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What % of your investments do you have in single stocks?
Don’t underestimate the impact of Dario saying “we must slow development of AI due to safety concerns”. Should impact QQQ bigly
Investment thesis for week 9/14 - 9/18
For poor man 0DTE options, is IWM my best bet? 🤔
Options buying with a $100K account ? (Intraday vs Swing)
Debit spreads taught me that being right too early can still be annoying
Can a squirrel trade options better than me?
Looking for a meme that was posted a while ago
Making a living and much much more trading options on $1K a day
Tax straddle treatment for downside protection of portfolio with puts
Can you guys tell when I started following this community?
Individual stocks or VGT, why take the risk?
Does anyone avoid diversification (like me)?
Four years in, what’s everyone’s take on JEPQ?
Post Jackson hole & next week Japanese government bonds
Can we break out of the QQQ channel that we’ve been in since 2023
NVDA Confirms the Memory Bottleneck, PCE Stays Mechanically Hot & Positioning Turns Bullish Into Jackson Hole
Bear season on the way. Rainbow gay bear reporting for duty!
Has anyone had consistent success with the 'retirement trade' strategey of a morning reversal trade?
Everyone loves tech stocks right now. That’s exactly what worries me about the next 10 years.
Everyone is piling into tech, semis and AI stocks. Valuations say the next 10 years of returns will be very low
In 1999 at the peak of the internet bubble, QQQ launched and retail piled in. Then came the 73% drop and 15 years underwater
I found an Infinite Money Glitch for Timing the Market
Buying Index funds will always be better than buying mega caps.
I built a free dealer-gamma + live options-flow terminal for SPX/SPY/QQQ. No signup. Tear it apart.
Beginner looking to make my first options trade — how would you approach this?
Beginner looking to make my first options trade — how would you approach this?
Brought it at the top and sold it at the bottom
The S&P 500 is now more concentrated in tech + AI than during the 2000 bubble. Most investors still don’t realize how extreme it is.
Paper handed my full port, 3.7k gain vs 18-19k gain
Michael Burry Loads Up On QQQ Puts, Boosts MU Short As He Braces For ‘Larger Fall’ — Here’s What He Did To NVDA, PLTR And TSLA
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
Mentions
Don’t sell what you already have to buy something else, otherwise you’ll be taxed on capital gains. QQQ is solid, but has a high concentration in tech so has a bit more risk. I personally would start putting future contributions into an etf that tracks the whole US market like VTI and put a small percentage into an international etf like VXUS. VOO is another good option that tracks the S&P 500 but it overlaps heavily with VTI, so pick one or the other.
Just start buying QQQM. I still have QQQ left over from before I switched too.
QQQ is heavily growth and tech weighted. As an 18-year-old being concentrated in heavy growth stocks is not necessarily a bad thing as long as you are ok with investment losses and won't panic sell. The problem is that young people have lived their entire lives in a massive bull market and don't really register the idea of losing money in stocks.
706 actually seems like a fair price for QQQ
For savings (SGOV) and long term (QQQ) is fine. I use QQQM instead of QQQ. What matters more is the account they are in? As long as you are working you should put the money in a Roth IRA, QQQ can be used in it. Hopefully you also used your TSP while you were in the Marines. [https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/commontopics](https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/commontopics)
Seems like we're going to play this somewhat similarly to how DeepSeek day was played early last year. As long as they keep trying to buy the dip in the Dow and small cap stocks lol, there won't be any serious issues, though I do think it'll be a minor miracle if this is where QQQ closes. But the world right now is primed and ripe for an "and another thing" to come.
QQQ calls at open, switch to puts at lunch
SPY will be find but tech heavy QQQ gonna get slaughtered
oh shit QQQ actually broke its 100 day moving average. lmfao.
9/14/2026 - RIP QQQ top is in for tech for next 5 years
Easy +0.46% QQQ tmrw
I sold all my tqqq on friday just before close and bought shorts on QQQ. Hope it works!
