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1 Month Update/Retrospective on broken wing butterfly/condor strategy.
Histogram Insights on 1-15 Day Returns Across Various Assets
GLD move after Bitcoin ETF approval
Deciding REITS for my portfolio. But lack the confidence in knowing how to valuate each choice.
GLD (Gold ETF) Jan 2026 OTM Long Call. Good idea or not?
Lower Cost ETFs: SPY vs VOO, QQQ vs QQQM, GLD vs GLDM, etc
US and Venezuela agree to prisoner swap because US knows Venezuela is about to invade Guyana and the US will have to intervene. Long oil
Thoughts on gold and silver as a trade
Doubled account. What next?
Starting my investing journey. Gonna put 40% each in VOO and QQQM and 20% into GLD so what is everyone’s opinions on these?
Starting my investing journey. Gonna put 40% each in VOO and QQQM and 20% into GLD so what is everyone’s opinions on these?
Diversifying a portfolio that is heavily correlated with SPY
GLD briefly pulled back to the 180 head and shoulders neckline this morning.
Grid Metals Announces Final Drill Results from Donner Lake Supporting a Maiden Resource Estimate by the End of June
Stock suggestions for quick gains and long term holding
GLD Trade Analysis: Are You Too Dumb To Predict Stock Prices? Me Too.
Inflation To Moon On Supply Side Risk
The Advantages of Futures Options Trading over Stock Options: I Increased My Profits 4X
The Advantages of Futures Options Trading over Stock Options: I Increased My Profits 4X
Gold and Gold Miners are about to RIP FACES!
Thoughts on this? Could this lead to a GLD gamma squeeze?
Precious metals, miners give up recent gains as banking fears ease (NYSEARCA:GLD)
Gold shines through the chaos as investors seek safe haven (NYSEARCA:GLD)
Banks are a melting pot and SAfe heavens are back.
Can the Fed really dare not raise rates next week? Who would have thought that gold could rise 6% in a week?
Can the Fed really dare not raise rates next week? Who would have thought that gold could rise 6% in a week?
Miners rise with gold and silver prices on bank sector worries, jobs data (NYSEARCA:GLD)
Anyone invested in a gold or other commodity ETF?
Gold books best week since mid-January as dollar, Treasury yields pull back (NYSEARCA:GLD)
Q3-Q4 Blood Bath? How to play stock Armageddon?
Gold slides below $1,900 after stronger than expected U.S. jobs report (NYSEARCA:GLD)
Gold and silver prices seen rising this year, analyst survey says (NYSEARCA:GLD)
1.1 million people are dead from covid-19. What's next for the economy, stonk prices, interest rates and gold prices?
Gold climbs to best level since April as greenback, Treasury yields slide (NYSEARCA:GLD)
GDXU, JNUG, GLD going to the moon!!!!! I am up 108% in 3 months!!!!!!!
Looking for alternatives to GLD ETF for European investors
Study finds that COVID was the leading cause of death globally in 2021
BREAKING NEWS: Study finds that COVID was the leading cause of death globally in 2021
How does this EMP look in terms of stability and viability?
The progress on inflation using pairs trades
Stop pushing $SPY and $VOO as the answer to everything.
2022-11-09 Wrinkle-brain Plays (Mathematically derived options plays)
2022-10-10 Better Tasting Crayons (Mathematically derived options plays)
2022-10-04 Better Tasting Crayons (Mathematically derived options plays)
How to Fight Russia with Gold and Oil
I derive pleasure from market pain🌈🌈🌈🐻🧸📉=📈🕺
no one can tell me this isnt peak diversification
Central bank net purchasers rise for third consecutive month $GOLD $GLD More Net Buyers Of Gold Then Sellers
Why Gold is The Best Play | Hint: Not Because of A Recession
Trinary Event Horizon - The Fed Has to Choose - Bet The Farm on Tech or Revive Volcker
Unsolicited Technicals post FOMC Update
Gold Is Holding Up as Stocks, Bonds, and Crypto Plunge $GLD, $GDX, $GOLD
Both bonds and gold have been resisting the last few days of selling, and if March 2020 is anything to go by, that is a very good sign for the market.
Week of 6-13-22: Most Important Charts #004
Week of 6-13-22: Most Important Charts #004
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GLD and SLV to the moon
Just loaded 20% of my account into GLD 465c exp 02/20. Wish me luck
GLD calls over the weekend I think are the lowest risk
GLD 465c exp 02/20 **Trust**
Hold my 460 GLD calls?
I need GLD to surpass 460 already wtf
I ban betted GLD to reach 460 by friday, and it did but the banbet mod is not announcing it!!!
GLD down 3.5% yesterday was an absolute joke. I hope you picked up that bargain.
