QQQ

PracticalAnywhere225

I'm selling at open, my QQQ 625c was the dumbest impulse buy... I thought we might see 630 with week.

BlueSkysnBlueChips32

Could also do Micro shares of QQQ

iMakeGOODinvestmemts

Expect $QQQ -1.4% TODAY and tomorrow

music_is_gud

Guys what are the plays at open? I see /NQ is already down 1.1 which means QQQ will be down close to that even before open.

hardcrepe

200 by 2027 would be crazy in a good way. Either way I too have silver options so it'll be fun. Unfortunately I also QQQ calls this week.

orangeyougladiator

SPX / QQQ down 1% & closed

Antique_Cabinet8416

QQQ will be -3% tomorrow and there will still be "bers lol" comments from tin foil hat wearers

Got_Engineers

I am going to make so much on UNG calls tomorrow and lose it on QQQ/HOOD. $UNG calls were like Pennies. A feb 20 ITM call was like $90

stzzyvsfvck

What stocks are you doing this with? I’ve been doing this with SPY/QQQ 30 DTE and been able to yield stack pretty successfully

Cap-Puckhaber-2

SPY and QQQ futures -1% ??

teamyg

Glad I did two things right last Friday. Covered all my intraday SLV shorts and made small profits; Held my heavy QQQ shorts.

Fozzbael

A european QQQ equivalent ETF I'm in is down almost 2% today, so tech might hurt a bit more than that tomorrow. But yes, overall not quite as apocalyptic as some predicted over the weekend. Maybe there is lingering hope in the markets that the US and european delegations might work something out and/or tard-wrangle the orange one in Davos this week.

j_agapito

Still, Biden gave Trump a golden baton, basically. There was ALMOST no way to mess this up. A decade of +20% QQQ growth ahead, AI boom, productivity boom, all that. Yet little orange man tries like every 3 months to throw a wrench in the gears. October 10 was \~ 3 months ago, and here we go again...

Vast_Cricket

Learn about the consequence of down -50%, then another -40% next year and even more. It happened to S&P500 index at the turn of the century and on QQQ more so. You do not want to get caught up when you lost -80 or more. The investors already forgot the fear of sleep or worry about how to live on your diminishing ira when a recession arrives.

Financial-Today-314

Probably SPY or QQQ for me. Super liquid, steady options volume, and I would not mind holding either long term if assigned.

Impossible-Fun2027

# Now that you are at it, let’s make it great: QQQ $1 tomorrow

savemoney_god

QQQ 100 tomorrow

Professional_Con_007

Bought and sold some QQQ puts around close for a quick profit Friday. Wish I held them.  Market never gives me fair warning.  

TheGambler1987

It’s days like this where I am sitting on QQQ puts, zoom out and hope it just falls to November lows 😂

Red_Zone_Broly

EQQQ, (the European version of QQQ that trades on the LSE), is down 1.9% currently

FuckingJPMAlgos

Can someone enlighten me why BTC crashed 3% today??? are we going to have a -3% QQQ day tomorrow???

HowIsEmuWarriorTaken

Things am holding puts for TSLA, Cvna, pltr, tsm (this one is stupid) Calls for Bigly QQQ, small spy position

onlyfons_

You guys are all wrong. He should start a fire in the house, file an insurance claim, take the proceeds from the claim and combine it with his current gains and go full port on QQQ 0dte.

Kachowxboxdad

Yeah, QQQ down 1.18% https://www.investing.com/indices/indices-futures

music_is_gud

Why not short its futures then? By the time market opens, QQQ (or any index) woulda already made the majority of its move.

music_is_gud

QQQ would open literally the same if it were to open now.

Opening-Run5871

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

muchlakin

QQQ is not even down, we good

Neemzeh

QQQ gonna close under 600 on Tuesday lmfao

24get

You have the idea. I'd say closer to long QQQ and short the parts, through options

TickTockTaudit

Wait until 9:47. If QQQ isn’t down more than 1%, buy 0DTE puts, whichever strike is selling for $0.50, set limit sell at $3. $1k>>>>$6k. Most likely by 11:30.

