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Got exercised at the strike automatically 800k worth!!
It's a sign, market crash tomorrow QQQ to 385
SPY Is Coiling Below $775 What Could Trigger the Breakout
US market - VOO or CSPX QQQ or CNDX or anything else?
Buying QQQ is easy. Holding through the pullbacks is a whole different thing
How should I split my Roth IRA between VTI and QQQ?
At what point does owning SPY + QQQ + a growth ETF stop being diversification and start being the same bet in different wrappers?
I only need to trade like this for another month and I'll blow my account
I trade for a living - why I’m still bullish into CPI and the levels I’m trading on SPY, QQQ, oil and DRAM
These are some real lessons that I have learnt the hard way.
Two years of emotions, ups and downs, all for table scraps
Built a free dealer-gamma (GEX) map for SPX/SPY/QQQ — tell me where the methodology is wrong.
Has Michael Burry officially dethroned Jim Cramer as the king of financial flimflam, or is there still time for Cramer to mount a comeback?
For anyone wondering exactly how much QQQ and VOO/SPY actually overlap, here is the math.
The Nasdaq 100's valuation premium over the S&P 500 is near a 9-year low. Is tech actually expensive anymore?
QQQ 10 dollar green rocket up my anus at open
Buying QQQ is easy. Holding through the drops is a whole different thing
Racking up 100% trading options day after day adds up to big money
I Trade for a Living - Here’s My Setup for Semis, SPY and QQQ
Buying QQQ is easy. Holding through the drops is a whole different thing
Deconstructing 0DTE Option Losses: Traders Freeze During Intraday Volatility Surges
$200 > $5,000 challenge day 1
SPY closed the week in the deepest positive gamma I've seen in a while (IV ~9%)
When I put $5 on a stock I win , put $50 in I lose almost every time.
Buying the APPLE dip might not be a pro move.
Prepare yourself for the Regime Shift
Prepare yourself for the Regime Shift
QQQ $660 calls expiring today, ngl thought it was over at one point
July 24/27/28 is the first time in history that the S&P 500 was positive 3 days in a row while QQQ was negative 3 days in a row.
Bought 60k worth of QQQ LEAPS and 20k worth of DRAM LEAPS
HYG Just Broke Down From a 3-Month Triangle Consolidation. Is the Equity Market Next?
Stared into the abyss today
SOX just hit bear market territory. This earnings week is make or break for semis
I model dealer gamma daily. Right now all three big index ETFs are negative-gamma below their flip,
1DTE $21K SPY FD Yolo - 735P 7/20/26 220x @ .96 Each
Regarding the Recent Stock Market Movement
Regarding on the Recent Stock Market Movement
June CPI missed big but I'm not buying the full rally yet
Always a Pleasure $HOOD. Thanks again QQQ
Always a Pleasure $HOOD, Thanks again QQQ.
QQQ gonna spike soon (UP or DOWN)
Held these 0DTE over weekend. 11K QQQ calls am I cooked?
If June CPI comes in hotter than expected, is the better trade Treasuries or SPY/QQQ puts?
Investing is really a lifelong battle against our own emotions
A huge trade just happened on the Nasdaq 100. Bulls are taking notice
Your wheel is probably less diversified than delta makes it look
SpaceX is trading below its opening day price in its third week. Bag holder or bargain.
SpaceX is trading below its opening price, might not be the red flag it looks like.
Mentions
SPX/SPY 65-70% NQ/QQQ 85% Are the % of option flows that have an expiration within the next 5 days. That is to say that the majority of option flows and therefore the majority of price action is influenced by option flows expiring within the next few days with a bulk of them expiring 0DTE. On August 4, 2026SPY complex recorded the largest single day option volume with over 4.5 million contracts. So right now there’s more leverage than there’s ever been and the majority of that expiration and effects of volatility being played out within each week.
Red open Monday for QQQ and AMD -> I'll donate USD 2k
Which direction will the NASDAQ 100 go in the next month ? Who is buying the QQQ ? There is an old saying, Trade what you see and not what you think.
