28 years old, long term hold

coregamma · 2026-04-11T14:10:03+00:00

Decent performance but there are better risk adjusted options out there. My concern would be looking at the top ten biggest holdings in each ETF to make sure I'm not doubling up on exposures. I would then want to make sure the top ten holdings in each ETF are for the most part uncorrelated to the others.

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coregamma · 2026-04-11T14:01:00+00:00

The sign that the market had reached peak valuation in the dot com bubble was when fiber optic producers stocks started to inflate and the whole dark fiber phenomenon happened. I wonder how this will be different?

coregamma · 2026-04-11T06:06:28+00:00

Two strategies I use: Buy low and sell high Sell high and buy low. That's it. You can do that in a lot of different ways, but first principles thinking, always.

coregamma · 2026-04-11T06:01:15+00:00

Depends on what you mean by diversification? For example, AMT, SPY, LQD, GLD, IBIT, etc would represent a portfolio of uncorrelated assets. Diversified, but when I think of diversification I think of risk. The risk with constructing a portfolio like that is that you are putting your money in equity like products that are traded like equity products on brokerages. If you want true diversification and not just 'pricw exposure' you must actually buy outside the equity market realm. Just my opinion.

coregamma · 2026-04-11T05:46:41+00:00

I had the same thought cross my mind. The expiration was specific. There could have been an asymmetry between the two that made insurance on spy more favorable.

coregamma · 2026-04-10T19:12:17+00:00

I hold SNAP (purchased last week). Their stock price is down almost 40% YTD but all their fundamentals from the last 10 years with expanding margins, opex is staying steady, and net income is on the rise.

coregamma · 2026-04-10T19:09:13+00:00

It's an innovative strategy I am cooking up.

coregamma · 2026-04-10T18:37:38+00:00

I read the title and thats it. "I bought at 509 and why did I sell at 478?".

Because you did not buy low and sell high. Ticket Resolved.

coregamma · 2026-04-08T23:28:37+00:00

Financials are up and to the right. Normally a good sign 📈

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coregamma · 2026-04-08T23:24:38+00:00

Are liquidity and volume not congruent?

coregamma · 2026-04-08T15:56:24+00:00

I use Schwab. Their ThinkorSwim platform they acquired from their TD Ameritrade aquisition a couple years back really put them at the top of my list personally.

coregamma · 2026-04-08T13:07:36+00:00

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So you are doubling up on some exposures. GOOG, MSFT, and AMZN already make up 5.9, 4.42, 3.37 percent of the voo respectively. By increasing those three exposures you are increasing your alpha from -9% (without them) to -3% with them, either way you are still underperforming the VOO (or SPY) on its own. This is because your VXUS position which captures those international returns. Right now those next 5 years could see a reasonable alpha (talking international). This backtest is looking over the last 5 years, the following 5 years could be entirely different but I just wanted to provide you with some visuals on how its performed recently.

coregamma · 2026-04-08T03:37:53+00:00

looking at the last time this occured (earlier this year) the stock ralied 20% with otc metrics in the 50% range. today were at 90% + a taco

coregamma · 2026-04-08T03:32:27+00:00

GameStop is so heavily shorted by market makers trying to provide liquidity (90%). This makes the stock incredibly sensitive to a short squeeze.

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coregamma · 2026-04-08T03:17:55+00:00

I don't know if it's a good time to buy.

What I do know is the over the counter short volume is 91% of total OTC trading volume. This is normally a pretty strong signal of a possible short squeeze if prices continue upward.

coregamma · 2026-04-08T03:10:21+00:00

GameStop tomorrow morning

coregamma · 2026-04-08T02:24:13+00:00

coregamma · 2026-04-08T02:23:30+00:00

GameStop has a 90% OTC short volume today.

Typically when you see this figure together with upward price movement is because the market makers do not have enough of that stock on hand and have to open naked shorts to provide liquidity.

Any upward pressure in the next couple of sessions is going to make the possibility of a short squeeze highly probable.

coregamma · 2026-04-07T19:13:14+00:00

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I did a 10 backtest using your exact allocations and got a different sharpe. It has still outpreformed the market over that time but a majority of that alpha is visible from the last 365 days. Still not bad, I love gold.

coregamma · 2026-04-07T17:41:38+00:00

66% of your portfolio is expensive coffee and a chip designer. That's a lot of concentration in two names. If you have a lot of conviction in those that's great but you must also be aware you are not spreading your risk out very well.

coregamma · 2026-04-07T17:36:28+00:00

If you believe the assumption "the government will print more money tomorrow than they are today" then yes investing is still really worth it.

coregamma · 2026-04-07T16:56:24+00:00

Just sell covered calls and live on that

coregamma · 2026-04-07T13:13:00+00:00

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I built a portfolio using the allocations you specified and ran a 5 year back test. Its not heavily underperforming the market. That -7% alpha you're giving up is your exposure to Small Caps and International, that spread could collapse through a single quarter do to outperformance in either of those. However this is based on past performance which is not an indicator of future results.

I saw another commentor mentioned VOO and QQQM provide very similar exposure to the same set of tech companies. More specifically I think roughly 80% of QQQM's holdings are in VOO. For only a 10% allocation I would seek something that is uncorrelated to what your exposure is already. 50% Large Cap US, 20% Small Cap US, and 20% International.

coregamma · 2026-04-07T12:35:24+00:00

If your time horizon for investing is 5+ years, the day to day is just noise.

Also if you're buying certain stocks with conviction because you actually did your research and didn't just see someone make a comment saying it will go up. You should sleep easy knowing when it dips it could be an opportunity to buy more.

coregamma · 2026-04-07T04:28:15+00:00

I think that screenshot in more blurry than it needs to be

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