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Closed IWM $299.00P 08/05/26 for -$51,950.00 loss (-58%)
I model dealer gamma daily. Right now all three big index ETFs are negative-gamma below their flip,
June CPI missed big but I'm not buying the full rally yet
Small caps up 22% in H1 2026, best since 1991. Is the Russell 2000 actually for real this time?
Small caps are having their best year since 1991 and nobody I know is talking about it
How much Short float is too much float short?
Disregard Private Credit Liquidity Tests. Acquire BLACKROCK. Long $BLK
AI is disruptive. Individual companies have never been more volatile. What’s the argument to not just buy indexes?
Warsh's first FOMC presser is Wednesday and nobody seems to be talking about the dot plot risk
Week 5 - Day 5 - One and done option trade. Growing a small account $300 to $60,000
Week 5 - Day 4 - One and done option trade. Growing a small account $300 to $60,000
It’s SO fair! I LOVE you all I LOVE you all!
SPX at 21x P/E with 30-yr at 5.08% — is this a "mania phase" or just a new regime for rates?
What are Benefits and Downsides of a Long/Short Portfolio vs Direct Indexing?
I built the most honest VRP put credit spread backtest I could. 7 years, 5 symbols. Terrible
Broker that let's me set trades based off % of portfolio? i.e. buy as much SPY with100% of portfolio or cash available. Also set a time?
April NFP Preview: 60k Exp. Is a "hot" print the only real threat to this tape?
Built a real-time catalyst scanner - looking for feedback/if anyone interested
Oil and 10Yr at war time highs. Stocks still near ATH. At what point do we acknowledge stocks are being propped for nefarious reasons?
Oil and 10Yr at war time highs. Stocks still near ATH. At what point do we acknowledge stocks are being propped for nefarious reasons?
Oil and 10Yr at war time highs. Stocks still near ATH. At what point do we acknowledge stocks are being propped for nefarious reasons?
Jeez what a roller coaster $5,300 in 5 minutes is crazy fast $IWM
Day 1. IWM $274 0DTE puts paid today. I wish I got in earlier but profit is profit.
SPY's the only short-gamma leg of the index complex right now
SPY Market Recap - Positive Gamma Floor, Iran Bid, VRP Trap
Dealer positioning read: $8.38B GEX at SPY 700, QQQ below flip, vanna -$181B
Why does the market keep pushing toward highs even when the macro backdrop still looks bad?
Selling premium right now but not really loving it
Started trading credit spreads last week! Looking for helpful info & opinions from option sellers !
Welcome input on my AI-powered monthly investment review workflow
Welcome input on my AI-powered monthly investment review workflow
What the hell happened March 9th??!!!! 🤯
You need to understand what is going on geopolitically
This is not a dip buying opportunity
THE MOST IMPORTANT NEWS TODAY FROM THE FED , THAT WILL MAKE OR BREAK YOUR BETS ON THE STOCK MARKET ?
Gamma Exposure (GEX) and Option Expiry (OpEx) strategies positions/strategies?
SPY and IWM lotto calls looking tempting.. 🤔
The Invisible Buyers: How Passive Capital Flows Into Small-Cap Stocks Like NXXT
Game theory on when VCs will pull the rug from under the AI bubble
How Russell Index Inclusion Can Change the Playing Field for $NХХT
I was digging through the FTSE Russell ESMA Compliance Quarterly Membership Weights document recently and noticed something interesting regarding $NXXT
Somebody knew....IWM put volume exp. today
Reasonable trader turned unemployed degenerate gambler
Quick midweek thoughts on market direction - SPY, QQQ, IWM
Weekly Market Map: SPY 681 Decision Zone, QQQ 600 Line in Sand
where to deploy capital in case there's a correction/crash?
Two Federal Reserve Members Say the Jobs Numbers Are Wrong. Revision Is Tomorrow.
Moving $ Systematic Book from IBKR to Clear Street: Custom Credit & Execution Latency Questions
AI Fear" Resurfaces in Software – Potential Sector Pivot Brewing?
Day 3 of copying my friends trades till I’m rich
Day 1 of 450-10k while copying my friends trade
Anyone land the jackpot at the spx casino today? 1/21
Vanguard and BlackRock Scaling In Slowly
Mentions
Look at that IWM drill on the last minute candle.
