QQQ

Tiiinygecko

So I bought 5 QQQ 4dte calls 10 minutes before regular market close. Then QQQ shot up in the final 10 minutes, and is continuing to go up AH. I dine well tonight 😋🥩🍷

GneissFrog

weren't you the guy shorting QQQ from the 590s?

Cultural-Visual8799

I just buy QQQ when I am not sure.

rcantu314

All the ingredients in place for a 3% QQQ day tomorrow

LabyrinthLayers

QQQ 630 tomorrow 🤞🏼

Odd-Block-2998

QQQ $650 by Christmas!

Odd-Block-2998

QQQ -0.19% only today. It is not a red day. NVDA is green.

TheIslandLifeSucks

Thanks man, and i'm glad yours went well, profit is profit after all. If QQQ keeps tanking in after and pre market, you think calls could work after a bloodbath like today? Could very well keep going down no?

TickTockTaudit

Calls: QQQ/GOOGL/NVDA/HOOD/RKLB/TE Put/hedge: IWM

TomatoSpecialist6879

Lmao that straight line revived my QQQ 624 fds right before close like nothing

applerascal

!banbet QQQ 1% 24H

Lapidated_Llama

QQQ going green while Google continues to drop? What bullshit is this.

yatv

bro frfr just ONE full port 0DTE call… just ONE… and i’ll be SET FOR LIFE man (scratches neck aggressively) then i’ll put that shi in QQQ and VOO. i can FEEL jpow whispering tendies into my ear… i’m basically front running destiny at this point.

dangernext

HOLY bro stop, full port QQQ, setup auto deposit, delete the app. Check back when you are 65

tugrulthelol

Lmao SPY, QQQ, and DOW were all just -0.45% wtf, completely equal

DefiantDelta

QQQ down, corn down. QQQ up, corn down. lmao

dangernext

I hovered over a QQQ 4 DTE full port call and couldn’t do it. GOD I’m such a pu$$$yyy

Odd-Block-2998

QQQ $581: hello, everyone, how's life during past 2.5 weeks?

markandersonfb

!banbet QQQ 615 4d

Mossad_psyop

Let’s go got 2 QQQ 640 c for march

TomatoSpecialist6879

Would be nice GOOG stops being an intraday piece of shit and fucking dragging SPY and QQQ down

Kirko_Cousins

Somebody sound the intraday bottom. 0DTE QQQ calls are primed.

Emere59

QQQ V when?

thegx7

I was green. Now I am red, balls. I guess QQQ fucked my green bulls and calls.

eggplant_parm827

I always talk more about QQQ/SPY. The Market. Any stock can always go down, but the actual market is too rigged to ever go down. They will just throw green candles at this all day any time you think it's actually going down.

jauch888888

But QQQ is probably less volatile than the other two.

jauch888888

True, QQQ isn’t officially a tech ETF, but in practice it behaves like one — over 60–70% of its weight is in tech and communication giants like Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Meta and Google. So functionally, it’s heavily tech-tilted. But yes you are right. Thanks.

therealjerseytom

QQQ isn't tech, so no. VGT or FTEC or similar would be a better fit.

jauch888888

Like the QQQ?

SmarterThanWSBMods

!banbet $QQQ -7% 2w

Technical_Count6208

I want to see market bleeding 🩸 so I can pump more money into VOO or QQQ

Affectionate_Ad_5586

Made a quick $3K on SPY/QQQ puts this morning https://preview.redd.it/6bsr1jr7306g1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4e09e1535a3a596d964044501ae2b9fe85d532a1

Ke1001

When i have 10k left ima sell. And put it all in QQQ 0dte

Accomplished_Suit651

QQQ calls, Tesla puts gonna make me even more poor

Competitive_Home_149

Too many individual picks imo, especially the small caps. That ASTS and rocket stuff is basically gambling at this point. Maybe consolidate some of those 2% positions into more VUG or throw it at QQQ instead

brewgeoff

There are many discussions on Reddit about this. If you search QQQ and limit your query to posts from the last month you will find a few. The short version is that they are trying to modernize the fund. It would allow Invesco to simplify the process of managing the trustees of the fund, reduce the cost of the fund and allow them to use the small amount of money they make from the fund more flexibly. There are zero downsides for the investor.

Alive-South-8808

QQQ going red!!!!!!!

Accomplished_Suit651

50% in on QQQ calls 🤡

Long_duk_dong_duck

Just loaded zero dte puts on spy and QQQ. Looks like a very calm and orderly sell off brewing. Gonna set my sell orders to around 200% and not even look at them all day.