!banbet QQQ 837 SEPT 21
QQQ -3% monday tech gonna get hit hard by the news
Can confirm: Schwab does, yes. Significantly higher margin requirement. OP might actually be able to get more leverage shorting pure QQQ. TLDR: OP is regarded
Well, looks like SPY and QQQ got their period flows
QQQ is down -1% . This isn't flat lok
Friday before close I went long on QQQ and short on OIL....
if we get a circuit breaker this week, i am fucked. got leveraged above my Persanal Risk Tolerance in QQQ and NVDA
100 QQQ (lol) and I write covered calls and naked puts at the same time (short strangles)
QQQ WILL surpass SPY EOD.
Just go all in on QQQ then go ride your bike, and by all in I mean buy and hold shares, not options
https://app.hyperliquid.xyz/trade/mkts:QQQ
We will be so green tomorrow. All the dark pools on Friday close were huge buys on indices etfs: SPY, IVV, SPYM, QQQ and DDM.
At this point buying the dip on QQQ is like saying “one more round” after you put your prolapse back in
I can short the same dollar value in TQQQ as QQQ but it’s triple levered. But, the funny thing is, Schwab lets me short the same amount of SNDK in dollar terms as TQQQ, when I could blow up a million times easier shorting SNDK. Ask me how I know…
I’m curious, why short TQQQ instead of QQQ? Does your broker not account for TQQQ leverage when calculating margin requirement?
Answering honestly. Assuming you are young, employed, and willing to have the goal take time. Your conservatism also indicates that if you lost the money it would be an emotional and financial blow. \- Start by breaking your goals down into capital pools. I assume you want to have some liquid cash on hand (a small amount), save for a down payment on a home, pay down student debt, whatever. Just be aware and make sure that anything you do builds toward and doesn’t threaten those goals. \- Take the remainder of your capital and put it in index funds. Some mix of SPY, QQQ, VXUS that matches your risk appetite. Pretend this money doesn’t exist and let it grow untouched. \- If you want to keep actively trading, do it with a small amount of capital. Come up with a repeatable pattern (this sub and swing trading are full of them) and invest away. If you get wins, put a portion of it in your ETF fund. If you don’t, don’t backfill your losses with gains from the ETF fund. \- Lastly, continue to save at a high rate. Generally, the market goes up and people that keep capital in it will do well. The data suggest that retail investors that trade more frequently get lower returns. Honor what you’ve accomplished by preserving it (in the market though not some cash account.) DM me if you want more details on how we manage our portfolio.
This Stripper is talking me about KOSPI and QQQ when i asked dirty talking, i think there is a bubble
bessent has manipulated rates 5 times for a single day now. that gave wall street 5 outs to unwind some of their long SPY long QQQ. everyone in financial media harping on the "ineffective measures by bessent" when they dont even realize what the actual game is
the market isn't irrational on this, nobody moves the prices of these stocks except institutions with hundreds of billions, and they are now a significant portion of both SPY and QQQ
Learn from my mistake. I turned 700 into 13K in 2-weeks. Lost 4K in one at then risked remaining 8K on QQQ and got back to even. Didn’t stop and continued to trade resulting in losing the entire 13K down to 500. I’ve managed to turn that 500 into 4850 through sports bets in the past day and considering just cashing out and taking a break. +4000 is better than nothing. Especially after losing 5K in the casinos in the past few trips I’ve made. So really down 1K which is better than being down 5K.
People don't realize QQQ dropping 10% this week
If AI is so smart why did AI tell me to yolo into QQQ 720 calls last Friday
Went all in on QQQ 720c expiring Monday, at Friday close. Was hoping for a tiny weekend taco, now I need a miracle. Pray for me 🙏
This may be all this is, but the thing that continues to remain clear is that since the Broadcom big dump in early June on earnings, we continue to be in at least arguably our 3rd "AI ain't worth it" moment. If this repeats 2025 into early 2026, which at this point I'd say yes, you've got 2 months of annoyance to go involving QQQ, and then a bounce to come, the kind of bounce will probably tell us if whether there's nothing to see here going forward or if whether 2027 will be more headaches.
exactly. If no Trump, QQQ be regularly hitting ATH's with those earnings.
