If you don't want to monitor the market then I would make your portfolio at least 80% VOO, and then allocate the other 20% to individual stocks.
META and AMZN are winners in the longterm, but you can see what happened to both of those stocks in 2022.
hey everyone. i am currently a college sophomore and wanted some advice on where to allocate my portfolio. I’ve been maxing out my roth ira since I was 18 with internship money and i live pretty frugally except for groceries. I want to comfortably retire so I have decided to invest most of what I have and max out my portofolio. I pretty actively monitor the market - specifically tech as I am a Computer Science student and can understand what each company is doing more or less. Right now I am 60% between AMZN and META and 40% in VOO. I know it’s not the best to be stock picking up both of these have been doing fantastic for me far outperforming 10% from VOO. Should I keep those shares or just switch to VOO? If i do stop monitoring the markets I am planning on just dumping it all into VOO, but i wanted to know anyone else thoughts. Also, if anyone has any other ideas on where to put funds to let them grow besides a roth ira please let me know. thanks
Companies are fundamentally valued by how much cash you can pull out over their lifetime.
The lawyers going for shares instead of cash means one thing: they couldn’t go for cash, because it wasn’t there, because $tsla as an Elon Musk popularity derivative equity is always going to be more valuable than Tesla the car manufacturers or Tesla the “automation solvers”.
Tesla is a cult of personality. Beware making investment decisions based on whatever TA factors derived from knowledge of how other equities have behaved in the past. This is a different kind of asset than a typical stock- it may be a fruit, it may be round, hell it might even grow on a tree. It’s still no AAPL.
If you eat an orange based on whether or not it looks like a tasty apple you will choke on the peel.
(Btw I am bullish on Tesla, but not because it’s an undervalued stock. I just think Elon is a great marketer)
Ok here's the plan for the rest of the year given the new "mercy rule" on stocks.
All Dec strikes
TSLA 165c edit: will just announce more new ev's
AAPL 170c edit: more buybacks
DJT 45c edit: I mean.. cmon.. you have to ask?
Basically the way I see it given the current macro economic environment none of these stocks will go below those strikes ever again based on the previous earnings and socio political conditions.
See ya on the moon!
I don’t know. I’m inversing the sub on this one. I understand the sentiment, but I think this is a good long term hedge against any geopolitical problems. It’s a gamble, but I think this either trades sideways forever and I collect dividends like a boomer, it pays off in a few years because they turn things around, or the world is fucked and intel is the only way we can get chips made on this side of the pond. That’s within my risk tolerance.
Edit: and I’m hedging with MSFT, NVDA, AAPL, AMD.
Nah, barely any reaction from NVDA. The ARM dump is from guidance and if you’ve been watching tech earnings, the superscalers are still scaling like fucking mad. GOOGL had a 20% increase over their guided capexby themselves.
NVDA $1500 by 06/21.
NVDA is good for short term plays. Long term, they’ll get crushed in a commodity market. The big boys (MSFT, GOOG, etc) will dominate AI and will either roll their own chips or get their AI to run on current chips.
He who owns data, owns AI.
- Julius Caesar - 23 AD
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