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Isn’t concentration actually proven to win over the long term? .
Any advice from experienced investors
At what point is qqqm better than voo for young investors?
What ETFs or Index funds are y’all thinking about bidding on? I really like VOO as a long term play for myself
is this a good growth focused Roth IRA asset allocation?
Questions about my ROTH IRA fee structure / returns
Canadian who has roughly US$30k–$35k for the long term, looking to invest in the market. Unsure of the best long-term "boring" buys that my American friends can recommend. Do ya'll have any suggestions?
Help me find the next stock that will skyrocket 100-fold :)
IRA vs. Taxable Account (Keeping the money in for 20 years).
Built an agent that buys whatever WSB is talking about. It's down 19.2%. Got 3k upvotes on WSB before they deleted it.
I built an agent that buys whatever this sub is talking about. It's down 19.2%.
Does anyone avoid diversification (like me)?
ETF allocation changes due to high valuations
Strategy for entering the market with large lump sum
Strategy for entering the market with large lump sum
Weird question but like, are the majority of financial advisors just scam artists essentially?
Mag 7 already did their 100x (and more). So where does the next trillion-dollar (or multitrillion) company come from?
Gamers here, do you invest in a game company like Nintendo, Sega, etc?
Simple IRA through work and personal Roth IRA (35)
Supposing AI goes up, is AIS ETF a safe choice?
Beginner looking to make my first options trade — how would you approach this?
Equal weight S&P 500 ETF (RSP) for indexing rather than VOO?
Beginner looking to make my first options trade — how would you approach this?
Why are all my individual stocks down but index at ATH?
Rate my Roth IRA split, just opened my account and haven’t put anything in yet, just looking for advice.
LTCG or dividends or cash to pay for big ticket fun?
Can I do multiple Schwab deposits through the year without any issues?
What are your Top ETFs Picks so far this year? Beyond VOO, VT, VXUS?
US market - VOO or CSPX QQQ or CNDX or anything else?
I'm deciding to sell NASA (tema) etf for tax loss harvesting, since I made around $300 in profit so far in 6 months. Should I do it or no? Needed thoughts.
Concentrating positions, not diversifying. Insights from those that have done this?
Thoughts on the "double dipping" portfolio ive been building
Lost some and gained a lot - should I keep going?
For anyone wondering exactly how much QQQ and VOO/SPY actually overlap, here is the math.
21M first-job in CA, USA. Seeking Investment Strategy Review
Tips for novice investor ! Critique is what I’m looking for
Question: How do passive index funds like VTI, VOO, SPY, ETC., work?
Where would you put surprise inheritance money
I have X amount to invest and I need it to triple in 10 years
Lost money trying to be clever when VOO was sitting right there
+206k from two years of VOO and 7 tech stocks. -$200k Loss from one day of Sandisk calls.
I’m going to rebalance my entire portfolio to 80%VOO 20%VUG for a little more growth tilt but I have a question about maintaining that allocation
When I put $5 on a stock I win , put $50 in I lose almost every time.
Revenge traded a NFLX loss into a $700,000 MSFT profit 💰
I wish I never invested into LUNR and NASA. been waiting for a few weeks to sell, but ofcouse dip keeps dipping....
Best Way to Diversify Brokerage vs Roth IRA?
Selling $DRAM (up 13% today), evaluating alternatives.
Chasing the memory stock rally ruined my portfolio. Now I don’t know if my new portfolio will save me or make things worse
22, Nervous about Risks / ETF vs Individual Stocks
I backtested 44 Robinhood IPO Access deals. Why buying and holding is a trap and the hypothetical strategy that beat VOO
Top ways to invest in innovative companies through ETFs? High risk appetite
going all in on “small satellites”
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Your Roth's 165% is impressive, but check whether that's a smaller balance in higher-risk positions versus a larger, diversified advisor account. Compare the advisor's 8% against something like VOO over the same 5 years before you pull the trigger.
bond yield vs equities yield is not even close. VOO is doing 17% on the last 12 months alone. NASDAQ is averaging 15.9% over the last 5 years. even a value ETF like VTV is averaging 13.7% over the last 5 years inclusive of the dividend yield. if you think markets are going to tank then sure buy bonds - but there is no evidence of that happening. in fact, we are basically in the strongest bull market we have ever seen.