Surf_Solar

BTC only started to dump after QQQ futures opened and dumped

Boomer_With_Dementia

I guess I belong here, because I read this and thought to myself. Yeah, and I have puts on SPY and QQQ. So I log into my account, and for literally the only time in the last 6 months I do not have any puts. The long puts I had expired worthless, and I meant to replace them, but I must have taken the day off, or put in limit orders that did not fill, but no puts.. That said, BAESY 40 shares, RNMBY 50 shares, SHLD 70 call March 20, SAABY 350 shares, WDAF 350 shares, RYCEY 150 shares, THLLY 40 shares, So Tuesday will be alright for me. But darnit, like $7,000 of puts on SPY and QQQ expired worthless on Friday and I did not replace them.

andytobbles

BTC and QQQ haven’t correlated in 6+ months.

JayRoo83

Same, I sold a CC on the SPY shares and grabbed a SPY and QQQ put so you should all be aware we’re opening at ATH Tuesday

WallStreetInvestor98

NQ down about 1% today puts Tuesday QQQ

sirzoop

Look at a 5 year chart of foreign stocks compared to QQQ

Silver_Initial3718

Who bought puts Friday 🙋🏻‍♂️ $30k on $SPY $QQQ $VIX hope we dont see taco before Tuesday!!

leaning_on_a_wheel

Another option to consider is keeping your QQQ and putting future contributions into VGT. You don’t have to “swap” like that. Nasdaq is likely to do well for years to come

DogBoi111407

I want more weight in some of the tech stocks VGT has and also QQQ isn’t a pure tech stock which is what I was looking for. I want more freedom in what weight I allocate in those stocks but maybe this is a bad play.

leaning_on_a_wheel

Why not just keep QQQ?

Current-Function-729

Why doesn’t someone create a coin that is just SPY and one that’s QQQ so we have 24/7 price discovery and liquidity? Some kind of KYC/SEC restriction?

TheGambler1987

!banbet QQQ 600 2D

Sudden-Shock-199

I’m guessing puts on Spy and QQQ compilation was last week, go,use way up??? Who new

Brilliant_Voice1126

Yeah, the market is more than mag 7 and we’re talking about going forward we can’t rely on past results. That’s like the gravest investment assumption. Relying on the Mag7 is also part of the problem. It masks deeper weakness in the economy to simply select the 7 best performers. Diversified US you’re looking at 17-20 in VOO or QQQ Dow just 15. Compare that to other markets last year and they pantsed us. So the question is, is that going to be a long term trend? Based on thr comments there seem to be 2 camps. 1. It’s priced in, it’s temporary, the world will come back to the US because it’s either too big to fail or it’s been so reliable for so long. Or 2. We haved burned bridges that have set us on a long term downward trajectory in terms of trust, reputation, and good will. I favor 2. I see EU and others making moves that show they no longer see us as a reliable partner and are investing in a long term shift away from US. And who can blame them? We seem to be about to dissolve NATO and implement Erdegenomics. Past results are no longer applicable to that future.

eatmorbacon

LOL. No. Just no. It's not happening. First you said he WILL, now you said he'd TRY. Go ahead and slip the rest of the way back to reality and say that elections in the United States will not be cancelled. Or alternatively, just wait till later to be wrong. No matter either way :) In the meantime if you can find a way that we can wager on it, let me know. Happy to make your money work for me. I need to add to my QQQ position.

semantic_fog

I use VT in some accounts for simplicity, but use a similar strategy for my main accounts. VT has had pretty poor performance compared to say SCHG or QQQ, but I like to compose my own basket with funds like VXUS, SCHG, and others. I haven't considered targeting small-caps with the SP600, thanks for sharing info on that.

ispooler

QQQ and SPY menstruation red, IWM might pump as it's mostly unaffected by tariffs war

Clean_Vacation_2831

80 percent VOO and 20 percent QQQ is a solid strategy.  

