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Liquidated all positions: Sitting on $1.2M cash for a 2026 macro restart. How would you deploy this for the next decade?
I have currently sold all my stocks and have $1.2 million in cash on hand. I would like to purchase a new batch of stocks to hold for the lo
VOO is $5 billion away from becoming the first ETF to hit $1 trillion
ELI5: Why would an ETF like VOO or SPY outperform the S&P500, if even for a single day?
Never seen VOO down so much more than the sp500, didn’t even know this was possible
Would it be crazy to sell my NVIDIA shares (60) to buy into the DRAM ETF?
Is there any reason to invest in VOO rather than VOOG?
Need some advice on how to diversify and invest with a tight budget
Too much of my portfolio is from RSUs - how would you diversify?
I can't beat the market. I won't ever beat the market. After years I realize that now. It's VOO for me.
In 2023 Robinhood killed the chart that compared your portfolio to any stock you want, and called it "temporary." It's 2026.
If you were to invest $5000 today what would you suggest?
What actually causes swings in stock prices?
AI is disruptive. Individual companies have never been more volatile. What’s the argument to not just buy indexes?
What about VYM? That seems pretty immune to the shenanigans of the tech bros. You can't fake dividends.
I don't want ETFs, I want to invest in stocks.
What’s the best way to start a new portfolio. 24yo
If you’re young, increase risk until you are 100% you’ll hit your goal!
What is the best argument against a large cap Growth ETF?
Roth IRA Allocation at 18 - Part 2: Revised portfolio After Feedback
List of most promising stocks to hold over the coming 6-12 months?
Alright I got roasted before and changed up my portfolio. How does it look now after rebalancing without heavily investing in anything in a while?
I Looked at My Portfolio Today and Saw THE DEVIL HIMSELF in My VOO
I Sold All My VOO for a Concentrated NVDA Bet. Should I Have Just Bought Options Instead?
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
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1% LMAO. Can you please check your investments and back test then against something common like VOO? Make sure you're not being robbed blind. After that, open a Fidelity account and have them initiate a transfer of funds.
Build an automated mechanism to invest on your own. Open an online brokerage account - Fidelity, Schwab, E\*TRADE, Robbin Hood, etc. and link a bank account to it. Then route some percentage of your paycheck to this online account and set up automated buys (at least quarterly if not monthly) of some low cost SP500 index like VOO. If you can ensure a little more risk consider putting 10-25% into a more risky low cost ETF like VGT or QQQM and hold long (decades). Don't check it all the time and never sell.
Throw it in VOO and forget you have it.
Whew, good thing I only put 20% of my portfolio into memory. I was always complaining about VOO, and now I'm glad I didn't sell it for more memory. I'm holding onto that DRAM for a couple of years until it tanks or hits $200.
Going all in on MU, big sign on the MU subreddit… *Now my losses are over $30k, and this is the first time I have ever invested in MUU. I have never invested in MU before either. I understand that the fundamentals have not changed at all, but MUU has fallen to the 600s from the 1200s within a week. My heart is pounding because this is my life savings. Going forward, I am only going to invest in VOO, so that is not a question. Is anyone else in the same situation? What keeps you going? I would really appreciate some motivation, as I am at a very low point right now.*
Lol, if you only knew! I didn’t even know what VOO was until a year ago, and I hate gambling! The only reason I even know about this sub is because my dad died suddenly, and of course he didn’t tell me before he died what HE was doing with his money…so I had to learn, and learn FAST. I work as a public servant, hence the Public Service Loan Forgiveness. I HATE that my coworkers have to pay more than I did for my school loans, and there is ZERO hand waving here. It’s the most unfair, messed up system imaginable, and I do NOT take it lightly whatsoever. My point was, we can do everything right and still get totally fucked, or do everything wrong and yet still get lucky. Not necessarily that I support Ferrari guy’s decision or even Kaylee buying a car if it was beyond her financial means (no idea if hers was or wasn’t actually, maybe she had a really high starting salary - I just always think about how sad it was that she only JUST got that new car before she died). There are SO many little notes on index cards I found around my dad’s apartment when he died that helped shed light on what he was thinking about right before he died…it really put things in perspective for me. He was subscribed to all these financial journals and things, and things like semis and Elon Musk were very much on his mind, yet he still panic sold his Thrift Savings to buy some stupid gold IRA thing like you see ads for on tv. He worked as a postal worker for 43 years before he retired. Since he died, I have been working to untangle the mess he left, and doing my best to make him proud by making responsible decisions to protect every penny he worked so hard for. I’m here on Wall Street Bets bc believe it or not, reading all the comments is both fascinating and oddly educational for me, someone who knew nothing about any of this stuff a year ago. I’m hardly the degenerate gambler/person drowning in consumer debt that your ire should be directed at - in fact, I drove the same 2003 Honda Accord from 2002-2025! I’m probably being overly defensive, especially for this sub, but I felt like I needed to at least explain myself…debt can absolutely ruin your life and should be managed responsibly, of course…I wasn’t trying to make light of it.
