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For poor man 0DTE options, is IWM my best bet? 🤔
Would you have closed this IWM spread or let theta work?
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
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I bought IWM and SPY puts yesterday that expire Wednesday and Friday. We will see.
I made $3300 on puts today. IWM and qqq. Trading in and out. Pretty good.
the fact IWM isnt at 280 or under rn is astonishing given the circumstances strongest (or dumbest depending on ur view) market ive seen in years💪
so is this 9/11 market theory actually true and this is just being held up or are we smoking dick IWM barely even budged even with the traders pricing in 2 hikes by end of year headline (which is dumb but usually they react to it heavily anyway)
IWM is such a POS i need to ban myself from trading it
Funny thing about the bond tape right now: while everyone is arguing about how to save treasuries, somebody already put the biggest bond bet on the board - and it went the opposite way from the panic. Yesterday's single largest new options position in bonds was TLT **calls**. 106,885 contracts, roughly $900M notional, opened in the session right before a hot core CPI print. TLT calls pay if long bonds go up, i.e. yields come down. So that is real money betting on treasuries rallying, placed straight into the print that pushed hike odds higher. Either a contrarian duration view, or cheap convexity bolted onto a book that is already short duration. Both are real trades. For scale, the rest of what got opened the same session: * GLD puts - ~$2.97B * IWM puts - ~$2.44B * NVDA calls - ~$2.42B * META calls - ~$1.75B * SMH puts - ~$1.17B * TLT calls - ~$0.90B Gold, small caps, semis and high-yield credit all took puts in the same session that NVDA and META took calls. That is a book keeping its upside and paying up for protection. It is not a everybody-out panic, whatever the headlines say. One thing worth understanding about this data, because it is the part people miss: these are open-interest changes, not volume. Volume cannot tell you whether a trade opened a position or closed one. OI can - but it only settles after the close, so you are always looking one session back. It shows what got *put on*. It tells you nothing about who took the other side. I pull this off the tape every morning. It is consistently the most useful thing on the board and the least talked about.
Worth adding what positioning looked like going *into* this print, because it did not line up with the hike narrative. Largest **new** options positions opened Thursday across the whole US market, by notional. These are open-interest changes - what was opened, not what merely traded: * GLD puts - 74,750 contracts, ~$2.97B * IWM puts - 84,976 contracts, ~$2.44B * NVDA calls - 111,407 contracts, ~$2.42B * META calls - 25,776 contracts, ~$1.75B * SMH puts - 23,204 contracts, ~$1.17B * TLT calls - 106,885 contracts, ~$0.90B Two observations: **TLT calls are the odd one out.** That is a long-bond position - it pays if yields fall. About $900M of it was opened the session before a core print that pushed hike odds higher. Either a contrarian duration view, or convexity bought against an existing short-duration book. **The equity side is hedged, not bearish.** Gold, small caps, semis and high-yield credit all took put flow in the same session that NVDA and META took call flow. That combination reads as tail protection on a book that is still long, rather than a move to risk-off. Data caveat: open interest only settles after the close, so this is one session behind by construction, and closing trades are excluded. It shows what was put on, not who was on the other side of it.
Everyone is pricing the hike. The single biggest new bond position on yesterday's tape went the other way. Largest **new** options positions opened Thursday, ranked by notional. This is open-interest change, not volume - what got *put on*, not what got traded: * GLD puts - 74,750 contracts, ~$2.97B * IWM puts - 84,976 contracts, ~$2.44B * NVDA calls - 111,407 contracts, ~$2.42B * META calls - 25,776 contracts, ~$1.75B * SMH puts - 23,204 contracts, ~$1.17B * TLT calls - 106,885 contracts, ~$0.90B TLT calls are a bet on long bonds going **up**, i.e. yields down. Roughly $900M of them opened in the session right before a hot core print. Either somebody is very wrong, or it is cheap convexity stapled to a book that is already short duration. Both of those are real trades. The rest of the board is a hedge cluster, not a tech-crash bet. Gold, small caps, semis and high yield all got puts in the same session while NVDA and META got calls. That is "keep the upside, buy the tail", not "sell everything". Caveats so nobody reads more into it than is there: OI settles after the close, so this is always one session behind. Closing trades are excluded. And it tells you nothing about who took the other side - a put buyer needs a put seller.
