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Holy crap! I might actually make money! QQQ 453 Put.
Options Profit Calculator - Feedback on Potential Trades
Today started off tough, but the market eventually came through!!
Are QQQ options a viable way to capture this week’s earnings calls?
Soo , Russell .. what’s up man ? 🫨
12 Stocks to Hold in 2024 to Beat QQQ, SPY and SMH (or SOXX)
I’m looking to add another stock or two to my portfolio, any recommendations?
What are some ways to Hedge a portfolio with some thing I can buy on the market
Think $QQQ pulls back next month? History would agree...
FOMC Week… 1-26-24 SPY/ ES Futures, QQQ/ NQ Futures, 10YR Yield, DXY/ US Dollar and Cl/ Oil Futures Weekly Market Analysis
FOMC Week… 1-26-24 SPY/ ES Futures, QQQ/ NQ Futures, 10YR Yield, DXY/ US Dollar and Cl/ Oil Futures Weekly Market Analysis
FOMC Week… 1-26-24 SPY/ ES Futures, QQQ/ NQ Futures, 10YR Yield, DXY/ US Dollar and Cl/ Oil Futures Weekly Market Analysis
Feel I made a lot of bad investing decisions in the past few years
PCE Tomorrow… 1-25-24 SPY/ ES Futures, QQQ/ NQ Futures, 10YR Yield, and DXY/ US Dollar Daily Market Analysis
PCE Tomorrow… 1-25-24 SPY/ ES Futures, QQQ/ NQ Futures, 10YR Yield, and DXY/ US Dollar Daily Market Analysis
PCE Tomorrow… 1-25-24 SPY/ ES Futures, QQQ/ NQ Futures, 10YR Yield, and DXY/ US Dollar Daily Market Analysis
PayPal shares fall after CEO announces AI-based products
PayPal shares fall after CEO announces AI-based products
I'm the $2k to $50k Options Account Challenge Guy and I Have Some Gains to Share From My Larger Account
I should have sold earlier when I was up 100%
Retrace Inbound? 1-24-24 SPY/ ES Futures, QQQ/ NQ Futures, 10YR Yield, and DXY/ US Dollar Daily Market Analysis (Tesla Earnings)
Retrace Inbound? 1-24-24 SPY/ ES Futures, QQQ/ NQ Futures, 10YR Yield, and DXY/ US Dollar Daily Market Analysis (Tesla Earnings)
QQQ or VOO which one will you choose ?
Trading SPY + QQQ off /ES and /NQ chart anybody else do this?
Question about ETFs: What happens if the provider goes under as a business?
The Reason why the Mag 7 can’t be stopped and QQQ will keep going up
On the topics of imposter syndrome, trading groups and online/remote support
Thinking through 0DTE ATM wheeling QQQ
Going to bed holding all QQQ puts and futures are up 0.60%
What stock/suggestion have you gotten from this sub that actually WORKED?
An explanation of Friday's Price Action that brought SPX to All time Highs.
What happens to options expired ITM AH but not enough cash in margin account?
Options expired ITM but not enough cash in margin account
$SMCI Options expired ITM but not enough cash in account
$SMCI Options expired ITM but not enough cash in account
Buy QQQ Calls now, 420 Support Level Reached
Is it possible to move SOME of my investments to a new brokerage, but not others without simply selling them all and buying them back?
Selling Long Deep ITM Cash Secured Puts. Good Retirement Strategy?
What index fund do I pick for my Roth IRA?
Histogram Insights on 1-15 Day Returns Across Various Assets
is anyone else noticing, we're living in an exponential curve in the stock market?
Lost eBay Lego bid war, now have 1.3k, what stock to invest for coping
Is it normal for the index funds to be weighted this heavily by mega caps?
BANBET: The 10y-2y treasury spread is gonna go >1% by Jan 2025. $50k on the table.
Investing in the top 10 highest weighted companies of the QQQ would have resulted in almost a 4x higher return vs the QQQ
Epic V Continues to Show How Little Risk Exists
Analysis: Why solar is the best place to mark your money in 2024.
Analysis: Why the solar industry is the best place to park your money right now
Been learning to trade options since September.
Why is there such a huge difference in the value of ETFs that track index funds, and the value of the index funds themselves?
