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I have about 10k on hand. Thinking 50% VTI or VT,30% VXUS, and rest 20% in stocks. Unsure about my ETF choices though
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19, are automatic payment of $30nzd per week into these stocks good?
Am I missing something? What is the benefit of international diversification when ETFs like VXUS significantly underperform ETFs like VOO? Diversification just for the sake of diversification?
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What would be the most tax efficient way distributing my savings?
What would be the most tax efficient way distributing my savings?
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How can I get good exposure to ex-US markets without unqualified dividends?
What ETF should I invest in in my Taxable brokerage
Not sure if missing something with plan to transfer to Robinhood.
What is the best international equity ETF to invest in besides VXUS?
Are my portfolios any good? 96% equities / 4% real estate
What is a good aggressive 3 fund portfolio allocation?
Better to Hold More Specialized Funds, or Big Generalized Funds?
Ratemyportoflio : 45% VTI 40% VXUS 5% AVUV 5% AVDV 5% AVDS.
I just started putting money into a 401k. Where should I have that money invested?
Used portfolio visualized and am stumped…am I totally off?
Just started investing for real, is this a reasonable mix?
Concentrating bonds in a traditional IRA and stocks in a Roth IRA?
Deciding to start my investing journey. 50% in QQQM and 50% in VXUS
Finally settled on an investment plan, wanted to see if it sounds good or not
Back in June, a concern about the nascent stock rally was the limited breadth. That is finally changing: across sectors and regions.
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What VXUS actually holds is cap‑weighted across developed and emerging ex‑US. Japan is meaningful but not dominant. Europe + EM can easily outweigh a strong Nikkei day. VXUS trades in US hours. Market makers use fair‑value estimates (futures/ADRs/news since local close), not just last night’s official closes. You mentioned DXY +0.3%. Even modest USD strength can shave returns, and the relevant moves are JPY/EUR/CNY etc., not just DXY. There’s still uncertainty because intraday liquidity/hedging can exaggerate the open.
Almost a 8% drop on VXUS this week, ouch
Why do you need any of this crap at all? If you just want SP500 then buy VOO* and buy as much as possible as quickly as possible. Focus your energy on making more money at work to buy with as soon as possible and not timing the market. Timing the market is not possible. It just doesn't work. (*Or VTI + VXUS if you want to go broader)
USD still down from 1 year ago. VXUS still outperforms SPY for the last 1 year by 10%. What’s your definition of “rallied **hard**”?
You replace the get rich quick mentality with the get rich for certain mentality. Get Rich Slowly. At 33 the most valuable asset you have is time. You're 32 years away from 65. That's a lot of time for interest to compound and for stock to appreciate. Get yourself a Roth and max it out every year. Read and understand your employee benefits and take advantage of them. Get your 401k match. Put extra into your 401k if you can afford to to get the tax breaks. Invest in boring broad market index funds like VT or VTI/VXUS. Be consistent and act with purpose. The only other variable you control is your income. Do what it takes to make yourself more marketable. Get more education, certifications, or whatever your field looks at to make your wage higher. Make yourself marketable. There isn't a secret plan to wealth. Just spend less than you make and save and invest the rest. Live within your means and try to increase your income while decreasing your expenses. Then come back and read this post in 20 years.
