One for the magpies of Freetrade who can’t resist opening a shiny new position. Today I realised that I’d bought shared in my 50th active company.
Holding off on the debate as to when is diverse too diverse, and when is a position too small - what’s your current number?
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As a newbie to investing I was wondering this also, how many is too many?! I currently have shares in 15 different companies. I’m waiting on a few of them going up then planning to sell but already have my eye on a few new tech stocks. Reckon I’ll be up at 20 companies by the end of this year.
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I reckon I have 50ish held more before so when is diverse for best amount as currently quite down in a lot of them tbh 
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Isnt to many aslong as you have confidence in rhem and theirs a reason you picked them
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But when the confident has gone and your 60% down all you can do is hold 
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I currently have about 41. But I’ve ditched a few so I guess I was above 50 at one point. currently 30 are in the green and 11 are red
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Important to understand that diversification is not about having a large number of stocks. You may have a large number of stocks but what counts is markets and Industries. In other words, a risk diversified portfolio will have shares in a variety of Industries and countries. The proportion of the overall portfolio in these varied markets and industries is important.
Constructing such a portfolio is not super easy. This is the reason people go for a world index ETF portfolio.
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Currently I own just 3.
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| Sector | Count |
|---|---|
| Technology | 13 |
| Funds | 8 |
| Healthcare | 6 |
| Services | 7 |
| Consumer/Non-Cyclical | 7 |
| Financial | 4 |
| Consumer Cyclical | 6 |
| Berkshire | 1 |
| Capital Goods | 2 |
| Basic Materials | 2 |
| Energy | 1 |
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Your portfolio is heavy on technology. I hope you have bought everything at a good price.
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I only own 2 stocks 75 k equal
Heavy in arrivak and technology minerals
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It is a bit, 22% by value. But technology is the future and there’s different subsectors within Tech so makes sense to me it is a large chunk.
Software - Adobe, Autodesk, Docusign
Corporate Services - Microsoft, Oracle
Semiconductors and components - AMD, Nvidia, Applied Materials
Other - Google, Meta, Halma, Veeva
Also Activision which will disappear from my portfolio soon.
You know, as good as a company is, in the end what it’s worth is how much you’ve paid for it, because the return on a highly valued company can become a much longer walk. Some members here have warned me about Tesla’s overvalued price and as much as I see an incredible future ahead, I had to agree with them that this is expensive.
Tesla is ridiculous atm well overpriced
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I agree.
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I would be really interested to understand even a little of the weighting rationale around countries and sectors if you could share any please?
I have noticed that loads of ETFs are heavy on the US and heavy on Apple and Microsoft, I guess because the fund managers has confidence in their returns. They always seem so heavily weighted though!
Ii have shares in 5 companies only
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Drunk, on a mobile?
Should be about $150 a share if I bought Thet would drop straight away so I ain’t bothering don’t panic Tesla share holders
If you look at some of the ETFs, for example vantage global etf, they have shares in thousands of companies - so 50 is pretty small in comparison.
Most I’ve had is about 22-ish. If the holdings all have similar values then I find the scrolling goes crazy as they all update and jump around to new positions.
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