>Also, I've repeatedly been told that the S&P 500 tends to outperform other bits of the market over time, so I guess I'm wondering: do bonds become a better buy than VOO-type stocks when interest rates hit some kind of inflection point? The several decades long CAGR for SP500 (which is the underlying index for VOO) is about 10.4% with dividends reinvested, and about 7% without. We haven't see sustained interest rates in that range for a good 35-40 years. Bonds "win" when the stock market is flat or down for an extended period of time. For example in the 2000's decade, often referred to as lost decade, bonds would have had a better return. But that doesn't tell the entire story. If you were young, not needing investment money, you'd of course have been far better off accumulating index funds at the low (compare that to past decade when you are always chasing the price higher and higher). So "bonds better" is just in small windows that you wouldn't really know without benefit of hindsight. Bonds never win because they "did better"; it's only by default if the market underperforms. SP500 has positive years about 75% of the time. Also keep in mind that not everybony is 100% VOO/SP500. Some have a more conservative mix, which pushes long term expected return to something below that 7% or 10.4%. In this case, a bond yield pushing 5-6% is more attractive to this group because they are getting their gains without any market risk. I think a younger person should be growth focused, but a person nearing or in retirement can't afford potential SP500 drawdowns and should have a more conservative mix.
\> I know it's a new fund VRGG follows the same index as the US etf VONG, which has been around over 16 years. VONG has done considerably better than VTI and VOO the past decade, but considerably worse the past year... and about exactly the same the past six months. So in terms of newness it does have a track record, on the other hand it only trades an average of 1400 shares a day so not very popular. If VTI is your model, and VOO performs about the same, why not go with VUAG or VUAA, which trade 200,000+ shares a day?
Because stocks go up and down so much, controlled swing trading the stock will make you more than just buying and holding. It also manages risk. Before you buy an individual stock of Company-A, already have a plan of when you're going to sell it. When it hits +20% sell 20% of the shares immediately. This ensures you're walking away with profit. Set a trailing-stop on the remaining shares at +10%. A) If the remaining shares suddenly drop from the +20% to +10%, they're gone, and again you profit. B) If the remaining shares continue to rise +30%, move your trailing-stop up to +20%. Move up the trailing stop as it rises. Do this until they sell. On individual stocks, you have to be emotionless when they sell, regardless if it jumps up from there. DO NOT chase it FOMO'ing. Always dump the profits into a long term index fund similar to VOO, VTI, SPYM, etc. If you like the Company-A, repeat this, watch the charts over the next several weeks/ months for a dip in price that lasts for over 1-2 weeks or so. Watch for the RSI to be around ~35 or lower and buy back in. You can also check the MACD and 50 & 100-day moving averages. This entry point might be higher than your original trade, but again the share price doesn't matter, because you're working with percentages. I always stick to big names like the Mag 7. Companies that I don't mind holding for awhile.
Thats what I did with AMD before it dropped back down to the $400s, but with VOO. it took over two months for AMD to get pass my sell price of $549, and ofc its even higher now.