Because most people in /r/investing asking for individual stocks are new to investing and are speculating/gambling a la /r/wallstreetbets. >people like Buffett, Peter Lynch, or Jim Simons would've been told to stop wasting their time and just buy VOO No one like that is asking for advice on Reddit. Maybe if someone who has put significant time on their own and asked a question that indicated that, then some useful and insightful comments could be given. That's why the vast majority of advice it to invest in VOO.
Agreed. Start with VOO (add VXUS if you want international), auto-buy every paycheck, and ignore the noise. If you still want to pick stocks later, keep it to a small "fun money" slice.
Because most people on reddit (probably like 99%) are not good at it, hence why youll see nothing but VOO and chill. Might as well merge this sub with r/bogleheads, you're going to get scorned for suggesting that MSFT is a good buy.
Pretty soon you’ll be able to change it to things like VTI and VOO ….. the SPYM is just the starting default ….. you’ll also be able to transfer it to other brokerages like Fidelity and Vanguard ….. give it a chance to get completely up and running Here’s a quote from the article tagged below: “During the growth period, funds must be invested in broad U.S. equity index funds – such as mutual funds or ETFs that track market indexes like the S&P 500 – with no leverage and annual fees and expenses capped at 0.1%. Subject to limited exceptions for cash, no other investments are permitted, including sector-specific funds.” https://www.chase.com/personal/investments/learning-and-insights/article/trump-accounts-for-kids-considerations-for-parents It all comes down to, nobody is forcing anybody to open one for their kids. If you don’t want to open one for your kids, don’t ………… 20 - 30 years from now we will see who’s doing better……… the kids of the parents who opened the accounts and fully funded them for their kids for years until they turn 18 then converted them to Roth IRA ….. or the kids of people who didn’t.
Jfc. Red week is tough? What about red months? Red years? Just DCA into index funds and forget about them. You absolutely seem like someone who would panic sell and then regret it. Do yourself a favor and just put your money into VOO for the next 30 years. You are not some special flower who is smarter than the market. You do not have some special insight into things. Any success you’ve had to this point has been dumb luck. Understand that and be happier going forward with whatever broad based low cost index funds you pick.
I sell VOO today for gain OF $100. Next April, do I owe taxes on these gains if in my taxable account? How about if in my trump account?
Makes me itch to gamble 0dtes. But I happily parked all my money in VOO, QQQ, and SCHD last month to give my finances a breather from my degenerate gambling and I’m finally making money consistently.