Probably max 401K and HSA first if reasonable. But personally I'd keep 2-3 months of salary in the hysa, and have the rest of my Emergency salary/house/car Funds to brokerage, maybe split into something like salary in Money Market, house in SGOV, and car in BNDS. As long as you have a few months salary that is easy to access, your credit cards, HELOC, et al can cover you for the ten days it might take to get to the rest of your emergency money out of brokerage. I wouldn't call it optimal, but it's a good intro to how taxes and everything are different in brokerage, and now you have a platform ready for after you've maxed all your tax-advantaged accounts. Taxable brokerage is where I tend to have "smaller" or more focused indexed ETFs, if that makes sense. If everything was available to all my accounts, I might have the most fund index like VT (with maybe some bonds) in 401k for simplicity, then in ROTH IRA would be VOO (with less/no bonds) since I want the most tax-free growth possible there, but then in brokerage, instead of VT I'll use smaller ETFs like VTI + VXUS (which together they are very similar to VT). That way i can benefit from the foreign tax credit in the brokerage, and I have more flexibility for re balancing as needed over all of my accounts. And bonds will go heavier into which ever account has a compelling tax reason. E.g. if I have a high state tax, some bonds might make more sense in brokerage, but otherwise I'll probably have more bonds in the 401K. Be careful of having the same funds (or funds that are practically identical) in brokerage that you have in other accounts. If you ever get to the point of tax-loss harvesting in your brokerage, you can't use that if you have the same or similar-enough funds in your tax-advantaged accounts. I'd lump sum from HYSA Have a plan for retirement, and then ignore dips until you are close to retirement (or have a plan that includes buying more during dips to benefit from the discount, but I'm not smart enough to time the market like that). Your plan should include the possibility of a crash during retirement. If you aren't actively spending money from your accounts as income-replacement, such as you would during retirement, then downturns mean little (unless we finally have The Downturn That Never Upturns Again, in which case, have extra ammo and water, since your accounts probably won't matter) You plan should cover all your accounts. If you want 10% bonds now and 50% bonds closer to retirement, that would apply to all your investments. Your accounts don't have to have the same distributions ides each one. Remember that only ROTH dollars are showing you your real invested dollars. E.g. a good portion of that money in your 401K belongs to the government, so subtract 22% if you want to know how much money you have in there (or subtract whatever your tax bracket will be in retirement, which we unfortunately can't know). For brokerage, it's more complicated.
VXUS is hurting right now.
I have been adding to VXUS this week. I think k short term you will see it drop more but in a few weeks will be back in bull mode.
I was looking like a genius with my 401k all in VXUS up until a couple days ago.
VXUS can move differently because of currency effects and how the ETF tracks and rebalances its holdings throughout the trading day
Sigh...finally dipped my toes into single stocks last week after years of only going VTI+VXUS. Put $20k into a basket of stocks that was doing really well right up until this week and now I'm down thousands. Like goddammit, if I had waited less than a week...
VXUS on its way to wipe out YTD gains It’s over international sisters
VXUS touched me inappropriately
I am now a VXUS baggie
The Kopsi was down big Wednesday but VXUS was up yesterday
I'm well aware of the different trading times, I guess I just didn't respect their ability to price-in changes beyond normal trading/futures markets. I also see now that Nikkei futures plummeted, which matches the VXUS chart's fall starting around 6am. As for currency impact, $DXY only strengthened \~.3% at market open, not nearly enough to make such a meaningful difference. Yes I realize that is a broad indicator, but both the Yen and the Pound actually fell less than that versus the dollar.
VXUS is up 3% since March 3rd. US stocks just rebounded faster.
Set and forget in VT or VTI/VXUS, plus recurring investment.
Looks more complicated than it needs to be. Consider just going with VTI + VXUS if you are planning to buy and hold. Your current portfolio has a lot of tech and tech correlated concentration and some higher risk items (pharmaceuticals).
Why not just buy ETFs instead of mutual funds? Since you're a US citizen, buy US domiciled ones. You could open an Interactive Brokers account using your Social Security Number and invest in ETFs like VOO, VTI, VXUS, etc... It’s cleaner, tax-compliant, and will save you hundreds of hours in spreadsheets. You might also be able to open a ROTH IRA using IBKR depending on where you reside.
Diversity is good. If you want to have some direct control over how much is allocated between US and international, you can do VTI (mix of large, mid, and small US stocks) and VXUS. (International, non-US stocks). VT is currently weighted about 60% towards US stocks. But it'll automatically restructure if US starts to lose global dominance.
Maybe when you grow up you’ll realize what a ridiculous statement you just typed. I hope your kids enjoy all the money you left them in your fantastic portfolio. I plan on using mine while still here. In 50-60 years I’ll be dead and you’ll be wondering why you bought VXUS.