The core bond idea first. A bond is basically an IOU with fixed payments. When new Treasuries pay more, older bonds paying less look worse, so their prices fall until their yield matches. Price and yield move in opposite directions, always. That is the whole seesaw. Why rising Treasury yields tend to push stocks down, through three channels: - Future profits get discounted more. A stock is worth the present value of its future earnings. When the safe rate rises, the discount rate rises, so those future dollars are worth less today. Growth stocks with earnings far in the future get hit hardest, which is why you hear "higher rates hurt tech." - Bonds become tougher competition. If a 10-year Treasury pays 2%, many investors will accept stock risk to earn more. If it pays 5% with no credit risk, some money rotates toward the sure thing. That rotation compresses what people will pay per dollar of earnings, so P/E ratios shrink even if earnings are fine. - Borrowing gets pricier. Companies refinance debt at higher cost, mortgages and credit cards bite consumers, spending slows, and expected earnings growth softens. On your "institutions want to keep the market healthy" point: they do want returns, but they cannot vote against arithmetic. A pension fund still has to discount future cash at the going rate, and it still compares a 5% risk-free yield against risky stocks. No amount of cheerleading overrides that math. Now the inflection point idea. There is no magic rate where bonds suddenly beat stocks. What matters is relative value and your time horizon. People sometimes compare the S&P 500's earnings yield (roughly the inverse of its P/E) against the 10-year Treasury yield. When Treasuries pay a lot relative to that, stocks look expensive by comparison, and expected stock returns over the next decade tend to be lower. But "tend to" is doing heavy lifting here. Rate timing is notoriously unreliable, and 2022 was a great warning: rates rose fast and both stocks and bonds fell, because existing bonds lost value too. On the S&P 500 outperforming: US large caps have had a terrific run, especially the last 10 to 15 years, which is why it feels like a law of nature. Over very long stretches stocks have beaten bonds, but not every stretch. There were whole decades where bonds kept up or won, and long periods where international stocks beat US stocks. That is the case for holding VXUS alongside VOO: diversification, not a prediction. Should a 36-year-old divert some investing money to bonds? I cannot answer that for you personally, but here is the framework most educators use. At your age with decades ahead, many investors hold mostly stocks because they are chasing long-term growth and can ride out volatility. Bonds are usually added to dampen the ride and to fund nearer-term goals, not to boost returns. Useful questions: how would you feel watching your portfolio drop 30 to 50% and staying invested, do you have an emergency fund and high-interest debt handled, and is any of this money needed within five years? Common bond building blocks people learn about are total US bond market funds, intermediate Treasuries, and TIPS or I Bonds for inflation protection, each with different tradeoffs around duration and inflation risk.
You need two more zeroes on that account before you even think about an advisor and even then it is a maybe. Ditch him and put it in VOO.
The "VOO and chill" crowd in shambles thinking tbey are diversified.
Man im.glad im not the only one that feels this way. I have a brokerage through truist and between lack luster performance during Covid and just continuing bad performance i feel I want to manage my own brokerage and get rid of the management fees and taxes I pay on capital gains... its just hard for me to make that leap. I know I could put it into VOO and let it ride and probably do better. I feel like thats what these companies bank on if the fear of loosing money.
Well good thing the top 7 stocks are in VOO. And cool, stay out of the market if your risk tolerance says to do so.
Strip out top 7 stocks out of VOO, then adjust for inflation and the market doesn't look as good. The market is being held up by the AI bubble. I have no idea when the bubble will finish inflating or pop, but like every other market mania back to tulips. The overbuild and mania will end, margins will get compressed, and the deflation won't be pretty.
People were saying that when he first took office. VOO was at $540 and it's at $707 now. The market will crash eventually, but the question is when. How high will it go before it crashes? That's why it's dangerous to get out of the market if you're relatively young. Close to retirement? Shit, I don't want anything to do with this market lol.
> the bubble will pop, give it a year max. I've been hearing this for a while. The market will crash eventually and you're going to say how right you were, but lets put it to the test. VOO is currently at $708 right now. Let's see what it gets to when it crashes. People were saying the same thing during elections.
wtf are you talking about. VOO is up 12% YTD
Sold a bunch of CSPs for next Friday on GOOG, AAPL, PANW, CRWD, and VOO. If I'm going to be cash gang, I might as well collect some premium on stuff I'd be fine owning anyway.
Because you will underperform VOO. Also 5% bond when real inflation is 10% may be a losing bet.
Using inflation to pay the debt is just another way of defaulting on the debt. VOO or VT are the real safe haven assets at this point. BTW, 5% yields are historically still pretty low. The bond market can still demand much more, and they probably will.
Yeah. If you did index funds, you would have out performed what he managed. Honestly, I probably wouldn’t get an advisor until I hit around half a million. I would definitely get rid of them, look at something like VOO, and a bunch of other index funds to look at. Theres other funds people would suggest, but doing a mix of 60-80% in the S&P 500 and then looking at an international fin or some other mix will probably serve you well.
Because that type of subs aren't really needed for 95% of people. VOO or some World Index and chill.
What is even the point of this sub when this is the top answer to every single thread? Just shut the sub down at this point. There is no fruitful discussion besides "buy VOO".
