IWM

GrassOrAss954

SPY, QQQ, IWM….all have the same exact chart. Seems very organic and totally not manipulated.

Scalpaholic

They gave this 🤡 🐻 a IWM July 17 200P? No one's ever seen like IWM $280, but we're seen IWM $200 A LOT. Judgment Day, July 10th 2026, draws ever closer.

tldamico

What did I miss? Noticing my IWM and TLT puts are both up.

fire_alarmist

IWM is also due to get wrecked based on the fact it has been giga pumped for over a year now on promises of massive rate cuts yet we only got like 2/6 rate cuts promised and now it seems like the rate cut regime is over and hikes are even an option. IWM will have a massive fall from grace when it all goes to shit.

ten7four

Correct me if I'm wrong but small cap companies are more likely to struggle from rising energy costs (oil), right? IWM has to get wrecked at some point I would think

looool_k_libtard

Liberal straight line down on IWM lmaoo what the hell just happened

softboiledjadepotato

triple top on SPY and IWM, and WhiteHouse just posted a flex about market record highs on X...

Cultural_Ad_525

This is exactly my strategy at the moment. i have a 1000 dollar account doing 0.15-0.25 delta credit spreads on SPY and IWM, slow and steady at the moment

bringkiteback

Why yes I would like to invest in 2000 of the shittiest companies thanks IWM

Doc_options

!Banbet IWM 273.30 1d

95Daphne

Tech may make it hard for the gains to be fully given up...but this was a gap n crap for IWM/RSP. It's interesting, we went from RSP outperforming to it underperforming on the year in about 6 weeks.

ten7four

DIA +2.8% YTD SPY +3.4% YTD QQQ +4.8% YTD IWM +12.0% YTD IWM being that high seems crazy to me. In this environment small-cap stocks have the potential to get absolutely wrecked. Puts are eventually the play, the hard part as always is timing it right.

DiamondG331

You can trade RUT for now, no IWM. And so far nothing on Nasdaq.

Bigb4nman

If this is real this is a game changer for swing traders who want to minimize/capitalize gap risk. Hopefully they at least add QQQ and IWM.

DiamondG331

It is true lol..but yeah I only trade credit spreads and this is a far safer way to trade than futures. It seems like today might be the first night session so who knows how many contracts will be traded and what the spread is. By the end of the year SPY IWM QQQ DIA. Will be 24 hours too hopefully. And by next year, 24/7 365

Unlucky-Ad1414

ChatGPT is goated; taught me how to trade. Anyways I started off with a $300 account, I want to prove my strategy and I can be profitable before I size up 😂 I’ve messed around with XSP paper trading I like spy and I also like IWM it’s more small account friendly and I personally like how it moves.

