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SPX Pinned in a Tight Overnight Range — 7700 Resistance, 7625 Support in Focus (9/3)
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SPX Coiled Between 7700 Resistance and 7648 Support Heading Into Tuesday (8/31)
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SPX/ES Pre-Market Levels Held All Session — Missed a Planned Fill by $0.05, Still Closed +$362 on a
Look, folks, we’re looking at the charts, we’re looking at the ES, and frankly, it’s a disaster.
Split market, but pockets of strength are emerging
Can anyone explain to me what it’s like to trade SPX after hours? What chart do you look at? How do you track it at night?
while everyone was buying 0DTEs, i was slowly grinding ES
Weekly credit put diagonal on ES and NQ as a partial hedge
Flat SPX while MAGS and semis rotate in opposite directions
What is the Tax rule for "constructive sale/straddle treatment" of futures on SPY
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Someone has been farming SPX 0DTE options with fake geopolitical headlines all week - receipts here.
April 14: $ES leading and Stocks working with Friday’s highs
April 14: $ES leading and Stocks working with Friday’s Highs
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Nice start to the week, 2 winners
Why are CME margins $25,000/contract for the S&P500 e-mini contract (ES)?
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I usually wait for 3 Indications before going Long or Short. I use this overlay for GC / ES / NQ on the 15 minute chart
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What moves the QQQ/SPY/ES/NQ? Is it the underlying stock? Or the actual buying/selling of the etf/future?
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And those ES 7750 puts I told you buy/add to into the close yesterday are prinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnting
For those who follow, I have updated the ES chart with the levels. Note, we have the NFP report at 08:30 am ET today. We expect repositioning. https://preview.redd.it/a1y3pyigqgnh1.png?width=1738&format=png&auto=webp&s=503c957eeb41c011b1dc372b3d654a244a7d7714
3/3 for on 0DTE ES puts this morning... adding to ES 1DTE 7750 puts this hour I'll scalp 3k all day every day while you LARP in the comments
sorry for what? I'm 3/3 of on ES put scalping so far today... and put entry no. 4 is right now
ES put entry swing trade no 3, engage
/ES trapped bears yesterday and ran 100 points.
Pre-market ES put entry on totally real data
Levels drift for sure. When ES is that clear the print's a lot easier to size off than mid-session noise.
great. we can never know how the levels will move during the day. But the current ES setup is more clear than ever.
/ES is the S&P E-mini Futures Contract SPX only has options you autist
The plan was to make some tweaks and test this on QQQ next. But id still have my 0dte data issue. I had that realization earlier today that I might just be better off testing on ES. Did not realize NT would give me that capability, I will be looking into that. Thanks brother
Replicating this site would be a same-day job for Claude — everything on it is off-the-shelf SaaS scaffolding wrapped around a simple rules engine, with zero proprietary tech, IP, or hard-to-source data. What the site actually is It's a single-page marketing site + gated dashboard for a $37/mo SPX/ES "gamma wall" scoring tool. Strip away the copy and it's four components: a landing page, an 11-field scoring readout (Wall Strength, GEX Regime, Flip Proximity, Directional Bias, Wall Shift/Migration, Risk Warning), a Stripe paywall, and a scheduled job that recalculates the scores through the trading day. Why nothing here is proprietary The data isn't theirs. Gamma exposure (GEX) is computed from public options open interest and Greeks — the same inputs every GEX tool (SpotGamma, GammaEdge, unofficial free trackers) already uses. There's no unique dataset here, just a standard options-chain feed (e.g., CBOE, Polygon, Tradier, or a free options API) run through a gamma-exposure formula that's published and well-documented. The "scoring" is just labeled thresholds. Fragile/Moderate/Strong/Dominant, the confidence score, "flip proximity as a multiple of expected move" — these are all deterministic bucket rules on top of GEX math, not a trained model or secret sauce. Claude can write that logic directly from the plain-English descriptions already sitting in the page copy. The frontend is a template pattern. Hero, "how it works" 3-step, feature breakdown with screenshots, single pricing tier, FAQ, disclaimer footer — this is the standard indie-SaaS landing page structure, almost certainly built fast with Next.js/React + Tailwind + a component library, deployed on Vercel. Nothing about the layout, animations, or copy tone is technically defensible. The infra is commodity. Stripe for billing, a cron job or serverless function for the intraday refresh, a database row per session snapshot. All boilerplate any competent dev (or Claude) assembles from memory. None of these steps involve novel engineering — it's assembling known primitives. Want me to build a working clone right now?
unlike other people who just LARP in here, I actually call out my entries in real time and scalp ES all day, go back to sleep
Also you were wrong. ES ran for an hour after you said to enter puts
Bullish divergence? NQ higher low, ES equal-ish low? 🤔
/ES put entry no. 2 to scalp some more red candles
here's your /ES put entry
30 handle selloff in ES in 30 minutes
Who said so? look ES futures buddy.