100k is chump change and you should be able to handle that. Put it into a VOO/VTI/VT and leave it alone. Generally speaking, advisor/management fees eat away at any outperformance that they manage achieve. But when they underperform the market, or when the market is down, you’re still paying fees on top of that
Lmao 8% over 5 years is laughable. You lose to inflation alone. If you’d have just invested in VOO and reinvested all the dividends you’d be up 80%.
I think that it’s pretty insane that a phone costs more than two shares of VOO 😐
Buy VOO instead of this random assortment
Chat I think I may throw in the towel and just VOO and chill, I’m tired boss
Um, well, she's actually broke. Broker than me, and that's saying something (I cosplay as poor on here, most of my investment money goes into VOO. Don't tell!)
I tend to wait too long and then sell around 50%-60% down from peak. Ultimately that's why I opt to invest in VT/VTI/VOO instead, so that I can avoid having to dwell on making those kinds of decisions and feeling hindsight regret over having sold either too early or too late. Example: bought $5k of SQ (now XYZ) at $14, held through its high of around $275 and eventually sold around $120. I knew it was overpriced at $275 but got greedy thinking crypto speculation could drive it up more. Missed out on an extra $50k gain as a result.
I lost money doing options, but not to this level. Now I stick to VOO and buy weekly fractional shares. I rarely look at the market now.
Yeah, nothing AI generated there. You know there are tools to check these things before you make yourself look silly, right? If you invested your emergency fund in the SP500 in March 2007, two years later at the bottom in March 2009 you would be down -26%. If you lump summed your emergency fund into VOO two years ago in September 2004 (+34.5%) and we saw a similar '08 style downturn, you would be down -22%. Now consider if you put that in short term treasuries, you would be up +9% for a staggering +31% difference. So, yeah. You're 0/2 here, mate. ;)
VOO and chill. You’ve done a great job but relax from trading.. you lost your girl you lost a job you got other things to worry abt so take your mind off trading. VOO and chill forever. I read the little book of common sense investing, and it’s convinced me to not stress about trading because if you put your money in an index fund forever for 30+ years you will end up making a multi millions+ with time and no work required compared to trading everyday for 30+ years, fighting the market and becoming consumed and combating stress from highs and lows. Meanwhile the person who invested solely in an index fund has his money and is chilling. VOO and legit just chill.. That’s how I really see it though, if anyone has any advice on that please share 🙏🏼 But I feel bad for you bro keep your head up
Ig you are right. I will stick to the good old VOO and VXUS.
VOO vs VTI isn't a concentration argument, those two track each other almost tick for tick. The real gap there is small caps dragging, not concentration paying off. Show me VT vs IOO with the exact dates and whether dividends are included, because that comparison flips depending on where you start.
Start using etf like VOO and if you want more aggressive spmo, no options.
No just a colleague telling me how individual tech stocks had gained so much earlier this week and that he wouldn't do VOO and chill
There is a little bit of macroeconomics going on behind the scene here contributing to why things are down. We just got data showing inflation is higher than our government would like. In order to curb that, the fed raises interest rates which increases borrowing costs. Higher borrowing costs means people and companies are not taking out loans to buy houses or cars or expand. This causes prices to stop increasing in price so quickly, thus fighting inflation, but also means it's a not so booming economy. The data came out today which is why most sectors dropped. It will recover. I think VOO should dwarf your individual stock picks 80:20 or 90:10 as a general rule. However if your are in the first several years of your investment journey you can afford a little more risk, think 50:50 but then as you go, more should go into VOO. Some people do all VOO
Just invest in VOO, it’s not fucking complicated https://preview.redd.it/5oovmnd68drh1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=91498aaa1fc664fdbfb087851ca2526431b657a3
Actually "some" is, but most is in VT and VOO.
All you needed to do was to keep buying more in 2022 and HOLD. Peak of 2022 until now it’s still 71%. Just stop whatever you were doing and buy VOO and bag hold that.
Based on 6 months of living expenses. For me its $10k savings and $10k checking. I have 2 mortgages (1 rental) and a sizable portfolio. I invest passively through my 401k and I buy $150 VOO every week. If I go over 20k, I usually just buy more VOO or VXUS.
On individual stocks, I usually like to sell a portion equal to my initial investment +25-50% (depending on how risky it seems to me), then invest that amount in VTI or VOO.