If you remove A.I and semiconductor stocks over the last 12 months the S&P would be flat and QQQ would be negative
Why VOO? QQQ has better returns
The market has been in fear for 3 months with QQQ being up 18% YTD and you have retards talking about a bubble. The democratization of public idiocy.
I appreciate you posting this but that’s not the case here, is it. This dude obviously didn’t intend to do any of those things. He was just gambling on QQQ, the default should be close 10 minutes early unless you explicitly say do not exercise or say you’re monitoring which most brokers allow you to do. I have TDA, TastyTrade, E\*Trade, and fidelity, and even TDA would close your position early (at least they did 10 years ago when I did something similar). Most brokers default to sell at close unless explicitly instructed by the user not to do so.
Take a good look at the long term QQQ and SPY. Being a bull is more often profitable than a bear. If I'd buy puts on QQQ or SPY, it would be with 1% of my porto only.
Well 1 of 3 things could happen: 1 - QQQ moon & you are green 2 - QQQ falls off the Marianas Trench & you are wiped 3 - QQQ flat. Your broker issues a sternly worded margin call. Great big nothing burger. Either way you are learning a valuable lesson. Close those puppies next time.
Worth separating two things people are conflating here. GEX is not a data feed you buy, it is a calculation on top of the options chain (open interest and gamma per strike). So the thing that costs money is historical open interest and greeks, not "GEX" itself. dolthub has some free EOD options data, ORATS and CBOE DataShop sell the clean historical chains. Once you have the chain you compute GEX yourself, which also lets you control the assumptions instead of trusting someone else's line. And the assumptions are the whole ballgame, which is why bradley is seeing it lag. Retail GEX bakes in a guess that dealers are long calls and short puts, and the published flip level lives or dies on that sign convention. When you backtest price reaction around a GEX level you are really backtesting the accuracy of a dealer positioning assumption, not a law of physics. That is most of why the correlation looks weak. The bigger trap for your exact tickers: GEX built from end of day OI will systematically misplace levels on SPY, QQQ and SPX, because those are precisely the names where same day 0DTE flow dwarfs the resting OI, and none of that intraday flow is in the EOD snapshot you backtest on. So an EOD historical GEX backtest on SPX is close to measuring the wrong book. If you are serious about backtesting those you need intraday chain snapshots, which is exactly the expensive part nobody is selling cheap. On the "does it provide an edge" question: it is a map of where dealer hedging can amplify or dampen a move, useful as context for how price behaves once it reaches a level, not a predictor of which level it goes to. Pair it with expected move so you have both the where and the how far.
Bitcoin is a store of value. No altcoin could ever be Bitcoin. If you don’t understand this, read The Bitcoin Standard. Bitcoin bottom should be in October. Bitcoin will be 250k-500k within 5 years. S&P will have a ~25% crash within 5 years. Not financial advice, this is my prediction!!! I’m dollar cost averaging into bitcoin and I dollar cost average into QQQ and gold/gold streaming companies in my Roth. I’m in my late 20s so I’m fine with big crashes. I’m in it for the long run!
Yeah either stick to QQQ or stop panic selling
QQQ and chill. It’s not too late
Not bad diversity for fun and learning. My SPY and QQQ helped me retire early, along with my employer’s stock, DUK. AAPL and MSFT are like staples now - invest, don’t trade.
Some brokers allow 24h trading of QQQ (for example Robinhood or Schwab). This would mean you could potentially sell on Sunday at 9pm.
QQQ calls? Welcome to the bright side 😎
QQQ is already heavy on tech stocks. What about 70% VT and 30% on 3 or 4 of those individual stocks.
You are lucky it’s QQQ and not some meme stock
QQQ will rip 5% and you make a few bands. Trust me.
Options auto-exercise at expiration if they're ITM, unless you instruct OCH (and possibly your broker) to not do that. I'm guessing QQQ traded 1-2 cents above strike right before expiration, putting your call ITM and auto-exercising. I can think of three separate things to do here, but none of them seem like good options. Depends on how pre-market looks like on Monday morning. But there does seem to be a way to get out of this alive. Worst case scenario: consider selling 0-day ITM calls with delta around 0.80. Deep enough ITM that getting called away is almost certain, but not too deep that you won't find a buyer. You'll end up with a couple grand in your account, and as long the market doesn't crash Monday, you keep that couple grand and the shares go away. Monday's 725 call seems to have enough volume / open interest that you may be able to find a buyer. Chances are you will need to aim for a price below midpoint (e.g. $6.50 instead of the current $6.53 mid) to get filled.
