His desired portfolio is this. He knows there's overlap in many of the major corps especially tech. Thoughts?

    • QQQ  25% 
    • FMTM Momentum ETF 15% 
    • MELI   MercadoLibre  9%  Latin America’s leading e-commerce, digital-payments, advertising and logistics ecosystem.
    • RXRX  7.5% Uses automation, biological data and AI to discover and develop new medicines. 
    • BRK.B  7.5%
    • VOO  6% 
    • SOPH 5% Provides software that analyzes genomic and clinical data for hospitals and laboratories. 
    • KRE  5%  Rregional real-estate markets ETF
    • MU  5% 
    • NU   5% Rapidly growing digital banking and financial-services platform across Latin America.
    • AMZN    2.5% 
    • GOOGL  2.5% 
    • TRV    2.5% Insurer
    • MP   Minerals 2.5% 

    Advice for my teenager's plans?
    byu/CivilizedSteve instocks



    Posted by CivilizedSteve

    5 Comments

    1. Electrical_Panda_326 on

      Looks like a well thought through setup to be honest. If he is comfortable with those local companies, then why not.

    2. WhiteLotus_1776 on

      OMG ….. That’s a recipe for disaster. He should just do 70% VOO / 10-15% VXUS / 15-20% QQQM or SCHG or VGT whichever he prefers of those 3

    3. Early-Ebb2895 on

      Waste of time but fun ig. IMO being young is the time to be risky – he should put all his money in a penny stock or something and see it explide

    4. No_Presentation9490 on

      * **QQQ  25%** 

      I’d wait for a discount on this especially if it’s in a tax advantaged account. This isn’t an index you want to buy when it’s expensive if you’re not actively monitoring your account and willing to de-risk. Nasdaq has dropped 60% three times in just the past 30 years. Nasdaq has also spent 21 years of those past 30 years with a net 0% inflation adjusted return. (2000-2021)

      * **FMTM Momentum ETF 15%** 

      This can become dead money in a bad market regime

      * **MELI   MercadoLibre  9%**  Latin America’s leading e-commerce, digital-payments, advertising and logistics ecosystem.

      9% is way too big a position for a single stock with foreign currency risk. It also has to actually execute its expansion to grow into its valuation, which is anothe risk. It doesn’t matter how well a company is doing or how big its potential is; what matters is stock price performance relative to your entry point.

      * **RXRX  7.5%** Uses automation, biological data and AI to discover and develop new medicines. 

      Way too speculative and risky for this position size.

      * **BRK.B  7.5%**

      Dead money, period.

      * **VOO  6%** 

      Way too small position size for a core index fund

      * **SOPH 5%** Provides software that analyzes genomic and clinical data for hospitals and laboratories. 

      Way too speculative and risky for this position size.

      * **KRE  5%**  Rregional real-estate markets ETF

      The entire world is having an interest rate problem and everything real-estate related is interest rate sensitive. Buying these only works if you time the market, I would pass

      * **MU  5%** 

      Cyclical industry companies are ones to trade, not invest long-term in

      * **NU   5%** Rapidly growing digital banking and financial-services platform across Latin America.

      Way too speculative and risky for this position size.

      * **AMZN    2.5%** 

      Use this to buy VOO instead, Mag7 are not immortal.

      * **GOOGL  2.5%** 

      Use this to buy VOO instead, Mag7 are not immortal.

      * **TRV    2.5% Insurer**

      Appropriate position size for this kind of holding but I wouldn’t expect too much performance from this.

      * **MP   Minerals 2.5%** 

      Appropriate position size for this kind of holding but I wouldn’t expect too much performance from this.

      Don’t get me wrong, I don’t worship the S&P 500, but this is not a well thought out portfolio

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