Reddit Posts
Soo , Russell .. what’s up man ? 🫨
Mother switched brokerage and gave me her mature rira in May... Tax free loss here we go!
Major Technical Levels on SPY QQQ IWM for 2024
Need advice about index option and option on future.
Someone close to me made an interesting bet against ES NQ IWM TSLA, the semiconductors, but is long on PSNY, China, oil, cereals, wheat pall
Everything I'm watching in premarket 27/12, Including my analysis on DXY, IWM and more.
Is it worth it to sell your now ITM options to buy OTM options?
So are we buying meme stocks again or what?
Expected Moves this Week - GDP, a low VIX, IWM and earnings from Nike, FedEx and Micron
Expected Moves this Week: SPX/SPY, QQQ, IWM, Broadcom, Docusign and more.
Are SPY and IWM the only stock with multiple expirations during a one week period?
My plan of trading until the end of the year SPY
24% profit, Day 1 of 30 - $1k to $1M challenge
Join me on my journey ... $1,000 to $1,000,000 ... I'll be documenting here. (Trade 1/30)
Join me on my journey ... $1,000 to $1,000,000 ... I'll be documenting here. (Trade 0/30)
Is this stupid?- Selling put on IWM getting assigned and then selling covered call?.
Pretty wild stats on market positioning - crash coming in the new year?
5K Daily Gain on AMD, IWM, META, PLTR, and QQQ
Shorts Once Again Concentrated in Hated Index/Sector
Funds were waiting for earnings to justify EOY rally. Taking bullish hedges.
Mid-Month Technical Analysis Review of SPY QQQ IWM
SPY 418p -- Evaluating value after experiencing loss.
Small Caps are now at a five year low, in nominal terms
Trade Journal & Technical Review of September + Look Ahead for October
Technical Analysis Snapshot so far of September 2023
Expected Moves this week, Oracle, Adobe, SPY, QQQ, IWM and more.
The Month Review: Technical Snapshots & Trade Journal for August 2023
The Month Review: Technical Snapshots & Trade Journal for August 2023
A mid-Month Review: Technical Snapshots & Trade Journal so far for August 2023
Butterflies & Iron Condors: Assignment Risk vs. Duration & Stock Selection
small cap/med cap stock that pay a consistent/decent dividends
Thoughts on IWM and $TNA - will small caps follow large caps?
Wall Street Week Ahead for the trading week beginning July 17th, 2023
General Market Overview / Indexes Action (11th July)
Weekly Recap - Week ended Jun 9 2023 - Market rotation might be happening
Two Videos, Larry Williams: Inflation Peak Means big bull move and Carter Worth: Rotation Big to Small Cap
Market Recap - 6/7/23 - Bargain hunting
IWM Calls Grand Slam! 1717 9/15, 210 strike calls! Closed out at 1.05 and 1.10 (1.075 average), purchase price .25. Net proceeds $181,227.
Had to take it.. 256% in 4 days $IWM.. or should I have held?
We are just 8 SP500 points from official new Bull Market, Sentiment Indicators indicate we will go 10% higher.
Market Recap - 5/20/23 - everything is over bought
Wednesday morning brief from a Certified Market Technician 5/24 9:05am
Morning Brief from a Certified Market Technician 5/23/23 9:05 am EST
Market data subscriptions on Interactive Brokers
My top pair trade idea for this month: Russell 2000 vs Nasdaq using Options
Market Recap - 5/17/23 - the worst is behind us, maybe
Market Recap - 5/15/23 - everything is high risk if you're a pussy
Week Ended May 12 - Recap and thoughts for next week - tread carefully
Market Recap - 5/1/23 - 700 million dollars per AI
Key fib levels you want to watch for SPY,QQQ ,DIA, IWM
Tactical call option trade, small cap (IWM) 9/15 EXP 210 strike calls 687 contracts, 27 cents entry🔥
Tactical call option trade, small cap (IWM) 9/15 EXP 210 strike calls 687 contracts, 27 cents entry.
Russell 2000 index composition
Market Recap - 5/2/23 - a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises!
Mentions
nothing wrong with going 100% VOO (or any other SP500 equivalent) If you want even more diversified $IWM is top 2000 companies if you want a little more high risk (but still well diversified) $QQQ is top 100 companies. For something a little more conservative yo could look at a Dividend ETF like $SCHD
Sweet sweet money, IWM drop 3% I’ll be up around 60k
QQQ and SPY menstruation red, IWM might pump as it's mostly unaffected by tariffs war
Because small caps are safe heaven, Greenland tariffs are a direct hit to QQQ, IWM companies are tariff-proof as they are domestic
Iran and Greenland are pretty tame non issues. Plus IWM deals with mainly US based stocks (least international exposure vs QQQ). May the ghost of MLK be with you.
