@Karpour I have seen the Asianometry on it a while back, it was quite interesting. Yes, I have known about ASML for a long while; though it sounds as though the vultures might be trying to circle with on-shoring to the USA and attempts to break their monopoly being afoot.
I tend to avoid direct stock investing, I prefer ETF and ETC index investing so that I don't have as much a headache with rebalancing. Ultimately, I'm lazy and no huge interest in doing financials research and because of that, I factor individual company investing as picking horses rather than any sound decision making. I feel that ETF basket investing across a wide portfolio is the safer option as you're buying 100's of companies with one trade and unless you're into some high risk funds, the chance of all of those companies vanishing completely is very tiny - all of the FTSE100, S&P500 or the DAX for example.
I avoid OEIC's
(active mutual funds
) like the plague. They're expensive and in the long-term are lining the pockets of soothsayer fund managers who empirically are unable to return better than a index tracker.
You timed the market with some meme stocks huh? You're a braver man than I. If I see a fad, I avoid it like the plague.
What else are you in? What are your favourite/core ETF's?
@CE Geek, you've got every incentive to start investing, even if it's just a few dollars every now and then. Trading expense ratios are so unbelievably cheap for you. You'll pay 0.07% while we pay 0.35% for the same darn thing over here in Europe.
I'm avoiding the S&P 500 at the moment because 30% of it is this AI fad that will pop sooner or later. Beyond the 6/7 companies that make up the AI fad, the rest of the S&P500 is on a downward slant in recent weeks and months. I don't what you can get in the US, but in the UK we are seeing free trading services with zero commission plus fractional share trading becoming fairly common for retail investors outside of pensions. So you can buy
(say
) $10 worth of $270 each Tesla stock without having to front the full $270. My broker I can literally put just £1 into pretty much anything!
Pension trading is still charged here, but mine are capped at £120/year for doing my own investments. So not too bad - certainly better than the eye watering 1% + fund charges I was suffering with a pension company - and add another 1% if you are dealing with an IFA.
Interesting thought about the EV infrastructure. The world seems to have gone fairly cold on renewable infrastructure now that the Ukraine shock is almost forgotten
(not for us here in Europe it isn't!
). My renewables fund got battered