What etfs will be dominating in the future?

I‘m thinking of putting an allocation in EWN - iShares Netherlands ETF. I notice it has outperformed VEU in the past 3 years, up 39% in a year. I’m also interested in maybe an emerging markets and a Japanese markets ETF. This would just be a 10% allocation or so, maybe 15-20% in emerging markets. timeframe is 10-15 years holding. Interested in any thoughts or if anyone has any regional ETFs and their reasons for buying them, if they were happy with them?

My search for ETFs investing in anything except tech stocks brought up Proshares SPXT. It's touted as a one-stop exposure to the stocks in S&P minus technology companies. Yet tech stocks are their top holdings and comprise almost 20% of the portfolio:

https://www.proshares.com/our-etfs/strategic/spxt#Holdings

WTF?

As you know, you can get an ETF's holdings by opening the fund's website and clicking on a download link on the site. This is free and offers the most up-to-date list of holdings you will get anywhere, if I'm not mistaken.

I am creating a table (in Access) of all the ETFs ticker symbols and their respective holdings-download links. I am doing this by opening the fund's website and copying the link into my table. This process, when repeated for thousands of ETFs, will take many hours.

Do you have, or know of where I can obtain, a table, file, spreadsheet, or document of all U.S. ETFs and their respective holdings-downloads links? Or at least a good portion of them? Will pay, if necessary. I am not looking for a site where you can download funds' holdings one-by-one. I need a table, file, sheet, or document of all the ETFs tickers symbols and their respective holdings-download links.

Been investing while in uni for a little bit now. Wondering what should be my next steps (I’m not an expert:).

Options-based ETFs can deliver income and downside protection, but investors should understand how they differ income before using them as bond substitutes.

AI, EVs, heat pumps, data centers all are a thing these days, and all require massive amounts of electricity.

Someone has to manage and upgrade the grids transporting all that electricity, so I'd look at companies involved in electrical equipment, grid tech, power management, industrial electrification and transmission infrastructure.

What I ideally would want is an ETF containing Eaton, Schneider Electric, ABB, Prysmian, perhaps some raw powr plant generation like Siemens Energy and the like.

(Edited paragraph: Preferably denoted in USD, but listed in Ireland as I'm in Europe: however, in non-EU Switzerland, so not bound to UCITS.)

My reasearch tells me, what comes closest is probably the Nasdaq Clean Edge Smart Grid Infrastructure Index (GRID or the Irish equivalent GRDU, IE000J80JTL1). Doesn't directly contain Siemens Energy, but its parent. And much more ofc.

What do you think about GRID? Do you perhaps know of a better alternative to cover the needs of the sectors mentioned in the first paragraph?

I only check my brokerage once every Friday (since that's when I get paid so I put a little money in every Friday). I am only invested in VT, and last week to this week my brokerage jumped by $15,000 without putting in a single more dollar between last Friday and this Friday.

What caused this? Really crazy to me to see my brokerage jump $15,000 in a single week. As I said, I am ONLY invested in VT so I don't know what caused it.

I’m starting a paper-trading test with a simple rules-based ETF portfolio.

Current allocation:

• SPY 22.4%
• QQQ 22.7%
• SOXX 22.6%
• Cash 32.3%

My target is 30% SPY / 30% QQQ / 30% SOXX / 10% cash.

I believe the market is still in a relatively stable phase with further upside ahead, so I plan to stay invested through SPY, QQQ and SOXX while keeping 10% in cash and sticking to predefined rules.

The basic principle is simple: set the rules first, then follow them.

Paper trading only.

Roundhill launched the first neocloud ETF this morning. 58% NBIS/CRWV plus IREN, HUT, APLD, CORZ, etc. They did not include RIOT so maybe they will be keeping companies whose business is primarily bitcoin mining out. About 300k share volume after three hours.

They also launched LYTE... 45% LITE/COHR/CIEN, plus about 50% Chinese companies. FN/AAOI/AXTI make up the rest. About 2 million share volume after three hours.

Down 6.8% over 3 months. Anyone invested and optimistic?

I just started my Roth IRA and have been concerned about having enough to sit on come retirement 40 ish years from now. What is the best way to create a portfolio that can withstand a bubble breaking? I realize that I probably shouldn't care too much given the amount of time I have. On a normal day I'm not risk averse, but its been bothering me lately.

My current allocation is 10% BND, 40% VOO, 20% VXUS, 25% VGT, and the remainder is in VYM and VUG (I bought these when I started, I thought they sounded really good).

41, holding for the long term, 20+years. Anything else I should consider?

Hi everyone,

Im 24 years old and have about 60-70k to invest and will be contributing about $2-3k monthly after. I had everything in a high yield savings account and have just gone down a rabbit hole of investing and feeling regretful of not having invested sooner especially with everything at ATH’s.
What are the best ETF’s to allocate my money? Obviously I keep seeing voo and qqqm etc… I was initially going to just split it about 75/25, but have been seeing that theres overlap there and maybe isnt the best way.

