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That’s peanuts! Congrats for realizing it early
by herval 2y ago
That’s peanuts! Congrats for realizing it early
- freehorse 2y agoI don't know OP but 3k can be a significant amount of money for some people esp when younger. I realise people often lose more, but that can also be because they have more money padding to lose.
- herval 2y agoThe stock market is an expensive addiction. If you read subreddits like r/wsb, you’ll frequently see people losing hundreds of thousands of dollars, mortgaging houses, gambling their future on another 0dt option bet. It’s a good thing he only lost 3k!
- btrettel 2y agoSome folks' elementary or middle schools had stock picking lessons with fake money: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21642395 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21642395 From mine, all I remember was getting the impression that putting money in particular stocks without knowing what you're doing is a bad idea. Pretty valuable lesson, I guess, as I've never bought individual stocks since then...
- herval 2y agoYou might have learned the wrong lesson there, if your goal is to build wealth. But it’s a good idea to prevent losses
- beacon294 2y agoNot really, indexing beats hedge fund managers over something like a 12 year stretch.
- herval 2y agohedge funds are not the same thing as picking individual stocks. Not even close. Index funds are an averaging mechanism to reduce risk, not to maximize return (you can easily beat the average by allocating on the p75 instead for instance)
- beacon294 2y agoThe problem isn't allocating, it's reallocating correctly. That problem space is much more complex for an entrenched account.
- herval 2y agoFair, etfs do help with that
- jhghikvhu 2y agoI'd be interested in something a little (but not a lot) higher risk reward than index, so I'd appreciate if you expand on this. What is the p75?
- herval 2y agoBalancing your portfolio to include the top 25 or so best performing companies of the index Therefore ETFs that track that - eg $XLG is the s&p top 50. Unsurprisingly, consistently beats the s&p500. Same for $QQQ - in this case the skew is for more tech stocks (which were the best asset class in a decade)