Investment Club FSC Just a collection of 2022 spring semester FSC investment club equities. by cautiousLeader89817110
How to Invest in the S&P 500 [FOR DUMMIES]In the investment world everybody expects you to know exactly how to buy into an Index Fund, which makes it very hard to find a good detailed non-outdated resource to learn from. While it’s easy to do once your set up, learning how to from nothing was difficult (at least for me). Before you even think about investing into the S&P 500 you need to know WHY. Because if you don't know WHY your investing into this you will panic sell when its the best time to be buying. Now while this part can be answered by a YouTube video I put some of the main reasons below. - The s&p 500 is a diverse Index Fund. (The term index fund means a portfolio set up for you to invest in.) - The s&p 500 holds the top 500 USA companies. (The diversity in big companies makes it a safe investment in the long term.) - The s&p 500, over a 15-year period, beat nearly 90% of actively managed investment funds. (Meaning us noobies can beat the pros!) - The S&P 500 has always recovered, there are lost decades which the market has stayed down for 10 years but in those 10 years you could be buying every single month! (Dollar Cost Averaging) - With the power of compounding your money will grow exponentially. Now what is Dollar Cost Averaging..? Dollar Cost Averaging is buying roughly equal amounts of an asset per month. Doesn't have to be equal but nothing to different, for example you don't want to buy $500 worth's one month and $1000 worth's another (only spend what you know you can be consistent with in the future). Dollar-cost averaging is a great investing strategy because, in the long term, it can protect the investor (you) from market volatility (up and down movement) and reduce the amount you'll spend buying shares. So, over time, you will end up investing in more assets for less. Now what is compounding..? Compounding is re-investing both your capital gains and dividends in order to get a higher payout the next time around again and again and again.. till your rich. Although with compounding comes a catch; if you panic sell before your desired target you've fell into your own trap, because compounding depends on time, and you just smashed the watch. Plus, you should never panic sell when the market crashes; be happy you’re getting everything on a sale! Now we have reviewed why you should invest into the S&P 500, what dollar cost averaging is, what compounding is, and why panic selling is stupid. But how do you buy it?!? I started by trying a brokerage called Vanguard. (a brokerage company is pretty much a middleman that connects buyers and sellers). I wanted to use Vanguard because I knew that I wanted low purchase fees; low purchase fees are good because in the long term it impacts how much you’re actually investing (less fees = more invested long term). Now let me tell you this, vanguard SUCKS, their customer service is terrible, the website is terrible, and they wouldn't even let me open an account for god’s sake because "their website was down". The only thing good about them is their index funds and low fees. What took me a while to learn was that I can purchase the SAME index funds but with a different broker. Now I do recommend you get an account with Charles Schwab they have real branches you can go to and ask questions in (not just a phone number like Vanguard) plus if you do want to call their wait time isn't over an hour like Vanguard, and their website is user friendly. How to make an account with Charles Schwab..? Search up "Charles Schwab", click on their website, Open an Account, and decide what type of brokerage account you want (if your just one person pick individual), then continue with the steps. If you’re below the age of 18 search up "create a custodial account Charles Schwab" and start from there, you will need your parents SSN, and other info. Now that you have a basic account set up your ready to invest; but wait there's more. You currently have a brokerage account which means your eligible to invest however much you want per year, although once you pull the money out you will be taxed on it based off your tax bracket. Along with your brokerage account you should set up a Roth IRA account. A Roth IRA account is a retirement account in short, your allowed to invest up to $6000 per year into it and once your 50 you can pull it out TAX FREE. (if you pull it out any sooner it will act as a brokerage account and tax you, so don't do that). Making a Roth IRA account requires paperwork which you fill in and then go to one of the many "Charles Schwab Branches" to turn in. You can ask customer support to send you the paperwork to your email which you must print out. This account pretty much assures you will be a millionaire at retirement. Ok I have both accounts.. now how to buy? Click