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Never thought my first 5 figure movement would be south but here we are
The stock market will prob crash now because I bought nearly 1million usd worth of VOO with my inheritance
Boo Hoo. I bought VOO. I put my toe in at the wrong time.
23M, just started investing. Is VTI really the best strategy, or am I missing out on better growth?
$5 Every Trading Day since April, Finally at 1 Share of VOO
What's been happening with the S&P 500 these past few days?
My trading regime (What is yours?)
Best investment strategy for self controlled 401K
If SpaceX merges with Tesla, what will the consequence be for the S&P 500 index, specifically VOO?
VFQY as an alternative to VOO's tech overweighting?
Portfolio Review: 3–5 Year Horizon, Moderate Risk
The "sell employee stock purchase plan" immediately strategy. This doesn't seem logical to me based on percentages
Anyone else considering increasingly moving to short term govt paper in their tax-free accounts?
I have 11k in stock and I am 20 years old. Where do I invest?
Investing $100 a day - what would you choose besides VOO?
Investing $100 a day - what would you choose besides VOO?
For non-US investors what are non-US domiciled equivalent ETFs you buy?
Once again S&P1 seems to be the best long term strategy over the S&P500
I have been DCA’ing into VOO since 2012 and now I’m rich.
VOO Performance Lately / General Investing Approach
After playing options, my net worth is currently 30$
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?
Mentions
I just maxed out 401k, backdoor Roth (fking pathetic $7.5k/year), then 70% remaining cash into VOO monthly, the rest is just for gambling on this sub, as usual my return is worse than VOO so far this year, classic. Last year was a lot easier
You can make more from other ETFs besides the SPY, I rather have VT VOO or QQQ
Today is brutal. Opened my portfolio to find that I'm down $80k today. Most of my investments are in VOO and QQQM. I'm 29 years old and I know I have time, but this still hurts. Anyone else in this situation?
definitely works with VOO. With individual stocks I'd be a lot more cautious.
I thought I was a dumbass selling my INTC for over 4x gains when it hit $85. Felt dumber and dumber about having realized cap gains even as it rose to $90, $100, $110, $120, $130, and $140+. But now I'm feeling pretty good. Sold some INTC puts NOV20'26 @ $47. I'm not even a bear. I'm bullish. But the CPU/GPU/memory/hardware names got too cocky too fast. That's why I put my INTC gains into VOO and BOXX. TL;DR Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered.
VT and chill. VOO is the inferior Bogle play.
Some of it is quite normal. Broken down by quarters and looking at it through an S&P 500 sort of lens, September through November constites an annual pre-Christmas dip. Happens pretty much every year. If you were to pick 3 months of a year that would be best to buy VOO or some such ETF every year, you are at the peak of it right now. This is compounded by the fact that we are on the heels of an election cycle. Traditionally, election years display a more pronounced dip-and-recover behavior before growth occurring in late November through to early January.
They track the exact same index…the difference is in ER, reinvestment mechanisms and generally liquidity. If you are a buy and hold investor, which I very much am, the obvious answer is VOO, but I don’t own it. I own VTSAX/VTIAX and some other funds that are largely inconsequential to this post. If your running options plays, sure SPY…I guess. Just make sure it’s 0dte calls for today, so you can post in WSB.
Note that with options there is a spread which means that there might not be a buyer at the price that it shows you. In general, short term date to expire options almost always lose money. It is very easy to get caught chasing your losses and lose everything. With options, there are easily some cases out there where you could pick either side of a trade and still lose money. Never risk more than you are willing to let go to 0 and a vast majority of your net worth should be in VTI or VOO. Like 90%.
VOO and chill motherfuckers getting a taste of what leverage can feel like LOL
Remember casino goers if you were just VOO and chill you would only be down 4%. :pointlaugh:
1 year ago VOO was even lower than it is now. This is nothing. As long as dems don’t kneecap AI the country will be fine
VOO and chill? More like VOO and drill lmao
VOO if you want to be safe. QQQ for some risk. TQQQ for some degen shit. But you likely won’t have cash anyway if you’re a degen.
I have a good amount of cash sitting in a high interest savings account (4%). Is it time to nibble a bit? Say 10-20k usd worth of VOO? Or some Google?
Selling some thematic ETFs and DCA'ing into VOO over the next couple of days.
