$Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO.US)$ is a fund that tracks the S&P 500 Index. This index includes 500 large, liquid company stocks listed on U.S. stock exchanges, representing the overall performance of the U.S. stock market. The constituent stocks include some of the largest companies in the U.S. market, such as $Apple (AAPL.US)$ , $Microsoft (MSFT.US)$ , $NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$ , $Amazon (AMZN.US)$ , $Alphabet-C (GOOG.US)$ . These companies have large market capitalizations, good liquidity, and are major leaders in the market.
The biggest difference between investing in ETFs and ordinary stocks is that ETFs can diversify risks very well. Nvidia has fallen sharply by more than 17% in the past two weeks. If you only bet on this one company, you will be subject to greater volatility, but $Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO.US)$ allows you to own a basket of stocks at the same time, and you can also enjoy the opportunity of Tesla's increase of more than 11% this week.
Confused about choosing stocks? Don't know when is the right time to buy? Want to know more about ETFs? You can also pay attention to $Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQ.US)$ , which also owns a basket of blue-chip stocks and has a return of 12% so far this year. Of course, if you only want to focus on a certain industry, such as semiconductors, there are $Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3x Shares ETF (SOXL.US)$ and $Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bear 3x Shares ETF (SOXS.US)$ to choose from.
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