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If your asking this question you shouldn't buy any individual stock. You should buy index funds. I've been making a few short term trades but have recently sold positions and I'm currently consolidated into 5 places. Vanguard brah here. As of today I'm just going to be funneling as much money into my Money Market fund as possible. I was previously dollar cost averaging and buying positions in the other's weekly/monthly. However I want to stack some cash pending the election determination here and the new year.


-Tesla (TSLA)
-Square (SQ)
-Vanguard information tech. ETF (VGT)
-ARK GENOMIC REVOLUTION ETF. (ARKG)
-Vanguard Federal Money Market Fund.



If I were brand new and were getting my toes wet I'd probably buy these three funds. Just my personal choice.
-Vanguard Information Technology ETF. (Ticker VGT.)
-Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF. (Ticker VTI.)
-ARK Invest Innovation ETF. (Ticker ARKK.)




But I'm young and have a fairly high risk tolerance.

First of all you n00b, you should be investing in retirement accounts.

and those investments should be index funds, like the SP500, etc.

You should aim to consistantly fund your retirement account with 15-20% of your salary.

If you contriobited that much and still have excess funds and cant contribute to any other retirement accounts, then you should open a non tax advantaged account and buy individual stocks.

thanks, should i wait for an eventual dip?

In to read for later (srs).

ETFs are Exchange-Traded Funds. They basically are mutual funds' competitors as they are often lower in costs and more often than not more liquid. Mutual funds are old news.

ETFs are just any grouping of stocks (or bonds) that either share a theme like a country, a sector or represent some sort of stock (or bond) index. (Think Nasdaq, Dow Jones, S&P500 etc). There are thousands of ETFs.

Go here to find some ETF.https://etfdb.com/etfs/

If you are investing for the long run and have no idea which individual stocks to buy, then buying some ETFs is a solid idea. You can diversify and hold ETFs across different asset classes and countries. Heck you can even find some gold, silver and other commodities ETFs.

Brah we just had a dip.

SQ was $34 in March, $190 now

The market is impossible to time. Will there be another dip in the future? Sure. Does anyone know when its going to happen? Not really. Time in the market is more important then timing the market.


I'd buy those three funds I mentioned and put 33% of my money in each one. Then every week/month I'd continue buying them spreading my money out that same way. I wouldn't really stress over buying a dip. However if you typically save money with every paycheck and only buy 'once a month' every now and then you find a little dip where you can drop in for some extra value. I try to transfer money to my money-market account twice a month. And typically buy around 2 or 4 times per month. I check my account at least 2x per day just to keep an eye on prices.


If you are nervous about losing money. Then dollar cost average your way in. A lot of funds have a 3K minimum. I'd just invest 9K initially 3K in each one and keep an eye on things once a day. If prices start falling add to them. When prices are rising just chill. Keep saving money. Keep 'dollar cost averaging' into the market. I add money every single month regardless of what the market is doing.



You have to realize that if you buy good index funds you really can't lose long term. You put 20K in now and it might seem like a worrying/risky thing. You might stress when the market drops. But if you slowly keep adding every month to that. Eventually that 20K account will be 40k, 60k, 80k, etc. When your seeing massive gains you'll be encouraged.


For the most part getting the first 100K in the market is the hardest. IMO once you are able to get 100K in there, even if you are only seeing 7-8% returns per year its extremely encouraging.

anything beyond simple index funds is just gambling for 99% of the population.

Why? Because they have done literally NO meaningful research to conclude the stock X or Y will outperform; its usually just a "hunch" or "its been on a tear recently" or "its popular right now"

Most professionals cant beat the market and thats their full time job. Those that do, are doing so 52% of the time and loosing 48% of the time. You're telling me a bunch of people on the misc or your neighbour can pick individual stocks? They cant. Any wins are due to one reason and one reason only: LUCK. It's gambling at it's finest.

Be smart, spend 95% of that money on a cheap sp500 or MSCI world index fund. Dont time it, just buy a fixed amount every month or two. And have a bit of fun, gamble with that last 5% and buy your individual stocks to scratch that itch.

The only individual stocks I play are semiconductors because that's my field and I know what's going on there. As far as picks I like there?

