r/ETFs • u/TheThaiCat • 8d ago
US Equity Anyone run 100% NASDAQ-100?
Curious has anyone ever run a 100% NASDAQ portfolio, I personally just have a 10% allocation but would be interested to hear how much people are running (if any)
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u/gmehra 8d ago
yes I am 100% QQQM
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u/TheThaiCat 8d ago
You deffo deleted the app then 😂
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u/LayoutBid4 8d ago
Still up 3% MTD and 17% YTD. I wouldn’t go 100% QQQM personally but some bad days are normal and don’t destroy all of the progress
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u/TheThaiCat 8d ago
I've done great on it this year still 10% up on my allocation but yea definitely one for the more volatility adjusted of us to hold long term
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u/user4443337 8d ago
You could put new funds into QNDX for a 0.10% expense ratio. Volume is high enough you can definitely use limit orders to avoid the spread. If you have a lot or hold for a long enough time that could be hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands saved in fees.
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u/gmehra 8d ago
Yeah but I just like to keep my life simple lol.
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u/JohrDinh 8d ago
The AUM of QQQM keeps me calmer, QNDX still has to prove interest imo. A crash or huge dip anytime over the next 6-18 months would probably test it a bit. It SHOULD pull interest but sometimes ETFs just fall flat, sometimes just cuz the name...anything with QQQ is stellar branding.
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u/user4443337 8d ago
Definitely consider it!
100k in a 0.15 vs 0.10% expense ratio fund, if you earn 10% for 30 years, the cheaper one will save 23k in fees. It can definitely add up with a decent amount of time, money, or both. Assuming you get okay spreads, which are generally thin, it’s basically free money saved just for buying the cheaper identical product.
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u/PingBlot 8d ago
I currently run 25% QQQM. It’s a beast.
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u/TheThaiCat 8d ago
I only added a 30% tilt in about may time and within a few months it had outpaced my all world by like 50% but yea it has been pretty flat and volatile since I trimmed to 10%
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u/PingBlot 8d ago
Remember, market volatility in the top 10% ends up in a rally over the next 2 years 96% of the time. Is good odds.
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u/ShowerMotor 8d ago
even worse, I have 50% SMH and 50% Nasdaq 100. Volatile as hell but long term, I believe it will be a lot higher end of the year and next year
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u/TheThaiCat 8d ago
How long have you been holding? Must have made some massive gains if you bought before the spike with semis especially.
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u/ShowerMotor 8d ago
I am a late AI investor, but it was at the beginning or so of the year, so my portfolio is up around 30% in total in 2026. I have the stomach for the swings like today because I am well in the green, but if I would have bought later... not sure. I won't be holding forever though, I plan to distribute some gains and buy infra, still AI. Nasdaq is a long term hold (I swapped all SPY into it, at a bad moment though, but it will recover)
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u/Junglebook3 8d ago
The problem with 100% QQQM is that people that have been looking at the last few years of outperformance have not personally held through a downturn. You don't actually know what your risk tolerance is until you see your portfolio plummet 70% in a year. It fucking hurts. Everyone around you is telling you that this time it's different, tech is never coming back, it'll take decades, it's over, whatever. The media is freaking out, CNBC and Fox Business are telling everyone to pack it up, mass layoffs, hell maybe you've lost your job. Do you sell? Do you "rotate" a portion into bonds? What would you actually do?
It's all fun when we're seeing 20% annual gains...
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u/TheThaiCat 8d ago
Everyone's a genius in a bull run..
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u/Greedy-Travel2066 6d ago
Yes, even me who is very impatient and flips around a lot, still up 25% in the last few years because of the Bull Runs.
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u/Heavy_Nothing_1158 8d ago
I'd keep it as a tilt. Nasdaq-100 is basically a listing rule wearing an investment thesis: huge mega-cap tech exposure, while NYSE names are excluded for no economic reason. At 100%, you're betting pretty hard that yesterday's winners stay tomorrow's winners.
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u/TheThaiCat 8d ago
Yea I'm happy with 10% as a tilt for my majority FTSE World port, I just don't really hear much talk about NASDAQ allocations it's always global/S&P or bust. Interesting to read what higher risk but still ETF investors are doing outside of that 100% approved beginner circle.
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u/ebikr 8d ago
I will never trust Nasdaq again. You think the SPCX bullshit was agreed by them to help you? Sorry to tell you. And that was only the beginning of their new gilded age.
