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The stock market is only UP ~55% of the days, why is everyone's suggestions/Portfolios 1 Directional?
How much of any one stock is safe to hold in a portfolio?
Individual stocks or VGT, why take the risk?
Treasury yields going up, but what does it mean for bond ETFs?
Sell individual stock at a loss, pay down principal or reinvest into index funds?
Best Way to Diversify Brokerage vs Roth IRA?
Roth IRA Allocation at 18 - Part 2: Revised portfolio After Feedback
What do you think of the growth section of my portfolio?
Aggressive Roth IRA at 18 – What Would You Change?
Im playing a tricky game. Correction post Iykyk
Does selling OTM put and put spread tend to have negative EV?
OpenAI expects over half of all internet users will be active on its platform by 2030.
Opinion needed on buying semiconductor and chip stocks
Do you think tech will outperform the market over the next 30+ years
Sticking to my investment portfolio allowed my investment assets to grow by 100%.
I'm up ~$6,500 (434%) on MU. Total value $8,050.
What tech ETFs will Anthropic and OpenAI be included in once they IPO?
Looking for Roth IRA Portfolio Advice at 24 yrs old
Thoughts on switching from VGT to QQQM for better diversification?
IBKR: Are fractional ETF purchases (fixed dollar amounts) actually possible?
Besides U.S. stock indices like VOO, QQQ, and VGT, another ETF I believe is suitable for long term holding in the AI era is MAGS.
Should I invest in the same ETFs in my Roth and Brokerage?
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?
What would you suggest to change in my investment portfolio?
What is the next big stock you're vouching for?
How to use margin effectively and conservatively...??
What is your strategy for weathering a bear market?
I’m thinking of VOO and VGT in my Roth ITA, what’s your insight?
If recession is certain, would one divest away from VGT into few individual stocks?
Portfolio Feedback Welcome
Thoughts on this aggressive portfolio- 21yr
Been investing for about 1.5 years now and started to feel bored with my allocation
What do you guys think of this basket allocation for long term investment
$50K to invest into taxable brokerage. Allocation question.
$1 money market “funds” to hold in brokerage account
realistic or not to sell CC options on $1.7M to live off of?
If World War 3 really happens, what happens to our stock investments?
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Im getting too cocky. Time to VGT and chill.
Honestly the house fund is the one id actually change. 55% VTI plus 20% VXUS is a lot of stock risk for money you might need in 7 years, and VGT on top of that just doubles down on the same bet. imo keeping most of that in SGOV and letting the retirement accounts do the heavy lifting makes more sense than trying to make all four portfolios look different.
Yes I think dropping VGT and having room for other assets is worth doing. Your brokerage, particularly aimed at the house fund, could be a great opportunity to get hands-on and learn about how some different types of assets and investments work. SGOV is an option, with a lot of stability, and a 30-day yield of ~3.8%. You could look at putting a portion into a CD, or CD ladder, and lock in closer to 5% for the duration of the holding. Likewise with a purchase of Treasury notes. You could look at corporate bonds on the secondary market. You could look at longer-duration or lower-credit bond funds. The 30-day yield on TLT is 5.3%. On ANGL it's 7.5%. Bond funds do come with interest rate risk, which can work for or against you. With an individual bond you get your principal back at maturation. With a bond fund, at some point down the road your purchase value might be up or down. So you've got this opportunity, with an intermediate-term investment goal, to put a little bit of money in a few different baskets and get a feel for them. How they respond to market movements and economic conditions. That can be great learned experience for down the road as your investment accounts grow, your income increases, and you need to make future investment choices with larger sums of money.
Haha I love your ingredients comparison. Makes sense. I didn’t even really think about my brokerage having a “purpose” except for me using Fidelity for FDLXX / SGOV HYSA and my other brokerage is just built into this account as well. So maybe look at removing VGT, adding more SGOV or something else that’s stable? To me, 7-10 years seemed like a long time but yeah you’re right with how long the market can take to bounce back… 7-10 isn’t that much haha
Yeah I’m very flexible with my timing. Being 24 I sort of just guesstimated when I’d want a house by. Are you suggesting maybe get rid of VGT and put that into SGOV too for more stability through market drops?
