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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.
Not meaning to spread FUD, but I just found this on the QQQ graph, and it's freaking me out
I think QQQ goes higher. Do I sell or keep this because theta?
Liquidated all positions: Sitting on $1.2M cash for a 2026 macro restart. How would you deploy this for the next decade?
I have currently sold all my stocks and have $1.2 million in cash on hand. I would like to purchase a new batch of stocks to hold for the lo
Trying to generate alpha using Nasdaq retail activity data
It ain’t much, AMZN, XSP, QQQ this week! First fully green week!
I built a simple “Regime Filter” using SPY and QQQ to decide when I’m allowed to buy new positions
Want to hear from the people who sold their QQQ (and other Nsdq 100) because of the addition of SpaceX
When will QQQ be more $ per share than SPY?
Rally into July 44th and July 17th, Q3 20% market correction, October melt up.
Rally into July 44th and July 17th, Q3 20% market correction, October melt up.
Rally into July 44th and July 17th, Q3 20% market correction, October melt up.
SpaceX to join Nasdaq-100 index on July 7
I used ChatGPT and Codex to build and backtest SPY + QQQ 0DTE trading bots
I was a six-figure trader 18 months ago. Today I officially qualify for food stamps. AMA.
Had a good day (with full transparency)
Curious how many of yall are profitable all time?
$SPY -- Bullish? -- 3DTE -- MU Earnings + Semi Catalysts
Why is QQQ/QQQM down 3.5% when NASDAQ is down only 2.1%?
The TSX is holding the line again today
Mentions
It’ll be quite an odd site if SPY is soaring to ATH with QQQ still so far away. Either we don’t get the pump we’re hoping for, or tech is about to fucking rip.
I feel like citadel bought my portfolio and knows I get liquidated if we open up 1% on QQQ. All you can do is tip your hat.
lol. Should have put it in QQQ
Give up - dont start till you know what you are doing. SP500/QQQ and learn
I was referring to the iran war. Look at SOXX - it was \~300 when the war started and peaked at 650 last month. QQQ had a similar \~20% run during the same time & the S&P 500 had a \~10% run. Market doesnt care about oil / war - we will figure out any logistical problems / energy problems. The yen trade is also mostly a no-story. I don't think the market is going to care at all about that either. The only thing the market cares about is "does number go up?" and number is going up.
just keep buying SPY 750p and QQQ 700p if they ever go over
Entirely depends on your risk appetite and time you want to hold. AI infrastructure is in its early stages but extremely volatile. Semis + memory + data center buildouts are all growing thanks to enormous mag 7 capex. They all confirmed it’s going up through 2027 and likely until 2030. But can you handle enormous drawdowns if Trump decides to restart the war? Many are also taking on big time debt to keep up with the demand/scale, so something to keep in mind if demand slows. Long term growth mag 7 (besides Tesla) are always a safe bet. It’s hard to imagine Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc will slow down anytime soon. But they basically move the indices anyway so most people just buy SPY or QQQ. I’m a big fan of TSM personally. I personally don’t like dividends, at least dividend focused stocks, because I am younger and want the companies to reinvest in themselves rather than pay out a dividend.
My break even for QQQ tmmr is 695, god speeed
Concepts of a deal that got completely blown up by actual missiles sent QQQ up $200 and SPY up $140 in 2 months
Only SPY is QQQ has been almost literally decimated lol
Mercedes is for QQQ. Porsche is for QLD. Lambo is for TQQQ.
As far as this sub goes, 70 grand for a few years old mid-spec C class seems rather sensible tbf. Although, it is also true that you could have at least 300 QQQ 0DTE contracts instead…
Just need QQQ to open at 740 tomorrow and I’m set.
You assume a portion of my portfolio is not already in QQQ?
**BanBet Created** ▲ | **Record:** 1W - 1L | Ticker | Target | Entry | Move | Expires | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **QQQ** | $705.00 (above) | $685.35 | +2.9% | Aug 9, 7:20 PM |
https://preview.redd.it/ysi2vgy5d0hh1.jpeg?width=1484&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c384b229e8b39b101b9640de614b2df9b05401b5 QQQ it is
QQQ got him the Toyota Corolla of Benzes. Preach bro!
That’s funny because when I get rich on puts my plate will be “QQQ PUTS”
Believe it or not, ~~buy QQQ.~~ Calls.
So that 24 year old German kid is the reason for the QQQ getting wrecked all last week?
90% of my options Cons are Calls. Strategic (NOT ON S&P or QQQ). Hedging with Vix(small % of my portfolio). 10% into Puts(one of my Put plays closed friday, Apple Puts).
You just know that even with a fake news deal the market going to gap up 2% on QQQ and 1% on SPY just because it can and will
I have full ported QQQ puts in my account and I feel great about tomorrow morning.
You're basically in line with QQQ (so am I) so that's not terrible
Lmaoo that's only true if you sit on an index fund like SPY/QQQ or something 💀😭
I am leveraged to the tit boys! I bought Oct calls on QQQ strike 800 when QQQ was at in the 660s. I am expecting a big run here.