I think the first question is whether you’re trying to invest in **the AI value chain** or just the companies with “AI” in the marketing material. Personally, I’d lean toward the picks-and-shovels approach. For semiconductors, I like broad funds such as **SOXX** or **SMH** because almost every AI workload ultimately depends on chips. Whether the winners are OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or someone we haven’t heard of yet, they all need massive compute infrastructure. I’m more cautious with AI-specific ETFs. Many are actively managed, relatively expensive, and often end up holding the same mega-cap tech names you already own through an S&P 500 or Nasdaq fund. You’re paying a higher fee for exposure you may already have. If I were building a 10+ year portfolio, I’d probably allocate the majority to a semiconductor ETF and complement it with a broad market fund like VTI or VOO rather than trying to guess which AI software companies will dominate. Chips benefit regardless of who wins the AI race. One thing I’d avoid is buying an ETF just because “AI” is in the name. Always look at the holdings—many have very concentrated portfolios or simply repackage the Magnificent Seven with a higher expense ratio. Sorry for the long reply hope it helps
Here's what you should do. Give yourself a fake $1000 to invest. Pick stocks and calculate your return using whatever criteria for stock picking you choose. Then compare how your picks do against VOO or some other S&P500 index. If your method does better than VOO for a year, then you should start investing real money using your system
guys should i just say fuck this shit and VOO and chill?
With 7 million in VOO the yearly dividend will be about 70K a year of cash income. And since dividend income is more stable than share price. in a downtrend you are likely to still get a 70K dividend.
As everyone else said buy broad ETFs like VOO, VTI, VXUS, etc. But I don't think it hurts to buy individual stocks if you believe in it and actually invest. I've invested a lot into GOOG for example because I think over the long term it will be a good investment. But 90% of my portfolio is still broad ETFs. If you don't believe in any individual stocks or you only plan to invest in them for the short term then you're better off with only ETFs.
VOO and chill is probably the way for someone like you
I would just invest in S&P 500(SPYM VOO etc) - top 500 companies and gets reorganized to include/remove companies World Market Fund(VT) - this is broad domestic market and also includes international stocks Dividend ETFS(do this in your roth but SCHD and DGRO) generally blue chip companies and pays a yield but also growth of roughly 10% Growth Stocks(QQQM VUG or SCHG) - stocks that are expected to outperform the market but high volatility downsides is greater but upside is the same Doesn't seem like you want to frequently monitor stocks so I would just pick ETFs that best represent your risk tolerance which is likely some combination of SPYM, SCHD, VT, and QQQM
Just VOO and chill regard you’re not the chosen one
The safe route is VOO/QQQ??? You’re basically investing your entire portfolio in 8-10 stocks. At this point VOO and SPY are about 93% correlated
> for the long term (5-10 years) That is not long term. > The Safe Route: 60% VOO/QQQ, 40% high-moat individual stocks (MSFT, LLY, BRK.B) And this is absolutely not a "safe route" over that short a time frame.
Wrong sub bro, it's only VOO & ETFS here
405 @ 89 avg. Btw when I say port, I mean for the account that I actively trade stocks with. Other accounts are VOO and chill.
$T $VOO That's it. Over $500k in VOO and $165k in T
You need a lawyer before a financial advisor. Something like VOO is planty aggressive (and nobody will be able to show it's not prudent for kids). So that's the way part. My concern here is that you would pool things. If they are separately titled (e.g., Joe owns 104 Milton St., Newt owns 105 Milton St.) the comingling proceeds (rent, sales) or paying related expenses (taxes) is highly problematic. It's basically impossible to track and proportionately disposition everything down the line. You'd need to maintain separate accounts for every child. How are the inherites properties (or real estate interests titled)? Only if it's "joint tenant with right of survivorship" or something similar would the asset held in common and you could route cash outflows to a common/comingle account. But the person giving the property must not like you (or maybe the kids) if they did that. It sets up a scenario in 15 years where one kid realizes "hey, Newt got camps and sports fees and a car that I didn't get, so the fund is smaller than it would be otherwise." And then they come after more than half of the remainder. I'd have similar concerns if it's in trust or UGMA or whatever. The recordkeeping would include market fluctuatioms between cash flows or assignment of phantom shares or something. Total PITA compared to keeping parallel accounts.
Dude I love it here lol I boglehead 98% in boring stuff like VOO and VXUS and buy meme stocks with the 2% to feel something
Outside of regiment accounts NVDA QQQ VOO
That is why I choose QQQ over SPY or VOO.