Like I say, I think of investments like tools in a toolbox, or ingredients in your shopping cart at a supermarket. If someone asks, "I put a bottle of soy sauce in my cart, is that good?" If they're making a stir fry - yes. Lasagna? Not so much. 🙂 Each investment portfolio should have a clearly defined purpose. Goals and constraints. That's step one. Only then does it make sense to figure out what type of investments make sense to put in there. Otherwise, frankly, it's just fucking around with your money. For example, I have two brokerage accounts. One of them is for wealth building indefinitely down the road; it is 100% equities. The other is an "all weather" portfolio that intentionally gives up long-term return in exchange for slow and steady growth. The goal is to have ample $$ in the event of an economic downturn where I can still enjoy vacations and such, or cover unexpected major expenses, without touching my long-term growth account when it's oversold. The all-weather portfolio is ~50% bonds, ~20% defensive equities, ~20% managed futures, ~10% cash equivalents. For your house fund that's perhaps only 7 years out, it's a question of how much risk is appropriate and what level of downside protection. Within my lifetime, I've seen the S&P take ~13 years to recover from a previous high, and the NASDAQ closer to ~17 years. So maybe you look at something like a 60/40 split of equities and a bond ladder. Maybe lean into less economically sensitive equities rather than highly economically sensitive (VGT). Maybe consider a third asset class like commodities or previous metals.
Go crazy on targeted ETFs in your retirement accounts like VGT, SOXX, QQQ because even though they are volatile, if you hold for decades then you're guaranteed to beat the market massively. The rest are ok for following the crowd. Same thing here, if you have some amount of savings you know you won't touch for a long time, take on a bit more risk. You have 43 years to retire and following the crowd that long is boring. You certainly won't achieve FIRE quickly with these boring holdings.
lol my Roth is getting destroyed. Moved everything to VGT at the beginning of October. Feel like a fool.
Broad market down 0.5% Tech down 2.68% My guess is this is just normal earnings week turbulence. VGT (vanguards tech etf) is showing -13% over the last month. I’m thinking a real sector specific route would be like 40%-50% dragging the broader market down 20%-30% No fireworks yet. They’ll show up eventually
VGT taking a beating but it'll be back to previous levels within a few weeks
I put in a call a few weeks to sell all my VGT at $130…. I think it hit $124 last week before beginning its descent. Selling it off manually today, that and VDE, since I see energy declining with dems potentially taking the legislative branch back and dealing with Iran and Venezuela debacles. We’ll see what happens🤞
So buy the index, QQQ, VGT, SMH, you’ll hold the winners and make reasonable money.
Even in a crash, tech recovers first. VGT
You've been in SCHG for years and now you're scared of the ticker, not the strategy. SCHG and QQQM are 0.97 correlated and SCHG charges 0.04% against 0.15%, so switching there buys you nothing but a tax bill. VGT is the only real question, and that's just asking whether you want a tech sector fund instead of a large growth fund. At 28 the thing you're leaving on the table is contribution rate, not three basis points of overlap.
I have 25% SCHG & 15% XLK (very similar returns to VGT). You can't go wrong with either.
I just want to apologize to everyone causing this tech pullback. I bought VGT at its all time high and this all happened the next day
I hold VOO, VXUS, and QQQM. I’ve been very pleased with QQQM’s performance but have also been looking into SCHG for the lower Expense Ratio and/or SPMO for the momentum tilt but haven’t pull the trigger on either. VGT is another great ETF with great returns. I don’t think you can really go wrong with any of the above
We have pretty similar portfolios then. SPYM is my core as well. I hold both SCHG and SPMO in my personal and Roth IRA, but I’m considering just selling my SPMO in my personal and adding it to my SCHG position. And they do have the same top holdings, I just know VGT grew more because its top 3 are heavier positions.
