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Why I think Berkshire Hathaway is the best investment right now
No, the spacex ipo is not going to tank your 401k
Advantages of having a CFP (fiduciary) managed portfolio vs. Self directed (all index funds)?
Thoughts on my Portfolio in the late 30s
What do you think of the growth section of my portfolio?
Is it crazy to have 36 postions across my retirements?
The "bull case" for SpaceX: re-running the Tesla dilution playbook?
The "bull case" for SpaceX: re-running the Tesla dilution playbook?
I have mostly VOO portfolio. What would be a strategy to exclude exposure to AI companies?
Aggressive Roth IRA at 18 – What Would You Change?
Hypothetically if you were holding close to infinitely, would VOO or QQQ be the move?
For those investing in S&P 500 ETFs (VOO/SPY/IVV), how have your returns been?
VOO Becomes First ETF to Reach $1 Trillion AUM, also: VOO bounced exactly at 700 a couple of days ago but nobody noticed
Dividend Stocks in Your 20s Worth It or Just Stick With Growth?
Sp500 - 100 years of changes - how significant is the mega ipo changes?
Sp500 - 100 years of changes - how significant is the mega ipo changes?
80k to invest + no debt how would you invest it?
Is anyone actually selling VOO or QQQ over Space X concerns?
$KIDZ - Will this take off?
Should I change from an Investment Account to a IRA?
What is the best strategy to allocate and optimize a 100K investment?
21 year old college student with $10k saved, what would you do in my spot?
Vote against S&P changing rules to fast track IPOs into the S&P 500 indexes(SPY, VOO) - (Deadline TOMORROW, May 28)
Automated investing for retirement accounts (fidelity/schwab) vs picking your own distributions. The good vs the bad. Discuss
Built my first Roth IRA portfolio in my 20's - here's my 6 ETF allocation and the reasoning behind each pick
Do you keep growth stocks in retirement accounts and dividends in taxable?
For parabolic gains DO NOT read this. It's just a Samaritan text for thise in despair.
Forbparabolic gains DO NOT follownthese advices.
If I want to generate the most money from my traditional & roth IRA accounts - where should I "park" it for the next 20 years?
MAG7 is outperforming all the hype stocks posted about constantly, why do people not learn, holds true for last 40+ years
Little less than 3 months in and I think I’m doing well
the s&p 500 vs equal weight spread just hit 13.8%. it's only been this wide twice before
Anyone here actually outperforming just buying VOO long-term after taxes, stress, and time?
Choosing VTI over VOO has cost me about $44,000.00 over the past 6 years
Small business owner here, looking for investing advice from people further ahead than me
18 year old who just started - any advice would be appreciated! I don’t know how to diversify properly.
Sell some Intel to take a larger position in SLS? I’m OKAY with the greed, but I’m not sure my logic is sound.
Hold Intel vs buying more SLS . I’m leaning greed, but have I’m not sure about my logic.
Investing my first $250.. Is this a good profolio for buying and holding?
The more you learn investing, the more you realize there’s not much to optimize beyond saving more, staying invested, and avoiding mistakes
20 y/o F looking for advice for my portfolio
Is the stock market becoming more & more volatile?
Why do people who just buy index funds call themselves investors? You set up an auto deposit once. My grandmother does the same thing with her savings account.
Is Wall Street Bets a legitimate strategy what should I buy besides VOO ?
Late starter..has that tech ship already sailed? Amd, MSFT, VOO?
Hit $100K… But It Came With More Risk Than I’d Recommend
After about 7 years of losing money from options and meme stocks /coins, I'm finally back in the positive.
If someone is worth one million dollars, how much $VOO and $VTI should they own? What if they're worth *two* million; how much then?
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I dont even have 0dte VOO on my webull wut
who tf is trading VOO over SPY?
