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Personal Finance and Investing

GreatGazoo

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3. I'm not a fan of advisors who are attached to brokerages

Reply to cliffside (Original post)

Mon Sep 29, 2025, 11:22 PM

Sep 29

Hard to beat just buying dips in the QQQ and then using stop loss. SPY and QQQ beat most managed funds and advisors, especially over multi-year periods. And they are backstopped by the Fed as we saw in March 2020.

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Any thoughts on Schwab vs Fidelity charting and or ease of execution? I know advisors are hit or miss ... [View all] cliffside Sep 29 OP

Limited experience with Fidelity but love the ThinkOrSwim platform that Schwab picked up with TD merger. CincyDem Sep 29 #1

Really appreciate the reply ... cliffside Sep 29 #2

I'm not a fan of advisors who are attached to brokerages GreatGazoo Sep 29 #3

This message was self-deleted by its author GreatGazoo Sep 29 #4

That is mostly what I've done in the past few years .... cliffside Sep 30 #5