ES

shmito17

Go long if ES goes above 6680. Short if it’s below 6615. Not touching this in between.

Bubbly-Fly-205

/ES flagging and trend move incoming.

Hot-Pop-3250

I'm gonna sell ES futes

kammar1

Either trade credit spreads, or trade ES futures options instead, they use SPAN so the margin requirement is smaller. However, they are half the size in terms of multiplier so you will have to pay more commissions to ibkr. And it's not cash settled so unlike SPX if you get assigned you will receive a long or short ES futures position which may not be optimal for some

neutralpoliticsbot

a way to hedge your options after hours on days like this. I am holding $SPY Debit Call Spreads right now and there is a possibility this rally fades by open So I sell short /MESM26 (Micro ES futures) contract. Now if futures retrace I can close it and capture some of this rally before market even opens. Can get cucked if futures jump evne higher but thats what stop losses are for

civillyRange

Suddenly I can trade futes till 5 Used to close 4:15 and open at 6 If i had known I would have bought some ES futures after Barron texted me the news

FNFactChecker

Did his buddies front-run it with ES futures again? Saw the moon candles right after the 4:15 EST options close 👀

iShitBloodandCumShit

Rugpull soon on futures when they realize futures are fake…..despite someone going long with 51k ES contracts at close.

2020isgreat

yeah ES calling bs on ceasfire

Bubbly-Fly-205

/ES bull flagging.

LarryStink

Written order for 82nd airborne division probably going to come out after hours.  6400 by friday? 🔮 ES futures puts, short eur/usd futures & longs puts, long nat gas calls.  HOLD ON TO YOUR BUTTS!

Upset-Motor-2602

18-point ATR on 5-minute chart for ES is not normal.....

Dazzling_River9903

Someone bet 1.3bn in ES futures shortly before the announcement and like 130m in oil shorts hmmm

XG32

My condolences...BUT ES direction and risk management over the long term are two things you should get right at a minimum. Now that it's all over you are STILL blaming Trump.

shortitforever

ES saw the oil crisis and said, “Fine, I’ll drill for it myself” LMAO

Ok-Piano8789

big boys are out to play in ES tonight

looool_k_libtard

Just because someone bought 1.5 billion in ES futures 5 minutes before 🥭 announcement doesn’t mean they had prior knowledge. Stop crying!

Next_Tower5452

BREAKING: Just five minutes before Trump's announcement to halt the attacks on Iran, massive trades reportedly hit the market. In one move, $1.5 billion in S&P 500 (ES) futures was bought while $192 million in oil (CL) futures was sold. These orders were 4–6x larger than anything else at the time. The trader seemingly made huge gains.

One-Signature-2706

Why the fuck didn’t you specify you bought options on ES futures for example instead of using weird language and then falsely calling someone retarded for not knowing? You could have just said “bought options on futures” instead of being a tryhard and purposefully disingenuous. What platform do you use? CME?

JamesAQuintero

Yep, 4500 ES contracts at a 250 point gain, give or take, is $12,500 per contract or $56,000,000 in PROFIT.

Own_Proposal_4931

Not trashing this at all, but I do want to clarify that it was 1.5 billion of notional value. So, somewhere around 4,500 ES contracts or so. Still absolutely wild.

Hercules1579

5 minutes before Trump’s announcement: $1.5B notional worth of S&P500 (ES) futures are bought in a single clip. $192M notional of oil futures (CL) sold. More than 4x–6x any other trade size during the market close. Insiders profited from his lies in broad daylight!

404MoralsNotFound

Guess the criminals are done cashing out their ES & Oil futures, so back down we drip.

ajibtunes

5 minutes before 🥭’s announcement: * $1.5B notional worth of S&P500 (ES) futures are bought in a single clip. * $192M notional of oil futures (CL) sold. More than 4x-6x any other trade size during the market close. Insiders profited from his lies in broad daylight!

