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by zitterbewegung 1251 days ago
What is your suggestion to do instead? Owning a non index fund will have a fee of at least 1% Putting it under your mattress makes you lose from inflation. I'm not sure doing 60 / 40 stocks and bonds could be another solution.
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Think about your investments intelligently instead of looking for a guaranteed sinecure.
Do not do that. Thinking about investments violates like four of the rules.

https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Bogleheads®_investment_philo...

The purpose of financial advisors is to stop people from thinking; if you just stop thinking on your own you'll never need one.

I could hardly imagine a dumber thing to say but you do you buddy.
Enjoy performing worse after fees than just buying VTSAX then.
Day trading?