Homie hasn't heard of VOO and chill
Come up with a split between VOO and QQQ. No one will argue against that 10 years later. If you want some pop, sprinkle in a few shares of SpaceX and NVIDIA, but keep that as a low single digit percentage.
VOO, QQQ, VTI…equity is TD Synnex, for years.
Amzn VOO Nvda/MU
VOO and SPY are both the same funds both invest in the S&P500 index. so there is no reason to have both. pick one and most all your money into that fund And there is no need to have a large cap and small cap fund or a tech heavy fund. S&P 500 already has a lot of tech in it. You could invest in VTI which covered most of the US stock market and then add VXUS for international growth. OR you drop all of this and invest in VT which increase in all stocks domestic and international.
SPMO is 20% of SPY/VOO Pick the 20% of SPY/VOO that's high risk.... What's the riskiest 20%? Anytime you go from 500 to 100, there's definitely more risk. You definitely risk more volatility this way. Still, it's far less risk than a market specific ETF. I stand by my statement that any random 20% of the S&P500 is low risk. That goes for any 20% of it, and especially the best performing 20% (over the last 6 months).
VOO, QQQM, and SGOV… last holding is 5% IBIT. I’m boring
Jk, SLS, DRAM, VOO….watching DISK and LASR
VFIAX (VOO but a mutual fund) half my port GOOG AMZN
VOO VT PL <- i didn’t expect almost five times my cost basis in a year
The only thing I would say is that if there's an ETF that matches or is close enough to the mutual fund, go with the ETF, if only for the fact that you can trade it during market hours. Mutual funds get priced at the end of the day after the close. If you put in a buy or sell order in the middle of the day, it doesn't get executed until after the market's closed. As for Roth vs other types of accounts, there can be reasons to put certain types of stocks in a Roth (or other retirement-type account) instead of a regular brokerage account, but spcifically when it comes to aggressiveness or your investment mix, personally I wouldn't use different types of account to segregate growth vs income. There's nothing wrong with just having SPY and/or VOO plus maybe some QQQ until you get close to/in retirement at which point you want to get a little more defensive.
Sell and put it into VOO and forget about it again.
Target dated funds are designed to generate fees. Investing is best done as a steady patient habit. Create a budget with the amount you want to save and buy a broad based index fund every two weeks. Start with Vanguard’s S&P 500 ETF VOO for your first $10,000. Then half VOO and half QQQ NASDAQ 100 for the next $10,000. Then keep going or look for some individual stocks. If you are looking for stability and dividends, companies like Johnson & Johnson, Procter and Gamble and Medtronic. If looking for growth and can tolerate high volatility, SpaceX, NVIDIA, Micron, etc. Build the base in VOO and QQQ first for stable long term growth with less volatility than individual stocks, then fill in with stocks that meet your goals.
For retirement VOO. For high risk high reward Marvell
Look at Microsoft from 2000 to 2012 or Cisco from 2000 to 2026. We didn’t have VOO back then either. Everyone was in individual stocks. Shit didn’t come roaring back.
I think I probably should put some international in there. I’m probably only gonna do 10 or 15% if I do. I was researching the S&P 500 yesterday and saw that it’s like the top seven companies that’s holding are pretty tech heavy from what I saw. I just see a lot of people in here. A lot of people say VTI and chill or only invest in VOO and just other ideas that are really simple which I love I just don’t know if it’s the right thing to do or not. I do understand that it’s lots of companies being invested in within an allocated fund, but I just want to be sure.
Economy slows down. Maybe a bubble pops, maybe there is political stuff, maybe your banking system sold a ton of financial products that were backed by mortgages that may not have been as good as reported. Doesn’t really matter, the economy slows down. The feds biggest lever to pull is interest rates. They lower interest rates to get companies to borrow more and presumably invest that money in a new factory (or whatever it is that makes them money). If you were holding a bond with an effective interest rate of 5% and now the cost of borrowing is 2%, you probably have some regret. Your bond is still making you money and you’re still getting 5%. Hopefully stocks go up, but they may be losing value. Sure your bond lost value, but not like VOO.
