Posted on 12/28/2020 6:40:15 PM PST by SteveH
let's say i have $100000.
i want a short term investment portfolio (until EOY) consisting of SPY, AMZN, AAPL, AMD, TSLA (and possibly others) in some proportions.
what should be the proportions?
i already have most of these.
thanks.
> 3 days is a crap shoot not short term “investing”.
Perhaps there will be some upticks before the end of the year and a downturn due to profit taking at the beginning of next year. Perhaps the pullback will be survivable. OK.
> Short term “investing” usually means you don’t want to lose what you have which means sell everything and go to cash.
I did not understand. Rephrase please?
> As to what’s going to happen after the first and if or when the Biden puppet takes over, don’t bet against the market. There’ll probably be stimuli up the wazu, and most of that money eventually ends up in the stock market, which is a type of inflation, and which is why bitcoin has gone totally nuts... Have you not noticed that every time a stimulus passes the market goes crazy?
Yes. I think I get most of that. I am wondering if i am missing anything.
> The other thing is that most of the big money in wall street donated/voted for Biden. They will for sure be some of the puppet masters, and they are not into losing money... If there was going to be a “Biden crash” it would have already happened. The market is forward looking.
OK, then the conjecture is or should then be (?) that the market will be relatively stable to moderately positive if trump prevails, and also if biden prevails? (not necessarily disagreeing)
Can you provide a short list of stock sites that you would recommend and why for each? Being vague is not constructive.
“> Short term “investing” usually means you don’t want to lose what you have which means sell everything and go to cash.
I did not understand. Rephrase please?”
What I mean is that if one had a three day horizon (in other words you don’t want to take any risk with that money between now and the end of the year) the best way to do that is to sell everything and go to cash, especially if you plan on selling on the 1st anyway.
As someone once remarked “It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.” Even if it’s only three days.
Whether you should do anything comes down to this.
- Do you think the market (or the stocks you own) are going to go down for an extended period of time after the 1st? If so sell everything now
- If you think it’s going to go up or sideways, don’t do anything.
There is one thing you can do periodically (once a year or six months), and that is rebalancing your portfolio. Sell some of the stocks that have done the best, and buy some of the stocks that are laggards. The idea being that sooner or later high flying stocks will come down and those that haven’t gone up as much will go up. Basically you want to keep the same dollar allocation for each of the stocks.
This type of rebalancing works best for industry sectors (ETFs), it’s more of a crap shoot for individual stocks, where, if an analyst sneezes the stock crashes or goes up.
Wait, you are talking sh*t and fail at either reading or comprehending what you read or both?!
Step 1 - Start with $1,000,000.
Step 2 - Ask for investment advise on investing in volatile high tech stocks, that are at bubble levels, right before the a possibility that socialist imbeciles could be running the country in the near future.
how to become a chickensh!t—
step 1, find a chat thread asking for advice.
step 2, dump on the thread with unproductive sarcasm.
It would be extremely productive if you took the point being made seriously.
the post was sarcasm, contained no legitimate constructive suggestions, and i responded with all the gravitas it deserves.
have a nice day
Fidelity blue chip growth fund
> Fidelity blue chip growth fund
FBGRX? is that a ETF or an index fund? i have moved away from fidelity ETFs if those are the instruments that can only be bought and sold at the end of a trading day. i considered them to be too inflexible to be used when the market is tanking. i might be wrong but i do feel better with instruments that i can trade with some legit expectation of results and being able to react to real time events affecting the market in real time.
I still have some FBSOX, but sold my FXAIX for SPY.
I responded with all the “gravitas” that your question deserves. EOY is in 3 days. Market performance over that time-frame is a complete roll of the dice. Various economic reports will hit the tape. Do you have any clue about those? If you want to just randomly gamble just go to Vegas.
FBGRX is just a mutual fund neither ETF or index.
You seem to be overthinking your problem
This time of year people are looking for losses and doing their IRS RMD requirements. What are your objectives? I just sold T and DAL with big losses because I need them to offset my FB I sold at 300 (bought at 60-ish).
I don’t think i have any losers this year that i could sell. i have restored my rollover ira to try to avoid the 35% tax bracket.
i just dumped TSLA this morning. bought a couple of months ago at 420, sold at 659.
also bought some AAPL this morning.
also want to get into VIGAX but it is a slow transaction (won’t take effect until end of day?). I would like to get into it in two of my accounts, rollover ira and regular brokerage. the fee to me is $75 per transaction (ouch).
> FBGRX is just a mutual fund neither ETF or index.
ok what is it and how does it compare with VIGAX?
The one thing we have learned on this thread is that you are too lazy for your own good.
I have gleaned the fact you claim more money than you have the sense to invest.
> The one thing we have learned on this thread is that you are too lazy for your own good.
I have not attacked you personally. why have you attacked me personally?
this is about stocks. it’s not about me.
it’s certainly not about your opinion of me. you do not know me. your ignorance and ego are on full display. my advice to you is: gtfo out of this thread. go back to diddling yourself under a rock.
thanks in advance.
Hope you still have tsla, up 35% since last conversation.
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