Tigittybigitty

Went into the woods this weekend to understand the market better. Saw some gay bers having an orgy. QQQ 700 EOW

Exotic-Body-8734

The QQQ’s are leading the way this morning Definitely worth keeping an eye on Thanks C

Prestigious_Cat_1126

Full port OTD QQQ puts 💀

dvdmovie1

At this point I'd rather suggest a diversified ETF that probably is still heavily tech - SPY is about 35% tech, QQQ 54%.

vansterdam_city

Get your options permissions and sell out-of-the-money puts. You can easily get 3.5% on cash + 5-6% premiums until you get assigned, which will be at a lower price than today. Instead of a standard 60/40 you could do 30% into SPY/QQQ now, 40% into 7-10 year treasury ETF now and 30% doing cash secured puts getting the \~8% or so yield and waiting for a pullback. For example you could sell Jan16 2026 600P on SPY for $5.05 per contract. This is approx 7.5% annualized, assuming you repeated this process for a year without getting assigned. And if you are assigned, then you buy SPY for $595 instead of the current $685, a 15% discount. You can sell 5 contracts against 30% of this money, so you'd net about $2500 every \~40-45 days. You'd also stash this money into something like TBIL for a \~3.75% yield or a bit less depending on what the fed does going forward. This is a good way to collect over 10% annually while easing into your equity portion of the allocation.

dangernext

U guys ever lose money on QQQ calls after the big intraday dip? That beech don’t stay down Bruh

College_finals

What Are Your Moves Tomorrow? QQQ 630 Calls and CETX or NFE

D_Pablo67

Don't be a sucker. Just by VOO and QQQ.

Commercial_Horror204

SPY up 0.5%, QQQ up 1% is a NORMAL DAY Santa rally means this will happen like 5 more times

blorg

That's over the last 10 years, which has been way above average. The S&P500 has not returned 15.2% over the long term. OP is talking about since 1998. Depending on exactly where you start in 1998, you would get 9.02% exactly. I didn't go through every day in 1998 to check, but [starting 1998-10-22](https://testfol.io/?s=lluZwAT9iba), that gets you 9.03% CAGR through to Friday's close. QQQ (simulated prior to 1999 inception) over the same period gets you 12.10% CAGR.

TickTockTaudit

CVNA going to finally convince you guys to switch from SPY to QQQ? Cmon over to the better side!!

frumpydrangus

MSTR really holding QQQ back

sixsmithhs

Will do! I have been overtime putting more into a mix of QQQ and AOTG. I know it's really technology weighted so I'm open to any suggestions! Just so far tech has treated me very well

College_finals

QQQ to 628 again

FaradayPhantom

QQQ puts 👀

JealousFuel8195

Income funds will grossly underperform VOO or QQQ

JealousFuel8195

What is your realty return compared to VOO? At 27 you don't need income funds. I would sell realty income then buy VOO. i would sell qqqi and then buy QQQ

Own-Instruction720

We only have full shares. Even ETFs cost like 600 (QQQ, Spy, Voo). Opening in foreign brokerage costs too much in taxes, and we also have a thing like we receive shares purchased or shares sold only after two days... But thanks a lot, will try to find cheaper ones! 

rawrswell

Furthermore qqq had a 20.32% 10 year average https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/QQQ/performance/

TreGet234

With US becoming a bunch of tech companies in a trench coat while the real economy is dying i've been thinking of a simple portfolio consisting of a mix of QQQ, developed world ex-usa, EM (though try to decrease china/india dominance), gold and short to mid duration bonds. Maybe add extra south korea, possibly poland and japan. Seems simple and honestly pretty solid.

TheInkDon1

Good question: I'm in between. Let me explain. Over the past 20 years I've sworn off stocks for ETFs so many times I can't count. And always for the same reason: *single-issue risk.* What it that? Musk tweets something stupid, Tesla drops 10%. Oracle doesn't meet expected earnings, it drops 15%. Enron, "the smartest guys in the room", weren't: bankruptcy. **So since March I've only done ETFs.** If you ever catch me trading a single stock, I want you to shoot me. Please. And sure some ETFs have big drops, but they're ones I don't touch: crypto and cannabis. Other than that, ETFs just don't move that quickly. And why? Because they're baskets of stocks, right? (For the most part.) So if an ETF holds 100 stocks, and one goes to zero, how much should the ETF drop? Just 1%. (Aside from sector-sympathy that might drag some of the others down too.) Why don't I use SPY and QQQ and the like? 1 - because I'm not an indexer by nature, because: 2 - I like to find things *that are going up*, and trade those. But don't get me wrong, if SPY or QQQ were going up fast enough to screen-in to how I screen, then I'd trade them. I recently traded IWM, the Russell 2000, because of that. Now maybe let me expand your mind a bit: *Do you know how many ETFs there are in the US?* **4,300!** Four **THOUSAND** and three hundred. But you only hear about a dozen of them, don't you? VT, VTI, SCHD, VOO, IVV, VXUS, maybe ITOT, like that. *Did you know that* [momentum in equity prices persists](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0927538X18303998?via%3Dihub#preview-section-references)*?* It does. For 1, 2, 3, even 6 months or more. Now, what if we put those 2 things together and looked for **ETFs with momentum**? And then instead of *buying* them, buy **LEAPS Calls** on them. Deep ITM LEAPS Calls act as *share substitutes* and give us **leverage**. Let me know if you're interested in hearing more.