VXUS beats SPY lmao, yea, was biscuit breaker a joke?
Just check the S% P 500 or VXUS price on Google. It’s way less harmful psychologically than checking your actual portfolio $ amount.
I work in equities for a living and do quite well so I enjoy the humor in your statement. Good luck with VXUS. I pick what I know I don’t just buy things to make myself sound smarter with a ‘geographically diversified’ portfolio. AKA I KNOW NOTHING AND WANT TO COLLECT EVERY ETF to just have exposure to everything. “Diversification is the enemy of performance”. Invest in what you know with conviction.
I don’t. VTI/VXUS on a 70/30 split in my taxable brokerage accounts. FXAIX/FSPFX in my Roth IRA. Lump Sum, DCA, who cares. I just buy, buy, buy and live my life
It's a lot worse than that in the broader world market. VXUS is down 7% in the last week.
VOO is S&P 500. VT is global market, VXUS is ex-US market. VOO alone isn’t necessarily bad. But adding international will give you exposure to more market and the benefits of diversification. Generally US and international takes turns. Lots of people had started investing at a time when US market is on a bull run. So there is some bias towards US market.
I’ve been doing 50/50 VOO and VXUS Things are nuts either way so expect it to go down in the near future
why do VT and VXUS seem so much more volatile than spy right now? VXUS doen 4% and VT down 2% , while VOO only down less than 1%?
Any idea why VXUS AND VT got hammered while SPY was down less than 1%?
Everyone here like VXUS in shambles, but you do know in the last 3 months VXUS has made 5.5% while SPY has lost .6%.
VXUS in shambles. Anyone check in on r/bogleheads?
Cackling after realizing fucking VXUS was down 3.45% today. What in the broad diversification is this shit.
Spare my VXUS please 🙏
This korea shit would be funny if I didnt have like 5 months salary in VXUS
Korea and Japan get it together, I have shares in VXUS
If you’re in on VXUS you felt it hard today. my entire portfolio is down 1.7% today, that’s nothing. People just love fear mongering.
>People on here have a lot of recency bias on VXUS, outside 2025 VXUS drastically lagged SP500 for a decade And people in 2023 had a lot of recent bias for a US only portfolio. That's some people, myself included (I can give a custom from 4+ years ago), that always argue in favor of a globally diversified portfolio. Going global can be beneficial to both returns and volatility in the long run compared to a US only portfolio. That's plenty of times where market favor is outside the US. All excess returns going back to your pick of 1970, 1965, or 1950 are only from 2010 through now, that means we saw a roughly 60 year period where the end winner would have been ex-US, not the US. Going back to 1970, over 40% of rolling 10 year periods favored developed ex-US over the US (that's not terribly far off from a coin flip). >From 2012-2022 excluding dividends you would have broken even From 2000-2009 the US was NEGATIVE even with dividends. US small caps did better than large and international (especially emerging) beat the US. You can't pick the winner over any x year time span and think that all time periods of the same length will play out like that. >You probably would feel pretty dumb going for ‘more diversity’ on 20-30% of your portfolio while US almost 4x your $ in that same timespan. You'd have felt even worse to be a US only investor over the previous decade in early 2010. >USA is the market to own long-term, * The US was only the 4th best developed country to invest in from 2001-2020, 5th if you include Hong Kong: https://www.evidenceinvestor.com/which-country-will-outperform-next-is-irrelevant/ (archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240527200134/https://www.evidenceinvestor.com/which-country-will-outperform-next-is-irrelevant/) or shifting that to 2002-2021 drops the US to 6th (and a proper 6th this time, as Hong Kong dropped further, to 10th): https://www.saltmarshcpa.com/cpa-news/blog/which_country_will_outperform__here_s_why_it_shouldn_t_matte.asp or if that doesn’t work: https://web.archive.org/web/20250422033628/https://www.saltmarshcpa.com/cpa-news/blog/which_country_will_outperform__here_s_why_it_shouldn_t_matte.asp In addition, not too long ago, at 120 years, Australia beat the US. >but for a long term hold portfolio that isn’t always optimal. We've seen periods, even long ones, where geographic diversification would have helped at the end. Citations are available for any claims I made.