on "trade", make sure you’re on the "Stocks & ETFs" Tab, click the "symbol search bar", and type "VOO" (Vanguard S&P 500 ETF). Now decide on how many shares you want (you can check the price here on trading view). It will have an option to turn on auto-reinvest dividends make sure to click that, & make sure you select "Market Order" so you get filled in immediately then click "order". Always invest the maximum of 6K into your Roth IRA and invest as much as you can into your brokerage account. Every 3 months re-invest your capital gains on both accounts. You can see how much your projected to earn in the future. Search up "compounding calculator" put in how much you’re going to be investing per month, how long, and at a 10% average rate of return. I hope this helps, comment and like. :) Educationby pastworksUpdated 3318
VOO analysis 📊 finally breaking this strong trend resistance, look for a rally to 412.97-420.19 now !Longby Vibranium_Capital4423
Market correction after first analysisinflation, commodity price increase and political instability are leading to a market edging towards correction, recession, and maybe even depression territories. Once it breaks below 382 and it declines further I believe we will see a drop up to around 357.Shortby RampageRamone0
Uptrend broke into downwardsUptrends for VOO has broken downwards and will continue downward as it has been unable to break the resistance further and fell lower than supportShortby RampageRamone0
VOO 1:2 risk to reward ratio, stop loss must be placedThis is a very good bonce. Will it be a dead cat or an alive caT? Longby ForexTradingSchoolUpdated 662
Hi tylerwitucki please see chartentry was based on analysis and not based on nothing. we have demand zone, resistance zone and 50ma. 3 signalLongby ForexTradingSchool0
:(It's not looking good, I lost a lot of money and I'm sad :( Who knows what will happen next but my prediction is that VOO will go either up down or sideways.by EERIK111
Never time The Market, right?When it comes to your long term portfolio, please Dollar Cost Average into the S&P 500. Which I will explain how to in detail in my next post. However today I just want to show a small swing trading strategy theory I will try for fun. The reason I prefer the idea of swing trading is because it requires you to set your candle sticks to 4h,1d, or sometimes even 1 week. This is good because the more time range each candle stick has the more significance a simple trading pattern will have. In other words trend lines (support/resistance) will be respected. Its very difficult to trade with the market average unless you have a significant amount of capital, and even then your better off on other investments/trades. That's what got my head on option trading; this is a high risk and high reward form of trading. You either lose it all or you make a big return (rough explanation). All this being said that's why I think the S&P 500 is the perfect environment for option trading. I believe if you call/put when the candle hits the trend line you will almost always win; and for breakouts you can wait for the re-bounce. Please let me know what you think! by pastworks1
ETFs and rising concerns (TL;DR at end)ETFs are by far the most popular form of investment, regardless of whether you are a parent saving up for your child's college or you're a multi-millionaire/billionaire banker, a good portion of your investments will be in exchange traded funds, regardless of whether that fund is for commodities, industries or indexes. Since their first implementation in the 1990s, they've have grown rapidly as seen in the thumbnail of this idea ( AMEX:VOO ). In the words of Mr. Buffett himself, there is only one problem with index funds: "they're boring". You can't stand with your friends on the weekend at the barbecue and talk about all the trades you've made in response to crazy market action because you've got some fund manager who just holds the stock of everybody worth holding (in theory). All you do is put more money into it, or take money out of it. However, recently I came to the realisation (like many other investors), they're becoming ludicrously priced. Not just the individual price but the overall market cap with companies like Blackrock and Vanguard holding quite conceivably hundreds of billions if not trillions of dollars within ETFs. Now there are concerns regarding a potential crash in the ETF market or at least the funds that trade through indeces. As far as the cause of such crash, I wouldn't dare attempt to make some degree of educated guess as anything could happen. One may consider me rather cynical when it comes to this topic but I'm sure I'm not the only person who has a problem with losing money. Now there is absolutely nothing one can do about a crash but there are other solutions to minimise losses especially in a market that is trading so dangerously high. I would