brute-forced

Just lock in on the top ten tech companies with 10% allocation to each and you’ll crush it for the next ten years. Just set it and forget it. Or just buy QQQ, VGT or Fidelity version.

superted-42

Do you buy LEAP calls on stocks of companies you believe in or on ETFs like SPY or QQQ?

greyenlightenment

short BTC long QQQ still free money hack lol

greyenlightenment

I took so many downvotes this year saying BTC would crash vs QQQ

Iunatic

Corn has been dumping well below ATH while SPY/QQQ are basically at ATH. Let's continue until the scam fake internet money is worthless and SPY is a million per share

Equivalent-Sample674

ARKK? lol what?. More like 80% VT and 20% QQQ and chill.

A1ien30y

This and only this. QQQ, VOO, SPY, XLV(for some of that medical diversification), ARKK and pick some dividends. Let know if I miss any other good ones.

ElderberryCareful879

You should be able to sell and buy index by yourself without any help. Look up what the percentage of your company stock is in QQQ, SPY, etc. as a guidance for how much to keep. E.g., assuming you work for Nvidia, SPY keeps only 8% of its holding on NVDA. If you like your company that much, may be retain at most 16%-20% on NVDA. Pre-calculate the capital gain tax as well to spread out the sales into more years if needed to lower your tax.

hsfinance

Everyone will be willing to help you especially if they get a share of your holdings as direct or hidden fees But you don't need to fall for that. You had built this problem slowly you can clean it up slowly. Yeah market can crash tomorrow but that was the same risk you had yesterday too. You seem to be new to investments so here's what I will advise. Read the advise at r/bogleheads, and also r/etfs. Don't believe it all but do try to draw some lessons. There are many people who like r/dividends also but if you have decades to retirement, don't get into that but be aware. Spend a month reading and then make up your mind. If you must make some decisions in 2025 because of taxation, read next 2 weeks and then decided. ETFs like SPY which are broad market are the easiest to start with. QQQ is equally good but tech centric. It still helps you diversify from a single company risk but when AI sinks the market, everything will go down, even SPY. But take a long term view, and don't believe worried about short term fluctuations. Reducing one company risk will be a great achievement but also cause for concern if your company outperforms the market but think of it this way -- what if it did not. If you are only moving new money (RSU exits) to ETFs, there is no urgency, you have time till your next vest. Buying ETFs is as simple as buying a stock, you can do it at ETrade. Happy to answer more questions but 1) don't be in a hurry, and 2) develop your own insights which may be bad to start with but we learn from our mistakes too. And what's the worst that will happen by moving 10-50k into an ETF -- underperform the market? So? That's life and that's where billions of dollars sit.

fungoodtrade

these are naked puts, and you are not using margin... you have a margin backstop. This is smart, but I highly suggest you calculate your delta dollars frequently and hedge accordingly. As someone else suggested... if you just buy a lower strike put then you have a spread and are hedging your downside risk that way (thetagang strategy). Either way... naked puts are indeed awesome, and you should most definitely understand the risk you are exposed to at all times. It is very easy to have a shitload of naked puts and then suddenly a 2% QQQ dip equates to a 10% dip in your portfolio. I've had it happen, so I'm really just speaking from personal experience here. Keep your expiries 30-45DTE as well, which will give you room to maneuver.

ohnomegs

The company’s stock is held within eTrade where I also have a personal account as well. As someone who’s brand new to investment, do you think if I called eTrade they would help me with this? Or do people hire a financial advisor? Or is it as simple as just selling a large portion of the stock once it vests (80% has vested or is ESPP), and looking up index funds (like you mentioned QQQ, SPY, etc.) and buying the index funds as soon as I get the money from selling my company’s?