Lost 50% of my 2023 earnings on QQQ puts. Lord help me
Feetr Data Dump: ATNF MINM RPID OMGA JFBR SMFL
Long-term leveraged futures if you believe in the EMH
Mentions
Totally agree with the sentiment on international diversification. I've been doing something similar, not quite 25-30% yet, but definitely increasing my exposure beyond just US large caps. Valuations here feel stretched, and while the US market has been incredible, it's hard to ignore the potential in other developed markets. My main concern is still currency volatility, especially with the dollar's recent strength, but I think the long-term benefits of diversification outweigh that risk for me $SPY $QQQ $VYMI
I bet OP is right about the talks and QQQ will fade to exactly 607.01
I'll tell you: mix of long-term T-bonds and funds, cash, value and div stocks. 35% short hedging position QQQ. Longs include 300 shares of BRK-B but sold long ATM covered calls when it hit its recent high (gut feeling said it won't stay above 500). In various retirement, mostly big chunk of TIAA guaranteed asset class, cash, some dividend stocks trading at low P/E.
A dude burning down a factory in desperate response to untenable cost of living. And record low consumer confidence number since survey began in 1952 = QQQ +.14%, 8th green day in a row
Just a non-serious, baseless claim. The correct answer is that you have no idea. I used Anthropic Claude to model a scenario in order to drive the point across. Sharing its response below. --- Person A vs. Person B: A Tale of Two Investors The Setup Both investors start with $100,000 on February 11, 2000 — four weeks before the NASDAQ peaked. They follow an identical discipline: deploy 5% of remaining cash into QQQ every single week. The only difference is that Person B has exit and re-entry rules. Person A — The Pure Believer Person A’s first four weeks of buying happen at prices between $109 and $118 per share — essentially the most expensive QQQ has ever been. Each week, 5% of remaining cash goes in, no questions asked. Then the crash begins. By the end of 2000, QQQ has fallen to $57. By late 2002, it hits $20. Person A never stops buying — in fact, the DCA mechanic means they’re deploying meaningful cash at these cheap levels, which will eventually help. But the damage from those first few weeks of buying near $118 is structural. A large chunk of early capital is permanently impaired. Over the next decade, Person A endures what can only be described as a decade of financial purgatory. QQQ barely recovers to $40–55 by 2007, then the 2008 financial crisis hits and it crashes again to $25. By the 10-year mark in February 2010, Person A’s account sits at just $25,834 — a loss of 74% on their starting capital. Their maximum drawdown touches −87.5%, and they spend nearly 10 full years underwater, meaning their portfolio value never once crosses above its previous peak during that entire stretch. The recovery only arrives around mid-2014. By the 15-year mark, Person A has clawed back to $65,768 — still 34% below their starting $100,000 in nominal terms, and deeply negative in real terms after inflation. The mechanics of DCA did what they were supposed to — accumulate cheap shares during the crash — but the starting conditions were simply too punishing. What most people don't realize is that the starting conditions for any investor are random. Person B — The Disciplined Exiter Person B starts identically. They buy QQQ at $109–118 for the first four weeks right alongside Person A. But then something different happens: when QQQ’s daily close drops below its 100-day moving average in the spring of 2000, Person B sells everything and steps aside. At that point, QQQ is somewhere in the high $80s to low $90s — a painful but survivable 20–25% loss on those early purchases. What happens next is the critical divergence. Person B sits in cash while QQQ collapses from $90 all the way down to $20 over the next two years. They are watching the carnage from the sideline with nearly their full $100,000 still intact. The re-entry conditions — price above the 50-day SMA, with the 50-day SMA above the 100-day SMA — take a long time to trigger in a sustained bear market, which is by design. Person B doesn’t chase false recoveries during the 2001 dead-cat bounces. When they finally re-enter, it’s into a QQQ priced in the $25–35 range. Now their weekly 5% DCA is buying nearly 3–4x the number of shares they could afford at peak prices. They accumulate aggressively through 2003–2007 as QQQ climbs to $54. The filter then protects them again in 2008, triggering another exit before the worst of the financial crisis, and a re-entry in 2009 at depressed prices. At the 10-year mark, Person B has $102,354 — essentially breaking even in nominal terms, but vastly ahead of Person A’s $25k. At 15 years, they’ve grown to $126,348. Their maximum drawdown is −49.4%, and their longest underwater period is 3.82 years — less than half of Person A’s decade underwater. What the Numbers Actually Mean The gap between these two outcomes — $65,768 vs. $126,348 at 15 years, a $60,580 difference on the same $100k starting capital — comes entirely from one thing: capital preservation during the dotcom crash. Person B’s filter didn’t make them brilliant stock pickers. It just prevented catastrophic early losses from compounding into a decade-long hole. This is the core thesis behind systematic TAA: the math of losses is asymmetric. A 50% loss requires a 100% gain to recover. An 87% loss requires a 669% gain. Person A spent 15 years trying to dig out of that hole. Person B never fell in.