Crazy_Donkies

Overlay BTC with QQQ.  If anything drawdowns are more severe in BTC. https://totalrealreturns.com/s/BTC,QQQ

tqyGtv

I would invest in VOO or QQQ for low risk.

ispooler

Because small caps are safe heaven, Greenland tariffs are a direct hit to QQQ, IWM companies are tariff-proof as they are domestic

DramaticAd1683

Americans are just not ready to have this conversation. The dollar could collapse 50% and they would still buy the QQQ/SPX hand over fist, and not know the difference.

Altruistic_Emu_146

VOO, QQQ, REIT and some high quality bonds, dividend ETFs or VXUS

miraj31415

QQQ would like a word.

Ok_Cry7572

Breaking: Trump has said that an entity called $QQQ is also supporting Greenland, and should be considered for tariffs ASAP.

BigTrash5609

Ouch this might hurt I am also waiting on that crush but not until it breaks structure then spy and QQQ will tumble. Wishing you the best hope it works out

usernamealreadyt_ken

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.

Got_Engineers

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.

Longshotphotos

assuming this means that all the fear this weekend will result in the supreme court ruling that trump cant use tarrifs which makes a huge boom for market as all that money is returned to corporations even though they passed that bill onto the consumer. Calls on QQQ it is

bananaboi4

If QQQ isn’t +1% up on Tuesday morning, I’ll have to start charging to get my shit pushed in

TickTockTaudit

If QQQ is not 1+% down Tuesday, I’m loading up Thursday puts mid day. No reason to pump until tech earnings EOM. Puts, then calls the following week.

Boomer_With_Dementia

I have $SPY and $QQQ puts, a fair amount of $GLD, I own shares of thales, Baesy, Rolls Royce, Rheinmettal and SAABY. So I can't help but think my portfolio is poised to have a good Monday. Thanks 🥭.

music_is_gud

SPY 700 and QQQ 630 in 2028 lmao

Virtual-Resident-875

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.

ObservantWon

Assuming you have no debt, and you have 3-6 months of expenses saved already, then open a RothIRA if this is earned income that has already been taxed. I’d put $14,500 in the Roth IRA since you can still contribute for last year ($7000) and this year ($7500). Some combination of VTI, QQQ, VT. Then let time and compound interest do its thing over the next 40 years

Aggravating_Path206

>Cathie Wood’s track record demonstrates a high-risk, high-reward strategy. She outperformed the market significantly in 2020 and 2025 but suffered catastrophic losses in 2022 that erased years of gains. An investor holding QQQ (Nasdaq 100) since 2014 would have achieved similar or better returns with half the volatility.

LitterBoxServant

That's why there are 1.5m+ options traded on IWM on a given day. It's like SPY or QQQ for true sickos.

music_is_gud

Thank god I sold my QQQ calls before close on Friday

Great-Television1775

Ok pussy 🥰 !banbet QQQ +1% 4d

Embarrassed_Tax_3181

Pray the market doesn’t tank Monday. I got some calls but holding a good amount of cash in case the QQQ crashes on Monday. It’s not looking good right now