First of all, I'm a puny undergrad, so I'm definitely not qualified to answer this lol. But if I were you, I'd do some survey as to how much the type of home you want costs, so you have a tangible goal to aim towards. Now how much do you make annually? How much percentage of that do you think you can save? Then you'll be able to gauge roughly how much gain % you need to achieve that goal, which is crucial in determining how much risks you're gonna have to take. But yeah, all investments have risks, so I'd suggest you do the test to determine how much you as a person is willing to take, forgot what the test is officially called. That should be a good start Still, generally market ETFs are probably the best for most people lol. Personally I buy VOO
With the now-constant threat of dilution from the Bag7, VOO-and-chilltards are more and more correct every day
I've been telling newbies to use SPYM in a taxable brokerage account since the S&P 500 index switch and lowered expense ratio. Long-term holders of VOO, IVV, or SPY should continue investing into them. No point in losing your great positions for a slightly less expense ratio.
VOO and chill, stop overthinking it
Would do: 20% XLK because tech is gonna lead the next 25 years just like it did the last 25 year. 40% VOO for S&P 500 20% VEU for international 20% VIG for dividend and growth
I dream of a world where I no longer have to look at charts or watch news. VOO and chill, but I'm too deep in now.
Perhaps consider a series of diversified low-cost ETFs and DCA as funds become available. VOO, QQQM and SOXQ how I'd start were I 21 again and lock more try putting away 20% net of taxes combined first into ROTH 401(k) then ROTH IRA then rest into brokerage since early on where one pays the least of taxes then later in life switch to Traditional 401(k) and Traditional IRA plus continue buying in brokerage because SS not enough and I'm speaking from experience vs I how I viewed retirement at your age.
VOO red and port green is always a good day
yeah but if you only put money in QQQ, it's 15% YTD, VOO 7%+, the average joe I know only put their money in these massive basket of ETFs. You are probably referring to some regards on this subreddit.
You may need some VT/VTI/VOO and chill in your life
I sold my VOO at 690 and bought back in at 689.8 so I’m officially doing better than S&P 500 this year
Put that crap in VOO and forget
SPY or VOO is bought in pension plans. They buy the dip anyway.
I’ll buy more FLKR, AVDV, VXUS, probably some other stuff. I’m buying US ETFs, also, but in smaller amounts unless VOO goes -10% from ATH.
VT or VOO are better options than tbils
S&P 500; VOO etc will always make you $ as long as you buy and hold long term. In even only a 10 yr period you're 1$ invested is now over 2$. And had you just put it 1$ in a no interest checking acct you're 1$ is now only .60 cents or whatever......... imagine how much $ you would lose over 20-40 yrs. You could end up having to work until you're in the ground.
"Higher fees than VOO" is not what a CFP does. Do more research.
So VOO is up 7%ish percent since this post
Did you cherry pick the specific comparison time frame that supports your case? Looking at 2 or 3 year returns shows FNILX ahead. https://totalrealreturns.com/n/VOO,FNILX
VOO and chill from here on out maybe
I second-guess myself every day for not full porting VOO like a 🌈 boglehead normie. Boring as fuck though.
Torn between riding the VOO and chill wave or just full porting into 4-5 semi long dated calls and hoping for a 10 bagger
If you try to wheel with 3k you will find the premium is extremely low. Even if you continue doing it week after week, you will end up making less than a standard ETF like VOO. You need enough money to invest in high premium stocks, where a single covered call may cost 10-20k
Not financial advice, but if I were you and thinking rationally, I would split this into 3 tranches: 1. 200K BTC - I’m guessing you’re a believer and this way, you’ve automatically secured your cost basis + made a significant return. You can’t lose from this point on if this is your high conviction bet. 2. 200K on a Long term quality compounder- for me, this is an ASML, TSMC, GOOGL, type play. Essentially something you would never sell even if it corrected 15% in one day because you are CERTAIN of the fundamentals. OR, if you’re not a stock picker, VOO 3. Let’s be honest. If you’re in this sub, you’re likely a gambler. Feed the beast. This is your “fuck it, it could go to zero, but I’m gonna die trying to be a billionaire” tranche. Continue to roll the dice. This way, you’ve mitigated the downside and secured your future, but you also have a shot at that sub-1% yolo dream. Just my 50 cents
I just VOO and chill. Weird to say but I love seeing red days. Means I buy more than my normal weekly buys
Buy VOO, hold for 18 years.
https://portfolioslab.com/tools/stock-comparison/FNILX/VOO VOO's 5 year average CAGR is 13.49% FNLIX's 5 year average CAGR is 13.21% Even after fees, voo has been the better pick But regardless, you can't handwave the holding differences between the two and act like the 0.03% fee is a deal breaker
I’d sell that URNM & put those funds into VOO
I hope everyone had fun today. I'm not selling my VOO. I rotated GOOG into IBOT. I'm ready to ride it up or down.
