro what? WFE makes up a majority of SMH lol
If you did a thorough DD. You would see LAM + KLAC has significantly outperformed SMH in the past 1Y and 5Y. Btw SMH holds all the WFE stocks. You're like insulting the stocks that help SMH.
Drunk me forgot to charge my phone so I’m just now able to use it and I missed buying the dip. SMH
Mango bankrupting his 7th Casino, SMH.
I’m getting the worst FOMO from NAMM, a horrible feeling. Was gonna jump in at 94 cents after seeing gold prices go up. I could see that it was the lowest float gold play on the market, yet I didn’t go for it thinking it would be oil that would go first. It’s eating me up inside SMH. Did go for it at $3.58 to $5.10 but the lesson here is: Trust your instincts!
my dad kept asking me to buy physical gold when it was $2200/oz. I could have listened to him for once SMH
SPY barely +0.10% tomorrow with all of the QQQ/SMH dragging Microsoft up to -4% on the day.
You went the wrong way… SMH
Got a $SMH 420c that's up 300%. Wondering if I should sell it or wait for all the data center earnings to see if it'll really sky rocket after that.
I’ve bet $SMH for the last 2 years because I don’t know how semiconductors work but I know they are very important. And it’s worked
SMH they didn't announce full self driving or cities on Mars. What kind of shitty company focuses on metrics like 'profit' or 'growth'??
I've been in and out of Puts on NOW for a few weeks, I have every reason to believe it's going to continue its downward slide, but can't say if it'll gap down, just that it's poised to sink. CAT and TMO seem like positioned to move up, but I hesitate to suggest as I missed several of my Call choices yesterday, I think the market is over-bought and so calls may not play... At the same time, I didn't get calls on STX yesterday because it seemed so extended - SMH, it's up 18% today...
SMH up over 9% YTD even as people pretend there's a rotation.
Lmao just got a remindme for this sub from a year ago after the deepseek news where I got downvoted to oblivion for saying deepseek changes nothing and chip market is fine and someone responded with this: “Please stop spreading your ignorance. V trying to convince people to lose their muney alongside you. The entire landscape of this emerging technology just totally changed overnight and American tech companies were in no way prepared for it and look like complete buffoons right now. But yeah. Sure. This changes nothing.” I then bet that SMH will be up vs spy in a year. SMH up 4x as much as spy over the past year LMAO. This sub truly is regarded.
Tomorrow is the BIG DAY! Microsoft Earnings! The number to watch, Azure Cloud Growth. Scenario A (The Boom): Azure growth accelerates (due to Copilot AI). The stock pops. The "Risk On" rally continues. Scenario B (The Bust): Azure growth slows or AI costs are too high. The stock drops. Goldman sees: Outflows from Tech ($900M) and massive inflows into International (EM) and Cyclicals. So if MSFT falters tomorrow, get out of Magnificent 7 and into energy, and old economy value stocks., and possibly GOLD. My picks: VYMI, VDE, SGOL, SCHD, SCHG, SMH I sold all my Google today and took some of the upside of SMH. Tomorrow I will see if I was right.
seems unnecessarily complex for 20% growth which can be had in standard buy and hold VTI in good years. plus the main risk is sector concentration, IWB, VOO, MGK, and SMH are all majorly tech dominant with NVDA as the highest holding. You're buying NVDA on top of that and NVDA contracts. This means you're overly exposed to a tech pullback which in combination with your trailing stops means that if there's a modest tech pullback (not out of the question at this point IMO) you would be selling low and lock in your losses which might have otherwise recovered. I don't have time to go into my whole portfolio logic right now, but based on the political landscape at the moment, why not diversify rather than double/triple down on tech? regardless of your personal politics we all know trump wants to cut interest rates and print his way out of the national debt in 2026. The dollar has already lost 11% of it's value in the past year. I'm not saying to sell everything for gold, but just to diversify to capture the free upside of assets not based in USD just in case. Personally, I'm 50:50 USD and international/PM and it's done extremely well for me. I feel like you're investing for the current market rather than investing for the future.
I got banned from some subs for commenting on posts from subs I've never subscribed to or even interacted with!! Thanks RDDT algorithm for putting subs known for brigading on my feed. I make one comment disagreeing with that subreddit's status quo, and then I get banned from pics??? SMH
ME TOO. I got banned from r/teslainvestorclub for shitting Elmo here. SMH
Within the AI or AI adjacent names, I got MU (biggest position in the portfolio), CIEN, VRT, IREN, NBIS, FLNC, and SMH. Basically, long on memory, connectivity, cooling, two computes, battery, and broad market chips. After AI, I have material/metals, consumer disc, and space basket. In terms of size, AI is my biggest theme, followed my metals, disc., and space.
I got a decent amount of calls on various themes going out July-Jan '27. But I do sprinkle shorter term hedges around the portfolio. For my AI longs, I use SOXX/SMH puts to cover this area.
