Anyone investing heavily this year??

How much money did you lose/gain this past week?


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Rudey

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True but if you only have enough money to buy a couple stocks, I would put half in a index fund and the rest in individual stocks and grow from there until I can buy enough different companies to be diversified.

The question I'm really asking is why not invest in another sector. OK I get it, tech stocks are booming but it looks like double dipping.
 

Rudey

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This is kind of what I did in May when we got stimulated for the first time. Opened another brokerage account with a mixed portfolio. After a LOT of pruning I have 4 ETFs (ARKK, QCLN, SPYG, VSGX) + 5 individual companies (WMT, XOM, WKHS, NVDA, DKNG). I have conviction in the individuals for different reasons, but depend on the ETFs to stabilize my over all gains.

This is diversified!
 

Madrox

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This is diversified!

This mix is working well. Not spreading myself too thin and just trying to be smart with my deposits. At this point in time I don't exactly set and forget, I try to put more dough into whatever is down at deposit time.. so lately its been XOM and WKHS. But my next monthly deposit on the first is gonna be more towards the market ETFs..
 

Aww Skeet Skeet!

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I have a question......

I see people buy ETF that track the S&P 500 or NASDAQ
Then buy individual stocks such as Amazon, Tesla, Google, Apple, Microsoft for long term holds.

Why would a person not put all in the money in the ETF or the individual stocks?


Risk. In my IRA, I don't really invest in individual stocks (even though the return could be amazing) because I figure I need this money for retirement. That stock tanks, IRA takes a hit (think Xerox in the late 90s). I'm not that active in my IRA as well. The mutual funds though may take a hit if the market slumps but one stock won't sink it. Now, my Brokerage is a different story.

E.g: my IRA has $SOXX ETF while my Brokerage has $TSM/$AMD.
 

xfactor

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Risk management
I have a question......

I see people buy ETF that track the S&P 500 or NASDAQ
Then buy individual stocks such as Amazon, Tesla, Google, Apple, Microsoft for long term holds.

Why would a person not put all in the money in the ETF or the individual stocks?
Risk management. Anyone can make an ETF, it is basically a specialized mutual fund in a certain sector. An individual stock in a sector could be killing it while the entire sector is down (and vice versa). This can also help you find potential short opportunities. For example EV is booming right now so in theory EV stocks should all be up but we know that isn’t the case. These things can be calculated with financial formulas or a financial calculator.
 

Rudey

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Risk management

Risk management. Anyone can make an ETF, it is basically a specialized mutual fund in a certain sector. An individual stock in a sector could be killing it while the entire sector is down (and vice versa). This can also help you find potential short opportunities. For example EV is booming right now so in theory EV stocks should all be up but we know that isn’t the case. These things can be calculated with financial formulas or a financial calculator.

You are right, I was just looking at the market indexes and how the individual stocks perform on the day.
It also depends on how much weight each stocks hold in the ETF.
 

xfactor

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You are right, I was just looking at the market indexes and how the individual stocks perform on the day.
It also depends on how much weight each stocks hold in the ETF.
Correct! My favorite ETFs were $UWT and $DWTI during the oil wars. 3x leveraged and could run hard in either direction. They were retired though. Also $JNUG / $JDST and $NUGT / $DUST
 

Rudey

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Correct! My favorite ETFs were $UWT and $DWTI during the oil wars. 3x leveraged and could run hard in either direction. They were retired though. Also $JNUG / $JDST and $NUGT / $DUST

Another reason I realized, individual stocks do have splits.
Amazon, Netlix, and Nvidia all have splits that turn ppl in millionaires just from investing $100 - $7000 in the past 23 yrs.
 

footloose

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Excellent - I got a bunch of $F for the cheap. They are now giving bout shares of Facebook.
Is it any funny hidden fees. I seen something about paper mailing statements and charging for it. Can you just get electronic statements ?
 

Madrox

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You can buy into companies that are not publicly traded by calling investors relations and asking how but you can also invest in private companies via the stock market via proxy (e.g. if you own $BRK-A, you have ownership in GEICO)

True.. Also Tesla --> Space X.

Cathie Wood been on some bullshit lately, but I know she's also mentioned trying to make a Public-Private fund sometime in the future. To give retail investors exposure to pre-IPO companies too.
 

Madrox

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Efkie

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