# Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it because it tracks all public stocks, weighted by float-adjusted market cap, and has outperformed recently. No recurring criticism appeared in the quotes.

## Why people recommend it

- Tracks all public stocks (2 comments): "move to entire market index funds (VTI for example) for a few months around these IPOs to minimize the blast radius" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48384762)) "It literally tracks all public stocks, weighted by market cap so no such manipulation is possible." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47395735))
- Market-cap weighted, resists manipulation (2 comments): "It literally tracks all public stocks, weighted by market cap so no such manipulation is possible." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47395735)) "It's float adjusted market cap weighted." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334457))
- Often swapped in for VOO (2 comments): "sell your VOO and buy VTI instead" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48408709)) "a mixed VOO-VTI-VWO strategy" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47278838))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [S&P 500 index fund](https://hackerapproved.com/p/s-p-500-index.md): 28 recommend
- [Invesco QQQ Trust](https://hackerapproved.com/p/qqq.md): 11 recommend
- [Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF](https://hackerapproved.com/p/vanguard-total-stock-market-etf.md): 11 recommend
- [Vanguard S&P 500 ETF](https://hackerapproved.com/p/voo.md): 10 recommend
- [Vanguard S&P 500 ETF](https://hackerapproved.com/p/vanguard-s-p-500-etf.md): 9 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF", https://hackerapproved.com/p/vti/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).