 The most challenging part of being a new investor, a novice investor could be finding a good quality company to invest into. There are investors out there that show them day trading, option trading, making thousands of dollars every single day. And then they look at you and say, if you don't have the guts, if you don't have the guts, invest into index funds. Well, investing into index funds actually is a smart idea. So in this video, I'm going to show you guys how to pick and how to find good ETFs. I'm going to show you how to build an ETF portfolio. If you don't know how to find good quality stocks, an ETF is a strange trade of fun. These are stocks that have different companies, multiple companies inside of their portfolio and you can let them do their investing for you. So in this video, I'm going to show you guys how to build your own ETF portfolio. But before we dive into it, this video is brought to you by MooMoo. Sign up, click on the link down in the description. 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ETFs are a type of exchange-traded product that offer investors a way to pool their money in a fund that makes investments in stocks, bonds or other assets that provide a potential return. But there are many ETFs out there just by the end of 2021 in the US market. There was more than 2,000 different ETFs to choose from. The United States ETFs cover pretty much every asset that's available in the world, including stocks, bonds and other commodities that's available throughout the world. If you are bullish on the US market right now, we had a pretty significant pullback. But if you think the United States economy and the market is going to be doing better than it is today over the next 5, 10, 15, 25 years, then a few of the ETFs that you can look into is investing to the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100. The S&P 500 consists of the top 500 blue chip companies in the United States. The top three S&P 500 ETFs right now is SPY, IVV and VOO. Those rank first, second and fourth amongst all the ETFs in the US market. These ETFs seeks to replicate the S&P 500 index with the top 10 holdings being Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Tesla and et cetera. Those company performance is also closely correlated with the underlying index exhibiting a 21% growth in 2021. The second one is the NASDAQ 100 ETF. The NASDAQ 100 includes 100 largest non-financial companies listed on the NASDAQ stock market, mainly covering the technology sector. One of the famous established ETFs that ranks in this index is QQQ. QQQ is the fifth largest ETF in the US stock market. QQQ has many of the same companies that SPY have and theirs, but QQQ is more tech heavy inside of their ETF portfolio. So you see a lot of technology stocks inside of the QQQ ETFs. Think that technology is going to perform better than majority of the other top 500 companies in America, then QQQ might be the ETF for you. Now, those are just a broad net that cast over these companies. But if you're looking for a specific ETF, so let's break it down even further. Let's look for some energy ETFs. The energy sector has been one of the hottest sectors over the last two years. With the energy price such as OU and gas prices boosted by inflation and economic recovery, energy related stocks led the way in 2021. Large ETFs in this sector includes XLE, VDE and XOP. All of them are offering exposure to oil, gas, energy equipment and service companies. All of these ETFs will turn more than 50% in 2021. The next sector we can look at is the real estate ETFs. Against the backdrop of high inflation, investors also turn to anti-inflation sectors such as real estate. The three real estate ETFs that you guys could look at could be VNQ, SCHH and IRY. All of which has returned more than 30% in 2021. And as you guys have probably heard of the chip shortage and you want to get your hands in with that, you can invest into a semiconductor ETFs. In the technology sector, semi-conductors led the way with the global chip shortage in 2021. Stocks in the semiconductor industry has generally risen sharply. Popular semiconductor ETFs will be SOXX and SMH. Nah, it's not shaking my head. It's a ticker symbol SMH. Both gaining over 40% in 2021 almost doubling QQQ. Now, just because you see ETF inside of your brokers like Weboo, Moomoo or Robinhood, that does not mean that you need to invest into these because they are inverse ETFs and then they have leverage ETFs. The inverse ETFs like SH or SPND are inverse ETFs of ticker symbol SPY. SPY tracks the S&P 500. So every time SPY goes up 1%, SH goes down 1%. So that means if SPY is pulling back and the stock market is pulling back, you're going to look on your app and see that, hey, SH is shooting up because it's the inverse of the S&P 500. So when you see an ETF that is the inverse of the company, unless you're trading and you want to get in on this pullback, then that is something that you could do. But if you're a long-term investor saying, hey, I'm going to hold on to this for the next 10, 20, 30 years, unless you think that