If you want to know how the biggest books are hedging this exact risk, you can just read the options tape. Open interest changes tell you what was *opened* - not merely what traded. From Thursday's close (last fully settled session), the largest **new** positions opened across the entire US market, by notional: * GLD puts - 74,750 contracts, ~$2.97B * IWM puts - 84,976 contracts, ~$2.44B * NVDA calls - 111,407 contracts, ~$2.42B * META calls - 25,776 contracts, ~$1.75B * **SMH puts - 23,204 contracts, ~$1.17B** * HYG puts - 91,760 contracts, ~$0.71B Three things that bear on your question: **1. SMH puts are the literal answer.** SMH is the semis ETF - the cleanest single-instrument expression of "AI/tech risk". About $1.2B of *fresh* downside protection went there in one session. Not QQQ, not SPY. If you want the same hedge shape as the size, that is the wrapper they used. **2. It is not a one-way bet.** The same tape opened ~$2.4B of NVDA calls. The big books are not net-short AI - they are holding the upside and paying for tail protection on the sector wrapper. That is a very different trade from "rotate out of tech", and it is usually the cheaper one. **3. The company it keeps matters.** IWM and HYG puts were opened alongside it. Small caps and high-yield credit are liquidity hedges, not semis views. So at least part of that SMH put flow is a macro hedge wearing a tech costume - worth knowing before you copy it as a pure AI-risk trade. Caveat so you can weigh it properly: OI settles only after the close, so this is always one session behind, and it shows what was *put on* rather than direction. Closing trades are excluded - these are new positions only. It tells you nothing about who is on the other side. No position in any of the above.
Qqq down IWM down WHEN WILL SPY AND GOOG GO D THE FUCK DOWN NOW FUCK YOU
pretty crazy that on this yield spike days TLT underperforms QQQ and IWM. You would usually expect to see QQQ down 3 or 4% on a day like today. But its 2026. Semi's and circular financing companies are the safe haven
Can IWM drop like 2$ more pls that'd be very helpful
good news: IWM divvy next week bad news: bagholding this shit index
IWM about to put in a new low... hopefully...
Virtually guaranteed US fed rate hikes and we get this dump for ants, even on IWM spy 850 eoy i guess
IWM will crash 5% today
Looks like the PPI report, Silver, Gold and IWM price action is signaling a 100% rate hike chance this next meeting Lol. Imagine being one of the absolute IDIOTS replying to me the past two months that there is no chance they hike rates. THEY DONT HAVE A CHOICE!
PPI scorthcing hot IWM gap to 285$ my yearly pnl turns green. Shitting the bed otherwise
glad I didn't close my short IWM calls yesterday spot is back to yesterday's close and another day of theta burned
Bitch $IWM go down yields are mooning again you are up 0.20% making my anus clench but now you are selling again out of fear of yields good keep I have 0DE puts I need to sell for profit
SMH, QQQM, IYF, IWM or individual stocks in those sectors, always DCA. Just my 2 cents. Not recommendations.
If I don’t see a crash tomorrow ima be super duper annoyed got some IWM puts the most fragile index filled with zombie companies and the yields with oil mooning don’t help with these shitty Russel companies
Is anyone paying attention to $IWM lmfao easy money on to put side today
IWM 283$ tomorrow. Can't do a banbet but I lost the last 12 and broken clock being right twice a day this should hit
One of these days $IWM will crash 5% probably before spy and qqq
Can IWM drop like 4$ more right now pretty please
already hit 50% max profit on an IWM call I sold this morning rough day for russell 2000
I need IWM to drill down to below 290. Thank you for your matter to this attention.
