ETFs are generally in a much more narrow market segment, so probably
involve a bit more risk. However, they are less risky than individual
stocks. ETFs are probably lower cost, but not by a lot.
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On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 2:37 PM Sam Lambie <[email protected]> wrote:
> Whats the difference in risk factor between ETF's and Index funds? What
> would you choose?
>
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 2:13 PM Bill Prince <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Playing the stock market is tough for the experts because they don't
>> really know what's happening. You can take their advice, and just be one
>> more step behind them. Buying indexes gives you the collective wisdom of
>> the entire market (whichever one the index tracks). Most of us do not have
>> them time or patience or resources or luck to be successful trading
>> individual stocks.
>>
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>> On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 12:57 PM John Osmon <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 09:37:09AM -0600, Lewis Bergman wrote:
>>> > Indexes do well. You get the benefit of a pretty well managed fund but
>>> > without the high costs. All those indexes add and remove stocks
>>> regularly
>>> > which keeps their performance generrally marching upward.
>>>
>>> Yep. If you get into the math of portfolio management it becomes pretty
>>> obvious that a random smattering of diverse stocks performs (on average)
>>> at least as good as the market as a whole. While picking stocks has
>>> higher volatility -- and thus more risk/reward.
>>>
>>> If you want to pick stocks rather based on something other than an
>>> index, you need to be lucky, or have information few others have.
>>>
>>> To bring it back into networking, look up some of the HFT folks (Anton
>>> Kapella here?). Geting a few millisecond advantage of information can
>>> sometimes *BE* that "information few others have" and thus can
>>> make/break transactions.
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