xiaodown

Here @OP, I did it for you. This is investing $20,000 as a lump sum, 5,000,000 simulations, picking an ETF out of the given list, picking a date for which data exists (generally, from the start of the fund up until 2020), and investing the whole thing on the next trading day. Then the results are averaged for each year. Prices are accurate as of yesterday's close. (**note:** repost, and i'm removing the little emojis that my stock backtester script spits out because the bot doesn't like them) (lumpdca) xiaodown@lab:~/code/lumpdca$ python simulate.py 5000000 20000 --tickers \ SPY,QQQ,IWM,VTI,EFA,VEA --lump-only --yearly Investment Strategy Simulation Running 5,000,000 simulations with $20,000 investment Using 16 processes on 16 available cores ============================================================ [████████████████████████████████████████] 5,000,000/5,000,000 (100.0%) EFA from 2011-07-01: LUMP value $51,425 IWM from 2006-03-10: LUMP value $99,098 QQQ from 2000-09-23: LUMP value $168,170 SPY from 2006-11-01: LUMP value $147,153 VTI from 2019-08-10: LUMP value $52,176 SPY from 2014-10-05: LUMP value $86,602 VEA from 2020-08-17: LUMP value $38,454 SPY from 2013-12-18: LUMP value $95,755 ============================================================ SIMULATION SUMMARY ============================================================ Total Simulations: 5,000,000 Starting Capital: $20,000 Time Elapsed: 7.26 seconds Ticker Filter: SPY, QQQ, IWM, VTI, EFA, VEA Mode: Lump Sum Only Returns Analysis: Strategy Median Average Min Max ------------------------------------------------------------ Lump Sum $85,098 $123,298 $29,098 $760,309 Best Lump Sum: QQQ $760,309 (from 2002-10-09) Worst Lump Sum: IWM $29,098 (from 2020-12-24) Lump Sum By Start Year: Year Count Median Average Min Max ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2000 119208 $159,826 $162,953 $129,510 $285,438 2001 201827 $186,581 $200,347 $91,365 $541,237 2002 201538 $204,530 $254,106 $93,398 $760,309 2003 202085 $208,704 $246,108 $82,828 $641,108 2004 202670 $184,469 $198,549 $69,617 $469,717 2005 202302 $166,867 $182,504 $59,454 $434,923 2006 202378 $149,265 $165,042 $48,579 $420,748 2007 261626 $90,588 $120,699 $41,465 $355,670 2008 262790 $108,706 $146,935 $44,311 $583,763 2009 261679 $147,686 $175,261 $57,726 $579,253 2010 262606 $107,333 $137,207 $54,169 $347,938 2011 261781 $93,333 $119,791 $49,900 $292,526 2012 263127 $84,000 $109,512 $52,543 $255,799 2013 261088 $69,451 $91,014 $43,294 $216,495 2014 261798 $57,098 $75,756 $40,957 $168,170 2015 261902 $54,353 $70,230 $41,059 $141,753 2016 262398 $57,098 $70,069 $44,471 $143,686 2017 260976 $46,321 $57,508 $36,485 $114,046 2018 261759 $43,066 $50,524 $34,351 $93,428 2019 261866 $42,000 $48,390 $34,859 $89,562 2020 262596 $43,066 $44,110 $29,098 $78,608 Note: Large outliers detected. Median may be more representative than average. ============================================================ The point is, some years are better than others, but it all comes out in the wash, and time in the market generally beats timing the market.

DefiantDelta

IWM got way ahead of its skis for this energy environment lmao

fire_alarmist

Why is IWM not 30% down today tho? It should be at least 30% down

Ok-Analysis4121

IWM puts

Fhyzikz

I would give my first born and my kitty cat for IWM 250 or less by tomorrow

sloanemonroe

Hey look, the worst collection of stocks, IWM, is up again.

dreamwagon

Options on CAR are just silly. Short IWM a few weeks out for like 900% less IV

chibi78

IWM is waiting for me to buy ITM puts so it can continue it trajectory to moon

Fhyzikz

IWM is the most unstoppable index

bringkiteback

IWM is like a retard with a passed out chick and no supervision

chibi78

Another day IWM green. God I want someone to nuke us and take me out of this misery

Loose_General4018

SPY is shaky, but market is still holding. If IWM joins, things can turn messy quickly.

indyyo1

IWM just rocketing. Is it small cap squeeze season

Icy-Nefariousness424

The rotation out of big tech into small caps during volatile moments to capture upside and write calls. The rotation back into large caps will most likely occur when mid east calms down and interest rates get cut. The IWM will probably take a large hair cut.

AnotherThroneAway

Which is both an argument for, and against, investing in market cap defined funds. FWIW, among the big three, VO captures the most upside, since it gets the winners from IWM/VTWO, and by the time they're big enough for SPY, a big chunk of their lifetime growth and gains will be priced in. That said, the bottom quintile of VOO do exceptionally well, and better than the other 493 (VOO ex-Mag7), and are a great target for stock-picking.

hermeskino715

IWM being up makes no sense to me

dontslambro

All the money that would go into Qs or Spy went into IWM today. Theyre the hold my beer guys

Fhyzikz

Late cycle market trend usually sees the IWM outpacing SPY for whatever reason. It's literally the most retarded thing to invest in right now given the current macro backdrop so that's probably why it's pumping. If something makes sense, do the opposite to get rich

sloanemonroe

I try to play IWM and always lose.