There's a manufacturing firm called TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) that is straight-up cucking the world and is basically going to be the sole provider of new CPUs soon. Long term they're kind of unstable, being in a volatile market in an evenmorevolatile part of the world (China wants 'em bad), but within the next 3-5 years they're going to become the Amazon of chips. I put $1K in them last week and am putting another $1K in them this week.

AMD has had a big runup but is still worth a buy IMO; their next generation of chips is already in great shape and they just expanded aggressively. They're expensive but not getting any less valuable right now.

Texas Instruments is a super safe dividend stock. They make industrial and automotive chips instead of Iphone 50s and chit, so when they make a new design, they sell it for the next 10 years instead of till next Christmas. Tops in the industry at what they do and their customers stay loyal. IDK if I'd put $20K on it, but it's a safe bet to make you money.

Apple is supremely expensive but for a good reason. On the semiconductor side, they are literally putting CPUs with the power of a Core i7 in their new Iphones and connecting them with 5G, so they're about to hit a new level of power and functionality.

NVidia - I really like them, just not sure if I like them at current prices? But they're going to make a bunch of money down the road. They're famous for graphics cards, but where the money's really going to come from is that they make all the machine learning AI hardware that Amazon, Tesla, Google etc can't get enough of. ML's eating the world and NVidia provide the machines it runs on.

As a whole, I just like the tech industry right now. Some miscer said that "tech's being priced to rule the world right now, anything short of that is a disappointment" - well I think it fukkin is going to rule the world. The Nasdaq's been growing like a weed for 5 straight years, and what do you see in the news, "big tech" "big tech" "big tech". The scalability of it gives you potential growth that nothing else can touch.Good advice here.And here.

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ETFs are your best bet for a decent chunk of your stock portfolio more or less. That and index funds

Individual stocks maybe shoot for like 10-15% of your total stock portfolio. You can go higher if you want more risk I suppose. I probably wouldn't go higher than 20% on individual stocks personally

You could get away with 0% in individual stocks and secure decent returns just fine long term.

li Auto is much better then NIO, but other than that yes everything Chinese, they 5-year plan from CCP will continue to pump money into those companies, it will eventually correct it self big time, but that's a few years away enough time to make some paper

I wouldn't do individual stocks. You might get lucky for awhile, but you'll eventually get burned. Just stick to ETFs

https://www.etf.com/etfanalytics/etf-finder

TSLA
AMZN
NFLX
AAPL

all solid for me. In it long have significant ('bout 350k) gains.

Buy high sell low

- Nikola
- Nortel
- Bitcoin
- Radioshack
- AMC entertainement

buy bonds

smart money is buying bonds

Palantir Technologies (PLTR)

only exception is there are plain obvious buys, almost always brought about by panics. once chit drops that much its time to buy and hold like crazy, because if it doesn't come back we are all fuked anyway.

more like only the Fed is buying bonds.

What could go wrong? Yields super low, more room for upside than downside meaning bond prices will drop. Massive money printing brb inflation brb loss of purchasing power. Just lol at holding bonds now.

Great advice. Thanks a lot, will buy today. My money has been rotting in the bank for several years.Thanks a lot brahs. Appreciate it!

This. As zerohedge wrote recently, Fed has made buy the dip the most profitable way to invest. With the biggest gains being with the FAAMG group (though I try and stay away from FB) Recently according to Zerohedge that has switched to sell herding events. Before covid, almost all gains were on the days around FOMC meetings. Now its herding events like covid vaccine. Investors are group-thinking in a low iq way.

I would buy Amazon when it goes below 3100. Apple, when it goes below 112. Microsoft when its below 210. Alphabet below 1740. Though I also take into consideration whether I think we're facing a general pullback. Near all time highs, this might be a dangerous time to invest. But for long term, none of this matters, prices will be up across the board on all but loser stocks.

edit i posted my holdings a little while ago, I was down quite a bit and all bummed out, folks telling me to HODL. 3 days later I was $600 in the green.

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APPL

You only need 2. Get these on a sell off. FVRR below $150 and APPL below $115. BE PATIENT

Fade this guy, this is how you'll make money in the stock markets.

im going to follow advice i got here and put about 70-80% of my 30k in ETFs, and the remaining will go in stocks such as palantir, apple & perhaps baba or something interesting. will be in it for the long term so i will hold even if am deep in red

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the "hype" is around S&P inclusion...