The only thing that governs price is more people buying a stock than selling, price goes up. More people selling than buying, price goes down. Everything after that basic level is inferred, correlation. If you are young. Open a Fidelity account. Buy as much VOO on auto weekly basis as you can comfortably stomach, then work to increase that auto amount over time. Sell only when you have something urgent to pay for. You will learn tons of other things. Roth. Budgeting. Optimization. You will have conviction for particular CEO/founders. All that comes with time. But it all comes roomy he fundamental basis of auto invest and don’t panic sell. Best of luck!!
5 years it has only increased 16%. If you literally only went VOO, conservative ETF, you would be up 73% in 5 years. To each their own I guess
AI is here to stay. I'm not sure which companies will float to the top and stay, but a long term portfolio with 20% AI is good. Majority will probably remain in VOO for long term growth. I've been doing just fine with gains over there the last decade.,
I’m all in on SPYM, SPY and VOO are just \*expensive\* per share, I like having a bit more flexibility and still get the same exposure. I highly doubt they would change indices again.
It's half the cost of VOO, which both are minimal anyway at 0.03 and 0.015 and can be acquired in $1 increments. Anyway, to each is own.
I took my GOOG gains to buy up some VOO when the SPCX IPO finishes liquidating other stocks.
So I kept buying stocks and it would go down because at that moment it was “ profit taking” so after a few years of consistently losing a week or so ago, I decided to buy 100% VOO so of course the entire economy tanks
I think I’m up 24% on my VOO/VXUS portfolio and 70% on my AI portfolio since 2025… I’ll take that all day. I’m pretty close to moving from the wealth creation to wealth preservation stage of my life. A few more 10% years and I can retire. So no I’m not trying to make massive returns.
Just dumped a 7 figure nepobaby inheritence into VOO, expect a -30% crash or so from here boys
“Just invest in VOO and make sure you never pull it out until your dead”
Wow you left money on the table with VOO lol
I’m not holding any bags. I moved from individual stocks to VXUS and VOO about 3 years ago. I had calls on $GME and sold $FFIE just in time. I’d put half of my portfolio on SpaceX puts if I didn’t have obligations. I’ll probably put $50k on it. I’ll post my positions when I have them.
Mines crashing so bad and a majority of my shit is in VOO. I’m only 24 though so I’ll just hold I guess.
This is why I prefer to hold VOO over any SP500 mutual fund.
im an absolute beginner at investing, using a brokerage app called gotrade and put a sizeable amount of momey into it. ive split 1.5k usd between AAPL, NVDA, SNDK, VOO. ive been meaning to invest since i turned 18 2 years ago but always had analysis paralysis and never bought the whole “best time to invest is today” spiel, but i went through with it now. is there any advice you can give me on the stocks ive picked and what stocks i should be in? like the best options for me to diversify further. not asking for a future prediction, just something for me to get my feet wet, thanks in advance.
You can't get out of it without selling VOO, maybe just invest in SCHD for a bit until it gets to whatever % of your portfolio you want if you don't want to sell
I don’t know why o bother with stocks. VOO QQQ SMH and forget it. They only go up
Vanguard had first mover advantage. (They did it first) And so VOO if the gold standard everyone uses. There's been other that have come along and done it slightly better or for slightly lower price/fee SPYM is best example I know. If you are in it for 35+ yrs of investing that 0.01 will matter maybe $3000 or $4000 total in your life combined - so both are good choices I trust both and I own both. (Voo I always had) and more recently I have been adding as SPYM (SPLG)
I've never sold a business, but.... Take the money, put it all in VOO and let it grow.