Just be careful, because this whale probably bought at todays high, so he’s already in the green on this position. A dump to 600 on QQQ would give him all he needs to pull out with a sizeable profit.
Anybody else notice QQQ $660 calls expiring the 24th shot up at close
-5 MNQM6, 10 MCLK6, 28 QQQ $619 CALL 30APR26 see yal Sunday night.
MSFT, SNOW and CRWD literally give up in a bull market. lmao Portfolio trailing > 5% from QQQ.
That was still in the dotcom crash. These are short term it only takes a day or 2 to wipe out large amounts. A 15% relief rally can be gone fast. Just do it yourself. Get a chart and put on a moving average envelope. For SOXX set it at 10 days and 10% range (noramlly6-7%). SPY is 10 and 3%. QQQ is 10 and 4%. See what happens. In hard selloffs it can go down more. But not for long.
most of the individual stock volumes look pretty alright for the day but SPY and QQQ are measly - whats up with that?
AXTI and QQQ puts got me down. USO and PLTR calls got me downer. 15 mins to market close and I’m seeing red across the board. Can’t wait to do it all again Monday.
How will oil impact NVDA or GOOG. If you're buying something to bet the oil trade, it isnt QQQ.
QQQ -0.01% after a whole day is diabolical work algo. Fuck off
This is where I get hated on by both the bulls & bears for looking at charts. Just like I was called a perma bull for BTD the last 2-3 weeks, I'm looking at the $QQQ and there is heavy resistance around 610. We've already had 8 straight green days for $QQQ; I just don't see how it doesn't at least retest its 200 DMA of 597. I guess they did add WalMart to $QQQ a couple months ago. Maybe they could kick out a couple software names and add $CAT and $DE to $QQQ to stay above the 200 DMA. /sarc
how can QQQ be flat with NVDA nearly +3%, AVGO +5%, AMZN +2%, what's pulling it to the bottom ?
Damn, volume of SPY and QQQ is so bad. Its unbelievable! Lol
What’s driving SPY and QQQ off a cliff since 11:25 ? MSFT, NVDA charts are much flatter
QQQ being pinned at yesterdays close for around an hour now is some the most tilting shit i've seen in a bit l
The ETF was 1% behind QQQ in 2025, you realize it basically tracks the portfolio giving the slightest bit of upside but actually returns on capital which can be used to invest in growth stocks?
Looks like their main objective today is to keep QQQ green by at least a few cents.
I bought a put on QQQ for an expiration of today. I lost 90%
You're gonna have to wait for a glitch in the Matrix to appear for a full market crash. It's all 0's and 1's on your screen. Being serious thou, the market is acting very similar to 2000-2007. We just didn't call them Josh Brown HALO stocks in 2001. But those stocks plus gold & commodities have been outperforming the $SPY for quite awhile now. The $IGV software stocks have been crashing just like 2000-2007. The $QQQ as a whole has vastly underperformed world stocks ex US or $VXUS by over 10% these last 6 months. If you look hard enough, the glitches in the Matrix are starting to appear. People are just blind or numb to it all because they are all too busy just staring at the $SPY.
QQQ down a mighty -0.01% after +9% run in less than two weeks
Closed my QQQ puts that I bought early morning for a tiny 20% gain. Market can crash now that I have no puts. Apparently CTAs still have up to 38B to buy today/next week and are working up to 99%ile exposure when they were at 1%ile exposure last week lol. That explains the insane melt up and strength. Algos are literally just programmed to buy any dip because their entire backtesting model goes back to like 2010 or 2011 and they dont have any sort of 2007-9 or 2000-2002 in their backtest. Stability creates instability...
