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Robinhood for buy and hold seasoned investors
What are your thoughts on using Robinhood for brokerage and Roth IRAs if you're a long term buy and hold investor and not influenced by the gamificarion their app has? I have weekly buys automatically set and that's about it. Would be transferring about $500k. Hopefully don't need the $$ …
Bond laddering on trust fund.
Long story short, I'm a small business owner. One day, a skater-looking hippie came into my shop, carefree and flying high. He placed his order and tipped our staff generously. I asked him what he did for a living, and he said, "I don't work, my brother. My parents set …
China Dumping U.S Government Bonds
If China and other countries start to dump U.S bonds, it’s all over for us. The economy will spiral out of control for us and we’ll be in a situation much worse than a just a recession. Trump is really trying to isolate the U.S with his policies. China, a …
Does exposure to other currencies help diversification if the primary currency devalues?
If something happened whereby the USD value fell relative to other currencies (like euros), would ETFs/mutual fund prices which I'm investing dollars into, be affected? I'm struggling to understand if something like a three fund portfolio would benefit from shifting towards international investment, or if someone would need to purchase …
[Vanguard UK] "this fund already has a pending sell order"
I found a curious problem. I am ready to start buying back into some funds that have lowered in price. Most of my money at present is in the actively managed Money Market fund, and I switched a nominal amount out of there and into an equity ETF. My plan …
Question about calculating taxes on equity sales
If a portion of an equity is sold - e.g. 50% - is the basis assumed to be 50% as well? Example: \------------------------- 100 shares purchased 10% long-term gain occurs 50 shares sold \------------------------- Are the taxable long-term gains in this situation based on the 10% gain on 50 shares? …
Divesting from US in 401k?
I don't want to argue about whats and whys, but I'm looking for advice on how to position my retirement account away from anything US, which is obviously hard living in the US. What options do I have? Foreign ETFs? Commodities? What else? I know cash long term is a …
US announces pauses on Chinese reciprocal tariffs for smartphones, computers, and integrated circuits
Guess this is good news for Apple, Nvidia, and other consumer tech companies? Although, not sure how well negotiations would move forward, since these seem like they key exports that are driving the trade deficit that you would want to tariff, vs. some textiles or clothing [https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDHSCBP/bulletins/3db9e55](https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDHSCBP/bulletins/3db9e55)
Fear and Greed - this time is different
We didn’t always have a 24/7 news cycle in our pocket that we could pull out and read that had brand new click-bait-rage-bait headlines. Do you think you’re more informed now or more manipulated? In 2008 entire banks collapsed. It was a scary time, and it was different than others. …
I want to try investing more than the safe options like Roth, 401ks
Who is an investing guru that you've had great luck getting investing advice from? Outside of just googling "Investment gurus" .. I dont and never have had Tic Tok... and I don't do much on youtube.... where Ive heard and know many post on...so of course that means I'm old …