Brother, stop trading options. Just accumulate ETFs like VOO and hold until you retire. No point in trying to fix this problem by gambling more. Just start new and be consistent.
I hope you are not buying VTI or VOO or qqq.
You are genuinely a gambling addict and need to just set up automatic transfers and investments into VOO and then delete your access from there
Btw I have been VOOing and chilling but once in a while will get FOMO. Today is one of those days. VOO and chill still valid, eh?
VOO is up 76% over the past 5 years lmao
Bro, head up. Stay out of the casino. Put your money in an ETF like VOO and be a gentleman. Kind regards regard.
If you just did VOO and chill you would have nearly doubled your money.
Sell asset when you have something urgent to pay for. If you pick things that need to be timed, you probably picked wrong to begin with. Spend less than you earn, have emergency fund, auto invest, don’t panic sell, do this forever. This is the power of VOO and chill. Harder to be sanguine with stock picks. Best of luck.
You don’t want to hear this but VOO and chill. If it’s any consolation I wish I lost only 50k on my lifetime and that amount taught me enough to stop doing the mistakes I do. Words like make it back and so close to break even. Admit that you didn’t know what you were doing and that you will do better. Get a tattoo of this. When strangers lose money they are stupid when I lose money I have bad luck. If you don’t understand the sentence you losing money had nothing to do with luck. Sorry about your downfall I hope you get your health in order. Take a break. Until you’re ready to buy VOO and chill don’t come back. As we all love saying. No crying in the casino.
I was in a similar position to you a few years ago. I was 100% on VOO. After studying bitcoin for months, I shifted 25% to it. Given your long time horizon, I recommend studying about bitcoin. But only invest in it after doing your due diligence and having strong conviction.
This is why "VOO and chill" is good for some people (you), since you can't do fucking math. OP has 138% return since 2022, VOO has 61% (76% with dividends reinvested). Also lol at VOO being "diversified."
About 20k. I’m up so much at this point it would be impossible to sell at a loss. So if I suddenly need a lump sum I can sell some VOO and get it into my bank in a couple days.
wtf. how do you do literally worse than just buying VOO and holding it in a bull market.
is 2 units really a 'position'? you should sell all 2 units and buy VOO and then maybe invest more money into your portfolio also.
theoretically you want to hold your highest earning assets in the Roth IRA in order to maximize tax-free earnings. based on your allocations you could shift your Roth IRA to all or mostly QQQM seeing as that is your highest earning asset. then, apply your 70/20/10 split to your entire portfolio and not simply each account. for example, if you have a $100,000 portfolio using your above splits you should do something as follows: Roth IRA --> $20,000 QQQM Taxable brokerage --> $70,000 VOO; $10,000 VXUS \^ this is assuming your Roth is capped out but I don't know how many years you have been contributing but hopefully you get the idea.
VOO and chill quickly becoming VXUS and chill
Ranking every option for *this* job — moving money out of the AI/megacap pile: 1. **BRK.B** — completely different businesses, cheapest valuation, no dividend. 2. **VTI / VTSAX** — best of the index funds; adds \~3,000 smaller companies you don't own. 3. **VOO / FXAIX / SPY** — broader than your book, but top-heavy with your names. 4. **QQQ** — mostly more of what you have. 5. **VUG / SCHG** — the growth half of the market only, which is exactly where you're already concentrated.
do you know what VOO is?
yaes, you are so smart! but if you are a trader and as soon as things are looking bullish, something slams it back down. depending on the account, I'm either beating the market handily or losing slightly. but it's super frustrating. if it isn't for you; i'm sure you are just a VOO investor
I’m an accidental landlord and there’s not much money in it tbh and I bought in 2011 and 2017. Also built an ADU in 2021. All three are rented out now. Our raw monthly income is about 14k a month. After expenses and taxes, it’s like 6-7k a month. The thing is these properties are worth about 4.5m or so. The cap rate is literally less than 2% a year which is complete garbage. Why not sell? Well we have competent management in place at least that isn’t that expensive luckily and honestly we don’t sell assets if we don’t need the money and we never really need more money. We retired in our 40s and now in our 50s, our business is still going and making us more money than we will ever need (like 60-70k profit a month). Our passive assets are making us more and more too (up to about 40-50k a month these days). Overall we just let things lie because I look at it as not needing to take a taxable event with already locked in very low interest that’s less than inflation that our tenants pay off anyway in a tax advantaged asset (depreciating the property on your taxes is rather nice as it makes any hint of profit disappear to the tax man). Other than that, we’re not looking to do more especially not in the US because the numbers are truly messed up in most major metros. You’re better off dumping money into VOO or VTI and just keep that growing
JFC bruh. U the poster child for VOO n chill.
