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
IWM doesn’t have gains like QQQ does. Investors have no reason to dump their IWM. There’s no profit taking there, because there is no profit there lol.
Someone please explain how IWM is green if this sell off is based on rate cuts not happening. Aren’t the small caps the ones that need lower rates?
IWM green. Russell, haven’t you heard ?
The fact that IWM is green makes me wonder if that so called switch to small caps might actually happen
IWM of all things is green lol
Kinda crazy IWM is green when it's biggest component is down 15%
Short IWM on this bounce, as always
SMCI about to kill IWM lmao. That and MSTR were the only two things not sucking
I could have just diamond handed my way into profit. Pretty sure I had some IWM 200P and SPY 500P at one point but I've basically been getting destroyed all year and had to save what was left of my account
IWM puts better fucking pay
CRASHKARI SAYS WE CAN WAIT AS LONG AS IT TAKES BEFORE CUTTING RATES || SAYS COULD POTENTIALLY WAIT UNTIL 2025 TO LOWER RATES.... SPY IWM are going to get it tomorrow.
Short IWM on every bounce. Has worked for 2 years and isn’t stopping anytime soon
Short IWM at the open, as always
I need IWM +15 just to break even. 
No - not necessarily. There are lots of low cost index funds that track other indices. There are indices for just about everything out there. That's what index providers create and manage as a business. For example - a popular small cap index fund is IWM which tracks the Russell 2000. Or MDY for Rusell midcap 400. Some of the oldest ETFs are based on MSCI world indices like EWJ, EWH, etc. As well as DIA which track the DJIA index. These index funds won't contain TSLA if that' some a requirement for you. If you are looking for a large cap US equity fund that doesn't include TSLA - you may have to look a bit more - but I'm sure that they are out there. Or you can construct your own.
1/3 of my port is in IWM @ 209. AMA. 
IWM will pump 50% this year trust me bro 
Still waiting for my IWM to print you tub o lard.
I bought 1dte IWM $198 Calls at close yesterday. Naturally, I'm afraid to check the ticker this morning. So, I've been following SPY and see it's doing alright. Percentage wise, is IWM up more or less than SPY this morning?
I don’t follow them. Possibly, it’ll be a lot of stocks you won’t be surprised by. He has some bad calls too, like IWM earlier this year when inflation was hot and interest rates not coming down.
IWM has absolutely zero chance of hitting 300 like Tom Lee predicted. Anyone still playing this is asking to get hurt.
My biggest gainer: LW which should keep going up to next earnings. My biggest loser: Myself for buying 50 shares of IWM right at ATH. 
AAPL sub 169 is a buy before earnings. Maybe IWM also just because it's so beat down right now.
I've traded IWM both shares and options for a couple of years, and you're right it is terrible. I just wish I could find a small/med cap fund that had good volume on options.
I sold all my spy, IWM, qqq, fidelity blue chip, fidelity total market, and fidelity 500 funds Friday. All this in my Roth and brokerage account/gambling account. Obviously I didn’t predict the weekend news cycle… but there was a rounded top in indices forming and I wanted to sell before a dip. Got lucky to time it almost perfectly. Made some money on qqq puts intraday today. Holding one through tomorrow and some high conviction non-tech stocks. Probably sitting 50% cash for a while in those two… still have the vast majority of my retirement accounts in target date retirement fund - probably will just hold those and not try and time anything.
Why would IWM be down on middle East jitters. What does the average Russell 2000 company from Kentucky care about fuckeries far away.
I’d get puts on IWM long before SPY…
"Fuck you IWM," a poem It's time to go up, IWM What are you even doing down there in the first place, IWM You didn't even go up that much to begin with, IWM Are you happy now, IWM ***Fuck you,*** IWM
I took my $200 gain on IWM calls when I was down $800 too 
IWM GIVE DADDY THAT V ABOVE VWAP 
Glad 1/3 my port is in IWM. Real real happy about that. 
IWM 4/17 200c 50 cons @.70 SELL @ POWER HOUR
Where is the IWM pump Tom Lee promised?
OUT IWM CALLS 40% We up 2.4k today What we eating
IWM gunna start drilling to start the 🛝
“Can you feel it coming in the air tonight? Oh Lord, oh Lord”. -My IWM puts
I didn’t buy the dip on Friday but also didn’t close out IWM cash secured monthly puts that went a bit deep in the money
Welp my IWM calls gonna go from being 78% down to 100% down and my TSLA puts will probably eat shit some how
I just paid for Option Omega. I find their software is flexible with how you want to construct your back tests. I haven't really exercised the software a lot.. But the discord site seems to have many faithful. Live data needs subscription. They have YouTube videos that you can check out. They limit the back tests to SPX, SPY, IWM, QQQ, AAPL, and TSLA. The company is basically two or three people and support is via a discord site. If you are beginner, they basically tell you to go watch videos, or read the manual. The most active people are fairly advanced traders and they all seem to know each other. Pretty much like any other trading site. I subscribed through a company called Navigation Trading which gave me a 50% discount on the yearly subscription. Navigation Trading has pretty good educational videos on you tube.
