Grandparents just gave me 25 grand from a stock they had me invest in years ago

stocks and bonds you plebs

I mean maybe Bitcoin... Those other two are altcoins and are probably a lot more volatile. Slow steady gains are fine for me. Then there's the issue of cashing out which apparently is pretty tough to do.

This sounds like a pretty good idea actually.

50% crypto (btc 25% 10% LTC 10% ETH, 5% as you wish)
50% precious metals 25% gold 10% silver 10% miner etf 5% platinum or rhodium

unironically crypto. 25k is not that much money, upside is still huge. just dont invest in fucking shitcoins. stay in btc / xmr / eth / zec

Dash, QTUM, Zcash are good choices for coins. You can buy 42 coin and Emercoin if you feel like taking a bigger risk. Stay away from Etherium, Vitalik has openly supported child pornography.
breitbart.com/tech/2017/11/14/ethereum-cryptocurrency-creator-defends-possession-of-child-porn-claims-it-can-have-social-benefits/

Caterpillar, Northrop Grumman, Boeing... Choose construction and military companies for stocks for at least the next year.

Index fund, diversified among America, euro, China and Canada.

Safest. Don't listen to the shills pushing risky shitcoins. If you want high risk go for it.

Dude, its a solid strategy to invest in companies that the current president of the USA has either ties to or has mentioned. Construction and military companies would be a good choice now. Imagine if you had invested in Exon during the Bush administration or any of the companies bailed out during the Obama administration that heavily donated to his campaign.
Investing in the index is a limp wrist-ed strategy.

>altcoins
Bitcoin is not better than ethereum just because it is worth more. Ethereum will rise to over 1k in a few months.

>issue of cashing out
So you fell for that meme, its pretty easy to cash out, just pay your taxes god damnit. If you dont follow crypto currencies regularly then i would suggest you to stay away from it. You will just lose if you dont do Research on your own and look at the charts regularly.

Don't listen to random people here where to invest.

Dude its your life savings, fuck the altcoiners, Bitcoin is going to 40000 next year about 90% chance just stand back and wait for your 100k man HODL

Unless you got insider information your stock picks are as good as guesswork. If you aren't an experienced fund manager stick to index funds. America and the world is doing very well right now so riding the tide is a good idea if you don't know what to do.

Index funds outperform managed portfolios 85% of the time.

AFI, and N on the CSE is climbing nicely these couple days.

Don't diversify too much into foreign stocks. If in US, S&P500 is literally all you need. If you're not in the US and have access to an S&P500 index, that is literally all you need.

But also put a smaller portion into equal parts BTC and ETH

I'm more more risk averse. 2008 showed me that America cannot be relied on all the time, china is a good hedge for that. While Canada and euro picks are my hedge against china.

Although it seems unreliable, if you invested into the US stock market at the worst possible time in 2008, you would have doubled your money by now. Consider that US is still the financial heavyweight worldwide and if they go down, everyone else will too.

In the long term, as long as the economy keeps chugging, risk to the investment is minimal

The stock market will always exist, the United States will lead the world economy for most of your lifetime

if either of these things stop happening then you have bigger things to worry about than your returns

lotteries are a tax on people who are bad at mathematics.

I'm not as optimistic as you are so I prefer to hedge my position picks. China wasn't affected by the 2008 recession so I think they are a solid hedge against the USA. When and if china has a similar event, the USA and euro will be my hedge against that.

Yeah and if you had invested before 2008 you would've lost several years of earnings. Imagine all the people that were banking on retirement, boom, suddenly 10 years of equity and your retirement money vaporized. Some of them couldn't even work for another 5 years for a recovery. I don't want that to happen to me so I need to spread my picks.

Diversify between stocks, bonds and crypto. No more than 20% crypto If you aren't a gambler.

Oh boy. Do some basic research
>Shanghai index falls over 60% 2008
>Hang Seng index falls over 50% 2008

>China wasn't affected by the 2008 recession

Expect big gains from Radient Technologies in Monday and Tuesday. They are the top outfit looking in to mj extracts (oils). Have non-exclusive partnership with Aurora Cannabis. Current share price is 1.50 and could shoot to 3.00 on a speculative pump/dump this week. I thinks it's also a reasonably strong bet for long term as the company does other stuff besides marijuana related.

THCX has potential to moon the instant rumors start flying about buyouts by the bigger companies. It could be a couple months of bag holding on this one though.

You are really missing the point, the Shanghai composite bounced back by 2010. In 2010 it was more then twice it was in 1997. At the same point in time the sp500 just managed to break even with its market value in 1997 at 2010. The same with the Dow jones.

Forgot to tack on the fact that china continued to add GDP growth during that period and not fall in recession. In terms of stock value, yes everyone was affected by the financial crisis, but in terms of growth, china escaped relatively unhurt, for now.

Oh boy. The Shanghai composite is still barely over half the highs it reached in 2008. You have a funny way of avoiding volatility and risk, bud

How old you are is obviously the biggest factor in what risk level you should tolerate.

If you are about to retire, maybe don't invest much in stocks. Stocks are for if you don't need the money at least for 10 years. If you're in your 50's and don't need to aggressively grow your nest egg, go for a majority high quality bonds and maybe 30% stocks.

If you're under 30, you have a higher risk tolerance than you think and there's nothing wrong with being 90-100% in stocks. Just never panic sell. Hold strong when shit hits the fan

thats retarded idea

Put it into stocks dumbass... Crypto is for quick flipping a couple hundred bucks. Put 5% max

Because your basing it on one point where it peaked. Look at it on a longer time scale and you can see that the Shanghai and the hang seng are good hedges against American indexs. In a longer period American indexs have performed very well but that's putting all your hopes on one country. Like it or not we are moving towards a world that is not centered around the American economy. Americas share in the worlds GDP is shrinking over time. This is not a statement that's 'omg America is over' its just a reality that the world is diversifying its economies.

>2008
you know most things did that right?

The HK50 is getting massive now with worldwide investors

Ethereum seriously
Btc might crash to 1k after hitting 10k

Bear in mind that when investing in foreign assets, your returns will be influenced by the foreign currency exchange rate. Chinese stocks could make a killing, but if China is devaluing their currency, your real returns will be eroded.

I'm not saying America is the best screw everyone else, but no other country's economy has such an impact globally as America's. And even with other strong economies emerging. Personally I don't have such an optomistic outlook on a country that limits innovation in order to exert control over its citizens like China does. If you like China, put some there, but I wouldn't put more than 10-20 percent of the portfolio there

>you know most things did that right?

That's what I have been talking about. My point earlier was no one escaped that shit show, even China.

This guy
Was trying to say China is somehow a hedge that avoided the impact from the recession

Buy 3 Bitcoin, never look at it for 2 years.

If it's 100k each, you made money, if it's 1k each you can just tell your grandparents you blew it all on drugs, they'll understand.