Too Hot Investment Thread

Me: cash under mattress

I’m old and my compound is secure

 

I took a bite on Bitcoin (with a little cash) so far so good.

 

Generally invest in index funds and low fee mutual funds. I don't do individual stocks. About 60% of investments are stock funds, of which a little less than half is international. The remaining 40% is a hodgepodge of bonds, TIPS, Ibonds, EEBONDS, REITS, gold ETF and silver ETF and cash.

As to the stock funds I am overweighted vs market in small cap value and emerging markets.

Most of our investments are in 401ks, IRAS and Roth IRAS.

 

90% RE
8% funds
2% stocks for fun (last buy was APHA a couple weeks ago, see today why I’m at 2%.. don’t know how people trade large amounts of their wealth)

Go with what you know.

 

Is there another kind? Yes. Multi-family mostly. I’m an evil developer you hear about on here. Small time though, so I may still get to heaven.

 

I'm a buy and hold investor. Works for me. As an example bought this plain vanilla stock in 1991. Bought 50 shares at 26 for an initial investment of around $1300 in 1991. Invested an additional $6000 in small increments between 1992 and 2001. Seem to have done OK.

 

I've gotten to that stage in life where I am balancing out my portfolio favoring income producers and backing off on the more speculative high risk high reward stocks. Trying to preserve assets and realize income is my goal. I have been buying AT&T that pays 7.3% dividends and today bought TOT - Total - a large French liquified gas and renewable energy company that is also paying over a 7% dividend.
Have several sector funds with Black Rock Tech having done really well this past year. Have 2 other BR funds small cap blend. Also have a couple of broader stock funds (Investment Company of America the largest holding). I have something like 12 shares of Amazon that pays nothing (me and Bezos are partners and he's holding out on me). Have had Apple for a few years and bought more during the early pandemic when the bottom fell out. It recovered and split 3 for 1. It doesn't pay much of a dividend though.

 

Other than my 401k (which is split 25/25/25/25 between 4 mutual funds) and Roth 401k I am in Bitcoin. I plan to invest in some long term stocks eventually (basically in blue chip stuff).

I got in on Bitcoin when it was selling for $20.8k. it has been an awesome 3 months. I'm very bullshit on it long-term.

 

Small investor here. I currently hold:

Southwest
United airlines
Tesla (wooo!) Somewhat early investor
Apple


I am waiting on cciv because I want to make sure they have a dance partner. If lucid does not merge, that stock is sunk. If they do than you are in luck.

 

Was looking good until I got to your cartoon coins

 

Through my work I’m 100% in an index fund. It’s been performing well and a “set it and forget it” kind of investment. With my spare money I’ve been having fun “gambling” in the crypto sphere. It’s a bull market right now so it’s almost impossible to not make paper gains at the moment. We’ll see when a correction happens.

 

Real Estate (Rental properties) at the moment and 401k.
But want to get more educated about this stuff and love the thread idea.

 

I think my next investment will be an dividend aristocrat fund. I want to build up long term gains

 

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I tend to want to be more aggressive with my portfolio but end up playing a little safer than needed. Since I’m a government employee, I get a pension so in theory, I should be heavily invested in equities. My retirement funds are probably 80% in equities. My non-retirement funds are in a mixture of mutual funds and individual stocks. The individual stocks are kind of my “play money”. I’m in the popular FAANG stocks as well as companies like J&J, novovax, CCIV, Southwest,DOCU. Thinking of FROG. Always looking for other investment opportunities. Thought of real estate but would need to sell investments to do that.

 

And great idea of a thread. Hope it stays on point

 

My first foray into solo investing for real was an unmitigated disaster. I had like 11k and wound up with 3k.
I decided I had better learn what I am doing. I also made the decision at that time that mutual funds (and later balanced with ETFs) were my path. So I max out my Roth, my 401k, have a set amount that gets put away each week, and whatever I have left at the end of the month gets thrown into an uncovered account. I don’t hold any individual stocks right now.
I am around 80/20 stocks to bonds, but have been slowly creeping that up on the bond side, as the bull market runs its course. I am overweight in small caps, moderately favoring growth over value, and like most here I’m sure have had a really good 10 months.
I have a decent amount in my house, but beginning to divest into something other than stocks is my next goal. Especially since I’m now a few years ahead of schedule and can afford to make a mistake or two as I do.