If I Had $5,000 to Build Wealth, I’d Start With These 5 ETFs

All right, listen. If you have a 401K, Roth IRA, and you truly are just not happy with how it's performing, I'm going to break down how you can actually feel more secure about your retirement. I'm going to give you five plays that I think you should look at. It's safe. It's actually cheaper than what you're paying your provider to lay out that portfolio for you that you do not understand because you're looking at it, you don't know what they have in it, but you do know you're paying fees for it. And so, what we're going to do today is we're going to break down five positions that you can have all across so you have diversification. You can buy into it for the long term and what you can do is called average down. So, when it dips down, you can buy in each one of these stocks. You can max out your 401K if it's self-directed, you can max out your Roth IRA with this, your pension on your own. All right, and that's what I like to do on this channel. My goal is to empower you to take control of your finances with limiting the risk. And so, before we get into it, man, it's your boy the Wall Street Trapper. My goal is to help you build wealth one share at a time, help you navigate the market with all the chaos, but put a system in place so you can be financially empowered. Before we get into the video, man, make sure you like, subscribe, and help us get this video to 2,000 likes. Let's go. All right, so the idea ETFs is so underrated because everybody wants to try to pick that one stock that's going to take them to the moon. When truly the goal to build wealth in the market is about being consistent over the long term. So, buying quality companies. What's the next best thing to buying quality companies? Buying quality ETFs. ETFs that have those quality companies inside of it. And the thing about it is, the fund manager of the ETF actually does all the hard work. And what they do is they put the best companies in and give each company a percentage. And so, when you put your money in there, each company has a percentage of the dollar that it moves. So, we're going to break that down to you on here. But also, what I really love about this is they change these ETFs around once a year. They put the best performing at the top, they take away from some, so they balance it out. And so, all you have to do is consistently put your money in these ETFs. So, I'm spreading these ETFs across five different industries, five different sectors, so you can get the best bang for your buck. Let's go. The first one was VTI, which is the Vanguard Total Stock Market Morningstar ETF. It's simply This is ran by Vanguard, which is the second biggest asset manager in the game. So, year-to-date it's up 11% and uh over 5-year return it's up 64%. Now, that's better than your 401k is doing a lot of times, and it's better than what your retirement fund is doing, right? Now, they also Now, here's the one that's important. You pay them 0.0%. That's the expense ratio. So, watch what I'm about to tell you here. For every $10,000 invested, you pay them $3. I'm going to let you sit on that. At 0.03% for every $10,000, you pay them $3 to manage this fund. And so, watch this. As 3,514 holders inside of it, so this is 100% covers every investable stock in the US stock market from large cap, medium cap, small cap, and micro cap. So, it covers it all. But, what I love about it is 36% tech, that means tech has the biggest weighting in it. It's 12% financials, which means financials is next. It's 10% healthcare, which is that's the third tier. 9% consumer, which is the fourth tier. And 9% industrials, which is the fifth tier. Now, these are the top five holdings sectors. Now, it is breaking down because they have they have everything in it, metals, everything, but these five hold the most weight. Now, here's the five companies that actually has the most weight in it. So, it's Nvidia, which is the big dog, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google. Now, all of these are weighed different inside of it, but remember, it has 3,514 companies inside of it. So, because it has that, we know for a fact that it moves just based on that. So, it's not going to blow it out the park, but for your retirement, you don't need it to blow it out the park. You just need it to consistently build. 11% this year, and this hasn't been the best market, right? 