chibi78

Why is IWM this much retarded? Please someone tell me what changed to warrant this pump. Its up 50% in year

bringkiteback

IWM officially made me bleed out my ass

Aigpil

one add for anyone specifically going the premium-selling route -- the starting sequence is different from pure vol trading, and OP's guide kind of blends them. concrete on-ramp for theta sellers: CSPs on liquid ETFs (SPY/QQQ/IWM), .15-.20 delta, 30-45 DTE, close at 50% profit. run that for 6+ months before touching single names with earnings events. the reason that boring setup matters: it teaches you how IV rank works in practice. selling when IV rank is 50+ percentile (not just "IV looks elevated") gives you an actual edge over realized vol. selling at rank 15-20 means you're collecting thin premium against essentially the same downside risk. most beginners read the theory and jump straight to complex structures on volatile names. then a loss hits and they can't tell if it was a bad entry, bad vol timing, or just bad luck.

chibi78

If you lack good comedy to watch just pay look at the IWM. That shit is funny how manipulated it is

DesktopSurfer

Yeah man I'm starting a trading journey myself this week. starting with 2600 looking to go for 10-15% profits with a 5% stop loss - I'll check out IWM

GrassOrAss954

How is IWM maintaining absolute helmet wearing retard strength?

Outof_ITM

IWM is green. Miss Lippy’s car is green. So why can’t SPY be green?

GrassOrAss954

Stay so fucking far away from IWM. Absolute regard strength.

itsnotshade

IWM green, the index of companies most affected by interest rates and energy costs. Puts seem so obvious, but I’m not about to bet against the crack pipe assumption of peace.

OkAlternative7705

Just entered a put on IWM. Either you die a hero or live long enough to see yourself be the villain. The quote is completely unrelated

FabulousLanguage6216

Everyone bought hedge on IWM, so they are pumping it

bringkiteback

IWM is gaping me

GrassOrAss954

IWM strong as fuck. Naturally, since I’m short.

mneymaker

At that point, i am not even sure if my hedge IWM 273P will hit. Bears what you even doing, this is sad

Ok-Art-3759

LFG!! Look into IWM also! Just take +10%-15% gain a day. I'm doing the same as you are, but through Robinhood. Starting with $400.

spudbro00

I did, but I also did last week and had IWM down -2% futures sunday night and woke up to being destroyed so I fully expect the same

Willing_Spring2736

recommendations for leveraged ETS for S&P, Nasdaq and IWM?

ColForbinClimbs

The macro environment is extremely bearish but will take months to play out. I’m adding long dated IWM puts on these pops. Definitely held a few too long last drop

ItsOkILoveYouMYbb

I'd be curious how this view compares looking at the IWM in the same way.

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Elegant_Primary_7133

QQQ and IWM are your best bets both cheaper than SPY with solid liquidity. Just don’t go too cheap or you’ll pay for it in spreads

Murky-Gate7795

SPYM or SPYG are much cheaper but also much less liquid. IWM is very liquid and about 1/3 the cost of SPY. It also outperformed SPY last year.

HelloEarthSpaceWorld

The liquidity issues in later months can make managing LEAPS a nightmare compared to the easier fills you get with SPY. You might find better results looking at IWM or even QQQ for high liquidity at a lower price point if you want to avoid the spread widening out on you. Sticking with highly liquid tech names is another solid way to keep your capital requirements down without sacrificing volume.

ThetaEdgeHQ

for LEAPS specifically IWM and QQQ are the most liquid alternatives with tighter spreads than most. XSP is technically cheaper but the liquidity is thinner on the back months. if your goal is premium selling rather than directional longs, selling puts on individual names with IV rank above 50 tends to give better return on capital than SPY LEAPS in most environments anyway

run_midnight

Try SPY or VOO, they track the S&P500; IWM for small caps; and QQQ for tech exposure. You want growth, not everything. Those ETFs you mentioned include all the garbage too. Your first 10k should be in SPY or VOO then start to pick individual stocks as per your risk tolerance. Pick stocks of companies you use. (eg. RDDT, GOOG, AAPL, HOOD, etc.)

Spiritual_Bat7343

for LEAPS specifically IWM and QQQ are the most liquid alternatives with tighter spreads than most. XSP is technically cheaper but the liquidity is thinner on the back months. if your goal is premium selling rather than directional longs, selling puts on individual names with IV rank above 50 tends to give better return on capital than SPY LEAPS in most environments anyway

InvisibleEar

IWM still rocking SPY, hard to believe the reddit prediction that small caps are cooked under the administration didn't come true

UsedState7381

VT, IWM and SPY are all cracking new ATHs today, right now. MSOS, obviously, can't even crack what we pumped up to this last Wednesday. The opportunity costs of staying invested in this junk are very real and rears its ugly head once again.

