SMH

Primary-Nebula-8907

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

Retropixl

Bro what? WFE makes up a majority of SMH lol

uebersoldat

Same, at $90-something. SMH

ethereal3xp

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.

nachi_w

WFE is useless compared to SMH.

Lapidated_Llama

Drunk me forgot to charge my phone so I’m just now able to use it and I missed buying the dip. SMH

Impressive-Joke-3119

Mango bankrupting his 7th Casino, SMH.

Due-Papaya-6217

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!

isolated-cat

my dad kept asking me to buy physical gold when it was $2200/oz. I could have listened to him for once SMH

Possible-Mobile-6309

SPY barely +0.10% tomorrow with all of the QQQ/SMH dragging Microsoft up to -4% on the day. 

Ok-Buddy-Sure

You went the wrong way… SMH

Pereise1

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.

Nearby_Valuable_5467

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

PM_ME_PLASTIC_BAGS

SMH they didn't announce full self driving or cities on Mars. What kind of shitty company focuses on metrics like 'profit' or 'growth'??

Stocks_N_Bondage

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...

Prudent-Corgi3793

SMH up over 9% YTD even as people pretend there's a rotation.

brett_baty_is_him

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.

usa_reddit

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.

Redcrux

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.

coldweathershorts

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

AyumiHikaru

ME TOO. I got banned from r/teslainvestorclub for shitting Elmo here. SMH

GreyMatter22

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.

GreyMatter22

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.

warm_fork

OF COURSE gold and silver moon right after i quit trading SMH

StrategicPotato

>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.

TheImpPaysHisDebts

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.

Turbulent_Tax1314

And I thought that this was a stock sub. What is the DD? Buy puts, hoard calls... SMH 😒

Mental_Movie_5144

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

usa_reddit

SMH is my semiconductor ETF

Next_Gen_investing

I'd put some in SMH it's a. Great ETF and plays all the semiconductors! 

Sidney_Godsby

Tell me you’re ignorant without telling me. SMH.

diplar

So this Peter schiff guy was right after all. SMH

Girldad_4

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.

Space__Pirate

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.

Odd_Mistake_5437

Did that, no response sense yet. SMH anyway ndx 25530 Call $$$$$

__redruM

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.

TreGet234

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.

Maggins

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. 

billocity

Not Sandisk but balls deep in SMH which has Micron and TSMC.

Beazt11123

SMH at this flat market.

Affectionate-Drop689

what else aside from SMH and GOOGL

Same_Bag711

Sold MU at 110, RKLB at 4, OKLO at 10 for a fat loss, SMH in the 200s. I genuinely feel so regarded

RogerBalderer

wake up, see people panicking, check futes, down .2%. SMH

Last_Preparation_446

I bought more TSM, AVGO and SMH. Thanks everyone who panicked and sold me the cheaper shares.

Priceplayer

Fuuuuuuu now I’ll have to average down my calls on NFLX. SMH I’m down millions

Straight-Annual8687

Yes, you should buy SMH instead of NFLX :)

HybridKOOPcfp

I got killed today on small cap puts. SMH… I have zero luck, ever.

Artifexx

I find it funny that on any other day, one slight budge in the market and AMD goes crashing down. But not today. SMH.

eggmaker

Anniversary speech dedicated to Minnesota. SMH

Due-Papaya-6217

I haven’t gone into hiding SMH - DRCT still in play because of the short stats. I don’t have a crystal ball

Space__Pirate

SMH I was late on PLTR. My calls are steadily dying, LOL

Otterpoopie

#SMH bers LMAO 🤌

SexxyAli420

Yeah we would be doing amazing with Kamala and Tim. We all know rampant welfare fraud on unprecedented scales does wonders for the market! SMH I swear a lot of people on this sub just comment brain dead shit and be thinking they are buffet jr the stock market Jedi master. Just sayin 😂

Affectionate_Age752

Going to SMH, AAPL, NTFX and TSM Along with Gold and Silver

AdMundane5035

SMH my head 🤦‍♂️

Objective_Chest_1697

"The desire for Greenland is not reckless" SMH. It is beyond reckless. Yet another self inflicted wound that will be with us for decades. You apologists are too much. 

CarnageAsada-

Pay the fucking mortgage off! For fucks sake are people really regarded in here I thought it was just an inside joke. SMH

ForeverInTheSun82647

This isn’t even true. But since Trump tweets it, I guess it is? SMH.

Objective_Chest_1697

And I just told you your lunch ne a f thinking is flawed. You wanna tell me the US didn't just do that same thing? SMH. Again, arrogant and foolish. 

GoneIn61Seconds

The Slate. It might be the only EV I'd be remotely interested in owning. The moment it came every reviewer said "we wanted basic, but that's TOO basic. It will never sell"... SMH...