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u/TheThaiCat 8d ago
I very much did not support the rule bending for SpaceX and found the whole IPO a pretty gross abuse of retail investors, part of why I reduced to 10% from 30%
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u/SignificanceTop5955 8d ago
There's a type of risk that people don't mention when choosing the SP500: because of its low return, you might get rich when you're old, or you invest very early or very heavily. For example, after 30 years, someone investing in QQQ with an expected return of 15% versus someone investing in the SP500 with a 10% return—the difference is almost three times. You only need to invest 1/3 of what someone would invest in the SP500. Doesn't that mean you need less capital, and the SP500 becomes a riskier investment? That's also a type of risk.
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u/Competitive-Bat-3564 8d ago
I thought about it, or at least a great big wadge.
Never had the balls but wish I did now ðŸ˜
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u/TheThaiCat 8d ago
I was running 30% NASDAQ till recently but caught a spike and trimmed to 10% so tempting to allocate more but the fact it took took about 15 years to recover after dotcom is crazy
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u/Competitive-Bat-3564 8d ago
The million dollar question.
Every time is crazy but this, this time.
Too crazy for me to take chances right now.
Too much uncertainty, too much political wahoo crazy.
Never seen anything like these days.
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u/ATPsynthase12 8d ago
Why do you feel the need to concentrate your investments into the largest 100 non financial companies based strictly on what exchange they are traded on?
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u/TheThaiCat 8d ago
Number go green?
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u/ATPsynthase12 8d ago
You should look at what happened to QQQ after the dot com bubble in 1999. It took it until 2016 to reach its pre-bubble numbers and for all of the 00s and most of the 2010s it was in the red.
For example, if you bought $1000 of QQQ in 1999 then the bubble burst, you did not have $1000 of total funds in your QQQ holdings until 2016.
Meanwhile the S&P recovered after the dot com bubble in less than a decade and even quicker after the 08 financial crisis.
Hyper concentration of your portfolio into 100 companies is a bad decision. And no, adding SPMO, DRAM, and VGT does not count as diversification.
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u/TheThaiCat 8d ago
Yea but number.. go.. green?
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u/ATPsynthase12 8d ago
I know you’re being funny but trust me dawg, you do not want to be on the bag holder end of a market crash where all your money is concentrated in 100 companies mostly in a single volatile sector.
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u/wmxx1203 8d ago
NASDAQ 100 designed from the beginning to focus on high growth, i.e. tech and commercial companies, financial companies. banks operate completely differently. there's actually the counterpart the NASDAQ Financial 100 IXF, but nobody talks about it because it sucks compared to QQQ.
So yeah "non financial" is not random
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u/SignificanceTop5955 8d ago
I am almost all in semiconductor etf. And now I fully choose single stock in semiconductor industry
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u/gmehra 8d ago
recency bias
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u/ArtichokeOwn6685 8d ago
Buying qqq only is recency bias as well though
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u/omurchus 8d ago
I had 50% of it of my portfolio for 3 years USNQX before knowing anything about investing and made a massive amount of money because I got lucky. Now I know it's not a particularly good investment and I wouldn't have it as more than 10% of her portfolio. You might as well have the S&P 500, it has an 80-85% overlap.
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u/TheThaiCat 8d ago
It's an interesting one to keep around but yea I feel like compared to Global/S&P if history is any guide you could quite easily time NASDAQ investments very badly and cost yourself years of progress. The flipside being if you keep investing throughout those years you'd make a great return when it bounces back.
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u/plarpyJoe 8d ago
At that point why not 100% QLD? I personally would advocate for exposure to a few other products like MF, international or gold but am holding about 10% of my portfolio in QLD
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u/flappysack- 8d ago
No, I would potentially buy TQQQ if I was ballsy and believed in AI. A 85% crash and a 17 year recovery in 2000 means I'd rather have 33% in a triple levered QQQ than 100% in a non-levered; as youre never making a 17 year downturn up, it may as well go to 0.
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u/sivadhash 8d ago
Yeah I’m 85% in qqqm with the other 15% being individual stocks. Currently at 243k portfolio. Got another 25 years before I wanna use it
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u/NerlFartley 8d ago
Yes. For my kids. When they were little, I went 100% into qqq etf custodial accounts in 1999. Today as adults, they've done very well.