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How hands off vs hands on do you tend to be when investing? What drives how involved you become?
Curious to hear from angels, VCs, etc here — how do you decide how much involvement to have with a founder or startup after investing? Do you prefer staying out of the way unless asked? Or do you take a more active role (e.g. strategy, intros, recruiting help)? What factors …
US tourism officials sound alarm, tourist flights to US sink 70% and could impact up to 140k hospitality jobs and $14B in economic spending
Here is my way of trying to find alpha in an erratic stock market - how I'm trading the US tourism dip. **1. Canada is the US's largest source of tourism**: In 2024, 20 million Canadian tourists visited the US, spent $20.5 billion, and supported 140,000 US jobs. Canada's population …
Portfolio Thoughts Requested
Hi All. Would appreciate some thoughts on this portfolio. Thank you! 33M Current Risk Tolerance: High (8/10) Style: Mostly set-it-and-forget-it Current Monthly Contribution: $1,200 Time Horizon: 30+ years ⸻ Core Growth – 26% • VTI – 16% (Total U.S. Stock Market) • VXUS – 5% (International Stocks) • VB – …
Who is an expert on SDOW?
Couple years ago. Me and my uncle Did really well with SDOW, had a good sense on things. ended up losing most of it hanging on too long. Swore off it. We’re amateurs, economic/society nerds. We know basic metrics for companies. I think I’m asking the question wrong, SDOW is …
Massive Spikes in Individual Stocks?
Every once and a while I will see super volatile charts with +- 50% fluctuations like LAC today. https://www.google.com/finance/quote/LAC:NYSE?hl=en The high price never seems to actually exist but it shows up on the chart. I was wondering what causes these spikes and if there is some way to take advantage …
Just missed out on an actual good IPO
Never used IPOs before. I was looking at getting Involved with Newsmax but decided against it after seeing their value over the past few years... Woke up this morning and saw I would have made $8,000 with them. Now I'm ready to throw myself off my balcony. Does anyone suggest …
How did the stimulus checks boost economy so much?
I'm hearing from all the YouTube gurus that the economy rallied in 2020 from the stimulus checks, billion sf of commercial real estate to be built to accommodate all of the spending. Car market exploding with 100% mark ups on new cars. Housing prices skyrocketing. etc Like the checks were …
Stock market or property investments, and why?
Would you rather invest in the stock market or in property (buy to let) and why? I'm comparing numbers and realising property can make more money if someone buys and then sells in 5-10 years, with the equity built. On the other hand, it's way much more work than putting …
Even After Diversifying, Where Else to Invest?
Let’s say someone had $10,000 to invest. If someone has property, stocks, ETFs, and bitcoin, where else to diversify? I’m just looking at what’s going on right now. Houses slowly going down, stocks and etfs down and maybe stagnate for a long long time. Bitcoin is down as well but …
Riding out my first drop without jumping out the window
Young investor here (30’s) and cautiously watching all this play out. I’m currently DCAing $4,000 a month into VOO and have been since the greatest bull run in history post COVID. Sitting with about $95k total in my portfolio with an emergency fund that can last me a year or …