If you do this, do not put your money in individual stocks. Just put it in SPY or VOO and forget about it until retirement.
Start really small. Get them to open a Fidelity account and just use SPAXX. Then have them setup an automatic purchase of VOO for a very small comfortable amount. Then have them watch videos. The most important thing is getting started. They have pensions. They will have income forever. They might have many years of DCA ahead of them. Something is better than nothing.
So the SPY/VOO the S&P 500 isn’t going to index SpaceX right away. But plenty of other index funds will. Stay away from Musk directly, keep buying index funds, VOO preferably, but don’t avoid VTI. Never buy or short Musk, plenty of idiots have gone broke trying.
10k on VOO, 50k on 0dtes no balls
\+60k this month, added 50k to VOO and gonna gamble the remaining 10k on 0dte later
Double in 5 years? That’s pretty much just $VOO. You won. Quit while you’re ahead. Don’t forget the tax man is coming for his.
Rate my port (about 25k): 80% HIMS calls ($30 08/21) 1 MU call ($1200 06/26) 2k VOO
They should just VOO and chill
Buy VOO and chill = good at investing. Fucking around with short time expiration options = gambling. You could be great at investing, but a terrible gambler
No, you're mostly right, I was thinking about this a bit too stereotypically. Biggest investors, as you know better than I do I'm sure, are VOO et al. I was thinking of short term market panic and the likes, based on "Well, if Tesla could drop 99% (in a relatively short amount of time), that would surely act as a sort of psychological bomb at least", but my main point would have been "whoever is invested in Tesla and whoever Tesla invests in" without actually knowing either.
Your logic is sound and a common approach. The reasoning breaks down cleanly: FXAIX in Roth IRA: Since you can sell and rebuy inside the Roth without tax consequences, Fidelity house-brand funds work fine here. The 0.015% ER vs VOO's 0.03% saves you ~$60/year on $400K — not life-changing but correct. VOO in taxable: You're right that portability matters. If you ever leave Fidelity, you can transfer VOO in-kind (ACATS) to any broker and keep your cost basis. FXAIX would have to be liquidated. One note — at a $420K 401k with Merrill, check if they offer in-plan Roth rollovers or mega backdoor Roth. That's often the highest-leverage strategy for someone at your savings level.
Your instinct to swap out QQQM is solid, but maybe not for the reasons you think. VOO already has heavy mega-cap tech exposure (NVDA, AAPL, MSFT are ~20% of VOO). Adding QQQM, SPMO, and VGT on top of that gives you massive overlap — basically your whole portfolio is US large-cap growth. Swapping QQQM for AVUV (small-cap value) and VXUS (international) would actually diversify you. AVUV gives you exposure to smaller companies that are historically cheaper and have higher expected returns (the Fama-French value premium). VXUS gives you non-US exposure, which reduces your country-specific risk. For the remaining "growth" allocation, VGT already covers tech. You could drop SPMO as well (it's momentum factor, which overlaps with growth) and just hold VOO + VGT for US, then add AVUV + VXUS for diversification.
VGT has been excellent to me, but the “VOO and chill” modo will leave you far behind
Would not do VOOG > VOO if you're "behind" 20 years.... as you get later in life your risk tolerance window shrinks. VOOG for sure has outperformed VOO over the past 10 years but what if we hit a downturn in the next couple decades or when you're about to retire? There's no get rich quick scheme long term that doesn't involve luck with some bias to knowledge obviously - but not something you want to risk in the casino. https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1txt18a/blew_my_account_truly_done/opyj8y6/ Read my comment I wrote it for non 20 year olds. At most do 20% of your entire portfolio in your 40s (?) into less than recommended equities.
Scheduled auto-buy of VOO, VXUS and AVUV every week. Nothing changes. DCA slowly into good old-school index fund investing.
I wouldn't say always but now definitely doesn't seem like the time to get into Meta when memory and chip stocks give a better yield. However, I would say putting money in VTI/VXUS/VOO is the best if we don't want to keep track of things. I know it goes against this sub though.
Short them. That way you’ll counter their positions in VOO. Good luck with your strategy.
Yeah, but VOO can eat 💩 and bounce back. It doesn't really go down, just goes on sale.