Remember that one time when you accidentally bought $804.100 of QQQ?
dude you just got assigned 1100 shares of QQQ at 731, that's a wild monday wakeup call
Mainly SPY and QQQ. I may try SPX as well.
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.
I sell naked puts using margin, not cash secured puts. I don’t hold any cash in my brokerage account (except what I need for monthly expenses). I aim for $1k, but the range I’ll sell them for is $500 to $1,500. Below $500 and I decide it’s not worth it (often I’ll keep to a higher minimum, just depends). Above $1,500, and I decide it’s not worth the risk. That means there are some days where I don’t sell any 1 DTE puts (like yesterday and today). Just a judgment call depending on what they’re trading for. I usually sell 10 contracts, either all at one strike price or split between two strike prices. Sometimes I’ll just do 5 (or skip days entirely as noted). Then I have a bunch I sell that are longer term (SPY, TQQQ, and a handful of others). With those, I basically am gambling that (1) people won’t exercise early, and (2) the market won’t drop below 30% for longer than a quarter. Obviously, neither assumption is guaranteed. But those can pay well (in my judgment), so I’m okay with the risk. I’ve been margin called before (multiple days in 2022 and 2025), to give you an idea of the level of risk I take on. Margin calls take some active management and strategizing…. I’ve recovered and come out ahead both times (I think…gets messy when you try to factor in taxes), but obviously there was a lot of luck to that. I don’t usually roll puts. I prefer to get assigned and day trade those shares (and I don’t sell daily puts during that time). I first try to flip them overnight or the next day, otherwise I hold until there is a gain and try to make a profit off of them…I did that this month quite successfully with 1,100 shares of QQQ. The tricky thing is resisting the urge to buy more to reduce my average basis when that happens. That’s how I ended up with 1,100 shares of QQQ instead of 1,000 — when QQQ was around $660 recently, I added one more contract that I intended to have exercised. Sold them all at $720. Got them assigned at $701 (5 contracts), $665 (5 contracts), and $662 (that 1 extra contract). I’ve never learned what the deltas mean, so I pay no attention to them.
#Individual stocks may drop, dump or even die but indices like SPY and QQQ will NEVER drop ever again LMAO🤌
0dte QQQ options is the only way my friend
This is just completely ignoring that the American stock markets, and retail investors, particularly on robinhood, have had the best wealth creation in the history of the world with SPY compounding +7% for a 100 years and QQQ looking like it’s on +25% CAGR and has 25x’d in the last 20 years (yes you read that right). These are the most common investments for retail traders… If you listen to these simpletons (“ai bubble” “retail trader exploitation”) instead of actively investing every additional savings into QQQ & SPY, don’t cry in the casino while you get left behind in the most prosperous and opportune place in history. Also just so you know you’re totally spewing misinformation fam…. Retail investors in the US have OUTPERFORMED instructional investors over the last few years.
Let's say you want to trade Nasdaq futures. First, you trade QQQ shares. If you're profitable after a bunch of trades, move up to 3x ETFs (TQQQ/SQQQ) in this case. Once you're been profitable trading those for a while, then you can move up to micro shares (MNQ). The last step is mini futures, NQ in this case. Now unless you have a big account, probably best to stick with MNQ. Buying NQ contract is currently similar to buying about $600k worth of QQQ shares. With MNQ, it's about $60k worth. When it goes in your favor, great. When it goes against you, it can be scarier than options especially if you don't use stop losses.
QQQ gaps up 750+ on Monday?
How dude, I'm a self declared gambler and my $150 is still up 8% on SCHD, VYM and QQQ. You had several points to cut losses as well.
Going straight to indexes to learn is an awful place to start. Anyone trying to jump in and learn options with QQQ/SPY are probably getting smoked right now. I lost about 5k in college to earn over 200k over the last few years. I think it was worth it.
