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Should I start investing in individual stocks?
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Date: August 1st, 2024 12:35 PM Author: Floppy hunting ground I've been wondering about this all morning. I'm leaning towards no, because I still need to accumalate wealth for a bit to build a bridge for my next act, but I don't know. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568184&forum_id=2#47917437) |
Date: August 1st, 2024 12:37 PM Author: Godawful fragrant stage The problem is that it's hard to get the timing right twice. You may hang onto a stock that's going sideways forever, sell it, then it immediately double. People are bad investors. What information advantage do you have? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568184&forum_id=2#47917447) |
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Date: August 1st, 2024 12:38 PM Author: Floppy hunting ground Zero edge. The info that comes to me is all public, and it's mostly old, and I have strong "feelings" too. I'm not one of these steely diamond hand autists that you hear about. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568184&forum_id=2#47917464) |
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Date: August 1st, 2024 12:41 PM Author: Godawful fragrant stage You may get outsized earnings, you may lose a lot. You need to think about the utility of 10x'ing your money vs maybe 4x or whatever you'll accumulate over a lifetime of investing. If the latter is almost a sure thing, would you risk losing everything for a chance at that extra money? The marginal utility doesn't seem like it's enough to support it. What else would you even buy? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568184&forum_id=2#47917476) |
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Date: August 1st, 2024 1:43 PM Author: Floppy hunting ground There is nothing to buy except more securities in the long run. In the short run, I want to be able to pay off my house and have enough for my kids college. Also, in the short run, I want to have enough to comfortably go solo with my practice. We are working toward that. I've always been an index investor. The 529 plans are the Nevada plan so those are year targeted plans, but I have always done some kind of index investing. |
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Date: August 1st, 2024 12:43 PM Author: Pontificating Provocative Azn buy some Costco stock, my friend (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568184&forum_id=2#47917485) |
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Date: August 1st, 2024 12:50 PM Author: Floppy hunting ground I am thinking starting with: COST XOM CPB MO CAT GOOG
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Date: August 1st, 2024 1:03 PM Author: appetizing aquamarine marketing idea center Would add NVDA and AMD
Possibly BTI |
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Date: August 1st, 2024 12:47 PM Author: bespoke field Only if you intend to buy and hold for decades. Recommend staples that pay a dividend like JNJ or Coke. Turn on automatic DRIP and slide and let do. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568184&forum_id=2#47917505) |
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Date: August 1st, 2024 12:58 PM Author: Godawful fragrant stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568184&forum_id=2#47917549) |
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Date: August 1st, 2024 1:02 PM Author: appetizing aquamarine marketing idea center You know my perspective friend
Though I lost like $30k today... |
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Date: August 1st, 2024 1:03 PM Author: Carnelian stead double fault yes, but stay away from options (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568184&forum_id=2#47917561) |
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Date: August 1st, 2024 1:45 PM Author: trip blathering voyeur i would say not to bother, although i just put like 40 grand into Nvidia because i figure in 10 years that shit will be way higher than it is now. but who really knows.
put all your money into ETFs: QQQ, vanguard's s&p growth ETF, vanguard's tech ETF. shit like that. and then suck my dick. |
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Date: August 1st, 2024 1:50 PM Author: Floppy hunting ground What are your thoughts on small cap ETFs like AVUV and AVDV and emerging market ETFs like AVES for that small cap tilt? Will that make the portfolio more efficient? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568184&forum_id=2#47917756) |
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Date: August 1st, 2024 1:54 PM Author: trip blathering voyeur not familiar with those but emerging market shit has been TTT for decades i think
i'd put all of it into QQQ, then 2-3 vanguard ETFS, like the one that tracks the russell 1000, s&p (they have one that's the entire index, then a "growth" subset of the index), shit like that. |
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Date: August 1st, 2024 1:56 PM Author: Floppy hunting ground VOO - tracks sp500 VTI - tracks CRSP US Total Market Index VXUS - tracks the FTSE Global All Cap ex US Index |
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Date: August 1st, 2024 2:31 PM Author: trip blathering voyeur i'd put a good amoutn of your money in QQQ. tech stocks are going to go nuts for decades still. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568184&forum_id=2#47917912) |
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Date: August 1st, 2024 3:01 PM Author: appetizing aquamarine marketing idea center Agree QQQ, triple it with TQQQ
VOO is great though |
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Date: August 1st, 2024 3:02 PM Author: appetizing aquamarine marketing idea center Small caps are still made of shit even though ETFs. I wouldn't bother with those
During banking crisis I would've told you chase all day |
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Date: August 1st, 2024 4:16 PM Author: violent splenetic principal's office Other than sucking your dick, that advice is cr.
