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Go aeiou said:
I've been investing since the mid 80s. It has always been that way. Wall street is where the money is.
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For sure it has. But all this new and affordable retail trading has got people paying attention. This whole situation is just individuals playing the same game as the hedge funds.
 
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Thunder Good-Oil said:
If only it was easy. Be prepared to lose a lot as that is just as likely as making big returns in 2021. My advisor told me that the firm’s investment professionals from the main office in NYC were suggesting that clients should expect around 5% as normal (after I told him that what I’m shooting for is 2 or 3 doubles in the next 10-15 years).

You are spreading it around and diversifying a bit which reduces your risk considerably. To get substantial returns you’d most likely have to be concentrated in just a couple of names with large chunks of the total... but your risk also soars with this approach. It’s really going to depend on what you are shooting for. 20% or 100%. You can get a nice guitar right now. You’re not far right now from a new, basic Strat, Taylor, or Gibson. Be careful or you might be settling for a used, low end Squire or Epiphone (which are really pretty nice for the money).

If you are determined to take substantial risks you might check into the 2x and 3x leveraged ETFs. Maybe even go in on some bear oriented ETFs.

You said that you want to pretty much buy and hold, but if you want to try some swing trades you could check out FAS and FAZ and bounce back and forth between them.

There are a bunch of high-risk, volatile penny stocks mentioned on this board. But remember those ideas are akin to gambling. Those stocks might triple or they might go down 75% in a week.
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Thank you for the input. If I start losing $ over the next couple months, I will cash out. If I stay steady or in the green, I will keep diverting my hustle money into stocks. Whenever I hit $2500, I'm out. I'm planning on buying a Martin.
 
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Carp said:
Travel stocks are still in recovery from COVID lows, so there are some opportunities there. Someone mentioned JETS as a good ETF to hold. It's a Index fund with a combination of several airline stocks and airline related stocks. I will be putting a good bit of money into this in the coming weeks as well.

I haven't researched it yet, but I'm sure there's an ETF for hotel and travel related stocks that include stocks like Mariott/Disney/AirBNB/etc. I imagine once vaccinations reach a certain level, leisure and work related travel will pick up significantly. Of course that's only my opinion and I could be completely wrong.
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JETS might be a fairly safe COVID recovery symbol. Even if leisure travel is slow to return the business travel can help sustain airlines. Plus they get a lot of revenue from shipping so they are better positioned than cruise ships and movie theaters. At full recovery, most airlines that didn’t file for bankruptcy could easily double from here. Another impetus is the pent up demand of travelers.
 
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Carp said:
Travel stocks are still in recovery from COVID lows, so there are some opportunities there. Someone mentioned JETS as a good ETF to hold. It's a Index fund with a combination of several airline stocks and airline related stocks. I will be putting a good bit of money into this in the coming weeks as well.

I haven't researched it yet, but I'm sure there's an ETF for hotel and travel related stocks that include stocks like Mariott/Disney/AirBNB/etc. I imagine once vaccinations reach a certain level, leisure and work related travel will pick up significantly. Of course that's only my opinion and I could be completely wrong.
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Great ideas here.
 
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orange parmejohn said:
Thank you for the input. If I start losing $ over the next couple months, I will cash out. If I stay steady or in the green, I will keep diverting my hustle money into stocks. Whenever I hit $2500, I'm out. I'm planning on buying a Martin.
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Check out those 5 ARK ETFs. ARKF, ARKG, ARKK, ARKQ, and ARKW. I’m not sure if some ETFs have minimum opening limits on positions though.
 
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Carp said:
Travel stocks are still in recovery from COVID lows, so there are some opportunities there. Someone mentioned JETS as a good ETF to hold. It's a Index fund with a combination of several airline stocks and airline related stocks. I will be putting a good bit of money into this in the coming weeks as well.

