Sector funds versus broad market funds.
A broad fund bets on the whole market. A sector fund bets on one piece of it. What QQQ, the S&P 500, and the Russell indexes actually hold.
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This is how you take a bet on the entire market. This is how you take a bet on a specific sector. These are broad market funds. These are sector funds.
Sector funds track specific sectors: technology, industrials, finance. Broad market usually means the Nasdaq, which is QQQ and is mostly technology, the S&P 500, which is a lot of technology now too, and the Russell 2000 and Russell 1000, which are the smaller companies.
If you like specific sectors, you buy sector funds. If you are more bullish on the overall market, you go with broad index funds because you do not want to take extra risk. Market risk and sector risk. Those are your two levers.
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