ITM /ES options at open determined by bond yields US & Jap. Green gets Puts, red gets calls….. that’s it
Fully agree with you. Let's see how ES opens in 1 hour or so.
Actually I have the ES 7658, which is SPX 7648 as range support. If this fails, we will revisit 7600 quickly. The levels will be something like 7700, 7660, 7648 -> 7617. I am going to take a pcs at around 7620 or 7615 level with short set there. 10 wide.
Which part specifically — the SPX/ES prices, or the wall levels? What do you mean by fake? The prices are just what printed on Friday, and the walls are straight from options open interest. Happy to walk through the actual numbers if you think one's off.
Absolutely. I had CCS during all Friday at 7785/95 levels and the 7700 was tested several times before I did a small of size pcs at 7675/65. And the moment SPX touched the 7700 it bounced off. Really sticky. BTC points to a possible up on ES open with a gap. Will see.
Over the weekend puts were a mistake. I can't even enjoy my Sunday waiting for ES futures/Asia to open
The difference in the drawdown number is huge. This strategy would help reduce the sequence of returns risk for those close to or at retirement. I’m curious how neutralizing delta by going long /ES futures would compare to selling the puts post crash in a wide bid/ask spread market. In my head futures seems like it would be more capital efficient.
/ES building a megaphone after huge bull flag breakout.
>Hedging the NDX book can get out of control fast Yup, and that's exactly why it's very plausible that a large portion of NDX delta hedging gets expressed through NQ futures. With SPX, the hedge mix is much more fragmented across ES, SPY, baskets, other options, etc.
Who’s buying this ES dip!!
Idk man I’m long 3 ES at 7703 I made fat stacks
shorting NQ and ES was the easiest thing after the NVDA pump
why wouldn't you buy /ES calls so you can open/close them during their 23 hours a day?
When /ES clears the resistance, it can then rip to the upper back test targets.
you could have bought /ES puts at the close like I said yesterday and then sold them last night around 8 pm
That's why I go with 1DTE calls on ES futures.
Dude, this is the definition of efficient markets, the best prediction is a martingale. That’s why a lot of pricing theory is even built around it. What all you refuse to realize an acknowledge is that the index is calculated using the weighted average of the underlying and not the SPX options market. The tail doesn’t wag the dog. The other channel is the macro via the futures market. That’s the classic ES -> SPY arb that moves prices. The ETF arb leg between SPY and constituents covers the rest and removes and misgivings. None of you understand this market structure and y’all just look at the chain. How can you even pick a level if the max on strike is purely 20 bps away from the martingale which is the naive prediction. You think gamma is some magic and call/out walls are some magic?
yup, on ES for me, too
damn that was dope i was short on ES and my target got hit in 1 second
That NQ/ES dump off of double top rejection is too obvious.
I don't care that I lost $100k on 15 ES contracts. It just pisses me off that the crypto boys are making money.
Not quite sure what you mean, but I use ES as first guidance. My levels are visible. GEX/Gamma levels are visible from 07:30 am EST and I don't make any analysis on it. The only thing I need to know is whether they align with my ES levels and of course their significance. Beside that GEX exposure changes during the regular cash session.