ResponsibleAnt8049

**5 minutes before Trump’s announcement:** **\* $1.5B** notional worth of S&P500 (ES) futures are bought in a single clip. **\* $192M** notional of oil futures (CL) sold. More than **4x-6x** any other trade size during the market close.

optionsCone

Fuck these insiders > 5 minutes before Trump’s announcement: >* $1.5B notional worth of S&P500 (ES) futures are bought in a single clip. >* $192M notional of oil futures (CL) sold. >More than 4x-6x any other trade size during the market close. >Insiders profited from his lies in broad daylight!

looool_k_libtard

“Someone” bought 1.5 billion worth of ES futures 5 minutes ahead of the announcement at 7 am. The layers of corruption this brazenly public is genuinely insane.

Affectionate-Tax9885

5 minutes before 🌮 announcement: * $1.5B notional worth of S&P500 (ES) futures are bought in a single clip. * $192M notional of oil futures (CL) sold. More than 4x-6x any other trade size during the market close Source: https://x.com/adamscochran/status/2036070980754239563?s=46

Beagle001

\* $1.5B notional worth of S&P500 (ES) futures are bought in a single clip. \* $192M notional of oil futures (CL) sold. More than 4x-6x any other trade size during the market close.

orrangearrow

[LOL](https://x.com/adamscochran/status/2036070980754239563) 5 minutes before Trump’s announcement: * $1.5B notional worth of S&P500 (ES) futures are bought in a single clip. * $192M notional of oil futures (CL) sold.

Short_Bus_

put down the crack pipe It was a 230pt move on /ES in 5 minutes in the middle of the night you get moves like that maybe a couple of times a year, and only on big new

notreallydeep

I don't even doubt that insider trading is a thing with this administration (it's probably a thing in any admin, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's much more in this one). But seriously? A 3% jump in ES 20 minutes before any outsider knows why? All in a few seconds? The capital required to do that in that time makes it a conspiracy wilder than the moon landing being fake or Bush bombing the Twin Towers. Reddit at this point is just a collective version of Alex Jones. Actual rotted brains.

Sudden_Ad_4193

Yeah they do and if you were short, you’re totally royally fucked this morning. ES moved 220 pts in 5 minutes. Why? Because of a tweet, that might be a complete lie.

Panthera__Tigris

Whats the best way to short SPY during pre market or after hours? I dont have futures activated (non-American) so can't trade ES minis or whatever yet.

iShitBloodandCumShit

Watch there be a 200 point wick on ES.

iShitBloodandCumShit

Already lost 110 points on ES lmao.

Professional_Car6703

ES 9000 by Friday. Lfggggggg /s

Upset-Motor-2602

Closed out ES futures on that spike...too much crazy

neverturndownagain

Dude buys calls on Friday hoping for market bottom. Trump announces war ending for the 3rd time after market close. $SPY up +0.5% in AH. Dude believe Trump and celebrates. Prepares steak for dinner. War escalates over the weekend. Trump news was unreliable. Dude feels betrayed. Back to ramen dinner Saturday night. Checks on weekend wall street chart every 30 minutes. ES futures open Sunday red. Now, he is certain bottom is coming on Monday as it's even more oversold. Will average down Monday at open. The end.

OurNewestMember

The 60/40 and mark to market treatment on SPX can be benefit. But there are other factors Cash settlement and no contrary exercises cuts the pin risk. This is the place to start European style exercise saves the potential cost of early assignment. Also a key difference SPX has more expirations listed at a given time, plus AM expirations, also narrower strikes SPX also doesn't have big adjustments for dividends like SPY SPX can cross margin with securities (like SPY but unlike potentially similar alternatives like ES options) SPX options trade around the clock. But if the broker doesn't support SPX options, there's certainly a decent list of services not offered by that broker. That could be more important than not getting to trade index options.

Marlov

Cmon don't be obtuse. Would you sell a 1 week ATM ES straddle for 5 points?

Wowmuchrya

They keep edging bulls 2-3 pts from green on ES futures just to dump LMAO These guys at least have a sense of humor Anyways SPY 500 EOW

Roygbiv-Turtle-98

Just say "went long ES" "futures" is implied.

Ok-Piano8789

they're looking at CME S&P futures right now, ES1! on tradingview, /ES in your brokerage, or [https://www.investing.com/indices/us-spx-500-futures?cid=1175153](https://www.investing.com/indices/us-spx-500-futures?cid=1175153) if you're a regard

MiVegaLoca

$27k BP reduction in one ES contract on TastyTrade. This is fucking ridiculous.