Are you though ? Adding VGT or QQQM will just double up the same top 6-8 holdings. SPYM is my core holding with 10% QNDX in my brokerage. My Roth is SCHG/SPMO.
SCHG is the safer choice, but if the tech boom continues VGT.
First, kudos to you for recovering from addiction. For investments, don’t chase stuff because it’s talked up online. Almost all crypto is going to zero. Many stocks are going to zero. If I had your current holdings I would sell, except potentially one or two for which you can make a solid business case. The safe, effective thing to do is dollar cost average into cheap index funds like VOO and VT. Consider tech funds like VGT and QQQM, which have higher returns but also more volatility. If you want to bet a small fraction of your portfolio on individual investments, pick them because you can see they are excelling (eg because you are a customer of the underlying business). If you want to lose money faster, trade options.
VGT was $85 in March. Finishef yesterday's session at $117. I think we'll be ok.
did my 500$ buy of VGT at todays low. Prob tank on Monday now. Curious how midterms may affect market
I kinda wanna put all my cash in VGT right now but I think this shit continues to go down when the dems win
Might pull out of VGT at this point and just go cash. Jesus christ
Sold puts on NVDA and VGT yesterday thinking free money from premium. Both have almost reached strike price within 1 day.
Sold puts on NVDA and VGT yesterday thinking free money from premium. Both have almost reached strike price within 1 day.
I have some VGT and VXUS that is being decimated right now.
I just started my Roth IRA and invested mostly into VGT I know it’s for the future and it’s still an etf but it is upsetting. I’m apparently good at buying at the top.
VGT and chill or wait until midterms are over????
Some of the vanguard ETFs are bangers. VGT for example.
I usually don't think this but tomorrow is going to be bloody. Fuck it, let everything burn. I'm completely out of all AI except for VOO. Even sold my VGT this summer.
The base truth is I am only holding gold bullion and gold miner ETFs in the hope that gold jumps up in value (due to inflation or an ai crash or whatever) enough for me to sell them to exchange them for stock ETFs that will appreciate more in the long run (like a bunch more VGT, VTI/VXUS, VEA, QQQM etc). I am sort of banking on a big crash, gold rising, me selling and buying stocks on sale. I have no idea if that will pan out. The market could rally for another decade or it could crash in five months. I just had an uneasy feeling that bad economic conditions were in the mail when tariffs, high oil and global unrest issues started cropping up more recently.
I got half in VGT and half in voo. A balanced portillos
Why not options? or do SCHD/SCHG/VT/VGT etc first then use the proceeds for options and LETF swing trade. There's a lot of crappy l-etfs, only ones I seen interesting are tqqq, soxl, upro, svix (as an indicator too) but I haven't tried them
If I had stuck every dollar I spent chasing some individual stock into VOO or VGT I would be far richer in time and money. It’s still fun but I’ve lost the “get rich quick” drive as it doesn’t work and once you have enough that compounding is interesting, it loses its appeal. So build your base back up , leave something like 5% for fun trading but never more.
I am on OP's side, but I can't defend the linked backtests because they cover just five years, and I see no realism in a test of half VGT and half MF and such. OP is spot-on about uncorrelated assets, but there is a price to be paid for improved variance, in the form of less expected return. the statement that the market is not that hard to beat is indefensible. in the long run, the market **is** hard to beat in terms of raw return (but not so much in terms of Sharpe ratio). this 55% business has me scratching my head. if the goal is to advocate uncorrelated assets, then let's discuss that in terms of expected risk/return, and acknowledge that the vagaries of daily ups and downs are irrelevant.