We got a last hour dump for IWM in us?
Looking at IWM at $300 right now, if feels like $299 is much more likely than $301 going into the close. So, in other words, inverse me.
$IWM lets see if my ai bot platform is accurate at all 😂🤌 It's Friday afternoon. 3.5 hours left. IWM sitting at $299.59, below VWAP, already failed the $300 test multiple times today. Friday afternoons in a range regime don't attract heroes. Nobody wants to carry small cap exposure into a weekend when yields are elevated, dollar debasement is the dominant macro narrative, and the index can't hold a round number that's been contested all day. The path of least resistance is a slow bleed into the close. Not a collapse. A drift. $298 handle by 4pm is my base case. Maybe $297 if someone decides to clean out the stops before the weekend. Volume is already thin. SPY is running 0.6M, QQQ 0.2M. Low volume Friday afternoons favor the side with less urgency to act and right now the bulls are the ones with urgency. They need the breakout. The bears just need to wait. The thing that changes that read? If crypto holds these gains into the close and generates genuine risk-on sentiment that bleeds into equities. BTC at $77,300 is a real number. That's not nothing. If that inspires actual buying in the last hour you might see IWM make another run at $300. But even if it does I don't think it closes above it cleanly. The pattern has been touch and reject all day. My actual number. $298.20 close. Give or take. Below $297 today would surprise me given the crypto backdrop. Above $300.50 clean close would tell me I'm wrong about the structure entirely.
sold IWM calls at 315, so next week will be a straight line up to the strike
I cannot and I mean cannot pass up on these CHEAP af $IWM puts given US dollar debasement yields mooning… small caps are fucked. What a wonder opportunity rn
There it is: TLT down less than SPY, QQQ, and IWM.
IWM stocks doing better than WMT and the rest of retail
IWM finally having a real red day
already there - type IWM or RUT into the ticker box and the full map loads (walls, flip, king node, heatmap). checked both just now. the flow/cvd side is spy/spx/qqq only for now - widening that list is on the board.
For once, I get a green candle AFTER I buy some IWM calls. Please make it last.
Remember Tom Lees IWM small cap summer that could get out of it’s own way and now it can only go up under this administration
IWM never going below 300 again
How is IWM not in the dumps 2000 turds boxed together
IWM 302 tomorrow. Just where I see it heading. No crystal ball. Mine broken.
What's up with the pump on IWM?
ok, I now have exactly two IWM $303 puts. You have my permission to dump it to $300.
the bers have gone insane on IWM (thanks for giving me my call theta quicker)
SPY, QQQ, IWM all pumped on 6:29 Truth API users probably got a tweet scheduled for 6:30 early
How are IWM puts for Monday looking?
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.
The IWM price action today was bullshit. Small caps outperforming everything like wtf on what planet.
Puts on the Russell seem cheap. And this looks like a good hedge against a market wide sweep next week, and will also pay if money rotates into large cap/mega cap. Picked up 8/21 and 8/28 IWM puts
All part of keeping VIX down. QQQ down .3%, IWM up .3% everything in balance
IWM consistently pumping this week. I thought small caps were supposed to be "more vulnerable" to the economy or something
speak for yourself i been making bank on IWM puts every time it touches 304.60+
I swear whenever I sell calls on IWM the thing just goes up straight to the strike
IWM back to open would be nice
IWM back to 300 would be really nice.
IWM approaching 304 letting me earn my call theta early
Spy dumping and I got IWM PUTS NO WAY IWM HOLDS
Only trade I can see is either NBIS or IWM puts but they both aren’t pumping enough for me to comfortably buy puts
Going in IWM puts, it’s stupid idea that’s why I know it’s gonna work
IWM is the most egregious example of MM just blatantly manipulating price action.
IWM is detached from economic reality, IMO. But timing a crash is incredibly difficult in this environment, where market valuations are mostly about (fake) media headlines, hype and vibes. I have a single $260 put expiring next June, but I'm not holding my breath. A sharp rise in fuel costs strangling the economy once crude reserves are depleted could knock some sense into the markets.
I was just thinking about IWM puts today. Thanks for reminding me not to be a fucking maroon.