Pure gambling and you came so close to losing it all. Bail out and invest in VOO
VOO/AVUV/VXUS Some stocks that are valued based on their dividend yield like EQIX & OHI are good too right now. Take advantage of the tax free
I don't think blindly being in VOO is the best move. But buying high beta stuff at the top isn't either. Also fuck metals.
Some of you lost YTD against VOO and it shows
VT , VTI, or VOO. Pick one and dump money into it repeatedly
Finally acquired 100 shares of VOO (about 1/3rd of my ‘folio). Going to sell my first covered call late Monday, so you’re all welcome for sending SPY to ATH
Investing is best done as a steady patient habit on a schedule. Start with a fixed amount every two weeks into Vanguard’s S&P 500 ETF ticker VOO. Once you get over $10,000, look at adding NASDAQ 100 QQQ or a high growth individual stock like NVIDIA or SpaceX you plan to own over multiple years. There are many right answers, but the foundation is investing on a schedule and starting with the S&P 500.
Put SPMO and VOO both on the same 5 or 10 year chart. You'll see they diverge starting at the end of 2023 and SPMO significantly outperformed. SPMO inception date is 2015, so most of the time it's been open, it tracked pretty closely with VOO. So y'know, you're betting on the market we've had the last couple of years continuing. Although I suppose at worst, SPMO should perform at least as well as VOO. There could be some mean reversion and some really painful periods along the way though. Personally, I don't really see the logic in having different "centricities" in different types of account at least as far as aggressiveness.
20% VOO 20%VTI 20% VIG then with the remaining 20% pick 3 speculation stocks.
Dude just stop using contracts. Buy stocks. Good stocks. Your money won’t triple instantly but it also won’t go to go poof. Or buy VOO and chill.
West coast trader here just woke up. How come my 0dte VOO calls not going through.
A dividend is cash in your hand without having to sell shares and in a dividend growth stock like SCHD, it grows your investment even more without you having to buy more shares with your own cash every time. Growth funds like VOO pay dividends too. When bill time comes and you need cash to pay the bill, would you sell a growth fund to pay for it? Or would you rather turn DRIP off once and pay it with your dividend while your shares remain intact? I know which I would rather do. I do not think that 100% growth investors understand that in times when the market is down, and when you are not yet ready to sell otherwise, it is very attractive to have high dividends that you can use to pay for things or get cash flow while keeping your shares intact instead of having to sell your growth while the market is down. I assume that you are aware that the most solid companies keep paying dividends out even in bear markets because the whole point of dividends from a company's point of view is to keep investor confidence in the company and to attract investors even in bad times. And if you are one of those people that believes in the 4% withdrawal rule for growth funds, know that the guy that came up with that nonsense abandoned his own advice and left the market in 2022 when it went bear. I invest a lot of money in both growth and dividends, so I understand both perspectives and having both compliments each other, but of course not everyone can afford to invest meaningful amounts in more than one strategy, so for most working class people 100% growth is the best.
Let me explain what I mean better. Look at the period Dec 31 2021 - Dec 31 2022, when S&P 500 had a major downturn. Let's compare returns of buying VOO vs BND vs a 52-week t-bill purchased in late Dec 2021 over the course of the year, accounting for dividends: VOO: **-18.06%** BND: **-13.144%** 52-week T-Bill: **+0.36%** I understand that you'd want to reinvest the T-bill in something after it matures (maybe buying either of the other funds at a comparative discount?). But after that year of time, to my eyes, holding BND wasn't really a hedge at all against an equity downturn compared to holding a T-Bill, or any other kind of guaranteed interest.
All-World and VOO/SWPPX I won't be infinitely wealthy for not betting options on individual stocks for the recovery; but market-wide ETFs are still an easy way to fire-and-forget and come out well-off in the end/long term.
What are you invested in? Volatility should be relatively small with a diversified portfolio. If you are struggling with the volatility now, maybe a good sign to reconsider your risk tolerance. Personally im 50% invested in VOO and VXUS, have 35% in mega cap stocks and 15% in smaller companies.
