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by roland35 1384 days ago
Be sure to check your employer rules before doing this! It is probably against the rules to short or trade derivatives of your company stocks as an employee. At least at my employer this also applies to any fund containing >10% of our stock too.

A safer approach would be to just purchase a fund which excludes tech. Personally I'm too lazy to do this and just have a total market fund :)

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Another thing to keep in mind is that post-2018, a lot of tech companies got categorized as different sectors in the S&P 500. So you'd need an index fund that is ex-tech and/or ex-communications. I've looked around a bit and the fees for these types of funds seem much higher, so like you I just stick with the generic total market fund.