The old man is usually right

For anyone who may have missed it, Tesla is now weighted at 1.91% overtaken by Broadcom at 2.04%.

People say everything was already priced in, well... I don't think so, VOO is down 3% now. The only sane thing to do now is diversify using international ETFs like VT, VXUS.

Since there is a larger timeframe i'm assuming i can take slightly more risk. I also have the time to research companies.

I made a quick poll today here, here are the results. Most people prefer VOO.

Made my first Roth IRA contribution ($100) on 02/15/2024. Was an absolute noob and had no idea about retirement accounts.

Maxed out 2023 IRA on 03/08/2024

Been investing every week since in IRA, HSA and some in brokerage

$36,000 in 401K. I’ve been contributing to it since 11/21 but Got serious around the same date last year

VTI & VXUS on fidelity Vanguard admiral 500 + Vanguard emerging market etf on 401K

I'm studying the COVID pandemic and how it affected ETFs, it seems that VOO performance during this black swan event was actually not that bad. You can see in the chart that it took only a few months to recover, showing resilience, it can take a hit but rapidly recovers. VOO is a great ETF that always recover from such events, it has some volatility but for the long term VOO always go up.

My family claims that VOO will eventually drop by at least 60%, because of the increasing national debt, de-dollarization, the stagnant growth of large US based firms, the inevitable war between China and US over Taiwan, and something about interest rate rapidly increasing in 2026 because of the bond market or something

I should also note that we're Hongkongers, in other words, Chinese.

I wasn't stupid for buying 309 VOO shares with my inheritance last week if I intend to hold onto them until retirement presumably in decades, right?

But then again, I should've bought now instead of then, but oh well, the market works in wonderous ways. I'm sure I won't regret it in 10 years time. Unless......

Never seen it jumps up and down before. Sorry first time investor here

I’m 25 and just received a large windfall of about $350k. I have no need for this money and view it as something to put in a lockbox and check the value in 20+ years. I have a few portfolios I’m thinking through and I am definitely overthinking this. What are my blind spots besides the intentional lack of international exposure?

Port 1: 50% VOO 25% CGUS 10% IDU 10% FELV 5% AVUV

Port 2: 75% VOO 10% IDU 10% IYH 5% VB

Port 3: 20% SPLG 20% SPYV 15%: IAT 15% IDU 15% IYH 10% HDV 5% TCAF

Advice: invest in bond ETFs if you can't handle short term losses and volatility.

Monday the QQQ dropped by like 3%, it's a small dip if you check the long term chart, in the long term that's nothing.

If you don't like risk there are good bond ETFs out there.

I have friends of mine who trade stock options for a living and I tell them that I will never ever buy individual stocks because there’s too much risk and that I would have to keep an eye on all of them. Instead, I prefer using economic indicators together with technicals to decide when to buy into certain ETFs. However, I have seen some stocks like MDB, OKTA, SNOW, BA, F, and SBUX take a hit of late and I wonder sometimes if it’s a buying opportunity. But then I tell myself to not get too greedy because they could always go down more. I haven’t forgotten years ago when I bought ALK and GE and it took me years to wait for GE to come back up to get rid of GE and my ALK is still underwater. In fact, after the corporate split happened, my GEHC is still underwater.

It’s like why is this so boring like legit why

Lost a lot on msos etf Help with my etf msos

I lost a lot in msos etf, I brought thinking $7 was the near bottom. It dipped to $4.50 yesterday. I have been panicking. I don’t know what to do in this case. I heard there is no catalyst in the near term. Do you think it will recover back to $7? Arkk etf, the technology etf is going up a lot recently, maybe I should get into that?

I have 30,000 shares so around $200k in this stock And it is currently down about $80k I clearly made a mistake buying this etf

I am 15 and I have been interested in investing since July of this year. I recently invested 1.3k into VOO and currently it is all that I am holding. I want to hold 70% of my portfolio as etfs and the other 30% as individual stocks. Is this a good ratio? I intend to try to retire before 50.

Growth focused ETFs such as VONG, SCHG, or VUG are well over 30% return for the last year while VOOs at a great 25% itself.

QQQ on the other hand is at a 24% increase for the last year, so just under VOO by 1%.

Given how amazing growth did in 2024 especially with large caps then how has QQQ underperformed the S&P recently? Why isn't it in the 30s with other growth ETFs?

I currently have everything invested 50/50 in a low cost SP index fund, and a ETF that is comparable to QQQ (has outperformed it a bit). I've been doing this for a few years now and the returns on the ETF are so much greater that it's been responsible for 60% of all of my returns, which is wild to me.

Please convince me that I should not change it up to 100% in this ETF. My reasoning for going 50/50 was that the ETF was so pricy already that it seemed like it may underperform; but it looks like interest rates are going to go lower some time, so it seems like if anything, the ETF may outperform when that happens.

My time horizon is long, my risk tolerance is high, emotions are in check (I welcome a potential downturn in order to get more in at lower levels), and I am highly knowledgeable about investing.

Why should I not go all in on the ETF?

Focus is long term growth. 10 ETFs 10% each.

will rebalance as needed when percentages drift.

55% large cap 21% mid cap 24% small cap

almost everything is in US equities with the exception of the international semiconductor companies like ASML and TSMC in SMH.

I sold my international developed and emerging market ETFs a year ago and haven't regretted it. US market is just so much stronger over long periods of time. Also sold my REIT etfs. I need growth, not income from my portfolio at this time.

I am comfortable with volatility for the opportunity of long term growth.

I am not interested in a passive "VTI and forget it" strategy. This is an ETFs subreddit so like many of you I love analyzing different ETFs and responding to what's happening in the market.

What am I missing? Any ETFs out there I should consider that are better for a long term growth portfolio?

Yet again we see the market seemingly unstoppable and heading higher. I don't know how many times whenever the market drops 3-4% I hear people saying how they're going to sale their whole portfolio, or the market is going to crash and never recover. That was a beautiful buy the dip moment, and I bet that the stock market reaches all time highs next week.

I did it. 309 shares at 436.91

I feel nervous. I'm not making a bad decision, right?

I'll hold onto them as though I'm clutching onto my testicles in a hurricane until retirement

Edit: 18 years old. I have 135k. I intend to buy and hold till I want to retire, presumably in decades.