\>even if the market took a downturn, there’s no way it would drop by 75%. QQQ dropped 80% after the collapse of the dot com bubble. the risk isn't simply losing your job. the risk is losing your job AND there's a major stock crash which needs 5-10+ years to recover AND you can't easily get rehired in the same industry at the same salary AND you lose health insurance AND there's someone in the family with a chronic health issue AND the mortgage lender calls your loan because you can't keep up with the payments. that might seem like a low-probability event, but as someone who lived through 2008 I saw scenarios like that happen more than once.
\>the only time stocks have lost 75% of their value was the Great Depression, depends how you define 'stocks'. QQQ dropped 80% after the dot com bubble. certain portfolios could easily lose 75-80%, depending on the strategy or allocation. a few years ago half of reddit was buying Cathie Wood's funds, which had losses in that ballpark. there are plenty of cases in developed markets where major losses of 50-70% have happened and needed very long recovery times. \>government has since showed pretty clearly that it would not allow such large drops to happen ever again this assumes governments have omnipotent powers. governments can \_attempt\_ to prop up the stock market, but there's no guarantee such efforts will be successful. \>would print money and prop up institutions. printing money creates inflation, which introduces a set of other problems.
QQQ dropped close to 80%, the S&P 500 had more like a 40% drop.
Panic sold everything yesterday at 3. $15k in Monday QQQ puts. Godspeed everyone.
My friend has been shoveling every spare penny into QQQ since 2001 and now can retire early. He doesn't even know how to trade. Meanwhile I keep losing money on stocks
Why QQQM instead of QQQ? Is it just the cheaper fee, are there any other reasons?
Which one of you got tied up because you can't stop buying puts on QQQ while bagging burgers?
One hot CPI print, especially 0.3% core, doesn't automatically justify a hike if the Fed thinks shelter disinflation is still coming through. If Warsh holds, the real test is the 2-year yield and inflation breakevens: a sharp repricing there would tighten conditions without the Fed moving. Fwiw, accepting 3% inflation isn't costless because term premium gets reset higher, which is a headwind for long-duration equities like QQQ on the margin.
SPY and QQQ are 0DTE, and big names like MU are normally 1 week to expiry
I split the 500 and QQQM for about the last 7 years with about 65% of my investments. I have a large holding of AAPL in a brokerage account that is tax trapped, and I have about 5% in LEAPS of QQQ, and SPY. Then a small smattering of SOXX and others. Sounds like you are heading to the same place.
What I see says more like 15-16 years to get to $1m and that’s if you “perfectly” hit the low for QQQ in 2002-3. And today you would have $4.5m, because it has been ripping higher in the last decade or so. Assuming an initial lumpsum of $140k, which was a lot back then.
If you invested in the S&P 500 or QQQ, you would almost certainly be a millionaire.
I find SPY easier to trade as it doesn’t move as much as QQQ but since QQQ has more movement I can get more trades in a day.
I could never take the responsibility for another trader. All I can say is trade one thing so you recognize the pattern. I trade QQQ and SPY. Never buy options in the first 5 minutes of market open. Heavy premiums. Learn about Max Pain and how the dealers work including gamma flips. Don’t get over leverage and don’t let bad trades keep running. Watch VIX NVDA TSLA etc when trading. Learn how those coordinate. Keep aware of Fed announcements and be prepared for the results. I buy quick when I see the move, and then set a limit order to sell for X cents more than I paid. Develop your own trading plan and stick to it. Make rules for yourself when you fuck up. After a bad trade, take a deep breath, walk away and refresh your head before making another trade. Don’t think about the profit left on the table. Profit is profit. I think that’s all I got and what works for me.
VIX is 50 then i take out loan and full port QQQ calls
Damn, got burned thinking QQQ/NQ was going to hit PDH.
**BanBet Lost** — /u/more-aero (0W - 3L, 0%) | Ticker | Entry → Target | Move | Time | Result | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **QQQ** ▲ | $716.06 → $722.00 | +0.8% | 6h 2m | Lost |
Was it priced in the last 2 midterm years when US10Y was moving up in September and then QQQ corrected 20%?
Citadel & Jane Street are responsible for something like 45% of the options volume on SPY/QQQ and it's in their financial interest to keep it as pinned as possible
QQQ moved -0.22 since close last Friday
How is QQQ not dropping to 714
lmao $NVDA can't even match $QQQ or $SMH on this pump
scalped 3% of port via 0dte's on QQQ. feeling good
Tech looking extremely strong. I think QQQ closes 719.