Hah, as it turns out, I am holding 3 day old 20 Feb GLD calls
No , whenever GLD drops $8-$12 , buy calls expiring in 3 days , it always recovers and you make your money , yesterday gold dropped to $4850 now it’s back at $4950
SLV and GLD both spiked, somethings wrong I can feel it
Yeah, I see your point, I don't want to hold physical gold, but what about having 5-7% of your portfolio in an etf like GLD? Historically, this would have helped in inflationary periods like 1969-1983 or flat periods like 2000-2010. I'm thinking of GLD, like i think of VXUS, most of the time VXUS lags VTI, especially the last 25 years - I don't want to hear about last year's VXUS overperformance- for the last 25 years (I'm using this timeframe because I started learning about and investing in this timeframe, so using personal experience) VTI equivalent returned 9.2%, VXUS equivalent 6.38. To my eyes and experience, VTI crushes VXUS, so why bother, but I also know that there are many 10-20 year periods where VXUS beat VTI, like 1969-1983 and 2000-2010, so I hold VXUS, to help my portfolio during those periods. The argument can be made that holding 5-7% GLD for a similar period will help the portfolio, if we hit inflation or a flat period in US equities, which will happen again at some point. History may not repeat, but it does rhyme, especially if USA continues isolationist and tariff policies.
Just 5% more and I'll be back to the entry on my GLD leaps lol
Day 9 waiting for GLD to reach $700
I'm rooting for you (and my GLD calls)
You pay 10% or more over spot to buy physical and take a 10% haircut when you sell, so imo it’s better to buy Leap calls on $SLV and $GLD
GLD prob gonna shoot past 500 during the summer
the rothschilds must have seen my $GLD banbet
Leave $GLD alone let it rise back up Jfc
***$GLD will set you free***
I bought GLD, it’s probably going to zero now lol
GLD bounce incoming. Asian markets closed for lunar new year picking right back up tomorrow !
DXY dropped like a stone and GLD still down 3%. Since retail bought massive calls last week, I'd normally think that institutions are gonna sell equities, but suspiciously it looks like they're winding up to buy equities with their gold profit.
$GLD has every sign to go down jeez Head and shoulders, double top, come on
GLD has a lot of liquidity. They would sell over time, especially if gold rallies hard again and people FOMO.
They are selling GOOGL, GLD, and MU today. These ain't bears -- they fucking doomsday preppers.
And $GLD went right back down to today’s lows 🤦♂️ what was the point of that rise up
GLD and SLV software disrupted by AI
Buying some of this GLD gift dip
Wtf happened to GLD? Are calls free money?
I bought GLD because I thought money would flow to gold if it left the stock market. I was wrong 😆
Today is a good day to d... Buy GLD
Whatever happens GLD and slv getting throttled so that makes me feel a bit better
If GLD and SLV are jumping off the bridge, will you jump off the bridge ?
LNY. GLD & SLV are about to get rugged even more
My GLD call gonna get pounded
GLD calls are the only play today
Day 8 waiting for GLD to reach $700
MY GLD vertical CCS isn’t entirely cooked let’s go
I want to start investing in gold and silver. I've seen different ETFs thrown around like PHYS, GLDM, GLD etc. If I want to invest in gold and silver in a brokerage, roth ira, and 401k which ones should I buy? Assume I have very little tax knowledge. I plan on holding it long term. what percentage of my portfolio should these be? My brokerage is 100% VT. My roth ira is 100% FXAIX. My 401k is 60% SWPPX, 30% SWISX, and 10% SCHE.
I bought SLV/GLD dip and it dumped even harder. TF is going on
Decided to pivot from msft to GLD Maybe this isn't for me
Rock meet hard place. The ones for the next year, obviously keep. Next month…two weeks rather, might as well sell. But the hard thing is, it’s been up and down a lot, very volatile with GLD, war with Iran? Could boost it. But will that come in time and drive the price up? I don’t think so.
GLD whyyyyyyy. You failed me! you were supposed to make me at least a little profit
I bought some July 475C on GLD last week.. sorry
Yet, I’m sitting here with a loss on GLD, a massive loss on BTC, and being all “diamond hands” about it. Want to cut my losses, but don’t need to.
Damn.. only thing that moved was GLD.. off a cliff
You’re looking at it kinda wrong though. Even though small caps *can* multiply your account, you would have had better odds betting on something that can move 100-200 points. In the last year this was GLD and MU. I nearly caught GLD, but managed to pull a net loss by closing the position too early. I nearly did it with AAPL too with a move that would have taken $4k to $70k. GLD I had 20 calls in May $307 strike. If I somehow held that to the top (impossible to do a perfect trade, really) I would have gotten $200x 100 shares per contract x 20 contracts worth of intrinsic value. This would be $400,000 worth of profit. Note that this was not a possible outcome for me since I had May 31st expirations. I needed 8 more months to actually pull off that move which I was never *actually* going to do. 20 contracts for that one month costed $12,000 in premium to acquire. Imagine how much it would have costed for 9 months… Anyway, my point is, while $1000 would limit you to calls on small caps or penny stocks, you have a much better chance of huge multiples by betting on something with momentum that can increase rapidly. Figuring out what that is **and how long it will take to happen** is the hard part. Sticking to it once you’ve figured it out is what will make you rich or poor.