There are much safer options than something like DRAM + if you look at its one month chart you can see that it’s dropped down $10 before so u shouldn’t be too concerned. I’m not sure if you’re aiming to hold long term or you’re just figuring out, but look into safer options like XEQT, VOO, VFV etc for long term hold/gains.
I just tried jumping on the AI bandwagon this week. Just taking my slight losses and going completely back to VOO
I’d start building in November and it would be ready summer of 2027 I don’t really wanna touch my individual stocks but you think selling VOO now or later on would be better?
That much money in VOO pre-tax will generate 185K at 10%, every year the market goes up, you’ll be set anon. Or you could let it grow for even 7-9 years and at average returns walk away with 4.5mm, or 10mm with another few years. Don’t gamble it away anon K plead! I beg!
Sell it all anon, sell it and put it in VOO or something, anything, don’t end up like so many before you
What do you SPY and VOO are nearly identical. What do you mean start with one then do the other? Besides SPYM has the lowest expense ratio
I stopped with my ROTH IRA when I decided to stay in the Army instead of get out. In three years I will get 50% of Lieutenant Colonel pay then any disability from three deployments to AFG and getting a Purple Heart. I buy a share of VOO a month then a share of LMT, PLTR, and NVDA. Then I also have 7500 shares of HUMA that are busting my balls right now. The science is great already have FDA approval but slow sales for the first product. Hopefully dialysis approval gets it moving back in the right direction.
I’m trying to build a house by the end of the year and wondering what you all recommend I’m putting 20% down and trying to decide if I need to sell some of my Roth or VOO in brokerage. Whatever I sell it would be for 20k. I would then have enough for the down payment and everything from here on out would be put into my HYSA. Can yall help me decide?
You can't argue with people who're incapable of looking up the chart for VOO for the past 10+ years.
Wow what a reversal. VOO going up, all the MAG going back down
Gambling in VOO instead of being in safe havens like WEN
Could possibly be easier to buy ETF's of corn in 401Ks and other retirement accounts over actual BTC. I haven't checked mine though. I just allocate into VOO and SPY. \*shrug\*
Also, why are you talking about individual stock picking? That is horrible to tell investors, especially new ones. Too much volatility and too much technical information for them to process right out of the gate. Broad funds, Index mutual funds or index ETFS, are more stable and produce reliable growth over the long-term (10+years holding). VOO, VTI, or similar broad funds outperform individual stock pickers most of the time over a 10-year period with far less stress and time needed to research. Multiple studies have been done on this.
Incorrect. 2 people mentioned VOO, and one of those 2 mentioned VTI.
One person said VOO and that’s it lol. This sub really is the blind leading the blind
Generally you aren’t going to beat the SP500 as a retail investor. You’re trading against people who do it professionally, algorithm trading, and you generally know less than the market. At least for me personally, I put more into my account if I’m actively managing some of it. So I put a lot into VOO and VT because that’s objectively smarter. I put a smaller amount into Google and Amazon because they’re going nowhere and are great companies. And then yeah, I bought Take Two (the GTA stock) and the biotech stock SLS that’s been ascendent, and a couple of things that I think are going to happen. But, the market knows that those stocks have potential. That’s already baked into the price. If GTA 6 gets delayed or the initial reviews aren’t stellar or whatever, the price will drop and if they can’t monetize it as well as predicted, it will drop, because it’s already predicted to be wildly successful. And look, a lot of stocks still go up over time. Take Two (for example) would have beaten the SP500-based VOO over the last 10 years, but would have been beaten badly just over the last 5. You’re taking on a much greater risk even with companies that keep growing, because they might not grow as fast as the rest of the market and it’s impossible to time. And whereas if a company as part of an ETF drops, you’re somewhat protected by rebalancing, but if that’s your stock you either sell at a loss or lose years of compounding as you wait for it to rebound.
