So I have been investing in stash for a while, I love the app but most importantly I love the opportunities it provides for people to start investing. At the end of the day the investing game is pretty simple. If you are a fan of the Warren Buffet principles you know that you want to buy the stocks of good companies and just hold them. In my opinion that is all you need to do. Where we as humans get a little side tracked is by trying to time the market.

Reality Check: Hey your stocks will have a bad day or a bad week or a bad month. Thats when you are suppose to buy more. The truth is that the stock market itself averages about a 10% return per year, that means some years it will be more some years it will be less. There is not a human being alive who has been able to provide a better return than the stock market over an extended period of time. That's just facts! So you shouldn't be thinking that you are the next stock wizard, if you sell whenever your stocks go down NEWSFLASH you are only ever going to be selling at a loss. And I totally understand, you may get a case of FOMO when you see your portfolio hasn't done anything and someone else is up 10-20%. Don't do that, that how you end up shooting yourself in the foot. Buy good companies and hold them. An even better way to automate your return is to find stocks you like and add to them every week wether they are up or down. You can do this with STASH at no extra cost, something that you cant do with most other investment tools.

This list of performing stocks and ETFs seemed to be a pretty helpful tool last week and the responses I got from other STASHers was appreciated. On that note I decided to keep this going as a weekly/month update about how all of the STASH stocks and ETFs are doing. I will try to keep you guys updated on the regular basis about some of the bigger names. It was a pretty good week overall. Some notables, Netflix which is usually crushing it was down -3.05% this week. That's probably just a little investor nervousness they report earnings on Monday and expectations are very high. Lockheed Martin and Amazon were killing it this week. We know everyone is waiting for Prime Day next week so that explains why Amazon is up so much. Here is the full list of Stocks and ETFs below.

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ETFs

The top 5 performing ETFs for the week:

Defending America  +3.31%

Internet Titans +2.6%

Data Defenders +2.26%

American Innovators +2.11%

On Cloud Nine +2.02%


The Worst Performing ETFs for the week are:

Real Estate Tycoon -0.92%

Retail Therapy -1.22%

All That Glitters -1.26%

High Voltage -1.29%

Corporate Cannabis -3.19%

Colossal China -1.05%

Stocks

The top 5 performing Stocks for the week:

Lockheed Martin Corp +6.41%

Amazon.com Inc +5.99%

Activision Blizzard Inc +5.58%

Starbucks Corp +5.39%

Walt Disney Co +4.98%


The Worst Performing Stocks for the week are:

Cisco Systems Inc -2.18%

Union Pacific Corp -2.18%

JD.com Inc ADR -3.02%

Netflix Inc -3.05%

Twitter Inc -4.63%