Big Luke : owning them directly is more profitable because the etf also splits the % with cash and treasuries... meaning you don't get the same overall return on the mag 7 as just owning equal portions of them.
benefit is they rebalance for you and less volatile than owning directly.

Big Luke : In my humble opinion, this will likely outperform many ETFs for long term, its focusing on a future next gen technology that is proving to be more and more promising every month.
If you look at the breakdown of the ETF it has some pretty strong companies in it (NVIDIA, google, AMD, and more) that will overall support good growth of this ETF.
The short term risk i see in this ETF is that a few of the small pure plays (such as IONQ, Riggetti, Dwave, Arqit) jumped up in terms of overall percentage of the ETF, they make up a significant percentage of the ETF. All of those companies tend to move drastically (10-20% up or down)all at once on any type of quantum news.
So it could be  more volatile than something like QQQ, however over the long run the winners will help boost it and the losers will make buying opportunities for the etf.

Big Luke OP i short the sheriff : i have no clue, average person is probably 0-10%  but then you get people like me who put 20% in a roth account to max it out as early as i can.

Big Luke OP : i should add friday isnt just gov employees... its most W2 employees in the US with 401k plans...

Big Luke : I feel like i agree, I was thinking about some of the surges up we saw this week that turned red by the end of the day.
My wife is a government employees who was caught in all that layoff BS and i was tracking her payments issued by the gov. Monday you had millions of government employees get 60% of thier backlog of 1.5 months of paychecks which injected 401k money into the indexes... market surged up at 930 and dropped like a knife later.
Today is the same story... they are getting the remaining 40% of backlog plus thier  normal paycheck... so its likely why there will be a surge.
fully expecting people to chicken out and see it as an opportunity to exit.

Big Luke OP BB Brown : yeah I mean.. all I am trying to get at is that even "magnificent 7 stocks" have 25% declines occasionally... look at meta recently.... even Google is only recently recovered from a 25% dip in the last couple months.
this is normal behavior compared to a typical stock asset... can't expect it to rise in a steady straight line lol.

Big Luke OP Noobie27 : yeah i am in the same boat, but learning to just let it happen with a decent stock...

Big Luke : so I work at a major defense contractor and see a lot of the defense supply chain.
There is a big push (meaning they are just chucking money at us) by the government for something called "The davidson prediction" in 2027... I think this is the main driver for investments like intel, Mp, and more.