Bubbly-Fly-205

/ES paid longs after bear trap today.

-IQ200

Hoping futes gap fill then a hard reject sell off for Asia open. ES back below 6505 (~SPY 643) by NY session plz.

Significant_Speed854

I think this first half hour was fake. Oil is going up, ES down

Ok-Piano8789

just shorted ES, longed CL, bout to long more red wine, join me in valhalla bros

_callcc

Load puts on ES, they manipulate CL when there's low volume, it will quickly get back to where it should be

_callcc

ES is trading relative to CL which is a manipulated market

Chef_The_Ferret

My plan right now is to deploy 25% capital into Googl and Meta at ES 6400, 20% into AMZN and 5% into IBIT leaps at ES 6100, and all remaining capital into NVDA and BRK.B at ES 5800 Will we get there, who knows, but 5800 is close enough to 20% correction and Golden fib from tariff low for me to go all in and hold without regret

_callcc

ES only down 0.61% so far... load puts while you still can.

Swiftnice

yea there's options on lots of futures although ES, CL and GC are the most liquid. Some of the others have almost no volume.

Hot-Ambassador8740

There’s options on ES futures? Lol

Swiftnice

Options on ES futures give you so much leverage it's crazy

teelib1992

For some reason decided to jump into a silver futures short when it hit first $100 thinking I could catch a decent sell off, I usually just trade ES… yeah that hurt. Guess I wasn’t wrong but that pain became too much once it touched $110+. Biggest hit I ever took in a day

AnyPortInAHurricane

I sleep like a baby. And cry like one when I moss the 200 point ES rally

LawyersGunsAnd_Money

**Sunday 6pm ET / 3pm PT** When ES futures reopen.

stockfun77

It was nothing more than a weekly sweep on ES1. Period.

buppiejc

Right. My bad. I’m an options trader. Sometime I forget ES and NQ are more than just indicators. 😂

Ok-Piano8789

very legal and cool how you can see on the ES chart the ppl who got the whisper panic buying at 4:40-4:50ish

Ok-Piano8789

ES -3 stdev bollinger soon, possible support, it really doesnt like closing outside that, but this is also extraordinary circumstances so who knows

brainlet99094

ES at 6600, we either bottom here or I sell everything

Different_Being368

Quick scale on that ES bounce, thank you very much 🥰

Morning6655

I will be careful with ES and NQ, the notional is too high and one big overnight move can wipe you. I have paid the price in every vol moves expect this one as my notional exposure is in check now.

Roygbiv-Turtle-98

RSI on the 30m ES

neutralpoliticsbot

im kinda digging Micro futures on Russell and Micro ES small margin requirements, no PDT rules

SighRamp

SPY can't get lower until ES breaks retests and fails 6616.

SighRamp

wait until ES breaks, re-tests and fails 6616 before buying SPY puts.

AlaskanSnowDragon

Agree... Im loving the volatility. Selling 3-5 delta puts on ES and NQ and pulling in 1k a week easy with no stress.

AlaskanSnowDragon

Im loving the volatility. Selling 3-5 delta puts on ES and NQ and pulling in 1k a week easy with no stress.

SighRamp

SPY won't go lower until ES breaks retest and fails 6616

SighRamp

ES 6616 needs to break retest and fail for next downside

lookingforajob2020

thank fuck I forgot to sell my 1dte SPY puts yesterday afternoon because I know my dumbass would've bought 0dte calls on ES futures 2 hours ago

targetedliberal

Wow good thing you didn’t trade a full ES contract. What a regard

Bubbly-Fly-205

/ES bears are still in control.

k3t4mine

That's the whole reason for futures in the first place. A lot of big fund managers and institutions use them this way, they buy and sell futures to maintain a certain delta / beta / whatever. Investors usually don't hold them for long positions because you have negative carry. Ie the price of an ES futures contract is Spot \* (1 + (r \* 90/365)). So at the current interest rate, 6000 on SPX would be 6054 at the start of the 3m contract period. Negative carry is the fact that, over time, that spread compresses so they expire with no carry left. Essentially, you pay the risk free rate to hold futures, so over a year you are paying 3.75% currently. That eats into returns.

Salty-Bid1597

Major divergence between ES and Jap and Euro futures. What's he done now?