Odd-Ad-9596

I’ve been in Rolls Royce ADR since it was on its heels at $1.50 during Covid (one of those too big to fail investments. I think it closes at $15+ on Friday). But yeah, the EU defense sector is only going to rise given the amount of funding the EU member are doing whether or not the Ukraine war ends. With the arctic ice melting making the waters more accessible, everyone is going to be jockeying for strategic positions in the North Pole region. Hence Trumps desire to fully control Greenland (SMH). Just put more defense systems and boots on the ground and settle this BS desire. Minerals extraction can be done in more suitable environments. Anyway, I found a follow up on the story. Now I remember. It was Bury (the shorter) that accused the AI sector of foul play. Of course he has his own agenda. Here’s a follow up denial story…. https://stockstory.org/high-quality/top-6-to-buy-this-week?partner=yahoo&utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=content_ticker&utm_campaign=contenthighqualitystock

khp3655

Based on the pattern I’ve been seeing 47 and his cronies will talk up the talk and threat until the market falls. Then they will buy the dip. Once bought in, 47 will back off and the market will bounce, netting these insiders a huge windfall. This is how you scam a country … and people call our leaders stupid. SMH.

Lotsawa

SMH. You plagarized The Kobeissi Letter, almost word for word. Next time include sauce. https://x.com/i/status/2012608685462220879

Acceptable_Eye_4139

But they make Pelosi the face of that ad for following stock trades of politicians. SMH.

Whoopziedaisy

I’m imposing a 25% tariff on my landlord effective immediately because he won’t let me buy the apartment I’m leasing. SMH

investinreddit-

My concern is getting doxxed. I think there's metadata that's left behind. When I share the Google website it feeds from a Google sheet. I have to sort it for you every morning, which I do anyway around 4:00 a.m.. Anyways, it's obvious the same stocks are firing off the last 6 months $NLR ETF (even with Constellation Energy getting crushed) $GMET (low liquid though bid/ask issues) green metals $ICOP / Gold $DAPP and $NODE (node crypto) $SMH of course but not so hot. I missed GEV. Does anybody think GED is just overpriced? I freaking love that stock. $Crdo is my stock since 2023. It's the biggest winner of my life. Bought it at 33. Sold it at 2:03. Swing the hell out of it. Don't mind to wash the risk.

MaleficentSociety555

Bro....if you jobs offers a 401k (roth 401k preferred) enroll and get the match at the very least. You should be putting 12% minimum into that. Research the funds avaliable in the 401k and sort by highest return over longest period of time and pick the top 3 or 4, an s&p 500 fund will be in there so that has you covered for that. Put enough into a high yield savings to cover 6 months expenses, then setup an individual investment account and automate it to invest a preset weekly amount into a fund of your choosing (currently im buying SMH).

usa_reddit

Here is my stack since 12/29/2025 SCHG 45% SCHD 25% SGOL (Just bailed after making 6%) SMH 20% with a 15% Trailing Stop GOOGLE with a 10% Trailing Stop (totally speculative, I think they are going to own AI after the bubble bursts, probably going to sell and wait until the next dip) SGOV (Parking cash here for dollar cost averaging and buying dips) VYMI (Just sold after making 2.5%) COF (Bought it when dropped 10% on Trump's push to 10% APR on Credit Cards, already made 3%, did a sell to cover) The S&P returned 1.5% this year and I am already up 3.5% I am not going to VOO and chill. I am going to be aggressive, buy the fear like COF, chase the SEMIs, and chase the growth with SCHG then use SCHD to keep plowing dividends back into more cash and stock. So far I have beaten the market nearly every day of the year (NASDAQ, DJIA, S&P 500) including today which they were all down and I was still up .07% I am not fanatical about it but watch it at least every couple of days and trade at lunch based on news. My goal is to hustle 20% or better this year and I have 16.5% to go and 3.5% just at Jan 16th isn't too bad. My macro investor friends keep screaming about the Schiller Cape and are predicting a crash around August-December timeframe 2026. Everything is so dynamic right now it scares me a little.

messengers1

SMH is the one to get.

AppleTree98

Hold my beer while I put in my own head of the Fed. It will be like rocket fuel. /SMH

Due-Papaya-6217

TRNR bagged I can’t believe it lol, what a way to end an amazing week SMH

jnas_19

SMH at $400. Anyone check on bond bros recently?

Late_Blackberry5587

Should have raised it during Biden's term then there would be a lot more credibility. Now we are all dealing with inflation that was allowed to run for too long. Bad look SMH

Due-Papaya-6217

TRNR so annoying I alerted this one at 90 cents but my comments wouldn’t post due to the weird news link SMH But yes this could could go big

Due-Papaya-6217

IBRX no longer a pennystock stop posting it on here SMH 😎

MantisT_

SMH all day bby

DietFoods

SMH at the top of its long term channel with a reversing candle.

wankelgnome

Not saying this is a good portfolio, but the 15 year drawdown I believe you're referring to is from 2000 (dot com boom) to 2017. Thing is, the entire stock market of the 2000s was ass and the S&P500 itself took from 2000 to 2012 to recover. If you look at the biggest holdings of VOO and SMH, they are not that different or disconnected at this point. Both have NVDA at #1 and AVGO in their top 10, but SMH has more semiconductor hardware companies whereas VOO has magnificent 7 companies, which are buying from SMH companies anyway.

