HuskyHawk
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How many stocks should you have in an Roth IRA, and normally which should you have in your IRA Portfolio and how often should you add to it? I’m trying to figure out the purpose of having a IRA when most of us already have 401ks or regular stock trading platforms?
I loosely agree with what Genevieve Roch-Decter says, which is allocate about 80% of equity assets to large caps in core industries. S&P 500 indexes and other ETFs plus individual stocks, like Exxon, Pepsi, Disney, Lowes/HD. Allocate 20% to higher risk, higher reward flyers. Grit Capital – With Genevieve Roch-Decter
For me, that 20%, or as much of it as I can get, goes in my Roth. If you're going to have something take off and go up 2000%, you don't want to pay taxes on those gains. Ever. Several years ago I bought a bunch of Amazon in my Roth, still have some but I took some profits. I bought Apple there too, currently up 429%. I can no longer put any money in my Roth, but if you can, max it.
With a Traditional IRA or 401k, taxes on gains are deferred until withdrawal. This is nice, because you hopefully pay those taxes later when you aren't working. With a Roth it is tax free. So I'd never, ever put a bond fund or some low growth, low risk asset in a Roth.