FuckleUp

Very LARGE volume candles on SPY QQQ IWM

Educational-Bee1908

IWM giveth and IWM taketh

RothTo0DTE

I’ll give you an easy one. IWM above 276

Fhyzikz

IWM puts for 260 exp next friday are $8

kingkongsdingdong420

IWM calls

MrMcjibblets1990

Sold my IWM calls when it was +2.5% on the day. What to buy next?!?!

BagholderInRecovery

There's a put for every day of the week, IWM is in there three times. Bro basically has a loss subscription service

MrMcjibblets1990

Was down to my last $250 agian in the gambling account. Threw it at a IWM 4/24 $271 C. I'M BACK BABY!!!!!!!!!!! - Insert Goerge Castanza GiF here.

RothTo0DTE

IWM mooning

onamixt

I won't sell my May IWM puts (-80%). April 26 is when a civilization of bulls dies altogether.

Toe_Shanks

Kind of answered your own question there. These are not Euro style like SPX so if they're itm then yes there is an inherent risk of early assignment, but not a guarantee. If you close them out before settlement, then also yes, you won't have anything to worry about. Since the start of Iran CL has been carrying a fair amount of volatility and extrinsic value until the final moments and it only stops trading 30min before close. GC though stops trading at 1:30et so opening a trade in the morning, especially a bwb, isn't going to leave much juice to squeeze whether a credit or debit. Pennies in front of a steamroller, or fuzz off a grape as he said lol. Another thing to remember, which isn't going to apply directly here but you'll still notice. Is that the pricing on spreads is different enough between options on futures and their etf/index counterpart that it sometimes makes a strategy that works on one incompatible with the other. ES/SPX, RTY/RUT, NQ/NDX for example have a more obvious skew in their pricing because of the Euro vs American expirations. CL/USO are more loosely correlated than GC/GLD, but it still may work in your case. CL tracks WTI, it doesn't hold WTI, and it doesn't track the whole thing. USO tracks WTI by holding the front month contract, not pysical oil itself, and not the whole timeline. This causes some drag and further separates the resulting move that one might see versus the other as time goes on. Think of WTI as the whole curve, USO only tracks a slice of it at the front. So for a single or two day hedge you should be fine, but anything on a longer timeframe then USO won't provide quite as tight of a hedge as you think it will. GC/GLD is the opposite story. GLD holds bullion, not the contract, so it's a much tighter correlation without the drag that USO has and would provide a better hedge. Think of CL/USO as a derivative of a derivative, and GC/GLD as spot for spot. But with the points I made above, the GC/GLD trade you're wanting to take may not be as profitable as you think it will be because of how little time will be left once you open it. If you want to branch out to trading options on futures in the same way you have been trading, go for it. But the same strategy you're using on SPX/SPY might not work for CL/USO, GC/GLD, NQ/NDX/QQQ, RTY/RUT/IWM. But you currently have a strategy that's working. As Steve Clark said, "Do more of what works and less of what doesn't"

FuckleUp

IWM could run here 🏃

tldamico

Any chance of IWM hitting 271? Askin' for a fren....

Extension-Ad917

Likely short vs QQQ/IWM

Chemical-Coconut-203

What's IWM's problem? Get back to all time highs, you coward.

Top_Neighborhood_929

I’m actually doing this now for SPY and QQQ. Didn’t expect it to jump so suddenly. But I think the jump won’t be permanent and it will pull back eventually My plan is to roll for credit and increase my strike price by $1 so I still get something I believe eventually I will be able to catch up If I cannot, the worst case is it gets called away for a small profit I not too worried about opportunity costs cos SPY, QQQ and IWM are the best and most stable holdings I have so it’s not like I plan to buy something else

SlartibartfastMcGee

Had a 5% day on shares and oil shorts, and now I’ve got a profitable IWM futures contract open with a trailing stop order. Life’s good bros. Nothing like closing the app and walking away when you know you’ll come back to a small profit or a big profit in the morning, no observation required.

