I am coming out of school and trying to figure out what to do with my investment portfolio.
I traditionally put my money into a low-cost S&P 500 fund throughout high school and college, but I was wondering where professionals tend to allocate their money?
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I put a third of my portfolio in ARKK today
Also bought some arkk. But not as much lol
Wouldn't professionals stick to simple index funds even more than regular people given trading restrictions? I've been trading options and penny stocks for now given I'll have to stick to index funds after I start working.
Nah you can technically still play options, you just need it to be mostly low IV and long dated (LEAPs) so you don’t get destroyed in 30 days. Also investing in individual companies is fine, just don’t do shitty penny stocks. A 30 day hold requirement isn’t really that long in the grand scheme of things.
Dogecoin
Tech stocks
I just started putting money in stocks pretty recently but have mostly been piggybacking off of ideas that I've seen posted by other people if I agree with the idea.
to be specific, reading through ideas on valueinvestorsclub and then thinking about if what the person is saying makes sense. I also spent some time going through the accounts for some different fintwit guys on twitter and made a list of guys who seem sharp. trying to figure out which professionals are sharp/I agree with in terms of investment style so that I can see what they are doing in their 13f filings. and then coming up with some ideas on my own.
I follow the investment advice of Dr. Parik Patel
myself
Half coinvest, half low-expense mid and small cap indexes
High growth tech stocks - many of which will be the coca cola’s/MSFTs of the future so might as well catch them on the ride up. Will probably start investing in mutual funds/ ETFs when I’m 30 or something or just generally tired of the volatility
specific tickers to look into?
I like MO a lot right now, to park money and never touch it. Burry also bought 200,000 shares fairly recently which made me feel better about my decision to buy a much smaller number of shares.
SFIX, think they’re the first to really disrupt the consumer retail shopping model for clothing by using data science. (There’s a few VC Backed comparables out now that may go public in the next few years, which to me signals a growing market opportunity here specifically) Got in at $25 a share in late 20 and now it’s hovering around $85 with a recent high of $100 something. It’s speculative but I don’t see their growth slowing down anytime soon, especially with COVID blowing up the whole “walk in and try on” shopping we’re used to. The founder is in my personal network so I’m clearly biased here as well.
The other major ones are no secret to anybody with a brain, I invested in ZM pretty early and SNOW as well. I can’t say much analysis went into either of these choices and wouldn’t pay their premiums now, but if there’s a major correction soon I’d buy more of their dip.
MO looks interesting, albeit somewhat against my ESG principles (LOL!). Curious how you came to the conclusion to invest in them (besides Burry’s input ofc).
Various funds, mainly large cap and mid cap growth, make up about 60% of it. Stocks outside of the sector I cover make up the rest. I usually put a decent chunk in a couple stocks that I like (anywhere from 2-3 stocks at a time, 10-20k each) and hold. Had an insanely good year, up around 800% on all single stock holdings combined with two good ones (still holding one) and one absolute moonshot.
usually black
if I'm feeling reckless, red. but mostly black
I have ~6-12m living expenses in cash the rest in tech. I don't have trade restrictions and trade often. When I was in banking I used basic etfs.
VOO
Stick with what you're doing and put 95-100% of it in index funds, and if you want use like 5% as "fun money" to pick some stocks. Working in finance isn't going to make you good at timing the market and picking stocks, especially not early in your career.
Any company that has a significant (future) presence in autonomous or electric vehicles (Tesla, Google/Waymo, Amazon/Zoox, Baidu, Intel/Mobileye, Velodyne, Nio, Workhorse, etc.) I want at least a little piece of it. I'm about 40% in Tesla, so I have a disproportionate bet on them.
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SPACs obviously
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