personally (assuming I had the financial capacity) take out around 60-75% of my overall investments in ETFs and transfer them to AAA rated state issued bonds or simply reinvest the money in stocks I already hold. Then I would continue my regular dollar cost averaging approach to investment in ETFs (or whatever the frequency is that you add money to such funds) until such a crash may occur. At a given point, (depending on the fund and how severe the crash is) I would increase the frequency and amount of money I add to such funds as the price drop should cause them to appear very attractive. Understandably, many people will disagree with this approach as you are still setting yourself up to lose money (unless you remove all your money from the funds, while you still could potentially continue earning. This results in the investor being left in some sort of dilemma. Although this is another discussion for another day) and "past performance is no indicator of future results" but this is the approach I would take. As usual, other opinions, facts, news and comments are always welcome so comment away and stay safe! TL;DR: ETFs are trading very high in price (dangerously) and a potential crash is luring (if you have a cynical outlook).* *See the last paragraph on what I would do, due to such a situation being upon us.by Michael_Axio2
Daily Chart out of UptrendI believe VOO (S&P500) is out of the Uptrend (Daily TF) it has maintained since the Feb 2020 Crash for the following reasons: 1. Broke ~1 year trend line (Yellow trend line) 2. Broke under previous HL on Daily (orange region ~$401) 3. Failed to make HH on Daily (above green region ~$417), 4. Failed to make it back into uptrend channel 5. Rejected by 50MA and consolidating/moving under Price action could go up to retest the trendline, but my guess is we are in distribution stage now unless we can break about $417. Further confirmation of loss of uptrend seen by printing of Lower highs (below $417 and $408 levels) on the daily chart. We have the 200MA as support, currently at ~$380. It's also possible that price action is about to break neckline of Head and Shoulders pattern (on Daily). Short term bulls and buy the dip people, I'd like to hear your ideas.Shortby afran0202
Crash?With the worries of the FOMC, inflation, supply chain many have marked this as the dooms day event. I'm here to list the reality of this thesis. Enjoyby mainvayne117
Will it keeps pushing higher until the end of the month ?From a 15 min timeframe perspective. Kind of bullish to me for the next week. We'll still need to validate that new support line as a rock solid one. We still need to be carfull of the gaps that popped at the beggining of the April run. Thanks for you support and feel free to comment your ideas.Longby MSAthegr80
S&P 500 trend lines and ending patternsJust something I noticed today. Drew up what look like to be the key trend lines for the rallies over the last few years. I also noticed that each rally had a similar wave pattern throughout the middle (12345), a long almost pull back free middle, and then a WXZ with 1.5 fib ext at the end. Now, it is still too early to know if that pattern will hold now, but this down week does lend some credence to the idea. Note that this in on the Vanguard S&P ETF, so the numbers are not perfectly aligned with the SPX or SPY. 2018 2019 2020 2021 at 4h Hope it helps.by Dr_Roboto9
384 is the end of the gamewe could have a strong negative divergence. is it the sign of a slide in the stock market?Shortby HarmonicPitchforks222
$VOO SHOWING WEAKNESSAfter a nice bull run, some were taking profits today. We started the day with heavy selling, some shares were bought back later in the day. The market hit the resistance and we might see some weakness until friday. Or a rebound ! Who knows :') Happy trading.by faresalouf1
VOO Daily - BUY THE DIP KIDS$VOo -LOOK AT THIS CHART. WOULD YOU JUST LOOK AT IT! Im posting VOO because it is one of my favorite long term investment holds. Every portfolio should have some Vanguard funds in it, and especially should have the VOO . But look at this. Look at the dip and rip from March 2020. Its now up almost 80%. And it will be up 80% soon. Don't freak out because of a dip. Buy when others are scared. Sell when others are greedy.Longby BradWeber82338
S&P 500 Wave Count - End of Wave 3?Waves based on fib levels. I am assuming that we are in a Wave 3 showing an impulse with extension. Could push from 1.618 to the 1.7 level to end wave 3. I hope that we will see a correction for wave 4, but wave 4's are usually less then 38.2%. If so then we still have a solid wave 5 to go. Guessing at a standard 2.0 extension to wave 5. I also see a clear channel that if you center the mid-line it nicely aligns with the 2.0 fib level. Waves are more art than science, so take it with a grain of salt. Major fib and waves Close up by Dr_RobotoUpdated 5