Every single time the S&P 500 was within 3% of all time highs while the Nasdaq was down 8% or more, the market rallied. This has only happened 10 times since 2000. We're in one right now. QQQ forward returns after this divergence: • 1 month: +4.5% median (78% win rate) • 3 months: +8.0% median (89% win rate) • 6 months: +11.1% median (89% win rate) • 1 year: +13.3% median (100% win rate) SPY forward returns: • 3 months: +6.0% median (100% win rate) • 6 months: +7.4% median (100% win rate) • 1 year: +14.3% median (100% win rate) SPY has never been lower 3 months, 6 months, or 1 year after this signal. Not once in 26 years
Every single time QQQ had a July this bad (or worse), AUG had negative returns n=3 (4 now) It could be we pump early on in Aug to just dump at the end with NVDA earnings
QQQ is currently up 11% YTD Of the 13 times in QQQ history where it was up at least +10% at the end of July, it finished December EVEN HIGHER THAN IT FINISHED JULY 12 of 13 times.
SPX just outperformed QQQ in July by 6.45% It's the most SPX has outperformed QQQ since September 2008. Here's a list of every year where SPX outperformed QQQ by at least 6% in any single month: 2000 2001 2002 2008 2026 By oddstats on X
QQQ just put together its first streak of 5 straight lower-highs on weekly candles since 2013. It's only the 3rd time it's done that since the end of 2008. Last time, it was up +1.8% the next week.
This is the way most people actually make it work long term and nobody wants to hear it. Long core + boring div stocks in the Roth with DRIP, and a small tactical swing port where you can actually hedge. The ATM scalp thing is exactly what saved a lot of people in April 2025 - 10% hedge saved 90% port. Question on the execution - when you say scalp same day, are you buying morning vol spike and selling into afternoon decay or are you holding through 0DTE? I've been doing similar but with QQQ spreads instead of naked ATM because the theta burn was killing me on those choppy days in March. And congrats on going full time at 30. That's the dream!!
Fuck when oil had -6% day last time spy was +1.5% +QQQ 3%, not good for my oil stonks
This is a big move. QQQ essentially went from 680 to 693ish
Shorting 1000 shares of QQQ at 7:45 last night might not have been the move.
My QQQ calls might be saved
QQQ the Nasdaq 100 Index is up 17% since April 1. 17% in 4 months and you’re complaining??
What were your positions? SPY? SPX? QQQ? How did you know when to switch calls/puts?
Oh for sure I got used to bleeding now, as long as it is low and controlled I'm fine for having once or twice market correction or crashed per year. And yeah I know what you mean about you vs MM, its challenging alone so might as well go with the flow, LT options for sure have peace of mind and they have their place. Been blown out once from illiquid options that I went all in, learned the lesson well in sizing down. My 45DTE are mostly either IPO or earning plays, based on the direction, and so far they're either small loses or decent wins, so I'll take that. As for SPY, I prefer it for calls, as for puts I prefer QQQ due to the higher drawdown compared to SPY, be wary that SPY has 0.8 corrwlation to VIX, if you want 1:1 correlation, SPX is a better alternative, might be tad less liquid and more expensive contracts though. As you said, one find their own strategy, might add to that finding strategy based on their psychology, along with based on age, port size and such.
On the gamma versus IV pushback in the comments: positive dealer gamma doesn't cause low IV directly, but they cluster for a real reason. When dealers are long gamma they hedge against the move, selling strength and buying weakness, which suppresses realized vol. Implied tracks realized with a lag, so a long stretch of dealers being long gamma drags IV down with it. So the poster isn't wrong that they show up together, the causation just runs through realized vol, not gamma to IV. On the actual setup: the SPY pin and the QQQ earnings risk are not two independent regimes you can play separately. The pin holds precisely until a catalyst forces correlation, and a big enough single name tech reaction into that earnings slate is exactly that catalyst. So selling the SPY pin and avoiding the QQQ gauntlet are the same trade, not a hedge against each other. The moment the Nasdaq reaction is large enough to drag SPY, your pinned short vol position and the thing you were avoiding become one loss. That is why defined risk is the honest answer here, not because the pin won't hold most of the week but because the one day it breaks is the day everything correlates at once.
…? QQQ up .7%. Spy up .7%. Sure semi bros got wrecked but the overall market is FAR from a “dump”
Depends. SPY, QQQ, Spx or XSP. I watch the price movements the first 20-30 minutes. They will Usally go in one direction. Bottom out and go in the opposite direction. With theta involved you can’t hold them till expiration. I don’t hold them longer than 1.5-2 hours. But usally close then out at 39-40% profit. Then pick a strike price close to what I originally paid for the first trade.
I moved 30k to another brokerage and jammed it into 80% QQQ, some AI names I like on discount. Remaining 8k will likely be incinerated on options
A whole train wreck in motion. I’m shorting so much of AI and hedged with QQQ. Crushing it so far!