Trade: IWM 35 DTE 199/194 (6 DTE) Credit: $0.56 Spread Max loss: $446 Currently: Underlying: $198 P/L: $-105 ( closing to 2X ) If I close it now at 198, will I lose 105 or will I lose 105-56?
Sounds like Tom Lee and IWM going to 300
I’m surprised IWM didn’t sell off more than it did today
I would be more than grateful if I could break even on Monday on these IWM calls or take a small loss. But 90% down?
Welp guess selling a covered call on my IWM was smart.
Just take IWM to 200, we all know it's going there
IWM now red on the year
IWM cash secured puts or put spreads are looking juicy
IWM going back to the $160’s. All those CNBC idiots praising small caps every day
Whose got 2 thumbs and bought deep 2DTE (Mon) puts for the announced weekend war. THIS GUY 👍😎👍 That and I'm a closet 🌈🐻 that plays puts to calls 3:1 anyways.  SPY, QQQ, IWM. Tell Wendy's to bake that potato, 'cuz I eat tonite
Whose got 2 thumbs and bought deep 2DTE (Mon) puts for the announced weekend war. THIS GUY 👍😎👍 That and I'm a closet 🌈🐻 that plays puts to calls 3:1 anyways.  SPY, QQQ, IWM. Tell Wendy's to bake that potato, 'cuz I eat tonite
Let's explore a simple stupid strategy.use ETF..SPY,QQQ,IWM buy a long date call over 80 delta..2 months out is ok..let's say June 5th..then sell June 4th call & keep premium..ETFs are damn they move up & down depending on which side of bed jpowell wakes up..when the ETF drops use the ..premium to buy back the sold call and lock in the premium..now wait for long call go back up and exit position or repeat same process
I have done this a bit on IWM and QQQ. Mainly holding shares but when it feels overbought I'll sell an ATM 1 DTE call. If I get assigned then I sell ATM 1 DTE puts until I get my shares back. It has slightly outperformed the market, but could just be luck.
NVDA calls and IWM puts. How are small caps green today
I bought META right before it dropped 16%. I bought IWM at the end of December and it has done nothing.
Banks are gonna pump so much tomorrow. Holding some IWM and SPY Calls overnight.
A smart man woulda loaded up on IWM calls
IWM up today with TLT doing that is something
And then IWM goes up 7% and on cnbc they all say, “of course it’s up. The market is forward looking to when rates eventually go down.” And it’ll just be more bullshit.
https://preview.redd.it/9tktlh52eutc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ee79b3fe7b68308a8bd0e635bf47fa8a7738bfcf IWM investors checking on their calls after buying LEAPs because Tom Lee told them to
He lost all his money on IWM calls and then stopped yapping 
It could go that way. Or NVDA's weakness over the past month has been market broadening and money rotating into IWM etc. Todays price action tells me the "Mag 7" trade is back on. NVDA was up either because it hit bottom of its bollinger band or because people realized buying 30K chips isnt going to take a hit from "higher for longer"
IWM holding 200 pretty well for now, may be worth swinging some calls overnight
Any call will increase in absolute value (i.e., the long will get more expensive, the short will yield more premium). That's the underlying issue. Bull call spreads always have a net debit. Using IXM, A 04/19 expiration: Long $195 exp 04/19 cost: $0.52 Short IWM $215 exp 04/19 cost ($0.50) Net $0.50 debit A 04/26 expiration: Long $195 cost: $1.04 Short $215 cost: ($0.19) Net $0.85 debit So you're getting a $0.50 credit when you close the 04/19, but pay $0.85 for the 04/26. You can roll to a higher long, lower short, or combo to try to get a credit (e.g., $209/$214).
IWM, META, and TSLA need to go to zero. Everything else can go up.
Right when IWM was on the cusp of a breakout it instead takes a massive fucking shit. But maybe that shit makes it lighter and more able to breakout in the near future? Really makes ya think...
No? IWM is small cap. Small caps need low interest rate to grow their business. Large caps don’t
Whys IWM down so bad wouldn't it be the opposite
If IWM goes green I'll never buy weeklies again
Turns out NVDA calls and IWM puts was the play.