Your options depend on whether you sold at a gain or a loss. If you sold at a gain, nothing you can do about it. If you sold at a loss, you take offset $3k in ordinary income and carry forward until used up. You can re-invest it into something similar like XLK/VGT/VTI but not the exact same ETF immediately or wait 30 days and re-invest in the same. Either way, I'd look hard at paying off the 5.5% mortgage but not the lower one, you can reinvest and do better there just on bonds alone.
Let the returns determine your strategy. You seem to be bad at trading options. Stick with ETFs and leave them alone. I’ve been heavy for 10+ years in VOO and VGT and I’ve done very well.
What y'all got in the Roth VOO, VGT, HOOY and GOOW. My divvie payers are hurting but the Hood yieldmax I have a feeling is gonna keep trucking for a long time.
I understand AI capex is spooking the tech sector right now, but why are the companies still making gobs of cash right now falling? And I wouldn't expect that anything would happen that would change this course until the "AI infrastructure" is completely built. All that being said, do I sell my VGT etf (heavily invested in tech/chipmakers, but not communications or hyperscalers) or hope for a Q3 bump and leave then?
VGT took a hit... down 2.99% Total gains is 385%... (shrugs)
I bought 100 each of VTI snd VGT right around their daily low
Nothing she does is interesting other than that she has a lot of money to play with. She has severely underperformed the boarder tech index like VGT, and has just barely managed to match the lower performing S&P500 index. On a risk adjusted basis, however, her fund is even more of a joke. The Sharpe and Sortino ratios for example are terrible, her max and average drawdowns are more than double VGT or VOO, and the correlation to both is still high. Its not a real fund, its a meme and its astounding anyone cares what she does. You can play around with starting and ending dates and find periods where she got lucky following the trend, but so you can for a broken clock.
What kind of a correction or downturn should we expect or plan for in tech? Supposedly when/if this ai bubbie pops, what kind of pullback are analysts thinking of for various tech subcategories? 1) MSFT, NVDA, GOOGL, 20-percent? 2) memory like MU, 30-, 40-percent? 3) ETFs SMH. VGT?
Would have been better off sticking with VGT for the year
Btw you would currently have around 55k if you had invested in VOO. Even if you wanted to keep your risk-tolerance high, VGT would have gotten you to 70k lol.
Some people might not like them, but I have covered call ETFs. I only have 2, but so far, the safest ones for me are JEPQ and QQQI. I dont have much in these, but I'm still building a position. I use the distributions to fund my VGT fund. I also have it so that it automatically buys me fractional shares weekly for all 3.
I know I am comparing a small event. But VTI and tech falls whereas VFH is up close to 1% in the last week makes me to feel that VTI is more tech tilted around 41% and with that VGT as well makes me feel like I am not diversified enough for other sectors. I might be wrong.
How? So 100% VOO is the answer to investment success? Not even a combination of VOO, VGT, SMH?
17 tickets is too many. I would stick to a mix of VTI, VGT, and VXUS for the core holdings.
Folks can’t even estimate basic math these days The Vanguard Tech Index (VGT) dropped from a high of 130 to 118. That’s a 9.2% drop. While not pretty, it’s a far cry from 30%-40%
I’ve been buying VGT monthly for over 5 years. Take a look at THAT chart.
Mostly VGT being down a bit. Tech. Im fortunate that I have enough invested tl be down 12k I guess. Glass half full baby
Generally a mix of ETFs with a few stocks here and there. AVDV, VXUS, VYMI, INTF I still also have about 10% in VGT (tech focus), and bit of avuv Im actually buying a few things today. SKHY (Ive bought around this price before and sold a month later for 30%) think it is good value at 140, MPT (kind of a stinker stock, but huge dividend that might shrink a little, but is getting unfairly sold ( I think) - Ive bought this stock around 3-3.5 a few times and sold above 5)
This is the way. I keep half of my life savings in long-term equities (boring global + value + aggressive growth) in case I get an upside from it on the off-chance as time goes on, and the rest I keep in cash to live my life because anything can happen any day. Honestly US tech/megacap (VGT/VOO) and global broad market (VT) is a sure bet IF the world stays safe. But political volatility, war, solar flares (as mentioned), asteroids, climate change and other freak acts of nature, etc. can all happen any time. If the equities get wiped - nothing much you can do, at that point all non-physical assets are getting wiped, and even physical ones like your own bought and paid for home can get snatched, let alone those partly paid for on mortgage.
