RE: GDXJ25 Feb 2021 08:50
WOW @kieffy. Do be careful and please do some ore work on how things actually work.
Funds are a very useful tool in your portfolio. To give a real example - I put some of my portfolio in Scottish Mortgage at around the start of the first lockdown (a year ago). I wanted to get in to Tesla and some other US stocks but the costs of dealing individually would have been way too much.
This fund did well, very well, around a 110% increase. Recently with EON playing silly with BTC, I checked and found the fund ha grown their TESLA involvement to 10% of the fund - too much for me, I sold. TESLA, BTC, and the fund have since dropped (Scottish down over 17% in one day.
I could not have achieved my 110% realised gain in those stocks without the fund.
So buying all your own shares may well be fools gold if you have limited knowledge of what you are doing! Do investigate funds, they may work better for you!