[antzcrashing]

Let's say you have 1000 to put to work, buy 500 or so now and wait on the remainder in case it dips again. The risk: it bounces back fast and you only put half to work. Then you sit and wait for the next one

[chassis]

Time in the market is more important than timing the market.

Buy now. So you miss a percent or two, who cares? You will be in it for the mid to long term. Right?

[chassis]

Originally Posted by BMW F22

Bloodshed day today. Too early to jump in?

Flesh wound. The market has been fairly low vol lately so today was overdue. Take a look at the number swings >1% in either direction from Aug 2020 until April 2021. The water has been pretty calm lately so a few ripples don't mean much.

[antzcrashing]

I added to positions in the index tracking etfs - DIA, QQQ, SPY. Also Chevron.

[BMW F22]

VTI and SPY good to put $ in for long run?

[chassis]

Yes

[Gregrobin]

Originally Posted by BMW F22

VTI and SPY good to put $ in for long run?

I love VTI, been adding it to it slowly for retirement.

[antzcrashing]

Adding it to my watchlist

[NeverL8]

Sold my 1600 shares of Lucid today, getting some dry powder ready for some market volatility in the next 12 months. Love them huge dips and panic selling..I get hungry

[Humdizzle]

Originally Posted by BMW F22

VTI and SPY good to put $ in for long run?

vti
voo
vt (track more of the world market / developing countries)
spy
qqq

all very safe long term stocks. just look back at their history.

[tom2021]

Originally Posted by Humdizzle

might drop more tomorrow.

but it might bounce back tomorrow too... in which case you'll have missed the sale.

whats 99% for certain is that the market will bounce back from this eventually'

I added to my positions in VOO, VTI, QQQ, and SPY today.

VOO and SPY are similar, tracking SP500. SPY charge more MER. Which one is better?

[Humdizzle]

Originally Posted by tom2021

VOO and SPY are similar, tracking SP500. SPY charge more MER. Which one is better?

good point. the expense ratio definitely favors voo. extremely minimal though - from the article i read assuming you have 100k invested in both for 30 years... SPY will end up costing you $2000 more in expenses.

looks like i'll just be adding to voo from here on out.

[BMW F22]

Originally Posted by Humdizzle

good point. the expense ratio definitely favors voo. extremely minimal though - from the article i read assuming you have 100k invested in both for 30 years... SPY will end up costing you $2000 more in expenses.

looks like i'll just be adding to voo from here on out.

What does this mean? What expenses are we talking about?

[Humdizzle]

Originally Posted by BMW F22

What does this mean? What expenses are we talking about?

Originally Posted by BMW F22

What does this mean? What expenses are we talking about?

ETFs charge you money to manage your funds. You give them money, they move it around between different stocks as they see fit. adding, reducing, and closing positions through the year. This way you don't have to do the leg work.

vti/voo charge like 0.03% per year or something.
vt is 0.08
spy is 0.09
arkk is 0.75

[BMW F22]

Originally Posted by Humdizzle

ETFs charge you money to manage your funds. You give them money, they move it around between different stocks as they see fit. adding, reducing, and closing positions through the year. This way you don't have to do the leg work.

vti/voo charge like 0.03% per year or something.
vt is 0.08
spy is 0.09
arkk is 0.75

Ah that makes sense. Thank you. Is that fraction of 1% or 3% expressed as decimal?

[Maxmil982]

What happened to baby doge?

[Humdizzle]

Originally Posted by BMW F22

Ah that makes sense. Thank you. Is that fraction of 1% or 3% expressed as decimal?

fraction of a percent. VOO will charge you $30 per year for every 100k you invest. SPY will charge you $90.

[XKxRome0ox]

damn
no more FOMO and chasing

burned my portfolio pretty badly in the last week and a half

[chassis]

Originally Posted by XKxRome0ox

damn
no more FOMO and chasing

burned my portfolio pretty badly in the last week and a half

#buyandhold

[tom2021]

Just bought Energy Transfer, ET. Dividend 6.7%. Leon Cooperman owns this stock. He said the company has a lot of cash.

[XKxRome0ox]

Originally Posted by tom2021

Just bought Energy Transfer, ET. Dividend 6.7%. Leon Cooperman owns this stock. He said the company has a lot of cash.

ET's nice
used to have some shares and sell covered calls
dumped the shares to buy more GME though

[BMW F22]

So many “cheap” stocks to buy. Which ones??

Put some money into VOO last week for long term.