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People who understand investing well, is it true many of them don't invest in index funds like SP500 but they study each specific stocks and invest in tham to maximize ROI?
For example a colleage kid who don't have time to spend finding what stock to invest and why to invest that, so they just put in SP500 while a rich dude who have been trading for years they don't do that.. they invest specific stocks only, based on their analysis …
Advisor is holding off on investing my money
My advisor at Edward jones says not to invest right now. I have a large chunk of money that’s been sitting there for 4 months. They say wait until late fall to invest. Is that a good strategy? I feel I’m losing money by not investing any of it. Some …
Investors are looking at the wrong number: META's FCF fell 91% but operating cash flow grew 25%.
The headline from Meta’s Q2 report was technically brutal: free cash flow collapsed 91% year over year, from $8.55B to just $784M. That makes it sound like Meta’s money printer broke. But operating cash flow (the cash generated by the business before capital spending) actually increased 24.6%, from $25.56B to …
Overfunded Long Term Health Policy?
Mom is 85 years old and has a LTHC policy. It has a lifetime benefit maximum which is currently at $385k which increases 5% per year. The policy has a provision where she can elect to receive a monthly cash payment of $2,775. Her SS, pension and annuity more than …
Suggestions to add to portfolio diversification
Im trying to build a relatively safe portfolio for my girlfriend with focus on growth. Her investment strategy is to simply split everything she invests into whatever percentages get attached to this portfolio diversification regardless of price and let it ride. She wants investing to be as low stress and …
How to calculate return vs inflation if I'm re-investing part of the money?
Hi! I don't live in the US, but this is more of a math advice than a proper investing advice. Say I have 100'000 BRL and I invest it at 14% yearly using government bonds (the norm in Brazil). I'd get 14'000 BRL a year, or just over 1100 monthly. …
The Yen Carry Trade Is Cooked, Fam. DD inside
Something something Japan has zero percent interest rates and their housing mortgage rates are something close to that and US Capital involved or whatever. Listen the real reason it’s legit is because someone made Reddit and the mods take down the last post saying this same shit. Comment on this …
21M, was up 101% YTD, sold about half of everything today. Roast me or tell me I'm right.
21M, was up 101% YTD, sold about half of everything today. Roast me or tell me I'm right. Long time lurker. I'm 21, been investing through college, and my taxable account was up 101% this year. Roth up 49%. Mostly AI infrastructure, semis, nuclear, and space. GEV, GE, NVDA, RKLB, …
S&P 500: is it overvalued - can it grow 8%+ forever?
So I have recently been seeing lots of posts suggesting "the market" is overvalued and looking at the S&P's forward P/E it is just above 20, and all time highs have just been reached this could be frothy. I thought it would be interesting to have a broader discussion about …
Could the AI/tech bubble continue for much longer than people expect?
I’ve been looking at how some of these companies are valued compared with their actual revenue, and the numbers seem insane. SpaceX is valued at around 80–115× its revenue, Palantir is around 70–80×, and some AI, space, and nuclear companies are even higher. Meanwhile, a normal established company is usually …