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Re:Robinhood Is Set to Raise at Least $200 Million in New Fu... by sigstoat on Friday May 24, 2019 @10:18PM (#20006724)
> I have around 54k in there and am up 16.05%

and where would you be if you'd just stuffed all your original cash into VTI and not fiddled with things?

Re:Robinhood Is Set to Raise at Least $200 Million in New Fu... by n-exploit on Friday May 24, 2019 @10:44PM (#20006795)
15.52, according to Yahoo.
Re:Robinhood Is Set to Raise at Least $200 Million in New Fu... by ericd on Friday May 24, 2019 @11:12PM (#20006892)
Does that include the dividend yield? (~1.8% iirc)
Re:Robinhood Is Set to Raise at Least $200 Million in New Fu... by rburhum on Friday May 24, 2019 @11:18PM (#20006908)
It does not. Otherwise it would be higher.
Re:Robinhood Is Set to Raise at Least $200 Million in New Fu... by rburhum on Saturday May 25, 2019 @05:45AM (#20008029)
Oh, and I forgot that includes my mess ups of the first three months when I was learning. Otherwise I would be outperforming an ETF of the SP500 by 3% without doing much work.
Re:Robinhood Is Set to Raise at Least $200 Million in New Fu... by Traster on Saturday May 25, 2019 @06:54AM (#20008270)
You've got to think about more than just whether you're beating the S&P500 ETF at any given time. The point of the S&P 500 is that when a recession comes you're protected. The point is that the S&P500 is a diverse portfolio of companies so that whilst it will be affected by a recession you aren't going to be over-exposed to the companies that are hit the worst. I suspect it's quite difficult for you to reproduce that kind of diversity in your portfolio manually. It's also very difficult for you to put a value on that risk - you've outperformed by a couple percentage points. But you're probably overexposed to some extent, those two things have value - but there's a reason why hedge funds spend millions of quants and still lose out to the market in the long run.