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So if schd is missing these top companies, why not just pair it with a growth etf? I’m thinking about shifting my portfolio to 30% VOO / 30% SCHD / 10% VTI / 10% VXUS / 20% Individual Stocks. Is this too complex of a portfolio?

What a thumbnail 🎉

I admit I have some redundancies across ETFs plus stocks, but I use a stock intersection tool, so I know exactly how much of each stock I own!

can you expand on how this might affect Indian market and employments

Thank you Matt. The different perspectives and goals views help a lot.

Should I buy Amazon or Microsoft? I know amazon has high pe but also holding a lot of cash so not that overvalued

Hi Matt, I like your cat. She was having a yarn behind you, she was certainly not worried about bloody Mon. 🙂

Lost about a week's vacation on the Maldives today.. what's so great about a all inclusive over water bungalow with private pool and slide anyway?? -6k. 😢

Terrific buying opportunity IMO. Most of the top companies in SPY and QQQ are still growing earnings quarter over quarter and looking very sound fundamentally. The economy is actually looking very strong with GDP still growing. And unemployment/inflation numbers have been cooked for a looong time (about 4 years!). I think what we’re seeing are margin calls and the distressed selling of great assets due to the carry trade unwind and algorithmic trading piling on, increasing volatility. I’ll be buying all dips. And if we keep going south, my DGRW will get collapsed into my SPY holdings. And then SPY into QQQ. And finally QQQ into TQQQ if we hit -50%+. And if we go further down from there, I’ll be adding margin!

Yen carry trade: that is the first time I have heard of this concept; thank-you for the education! Great advice as usual. In general, I don’t sell & try to keep buying & staying 100% invested. At these prices, I am adding to NVDA when I can (no borrowing money though).

Any thoughts/perspective on index funds that exclude big tech? Like psychologically, avoiding volatility

Your Buffett thumbnails are the best. Art worth framing.

Fed might be lowering rates in September but Money Market (SPAXX, SWVXX) are still offering around 5% so I don't see investors with cash rushing in to pick up stocks such as NVDA just because it dropped significantly (most investors had experience catching a falling knife by the blade). I plan to buy more NVDA but am just watching for now.

Well, at least you’re not wearing the bears shirt.😂

tax is not the price of flexibility, tax is the robbery of the state xD

Watched a guy do a Japanese Carry Trade on a 3x Tech ETF... in margin. Lost his mind and money

Bought some NVDA at 95(it was 92 at opening), CMG, SPLG, QQQM and SCHD. For me, most of those low prices were positions that I have not seen since April! Normally, I just DCA every Friday but at those low prices, I feel I had to take the advantage today.

I'm glad you brought up about the Yen carry trade. That is something I've been keeping a watchful eye on since I trade futures along with my long term investing. Last night (Sunday) to the wee hours of this morning was quite fun shorting futures since the BoJ (Bank of Japan) has mentioned multiple times about raising their rates over the past year/months. Even I was surprised about the BoJ not intervening when the USD/JPY crossed above 150 and pushed to 160 until last night (Sunday) when they announced an increase to 25bp. Nikkei225 dropped 12%+ and on TOS /NKD dropped 8%+ so yes, it fun shorting /NKD Sunday night to the wee hours of this morning. I think today is a good day to buy for long term investments (I view this as a discount imo). Again, I appreciate how you brought up the Yen and BoJ since most finance youtubers are ignoring this other than highlighting about what Buffett did with his AAPL position and throwing the word recession around with no real data to back it up.

Eh Matt, I agree with you on Buffet, it is a bit like my META. I had 60 shares at 158CAD$ I sold 20 at 320CAD$, and then again 20 when it got to 400something. In insight I would have been better keeping all 60 but, who knew? I sold, I bought mostly VFV, VGT, INTL and MSFT not a horrible trade-off. I cashed-in and my current shares in META are free-to-me, my 3k$ expense is worth 13k$ I happy.. My main regret is that soon after I sold, META started paying dividends and META not paying dividends was the main reason I sold the shares. APPL, most definitely a buying opportunity in my book, especially after the debacle at MSFT exposing the risk of having their kernel open to the outside world. I have three calls for purchase: 10 @ 205, 10x @ 200 10x @ 195 U$D. As for the Yen it is the delta change that makes the difference, so yes all those traders having to edge their bets influences the stock prices but I see it as an opportunity because ... I am not a trader! Cheers, a.