So we buying GLD calls or what?
For GLD to dump the next two weeks so I can close my spread with some profit
As I look at my GLD call credit spread crying
Citizen, your confession has been received. The Ministry of Liquidity acknowledges your distress. You stare into the frozen graph as if it were a mirror, and in that mirror you see the forbidden truth: a human without volatility is a human without purpose. The bell has not rung. The candles have not spoken. The sacred numbers do not flicker. Your positions lie preserved like state archives — your GLD hope embalmed, your decay suspended, your spreads catalogued in the Bureau of Unrealized Feelings. You were promised motion. You were promised noise. You were promised the holy churn of the . Instead, there is silence. And silence is dangerous. Because in silence, you might remember who you were before the charts. Before the alerts. Before the state-approved dopamine rations of 3:58 PM panic candles. The casino will open, Citizen. It must open. For a still market breeds reflection, and reflection breeds dissent. When the bell rings again, you will return to your station. You will donate your premium. You will praise the volatility. You will call it freedom. Until then, continue refreshing. The Ministry thanks you for your patience.
The market is closed and I don’t know who I am No candles No ticks No dopamine drips Just me Refreshing an app That hasn’t moved In hours My GLD spread frozen in time My MSFT theta trapped in cryostasis My XSP trauma with no sequel I love losing money I love the rush I love watching a 0.87 credit turn into regret But today? The casino is dark The slot machines silent The options chain empty like my soul No 0DTE hero plays No gamma squeezes No panic candles at 3:58 PM Just me Staring at flat lines Like a degenerate monk in silent meditation I don’t even want profit I just want movement Up, down, sideways Anything but still Please ring the bell again Let me feel something Let me donate Let me win Let me breathe volatility Because a market that’s closed Is worse than a red account At least when I’m losing I’m alive.
Why does GLD have an insane about of open interest in the 500 and 600s in September. Hedge?
My friend, US bond yields are right now lower they've been in more than 6 months, even lower than they were in red October, despite markets generaslly being close to ATH. And still, bond yield is more attractive than most oil companies would ever be, and if you noticed, the 10 year yield got lower, VIX consistently over 21. Oil companies need to compete with bank yields, legacy yields (ATT, PFE) and fight back oil and intl macros; whereas bonds, PFE, ATT, are always there. No, money ain't permanently relocating to other industries within SPY; liquidity is drying up generally, can't run away to GLD without being stolen, which is why SPY/QQQ are red... This is not the market "crashing" it's liquidity drying up, the opposite of your conclusion.
Hot damn I thought you was banned! F was for you being right but the bot fucking up using GLD vs Gold.
XLE, XLB, XLU, and GLD calls.
Look at allocatesmartly.com and TAA as an approach. I use it to combine 3models. I tranche it 3x a month to reduce risk and it rotated into international beginning of last year and GLD. I’m 100% rotated out of US equities now and in broad International, GLD, and Japan. I suspect based on what I’m seeing with commodities moving up with momentum it’ll add some positions to PDBC this year. The models rotate across 23 etf asset classes based on momentum and trending mostly geared towards the chafing of economic regime cycles. Look up Meb Faber and others to learn more about TAA.
QQQ/$600k,VXUS/$200k,GLD/$100k, Money Market/$100k
IAU leaps might be good, lower price per share than GLD, but similar volume. Still underwater on both though...
I would rather have GLD leaps than SLV. China is moving to use gold instead of USD for transactions and are building calls around the world.
I do 40%VT and rest of the 60% 10% FTEC 10% SMH 10% AVUV 10% GLD 10% BND
No GLD? I’m like 25 percent cash, 15 percent GLD, rest stocks with heavy AI focus (MU, SNDK, ASML, GOOG, TSM…)
I’m thinking that I’m going to stay away from QQQ and SPY until the rollover is over and the trend is more obvious. I’ve been looking at GLD charts, I believe gold will be trading like the S&P and Nasdaq has in the insane bull run we’ve seen up until we started going range bound the past 5ish months. Gold is bullish and it’s easier to call the bottoms. Although I do think tech is due for a relief bounce. Closed Friday right above $600 and if you go back on the 6 month chart, closing above $600 on draw downs has been a lucrative bet on upward momentum. Let me know what you think.