Fading the QQQ's was/is the right play me thinks.
Every single crash has been preceded by a correction and a relief rally designed to lure retail into a false sense of security. Take one look at this sub and tell me that’s not what is happening here lmao. I have opened 340 QQQ puts expiring aug 21 — millionaire maker
I didn’t know QQQ and Nasdaq % could get that far apart. 0.7 vs 0.4?
guys QQQ dropped 0.5% you know what that means
I think the bounce back for QQQ and SPY was too much too fast. If not today then next week it has to come down a little.
same as always: bitcoin sags as stocks go up. this is why shorting BTC such a great hedge. BTC will instant dump $3k on any hint of bad Iran news while QQQ hold up much better.
Haha QQQ keeps going up and the only stock that keeps going down is gamesuck and the CEO said it could take decades or centuries but they’re over there like we have 32$ warrants ahahahahahaha
looks like we never seeing SPY below 680 and QQQ below 600 boys
They should be but they're not. Why are SPY and the QQQ up??? Should be tanking
How I decided to full port everything into calls. QQQ - 10% - Printed META - 10% - Prrrrinted TSLA - 80% - FUCK ELON AND FUCK THIS PIECE OF SHIT STOCK CUNT ASS FUCK TRASH How's your day going?
I would like to wipe ass with QQQ, what an utter pos
QQQ up SPY up BTC up Gamesuck uh uh wait a sec. That’s not right. They told me MOASS was right around the corner. Oh well. Guess Ill wait another decade or century like the guy said
Yes playing options on leveraged products yields exponential leverage BUT options are designed to account for implied volatility, so the premiums tend to account for this with large spreads (their chains are not nearly as liquid as QQQ, and premiums have lots of juice in them).
Why this 10% QQQ rally have to take a week? Why didn't whales just do it in one day?
you need to think in years time not in the next time. Next? it can go up or down, free advice that is no different from a consultant. In years time? probably SPY and QQQ will be higher.
Why people trading beta QQQ when chad SPY moves like a motherfucker. 🫵( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) i thought you were gamblers?
I made $5k on google today that easily could have been $50k. I’m a slow learner or absolutely incapable of trusting myself. Don’t worry, I’ll probably lose it on QQQ puts tomorrow
shorting btc and long QQQ still free money
I still don't understand why those QQQ June 18 580p and 590p 80k+ contracts that were deep ITM didn't close up nearly 100% before the bull uprising. Anyone able to explain this because I have no clue why they remained open?
Garbage, there’s a reason these companies aren’t public. It’s because they don’t disclose their financials and likely aren’t profitable/are burning cash to fund their operations. Plus all of these companies are going to IPO in the next year or two, so what would be the point of holding this once they go public? They’ll just be added to QQQ or VOO and then you’re paying a 3.49% ER for no reason.
I put 6k into QQQ today but feel like I missed the bottom badly. I do believe Microsoft will recover dramatically
QQQ, take me out to dinner first pls 🥲
AXTI and QQQ puts, USO calls. Gonna watch my account go to zero one trade at a time. Thanks 🌮
I took about everything I had available ($5K) and bought QQQ on the day markets reopened following 9/11. It was a way to channel anger and show confidence in my country. It went down for a while after the purchase but it turned out to be my best investment long term. Oh and investing $957 over time in Nvidia after hearing Cramer talk about it. Can’t remember when, but that single investment with no more bought, is worth $16K today.
For all the bulls, look at what happened between March and May of 2008. QQQ rose from about 42 to 50, then ultimately crashed down to 26 at its lowest before finally climbing back up. Not saying that big of a crash will happen, but I think it is premature to say we have bottomed. If anything now we're going to be stuck in a range where before it was between 600 and 630 and now it is between 580 and 610
Could be yeah. I opened some dated ITM puts on QQQ today in case that happens.
You didn’t lose 90k, you just paid 90k in tuition to learn not to trust politicians with your portfolio 😂 Grats on getting the principal back and taking profit on SPY and QQQ, that alone already puts you ahead of like 90 percent of this sub.
Thinking a retest of at least 600 on QQQ
what is the deal with the QQQ always dump right after market close
Quadruple top on QQQ. Look out below!