See this kind of proves my point. Just getting more ‘exposure’ doesn’t mean you are getting higher rate of returns. You are just spreading your portfolio thin to encompass all markets. Which is fine but what does that prove? To me it sounds like you care more about sounding fancy and role-playing investment specialist rather than garnering returns like one. Just because something is more complicated doesn’t make it better in anyway, especially when it comes to long term investing. People on here have a lot of recency bias on VXUS, outside 2025 VXUS drastically lagged SP500 for a decade. From 2012-2022 excluding dividends you would have broken even. $45 a share in 2012, $45 a share in 2022. AFTER HOLDING FOR A DECADE. SP500 in that time went from $125 share to $415. You probably would feel pretty dumb going for ‘more diversity’ on 20-30% of your portfolio while US almost 4x your $ in that same timespan. USA is the market to own long-term, if you want to sound fancy and technical by saying ‘diversify’ or ‘geographically diversified’ feel free but for a long term hold portfolio that isn’t always optimal.
I think OP meant VTI/VXUS, or VOO/VXUS. VOO is S&P 500 and VTI is Total US Market. It’s only necessary to choose one of them.
VXUS still doubling spy's 6 month performance.
As a mostly Boglehead type who's been considering finally investing in some VXUS instead of all VTI, sounds like the upcoming few weeks/months may be a great time to start a position.
VXUS turning into a meme. Once it’s on the daily thread ticker it’s over
You know VXUS is still massively beating spy ytd right
To elaborate on this, OP, FZROX is a zero-expense VTI and FZILX zero-expense VXUS. As others have said, this combination gets you (nearly) every publicly traded company. The only caveat here is you’d have to decide what you want your US vs Ex-US allocation to be which would be avoidable with VT. Something to note, these are not ETFs like how the Vanguard funds are. You place a buy or sell order for however much in dollars or shares and buy/sell when the NAV changes for the trading day. ETFs (VTI, VT, VXUS, etc) are bought and sold throughout the day. If you automate investments and don’t plan to actively trade the Roth IRA (which shouldn’t be done anyway), this is a non factor but I know some people get antsy about it. Last, these are Fidelity-locked. If you ever want to move your Roth IRA elsewhere, you’ll need to first sell the shares of the funds before you move the money elsewhere and buy the other ETFs/index funds in the other broker. In a tax sheltered account like a Roth IRA, this doesn’t really matter. In a taxable brokerage, this’ll force you to recognize gains or losses and to pay taxes on those gains. All that being said, I love my Fidelity Zero holdings and would definitely recommend them so long as you have no plans to move out of Fidelity any time soon.
SPY down 1% at most despite a war that could last significantly longer than anticipated. U.S. market is fucking indestructible at this point. I doubt even tactical nukes would cause anything more than a 2% dip over a week period. VXUS getting clobbered as expected, lol
Look at the long-term chart of VXUS compared to VTI and you'll remember why some of us stopped bagholding international
VXUS is just [barely](https://i.ibb.co/rRLcJ6dP/image.png) lower than it was a month ago.
Well I'm not going to lie, I am weak and my VXUS just took a major pounding. Can't say I'm not tempted.
Same I'm bagholding VXUS rn
BND, GLD, VTI, VXUS all down in my portfolio today. But PINS is ripping. Who would have thought PINS would be my safe haven.
I guess it is possible for VXUS to go down while Trump is in office.
No Doordash for me in March - all my discretionary just went into my Roth to buy some VXUS when it was-5% and the bleeding is already slowing now.
I just sold $50k of bonds from my IRA and bought VXUS. 7% drop between yesterday and today. I'll reset my bonds after it recovers. I'll do some more if it drops to 0% YTD, which would be another -3.5%.
Silver lining for today is getting a lil' discount on VXUS for the first time since the gradual run up lol.
