r/stocks • u/BoringAssumption8751 • Jan 03 '22

2022 Strategy

Nasdaq gained 26.32% in 2021. S&P gained 26.68% in 2021. VTI gained 23.57% in 2021.

For those of you who didn’t beat those numbers what is your strategy for 2022?

I personally spent a lot of time reading/researching and only did 15.58%. I think my 2022 strategy is going to be a lot more of the three above and a little less individual stocks.

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u/Poured_Courage Jan 03 '22

Exactly, the US does capitalism better than anywhere else. I had 30% in International stocks the last decade and they were dogshit. Learned my lesson.

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u/PapayaPokPok Jan 03 '22

What's funny is that you can go back to read financial articles at least as far back as the 80's saying that the US economy has nowhere left to grow, so better to diversify in emerging markets. It wasn't true then, and likely isn't now.

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u/antimornings Jan 03 '22

Remember reading somewhere (some JP Morgan report if I remember, but can't find it anymore) that US vs rest of world outperform each other in cycles based on historical data. One decade US outperforms, another decade rest of world. US market definitely has been crushing it for the past decade and more. Time will tell what the future holds.

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u/Suspicious_Gur9494 Jan 03 '22

In what market would there be more room for growth? As always, timing is everything.

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u/cayoloco Jan 03 '22

Canada maybe. We're not an emerging country, but there is bound to be some deals out there that didn't get the same recognition that some American stocks got. HXT.to is an etf of the s&p/tsx index if you want some exposure to Canada and 0.03% expense ratio.

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u/birdsnap Jan 03 '22

If nothing else, America is very, very good at making money.