Day-Chicken

SMH don't use fintel. IB or chart exchange for the live SI and Dailies respectively. Zoom out then look at shorting volumes over the last 2 weeks. Price action yesterday then today = forced to cover Tomorrow could be epic

Vlisa

SMH? I basically remade it buy trimmed some of the pos I don't like, like TXN.

Due-Papaya-6217

Well I got roasted here yesterday SMH

Due-Papaya-6217

IBRX took heavy flack yesterday SMH, feels good to be vindicated The squeeze is happening (albeit slow because of the big float)

wtf_is_up

You can't go wrong simply buying $SMH. Even if you know fuck all about the sector.

Nefarious_AI_Agent

Gezz i thought i would be an old man when SMH hit 400 yet here we are already

Personal-Whereas3687

What does every think about these etfs: ArkQ (automation/robotics) QTUM (quantum computing) SMH (semi conductors)

RichardSantelli

$SMH is the best ETF I have ever purchased

usa_reddit

The question is this, is AI making money? The answer is, not yet. However, I think Google is best poised to sell subscription services that actually work. I am just piling into Google stock and SMH since someone has to make all those new Tensor flow chips.

bugking1999

SLV and SMH take me to the promised land

Illustrious-Coat3532

I have read QQQM CHAT SMH VOO and chill lately.

__redruM

So why not just load up on SMH for the long haul? Or does it need to be a crazy options play to qualify?

Due-Papaya-6217

Thats fair enough, I have my own way of trading and put my plays on here. You can ignore me if you like lol RIME had the set up but didn’t follow through. IBRX is still very much in play, but has a bigger float though so won’t go up in a straight line. In only takes 1 out of maybe 5 fails to get a result for the week i.e. BNAI I can’t be right 100% of the time SMH

Fauster

On CNBC they said that Claude had some new thing that replicates some SAAS functionality. I haven't evaluated it. This is some new post Claude code thing, and Claude Code has the community really excited. Even some google developers sang its praises. They basically said that investors are questioning whether software deserves such a big presumed moat. Per seat licenses are trash when US companies are letting their workforce slowly shrink, asking each employee to do more with AI, and hope the hallucinations aren't as expensive as the lost employees. If AI models can increasingly write simple code-length-limited libraries from scratch if guided by an experienced developer, that could be bad for software at high multiples. BUT... I am actually starting to look at software names because their PE ratios are getting really low, to the point where the could increase dividends and justify the ROI of buybacks. There is a market for fixed-income stocks. I'm just not buying yet. Full disclosure, I have super long duration long puts/bear spreads on IGV. It had been anti-aliasing semis. At one point, it looked like the recent SMH runup was funded by IGV. We'll see if there are any enduring pairs-trade mechanics to the IGV SMH pair.

Due-Papaya-6217

I don’t see how SMH its a big float so won’t be immediate

Due-Papaya-6217

IBRX - I took a lot of downvotes and got called a baggie in my post on this sub lol SMH https://www.reddit.com/r/pennystocks/s/OFKjl6miZy

finitidova

You are over exposing yourself by choosing VTI and VOO since they share similar holdings. Personally I'd keep VOO but either works, swap QQQ with SMH unless you want less volatility but since you're pretty young I would go with SMH. SCHD isnt bad but if you want more growth given your age again I would go with SCHG or add VXUS as well for international exposure.

DoctorMario1000

Mods haven’t handed out a new flair in months now. All kinds of hilarious regulars in here now and not a single damn flair given. SMH

SnS2500

SMH plus TSM is a good plan. It just depends on what holdings of a semi ETF you want to put your TSM on top of. CHPS is very good option currently, with its top six holdings being Micron, SK hynix and the four biggest chip equipment stocks. \> And how to split? No answer is possible to that. It's up to you. If TSM is your main interest, then decide how much you want of it, and buy whichever ETF you want then as much TSM individually so that you end up with the percentage of TSM you want.

1098duc_w_the_termi

When I was younger I used to deal. Nothing crazy, just some calendars, put/call spreads, stuff like that. Nowadays, these kids out here getting high on their own supply. And it ain’t the soft shit either, they’re out here selling naked FDs. And for what? SMH, don’t do options kids.

Due-Papaya-6217

OCG probably one of the worst investments you can possibly make, but I know for a fact that these X/twitter penny pumpers (you know who they are SMH) will get their followers on discord on to this before the reverse split on Jan 16

Due-Papaya-6217

Oh yeah but worth throwing some fun money at it. So many reverse split/delisting tickers get pumped SMH