Totally — I didn’t take it that way at all. I actually love questions like this that pick strategies apart. I get asked this one a lot too. To preface, I don’t think there’s a universally “right” tool. Futures, long options, spreads, shares, etc. all solve slightly different problems, and people should figure out which fits the way they trade. I think you’re right on fees/liquidity. Futures are generally extremely efficient there. ES especially tends to have very tight spreads, while a multi-leg SPX spread can have more costs between commissions, exchange fees, and the bid/ask on two legs. So I’d definitely give futures the advantage on pure execution efficiency. That being said, for me, one of the biggest advantages of credit spreads is that I can be a little less precise. With futures, your P/L responds directly to every point of movement, so entry and exit timing matters a lot. With a far OTM spread, I’m putting up more collateral in exchange for some room to be imperfect. I’m often trading more around ***where I think SPX won’t go*** than trying to perfectly predict where it will go. The other huge one, as I'm sure you know, is **positive theta**. Long options have time working against you, futures are basically time-neutral, while my credit spreads can benefit from time passing as long as price/volatility cooperate. Today is actually a great example of that. Around 9:00 am PT, I took the upside breakout above yesterday’s low around 7660 with a bullish PCS on SPX. Say a futures trader took essentially the same directional trade in ES/MES. SPX stalled, chopped, and eventually slid all the way back toward that same level about an hour later. The futures trade would’ve given back all of the move, depending on the entry. My PCS was still profitable at that point. Even though price had basically returned to where we both entered, the spread had lost value while I was holding it because I’m net short premium. So before anyone gets excited, that doesn’t mean theta is free money — especially with 0DTE, gamma can very quickly overwhelm it if price starts moving toward the short strike. It just gives me another way to be right besides “price immediately moves in my direction.” And I also agree with your last point. I’m not really using spreads purely to capture delta either. Direction matters to me, obviously, but I’m also intentionally using theta, distance from price, volatility, and the defined-risk structure. That combination just fits how I like to trade better
kind of want to all in short ES here...
NQ has always been too fast for me to follow, even during Asia hours. ES seems to have the usual volume
I 100% get you. I open up TradingView and use the weekly or monthly timeframe and I’m like Jesus it really does only go up. And it also - on those timeframes - looks so expensive (NQ/ES).
I was expecting a bear trap under 7700 on the ES. Not sure if last week counts or not
ES down 5, bers eating good
I trade futures NQ and ES. There's already a '23hr market'. You can take trades, easily, except from 5-6pm EST - there the market already moves quite strongly during the asian/london session, anyway, before NY open. Yet still, the vast majority of the movement is during NY open - even with previous movement, which tells me - this news is a big nothing burger. It's already been like this, for years before this "big announcement". All the top american companies dominate the index, and they all operate on American time during normal opening and closing hours. The standard 9 to 5 protocol for every person, employee or boss. So, the influx of more liquidity for another session (which, was already unofficially there to begin with), will make the market easier to trade for my purposes, at least.
My take is that ES and NQ are going back to ATH for the time being. We also need to consider if the ai bubble is acc a bubble or not. To be honest at times like these we just have to wait and go with what the market is giving us. Crypto is back and it seems like it might be a bull trap as well.
Not saying ATH but maybe little higher than 7750. I don’t believe ATH is coming in the next 6 weeks. If it does I will be selling ES.
1. he bought it during market hours. 2. he can't cancel it , it rides and he get's to see where it's at Monday morning. What /ES futures before open -- Will give a good idea where SPY will be .
oh look at that /ES 7700 close like i said 3 hours ago. Bulls join the bears and lets take all theta gangs money
SPY done for the day 7700 /ES close.
ES chopping intraday lows from Wednesday
Algos tried to pump off the 200ema on ES
heres the avg daily ES range of the last 5 days. 60 points. i honestly dont even know if this script is perfectly accurate, but does it matter? it's a close enough heuristic. [https://i.ibb.co/zThZXKg6/image.png](https://i.ibb.co/zThZXKg6/image.png) theoretically you would expect to need to withstand 30 pts up or down before its significant at all. its opex so bump that up to 40-50. do the math on taking 40 points of adverse chop and it being ok enough you dont have to sell. thats how u dont size too big.
SPX is the actual components of the index, and ES is where real people are trading the index, and SPY is like when u hand ur little retarded brother an unplugged controller
tbh u can just put a vwap indicator on your ES chart and if it goes up to it and turns back down for the 60th time in a row u know they're not done. and if it doesnt do that, and instead continues up, maybe they're done. theres not much more to it.