$IGV was the 1 BTD that I bought the last 2 weeks that I sold b/c I was too impatient. But it makes sense to buy. If the software stocks don't rally the $QQQ has next to little chance of setting new ATH's.
QQQ 5% away from ATH’s IGV 55% away from ATH’s… Software😂😂😂
Whoops. wrong ticker. I meant QQQ. lol Good bye, guys.
None of this shit makes sense: SPY/QQQ/IWM ⬆️, USO ⬆️, GLD/SLV ⬆️, VIX ⬇️. Literally nonsensical. And this the year I’m unemployed and decide to try options 🤦♀️
> QQQ is only up because fake news maniuplation
QQQ would be +2% excluding software stocks
QQQ would be soaring without Software
I’m buying spy puts. But I had QQQ chart open the entire day. I’m actually retarded
QQQ is only up because semiconductors/hardware are still quite strong.
IGV new lows on the year while QQQ at least of this post is close to 9% above the lows. I might have to capitulate on NOW.
Putting the house on puts at QQQ 610
A cherry hot CPI print will be the fuel QQQ needs to hit 620 tomorrow
The only thing to be careful of is that the S&P is so tech heavy already because of the Mag7. Those 7 stocks currently make up about 30% of the index. If you have another 25-30% of your portfolio in the Mag7 you are looking at almost 60% of your portfolio comprised of 7 stocks. If you’re comfortable with a heavy tech position, swap your Mag7 for QQQ. It’s still heavy on the Mag7 (45%), but at least the rest is spread across the broader tech sector.
Fuck it, hedged with QQQ puts. If they go to 0 and world goes back to normal I'll take the L gladly
Just a reminder in case you haven’t been looking at the charts. MSFT IS DOWN! THE SPY, QQQ, AMZN, TSLA, META, GOOGL, AAPL, NVDA are all up. MSFT IS DOWN!! THEY WERE ALSO DOWN YESTERDAY… on ceasefire day. If there is any company that should be fucking nuked out of existence it is this stupid shit.
If I was a real man I would of held my QQQ 600 calls expiring today
Lmao you can't even see my comments. But hey, here's one from this morning >[MitchCurry](https://www.reddit.com/user/MitchCurry/) •[2h ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/stocks/comments/1sflk9i/comment/of6txw6/) > Top 1% Commenter >Just added 11% more shares to my NOW position and 16% more to my VEEV position. Here's one from two weeks ago > [MitchCurry](https://www.reddit.com/user/MitchCurry/) •[13d ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/stocks/comments/1s4zbj2/comment/octmxoo/) > Top 1% Commenter >Just added to MELI (3% more shares), NOW (29%), NU (9%), UBER (36%), TOST (20%), AVDV (8%), AVUV (2%), QQQ (2%), and VOO (2%). Ooooh, I'm so bearish.
Bro what QQQ is slower than SPY for the first time in 3 years
I keep saying QQQ is gonna just keep going up and bears refuse to believe me lol.
Imagine all those Iranian scientists hitting the open market after sanctions are lifted 🚀🚀🚀 QQQ
99% of time i only play MAG 7 or SPY / QQQ. decided to buy palantir today. well good one me
The absolute fucking refusal of MMs to pay out any puts on SPY/QQQ is hilarious. Yet people keep buying 0DTE’s and donating their money directly to theta gang.
Probably, but they’re using it to prop up QQQ and SPY so it might if the other mag7 continue dropping and MMs have to compensate by buying more.
Paper trading is basically lying to you on this one and mid fills on multi-leg structures in single names are more of a best case than a baseline. SPY and QQQ you can usually get within a cent or two of mid if you're patient, but AMD, MU, and ARM you're often giving up $0.15 to $0.30 just to get filled, which is a real chunk of your max profit on a butterfly. MSFT is probably the friendliest on your list but even there I'd set expectations at mid minus $0.05 to $0.10 on exit rather than assuming mid. The only real way to know for your specific setups is to start logging actual fill vs mid at entry and exit separately and patterns show up fast once you have 15 or 20 trades in the book.
At this point I think New York could be nuked and QQQ would drop 0.5% before rising 3% on news the fallout is better than expected
Oil is fucking pumping! Last chance to get out of QQQ