OF COURSE gold and silver moon right after i quit trading SMH
>Can we truly expect the United States to continue going up, in terms of stocks? Yes, for the foreseeable future. The US has 2 main benefits: 1. The ludicrously high concentration of strong innovative companies, the wealth to invest in them, and the workforce concentration to make continuous operation viable. 2. It has the strongest stock market in the world. That doesn't mean that it has the best economy in the world (though also it sort of does, for now). It means that it's incredibly easy and relatively low-risk to profit off of + the government will literally do almost anything to save it. \#2 is arguably even more important than one because there are tons of "better" upside opportunities globally for investing imo. But actually being able to profit from them is very difficult. The EU for instance does not have an environment that is very conducive towards building something like the next Google or Nvidia (decentralized economy, lack of investors/VCs, language barriers, more lax work ethic, legal systems that generally benefit individuals at business' expense, low tech salaries, etc). China on the other hand has the opposite problem, it does #1 *better* than the US imo. The issue is actually investing in that. Given that Chinese stocks are basically proxy holdings (made-up IOUs with no real legal protections for foreign buyers), many people have been burned before on Chinese stocks. Then you also have smaller emerging markets/developing economies, which are a very high risk bet that may pay off decades beyond when you need your money to grow. Places like the middle east, Africa, South America, etc. All that being said though, ignoring the fact that the US is still 65% of the global market by market cap, international is still worth holding - or at least it is historically speaking. You're doing fine and you're basically doing the classic bogglehead strategy = can't lose if you own the whole market. At your age you could probably afford to take some risk with more aggressive ETFs though assuming that you plan to be at least semi-active. I wouldn't be afraid to throw a bit into something like VGT, QQQ, or SMH for a while just to capitalize on US tech for the time being.
Really just ETFs... VTV, IVE, VLUE. RPV is sort of an "aggressive" deeper value fund. I just looked and I was SO heavy in tech and felt it was time to pull back. I had a ton of my 401k in SMH and S&P 500 market weighted ETFs - and they did very well (SMH in particular) , but I am thinking we may be looking at a pull back in tech and others. I still want to be in the market, but I have more downside risk with Value.
And I thought that this was a stock sub. What is the DD? Buy puts, hoard calls... SMH 😒
Sadly. Give up! They are a very evil company! Sometimes it feels like I’m not only trying to beat the market but also at the same time RH looking over my shoulder waiting for me to make any mistakes! So they can send me warning notice any reason. Just to mess with me! They love harassing people for anything! SMH
I'd put some in SMH it's a. Great ETF and plays all the semiconductors!
Tell me you’re ignorant without telling me. SMH.
So this Peter schiff guy was right after all. SMH
I did do some research, but I'm pretty new so I am negating my risk just by not investing a lot of money before I know more what I'm doing. The first is the fidelity contrafund, so basically their S&P 500 w/ no fee. Next 3 (SMH, REMX, OIH)are EFT's in industries I think have a bright future; semiconductors , rare earth/strategic metals, and oil services (the companies who actually do the infrastructure for oil and gas exploration and extraction). Next 2 (DPRO, LPTH) are companies that work on drone components. Then RKLB, FOMO buy. The rest I have very small stakes in and were more just vibe buys and tips from friends that invest a lot on what they were buying. IBOT I think is a great ETF (robotics) I just didn't have much money I was willing to put into it yet. I do not yet go in depth on company financials, news, leadership etc. But I'm willing to learn.
Ah I should have known we’d be flat today. Made 4 trades and came out exactly even, my IBRX calls won’t print till next week at the soonest. SMH.
Did that, no response sense yet. SMH anyway ndx 25530 Call $$$$$
Passive index fund investing. At a risk level you’re comfortable with. VT to VTI to VOO to QQQ to SMH. But from each paycheck and hold for long periods, decades even.
Have most of your money in something like VT with satellite allocations in gold and qqq. Have this in your bank or a seperate app. Never touch it or even look at it. Then make a fun account on a sketchy broker like robinhood. Start by investing in etfs instead of individual shares just to get a feel with relatively little risk. It will become clear to you that most of the growth is just coming from a handful of hype stocks. While those can fall just as quickly as they have risen, if you catch the wave you can make lots of money. Here is where options or leveraged etfs can make you good money, but be careful, if you invest at a peak (which can be after a parabolic blow off top) you can lose tons of money even with safe plays. This happened on october 31st, literally everything was at ATH, then everything came crashing down. That was just a little taste of what a major correction can look like. With options/leveraged etfs i would suggest broad semiconductors like ticker SMH (hard to predict which company will do well, the only constant is that nvidia will underperform), micron/sandisk/sk hynix/samsung/tsmc/asml individually, and gold/silver/copper/uranium miners. Tech/ai i wouldn't even touch right now. Space stonks work too (or jedi etf) or certain robotics companies like kraken or teradyne. Those all make 0 profits though so their growth is all hype and can pop very quickly.
I’d still probably stick with ETFs in whatever sectors you and they are interested in. I’ve had VGT for tech in the past, but its performance this past year really slowed down. Currently I own SMH (semiconductor ETF), SHLD (global defense ETF), and SPMO (a momentum stock that rebalances every 6 months to invest in companies that have had a positive trajectory the prior six months. This latest rebalance has not been good however). The vast majority of my portfolio is in boring broad US and international ETFs though. I would avoid picking individual stocks for someone else’s portfolio.
Not Sandisk but balls deep in SMH which has Micron and TSMC.
what else aside from SMH and GOOGL
Sold MU at 110, RKLB at 4, OKLO at 10 for a fat loss, SMH in the 200s. I genuinely feel so regarded
wake up, see people panicking, check futes, down .2%. SMH
I bought more TSM, AVGO and SMH. Thanks everyone who panicked and sold me the cheaper shares.