64% over the last 5 years. That's a solid holding inside of your retirement account that you can keep buying the dip on. Let's go a little further. The next one I would do is QQQM. Now, this is the equivalent to QQQ, but it is cheaper and it is newer. Now, watch this. The expense ratio is 0.15%, which means for every $10,000, guess what you pay? Guess what you pay? $15, yo. Your 401k would never let you get away with that. So, for every $10,000 invested, you pay $15. That's once a year. Now, watch this. >> Hey, man, listen. If you are looking for a way to navigate this market, I want you to come join our Patreon community. We do two stocks a week that's called lottery picks, where we break these stocks down for you and I give you stock prices based on enterprise value and discount value. So, you know what they're worth and I'll give you full stock prices that you could be looking to get at and prices I'll be looking to get at. Also, you'll be able to get in and get in any trade that I'm in. So, I make trades, you get in them, and I walk you through why I get them. I walk through what I see. I walk you through losses and we win and lose together. I'm not going to act like we 100 and 0, but we win more than we lose and we more than anything, my goal is to teach you how to create a system to learn how to trade and navigate these markets. But, also, when you're looking at the lottery picks, you also can learn how to find great companies. If you're in our top tier, you also get a charting class and a trade audit class once a month and you get a Q&A. And those help you look at trades you're in. We do a charting class together and also, any questions you have about the market. So, if you want to join that, click the link below. It's in the description. It's your boy the Wall Street Trapper and I want to see you in the trap. I want you to be a certified money printer. Salute. >> Year to date is up 18%. So, that's really good. Watch this. 5 years is up 99%. So, that's way better than your 401k. That's way better than what your company is doing for you. This is why this is a good one, right? So, watch this. This is 100 of the largest Nasdaq stocks. So, it has 106 companies in it. Inside of this 56% tech, so it is tech heavy. It has 12% communication services. So, that's the next biggest sector. It has 10% consumer, 10% 5% consumer defense. It has 5% industrials and um 3.57% of health care. Now, that's what makes up the biggest part of this. Now, the big dogs in it is Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft. Watch this. Micron and AMD. So, slightly different than the other one by adding Micron and AMD inside of it. I like that. So, now you have a mixture. Right? So, that one has 3,500 companies. This one only has 106 companies inside of it. So, you going to get big dogs inside of tech. That's big because of these three changed the game on that. So, let's go a little further. Next, we're going to switch it up a little bit. Now, we're going to go with SCHD. This is for my dividend people. Now, this one not going to have a lot of growth in it, but this is quality companies that pay dividends, right? Guess what? Expense ratio is 0.06. So, that means for every $10,000 invested, you spend $6. You Listen, what's Right at this point, you probably at about $30 a year. Right? Like your 401k would never let you get away with that. Right? So, now this one has a dividend of 3%. Now, year to date, it is up 20% because dividend stocks have been doing really, really good this year. But, on a 5 years up 31%. I'm not mad at this cuz you buying this for dividend and passive income. It has 102 holders inside of it. Now, let's break this down. Consumer defense makes up 19%. Healthcare makes up 18%, technology makes up 16%, energy makes up 15%, financials makes up 9%. Now, we get a whole different set of diversity over here. Why? Because Qualcomm is the big dog over here. Not Nvidia, not Microsoft, none of those. We're talking Qualcomm. Then Texas Instrument, then Coca-Cola, then Procter & Gamble, and then Merck. So, now we understand why consumer defense, which would be the Coca-Cola and your Procter & Gamble. So, we like this. So, this gives us diversification. We like that. So, now we go on broad stock market with everything, then we go down to what? Technology. Now, we go to another level into what? Defense. Now, you can put this however you want. The goal now is to structure your money however you want. So, let's say you have $1,000. Our goal would be to structure our $1,000 to the one we are the most comfortable with. Let's go a little further. Number four on the list, I'mma shock y'all. This is the EWY. This is the South Korean stock market. Why, Trap? Because we want some of that overseas money. We want the overseas money. And this one focuses on South Korea. Now, why South Korea? Well, when you think about the South Korean stock market, it is heavy, heavy, heavy on technology. That's what's running a lot of the South Korean stock market. So, look at They have 83 holdings in it. And watch this. This one has a 15 0.59% expense ratio. Which means watch this, y'all. For every $10,000, you are paying this fund $59. Hey, you're still below, but you're paying your people. Right? You're still below that. So, watch this. Year-to-date is up 81.81% 81% almost 82% year-to-date. That is insane. 