There’s been a long dispersion trade placed on the market and it’s caused a very low correlation amongst stocks and has caused all the major indices other than IWM to be pinned. The markets have sold index options and bought single stock calls so they are short gamma. One of the main reasons why all of these space stocks and nonprofitable tech has been doing so well lately specifically after the start of January. Volatility has been pinned because of this very large strangle that has been placed on the market. The top upper bound has stayed the same, but the lower bound keeps compressing getting tighter and tighter. Like if you look at QQQ on a one hour chart, you could see that in an ascending triangle right now And we’re basically at the tip. If you look at a 1W chart of QQQ it’s even more pronounced right now. ask ChatGPT what a long / short dispersion trade is and it’s been traded as of all asset class among institutions.
IWM having been on fire lately is a bugaboo to this thesis, as at some point, it's going to pull back, and for now, I do NOT think the tech lag/dip gets bot. Tech likely leads the way lower on the reopen Tuesday, and some of the stuff that has been on fire tries to do it again but fails because it's been too hot lately. The real problem will be the NVDA news.
Let’s see I have $800 in call swings - RIVN and ARM - and $260 in IWM puts. Totally dumb but might be ok 😂
Update: How my spread strategy has evolved + what happens when things go south I’ve been refining my options framework for a while now, and since a few people asked what I do when trades go bad, here’s a quick update. The basics are the same: defined-risk credit spreads on SPY, QQQ, and IWM. Entries around 35–45 DTE, exits near 50–70 % profit or about 14 DTE. I never hold to expiration, never roll for income, and never stack risk in the same direction. The biggest change is patience. I don’t chase fills anymore. I set GTC limit orders outside current price and let the trade come to me. If it doesn’t fill, that’s fine—no trade is better than a forced one. I’d rather collect credit on my terms. You’ll see both call and put spreads staged, but they’re independent, not an iron condor. I’ll take whichever side gets the move and cancel the other. Keeping buying power free gives me flexibility and breathing room. So what if things go south? If price drifts near my short strike, I wait—time decay still works in my favor. If I’m clearly wrong, I close the trade and take the defined loss. No rolling, no revenge trades, no doubling down. The focus now is staying mechanical, keeping risk small, and letting time and volatility do the heavy lifting. The goal isn’t to win every week—it’s to stay in the game long enough for probability to pay you.
IWM doesn’t do anything but pump. & yeah all these meme stocks don’t stop ripping
I love IWM shi prints
That's why there are 1.5m+ options traded on IWM on a given day. It's like SPY or QQQ for true sickos.
I don't see it, but the main issue is that IWM's RSI is through the sky and the Nasdaq looks cooked until probably after the band aid is ripped off with a deeper dip. The latest issue was another H200 thing with NVDA chips. Tech likely leads lower on Tuesday.
Hedged calls with IWM put swings - 0% gain is still a gain
I'm starting to think SOY will never hit 700 and QQQ 630. IWM will go to infinity and we all die
**Is anyone else watching the massive rollover in Money Market Funds (MMF) this week?** 🤔 It looks like the "Recession Fear" trade is finally unwinding. Gold is stalling, but **Small Caps ($IWM)** are quietly breaking out to multi-year highs. That $7 Trillion on the sidelines seems to be finally chasing risk (Beta) instead of yield. I've started rotating heavily into Russell 2000 and AI infra this week. Are you guys still hiding in Mag 7 or starting to look at small caps?
IWM puts locked in for next Fri, 692P SPY locked in for wed. Let's wreck this shit.
Got some IWM puts for next Friday just in case shit goes down this weekend. I don’t see if going much higher if everything is calm either.
My suspicion is that when small caps are done with their business on the upside, the next step is going to be tech leading US markets lower for a few weeks instead of a rotation back with the way things seem. As this just isn't a good look, if we actually do try for even "$280" on IWM for ex, it's stretching things so hard in the opposite direction of summer 2024 that something is probably going to end up breaking. I know, I know, very unpopular take, much more popular to be like HAPPY HAPPY, JOY, JOY, we're going to get to 7800 easily on the SPX, but check this out: https://bsky.app/profile/ukarlewitz.bsky.social/post/3mbujyg6bx22p Breadth expansion likes to have a history of just ending in tears for the S&P.
IWM overbought. Dip on high beta stocks incoming soon.
IWM overbought. Dip on high beta stocks incoming soon.
What strike price for those IWM puts?
I bought IWM puts through Tuesday and VIX 15c 4 weeks out. I just don't believe some BS doesn't happen.
IWM over sold. Dip on high beta stocks incoming soon.
IWM ATH again, so much stronger than SPY and QQQ
The IWM chart for the last 3 weeks makes me sick
IWM puts I think he’s saying
IWM last 10 min green candle is ridiculous. 0.50%
$HTZ is in Russell 2000 IWM. Squeezer on tap. Small caps & foreign stocks for me this year
IWM gives up the ghost tomorrow, cruises back to $258 at Minimum, and I nut so hard that my entire body literally just vaporizes into the vacuum created by the velocity of the jizz leaving my Phallus, and I never get to enjoy my riches.