What’s the average yearly return on QQQ right now? I know what SPY is
QQQ closing green, Inshallah
Bought QQQ $740 puts expiring on 8/21. SPY $781 puts expiring on 8/18
Hey thanks for the feedback. This looks to be more like I’m going for compared to standard CCs/PMCCs (although I understand their value for other scenarios) I’ll look into this. The reason I didn’t want to hold puts in QQQ was due to lack of volatility. I figured since my stocks are high beta, that QLD would be better suited since it’s 2x leverage of QQQ. I understand that placing puts on QLD still won’t fully cover my LEAPS in a drawdown due to delta loss, I just want to limit how far that draw down is. What’re your thoughts on placing a standing put spread on QLD instead of QQQ to counter this? (Or would you I suggest I stick with QQQ?). Appreciate the comment!
And you have to buy the right one at the very right time. And then sell it at the very right time as well. I bought QQQ puts yesterday at open and lost my ass. If I simply would’ve bought QQQ puts at the open today I would have tripled my money at one point.
QQQ and SPY both flat today. Close to testing the June/annual highs. Reversal inbound or preparing to rip again?
QQQ, likely deep itm puts for the safety. 750 spy puts would be too retarded
QQQ will go back to 740 end of the month..
not just any position. a memory stock thats up 680% on 1Y even after the big dip. he probably bought it when it was like 800% up 😭 also, if he hsd > $100k lying around and it hadn't been invested, thats just said. he could've bought QQQ and chilled
Best thing I did was stop trying to day trade and stock pick and just sit in SPY and QQQ. Thrown on some cash secured puts and covered calls for a little option action without losing your shirt.
All part of keeping VIX down. QQQ down .3%, IWM up .3% everything in balance
What’s up with this volume for QQQ these past few days
Imagine seeing QQQ YTD return almost 19% after this fiasco. Saddening.
Made money on QQQ 730c I guess
Just added 3QQQ $740 puts for OPEX😎
Whoever said ITM QQQ puts earlier is a genius, wish I listened
QQQ not filling the gap? Freak the fuck out and panic sell
it’s the protection on QQQ that matters Mike. Spy is safe
**BanBet Lost** — /u/Ok_Cry7572 (12W - 3L, 80%) | Ticker | Entry → Target | Move | Time | Result | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **QQQ** ▼ | $731.48 → $724.16 | -1.0% | 1d | Lost |
That's the bottom folks! it is mathematically impossible for QQQ to go below $729 today.
Let's see if it does anything with the previous week high on QQQ
I bought QQQ puts at the open yesterday and got killed. If I would’ve done the same thing today, I would’ve tripled my money. What a fucking mess. What a complete fucking mess.
You could still load up on QQQ and SPY for next week 😝
Thanks, God I loaded up with QQQ and SPY puts yesterday 😆
Crypto is over. Better off indexing in VOO and QQQ for next 10,20,30 years or whatever your timeline. Unless you need capital losses or want to lose to stocks then go with crypto
Oh nice it’s SPY goes up QQQ stays stagnant episode despite being overwhelming made up of the same companies, my favorite
my port is 50% SNDK and it's ok cause I hedge it with 50% QQQ
My portfolio, not including 529 money or home equity is fairly large, to the point where it is over 60X my annual expenses and over 22X my annual income which is pretty high to begin with. So it's not difficult task to build out a 10 year TIPS ladder which would be about 16% of my current portfolio. However, I need to average 3.4% assuming no more contributions until the first date I would even consider retiring to get the so called number I was looking for, which would bring that TIPS ladder to about 12% of my portfolio. I know I didn't answer your question yet, but I figured I would provide some background. I've been investing since my mother introduced me to IRAs (before there were Roth IRAs) when I 16, had working papers and she matched what I put into a CD up to the then limit of 2K (I put in 1K and she put in 1K). I've been a disciplined investor for decades... never panicked or changing my investing strategy. Up until about 2-3 years ago, I as 98.5%+ in equities with the rest in short term cash. I've been slowly transitioning to some fixed income to where I'm at 10% of which 25% of that is my TIPS ladder. My goal is to ultimately get to 20% fixed income. My equity portion is probably around 90% VOO, with a little bit of QQQ, ACN stock since I used to work there, and few other play ETFs like VXUS. I invested in VOO for over 30 years before VOO even existed as and ETF and there was a just a mutual fund. I've been auto investing twice a week the entire time never stopping. When I got pay raises, or other things, I increased the amounts (this was in addition to retirement accounts and 529 accounts). I guess you can say, I was FIRE before the caveman and VOO and chill before VOO was born.