Does anyone else think people are overreacting? VOO is still up 7.5% ytd...yes this is a big movement in one day but down swings usually happen in a shorter time frame than the gradual growth. Being up 8% ytd and people think its the end times makes me really concerned for a real crash.
The answer is always VOO and chill!
VOO was up what? 1.7% yesterday. My portfolio ex VOO was up almost 3%. Right now VOO is down 3.98%. My portfolio ex VOO is down 2.623%. That's called outperforming. It's not just yesterday and today. I've outperformed the SP500 for the last 40 years. I sold some VOO yesterday. I wish I had sold it all. It's time to DCA **out** of VOO.
Thanks for taking over. I actually sold $75k in VOO yesterday at $705.
VOO at levels to seen since May
Does everyone here realize VOO is still up 7.5% YTD? Acting like its the end of the world on a successful average year of investing
Have 300k in money market. Sold individual stocks last year on highs and trying to convert to VOO, qqq, vxus, schd to hold long term. Should I dcs or dump it all in today?
Yo why the F did VOO. Tank so hard. SOXX and NVDA makes sense really
lol holy shit just had a Robinhood alert go off from a price alert for VOO I set back in July. Have any of you said thank you once?
As a wallstreetbets user, I am always shocked when people act like this is r/investing or r/valueinvesting. People are trading high risk options, using margin, and trading high risk stocks. This is a casino why are you here acting like everyone is reacting negatively because they’re 70% VOO and 30% SGOV portfolio dropped 4%v
VTI has no much overlap with VOO they are both down 3.79% at the moment.
what is wrong with everyone? VOO still up 8% YTD....is everyone on margins right now or what?
Everyone freaking out while VOO is still up 10% in the last year, 8%YTD LOL....the world isn't ready for a real bubble pop or crash
Are you saying buying VOO is affordable now or are you actually upset that before the Dems even get to DC for meetings pre swear ins, that the market is concerned that the AI companies may have to behave slightly better
It’s all my fault, I had some money sitting waiting for the dip and I moved it into VOO last night.
VOO/VGT investor. Getting wrecked here too.
Now I understand why everyone VOO and chills. Jumped into the market this year around May, just a complete rollercoaster man smh
I mean VOO is still up 8% ytd so we chillin tbh
What say y'all for how to best capitalize? I thankfully have money sitting around and will put some extra in now. My portfolio is VOO/VXUS/IMCG/AVUV/BND(x). VOO seems to have the biggest % dip. Debating putting a good amount into just that, but would it smarter to just do my standard weighted spread aside from towards bonds. Generally around 50/18/9/15 for those or around there from what I remember. Sad I put most of my bonus in last month. I had a feeling, but tried to follow the adage that time in market is always better than timing the market... though I feel like that is accurate for all times of the year outside of September - November when I always seem to miss the nicer dip (sale) :(.
Brother this is a gambling addiction. Thats $50k you couldve put in $SPX $VOO $KO. But you wanted to be the wolf of Wall Street, instead your the sheep of Wall Street.
I dont generally sit on a lot of cash. Time in the market matters more and it is overly risky to be selling or holding more cash than you need for 12 months emergency in an hysa. I personally hold 50k in hysa and invest the rest. I also just keep buying VOO.
But even in that context, and using this man as an example, he’d have significantly more money if he just put his originally lucky money pot into VOO than trying to guess and get lucky again. Similar to POTUS - had he just passively invested the money his daddy gave him and never failed/bankrupted 250 different businesses then he’d be astronomically more wealthy than he is now. These people aren’t smart or intelligent, good with money or successful. They’re lucky as fuck and that’s where it stops.
Buy VOO, it will gradually built. Its at $690 right now!! Reach $720 a little while ago and will only keep growing exponentially
the V in VOO stands for “V”
just gonna VOO and chill and load up WoW Forever :exit:
And if he just VOO and chill in 2009 he would be a billionaire now.
yep just bought a heap of VOO, QQQ, and VXUS
If i have 300k in money market is this good time to invest in ETFs like VOO, qqq, vxus.
just bought a shit ton of VOO, QQQ, and VXUS.. im chillin
LOL insane that this happens not even a week after I hang up the boots and put all my money in VOO for good and stop gambling
when it comes to investing you need to start with a thesis. owning defense because you are comfortable with them is a bad approach. Do you think defense is going to go up because of the current war? Persionaly, with dems now cntrolling congress there is more pressure for the war to end, amone other geopolitical reasons. So for that reason i sold mine and took the profits i have. if its in the news its too late, this is why you need your own thesis. Do you think we are in an AI bubble? then dont buy AI even whey you see it skyrocketing because it must mall. Or do you believe that the next 6mo will be positive like after every other midterm. Buy and hold is the way to go. Unless you are following the market (and not just a sector) you are better off buying VOO and holding. If you want to watch each sector go for it. The defense sector is a bad long term forever hold as it only performs well in times of war, ive seen it flat for several years at a time.