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Date: August 1st, 2024 1:57 PM Author: Maniacal hall cumskin I don’t understand this Buying High thing that people do. Don’t chase value but at least try to find something that hasn’t mooned already ffs.
And if you’ve been conservative all this time or in bonds like Tommy, wait for ITE2 ffs |
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Date: August 1st, 2024 3:13 PM Author: trip blathering voyeur what is ur net worth (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568184&forum_id=2#47918178) |
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Date: August 1st, 2024 3:58 PM Author: Maniacal hall cumskin $280,000k. Perhaps more even. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568184&forum_id=2#47918339) |
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Date: August 1st, 2024 5:38 PM Author: trip blathering voyeur and what are you wearing (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568184&forum_id=2#47918700) |
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Date: August 1st, 2024 3:00 PM Author: appetizing aquamarine marketing idea center Disco, today late would be a GREAT time to buy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568184&forum_id=2#47918108) |
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Date: August 1st, 2024 3:02 PM Author: slimy soul-stirring native I agree the market will be up tomorrow. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568184&forum_id=2#47918118) |
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Date: August 1st, 2024 3:04 PM Author: appetizing aquamarine marketing idea center I pray.
I lost 100k today... |
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Date: August 1st, 2024 4:19 PM Author: Cracking striped hyena hissy fit If you have enough to invest in individual stocks to get a reasonably diversified portfolio without paying management fees to a middleman, then sure.
If you're an autist who can spend hours every day researching stocks to identify stocks that are undervalued and/or have above average growth potential, then maybe. But know that, at any given time, there are thousands of other autists around the world trying to do the same, and the likelihood that you will find a buying opportunity that nobody else notices is very low.
If you're trying to beat the market by gambling on a few stocks without researching and monitoring them very carefully, then probably not. There's autists who research stocks 24/7 who can't beat the market, so the likelihood that you will beat the market without doing the research is very low. If you want to gamble on a small portion of your portfolio as an adrenaline rush, then go for it, but realize that you are gambling, not investing. |
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Date: August 1st, 2024 4:20 PM Author: Galvanic ladyboy location Solid long term holds are mcd, visa, axp. But they will not double unlike the more speculative stocks. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568184&forum_id=2#47918425) |
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Date: August 1st, 2024 4:22 PM Author: Galvanic ladyboy location Damn Intel is down bigly. Good thing I did not buy it. Thought like an obvious buy without China exposure and most of your computers have Intel chips.. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568184&forum_id=2#47918431) |
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Date: August 1st, 2024 4:25 PM Author: slimy soul-stirring native I made a good business selling cash-secured puts against it but man am I happy I didn't sell any this week. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568184&forum_id=2#47918442) |
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Date: August 1st, 2024 4:27 PM Author: Galvanic ladyboy location That's how I got entangled in sbux. The only one where I successfully sold covered puts and cc are mcd and orcl. I think tqqq and upro are just the best stocks for long term (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568184&forum_id=2#47918451) |
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Date: August 1st, 2024 6:33 PM Author: Galvanic ladyboy location Why is intell hitting all time lows while China based amd and nvda mooning? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568184&forum_id=2#47918880) |