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In Jan 2025 I invested in 11 stocks because of reddit. Here's how it went

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Dec 6, 2025 · 20:51

80% of my portfolio is in the s&p but I want to be more aggressive while I'm younger and knew I could afford to gamble some so I bought 11 of the most mentioned stocks on different investing subreddits in Jan of 2025.
There's some I didn't invest in for personal reasons and I didn't invest all 20% into these as I still have cash on the sidelines but here's how it went:

Nvda 32%
Pltr 141
Asts 241
Rklb 97
Amd 80
Smci 15
Bbai 66
Aur -27
Btc -4
Hims 56
Tem 124

Average =74.64%

The stocks I've been seeing most mentioned this year on the different investing subs:
32 Nvda
141 Pltr
80 Amd
46 Tsm
31 Orcl
57 asml
68 avgo
60 vertiv
221 Nbis
120 Crwv
96 Sofi
241 Asts
97 Rklb
-42 Lunr
-84 stock not allowed to be mentioned here
-68 probably not allowed to be mentioned here
327 iren
234 hood
66 bbai
41 rddt
86 baba

Average = 88.09%

Although both groups did well, the market & redditors were fearful more often than they were positive. And more importantly I have to say history is not an indicator of the future and as many people have been saying for the past few years, we are due for a pullback.. That pullback may come today or in 5 years. No one knows.

The skeptic in me believes while maybe the trend can continue, you never know who will continue their growth, who will falter, who will be the next big thing, who will ink big deals, who will run out of money, who's tech will become superior/inferior, etc. All that to say maybe a tech etf will be safer than choosing the wrong stocks. And s&p is safer than those. But let's take a look at some of those etf's and the mag7:

Smh = 48.87%
Soxx = 42.70%
Dtcr = 28.69%

Mag 7 =24.87%
Voo = 17.31%
Spy = 17.28%

32 nvda
15 Microsoft
4 Amazon
69 Google
12 Meta
20 tsla

What conclusions do you draw from this?