Various_Couple_764

In order to understand QQQI and similar funds you need to understand what a covered call is[.This video ](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D4sdELtYxGTs&ved=2ahUKEwjh-uuLhpOSAxWEGDQIHWIMD2EQtwJ6BAgXEAI&usg=AOvVaw2hq0cwKpOOi5ci_hZVJMMb)should help. QQQI holds that Nasdaq100 index (often referred to as QQQ the first growth index fund based on it. So the share price of QQQI will move with the market. The dividend comes from the fee people pay to buy the call. Unlike dividend ETFs the dividend is costly changing the dividned can go up or down every month. So in a really bad market such as 2008 you could have a significant dividend cut. Also these funds do best when the market is flatter dropping raidly. During these conditions the fund is not loosing shares of the index due to people that payed for the call can get the stock at a lower price from the market. However if the market goes up rapidly the call price is cheeper than the market price so the fund loose shares of the index so the NAV (net assessed value of everything QQQI QQQi hold DROPS. It this happens the fund has to eventually replace what it has lost. Now QQQIis a good fund with a 13% yield. But there are many funds that are pulling in a lot of investors with 30% or higher yields. Many of these very high yield funds loose assets more often and as a result they they have NAV erosion. Were the short price drops, doesn't recover. or drops every month while the index they are tied to may goup. So when looking at covered call funds you want to compare the share price to the index of the index or stock that it writes calls on. IF the share-rice is dropping every month and rarely recovers the Fund is suffering NAV erosion and should be avoided. You loose principle and likely will never get it back, and the dividend payout drops while the yield stays high. The worst of these funds will do reverse stock splits to To prevent the fund from being delisted from the market The worst funds from a NAV erosion standpoint are yield mats funds, globalX funding Roundhilll . you simply cannot get yields of 30% or more consistantly from covered calls. QQQi generally recovered its NAV quickly the since inception has shown a gradula share price increase. QQQI is a NeOS fund and no news fund has persistent NAV erosion issues. All have have a consistant small share price precautions. No covered call fund can have total return higher than the index or stock it is followings. But if you need the income they are a great option.

GamblingMikkee

Full porting into gold and china - short QQQ

katrav86

you're assuming i will read and try to understand what you're saying. ... bold. SPY 700 QQQ 630

music_is_gud

I'm starting to think SOY will never hit 700 and QQQ 630. IWM will go to infinity and we all die

Elidan123

I was joking about buying loto QQQ at close yesterday💀

TickTockTaudit

Had 15k of Tuesday QQQ puts yesterday. Chickened out and sold at close up about $2k.

desturel

People are conveniently forgetting the timeline here. Reddit was telling him it was a mistake before it dumped. If he had sold immediately, then bought the exact same shares AFTER earnings instead of before earnings he would be up more. As it currently stands he would have made more money just buying QQQ at the exact same day / time. So WSB was right about him being dumb to buy the stock. If he held onto it, he was lucky that the government bailed his ass out. If he sold after the dump and bought into NVDA or AMD he would be up as well. Imagine being the regard that required the party of "small government and free market" to save you. That is not a genius level play and not something you can always rely on happening.

ClippingTetris

Check out $ITA, $PPA and $XAR too. They’re Aerospace & Defense ETFs, which with increased military spending broadly, is trending (and imo believe) is a sound place to put money also into. Some $QQQ never hurts too.

Oncorhynchus-Clarkii

That might be an issue for some people but I am not a serious trader, I enjoy investing but not sure what I would do with the extra data lol. My roth is almost entirely VOO and QQQ, and my house fund is mostly well known single stocks (GOOG, NVDA, TSLA, AMZN make up over 70%) that I bought off of a hunch rather than any analytical data.

ClippingTetris

Give yourself an allotment for ‘low’, ‘medium’ and ‘high’ risk investments. On the ‘Low’, look at indexes like VOO (overall), QQQ (tech) or ITA (military). For medium, speaking purely on tech, ASML, GLW, GOOG, AAPL, etc. On the high, but that into stock you think have the highest potential return. If you wanted to try something higher risk, look at an Options Call on an index fund ETF like $VOO or $SPY that doesn’t expire for 6-12 months.

Important-Cap-8467

1. Because I already have a lot of cash at a different bank/brokerage 2. Because I don’t want to check Robinhood every day for my maintenance margin according to VTI, QQQ, NVDA price changes