Still underperforming ETFs like VGT, barely beating QQQ.
Do $10k a week into VGT and $10k a week into VOO.
They are not beating VGT over the last 5 years. Why do you think they will over the next 10? From 2022-2025 they underperformed.
50% VTI, 40% VGT and 10% IBIT is my choice.
Been holding ASTS for a couple years. Not many shares, just 15. But I've been deciding more that I prefer index funds so I just sold and bought VGT instead. I've been using Starlink for 5 years and think that SpaceX can gain market share faster and more reliably.
If you want to go all in on tech can you at least try VGT?
I put 15,000 in TNDM a few days ago, I'm expecting good news at q3 earnings and wants to sell. I also put in 5k into spcx and just want to keep til the end of year and hopefully sell for a little cash. Rest is in VGT
Why not VGT? Higher Sharpe and Sortino ratio, same max and ave drawdown, much higher cagr and higher safe withdrawal rate. Compare them on [testfolio.com](http://testfolio.com) (no affiliation)
Where you getting this money lol You probably better off just taking loans and buying and holding VGT, SPMO, etc If you gonna take that high risk approach
Sell it in tranches. Pick a small % to sell each quarter. Or sell 10% when it goes up another 5% or something. Then sell another 10% when it goes up another 5%. You can still get exposure to nvda in other ways like VOO or VGT
Looking at Bond rates, there is a decent chance bond rates will move higher. But also, Trump wants to inflate away the debt which I don't know that bonds will hold up well traditionally. I'm good waiting for a higher bond rate myself. Energy is cyclical. However, you will want to clarify are you going to be investing in a bunch of oil stocks or energy as a whole? You can expect that even when things are cleared up that oil prices will remain high for a while. All the countries will need to replenish their strategic reserve. However, once its corrected, its dead weight. And a lot of countries will be making plans to make sure this doesn't happen again, that will likely depress the energy sector for a bit. The need wont go away, but people will be working to increase the supply with alternatives which will lower demand. I agree the tech correction will happen at some point. The issue is that most other sectors are actually doing bad, so it crashing will bring everything else down. If you can hold out for the correction, it will be a good move. Tech isn't going away and AI is the future. Just not the current poorly planned way they are doing it. I would not recommend trying to pick like that in the taxable account. It works in the retirement accounts because if something goes wrong or you see a deal you can rotate tax free. In the taxable, you generally want to avoid selling so whatever you pick you are committing to. I do mostly SPMO right now. VGT is another good option. Energy is always temporary so I avoid it in the taxable. Bond's im ignoring until it gets crazy numbers. Too many graphs show bonds lose unless you time it right. I am not about to retire so I am fine ignoring it unless the yields get to matching the average stock return.
The real move is passive, long term, investing. Stop trying to time the market and be happy with what the S&P 500 returns. We’re up 14% YTD. If 14% isn’t enough for you add some risk. I have SMH, and VGT on top of VOO and I’m up 25% YTD. The only trading I really did to get that is buying the March dip with about 30k.
Given you just sold an ESPP and have a big cash pile, I'd lean 75‑80% in a low‑cost total‑market fund like VTI or VOO, and tilt the rest 20‑25% into a mix of passively managed growth such as VUG, VGT or a small‑cap blend. Don't double‑dip on the same mega‑cap tech names; they already flood VTI and VOO, so a small bond or tax‑efficient hedge can add a safety layer if you land in a higher tax bracket. If you’re comfortable with high volatility, a couple of spots in a semiconductor or space ETF (maybe SPMO) add a spark but keep it under 10% of the portfolio. Keep it dollar‑cost‑averaged each month—this smooths the swings and lets you readjust the tilt back to the core over time.