My portfolio was up 20%, fell 40% to -20% on last week's crash alone, back to ~0% today. I'm selling all this shit and switching to VOO and chill. My shitty heart can't take it. It was fun while it lasted.
After +20% over a couple months, then instantly losing twice that last week to -20%... Then back to almost even on Monday... I'm fucking done, fellas. VOO and chill it is. I nearly had fucking heart attack all for nothing.
If you can do that why not buy VOO? Lol
Tranquillo, è un problema super comune che capita a un sacco di gente. Il motivo per cui sei bloccato è che FXAIX è un fondo comune d'investimento proprietario di Fidelity e non un classico ETF, quindi la tua nuova piattaforma non ha proprio gli strumenti tecnici per ospitarlo nel suo catalogo. La buona notizia è che, trattandosi di un Roth IRA, hai un enorme vantaggio fiscale che puoi sfruttare a tuo favore. Dentro questo tipo di conto puoi vendere e comprare tutti gli asset che vuoi senza attivare nessuna penale e senza dover pagare tasse sulle plusvalenze. Il modo più semplice per aggirare il blocco è fare una mossa in tre passaggi direttamente dall'app o dal sito. Per prima cosa, vendi le tue quote di FXAIX rimanendo sempre dentro Fidelity, in modo da convertire tutto il valore in liquidità sul tuo saldo. Subito dopo, vai sulla tua nuova piattaforma e avvia la richiesta di trasferimento specificando che sposterai il conto sotto forma di contanti e non come titoli. Una volta che i soldi sono arrivati sani e salvi sul nuovo broker, ti basterà usarli per ricomprare un ETF equivalente che traccia lo S&P 500, come ad esempio VOO di Vanguard o IVV di iShares. Gli ETF si comportano esattamente come il fondo che avevi prima, hanno costi di gestione ridicoli e, soprattutto, sono scambiati universalmente, quindi se in futuro vorrai cambiare di nuovo piattaforma non avrai mai più questo problema. Ci vorrà qualche giorno per completare i passaggi, ma è l'unico modo pulito e a costo zero per uscirne.
Ciao! Tranquillo, è un problema super comune. Il motivo è che **FXAIX** è un fondo comune d'investimento proprietario di Fidelity, non un ETF, quindi la nuova piattaforma non può "ospitarlo" così com'è. Visto che ti trovi all'interno di un **Roth IRA**, hai un enorme vantaggio: puoi vendere e comprare asset dentro il conto senza pagare tasse sulle plusvalenze e senza alcuna penale. Per aggirare il blocco, fai così: 1. **Vendi FXAIX direttamente dentro Fidelity:** Converti le tue quote di FXAIX in liquidità (Cash/Core Position). Ripeto, trattandosi di un Roth IRA, questa operazione non genera eventi fiscali (no tasse). 2. **Avvia il trasferimento (ACATS) come "Cash":** Chiedi al tuo nuovo broker di avviare il trasferimento del Roth IRA specificando che trasferirai il saldo in contanti. 3. **Ricompra sul nuovo broker:** Una volta che i soldi arrivano sulla nuova piattaforma, usali per comprare un ETF equivalente sullo S&P 500 (ad esempio **VOO** di Vanguard o **IVV** di iShares). Gli ETF si muovono esattamente come FXAIX, hanno costi di gestione bassissimi e te li accettano ovunque se in futuro vorrai cambiare ancora broker. Ci vorrà qualche giorno per liquidare il fondo e completare il trasferimento, ma è l'unico modo pulito e a costo zero per farlo!
Wanted to play it safe and bought pico top of VOO like a retard. I’m not seeing that 2% back for weeks!
Find broker with margin interest rate less than the average annual return on VOO for infinite money glitch. Got it.
Yes, and no, I would say for him for someone who has a bunch of fractional shares. He probably be better off and more profitable, putting it all into spy or VOO or VUG.