Why is VXUS taking such a hit....I would have thought an international fund would be doing better then a US fund at the moment?
I sold $15,000 worth of VXUS in my Roth last week and today I bought $1,500 back. yeah baby we're timing the motherfucking international bull run market to a T this time. let's see how low this thing can get. I'm buying again at $75, then going all in @$68 (because it is in between 6 7 and 69 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣)
VXUS down more than 4% oof That’s what I get for trying to diversify
Jesus VXUS gonna be down 5% today lmao.
My VXUS calls are COOKED
And I was going to buy more VXUS today… pray for international
Holy VXUS. My safe haven!
Some regard on this sub probably has that, but negative. Pack ur shit up and just VXUS and chill :)
I bet against America (bought VXUS) and would like to apologize.
Puts on VXUS are about to cream
Based on your allocations, the overlap is minimal with the one causing most of the overlap is VGT with VOO. Maybe something more simple like this would make sense: VOO: 50% VXUS: 25% AVUV: 15% GLTR: 10% **Weighted Average Overlap** **4.2%** # Overlap Heatmap ||VOO|VXUS|VGT|AVUV|GLTR|IBIT| |:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-| |VOO||0.3%|34.5%|0.0%|0.0%|0.0%| |VXUS|0.3%||0.1%|0.1%|0.0%|0.0%| |VGT|34.5%|0.1%||1.2%|0.0%|0.0%| |AVUV|0.0%|0.1%|1.2%||0.0%|0.0%| |GLTR|0.0%|0.0%|0.0%|0.0%||0.0%| |IBIT|0.0%|0.0%|0.0%|0.0%|0.0%||
Okay, thats the beauty of diversification. But ok, go and full port gold and silver. That's never gone wrong for anyone! My core portfolio is 35% SPY 35% VXUS 15% GLD and 15% EWC if that helps.
Fidelity has great zero expense ratio funds that will achieve the same results as VTI and VXUS but for cheaper. See my other comment for specifics.
You can still contribute for 2025, so make sure any money you put in there goes to that year first. You have until Tax Day to contribute for the prior year. Just put your money in VT and forget it. If you want VTI/VXUS. You might want to check out r/bogleheads. If you take their philosophy to heart you won't ever miss out on the best stocks.
VTI/VXUS will cover the entire market, anything else is a factor tilt. Which is fine if you have some particular knowledge or conviction, but otherwise I would stick with the broad market.
What’s your point? Historical performance is not an indicator of future performance, and recent events (including VXUS outperforming VOO) do not point to continued US over performance.
You are allowed to sell VXUS if things actually go back to "normal"
You got to invest in what you believe in to have conviction to hold during downturns. I am not a tech guy, & believe in cycles, but your port indicates you are tech guy. So maybe if I was thinking like you were I would hold onto $QQQ position and sell my $VOO shares and buy $VT or another all world plus US ETF instead of holding the $VOO. I do think you are giving up on $VXUS too early as I think we are entering foreign stock cycle of outperformance vs US stocks. Good luck regardless.
Create a free account with a brokerage. In that account, create a Roth IRA. Transfer the max it says you’re allowed to (e.g., $7k). Invest that $7k in an ETF like VOO or VXUS. I assume you aren’t incorporated. Find a good small business accountant who can help you set up an LLC corporation, and start pumping that revenue through the corporation. You and your friend should pay yourselves through the corp using a payroll company. There are many tax advantages here which are best explained by the accountant. Once you have a corporation, talk to a brokerage about setting up a 401k plan. This will allow you and your partner to make pre-tax contributions to a 401k account. As to the money you’ve already made, you’re gonna get hammered by the IRS because it will be counted as straight income. But you can use an LLC to shelter future earnings.
It's hard to take you seriously when your only point was to diversify into international because of past performance. For what it's worth, I'm allocated 20% in VXUS in retirement accounts and have been for quite a while. I never use the term "V" either, so you are probably confusing me with someone else.