1.2% day on QQQ is actually unhinged
Yes, please do your research and dont listen to anyone on the internet, especially me. You have to figure out what your investment goals are, and I think you have to learn a few lessons the hard way like we all do. This isnt advise of what to do but for me I have short, medium and long term plays.Take NOW for example, I think it'll run up more, but i snagged some a while back and sold for a 35% or so gain. I personally dont feel comfortable holding on to some tech plays at the moment. Bjt for me I have about 10% in gold or gold adjacent things. I also have about 10% in Crypto (BTC / ETH / SOL) and i would strongly caution anyone to put a penny into crypto without a lot of research and I dknt think now is a good time to get in. But then I have probably 5% in index funds, just SPY / QQQ. I have my tech, im personally still on the defence and mining sector. My favorite stock is a canadian bank stock. Im up 120% in the last 4 or 5 years plus the 5% dividend. The general idea is just not to have all your eggs in one sector. I know not being in tech feels like you're missing out but trust me there will be swings. So I have a few tech stocks im often in a d out of.
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.
Spy is up 0.81% QQQ is up 0.84% at the moment.
I have no qualms having memory flat today. Damn bastards have been carrying the QQQ when every thing else was shit the past week
QQQ with the twin tower pattern. #neverforget
QQQ is showing early symptoms of a prolapsed rectum
**BanBet Created** ▲ | **Record:** 0W - 2L | Ticker | Target | Entry | Move | Expires | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **QQQ** | $722.00 (above) | $716.06 | +0.8% | 6h 2m |
Index inclusion really is the death blow for some stocks lol. NBIS got murdered after it was added to QQQ and now SNDK is getting brutalized after joining the SP500
QQQ looks like it's having a fucking seizure
> Bro QQQ is down 0.2% in the last 2 day and the s&p has been down close to a half percent almost every day this week.
on my roth ira, i’m in: VOO, SCHD, VTI, and QQQ on my on my individual: VOO, VFVA, QQQ, VXUS, VTI, SCHD
Loading up SPY and QQQ puts today 😝
Bro QQQ is down 0.2% in the last 2 days with everything getting worse, oil exploding, diesel ATH, bonds yields spiking, and now a hike pretty much confirmed.
Ya USO still dropping but SPY and QQQ moving up. We'll see what happens at open 😬
History will repeat itself! The twin towers of SPY and QQQ will be hit
I do SPY pretty regularly but haven't traded QQQ before. I'll check it out. They both creeped upward all night
QQQ up 91% in 3 years if you lost money then there's no hope for you bro. Go flip burgers.
If Korea and Japan can do a -3%, QQQ can do -9-11 %
oh, I hear ya. I didn't think of that. I bought QQQ and AAPL puts. But yeah, those QQQs were expensive as hell.
The QQQ puts I bought at the close because 5 down days in a row seemed unlikely and we were due a rally. So, INVERSE!
Do you mean in the last month or what? YTD SPY is up 10.6% and 1 yr 16% and QQQ is YTD up 14% and 1 yr 21%. I’m no investment banker but those seem like returns most people would take
I mean, to be fair, SPY and QQQ aren’t doing too hot either right now
Go QQQ tomorrow. Target 704 and watch it print. Be sure to get out before noon to avoid the chop.
You had over a 100k. You coulda decided to do any highly liquid stock like the SPY ETF or QQQ at prices hardly anyone could do. I mean shit you could've earned 10% off every year with that 100k just by holding all your positions in the S&P 500 alone! But you decided.......to do options on small valuation stocks.....
Unless QQQ is under 650 I’m not convinced we are in a bear market
You had me until you claimed SPY and QQQ “aren’t volatile”. You are somehow unaware of how quickly some make and loser money on 0dtes on the indices.
5% gain on QQQ and new ATH’s….massive rally in tech and semiconductors…it’s a hat trick. Mango tweet about humus, coool af cpi, like the fonz cool, and something so stupid it works. You’ll see. You’ll all see