Meh 10k ain’t the end of the world if you actually stop. The only thing you should gamble on are VOO shares going up lol, just work invest chill until you got them money you can afford to lose that is
The math just doesn't work on $150k for $2k/month in 10 years. That's a 16% annual yield on principal - basically impossible without taking massive risk or destroying your NAV. Best realistic path is growth first, income later. Park it in VOO or QQQ for 10-15 years, let compounding do its thing, then switch to a 4% withdrawal strategy. You'd need about $600k to safely pull $2k/month. The property idea is even worse with current rates - negative cashflow will eat you alive. Sorry but there's no magic bullet here.
I don't know where the idea came from that this is what "timing the market" refers to. If Buffet is invested in 10 companies, A-J, he's in the market. If he thinks that company A is overvalued™, he sells shares of company A, and he's still 90% in the market, because he's not trying to time the market. This gives him the opportunity to buy shares of company K if he thinks it's undervalued™ based on fundamentals. Cycling his portfolio according to his tastes of what it means to be over or undervalued, and according to his tastes of makes a valuation risky or not, so that he can prioritize companies with greater perceived potential relative to their risk and their price, is not "timing the market." That is "balancing a portfolio", which is a basic skill that everyone needs if their strategy is anything other than 1) buy VOO/IVV/VTI, 2) profit.
goddamnit i sold all my VOO last week and now i wanna buy again when they announce b.s like this
Investment property is unlikely to be able to generate 2k of free cash flow in just 10 years. I suppose its possible but seems unlikely, especially with just 150k initial investment. Next best option would be to park it in an index fund, such as VOO, for the next 10 to 15 years and then reallocate to something that pays dividends, or just draw directly from VOO. Other options include pivoting to HYS or CDs to continue to make interest while you take the 2k monthly payments. Also, if this is a retirement planning, 150k and 10 years is very compressed initial investment / timeline to be able to achieve retirement goals. Also paying the mortgage is only one aspect of retirement, will need to plan / budget for all expenses, not just housing.
People say this every year. Depending on your risk tolerance, if you want to buy equities, try not to time it. You could set a certain allocation of your portfolio to something like VOO and direct new cash flows into it based on how much it drifts from your target. Then you’ll be buying it low mechanically.
I personally think the AI trade is going to wind down over the next 12 months. VOO is too over-exposed. It’s as concentrated as it’s ever been. 40% of its total assets allocated to just 10 mega-cap tech stocks. It’s as much an AI momentum index as it is a diversified broad index. When the dot com bubble popped, the money shifted into the quiet compounders. Over the five years after the peak of the bubble, the S&P 500 Equal Weight Index had a positive 36% return, while the Nasdaq fell 58%. I think we may see a similar situation where the weighted indexes fall as money rotates out of tech. Probably won’t be as dramatic. I still have growth and tech companies, I’m just orienting my portfolios center of gravity towards low volatility compounders as I think we’re nearing a correction. Obviously I could be completely wrong though.
Why do the research if you aren't trying to outperform the market? Might as well just buy an index fund like VOO.
Put some into VOO and Qqq maybe ,I’m not a financial advisor but you might want to get one
why are you investing based on a horoscope? at that point just throw your money in VOO or a MMF and be done with it crazy
No reason not to use VOO for both. FXAIX is a mutual fund which means your order gets executed after the close at whatever the closing prices of all the stocks in the underlying index are. VOO you can buy and sell with instant execution during market hours. You may not make very many transactions, but being able to do them during market hours is worth the 0.015% difference in expense ratio. It's also possible you might want to transfer your Roth somewhere else at some point, to some brokerage that doesn't support FXAIX although I think most will support it. People on this sub sweat expense ratios WAYYYYY too much.
Some of the broader market ETF's are usually the way to go. VOO & VTI
Just to add to this, sometimes you need a financial advisor when your estate gets more complicated. Like for example when you're older and planning in more details for retirement it can be good to speak to an expert about where you are. Also if you really want to just be passive pick a low cost fund like VOO or VTI to invest in.
Sold 3 covered calls on my VOO $500 a piece $685 strike 💅
How to the people at Vanguard face the embarrassment of VOO not being nearly as cool as SPY. If I look at SPY I can guess what the S&P500 is - if I look at VOO I make funny mouth sounds with the name.