Stock Market - Any way I could improve my portfolio? 20 years old … thinking of adding SCHD . Bad idea?

Any way I could improve my portfolio? 20 years old … thinking of adding SCHD . Bad idea?
Thoughts? 18 year old have saved up around $10k from doing web design work. Looking for advice to throw around $7k more for an investment period of 5-7 years
Assignment TSLA 15k account
Re-adjusted my portfolio in the past week, any advice? 23 year old investor and don’t plan to withdraw for another 4+ years for a house (Half of my portfolio is in crypto which I am slowly dcaing out of)
The simple summary of books and simple investment strategies.
getting burned playing far out of my league, tax implication concerns piling up
Long OTM Calls On BABA VS HOOD VS SQ ?
NTSX vs NTSI
My small portfolio (<$5000) going into 2022. What do you think/any suggestions?

Any way I could improve my portfolio? 20 years old … thinking of adding SCHD . Bad idea?

Posted: 08 Jan 2022 03:31 PM PST

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Thoughts? 18 year old have saved up around $10k from doing web design work. Looking for advice to throw around $7k more for an investment period of 5-7 years

Posted: 08 Jan 2022 03:08 PM PST

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Assignment TSLA 15k account

Posted: 08 Jan 2022 06:48 PM PST

I have a 15 k account and my 1170/1160/1150 put butterfly was purchased for .70. That entire spread expired itm. I talked to my broker before the close to confirm if there was anything i needed to do, but he said no. That after the close (and since deep itm) that all the contracts would be assigned to each other and essentially wash out. Well, Saturday morning got an email that i was assigned the 4 TSLA 1160, I'm assuming they also assigned my 1170 and 1150s i have no idea and i can't handle not knowing if my life will be over Monday morning or what? Thanks for any input- TD Ameritrade is my broker.

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Re-adjusted my portfolio in the past week, any advice? 23 year old investor and don’t plan to withdraw for another 4+ years for a house (Half of my portfolio is in crypto which I am slowly dcaing out of)

Posted: 08 Jan 2022 08:51 PM PST

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The simple summary of books and simple investment strategies.

Posted: 08 Jan 2022 06:16 PM PST

I'm looking for investment strategies and reading some investments books. Anyone can help and list the key take away from the following books and share your investment strategies?

- "The Warren Buffett Way"

- "Principles - Dalio, Ray"

- "Reminiscences of Stock Operator - Edwin"

- " A random walk down wall street"

- "One up on wall street"

- "Pit Bull Lessons from Wall Streets Champion Day Trader by Martin Schwartz"

- "The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham"

- "Liftoff_ Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX by Eric Berger"

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getting burned playing far out of my league, tax implication concerns piling up

Posted: 08 Jan 2022 03:04 PM PST

So early last year I was hospitalized for 3 weeks and generated $89,000 worth of hospital bills (out of state not covered by insurance). Unable to return to work on my farm job and crippled from hospital bills worth 3 times what I make in a year. I began to collect unemployment and managed to turn some of my checks into some pretty serious gains, all while learning what I was doing day by day as I had never traded before last April.

At one point my investments were worth almost 250k, but towards the end of the year. I lost literally everything. As this was my "pandemic job". My account became a meme right before my eyes and I guess I had to learn the hard way. Up until November I had only put about 7,000 bucks into my account but later trying to chase my gains back down, my total amount deposited at the end of the year was around 30k after liquidating my saving and crypto portfolio and continue to make terrible stock option plays.

Now with tax time coming and me having almost nothing in my bank account, am I completely fucked? I've never made more than 45,000 a year but this year I believe almost 500k worth of options was traded through my Robinhood account it seems. But I never once withdrew money from the Robinhood account to my bank account, always aped into the next trade(hold your laughs) Almost all of the profits being short term capital gains / losses.

I KNOW I will have to talk to family CPAs (going be embarrassing as fuck) about this but this post is just to gather some insight from anyone else who has made similar mistakes. So I guess i'll just ask some of questions that have been plaguing me here before I go to see them.

Will I potentially owe an extreme amount of taxes for all the money I made even if it was reinvested (short term calls) and lost everything?
What if I cant afford something like a 200,000 tax bill? ( I know I cant thats 5 years of salary for me if I'm lucky.) I know the IRS doesn't play games but did I just completely fuck myself for the next few years? Might I be receiving zero dollars on my paychecks cos the IRS is going to be taking so much?
Obviously I'm done trading for now, but I have never seen numbers of these increments my entire life, in order to pay back the bill that is almost surely coming my way I might have to consider trading again with a refined strategy and less YOLO/ harvest my own spare organs. But is this just a mistake as I might be generating an even bigger tax problem for this year?

Wishing whoever reads this a great and positive year!

Thank you for the acknowledgment.

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Long OTM Calls On BABA VS HOOD VS SQ ?

Posted: 08 Jan 2022 08:26 PM PST

I'm looking to start a position on a company that I feel has upside potential with maybe a 12-18 month expiration. I'm confident that either of these stocks will rise in value within this time due to the conditions we are seeing in the market. I Think HOOD is the most risky because it is a new company with no earnings but may have the most upside if in fact it can turn a profit and continue to add users. Second is BABA the only risk I see here is the fact that China is in talks of delisting besides that I Think This Stock Is Undervalued and has great upside potential If China Can Come Up W| A Solution. SQ Seems to be the least risky but I feel the upside is attached to how well they can integrate there platform with cryptocurrency, I think any company thats future is tied into crypto will likely be extremely volatile and hard to value correctly. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

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NTSX vs NTSI

Posted: 08 Jan 2022 09:36 AM PST

Why is NTSI so volatile compared to NTSX? The only difference I believe is international exposure. Could it be because it is a newer fund?

Also, would now be a good time to invest in it in order to get more international exposure, and maybe substitute VTI for NTSI?

I am young and I have a high risk tolerance so I can take some volatility, especially if it's future looks like NTSX.

I am looking to pair HFEA with a reliable fund and maybe a small caps ETF for long term return in my Roth IRA. Any takes on NTSE would also be great. All responses and advice would be greatly appreciated!

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My small portfolio (<$5000) going into 2022. What do you think/any suggestions?

Posted: 08 Jan 2022 11:25 AM PST