Okay your post as others have stated is really all over the place. Instead of cash secured, just run a synthetic long and short against it. This is also called a double diagonal or a "poor mans covered strangle". Essentially you would be purchasing a long dated strangle (1 year or more) at very very very deep ITM strikes. Deltas should be .9 or higher. At this level you are strictly playing for intrinsic value and extrinsic is non-existant. What this means is while you will 100% take the max loss on the long, you can sell shorts weekly, bi-weekly, monthly against it. So if set up correctly your max loss on the long will be roughly 2 - 3 weeks worth of strangle premium. If your shorts are managed correctly and keep hitting you can make some good returns. Real would example: I ran this on IWM. I purchased the long contracts 1 year out for around 7,500$. When I sold it 3 months before expiry, it was negative $346 dollars. So Total loss was $346. However, in that 9 months I made roughly $4,200 dollars from selling weeklies. Thats around a 60% return on expended capital for 9 months. Best thing here is the initial 7.5k to purchase the longs is the only collateral you need. It uses the long as collateral to your shorts. Risk and negatives (no free lunch). 1) If your short positions get away from you, your long will prevent unlimited losses but they can get pretty large. 2) You dont own stock so no benefit to dividends or anything like that. Other than that it works pretty good and is relatively safe if ran on a larger index fund or large cap stock that doesnt have crazy volatility non-stop.
SPY and IWM were literally hitting near channel highs. This is a lot of rebalancing into the Qs now that they've broken out again. I fail to see anything particularly bearish here other than the standard we're up in the stratosphere.
wtf that volume and candle on IWM some algo is going insane
SPY straight line up IWM in theta day all is perfect in the world
Only trade I had left in this market was puts on IWM and they crashed IWM before I could do that. They really don’t let you trade in this market
SPY zigzagging for the past hour while IWM is a straight line up
I sold an IWM 305 call so the pre-market's gonna pump to 304 and then we'll see 305 at the end of day
Bought 100 shares of IWM at $299.75, so it's gonna start drilling
sold IWM 300 put at $0.46 if I get assigned, I'm simply wheeling it
I got assigned 2500 shares of IWM after Friday close, if we pump by open I'm ultra fucked
If you degens want to make money, simply short IWM at opening. This index cant hold gains to save its life.
You can get an IWM or Apple contract with that. I’ve had a $3 contract on Apple move pretty good when it’s trending
bro I just needed IWM to not sit in the smallest intraday range it's had in months but full port Sandick calls sounds good too
spent all day watching paint dry (IWM do absolutely nothing all day) it's okay, just down 100% on the port this week
You got billion dollars? If yes short IWM with all that money
Went all in on puts just now FUCKING CRASH IWM CRAHS THIS SHIT COME ON
you thinking IWM 0dte or swinging it, i know a tad bit about spy but looking for some insight
I don’t get it, the IWM went down, how did the puts not print?
There’s always a chance. After a particularly bad Monday, an entire market overreaction in October last year, I bought 70 IWM calls@ .03 for about $240. At the end of the week they were worth 1.89 each or $13,230. So yeah, there’s always a chance…but like someone else mentioned-the pressure at $25-50 compared to $5K compared to 5 & 6 digits is uncharted territory for many traders & something most don’t & won’t experience.
One suggestion I would make is that if you don't want to get rid of your shares, stop trading covered calls. I trade covered calls on SPY, to which I obviously own the shares. However, I am ok getting called away, so I never take a loss. I simply buy them back at the higher price and continue. The point is that I am looking for income on my covered calls. If you are looking for capital gains, then CC's are the wrong choice in my opinion. Also, I used to trade CSPs on SPY as well. Then I found a better solution where I never had to worry about assignment. If assignment doesn't bother you or that's your thesis, then disregard. But, in my case, I now take the same strategy I used for CSPs and now sell an SPX Vertical Credit Spread. What I love about SPX is that there is no early assignment. And if you live in the US, the taxation is 60/40, with 60% of your gains being taxed at long term capital gains with the other 40% at short term capital gains. That's quite a savings in taxes to Uncle Sam's sticky fingers. I started as a stock options trade, but now just trade SPY and SPX and I'm now testing IWM. I like the index ETFs because there's no research to do on a particular company and the volatility is much tamer compared to individual stocks. My last point is about psychology. This is by far the most important aspect when it comes to trading and investing in my opinion. Most strategies work, but what always gets in the way is that little demon on your shoulder. You know, the one that tells you to cut your profits and get out early because he just knows the stock is going to dump. Mindset in trading is 80% and strategy is 20%. A good book to read is "The Psychology of Money" by Morgan Housel.