This_Carpenter1065

Holy shit i was shorting /ES that day too 😭 my heart beat out of my chest as i watched the charts alllllll day. Never again…

spyputs1

Time to go long ES she going to 6660

Swiftnice

Only broke bitched trade MES. I trade ES all night son

LeavingLasVega

Did news come out? Why was there actual volume on that ES candle

ModeForJoe

Peak to trough on /ES for the day was 2.35% ...that's a lot of swinging around, esp overnight.

Any-Camel-9913

i have shorts in COIN, solana and ES futures

Country_Gravy420

8 PM is going to be a fucking bloodbath when Asia dumps ES futures

NlNJANEER

Me watching while jacked to the tits with ES mini shorts 🚬 🚬🚬🚬

These-Television2594

There's so much at play that I think there's alot of uncertainty in the markets. Golds epic run fueled by BRIC's introducing currency "Units" that was backed by gold is now in jeopardy that Russia agreed to sell oil in us dollars. Where do we go from here is units dead? ES and NQ have been in a 6 month range near ATH's, While a good amount of stocks are 50% off of highs, due to AI scare, Private credit scares. MAG7 is literally holding up the market. On top of Stagflation and a weakened job market, will it continue to weaken with more AI job layoffs? Now China positioning it self to surround Taiwan, which the US told them to not touch. possible ww3? I think until we start getting some firm answers to some of these questions we're going to see choppy markets that have no rhyme or reason.

givemethestars000

Shorted the fuck out of ES. Made 10k. except it was paper trading :(

OptionGamble

Literally sold my ES short at the high of last night 😪

Roygbiv-Turtle-98

bers acting like they shorted ES at the top of this 🤣

rd26

Looking good, took a short ES while I'm awake taking a piss. Will close when I wake up again. Hopefully up, if not such is life.

Theipodrookie

Bessent slamming buy on ES

EvolvingDior

Why? ES, NQ, YM, RTY all kinda trade in parallel overnight until the morning session.

Significant_Speed854

ES moves .02%

Big_Change_7175

Tanuki 0dte filter seemed to line up with geeks of finance 0dte filter they were just a little bit off mind you I am comparing tanuki NQ futures gamma exposure to geeks of finance QQQ gamma exposure since geeks of finance does not have futures NQ and ES gamma exposure obviously they are SPX and QQQ so the comparison is very much similar when I am looking at both of them on different platforms and but since one is an ETF and the other is a futures they will not line up perfectly but looking at both next to each other they both were giving the same modeling and where the exposure is for example today NQ was basically limited to a number at its highest today before it sold off in the afternoon and tanuki showed no high level or a significant level you can say price action was climbing too and on geeks of finance QQQ they have an option on platform where it shows a “Dealer cluster zone” those zones are where market makers will buy and sell” and QQQ showed that it was in the dealer selling zone on their platforms so they made were projecting the same model geeks of finance have YouTube videos to show to show you their platforms they post daily.

Big_Change_7175

I ended up going with tanuki and geeks of finance for now. I think tanuki is great especially since it gives you gamma exposure for futures too for NQ and ES I mainly bought geeks of finance for their education and their insights I think they are fantastic but after I get a strong understanding from their insights and platform I will most likely keep tanuki and switch to quant data or vol signals to try them out

dragonowl2025

Some crazy better gambles out there, hell if you are willing to take a 270k drawdown just fucking load up on /ES or /NQ

splitstar2004

Correct. Except due to tax rules on 1256 contracts (spx is an example), your gains get taxed differently than regular spy options or just plain old spy shares. Instead of the normal short term vs long term time based rules for normal stocks, spx (and other index options like it) get taxed at a 60/40 split no matter if you hold for 1 second or 10 years. It’s like futures contracts if you’ve ever traded NQ or ES Don’t know how to make it any more clear than that on how that’s “legal”

HalaMadridPapaFlo

US stock futures climbed early Monday as investors looked to stabilize after another weak week for equities, while keeping a close watch on surging oil prices from the war between the US and Iran. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average (YM=F) rose 0.4%, S&P 500 futures (ES=F) and Nasdaq 100 futures (NQ=F) both made gains of around 0.5%. lmao bers