VOO and spaz the fuck out
"In other words, you have a way to explain stock movement after the fact" Name one piece of technical analysis that explains stock movement BEFORE the fact. By all means, if you have a crystal ball then share that with the rest of us. Everything, including the price action or any research you may be into, is after the fact. Trend trading is attempting to buy/sell sections of an existing uptrend or (in this case) ensuring that you're averaging down your cost on something like VOO which will almost assuredly go up eventually.
I bought some S&P equal weighted cap instead of just simple VOO. I want US exposure but less tilted to tech.
My VOO does not like $100k down today
There are lots of broad market tracking ETFs with very low fees like VOO with a 0.03% expense ratio because it tracks the S&P 500. You may also check QQQ to track NASDAQ. Easy set it and forget it investments.
Should I sell all VOO? Piece of shit won't go up
individual stock picks are for after you have 60% of your assets in VOO
What the actual fuck is going on today? What happened that even VOO tanks so hard?
FUD.. Don't do anything. Hold what you have and re evaluate in a year. Honestly i don't fuck with stocks that cheap often but some do take off. I bought Sofi at 6 bucks but i also own CAT and Coreweave and im being punished. Move to ETFs like VOO and keep your foundation there
Step 1, stop the sinking. Step 2: VOO.
sell everything and buy VOO/VXUS 50-50.
Hold for 5 year or never trade individual stocks anymore because you have no idea what you are doing. Just VOO and chill.
IMO, throw it all into VOO and or keep it in robinhood gold and collect the APY% and forget it. Stop gambling
It's like buying silver or crypto here... lotto ticket from hell. Just buy VOO or BRK and sleep well at night while outperforming QQQ with ease.
any particular reason you chose VFV over VOO?
New year resolution for 2027: VOO and chill I'm done with picking stocks. I learned my lesson.
My port is down 30% over all, I bought at the very top of semis. Should I sell it all and just put what's left in VOO or is there any chance of semis recovering
Get wealthsimple and buy VFV.to (Canadian equivalent to VOO so no fx fees) I’m not Canadian but just asked Gemini
Doesnt really matter, over time if VOO keeps increasing, you will have the bulk of your shares at a lower price than the new shares you buy.
You took a chance on some things and it didn't work which is fine But You should do something "safe" on the side as well. Always have a VOO position and with dividends reinvested Then swing for the fences with something else
Either gamble hard or buy VOO. Anything in between is for losers that will just end up losing. You guys are fucking morons. Have fun making 3x cuz you’re gonna lose. Make 300x or buy an index.
In Canada, you can use wealth, simple and purchase fractional shares. Also, if you want to have that ETF, why are you using VOO why don’t you use the Canadian counterpart VFV?
>This is the only 3x etf in history where people hold and dca like it's VOO. Are you aware 3x ETFs aren't meant to be held like this? this guy never heard of tqqq
I got VOO, VXUS and 10% in SOXX So no leverage
Trading such things (+3x, -3x, etc) requires charting the ticker that it tracks, and computing trading targets from that chart. Charting the leveraged ETF itself has narrow limits of usefulness, and only in the very short term, most of it within a day. Just exited SNDQ position, with exit point computed from SNDK chart support level and SNDK RSI. Worked even for dark pool, accurate to less than 1%. This can't be done on the phone, by watching a single chart (doesn't even show charts for overnight trading) and that mobile interface designed by alternatively gifted people who only dca VOO at 10am. SNDQ exit point computed from SNDK chart: https://preview.redd.it/858cppmk9pzh1.png?width=822&format=png&auto=webp&s=9ad99354736ec636d32cb4d331498c41f6c023fd
You didn’t mention if you are still working or what your annual income is, but if your income is on the lower side, you could funnel your entire paycheck into your 401k as Traditional IRA, then you could sell enough of your capital gains to bring your total income after standard deduction up to the $49,450 (if single) or $98,900 (if married-joint), and you will pay 0% capital gains. You could even withdraw some of the sold capital gains and put it in an external Traditional IRA ($7500 under age 50; $8600 over age 50), so you can realize even more capital gains at 0%. I have been doing this for my girlfriend for the last 5 years. The money being funneled into her 401k is being invested in an aggressive ETF like VOO, or VTI, or MTUM to diversify what was previously wayyyyyyy to much money in one stock that did really well over the last 20 years. And she typically pays $0 federal tax as well.