SSO or VGT I like to make it fun and hand pick a couple stocks I like but I keep a majority of my portfolio in the ETF
Full ported my Roth into VGT. See ya in 25 years fuckers
I have been investing for a little over a year, solely in ETFs because I like the idea of the slow climb over time as well as it just being a lot less to manage. I want some advice on what I should consolidate doen to or if these are good long term plays. With that being said here are my holdings ROTH: VOO, VXUS, VGT HSA: VTI, VT Yes I am aware that there is overlap. Most of it, such as the VTI and VT in the hsa is from when I initially started investing in VTI but switched to VT to invest broadly. Started investing in VGT purely because I like the tech sector.
hey, five reasons why VUG/VGT/SPMO alone miss the mark: (1) they all sit on the same Magnificent-7 backbone so you’re basically betting on a handful of names; (2) you’re ignoring whole sectors that grow faster in a downturn (things like utilities, consumer staples, energy); (3) big‑cap growth can stall when rates climb; (4) a taxable account craves low turnover – buy once, hold long, ditch auto‑DRIP; (5) dip‑home base with a core of VTI (or VXUS if you want some abroad) at \~70 % and the rest into small‑cap value (like I,J,V) or an international tech spread. that gives you the “aggressive” upside while keeping a safety cushion and cutting distribution headaches.
SPMO. IT is old enough now to compare it to Voo. It beats it. Downturns were a concern based on the type of fund it is but its clearly still winning. SCHD there isn't a point in doing until near retirement and even then... QQQM is doing well because tech is doing well. Just get VGT if going for that sector though. Currently I am having a hard time arguing in favor of QQQM. Assuming you don't think the tech bubble will pop.
lol. This is why I buy ETFS. I timed indiv stocks in 2020 and 2021 perfectly but I know full well I was guessing( casino and cruises ). Sold them and VTI and VGT ever sense.
Go for VGT and you will feel like on a roller coaster.
Core of VOO, but tilt to momentum and tech: SPMO, XMMO, VGT, IDMO, AVUV, AVDV, QQQM, SOXQ, AVEM. This diversifies & crushes VOO. That is if history continues, which is never a sure thing, but it's been beating the market for me.
Put your 30k into VGT and ignore it for a month. Then put the rest into VT and some more info VGT and call it a day. Or have some Crayola and short Adobe
VGT is information technology etf
I wouldn’t bet on any single company for AI. Just buy VGT or XLK if you’re interested in holding concentrated basket of tech.
Can't believe I left that part off. VGT. YTD 33.51%
I’m a novice myself as far as industry standards go. Im investing in some risky single stocks to try to get an edge also, however I keep the majority of my investments in index funds like VOO, VT, VGT. If I lose on my SpaceX or AI stocks, it’s only a small portion of my portfolio and won’t break me, if they turn out to be great, then great I bought myself a couple years worth of investing. But only risk what you’re willing to lose
Dear wrex1816, VGT and SH. Enjoy.
At 24, you have LOTS of time and can really focus on building up your capital as high as possible early. For now your goal is to get as much into VOO or VTI as possible. The more money now, the more compounding happens over time. Consider using some momentum ETFs to build up that capital faster. SPMO, XMMO, IDMO (international). Also be more diversified by adding some small-cap value with AVUV and AVDV (international). For high growth, tech: VGT and/or QQQM. And a little SOXQ for extra semiconductors if you like. I'm in my 40s and I still hold all of these ETFs and a few others and rebalance them often.
Yeah, VGT has gone up 50% in the last year. Crazy.
The interesting distinction is not really AI versus no AI. VGT is an explicit technology concentration while SPMO follows momentum and can rotate as leadership changes. Even if AI dominates economically, the best future stock returns do not automatically come from the companies everyone already expects to dominate. Moon makes more sense for a tactical tech direction wager than for answering this ten year portfolio question.