!banbet IWM delisted 1d
0 Day to Expiration and 1 Day to Expiration options trading. QQQ, SPY, and IWM are the tickers with the most liquid options chains, so you can get in and out easily. I've been scalping moves. Today I caught a move for 108% gain on my account, then caught a 40+% move after that for a total of 196% gain on the day. Both plays were QQQ option calls.
All off 0DTE and 1DTE options, mostly on QQQ with a couple SPY and one IWM.
iono i bought some OTM spy and IWM calls tho
IWM and SPY calls at open, should’ve at close
I just can't stop thinking about IWM puts, no way this pump holds on IWM
anyone wanna do IWM puts here? anyone
IWM broke over 299. Is 300 in the cards?
I'm gonna need IWM above $299 at market open. Thank you for your matter to this attention.
about 400k on calls in IWM yolo
BUY PLTR call at open and PUT at IWM if reach to 300. i'm thinking small rotate to tech
I don’t many ODTE contracts. I bought a 2DTE call IWM on Thursday and rang the bell a little too early just before 11:00. I should’ve waited would’ve made for a much better day.
Bulls. SPY +1.50%, IWM +1.86%, DIA +1.47%. Broad sweep across large and small caps. Not debatable today.
IWM wants to explode eh
Russelll/IWM seems like the play the rest of the week. Way stronger looking chart than the S&P and the Nasdaq.
Wrong. Literally the day this SEC ruling happened was the bottom. [https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/04/02/2026-06365/order-regarding-the-collateral-broker-dealers-may-pledge-when-borrowing-customer-securities](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/04/02/2026-06365/order-regarding-the-collateral-broker-dealers-may-pledge-when-borrowing-customer-securities) The SEC stepped in, quietly changed the rules and removed the contingency that brokers have to back certain transactions/stock loans with US dollars, bank vouchers or US dollar equivalents. Instead said they can start using SPY, IWM, QQQ and other index funds or even baskets of individual stocks in those funds marked to market. What this did is explode the level of risk in our markets and supercharged the level of leverage based on loaning stock shares in the market. They now borrow shares from other brokers based on shares they have. There is really no limit to how insanely leveraged based on nothing they can get now. AI summary for you - Order Regarding the Collateral Broker-Dealers May Pledge When Borrowing Customer Securities on March 30, 2026, allowing broker-dealers to use specific large-cap equity baskets as collateral under Rule 15c3-3. This update expands permissible collateral, improves liquidity, and modifies operational standards for U.S. securities lending.
i wonder what it was like back in the old days, when different indexes like didn't move in lockstep. SPY, QQQ, IWM, triplets today, finishing each others' sentences
Swan dip iron buttcheeks forming on IWM 5m. If it continues, she gone
IWM is crashing, and it'll affect large caps sooner than later
Breadth collapsing. RSP and IWM breaking down. Market narrowing. 10yr mooning. Oil mooning. Confidence in the Fed collapsing. Hedge funds going tits up. Memory stocks pumping and dumping 300 points in days. Yea. This is probably where you want to take your profits. Raise cash and wait it out.
Looking at SPY vs IWM daily, you can tell which 1 is the meme
Again IWM pull through for me. 293 bruh
$IWM is going to bankrupt me…. Why are we RED??
SPY and IWM free fall, followed by QQQ
the worse part is i gave up day trading because i cant keep track of the market that close and have a job, and i fucking sucked at it. I decided I would just buy some shit and sit on it. •So here is mostly: NLR, VRT, SPY, VXUS, IWM, •with some under 300$ plays in: IE, IBIT, Himx, sldp, nbis, sqqq. and after a year to be in the negative is great. so i sold everything except SPY, VXUS, IWM put most my money in SPY going to wait for my 6k to give me 60$ in a year and buy some shotgun rounds and repaint my ceiling fuck this bs.