Depends on what your goal is. For long term investments/retirement I generally focus on broad market funds like VTI, SPY, VOO etc. to get exposure to multiple companies/industries/sectors. For medium to short term investments or trades I usually go one of two ways. First I may come across an opportunity by word of mouth or just look through the news/social media and industry/marketing order reports to get an idea where an industry may be headed then drill down and focus on the different stocks. Secondly I may look for opportunities that may fit an already existing options strategy I have either come up with myself or found somewhere else then modified. Usually this involves looking through the options chain on an ETF like SPY for example.
But even index funds, 1 share of VOO at $700, if I had $500 I'd rather buy 7 shares at $70 than .7 shares at $700. Yes I understand its the same. But for me I just would rather own more shares. Need new tires? I can sell 7 older shares of VOO if its at a lower price.
retail and pension funds have two vastly different goals For most retail investors , they have some 30-40 year accumulation period followed by a withdrawl period With the long time line in the accumulation period they can ride out market crashes. If you are 30 years from retirement you can have a very risk on portfolio of 100% equities. If the market crashes 60% and you are 30 years from retirement, as long as you stay employed its actually a benefit to you as you will just be buying at cheaper prices Pension funds are both saving for employees future retirement while at the same time paying out money to retired people A pension fund likely cannot take a 60% loss and stay solvent. Two very different risk factors So a retail investor 30 years from retirement can take on a lot more risk vs pension funds, they can ride crashes and booms to get the highest returns Pension funds need to pay out their obligations every month, they cannot just say "Well the market crashed we need to wait 5 years until it recovers so we are pausing pension payments" Younger retail investors can absolutely wait out a 5-10 year market crash. However with a lot of private assets the pricing is more Opaque. With public stocks you can see how much they are worth in real time. If you hold 1 million shares of VOO you can see in real time how much they are worth. If you hold a golf course, well the pricing is more sticky, you can kind of assign any price to it you want with in reason . If the economy crashes, does the golf course go down in value , maybe but maybe not. If the stock market crashes 50% does that mean your golf course is worth 50% less, no. Thats why pensions like private assets, real estate because they are somewhat uncorrelated to the stock market. I can remember in 2008 when the market crashed, even real estate lost value, everything was in the dump, art was still selling for record prices. i
Yes, for salaried employees a bond ETF and a little bit of VOO ETF is ideal. It's all about risk tolerance
Yeah I've got QQQM and VOO for the majority of my holdings.
holy fucking shit that is some five star retarded shit, why in gods name would you buy shares when it was so high? But then you went and compounded the problem by selling calls below your average price? Dude I don't think this sport is for you, probably best to buy VOO and chill going forward.
Call Fidelity, 1-800-343-3548, they’ll walk you through literally everything to set up an “individual investment account“. Buy VOO (proxy for the S&P 500) if you want essentially the 500 sturdiest companies in the US, or buy QQQM (Nasdaq proxy) if you want the higher growth (but more expensive relative to earnings) tech type companies. The Nasdaq has outperformed the S&P for a while.
bro shorting VOO lol [https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1wn5kfs/guys\_im\_shorting\_everything\_go\_to\_fuck\_yourselves/](https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1wn5kfs/guys_im_shorting_everything_go_to_fuck_yourselves/)
Oh this retarded ass chart… when you invest in VOO you could give a fuck about this dumbass chart
No single stocks unless you are gonna work as an analyst and manage your positions. Even then, you’d probably beat with a major index fund like VOO/QQQ
Are fine with the valuations of the other 498 stocks in the S&P 500? VOO- Tesla 1.56% and SPCX 0% until 6/2027
SPMO is performance chasing. It’s still concentrated in like 150 companies and exceptionally tech heavy. And as others may have said, you have no foreign market diversification so you are missing out on about 45% of the total world market. They are boring and not flashy, but statistically speaking, broad whole market index funds like VTI, VOO, and VXUS or SPY do better year on year and outperform stock picking or actively managed portfolios. Unless you’re Warren Buffett or insider trading, your portfolio will statistically underperform someone who simply bought index funds.