VXUS is still outperforming by 8% this year I'm not buying
The market is overpriced if you just look at the S & P 500. There are specific sectors and stocks that are better values. International stocks are still a good value and have been doing really well over the last year. Look at something like VXUS if you want an ETF that tracks the broad international market. Make sure you don't just look at P/E. Some stocks are a good value with high P/E because they have a high growth rate. Except for Tesla and Apple the Mag 7 can justify their high p/e because of their growth potential. Some stocks are value traps that have low P/E but are shrinking.
I genuinely do appreciate the response. I know I'm double dipping (I think it's a 50% overlap b/t VOO and QQQ) but don't really care at this point. I'm not trying to optimize ETFs to the fullest. I simply think of the zoomed out chart. VOO and QQQ will return hopefully continue to return somewhere in the range of 8-15% until I start re-balancing for retirement and the small cap ETFs give me exposure to what VOO and QQQ don't. I considered VXUS (looked now and ACWX is basically the same return as VXUS) but it's outperformance has only been for the past year or so. Maybe it'll prove foolish in the long run but I'm good with the exposures I have.
For long-term investors, Fundrise can be worth exploring as a way to diversify into real estate alongside a core stock allocation like VOO, VXUS, and small caps, but it’s important to understand the risks and illiquidity involved.
I was holding stocks but found it to be stressful with the AI disruption and it's impact on tech, especially. Most institutional investors and a god part of retail investors starting going for generic US holdings or international. That's why I maintain a core position of VTI and do a 50/50 with international. VTI 50% , VXUS 15%, AVDV 15%, FLKR 10%, SOXQ 10%... Run that in your simulator.
It's incredibly difficult to predict, and depends on the type of 401K you have. Are you able to freely invest in like all asset options, or are you stuck with a limited fund selection? What safe haven options do you even have? The best common 401 play to reduce risk in the U.S. market right now has been to move money toward international investments though (your VXUS type funds). But that's more a diversification play.
VXUS has been a very lucky ticker for me this year.
VXUS down 1.8% SPY down 0.25% mhm
Thought I was smart with VXUS so far YTD, but not today.
That’s honestly a very reasonable starting point. 80% VOO gives you broad US exposure, 10% VXUS adds international diversification, and 10% small cap like AVUV tilts toward higher expected return (with higher volatility). It’s simple and coherent. Switching small cap to QQQM would change the intent of the portfolio. QQQM is more large-cap growth/tech-heavy — you’d be increasing concentration in names that are already a big part of VOO. Small cap adds a different factor exposure. The bigger question isn’t which mix is “perfect,” but whether you can stick with it during underperformance. Small caps and international can lag for long stretches. If you’re comfortable staying consistent through cycles, your allocation is already solid. Consistency over 40 years will matter more than fine-tuning 5–10% shifts.
VXUS is the new VOO. Performed waaaay better last year.
Reminds me of that meme that Squidward is looking through his window blinds watching SpongeBob and Patrick having running outside. That's how SPY is looking at VXUS and VT.
your 23 so even looking at FIRE you’ve got 20 plus years. Don’t worry about downturns. Opening a taxable account and layering money into VOO, VXUS, QQQM and such is a great idea.
You're deep in that 22% tax bracket. I'd be contributing a lot more in the 401k and probably traditional IRA instead of Roth. Maybe it's just my lifestyle, but I make 90k before taxes and do 12% 401k, max HSA, max traditional IRA. Everything is in FXAIX, VTI, VXUS.
It's all about dry powder right now. This administration is getting desperate and every move they make tends to move the needle to the extreme. They know they've lost the midterms... what can they do to prevent that? Their Hail Mary will be something extreme... like instituting the insurrection act and invoking absolute martial law. How would the economy and markets react to a constitutional crisis? It likely won't be business as usual. Now is the time to hedge and position yourself defensively. My core is 40/60 US/Intl... VTI and VXUS, AVDV, FLKR. I make swing trades to benefit from the volatility. The rotation from tech to everything else has created a great environment for this.