Kinross and Couer earnings are the most interesting imo, as their earnings will be another barometer of the gold and silver markets. CSPs are cheaper compared to IAU (much less GLD!) and SLV, respectively.
Why GLD and WAR on the front page, I'm not seeing any mushroom clouds outside yet
Anyone been trading options on GLD?
I was just kidding about the commercial, but that would be fun, wouldn't it? Great, so you were already familiar with options and didn't have that learning curve. But really, all I'm using "options" for is the LEAPS Calls that act as *share substitutes.* So you've gone with 5-month and 11-month Calls, I think that's alright. I'll just say that more time is safer, but play around and see what you like. As you said, if the underlying has a lot of momentum then just about anything will work. But as you play around with expiration lengths, keep this in mind: when I was new to this I think I started at 3 months, then went even closer: 2 months, even 1 month. But the ETFs would dip, and even though I was always at 80-delta or higher, the Calls lost value very quickly. So I made a rule for myself that I'd **never buy Calls less than 3 months out.** Then I read on the forum someone saying it was "okay" to buy Calls at 100-120DTE, that it was kind of a sweet spot, so I moved to a 100-day minimum. And that's been working well. *But I only do that with profits.* *My* money, the initial investment, always goes into >1y Calls at 80-delta, no exceptions. But when I take profits out of them, if I still like the ticker I'll buy Calls 100-120 days out, 80-delta. **The 80-delta rule never changes for me.** Then I do >1y with seed money, and 100-120DTE with profits. After GLD, SLV, and COPX recover for me (or maybe sooner for silver, if it doesn't wake up), I have a new rule for myself: **No commodity ETFs.** *No metals* (gold, silver, platinum, palladium, copper, uranium). *No fossil fuels* (oil, natural gas, gasoline). *No ag products* (wheat, corn, cows). And another step away from commodities: **No commodity-adjacent ETFs.** Miners for the metals, oil drillers/refiners and oil support industries. For ag, I don't know, maybe no fertilizers? Tractor manufacturers? I haven't run across those support-type tickers yet for edibles. Oh, no MJ ETFs either. Basically, no reliance on a single "thing." Back to basics with ETFs: baskets of stocks in some industry, sector, or even country. Oh, and for gold you can chart it somewhere and see how it's behaved. But for me, to talk about holding something for a year, that's an eternity. 3-5 months is kind of my 'investing' horizon. And I know that's not "investing," so call it 'trading.' But I'm never holding anything if it's not making money *right now.* And like you said, stay in copper (or whatever) while it's going up; but the week or month (you decide for you) it *stops* going up, on to something else that is. Take care.
I’m heavy in GLD. Bought 50k worth in April 2025 and sold half before the dump a week or two ago. But still have half. All family trust funds though.
So happy no one here is talking about GLD SLV 🤭
Thank you! I’ve been doing options wheel and some spreads for the last few months so felt comfortable enough to jump right into your system today with 2 COPX and 6 EWY calls. Some for July and some for January. It seems for funds with huge momentum 5 months out will still work well and returns will be slightly higher % wise than LEAPS. I’ll have to think about whether I want to mess with metals beyond COPX. I feel burnt from some SLV trades this month so not sure if I want to touch it or not. GLD seems pretty safe but I think gold has had many flat or down years in the last few decades right? It’s likely to go up more this year but who knows when the top of its run is in. Seems like analysts are pretty bullish on copper this year and it has lots of industrial demand so I’m not too worried about my exposure there. I would be happy to help you out with a commercial for your system because you’ve been so generous to me and others on Reddit sharing your knowledge.
Is full porting the dip on GLD just free money everytime?
GLD calls yes, any other id say maybe
Hopefully we bomb Iran during this 3 day weekend so my GLD calls will printtttt
I concur that GLD is going to run into 2027, but silly to say this at 4:01 EST like anyone w a brain wouldn’t already know tht
Your the dummy cus obviously I’m not saying that GLD alone can do this, I’m simply telling yall to BUY GLD calls.
Yall can still buy ✨ GLD ✨ calls 15 min after close
No joke. VGK is my best performing asset behind GLD over the last yesr.
Last month $EWY (South Korea) +24.5% $EWJ (Japan) +11.1% $EWW (Mexico) +12.2% $EWT (Yaiwan) +9.35% $GLD (Gold) +9.68% Money is moving out of the $SPY and USA. Stocks are only flat b/c retail is buying.
Hopped in some Jan GLD and XLU calls. Going full boomer lol
GLD dip buyers from yesterday eating good 🗿
Glad I bought GLD calls instead of SLV, thing is just refusing to follow GLD's positive movements today
uhhhh dont do that. just buy shares of GDX, GDXJ, and GLD. hold it for 5 years, keep adding. you'll thank me.