MrMcjibblets1990

Bought some IWM weekly calls boys and girls. This is your heads up to get your puts. We're going down for sure!

tldamico

If IWM $269 calls are not free money, then my Magic 8 Ball lied to me.

UsedState7381

IWM and VT flushed down, oddly enough SPY has hit $7000 and is completely out of the dump from Iran even though the situation doesn't seems to be resolved. Volume on MSOS remains shit.

Doc_options

I’m disappointed with IWM not once did it break outside of the wedge. Spy Pumps and my IWM calls are worthless

Heyumpp

yes, the $17 odte call on IWM is really devastating my account. Anyways, if you could make sure I get a spoon with that frosty I'd appreciate it!

East_Communication82

What is wrong with IWM today?

Doc_options

Why did I choose IWM calls instead of SPY. I’m sobbing!

radditor1234

IWM frozen in time

Scalpaholic

MMs fighting every Red Candle on IWM.  🙏 Doctor Jesus 🥭 just one tantrum tweet about Iran not saying Thank You to send everything to Hades.

Doc_options

Will we see IWM ath or are small-caps not worthy.

Doc_options

Can someone explain to me why IWM likes to lag so much. SPY is practically recovered and IWM is still deciding whether or not there is a war.

spudbro00

AMA - Sold my Snapchat calls to buy more IWM puts 2 days ago

SimplyLuka

I’ve been building an AI-powered stock analysis tool for months — not some generic ChatGPT bullshit wrapper, an actual system I’ve been grinding on. It’s not ready for the public yet, and honestly I don’t know if I’d want to share it based on what I’m seeing in backtesting. But I thought it would be interesting to drop this here and see if it holds up. I put $80k in puts around $675 for May 1st thinking we’d pull back, and like every other bear I got faked out by this rally. I’m holding and I think I’m right. My first real trade using this thing two weeks ago made me $10k. This is the bigger swing. If the support/resistance lines look slightly off, I’m still fine-tuning — but the thesis is what matters. Signal: SELL at $694.46 | Targeting $652–$628 | Stop above $705–$717 Why I’m bearish at $694: This rally is built on hope, not substance. Trump says Iran wants a deal. Iran says US terms are “unreasonable.” Qatar denies any agreement exists. The Hormuz blockade is still active. Meanwhile March CPI hit a 4-year high, energy costs are up almost 11%, and the Fed isn’t cutting anything in 2026. The market ran almost 3% in two days pricing in a deal that doesn’t exist. Price is sitting right at a resistance level that’s been tested 7 times. RSI is at 67. This is a textbook rejection setup. What could make me wrong: If an actual Iran deal materializes, oil crashes, inflation pressure eases, and this whole thesis is dead. A close above $705 and I’m out, no questions asked. What I’m watching: • PPI data today • Iran headlines (binary — could go either way) • OpEx Thursday • Bank earnings this week Key levels from my analysis: Resistance: $705, $720 Support: $694, $683, $674, $652, $631 SMA-200: $665 | SMA-20: $661 Trendline break at $679 targets $655 To be fair to the bulls: Elliott Wave folks say the correction is complete and we resume higher. There are confirmed double and triple bottom patterns on the daily. MACD is positive. QQQ and IWM were both green over 1%. I see the bull case — I just think this is a trap at resistance. If anyone’s interested I can share a dumbed-down version of the playbook, but I’m not giving away the full process. Just wanted to put my money where my mouth is and let time be the judge. https://preview.redd.it/d8kf2nlhyavg1.jpeg?width=1285&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=da69341c548a72b1cbd9a5a8142bb75699206754

Sammy_MacBoy

Now pushing against all time highs... will the QQQ and SPY charts break out? Also looks like Small Caps (IWM) and Midcaps (MDY) could move as well. That would probably confirm the resumption of the bull market. Exciting times.

spudbro00

Takes 4 hours for IWM to drop 50 cents and then gains it back in 5 minutes

tldamico

Sold those IWM $267 puts for a nice gain. Starting to look like my paper hands are paying off for a change.

tldamico

I need IWM to drill at least a buck. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Scalpaholic

IWM Head and Shoulders Completed. Let's get this Pod Race started! 

tldamico

IWM drilling to 267 would not hurt my feelings. Just saying...

tldamico

Is that a right should forming on IWM? I'm so bad at this...