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I’m looking to build a position in SMH. I love the long-term growth potential, but the volatility is a roller coaster right now. I know I am a bit late to the ETF but still think it could be a long play as semis aren't going anywhere and I don't think the price is baked in due to higher risk. Since this stock is so volatile, at this 'late in the game', do you think it's smart to lump-sum buy the dips or just DCA and close my eyes to the volatility?
Given the massive swings, does a strict monthly/weekly DCA make more sense here than a broad market fund like VOO?
Just want to hear some thoughts or consensus on strategy. Thanks!

Please, stop using these abbreviations like VOO or SPYL. This is investing for beginners. Nobody remembers what they mean

But overall I like your combo, depending on how old you are / what kind of account your using (brokerage/retirement) it might be worth dropping SCHD. I have it in my retirement counts a bit but I'm mainly just letting it DRIP, any new investments are going into growth or VOO. And yes SCHD has done well over the last year (beating the S&P) but simply go back 3/4/5 years and it's trailing.

You can use [turtto.com](https://turtto.com/?tickers=VOO%2CSCHG%2CSCHD%2CAVUV&timeframe=1yr&graphType=adjclose&alloc=40%2C30%2C15%2C15&allocMode=percent) to view overlap among multiple ETFs. You can even set the % you have allocated in each to see how much you would have within individual holdings.
Here's the overlap table for those 4
https://preview.redd.it/35c2v8qauqih1.png?width=1268&format=png&auto=webp&s=a7fd5cdee7e7ae75081c0ad707f34f0420659468

AVUV is a great fund. Used by many of the “rational” investors (Carlson, Felix).
Your 30% SCHG is mostly an overweight of a subset you already own through the 40% VOO.
Drop SCHD entirely.
Add AVNM. Gives you international value and a large dividend if you think you need it.
Look into AVLV. Would be a good addition and I think you’d like it. Avantis does great work.

800k in real estate only generating 3% per year in rent? Is that profit or revenue?
It’s difficult to get a grasp of your situation from reading this … if you sold your real estate portfolio and put everything into VOO then yes you would certainly outperform your real estate holdings but I get the feeling there is more to your financial picture than what is represented in this Reddit post.

Wast of balancing between all of these. Just buy VOO or VT.
Oh by the way, the value tilt is actually worth it though. maybe do 85% VOO + 15% value

There isn't going to be much difference between your VOO/SCHG/SCHD and just holding VOO. It all depends on how you rebalance this. I wouldn't bother splitting it out like this, especially if it is in a taxable account.

My current set up is:
1. VOO 40% large cap US/s&p
2. SCHG 30% growth/large cap/Dow
3. SCHD 15% dividends/value/quality
4. AVUV 15% small cap/value

The answer depends on the account type. In a tax advanced account, the mutual fund FXAIX has the edge. In a taxable brokerage the ETF VOO even with the slightly higher fee has the advantage. Mutual funds during large market declines and mass sell offs can trigger forced capitals gains making them slightly less tax efficient. This doesn’t matter inside of an Ira or 401k though.

If your horizon is 20+ years, I’d buy back into SPYL now rather than wait for a crash you can’t reliably predict.
You already decided to switch from VOO to SPYL for structural reasons, so I wouldn’t turn that into a market-timing decision. The AI bubble could burst, but nobody knows when or whether it will.
If investing everything at once feels uncomfortable, DCA over a few months is a reasonable compromise. Just avoid sitting in cash for years waiting for the “perfect” crash.
Time in the market > trying to time the market. I’d rather stick to the long term plan and stop watching the headlines. You can also check my profile for more investing discussions/resources.

I have some stock but stocks in China are under the reach of a CCP and its Chairman who is not trump and they doesn't do much for stock prices. Not that they should, but their goal in regulating and subsidizing is capacity, not profit and it shows in Chinese car and share prices.
Buy VOO or Webn etf and enjoy low costs and world share growth without headaches making choices. Then deepen understanding and may be late deviate from etf strategy.

solid mix, honestly. you clearly did more homework than most 28 year olds who post here, so I'd just ignore the VT-slave snark completely.
the redundancy take is wrong. SPMO is momentum, AVUV is small value, and they barely overlap VTI, so you're genuinely stacking 2 real factor tilts rather than paying to own the same market twice over.
the way I see it the real question is behavioral. can you sit through the long multi-year stretches where those tilts lag plain VOO, watching your own portfolio lose to the boring benchmark while everyone tells you they told you so? small value did basically nothing for most of the 2010s. tons of people bailed right before it turned. if you can hold, I think this pays off. if you'd cave, I'd just keep it simple.

It’s all irrelevant if you just VOO and chill

Why did you sell your VOO? Is the value more than $60k already?

In terms of tracking, I had Claude build me a tracking spreadsheet that also calculated my CAGR. I also have a Morningstar subscription that I can use to research ETFs. This can help you look at the total return of VOO (S&P 500 Index fund) over time. Surely you can also get this in places other than Morningstar, too.
I should also say that I limit my individual stocks to \~10% of my portfolio. Mostly bc it is tough to consistency beat the market over time. I have the vast majority of my money in my 401k and ETFs.
My ETF portfolio is about 40% VOO (S&P 500 Index fund) and various other ETFs (especially Avantis ETFs) to achieve the right allocation between U.S. vs international, small/mid/large caps, etc.
I would also try using ChatGPT or Claude to help estimate whether it’s worth selling with the tax implications. AI is good at things like that, but also helpful to pay $20 so you can use the better models. And, yes, taxes are an issue, particularly for individual stocks. This is partly why I stick mostly to ETFs. More tax efficient.

The thing I'd want to sit with is the overlap if you go VGT. VOO is already a lot of the same mega-cap tech names that VGT holds, so what you're really adding with a third in VGT is more of that same exposure rather than something new.

VXUS is a different argument. It's cheaper, broader, and it deliberately leans away from the US, which is the one thing VOO can't give you. The concern about slow growth is fair, but a satellite is supposed to look and feel different from the core, and "the whole world except North America" is about as different as you can get from VOO.

The question I'd ask myself is whether doubling up on US tech actually fits the reason for splitting this into thirds in the first place. If the goal is to balance the account rather than lean it further into one theme, VXUS is the more honest second sleeve.

I'd probably take VXUS and let VOO do the US growth work on its own, but the honest answer depends on whether you want diversification or a deliberate tilt.

I recently sold off all the VOO that I had with the intention of putting them back into SPYL because my dumbass isn't based in the US so I should have been buying the latter in the first place.
My primary purpose in buying SP500 is to hold for the long term anyway (think 20 years or longer) so logically speaking, I should just put everything back into SPYL and not think about it.
Alternatively, if many are thinking that the US market will correct downwards in the near term (think within the next 3 years) due to the AI bubble bursting, does it make sense for me to park the money in a FD/high interest saving account and then buy SP500 again after the crash?
Or am I overthinking this and I should just buy it now?

First of all; id recommend reading listening and reading this why the first 100k is the most important milestone.
https://www.thepersonalfinancepodcast.com/videos/why-the-first-100k-is-the-most-important-financial-milestone/
After 100k I’d recommend you put the money into VOO or VT, and broadly diversified index fund.

How when it’s beaten VOO for example for the last 10 years by quite some margin