Scalped calls and puts on QQQ, enjoy the weekend fellas ☮️
Oh wonderful, got to see my options positive for two seconds before they rugged QQQ and entire $1 in 20 seconds again
holy pump on QQQ let me dip in and out w/ a small profit
I’m calling bullshit on the weights in QQQ. It doesn’t give a fuck if the MAG7 is down. Absolutely pinned to semis.
The basis mismatch others flagged is real, but the bigger hole is your entry rule. Conditioning the hedge on VIX above 25 plus greed flipping to fear means you buy the puts after volatility has already repriced. Put skew steepens fastest in the first leg of a drawdown, so your signals confirm right when protection is most expensive and part of the move is already behind you. A hedge you only put on once it looks needed is the one you overpay for every time. Two other things worth sizing. Your effective book beta is not 2x. Deep ITM LEAPS on NBIS RKLB ASTS already carry embedded leverage from delta, and these names run well above 3x to QQQ on risk off days, so a 2x QLD put covers maybe a third of your real drawdown even before correlation drift. The LEAP delta itself falls against you into a selloff, so the notional you need to hedge grows exactly as the underlying drops. If the goal is cutting drawdowns without capping upside, a standing QQQ or SPX put spread you always carry and roll, sized to your true beta, tends to beat a discretionary macro timed hedge. You pay a small constant bleed instead of a large lump when vol is already bid. Cheaper to own the umbrella before it starts raining.
Isn’t that a calling? The Lord calling.. calls it is then. QQQ to the moon!
oh shit i forgot i had a QQQ put for today can you guys dump it for me
Is QQQ gonna tank today? I think it should.
Burry got reamed on his SOXX puts so he sold, bought QQQ puts instead, getting reamed on NBIS and MU shorts too. Dude is a dumbass who doesn’t know you can just buy calls instead and make money
What is success for you in 1 year? For me it has to beat QQQ by at least 10 points given Reddit is way more risky than the index.
$QQQ ripped strong in futures but someone is calling for$SPY put$ hmmm…. is citadel in the room with us????? 👀
QQQ price today? I have a call options at 732 expires today.
QQQ 50% -> 2x QQQ 100% up QQQ sideway crabs -> 2Q QQQ slowly decay QQQ 50% down -> You 💀
e.g. if you bought TQQQ before the covid crash, and held it until QQQ rebounded, you would be down -24% because of the volatility drag, holding QQQ would just put you at 0.00%
Single stocks? You're probably retarded Broad ETFs like s&p, QQQ? 3x or bust
QQQ at ATH, my port which is made up of tech stocks is -20% from ATH. Make it make sense smh fml
😂😂 he is back...Michael Burry Loads Up On QQQ Puts, Boosts MU Short As He Braces For ‘Larger Fall’... 😂 Damn
Wow Memory is setting up to rocket Spy please follow along QQQ I need $785 and $7,860
I actually can’t stand you dumbasses that say you’re a bull or bear. I trade off of trend. You said QQQ $740 day and it went $716 that day pls stfu
Yea I get where you’re coming from. QLD isn’t exactly correlated with space stocks but in my experience, QLD still reflects similarly\* to ETFs like UFO or MARS. The problem with space focused ETFs is liquidity. Their bid ask spreads are too wide and volume is too low compared to QQQ focused ETFs so IMO QLD is the next best thing.
Why do QQQ when TQQQ exists? The options are cheaper and the volitility is massive.
i got puts on QQQ tomorrow hope you guys enjoy your gains
Bro why post my plate. QQQ to the moon
If QQQ opens up atleast 1% down tomorrow I'll donate 100$ to wsb charity of choice
Hey neighbor, I saw an Oregon 183 QQQ plate the other day 💀
QQQ gaps up 745+ tomorrow