I haven't researched it yet, but I'm sure there's an ETF for hotel and travel related stocks that include stocks like Mariott/Disney/AirBNB/etc. I imagine once vaccinations reach a certain level, leisure and work related travel will pick up significantly. Of course that's only my opinion and I could be completely wrong.
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Not lodging, but BETZ is a similar idea.
 
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I just took a pretty large gamble on $NOK running again today. Current price isn't as inflated as the other Wallstreeetbets stocks, so the risk is much lower. Momentum indicators on the hourly chart suggest this could see some fireworks. Hoping that's true.
 
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orange parmejohn said:
Thank you for the input. If I start losing $ over the next couple months, I will cash out. If I stay steady or in the green, I will keep diverting my hustle money into stocks. Whenever I hit $2500, I'm out. I'm planning on buying a Martin.
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If your time frame is a year then the COVID recovery names seem most logical. But there will most likely be some wild swings. Many have already advanced... I think that some restaurant stocks are nearly or fully recovered. Those that haven’t are probably facing high risk of bankruptcy. CCL and SAVE both seem to be itching to take off. But vaccine delays or outbreaks would be disruptive.
 
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orange parmejohn said:
Great ideas here.
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If you're into swing trading, $RKT is a nice one to look at. Anything under $21 is a pretty safe buy, and then let it run up to $23+ and sell and wait for the inevitable swing back to sub $21. Plus there is plenty of upside to this stock as well. Over 1 billion in revenue last Qtr if I recall correctly, so very strong balance sheet.
 
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I was wanting to get back into UBER, but it advanced quite a bit and has held up. COVID has surely damaged their ride volume. But it has also staved off more competitors getting into the space. I thought that their shipping (trucking/logistics) initiative sounded like a good way to leverage their platform. I’m not a fan of the restaurant delivery space, although when I was going to the fast casual places a lot last spring and summer there was a steady flow of the drivers from 2 or 3 services. Long term they’ll be big beneficiaries of an autonomous vehicle trend.
 
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orange parmejohn said:
What actually is an ETF?
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I'm sure others can explain it better, but it's essentially a fund that is invested into a group of stocks. Essentially the ETF is similar to your entire current portfolio in that it is very diversified, which reduces this risk significantly (but also limits the upside).
 
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orange parmejohn said:
What actually is an ETF?
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Exchange Traded Funds. Much like mutual funds but MFs are priced once per day while ETFs trade on exchanges throughout the day like stocks do. Both are the pooling of many investors funds that are invested in multiple securities which can not be done with most retail investors. They create diversification which is one of the most, if not the most, important fundamental concepts of investing. There are thousands of ETFs. It’s best to avoid the smallest ETFs as they are far less efficient. Management fees are important. ARK’s are 0.75% which isn’t the cheapest but is still pretty fair based on their recent performance.
 
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Carp said:
I'm sure others can explain it better, but it's essentially a fund that is invested into a group of stocks. Essentially the ETF is similar to your entire current portfolio in that it is very diversified, which reduces this risk significantly (but also limits the upside).
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There are many types of ETFs. Some are 2x or 3x leveraged which makes them much riskier. Many are very focused on specific industries or sectors which doesn’t diversify for some risk, but will diversify for the riskiness of owning individual securities. ETFs are also not limited to stocks... they can be in bonds, commodities, etc. as well. Vanguard, iShares/Blackrock, and Schwab have many good ETFs.
 
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Orange_Vol1321 said:
This is great advice. The lady over these is killing it.
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Usually that kind of performance won’t disappear overnight. But she certainly has benefited by being in the sweet spots with COVID and Dems taking control. There is an element of luck involved. They are fairly new funds, she’s not the next Warren Buffet or Peter Lynch just yet. I’d take a risk on her though.
 
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you might consider Jumping in on Dogecoin....it is poised to possibly be the target of another attempt to run it up...and its cheap.. small investment with potential large gains....If you would buy a scratch off buy 100 of these...
 
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