\> this is the only 3x ETF in history where people hold and DCA like it’s VOO That sounds cool and all but you’re just wrong lol.
But you are the one saying stupid shit. I dont own a share. You retards will realize soon the AI trade isnt going anywhere. While MU can buy back 100% of its stock in 5 years. Which by the way, is the nearly as far out as they are sold out. And HBM isnt a commodity. But you mouth breathers dont have a single original thought and that's why you all lose to VOO every year.
This is gonna sound like an old guy, but this is why I decided to build my port like building a house. I am also big into the AI trade, but I decided to go w/ more index ETF's. I believe the AI trade isn't dead; but we are going to have sector rotations from time to time that are gonna feel like you got kicked in the balls. I have 75% of my port b/w $VT which I consider my foundation and $VXUS which is my support. I have 15% in the Pacific Asian semi heavy ETFs such as $EWJ, $VPL, and $EWY. I consider that 15% as building my garage. Than I have another 10% in speculative stocks. I consider that 10% as my deck. You need to build your portfolio's foundation and support first. And I am gambling heavily here with a very heavy World ex US port since I believe international stocks will outperform US stocks during this AI data center buildout due to the SK hynix, TSM, Samsung, ASML, etc of the world being heavily weighted in $VXUS and $VT compared to US indices such as $VTI or $VOO. And my port hasn't been fun to look at for the last 2 months. I don't know what you own; but it sounds like you are also an AI riverboat gambler so I'd look at putting new money into building a position in $VT. One huge mistake that I have made in the past is feeling like I had to continue to BTD in the same stocks to make sure I bought the bottom. The problem is we have no idea where the bottom is. It's better to put new money towards a foundation like $VT, $VTI, or $VXUS. If you are right all those stock positions you already own will eventually rebound anyway. But you don't want to get wiped out during these brutal sector rotations by continuing to BTD in the same stocks. It's possible they all rebound tomorrow. But it's also possible they all don't hit their bottoms until a year from now. I would bet on the rebound being sooner rather than later, but I can't guarantee that. Sorry for my long reply.
VOO is doing better than QQQ YTD it’s fucking joever
VOO has not done a stock split recently and there are no rules that require them to do one. They did one in 2013. which was about 14 years ago.
Today ther are very good brokerages that have no fees like Vangard, Fidelity, Schwab. If your brokerage changes fees move your account to a no fee brokerage. I don't know which brokerages are available in Canada. I am fidelity customer and when I enter a buy it will buy whole shares and then fractional share when I tell it to X dollars of the fund. Now some brokerage have acount setting that will lock it into not full shares only . Also VOO is just one of many growth index funds. That are many S&P500 grwoth index funds. and many that follow other indexes. and not all have the same high share price. Instead of VOO I sue FXAIX which is a mutual fund version of the S&P500 index fund. that currently trades at $263. But currently my focus is dividend investing and there are many low cost dividend funds and the most expensive ones I own cost $50 share.
Ya if VOO does go down, which it doesn't, at least you can take comfort in knowing that every boomer is going down with you.
Why though? Why after like 5k didn't you step back and think, maybe VOO and VWO would be a better holding place for my money . Genuinely curious to understand, I've never had enough to be a gambler so I don't play the lottery or anything like that, but I do invest in a Roth IRA into bluechips , ETFs, REITs, and BDCs
So glad I rotated out of semis and into VOO and googl last week lmfao
Retail always loses, we can’t pick stocks…. We just have to VOO and chill
There is also SCHX at \~$30 per share that has a 91% overlap with VOO/SPYM - [https://stockanalysis.com/etf/compare/schx-vs-voo-vs-spym/?r=YTD](https://stockanalysis.com/etf/compare/schx-vs-voo-vs-spym/?r=YTD)
Total world would be a good option too. I was using VOO as you hear people say things like “just buy VOO and forget about it” for retirement investing. It was also a good example for my questions on dollar cost averaging if a single share is over $700
same happened to me at 12, now I am 13 and fo VOO and chill. Best decision ever