I'm located in Europe. About half of my portfolio consists of European stocks with the Euro as currency. The other half is US stocks. Lately the Euro has been getting stronger which is frustrating. I'm very happy with the performance of my stocks but the recent EUR/USD movements are eating most of my gains. This is so annoying. I'm confident with my stockpicking but I have absolutely nothing to say about EUR/USD except that interest is gonna stay at zero in Europe for a while while there are interest hike rates for the US Dollar. Which as far as I understood should strengthen the US Dollar. I don't want to speculate on currencies but at the same time I want to at least have some US stocks. How to go about this? Why is nobody ever talking about currency risk when investing although it can nullify your gains? (for the US it's obvious but not even in German stocks communities people touch this topic although it seems important to me)
Submitted June 28, 2017 at 07:15PM by Cygopat http://ift.tt/2tmpAFP
