I was able to create a custom index based on the top 500 that I stripped the big AI stocks from (shovels too). Then I added decent chunks of international, small cap, and treasury ETFs to it.

I have no illusions that I can time a bubble, but I'm hopeful I'm at least partially shielded, and most importantly I feel better about ignoring wall street again.

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eru an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Instead of starting with the top 500 American stocks, and then adding international and small caps, you can start with a global all-market stock index--and then remove AI from that.

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rapind 42 minutes ago | parent [-]

Yeah I couldn't figure that out with Questrade (Canada). It's a pretty new feature, but I think it's great, so I hope they expand their baseline indexes.

I was considering writing a tool that simply follows any index you choose with a .toml of simple config options, like which stocks to exclude, potential fixed locks for specific stocks (or maybe upper and lower percentage of portfolio settings), a hard per stock cap (say AAPL at 3%), and drift threshold. Something you just run once a day and it spits out your buy / sell orders. Seems like this is something brokerages are already offering in some variation though, and I'm not sure what, if any, API access looks like, or export / import options.

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eru 39 minutes ago | parent [-]

I'm in Singapore. My money is in VWRA (without bothering to remove AI companies).

Your idea for the tool sounds interesting. I suspect even just copy-and-pasting the paragraph you wrote here into your favourite AI programming agent would get you pretty close to a prototype you can play around with. At least in terms of 'spit out buy / sell orders' and leaving out the API integration.

	▲	rapind 34 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, it's a very simple concept IMO. Without API access or at least CSV import / export integration w/ a brokerage for automation I don't think I'd use it. I could have an agent use the Web UI on my behalf, but honestly, that feels like lighting tokens / gas on fire.

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reddalo an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

>I can time a bubble

What do you mean? Selling everything before this bubble pops?

	▲	eru an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Oh, if you could time a bubble, you wouldn't just sell everything: you'd sell more than everything. Ie you'd sell short.
	▲	bawolff an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Talk about taking a quote out of context...