theres lots of stories like this goin around, the lakers guy, suns guy, im sure others and/or their fund and/or their creditors, etc. are facing heat right now. very likely why the ES is has had an iron clad lid at vwap all week, programmatic deleveraging that isnt urgent like a capitulation, but very firm to unload when it hits the threshold. also explains why VIX hasnt given a shit [https://huddleup.substack.com/p/could-a-margin-call-force-a-phoenix](https://huddleup.substack.com/p/could-a-margin-call-force-a-phoenix)
ES right at the 20 day for opex. long above short below izipizi
ES NQ opposite directions :hmmm:
ES down 0.5% NQ down 1% YM down 0.7%
Time to goon, leave a long position on ES. Then bed and wake up poor
Just bought 4 ES 7775 calls. Will sell 8 of the 7800 calls tomorrow and buy 4 of the 7825 turning it into a butterfly. If this plays out like im expecting it should be about 1500% ROIC
There’s a penny stock called ES
Lol I’m staying long 2 gold @4395 and 2 ES at @7703 thru the fed minutes
the rate itself is hard to move much on a small account, they mostly negotiate for volume. the lever nobody's mentioned is contract selection: that $2.25 is basically fixed per contract, so trade the full-size future option (/CL, /GC, /ES) instead of the micro (/MCL, /MGC, /MES). a full-size has roughly 10x the premium of a micro for the same commission, so if you're selling premium the fee as a % of what you collect drops about 10x. on a small account people default to micros to keep size down, but that's exactly what makes $2.25 hurt, it's a big chunk of a tiny micro premium. SPAN is efficient enough that a small account can usually hold one full-size short, just know a naked short's margin scales up fast when vol spikes, so size it as one real position. the micro options are also way less liquid, so the wide bid/ask there often costs you more than the commission. if you genuinely can't fit a full-size, the drag is just the cost of trading that small and negotiating won't fix it.
https://preview.redd.it/q6s8hhcji8kh1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a435c791125e8b25bedd13861e3ff736498e0518 Long 14 ES contracts about to double down. 💀
learn to read the charts. especially NQ and ES futures.
https://preview.redd.it/z24hni6wh8kh1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=767b4b8881118c7ebcaaf73d722bcb8f0c74eff0 Long 14 ES contracts, about to double down! 😂
ES/NQ came into the week with a textbook sell setup. Just cleared last week’s range, 9 straight red 4hr candles. NQ floats up 200pts unscathed in after hours and the bottom is in.
ES barely a single tick over vwap since the friday open, where were the signs :derp:
if SPY 765 and /ES 7700 go, this will get really nice and juicy
You mean the same ES which was literally at all time highs few days ago? 😂😂🤡🤡
Idk about that, i expect ES to bear trap below 7700
S&P /ES futures options trade 23 hours a day
Shocked ES hadn’t hit 7500 yet lmao
My god the volume on ES is non existent. We gonna drop hard soon dude
No I meant. Just going long SPY ETF or ES futures has a better Sharpe and also ROI-to-Drawdown ratio. Why would you still trade this? I see some benefits but wanted to see your logic.
You can by /ES options right now!
That’s why some of defensive sectors are moving because they’re squeezing last drops from megacaps and others in XLK for example but we see declining volume on say ES\_F so need probably some correction I hope maybe flagging into September
buying an (M)ES future is basically buying voo on leverage except and gains (or losses) are immediately added to your account cash balance (they’re mark to market). gains also have the advantage of being taxed as 60/40 long/short term cap gains regardless how long you hold it. 1 MES is about equal to buying 40k VOO and 1 ES is like 400k. the carry cost is similar to buying stock on margin at 3% interest. however you pay nothing upfront and only pnl is reflected in your account. (they do count against your account’s margin though) if the index is flat, the price will slowly decay—that’s your interest/carry cost. you can also buy YM for the dow, NQ for QQQ or RTY for russell 2000 (IWM). i’m treating them as if i actually bought that much stock as that’s how the pricing moves. e.g. if VOO moves 1% you’d get +/- $400 (MES) or $4000 (ES). you don’t get any dividends but that’s reflected in reduced carry costs. the contracts expire so you’ll have to roll them ever 3 months if you stick to the front contracts.
How does one Buy an ES future with a smaller account. Isn't it 30k margin, which is Cash in a Cash account .
You would be better off just buying the ES futures, instead of the SPX synthetic. They will be more liquid with less margin required. This is what the SPX MM's hedge with. You will also get the same 60/40 tax treatment as you would with SPX options.
wait for the news , check /ES and buy XSP since you can before hours
they started around 3AM EST -- go look at ES around that time everyday
european markets effect /ES for one
order flow on /ES is just chaos, no clear pumpy or dumpy feeling