Idk why people are downvoting you for a question that people here usually love answering. At a minimum put it in a HYSA. Realistically the safest hands-off plan is to put like 20% of your earnings into an index fund and leave it there. VOO, VTI, or whatever. Good luck!
Depends on the number of outstanding shares, market cap, volume of trading on a given day. For large ETFs with high daily volumes like VOO or QQQ, you could probably put it a buy/sell order in the tens of millions before meaningfully affecting the bid/ask price. For low volume ETFs or penny stocks, a buy/sell order of $10,000 could struggle to get filled and that would push the bid/ask up or down, hence moving the stock.
You can go to, say, yahoo charts, and look at GSPC, plot it against VOO. Seems like an artifact of closing/opening. prices dropped sharply right at closing so VOO likely underperformed by about the same amount yesterday, all in the last minute or two of trading.
Sure, the weights are the same, but how many people trade options on VOO compared to SPY? I think there is some value in having it correspond directly to 1/10th of the index.
Invest in yourself. It will compound knowledge and your value. Something no one can take from you! If you want start a small part into something like VOO or similar.
Take 25% for high risk plays and put 75% into VOO.
> but its not, its a proxy for the index Not just that, it's meant to track SPX at approximately 1/10th the value of the index. So, if SPX is at 8000 then SPY should be 800. Just clarifying that there are other ETFs that track SPX like say VOO, but SPY is unique (as far as I know) in that it's meant to trade at 1/10th the value of the SPX.
ELI5 version: SPY and VOO and other funds are supposed to track their indexes in the short term (and long term) but need to be rebalanced, which means the size of each company inside the fund needs to be slightly increased or slightly reduced. For most, that happens daily. But during the day, people are free to buy or sell them at whatever price market makers are setting between (and based on) the bid and ask price. Any time something is freely traded, the price will move up or down with supply and demand. (ex: GOOG vs GOOGL are functionally the same, but often have different prices because no market is perfectly efficient) When they are rebalanced, however, the price may change a bit to reflect the actual prices of the individual companies inside. Also, some funds don't try to EXACTLY follow their index—they are designed to approximate the underlying asset (thing of value).
My moves for tomorrow is to let my money sit in VOO for the next 20 years lol yall are crazy
ETFs is the best picks. Basket of companies and don’t need to guess who will win 🥇. SPY VOO SMH SOXX you can’t miss. Actually best guidance is look for an old video of the market in Wall Street you will actually see what tickers survived and I bet you will see in any video before 2008 or older SPY and SMH for Sure….
Am I restarted if I don’t understand how someone is capable of losing this much money putting that in VOO for the next 20 years would have bought a lot of grilled cheeses https://preview.redd.it/eo76qat8jaah1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2d69b3eb176c22eec30a1b729df4c9bfc04a8be9
I am in VOO -> Semis just go up 10% every day I buy Semis -> WW3 starts, Every company is sued by the US Government, China invents algorithm breakthrough, -10% every hour i hold I sell Semis -> Instant V
and IVV is +1.92% for some reason, VOO, SPY, SPYM are 1.6-1.66% ES1! is only 0.15% higher than SPX but they’re still only 1.18-1.33% I don’t understand
The meh 493 absorb the rotation out of the moments of euphoria (today). Just look at RSP vs VOO over the year.
It’s not worth it man. Just DCA into VOO and QQQ and your mental health and life infinitely gets better.
So my friend has a financial advisor. He let the guy actively manage a $60k account since 2017. It’s only at $100k now. If the advisor just put half into QQQ and half into VOO and just The account would be at 300k. Fire him.
Because the ETF is its own security, made up of a collection of securities that (in this case) mirror the index. However, the ETF's price isn't set by the index, but by the market trades of the ETF itself. In theory it should follow the index closely and should correct if it gets too far away from it in either direction, but in the short term, individual trades can shift the values a bit. Also, SPY and VOO pay different dividend yields. If those dividends are paid out or reinvested will change the value of the ETF without affecting the value of the underlying securities. Therefore those dividends will also be "priced in" and affect the value of the ETF.