The Investment Thread (stocks, bonds, real estate, retirement, just not gold)

[LFA20]

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Damn. Stock market took a dump today. I probably lost $50 k today

whats your positions now? Are you just gonna continue to hold and not realize anything?

Past few weeks my remaining gains were erased a bit as I sold my QQQ. Now I am only sitting on 25k of unrealized gains.

I started new positions a few days ago in META, GOOGL, AMZN.

 

[bluc]

whats your positions now? Are you just gonna continue to hold and not realize anything?

Past few weeks my remaining gains were erased a bit as I sold my QQQ. Now I am only sitting on 25k of unrealized gains.

I started new positions a few days ago in META, GOOGL, AMZN. View attachment 411983

I hate to say it but I have been indecisive. I have been holding as the market keeps on going down and down. I can sell but then what? I have no plans as everything is expensive. I do not want to be cash heavy.

Investors are just cashing in their gains. We had a massive bull run so I wouldn’t be surprised if the market continues to struggle. Is the Fed going to decrease rates when inflation continues to be abnormally high? This is just a weird market.

 

[bluc]

 

[Splenda88]

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Percentage returns

 

[bluc]

No % for YTD. Probably in the 20s. BABA outperformed while small caps lagged.

 

[LFA20]

Percentage returns

 

[RxPreceptor]

YTD, I’m 24-27% return on retirement accounts and 14% return on dividend based brokerage account…despite making huge reset switching/streamlining to 1 investing platform and playing around too much, trying to figure out how I want to build my dividend based brokerage account. Looking to be waaay more intentional for 2026

Yeah, looking back, I’d attribute my gains to intentional allocations towards international funds (usually ~30-40% international across all accounts)

 

[bluc]

How did you do this year? I am up about $200 k including HSA. What is your 2026 S&P prediction?

 

[Splenda88]

How did you do this year? I am up about $200 k including HSA. What is your 2026 S&P prediction?

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~200k .

Hoping for at least 300k net year.

 

[bluc]

Tax bomb is backkk

Student loan forgiveness is taxable again: Plan for the 'tax bomb,' CFP says
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/01/stu...are|com.apple.UIKit.activity.CopyToPasteboard

 

[RxPreceptor]

Tax bomb is backkk

Student loan forgiveness is taxable again: Plan for the 'tax bomb,' CFP says
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/01/student-loan-forgiveness-taxes.html?__source=iosappshare|com.apple.UIKit.activity.CopyToPasteboard

Actions have consequences…sweet, sweet accountability

 

[sunnyandseventytwo]

$12 k on first day. I wish this was the norm. I am more in the cautious side this year

bluc, the four people on this forum don't care. Try reddit. Except: nobody cares.

 

[Rouelle]

Silver has definitely skyrocketed over the last few months.

 

[RxPreceptor]

2026 prediction….hmmm, I’ll say REITs will slowly start becoming more valued, attractive investments