ButtholeAnalogy

QQQ up 7% in 10 days, think the rally has been had buddy guy

Away-Tour-203

You're right. My main investments are now diversified, including tech stocks. I've been keeping an eye on QQQ and SPY recently.

hsfinance

If you get discounted ESPP stock, it is best to hold till they become long term However if you get RSUs, sell on vest. Stock lands on 1st night (for example), you sell on 2nd. Invest it in QQQ or SPY. Over time the nature of the portfolio will change. This is the easiest with little pain of taxes on the current holdings. Takes time but you get diversified. Exchange funds that someone mentioned come with big ticket size and take 7+ years for you to diversify and there's no guarantee you get the optimal combination back since it will be driven by exchange funds availability. You can also keep nibbling in current holdings, pay a little tax as long as your tax bracket does not go up. For example if you are in 32% and that will tip to 35% after 20k, as long as you are willing to pay that 32%, sell off 20k of shares.

BeFree94

Definitely applied in my methods when i enter, as the Market has opened. But, even with that, gotta be careful as the Volume matters. & Even though we'd like to make money every day - if there's no drastic change by even the 10min mark - I dont play that day (which is rare for QQQ, as it will usually move daily). Strong volume, and I definitely follow through with the Trend, my Strategy, and my Gut - and I commit to that Play through and through no matter what until I can exit. Weak Volume does tend to come off as bit of a fakeout, and if it applies opposite of what im committing too in the moment - it gives me more hope that things will sway my way, so I wait - distract myself if I even need too (like I went for a Jog on Friday 😅, because that was the roughest day out of all them). That Friday, I had stuck to my Strategy and also watched the 5min ORB (which showed a Rise, but with Weak Volume), and from 9:37am to about 10:30am.....I was down that 60% roughly that you see in the screenshot... scary times. What saved me was Patience, Distractions, and Acknowledgement of the fact that even though the move had been crazy - Volume wasnt going crazy, it was still Weak - felt safe Averaging Down and waiting for the adjustment. 10:30am+ through 11:30am, it did its usual "Edge of the Cliff" decision (in this instance, it was a Cliff Dive - Opened at 625, went up to 629 early, then down to 623. My Puts hit my Limit Sell that i had set for the 623.3 range, and I was good 💰). I will say I dont apply MACD though - probably should, but I personally dont, so no thoughts on that end.

Chiba_Dave

If I were you I’d consider first selling puts on something like SPY, QQQ or IWM. Then get assigned and then sell calls. The decision is ultimately yours though. Not a financial advisor

leaning_on_a_wheel

VOO is great. Similarly you’ll see more growth in QQQ than QQQI

JealousFuel8195

ONEQ is a great Nasdaq option. ONEQ has over 1000 holdings vs 500 for VOO or 101 for QQQ. Yes, Nasdaq is tech heavy with over 50%. ONEQ has outperformed VOO eight of the last 11 years including this year. ONEQ has an annualized gain of 17% the last 15 years vs 14.24% for VOO.

TomorrowSavings7579

I have a dong shaped bong i smoke every time QQQ goes up 1%

RetiredEarly2018

Apologies if it wasn't clear, but I meant you shouldn't be thinking about the past performance in risk adjusted terms, because thats like telling someone who invested in QQQ 30 yrs ago that they should have invested in VT. By all means think about future investing with risk in mind.

bdh2067

He did great. An adviser would’ve sucked a percent or two off each year, leading to significantly less in the long run (when compounding is considered). It’s very easy to say “oh he should’ve just stuck it in QQQ” in hindsight

orangeyougladiator

Nah. 🌽 has continued to dump while SPY/QQQ recovered. Any same day progress is just coincidence now

ispooler

🌽, QQQ and SPY correlation is still too strong, corn dying means everything will tank tomorrow

Menu-Quirky

Spy and QQQ and iwm

Loud-Dependent-6496

FOL vs FOMO. The two emotions that lead to losses. Even the pros fail so just DCA into the VOO/SPY and QQQ (assuming your horizon is 10+ years).