I sold two puts on IWM April 19th, and I’m in danger.
My two vices in life are alcohol and losing money yoloing on IWM
These IWM puts are gonna be bangers at open
IWM already down 3% lol
That's actually a good analogy. In other news this discussion and the move post CPI has convinced me to just go ahead and take profits on my IWM 205 Puts today
Dumped all my IWM yesterday  <— this is me
I used to compare my results to IWM and don't anymore. Like taking a cripple kid's lunch money.
Long IWM for a while. But bought some puts for tomorrow. Can’t trust IWM. CPI is like powder to him
So if you had 10k to safely put down at 9:30, no matter hot or cold CPI, what would be best to generate a solid 50% return? SPY puts/calls? NVDA Ps/Cs? Puts on IWM if CPI hot?
Anybody else scooped some IWM calls for tomorrow?
First, the good news. You have a strategy at all! And it's fairly detailed. You are already ahead of about 80% of traders at your stage of education. I'm afraid the rest of my reply is all bad news: > I want to do something very safe while maximizing my returns That is impossible. "Safe" and "maximize my returns" are contradictory. You can't increase returns without also increasing risk. > I picked the following etfs for this, which all track different major indices: spyg (s&p 500), vtwo (Russel 2000), and cibr (nasdaq) - I hope to have enough to do this with the more expensive etfs some day. I'm glad you mentioned the last part, because otherwise there are better choices in terms of options liquidity, like IWM and QQQ. SPYG is not the S&P 500, it's the constituents of the S&P 500 that some algo decided are growth stocks. Maybe instead of compromising on the underlyings, you just trade vertical spreads instead? That would save you a lot of money, at the cost of capping your upside. > The basic idea is to sell CSPs and CCs on all these ETFs in a cycle to try and maximize gains from premiums while also loss harvesting. Do you mean The Wheel specifically? The Wheel works better on individual stocks, but you would probably be in the same capitalization problem with stocks. > In the steps below, I intend to always sell CSPs on red days, and CCs on green days. What if the red day is followed by more red days? And the green by more green days? Your strat is missing all kinds of important details, like risk management, expiration (what DTE), risk/reward tolerance, capital utilization, etc. > For all the etfs I chose, soonest expirations are all pretty far apart, so this should help avoid wash sales. What the heck does that mean? Tax considerations should not have this much influence on critical entry decisions like DTE. **Wash sales don't matter for most of the year**. They are only a problem if they cross a tax year. > If I wind up having to pay some capital gains tax next year I intend to sell some of my position to cover taxes, as opposed to taking out profits immediately each time I make some money and saving that to pay taxes. With this approach, I should maximize time in the market for my available capital. If that is the goal, pay taxes out of other funds instead. Like job earnings. > Any time I sell an option, I will use a portion of the premium to buy a much cheaper option on the same expiration as insurance, to partially offset potential losses of my sold option going way into the money. That's basically the vertical spread I mentioned earlier. Why not just start with that and save yourself the money? > Pick a safe asset, say spyg, and sell as many CSPs as possible for the soonest expire date, at the highest premium. Any funds remaining, purchase shares of underlying and a cheaper insurance put on the same expiration. What does "at the highest premium" mean? In what context? If you mean in the absolute sense, that will always be the most ITM put, which makes early assignment a certainty. I guess maybe you want that, since you ultimately want to accumulate shares, but think about that. If you are constantly paying $80/share for something that is only worth $70/share, why is that the best use of your capital? Even if you are getting $11 in credit to do so. You might be better off just saving the cash in a 5% MMF and buying shares as you go. It's definitely worth doing the comparison. > if I started doing this with spyg, I could move on to cibr next by selling as many cibr CSPs as possible, and putting any remaining funds into cibr shares. Is this just so that you accumulate all three stocks? IF that is the case, it would make much more sense to just buy shares of each of the three funds when you have the dollars to do so. This rotation through the different tickers is not the best way to deal with not being able to afford to buy all three at once.
$IWM will pop!! If numbers a slightly below tomorrow or sell off if it’s to hot. Perfect either way trade.
IWM and 206 just pop over and hold my lord
$600 scalp on IWM puts baby What we eating for breakfast 
IWM puts look unfathomably juicy
Well IWM is going to get hurt if no rate cuts are coming
IWM and VTWO are small cap index funds. AVUV is a factor fund, it focuses on small cap *value* stocks, with additional screening by momentum and quality factors. AVUV is run by people who formerly managed Dimensional's small-cap value mutual fund DFSVX, which has outperformed the S&P 500 since its inception in 1994.
I keep seeing this recommendation. Why AVUV over IWM, VTWO, etc?