the economy is going to be doing worse 30 years from now than it is today, then that is not a long-term investment. That is a quick swing while the market is pulling back while we're entering probably a recession. Now, there are also leverage ETFs, double ETFs, triple-leverage ETFs to where let's say the QQQ goes up 1%, a leverage ETF like TQQQ would go up 3%. Those are mainly used for day traders, swing traders that pays attention to the stock market every single day. So you have to be careful when you're purchasing these ETFs and not buying just because they did good that day or that week. You have to make sure that these are inverse ETFs. Do your own research before you purchase any random ETF that you see inside of your broker. All right, so here are a couple of tips that you can use to choose your ETFs. First one is cost. Not the cost of the ETF, but how much does it cost the people that are running the ETF? How much do they charge you every single year just from buying their stock? That is called the expense or you can look at the expense ratio. On many apps, many brokerages, they show you the expense ratio of these ETFs. You want to find some that are typically has a low expense ratio to where it really does not eat into your profit. The second one is size count. You don't want to invest into a small ETFs. Typically, small ETFs charge a higher expense ratio compared to larger ETFs that has the money and infrastructure to where they can charge you at lower ETFs. You could probably make more money investing to smaller ETFs that eventually blow up into the future, but smaller ETFs are more likely to close. So make sure that you're not investing to any small ETFs if you're not willing to take that risk. Three dividends. Guys, these ETFs do pay out dividends. You want to look for ETFs that has a pretty decent dividend payout. Some ETFs pay out every single month or every single quarter. That means you receive a dividend payment to your account every three months directly into your brokerage account. And then you could reinvest that back into the dividends or you could use that out or you could pull out your dividend payments and pay a couple of bills around the house. So I typically do look for ETFs that does have a decent dividend yield. Not all of them are going to have decent dividend yields but some of them might but you do want to avoid dividends to have a super high dividend yield to where they're not able to grow that own company because they're paying out most of their profits back to their investors. So make sure that you're looking for a company that has a decent dividend yield. And the last one for right now is avoid long term bonds. Now is a good time to avoid bonds of a long term, let's say 10 years or more because inflation might eat away at your returns and interest rates are expected to rise from the historic lows. If long-term bonds holders try to sell before maturity the market might punish them because new bonds issue could pay higher rates and to reflect new higher prevailing interest rates. So just look for those four things. I would probably look for a nice decent size ETF. I would look for an ETF that pays dividends and one that's not a bond right now. So tool that I am investing to right now you could look at SPY, VIO or QQQ. Those usually cover majority of the companies in the United States. You could look to add an energy sector one to yours dealing with electricity or your gas. You can add a utility ETF to your portfolio. You can also add a high dividend paying ETF to your portfolio. One that I've been talking about for a while is SPHD or QYLD. Both of those are high monthly paying dividend ETFs. But there we go, guys. Those are tips on how you can build your ETF portfolio if you're not a day trader, option trader, swing trader. If you just want to buy a certain number of ETFs every single week, every single month, set it and forget it, which is pretty... It's kind of smart. It's kind of a smart thing to do is just ride the flow of the market. These are some tips and ways that you could build your ETF portfolio. I listed some of the ones that I actually invested to. Let me know down in the comment section any other ETFs that you guys are investing into that have been performing fairly well. If you guys want to know what stocks I'm buying and when I'm buying them, I'm going to leave a link down in the pinned comment section to my Discord over there. I post every single time I buy and sell the stocks, post my option trades, my day trades, my technical analysis. And we also have pro day traders in there that post their day trades every single day. So if you guys are interested in being a part of a community that want to be financially free, just like you, that's why you're watching this video. Then go ahead and check out that link down in the comment section. But yeah, before we go guys, make sure that you guys hit the thumbs up button, hit the subscribe button because it helps out this channel more than you can even imagine. Other than that, I'm Zeke, bringing you the Dream Green Show and I'm out, peace.