S&P 500 equal weight (RSP) and Russell 2000 mid-caps (IWM) are grinding down, while SPY and QQQ are holding up somewhat more. Now even big corporations get to be on the poor end of the K-shaped economy. The only people that get to be at the top are the executives at the 20 or so mega-cap techs that grift everyone the hardest.
As I promised to myself yesterday I am buying dip on IWM just to make sure it doesn’t bounce back
Qqq has a long way down. And IWM the worse indexes to hold with high yields
IWM red. Its gonna be a good day
SPY, QQQ, & IWM have worked great for me. Buy out 2+ years. This gives the LEAPS time to cook while selling short calls against it. I’m up 60% ytd and 119% 1 yr.
Can IWM pls drop like 5$ for no reason
Im beating SPY, QQQ and IWM ytd
If IWM was a person , I would be getting a tear tattoo
You have already identified many of the best criteria to rely on. Continue what you are doing but make sure to keep an eye on portfolio level positioning. Keep individual trades small. Never overload on correlated tickers. Work towards a delta neutral portfolio (find some CCSs). Do some basic technical analysis to identify the trend regime and basic support/resistance before selecting a strike. Dig deeply into your trades before you place them to get handle annualized returns and expected value. If you want to trade successfully long term, all of these boring bits of business planning will be more important than being a great trade picker. It's about discipline. And, btw, you actually do not necessarily need to hassle with individual tickers and all their quirks. You can get a lot done using the liquid ETFs like SPY, QQQ, IWM, GLD, the larger sector funds, and the indices like SPX or XSP. These may not be sexy but sexy is not really the point, imo.
that's interesting, will have to look at it more. Actually, bwf have gotten to be my most common daytrade. There are lots of different variations. You can enter them near the close @ 1dte to make a 0dte ORB play. If you expect a flat market, you can set the front strike very close to atm and go (SPX) $10/$5 or $15/$10 for a pretty cheap ticket. If there is a lot of call skew, you can put the call flys in a correlated name to try to avoid it. I regularly do pairs trades with highly correlated or un-correlated names. For instance, I might do an ORB set up with RUT $10/$5 puts entered near the close on 1dte, and a similar trade with IWM in the calls. I'll scale down the IWM calls if I am leaning bearish., but I will try to make the smaller trade at least capable of covering the debit of the larger one. I do the same thing with NDX/QQQ, SPX/SPY, etc.
>Imagine not porting into IWM/UWM/TNA so you get SMCI (the first time around), sell SMCI as it rose in price to the midcap/largecap bag holders (the first time around), and then will automatically get it back on the cheap once is crashed again (automatically). All without needing to choose between holding a volatile cyclical stock that runs on hype/memenergy or paying taxes OP posting this shit acting like they are smart when they are a literal half-wit.
**BanBet Lost** — /u/Jobless-Dev (0W - 7L, 0%) | Ticker | Entry → Target | Move | Time | Result | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **IWM** ▼ | $295.19 → $291.00 | -1.4% | 1d | Lost |
YTD Performance: 📈S&P: +12.75% 📈Nasdaq: +14.05% 📈Dow: +11.13% 📈Small Caps: +20.75% 🥇Gold: +2.51% 🛢️Oil: +59.16% 💵US Dollar: +0.89% ₿ Bitcoin: -8.82% \#YTDPerformance $SPY $QQQ $DIA $SPX #GOLD $GLD #Bitcoin $BtcUSD $IWM $RUT $USD
Oh no, I got no opinion on IWM, nor do I have any predictions. I'm just here to make money (SEMI's are running today, which I called yesterday). But, you keep it up little buddy, you're doing just great.
Its irrelevant and makes no difference to me. Now explain why you think IWM should be going up right now instead of coping and deflecting.
I cant understand why IWM keeps getting nonsensically propped up the whole day every single day, when all the data releases make the Fed MORE likely to hike. We got very strong jobs numbers, so now the Fed is even more likely to rate hike since employment can handle it apparently. The rate cut case gets weaker and weaker daily and IWM literally just waiting on rate cuts for years now and not getting them. IWM is due for like a 30% drawdown lol.