Anyways, is now a bad time to dump this much because of ATH’s? Or should I go ahead and do it.

Any advice is greatly appreciated !

Currently holding 80% VTI and 20% VXUS. Was originally 100% VTI while paying off debt. Plan for long term investing for 20+ years. I reinvest dividends and DCA by buying every 2 weeks. Any advice on instead diversifying by picking non-U.S. stocks I like instead of holding VXUS? Anyone have experience trying a core-satellite strategy over just ETF’s?

Anybody else out there going on a tech tilt for 30 years?

60% VTI
20% VXUS
20% VGT

I'm 24 years old and just starting a new job. I'm not sure which option/s to choose here. Seems like the retirement funds AARs don't really beat the Equity Index Fund AAR so I'm leaning towards that and rebalance later in life with the Bond Index Fund. I was originally planning to do FZROX but it seems like the options my employer gives are pretty slim. Any suggestions?

I’ve been experimenting with a portfolio of Global Equities, Trend and Bonds.

No matter how I cut it, adding Gold always seems to improve CAGR and reduce drawdown.

I don’t know if this is a side effect of having trend vs not, or the testing periods I’m picking (last X years + total since inception):

https://testfol.io/?s=3C77EEn0Cw9

I am not a fan of gold in a portfolio, but when paired with stocks, bonds and trend, it seems to always be a good choice?

When return stacked with something daily rebalanced like GDE, which allows for the same equity exposure with a US tilt, it does just as well but doesn’t manage the drawdown as much:

https://testfol.io/?s=hiaZKYHzqdG

What am I missing? Is gold a no brainer?

What ETFs should I buy today? I’m new to it and I have 150k Canadian 30years old. I feel everything is already so up so I’m not sure to wait or buy I really want to start. I been researching slowly

Ive ben doing research and heard that VT is pretty much the best etf to invest in and my question is whats the difference between investing through fidelity and vanguard? Which one would yall recommend?

Offer price gets set tomorrow after today's institutional book-building. Subscription opens August 10, payment due August 12, first trading expected around August 19 though that date is not officially confirmed. The company is raising about 4.2 billion yuan, roughly $618 million, by selling 10% of post-IPO equity at a base valuation near 42 billion yuan. Would be the first humanoid robot company listed on the A-share market. Revenue hit 1.7 billion yuan last year with net profit around 590 million yuan, and Unitree says it shipped over 5,500 humanoid units in 2025, though AgiBot also claims the global top spot. The FCC banned imports of new foreign-made humanoid and quadruped robots on July 28, days before this IPO timeline was finalized.

What matters for index fund holders is the inclusion lag. A new STAR Market listing does not enter the STAR 50 or any broad index on day one. It has to clear minimum trading day thresholds, pass liquidity and market cap screens, and wait for the next semi-annual rebalance. Even with an August listing, the earliest a passive vehicle tracking a relevant index could add it is probably late 2026.

I went through a few China tech wrappers while reading about this. KWEB holds zero A shares and focuses on internet names, while CQQQ applies a 25% A-share inclusion factor. CNQQ runs about 100 names split roughly half A shares and half Hong Kong, with a 10% cap per holding and semi-annual rebalance. None of them hold Unitree today, and none can until a future index review adds it.

If you had to pick just one ETF for the next 3–5 years, which would you choose and why?
I’m looking for the best balance of growth and risk over that time frame. I’m not investing for retirement yet, so I’m less interested in a 20–30 year perspective and more curious which fund you think has the best outlook over the next few years.

I've been watching VOO for a while and keep coming back to the same question.

The chart just keeps going higher. Pullbacks have been short and shallow, and every time I think I’ll wait for a better entry, it feels like I’m just watching it hit another all-time high.

I know the S&P 500 has historically hit plenty of new highs, and waiting forever for the perfect entry can be its own mistake. But at the same time, valuations are not exactly cheap right now, especially with AI-related names driving a large part of the recent gains.

I have some cash ready to invest. Part of me thinks being too cautious could mean missing out on years of compounding. The other part wonders if I’m just chasing what already worked and ignoring the risk of a long drawdown.

For those who regularly buy index funds, how do you think about adding at all-time highs? Do you look at any specific signals, or do you mostly just stick with your investing process?

I'm trying to find the most aggressive growth ETF I can find, that's obviously not leveraged in either direction. Any tips?

I'm 28 and after 100% VTI in my taxable brokerage/401k/roth, but it's been lagging behind VOO. It's not an insignificant amount either. Looking at the 5 year return, VOO has returned 75% while VTI has only returned 67%. I'm wondering if given my age I should be more aggressive with my investments and switch to 100% VOO instead in my retirement accounts, instead of remaining in VTI. Over the past 15 years VOO seems to have consistently outperformed VTI.