RetiredEarly2018

If you are buying something that is appreciating, whether it is VT, VTI, VOO, QQQ, VXUS, Gold or whatever, it will be more expensive today than it was x days/months/years ago and there will almost always be someone who feels it is too expensive. I do not know anyone who has a perfect crystal ball and all the options that have a high inflation-adjusted return carry risk. So just find an investment whose risk profile you are comfortable with (lazyportfolioetf.com has data in various currencies showing both returns and drawdowns over 1, 5, 10 and 30 years) and get started.

african_cheetah

R > G > I Business returns > economy growth > inflation. As long as this fundamental thesis holds true, stock market remains the most accessible part for most people to build wealth where their money works harder than them in 20 years. The actual $ value doesn’t matter. It’s just a number for means of exchange for real goods. I do expect wealth inequality to grow. Democrats to come in power and add some more social safety nets. Republicans to cut more taxes and make it easier to be super wealthy. Inflation to do its thing and erode purchasing power. Investing in index funds over long periods is a cheat code. Being able to own a slice of the top 500 (SPX) or top 100 (NDX) companies that generate real earnings and growth. The index kicks out poor performers and adds new growth companies. Kinda wild if you think about it. With Fidelity 20% of paycheck automatically goes into QQQ. It’s the easiest money I ever made.

Plane-Isopod-7361

15% from options is sad! SPY itself is up 17% YTD QQQ at 22%. If you are to only see last 6 months SPY is at 40%. All this is plain stock. Your prinicpal never goes to 0. Given the risk options has doing just 11% over CD (4%) is pathetic. I am sad you are also paying to someone for these yuge returns.

BeFree94

Thank you. I had been watching QQQ for some time now, months I mean - and noticing its trends in relation to premarket versus regular hours: 1) My go to for the week: Inverse - If it pops in Premarket, at All, even just a $1 rise - I'd go Puts, as it definitely drops a good $2-$3 minimum during Market Hours. - If it drops $4-$5 in Premarket - I go Calls, as it always gains it back during Market Hours. - But, if its only a small drop in Premarket, maybe -$2/-$3, that makes it tricky, as it can go either way - so I'd usually wait until 10am on those days to choose a direction. 2) Based on the Above Strategy, always got in instantly at 9:30-9:35am the latest (or 10am, in the 3rd scenario). 3) Would either set a specific # (if its 623, and I go Puts - I'm out at 620, and vice versa. Usually would limit my goal to a $3 rise/calls or $3 drop/puts, and exit) - or a Specific Time (say, 11am/11:30am the latest) to exit, with Limit Sells always in place regardless. But mostly, I go by the #. 4) Fuck SPY - and I mean that. QQQ, when it moves, so does the contract (Good or Bad, but there is movement). Dealing with SPY, you're basically fighting with Theta the whole fckn way, even when it seems like you should be in profit - waste of time, waste of money. Left SPY months ago and been better off since, in relation to Day Trades. Everything I've said, worked for me - and worked for the past week as you've seen. But I am no wise man, I am not an insider - just applying strategies like we all create and being patient and committed to my gut. Thats about it though - and Good Luck.

TheIslandLifeSucks

Impressive gains, I have a few questions: What's your strategy? How to you time your entries? What's the exit plan? QQQ over SPY just by preference?

EvolvingDior

How are you defining "the tech sector"? Because QQQ is flat for the past month and underperforming SPY over the last 6 weeks.

DoubleFamous5751

They’ve been running invesco QQQ ads for years on major networks though

LaPenta5594

Just saw a commercial for Invesco $QQQ etf. I think we’ve hit the top

Interesting_Star_707

Thanks for responding, SPY, QQQ, are low IV so instead of credit spreads debit spreads are better on them??

King-Leonidas-SPARTA

100K, to do QQQ you’ll need to use 62K. Newbies will have a difficult time when they are 6K down on a bad day. Yes TQQQ is volatile, however at $5500 lot ets you understand how CC’s work and how to roll contracts if your platform supports Rolling. There are others also but TQQQ is decent with $3-5 swings easy to absorb and roll into profits.

Zestyclose-Ring6884

Look in value. Growth is no good for CC. The trade with growth is it either goes up a lot or it fails to meet expectations and sinks due to already high prices relative to earnings. Spy and QQQ r bad for this since they’re so heavily weighted in big tech which is currently in growth due to ai. U want something that is stable with reasonably high iv on avg. GME has been an example of a very good CC pick. Not a value stock, but it has strong price floors and high in

pistachiopias

TQQQ? Idk about that. While premiums may be juicy, it can be easy to get caught with your pants down on a triple levered fund, especially as a newbie. Why not just QQQ? OP has the funds for at least a 100 share lot of that, if not 200. Much more manageable and premiums are also decent.

TheRealArmament

Feels good having 100k in QQQ not worrying about whatever the fuck happens

Pereise1

Buying QQQ weeklies Tuesday before close seems like a good option. FOMCWednesday, ADBE/ORCL/AVGO ERs the next 28 hours after that, Unemployment Claims and 30 year bond auction Thursday premarket. Should be some good volatility between all that.

gummibearhawk

Spreads on SPY, QQQ