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Any fund that starts with ARK is a hard avoid

Been there done that. Was big into all the ARK funds back in its hay day. Dropped like a ton of bricks, kept holding, finally sold. Then I learnt how to invest. Read some books. Now doing much better and making gains. No more Ark funds for me. She buys and sells every week with no rhyme or reason. Buy high sell low. That's the way I remember it. If I want to "have fun", I go to a casino and gamble there. No more for me. I buy based on fundamentals AND momentums or just fundamentals.

I stay away from ARK funds they sounds great and they should be but they seem to never perform better than other ETFs that are similar in methodology. This one does seem interesting and thanks for sharing!

Hi friend, I really like the narration on ARK ETF series. But, if you really go deep dive into the companies that ARK holds, these companies do not support their narration and most of their thesis imho. I believed in ARK series once during ARK mania bubble, and I learned my lesson.

Love the enthusiasm and honestly that's the right way to hold something like this, 5% sleeve, eyes open on the volatility.
honest take: ARKG is a fine "fun money" position but I'd be careful calling it financially sound in the index fund sense. The 0.75% fee is steep, and the bigger issue is the strategy itself. ARK piles into highmultiple unprofitable growth,so it rips in easy-money years and gets cut in half when rates bite, that 5yr number you mentioned is the whole story. You're basically making a bet on biotech AND on Cathie's timing, which is two bets.
If the genomics thesis is what excites you, worth peeking at the cheaper plays too. Something like a broad biotech (IBB/XBI) gets you the sector at a fraction of the cost, and XBI is equal-weight so it's less mega-cap top heavy. Less thrilling, but if a few of these names actually deliver, the whole sector lifts.
Other thematic stuff people get excited about: nuclear/power (the AI buildout angle), defense, robotics/automation. All carry the same "cool story, watch the fees and concentration" caveat though.
Not advice, just how I'd think about it. Keeping it at 5% mean even if it goes nowhere you're fine, so no harm scratching the itch.

Hi everyone, I know the title is a little overkill but I just wanted to post about an ETF I'm especially interested in (even more so then the VOO VXUS combo).
ARKG (ARK Genomic Revolution ETF) is one of Cathie Woods ARK funds, focusing on long-term disruptive biotech ie: Crispr, gene editing, molecular diagnostics. I am a big believer that there is huge upside potential in human-life improving technologies and drugs and I think that it starts here. Now obviously this is a more fun investment and makes up about 5% of my profile but there is a ton of volatility to be clear. Up 33% ytd and down 15% annualized 5 year with the 2021 growth equity crash. It also has a relatively high expense ratio at .75%.
For me it is worth the cost because it scratches the itch of investing in something interesting to me, but I'm curious if people see it as a financially sound investment or if there are other thematic investments to be more excited about?

"Her ARK Invest firm purchased shares of Amazon, Alphabet and Tesla. Wood also loaded up on Palantir and CoreWeave, as well as recently IPO'd chipmaker Cerebras Systems ahead of its quarterly report." LMAO

If you didn't say ARK, I would thought this is some degen's porfolio from r/Wallstreetbets

SpaceX IPO being a separate company means it won't automatically lift TSLA just because Musk runs both. ARK holding both is a bet on Musk's ecosystem broadly, but your thesis for each stock needs to stand on its own.

You following ARK? You know the story of that fund?
That being said, ARK might be just the level of crazy you need in this market...

I wouldn’t be surprised if Elon wanted to merge the two. That would require SpaceX to be worth more than Tesla for him to have absolute voting control of the combined entity.
Tesla down, SpaceX up.
Unless… Robo-optimus+storage+chips happens and Space-compute doesn’t. Then it would be
Tesla up, SpaceX down…
No one knows, but much is definitely priced in and ARK has no authority.

Tesla is down around 25% from ATH this year, and SpaceX IPO is release last few weeks. currently ARK still hold around 1.6m shares(around10%of their fund) and 1.7m shares of SpaceX.
What you all think about the price movement of Tesla after this, is SpaceX IPO will affect their price movement since their are both under Elon. Currently im still holding Tesla and still keep on eye on SpaceX
You all will prefer to invest Tesla or SpaceX or both together, need advice on this

Tesla is down around 25% from ATH this year, and SpaceX IPO is release last few weeks. currently ARK still hold around 10% with around 1.6m shares and 1.7m shares of SpaceX.
What you all think about the price movement of Tesla after this, is SpaceX IPO will affect their price movement since their are both under Elon. Currently im still holding Tesla and still keep on eye on SpaceX
You all will prefer to invest Tesla or SpaceX or both together, need advice on this🤔

Any fund that starts with ARK is a hard avoid

Been there done that. Was big into all the ARK funds back in its hay day. Dropped like a ton of bricks, kept holding, finally sold. Then I learnt how to invest. Read some books. Now doing much better and making gains. No more Ark funds for me. She buys and sells every week with no rhyme or reason. Buy high sell low. That's the way I remember it. If I want to "have fun", I go to a casino and gamble there. No more for me. I buy based on fundamentals AND momentums or just fundamentals.

I stay away from ARK funds they sounds great and they should be but they seem to never perform better than other ETFs that are similar in methodology. This one does seem interesting and thanks for sharing!

Hi friend, I really like the narration on ARK ETF series. But, if you really go deep dive into the companies that ARK holds, these companies do not support their narration and most of their thesis imho. I believed in ARK series once during ARK mania bubble, and I learned my lesson.

Love the enthusiasm and honestly that's the right way to hold something like this, 5% sleeve, eyes open on the volatility.
honest take: ARKG is a fine "fun money" position but I'd be careful calling it financially sound in the index fund sense. The 0.75% fee is steep, and the bigger issue is the strategy itself. ARK piles into highmultiple unprofitable growth,so it rips in easy-money years and gets cut in half when rates bite, that 5yr number you mentioned is the whole story. You're basically making a bet on biotech AND on Cathie's timing, which is two bets.
If the genomics thesis is what excites you, worth peeking at the cheaper plays too. Something like a broad biotech (IBB/XBI) gets you the sector at a fraction of the cost, and XBI is equal-weight so it's less mega-cap top heavy. Less thrilling, but if a few of these names actually deliver, the whole sector lifts.
Other thematic stuff people get excited about: nuclear/power (the AI buildout angle), defense, robotics/automation. All carry the same "cool story, watch the fees and concentration" caveat though.
Not advice, just how I'd think about it. Keeping it at 5% mean even if it goes nowhere you're fine, so no harm scratching the itch.

Hi everyone, I know the title is a little overkill but I just wanted to post about an ETF I'm especially interested in (even more so then the VOO VXUS combo).
ARKG (ARK Genomic Revolution ETF) is one of Cathie Woods ARK funds, focusing on long-term disruptive biotech ie: Crispr, gene editing, molecular diagnostics. I am a big believer that there is huge upside potential in human-life improving technologies and drugs and I think that it starts here. Now obviously this is a more fun investment and makes up about 5% of my profile but there is a ton of volatility to be clear. Up 33% ytd and down 15% annualized 5 year with the 2021 growth equity crash. It also has a relatively high expense ratio at .75%.
For me it is worth the cost because it scratches the itch of investing in something interesting to me, but I'm curious if people see it as a financially sound investment or if there are other thematic investments to be more excited about?

"Her ARK Invest firm purchased shares of Amazon, Alphabet and Tesla. Wood also loaded up on Palantir and CoreWeave, as well as recently IPO'd chipmaker Cerebras Systems ahead of its quarterly report." LMAO