I’m 24, new to the stock market and make ~90k a year, how much of my income should I have in stocks? (Not including 401k)

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Everything except 3-6 months worth of living expenses ready if an emergency occurs.

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This what I’m doing. I’m no expert tho. Just putting absolutely everything I don’t immediately need into VTI and VOO and not looking. Best lazy portfolio.

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Agree on having an emergency cash fund, but also cash funds that you are saving up for where you don't want the value to fluctuate (e.g. down payment for house, wedding). The rest should be invested to get your money working. If you don't want to choose your own ETFs, you could use a roboadvisor service like Wealthfront or Betterment. They will ask you some questions to gauge your risk tolerance, then suggest a portfolio of ETFs and stock vs. bond allocation, and rebalance the portfolio periodically to that allocation so you can manage your portfolio return variance sensibly. I have a large chunk of the money I am counting on for retirement in roboadvisors / buy and forget ETFs. Then another chunk of money for me to play with in choosing individual stocks, but I don't count on that for retirement in case I screw things up.

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My monthly income is 8k 3.5 k for my living and other expenses 200’dollars is random spending 200 dollars cash holding. 4.1 k straight into VTI and 80% of bonus straight into VOO.

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