How are SPY and Q’s down but IWM not moving. I hate this market
I made two comments myself about IWM today. I can’t fucking win with that shit.
Tried to trade IWM today. I highly recommend for anyone who wants to lose money 2-3× faster
IWM trades on completely different fundamentals than SPY or QQQ
Why the fuck IWM still green fuck this shit
Spy and qqq died BUT IWM DID‘T AND I GOT IWM PUTS FUCK IWM I AM HOLDING THESE PUTS TILL MY DEATH
Removing fucking IWM from my list. Fucking does the opposite of what it should.
IWM going green on a day where the news points to higher rates. There is absolutely no logic involved in the stock market.
I wonder what the mental disability is called where I keep trying to trade IWM and just keep losing money.
Come on IWM 2$ more go down and my yearly pnl will go green
All that just to dump a dollar? Come on IWM
Did the same with IWM I'm really not confident with them though. Whenever I buy puts we rip the very next day. Should stick to calls only
Watch BE get S and PP inclusion. It’s already IWM’s highest weighted name
**BanBet Created** ▼ | **Record:** 0W - 6L | Ticker | Target | Entry | Move | Expires | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **IWM** | $291.00 (below) | $295.19 | -1.4% | 23h 60m |
Jobs beat estimates, IWM nukes trust
Only SMH/SOXX has been miraculous. Most other tech etfs just underperform qqq. I suppose IGV, IWM and financials etf can sometimes be agood swing trade if you catch lows before the late cycle rotation.
Prepare to not upvote this. Holding 125 IWM puts 292$ strike on a job report very unlikely to come in hot
I'm cooked unless IWM goes to 291$ so I hope so. Print needs to be hot as well
I meant to grab IWM puts when it was 302… forgot and now the trade is gone ffs
i have IWM NOV 20 $280 put and a BNO Oct 16 $60 call. which one hits? both?
Inversed myself but 92 296$ IWM calls expiring tomorrow. I'm fucked if we gap down
I fucking hate IWM. It’s just impossible
Bought 400$ of 0dte IWM puts. Glad I sold weeklies yesterday. If this thin reverses to 291$ it restores all the losses from august
bought $5,009 of IWM NOV 280 puts
Dead cat bounce after IWM /Russel being down 3% all week
I am playing options in the $IWM and I don’t even know what companies are listed on this I heard they were mostly small cap zombie companies but it’s at all time highs with some regard strength
Only real men play options on the $IWM .. $spy is for the kids
IWM loves high interest rates. Who knew?
IWM pumping my short calls r fuk
Puts on legit anything in the IWM
I’m just gonna full send IWM and pray I guess
How does everyone feel about IWM now through Monday
This today isn’t even about oil or yields. If it were IWM would be down more than QQQ. It’s tech
Fuck this I’m playing IWM, that shit is slowly dumping, and if Iran and Middle East actually go tits up again tonight IWM is going to print money for put holders Puts on IWM are incredibly cheap btw 👀
IWM finally stopped drilling it's now in the theta-harvesting phase
IWM really wants to drill today
Back to back outlier months coming into a typically red September. So expecting IWM and QQQ to have 11% months before October sells off 70%
If your sum is large enough to buy a few hundred shares of QQQ/SPY/VOO/IWM, selling CSPs and CCs is an easy way to bank off the premiums.
It wasn’t just NDX. I used to trade SPY/QQQ/IWM too. I eventually consolidated mostly into SPX because the liquidity is great, it’s cash-settled, European-style so there’s no early assignment risk, and the Section 1256 tax treatment is a nice bonus. Plus, one SPX position gives me the exposure I want without needing a bunch of ETF contracts
IWM fell 1% but SPY barely fell 0.2%. Too lazy to look at distribution of returns given these conditions, so I'll gamble based off vibes. My vibes are: Monday is likely a theta day for SPY, and IWM likely recovers a third of its Friday losses.
IWM down 1% QQQ down 0.7% SPY down 0.25% SPY also was up the most out of every index today All of the uppies none of the downies