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Epi Lepi
Oct 29, 2009

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Telling you to Love
It's the voice of MK Ultra
And you're doing what it wants
Not sure if this is a question for this thread or the Long Term Investing thread but, I have 11 shares of Amazon in my IRA Accounts. I bought them in 2015/16 so they're worth 5x as much now. I'm in my early 30s, not retiring for a long time so I don't need to pull them out or anything but I'm not super comfortable having so much money in a single stock. They represent like a third of the value of my IRA accounts.

I don't know whether I should sell and put the proceeds in a mutual fund or leave it a lone or just keep an eye out for some nebulous "signal" that it'll be a good time to sell. Any advice that you all can give me? Sell all but 1 or 2 shares maybe?

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Epi Lepi
Oct 29, 2009

You can hear the voice
Telling you to Love
It's the voice of MK Ultra
And you're doing what it wants

tangy yet delightful posted:

You could post in both threads and receive twice the posts of opinions :v:

Much like your [posting] portfolio, you want diversification in your retirement accounts. What are the other 2/3rds of your IRA accounts in?

I wouldn't want 33% of my retirement tied into any single company, especially since you probably also have stuff like S&P 500 or some sort of tech bundle that carries a lot of amazon so your true amazon concentration is even higher. I would sell it all now and throw it all into a vanguard target date fund that matches when you plan to retire.

I've got money in the Vanguard 2040 target retirement fund but I realized a few years ago that was extremely optimistic and so have put my last few contributions into the 2050 target retirement fund which is still optimistic but not as unreasonable. The two of them make up about 45% of my IRA's value and the rest are small positions in random S&P 500 stocks from when I first opened the accounts.

The Vanguard funds are another thing I'm unsure of, do I leave the 2040 alone or just sell now to put into 2050. Does it matter?

Ola posted:

Sit it on them for 20 years. Diversify by saving more and buying other stuff.

I mean, valid. I get worried sometimes that Amazon will finally get regulated in some way that will tank the value but who knows if that will happen or if it will matter.

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