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Ask HN: What's your advanced investing advice?
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Ask HN: What's your advanced investing advice?
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Ride the indexes (or target retirement funds)
The only people who have consistently "beat the market" ended up in prison for running Ponzi schemes
ride the indexes if you want to get rich, if you want to get wealthy absolutely not. no wealthy person is index investor. the number 1 rule of investing is that you should know what you are investing in and no one sane knows everything about all the companies in a given index fund. so while conventional wisdom is ride the indexes, if you care about your money and are willing to put the necessary time in for research index funds should be the last thing you invest in.
This works, only after you have enough money to be able to spend all the time on that research. So, until debt free & net-worth $5M USD: low fee indexes.
3 months ago
I would agree except there is a lot of time most people waste that could be put to better use. yeeears ago I freed up about 4hrs/day but removing all social media apps from my phone and logging off for good. spending 60-90 per day is something most people should be able to allocate by cutting that same time from infinitely less important things than your investments
3 months ago
Survivorship bias
3 months ago
There is. Learn to dance - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiAwpYIkRmU
3 months ago
Look at what money managers do for HNWI. Less about beating the market and more about preserving assets no matter the situation.
Gold is beating the S&P YTD by 3x.
Venture capital or angel investing may also interest you if you’re accredited and like supporting startups.
3 months ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-how-to-invest-now/ | https://archive.today/bN7z1
(the expense ratio for the international equities index they mention, MSCI ACWI, is much higher than VXUS for similar exposure; not investing advice)