5 years is up 121%. You feel me? That's why the dividend the dividend SCHD, we ain't really tripping on that because we're going to get it back with the other ones we have. Stability there. Right? So, why is this technology equals 57%? Industrials equals 16.44%? Financials equals 10%? Communication I mean consumer defense equals 4% and communication services equals 5.2%. Now, only one of these companies over here you can invest in on our stock market, which is SK Hynix. Samsung is the number one over there in technology. You can't invest in that here. Um SK Square, which is finance, you can't invest in that here. KB Financial, you can't invest in that here. And Shinhan Financials, you can't invest in that here. But again, here's the top five, again, out of 83 holdings. EWY, because I truly believe as tech keeps going, like these other countries are going to expand, and so the Korean stock market is one I would definitely definitely keep my eye on. We go a little further. Our last one is I want to go semiconductors because I know for a fact semiconductors AI, that has to be one of the cornerstones. Now, it's different than just the technology ETF. And here's why, because I'm going to go with SMH, but I would like either SMH, DRAM, or SOXX. Why? Because these focus on one of the bottlenecks when it comes to um AI. And we know that AI is only going to get bigger and bigger and better bigger. So, here we go. I had we I went with SEA SMH, um which is the focused on the top 25 largest semiconductor companies. So, these are the top 25 largest semiconductor companies. So, what I'm doing is they have a 0.35% ratio. So, what does that mean, y'all? That means for every $10,000 invested, guess what you're paying? $35. $35. That's right, $35. So, this is 100% technology. 100% technology here, right? So, you got NVIDIA at the number one spot with 19%. You have uh TSM the number two spot with 9%. You have AMD at uh 5.7%. You have AVGO at uh 5.23%. You have MUBS 5.1%. So, that's the top five. Let's just say you had $5,000 cuz I wanted to do this for sure. Now, mind you, we got five ETFs. 1 2 3 4 5. Right? So, we got SMH. We got EWY. We got VTI. We got SCHD. And we have QQQ. M. So, we have $5,000. So, I would go and now you say which one we going to put the most money in. So, let's say you you somebody that want to be aggressive. So, you say, "You know what, Trap? I'mma go SMH number one and then now I'm putting $2,500." Or I'mma just do it like this. Let's say you say, "Trap, you know what? I'mma put $2,000 in here out the gate." All right, cool. So, you know you got $3,000 left. So, you say, "All right, Trap, with that I want balance the rest. So, I went heavy SMH here. So, for my number two, I'm not going to go heavy SMH cuz I want balance. So, you say, 'Trap, I'mma go VTI here.' And for here, Trap, I'mma put $1,000." Or I'mma go even better. I'mma help y'all a little more. I'mma say you can go $1,500. All right. So, now the you 35 you 3,500 in. So, you got 1,500 left. You got 1,500 left. So, you say, "You know what, Trap? I got my my aggression here with SMH. I got my balance here. So, you now you say, 'You know what, Trap? I'mma wait I'mma I want to go semi-aggressive cuz I want to go out the country a little bit.' So, now you say, 'All right, I'll go EWY.' Now, what you want put here? You say, "All right, Trapp. I'mma go You say, "I'll go 1,000." All right? So, you got 1 2 3 4 50 right here. And so now, it's easy. You take these last two, you go SCHD, and you go QQQM. What you have left? You got 500 left, right or wrong? You got 500 left, right? You say, "All right, Trapp. Here's what I'mma do. I'mma go 300 here SCHD, and then I'mma go 200 here." Now, you broke down your 500. You got 2,000. That's 3,500. That's 45, and now you break these down, and now you got your And now you're doing every year as you're breaking this down this way. You've broken down your $5,000 into ETFs that don't intermingle with one another. So, this is a good look at how you can break that down. It's your boy The Wall Street Trapper. I hope I helped you a lot with this one right here, because I want to help you navigate. I want you to take sole control of your financial financial freedom, and empower yourself, man. Change your financial algorithm. Let's go, man. Make sure you like, subscribe, and tell me in the chat what you'll do if you had the $5,000 and how you would break it down into these five stocks. It's your boy The Wall Street Trapper. Make sure you like, share, and help us get to 2,000 likes on this one. Salute.