And that is exactly why you shouldn't sell. You are diversified in other, tax friendly accounts. The taxable account is where you can have fun with some "play" money and as much as I love my 401k invested in VOO/VTI etc those funds do not hold any TSM, very little NBIS, and by playing individual stocks you don't always beat the market, but i have a handful that I have held for years that absolutely HAVE outperformed (NVDA, GOOG, TSM, funnily I have NBIS too but wayyyyyyy too early to call that one...) and if you aren't buying individual stocks with your excess "fun" money then the odds of ever outperforming are Zero. You paid for the ticket on theses positions, take the ride!
ROTH IRA. portion every paycheck into VOO or FXAIX
VOO and chill for 35 years
Honestly not too crazy. Wish I had your nerve. I'm a 90% VOO kinda person. Back when Google was at around 250 I bought a couple 2027 250c that I sold at 400. Could have retired if I had enough conviction to go all in. Do you see it reaching 400 again by EOY? That's what I'm hoping for.
There's lower cost (expense ratio) like VOO (Vanguard). Over time the expenses eat into your earnings. Be aware of the holdings. The Mega cap stocks are heavily weighted in both while the RSP is equally weighted (also a high expense ratio). Don't know if Vanguard has something that mimics. Generally, Dollar Cost Averaging (DCA) is best. If in a taxable account try to hold for at least a year so it will be taxed as long-term Capital Gains (lower tax rate) vs Income. Good luck Note: I am no a fiduciary
Just put it in VOO. Stock picking with only 200 doesn’t sound very promising. Keep piling into etfs till you have a more sizable account.
This thread is a “high risk” forum where people post about their bets in the market. Please don’t confuse the advice you would get here. My 2 cents. 80% of it in an index fund that tracks the S and P 500. VOO or SPYM. 20 % in some other areas that have more upside. Lots of interesting stuff here. 75% of professional hedge funds don’t beat the S and P which usually can get you 10 - 15 percent a year compounding over time. Sounds boring but deceptively good.
You should call Fidelity or Schwab and ask them. Or walk in. The standard advice is to have 3-6 months cash in a high yield savings account. Then contribute 401k up to the match. Then contribute to a Roth up to the max. Then anything that’s left put in a taxable brokerage account and buy VOO
Use an LLM to ask which companies in January 1st 2000 were household names, then see how they did vs VOO or VTI. People would be talking about the hype of Blockbuster, Yahoo, General Electric, Yahoo, Kmart, Pets.com...
the tax man doesn’t kick down your door because you bought VOO in a taxable account, so just buy and hold the same broad ETFs there and stop treating the brokerage like it’s radioactive
These kind of markets kind of make me forget how VOO can severely underperform
These kind of markets kind of make me forget how VOO can severely underperform
To the regard shorting VOO, is there a woeld
Just gambled on buying 10 shares of VOO. Now I’m gonna hold it until January and sell it to fill my Roth.
Always interesting to measure SPY/VOO vs RSP (S&P 500 equal weight). The RSP equal weight is down 1% over the past week.
Ah yes, shorting both VOO and SPY for extra diversification
Shorting both VOO and SPY is just shorting the S&P 500 with extra steps.
Yesterday, I lost money because I sold too early, and today, I lost money because I bought too early and sold too late. I just can't make any money. Should probably buy VOO.
It's just an account. Even if you invest in nothing, Fidelity will pay you over 3% interest. VOO is a pretty safe investment with proven yearly growth of about 8% or more.
I did something similar recently. Heard about a bunch of layoffs, and was pessimistic, i normally trade on VOO, but bought puts on SPY, which allows days more often then every 7 days.... needless to say, it was for the next day, logged in the next day was confused why my position was down 95% around 2 pm. It was ~10k as well. Pretty embarassing.