I wonder how much of this (if any) is fund degrossing where they sell their longs (quality) and buy their shorts (garbage at the top of IWM)
I was up 700% on IWM calls. If not for 2025, I would've held and lost every dollar. But 2025 taught me to sell early. So glad I did.
I think QQQ puts are the move tomorrow, along with IWM calls
I'm honestly genuinely beginning to believe you may get IWM to tag $300 while QQQ remains in hell under $630 and SPX probably dancing just under 7k. There just really doesn't look like anything that is going to crack the iron wall for the foreseeable future for tech.
I honestly can not WAIT!!!!!! For the IWM to have a reversal day & drop 3%.
You bishes have no small caps and it shows. Also the no sub 500M rule is stupid as hell when IWM has become king
IWM acting like it has support levels up here. GTFOH!!! You’re up 8% in 6 days!!!!
IWM is the new SPY. Get on the train now.
Usually a fan of IWM, but it’s a collection of zombie companies and Jpow won’t cut with the way data’s been trending.
IWM acting like it’s at a support level at a new all time high. Gtfoh 😂
40k shares moving IWM .5% 😂😂
I am about to buy some 0dte ATM calls on IWM. You can count on this being top od the day
My booty got clapped with an IWM put the other day. Then I bought an IWM leap 6 months out and it's up over $200 already lol. Insane
So data doesn’t show that rate cuts are coming which has not been good for IWM but it’s running up with expectations that JPOW will be gone and rate cuts are coming? More confusion
SPY QQ IWM BTC are all 1% ish today but my port is -2%, how the fuck does this happen?
So are we getting a tariff decision today? IWM seems to think so
IWM all time high but I know you losers only drool on each other about big tech, so
IWM will hit 300 before spy 700.
anybody who short sold IWM puts back on 12/31, congrats
$IWM fucked my portfolio hard
i shoulda just yolo'd into IWM calls at the beginning of jan
IWM is forecast to beat all other indexes in the first half of 2026 because it lagged the others by a lot last year
why does IWM always go up?
Hard to be bearish when IWM has been strong every day.
IWM is telling me yes but my stocks are telling me no
IWM surging but my meme port just died lmao fk this market
I am the only person trading the IWM 265c 1/20 exp, and it shows I am the entire volume muhahaha
Daaang nice. QQQ and IWM are super liquid and predictable compared to the high IV stuff I go after (META/AVGO). Keep it up!
Damn. Small caps gonna pop off tomorrow. ATH on IWM overnight and +2% at close. Book it.
Keep Going down IWM and SLV. Bought puts on both at close.
IWM has got to be about out of gas.
IWM and metals pumping when rate cuts seem less likely with PPI so hot pretty illogical to me
If you're one of those breadth confirmation bulls, January looking pretty good right now thanks to IWM being +6% YTD
Fuck it. All in IWM calls as well.
Have you looked at the top holdings of IWM? It looks like ARKK circa 2021 filled with shitcos and massively pumped bubble stocks.
Fuking IWM up 6% in just 2 weeks. Looks like meme stocks are the play.
If someone told me in 2025 that IWM would over perform QQQ I’d have asked if you also were a regard from WSB
The IWM is the powerhouse of the cell.
Wait how the fuck is **IWM** up 6% YTD already lmfao
Man, IWM wants to shoot up so bad…but I’m thinking it hits ATH tomorrow at least
I definitely had puts today. IWM puts. So I still managed to get absolutely dicked on.
IWM is easy to trade, I'm just saying
Well my IWM banbet for Friday ain’t gunna hit. This fucker don’t give AF
im confused as to what the market it rotating into....IWM?
All in 1 DTE IWM calls
Bought a couple of IWM $260 puts. It doesn't look red enough for me.
**14 years institutional experience here.** You are spot on regarding the rotation, but there is a structural nuance that retail traders often miss when playing Small Caps. **The "Index Trap": Russell 2000 (IWM) vs. S&P 600 (IJR)** You mentioned that \~40% of the Russell 2000 is unprofitable. That is the fatal flaw of that specific index—it has no "Quality Filter." It is loaded with "Zombie Companies" that survive only on cheap debt. If you want to play this rotation without the junk risk, look at the **S&P 600 (IJR/SLY)** instead. * **The Difference:** The S&P 600 has a strict **Profitability Requirement** for inclusion. The Russell does not. * **The Result:** Historically, the S&P 600 outperforms the Russell over long cycles because it mechanically filters out the bankruptcies before they happen. Great write-up on the valuation gap. Just make sure the vehicle you use to express the trade isn't leaking oil.
I bought 1/16 IWM calls and not 0DTE on that dip. What an absolute panzy.
Bow down to your small caps overlord, IWM.
IWM bouncing to green while everything else is red is fucking killing me
*sighs* alright $IWM I’ll give you a shot at hurting me again …
*sighs* alright $IWM I’ll give you a shot at hurting me again …
IWM wants to be green so freaking bad.
Once this short term selling is done on SPY over the next day or two I am buying calls in IWM. That is holding strong!