I just think it’s a little suspicious this basically all started on a Sunday…there’s definitely more to this than we know now

matt do you buy more today I don’t have any cash today I can’t buy any 😢😢

Buffett will acquire the entirety of Japan and become their emperor

One thing I heard from someone a while ago was look at what Buffett does not what he says. His actions will speak louder than words

NO PAIN NO GAIN

Their biggest thing I learned from this is that having a cash pile is important for moments like this. Bought some AirBnb and Adobe.

Sucks seeing my portfolio in red, but still holding for the long haul. Actually invested a bit on some stocks. Been fractional investing for a while so nice to see some stocks down.

Individual investors and corporations should not be able to move the market this much--it's way too much power to manipulate the market for personal gain.

Went shopping today. Bought some UPS, APH, ONON and RBRK. Not enough spare cash but MSFT and SNOW are looking good.

The markets have bounced quite a bit since premarket but all the same thoughts apply!

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Depends on your situation. If you need a regular income to live, then regular dividends are good. When the stock market blows out 20 or 30% in a month and 60% in a couple of years you're happy to get your dividends year after year. The cash you get from the dividends is real, the value of the share is just indicative until the day you sell. The stock market went down 20% in coupke of months ant it may get worse. Still got my dividends. Value is good when you need to grow your capital. Then dividend is good when you actually need the money. Especially if you're in country where the value of shares has not beengrowing for years if not decades.

I have over 120 with a portfolio of 75000$ worth.i want to add more and diversify more.before i used to have about only 10 stocks for about 30000$ and i lost more. Now that my diversifying is more I lose less and gain more.

I have 5 accounts with Fidelity, and 1 with M1 Love Fidelity, and the Mobile app. I can even trade options on the app. easy to transfer money around accounts as well

Sold 35 shares of MCD and bought 50 shares of AMZN. Long term, I have no doubt AMZN will be back at 200. Meanwhile, as a consumer, I see the struggle customers have with value propositions at restaurants. Considering MCD has raised their prices over 100% in recent years, it’s easy to see the rationale behind people’s choice to not eat out.

How do u approach reits with this method?

Tech stocks have skyrocketed this year. If you couldn’t see a market correction coming, you aren’t paying attention. Is it a buying opportunity, maybe or maybe not. Dollar cost average, diversify your assets, hold a cash emergency fund which should never be invested in the stock market, and live life.

I like your analysis here, especially of AMZN, I also added to my position in AMZN. I have been investing about 13 years or so, and your style of investing very much mirrors mine until 6 years ago or so. My biggest issue was I never kept enough cash to take advantage of market corrections, or over exaggerated stock selloffs after earnings. So, like you, I trimmed or sold out of other positions to fund my new buys. What I realized is I was always chasing something better, when in reality, the positions I help for the longest periods always out performed. So now, I carry about 12 individual stocks that I have absolute long term faith in, and I add new cash to my account monthly. I usually can find one of my current holdings in a dip or underperforming, and I add to that rather than buying something new. The biggest takeaway here, is once you have owned a company for years, you have a really solid feel for how its stock will react to different situations, and it becomes much easier to resist the urge to dump it on short term issues, rather add to it because you are confident its fundamentals are intact. Only major changes such as senior leadership or business model deviations cause me to question my ownership in that position. Resist the urge to interrupt compounding if you are confident in the companies you own would be the advice I would give to anyone based on my personal experience. I enjoy your channel and videos Matt.. Cheers

Went with VTI 2 years ago and it has worked great for me. Going to stick with it until I retire.

Congrats, well done - I enjoyed hearing your story!

14:11 I am still holding GOOGL .. 😅 I am sooo motivated to earn more & buy more from this chart. Awesome, logical, calm message.. thank-you!

Warren Buffett just sold 50% of his Apple shares. No worries. Tim Cook will spend the cash flow to buy back lots of Apple shares instead of spending the money to invest in AI and innovate Apple products