what_could_gowrong

Unless you have domain specific expertise (medical/pharmaceutical science degrees, engineering degrees, CS/AI degrees, etc etc) an index fund would be a safe bet. Index fund can be SPY, VOO, QQQ. They track the best performing companies and are somewhat diversified. Though recent years they have been focused on tech stocks so if there's a draw down in tech/AI sector, these funds will also dump. You could also consider gold (unleveraged, just GLD or IAU shares) but I myself wouldn't recommend silver as gold is being bought by central banks but not silver. Both are precious metals but have different structures. Gold is explicitly a hedge to act against fear and inflation, silver is partially for that and meanwhile has industrial usage, it's complicated and myself isn't qualified to judge it. So I stick with gold. If you do have a degree (or experience), you can try to focus on a particular field of your specialize. Warren Buffett's "Circle of Competence" idea is very important here. Invest in something you understand well, or just buy index fund. It may look like one can throw money into a meme stock and make 3-4x gain, but without a thorough understanding of the stock and it's underlying business, it's hard to tell when to exit(sell), or whether an exit strategy is needed. You need some insights to know where a good performing stock is a quick trade, a short term bull ride, or a decade hold. If you feel like buying a index fund and hold it for years is boring, you could consider allocating a small bit ($500) to trading for fun. If you wonder what is an option contract. No you don't. Don't ask. Just…don't touch it.

Got_Engineers

I do know there has been a large long dispersion trade in the market and I’m hoping that it’s released with this January OPEX. Single stock implied volatility has been quite high relative to the index so I’m hoping that if volatility picks up next week, we can get some good movement upwards on QQQ because it’s been pinned below about $625.

Horror-Appeal-190

Yeah I saw that in your posts. Nice. I bought QQQ calls today. R.I.P.

DoinIt4DaShorteez

I'm retired. I have SPY and QQQ but I also have decent sized holdings in Consumer Staples, Pharma, and Utilities. Staples and Pharma have obviously been underperforming, but I'm not in the performance game anymore, I'm in the income and preservation game.. There's nothing wrong with having sector ETFs alongside index ETFs, but the weighting should probably be aligned with your age. Younger = less diverted to sectors.

shasta747

Feeling like QQQ will head back to 600 next week

Rock_or_Rol

Made a fuck ton on MSTR calls and MSTX commons from last week and earlier this week before the pump then put half of that in RIOX (2x RIOT) right before the AMD deal, thinking I’d just ride the BTC beta. Doubled down on SMCI calls after the dip too. Doubled down on Thursday IBIT calls on the dip today too. Lost a little on MSTR and APLD breakout calls today and QQQ 0DTEs, but I’ve had far too much good luck for the universe to abide by. You might want to sell everything.

JayRoo83

I rode some space stuff up earlier and sold that off, now I’m just parking my cash in SPY/QQQ and selling CC’s and buying some puts while I wait for the Supreme Court decision Looking to short a pop from that or go long if they uphold them and we rug

PracticalAnywhere225

just bought a few after hours QQQ calls... nothing major, but I think we open high after the holiday...

JayRoo83

Alright crunched the numbers and currently +6% YTD/+8k so not bad Basically just looking to avoid doing anything particularly dumb while I've got a lead on SPY and QQQ YTD

Affectionate-Day2743

well, if you were even remotely educated you would know that Walmart is being added to the Nasdaq 100 Index on January 20, 2026. Since the market is closed on Monday 1/19 that means that the Nasdaq 100 ETFs (such as QQQ) had to buy Walmart today. That huge spike in volume you saw in the last 10 minutes of trading today was the Nasdaq 100 ETFs buying up Walmart shares.

dangernext

Hope you guys bought your WAAY OTM QQQ Puts for Monday in case there is Mango Madness this weekend. I did and I will sleep well knowing a war won’t bother me. 😀

Samjabr

Get your QQQ 640s for end of next week - you'll thank me later!

Affectionate-Day2743

aaannnnddd there's the QQQ walmart buy. was waiting for it

greyenlightenment

free money shorting btc , long QQQ crypto never keeps gains. total garbage still

No_Window_9928

Spy calls for next week? What are you guys thinking? I’m thinking 1/23 Might play QQQ

ckami_91

600 QQQ puts 1 week

Alatarlhun

QQQ trying to paint that perfect dragonfly doji on the weekly candle.

NakedPatrick

QQQ about to dump