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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Stocks A to Z / Stocks B / Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A)
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Author: mungofitch ✹✺ SILVER
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Subject: Re: What’s the better value rn, brk or qqqe?
Date: 05/30/24 4:51 PM
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Since 1972, the NAS 100 cap weight has outperformed the NAS 100 equal weight by a factor of 3.

Out of curiosity, is that the Nasdaq 100 stocks cap weighted, or the Nasdaq 100 index (as tracked by QQQ)? Not the same thing.

Even though I haven't looked closely at the Nasdaq 100 versus Nasdaq 100 equal weight that closely in terms of frequency of advantage, two comments---
* The recent dominance of the giants is still historically anomalous and would be dangerous to extrapolate
* I absolutely stick to my assertion that NOBODY should ever be long or short the Nasdaq 100 index, it's the wrong vehicle for everybody. It's just too dominated by a tiny number of stocks, so it's largely just a gamble on the luck of the draw among those few. If you have a well supported strong view on those few, buy or sell those few. If you don't, then you shouldn't be concentrated in them.

Jim
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