QQQ was up 0.60% Friday before gapping down AH with lower volume, flat slightly red kospi come sunday night.
Weekend check: Hyperliquid $SPY -.46% Hyperliquid $QQQ -.79%
Just stop and enjoy life dude, not saying you don't enjoy life but you don't need to take this risk anymore. You could buy GPIQ which tracks 90% of the performance of QQQ and make a $500k yearly dividend plus capital appreciation. Also, how amazing is Reddit where randomly can bump into all walks of life and talk with a multi millionaire that's awesome. How did you even become so successful if can ask
**BanBet Lost** — /u/Sufficient-Flan1565 (0W - 1L, 0%) | Ticker | Entry → Target | Move | Time | Result | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **QQQ** ▲ | $673.92 → $700.00 | +3.9% | 3d | Lost |
I have VOO, VIG, and VIGI as well as SCHD, QYLD, and QQQ. I’m not saying what you should or should not do or choose, those are just included in my portfolio.
Wow those QQQ puts I accidentally bought on Friday might print Monday while my slew of calls will bleed only for them to rage back on 🌮 Tuesday…
QQQ 672 puts that day went from .23 to $13 into the late close. I was in absolute shock
I'm looking at a little startup called QQQ.
The YouTube channel that explained it best to me when i had zero knowledge was Pandrea Finance. Look up his videos about selling options and the wheel strategy . Also look up the subredits called coveredcalls and thetagang Because you have alot of capital now you can actually run the wheel on one of the indexes like SPY or QQQ which is generally safer vs doing it on individual stocks. you can open up a charles schwab brokerage account and use their thinkorswim web version to paper trade selling options. You can set the paper trade account to 75k in capital to run a simulation if you were using your real money. Honestly I would learn about it first. And paper trade it first . Even if you decide against its just good to be more knowledgeable about the way things work Or the best advice. Park that 75k in like VOO and chill
Of course you can’t get a fill for the same credit per equivalent stole distance… the idea is that when you widen the spread, your breakeven price improves quite a bit. To compensate, you can sell the short leg a bit closer to the money, while still maintaining the overall break even price, or even improving it. All while selling less total contracts (less commission, bid/ask differential, ect). SPX is highly liquid, so it isn’t much of an issue, but any other underlying (besides maybe SPY and QQQ) would not be tradeable the way you are doing so with such high volume and narrow spread.
No, Leopold's port is nothing in comparison to what's traded daily. He just didn't survive the correction. I think his liquidation did show it was a healthy correction which now creates this buying the dip narrative. Still QQQ 600 Oct
Put your trades in a spreadsheet. Put QQQ and VTI price from the time you bought as well (or whatever etf you want to track) Same when you sell. Compare.
The tool matters less than which price field it is plotting. Most intraday option charts draw last trade, and on anything outside SPX or QQQ near the money, last trade is sparse and stale, so the candles are mostly gaps and junk wicks from a fill that happened twenty minutes ago at a bad price. That is usually what you are fighting, not the software. What you actually want charted is the mark, meaning the mid of the bid and ask, because it updates continuously even when nothing trades. The catch is that mid is only trustworthy when the spread is tight. On a wide spread the mid can swing purely from the quote moving, so a clean looking premium candle can still be noise. Before trusting any intraday premium chart, glance at the strike volume and open interest and the bid ask width. If it is thin, no tool will give you a clean chart, because there is no clean price to plot.
Oh how the tables have turned. Look at the beacon of democracy, bastion of freedom with their president taking a page out of the book of third world states. About the market: look at what Tel Aviv market did during the war, it ran hot, saw all time highs one after another. Up until march. They might do the same with SPY/DOW/QQQ. Greetings from a Banana Republic citizen. And, good luck deposing your puppet of Epstein class.
VOO and QQQ Why should I take risks with a billion dollar? I’m already rich af.
I present a story of QQQ. -1%, -2%, -1%, -2%, +1% jk -2% in the last hour of the market, +3.3% by next open.
U can just gamble on SPY/QQQ with extra steps at 9:30-9:35. It's far more precise and probable considering u can see the movements of all the holdings and compare that w/ SPY/QQQ at 9:30 AM. Very likely the movement will continue from 9:30 to 9:35. U get in with 5-10 contracts. Then make sure you finger-trigger the close button when the option hits your profit target then get out. Do the same thing for your losses. If you don't believe me, go look at the chart yourself.
QQQ dropped like a rock today, how tf did you lose on puts?
QQQ trading at 660 right now on the dark pool exchanges
Man if QQQ pumped to 695 before dumping at close I’d be rich rn… Can’t believe they held it down while SPY took off
Why did QQQ drop after hours?
You’re not crazy or lucky. I’ve noticed something very similar with Spy and QQQ options.
If bombs start dropping on power plants can QQQ open below 680?
Market maker after waking up for breakfast: “Out of Cheerios? Wtf? I’m crashing QQQ today.”
When it comes to SPY and QQQ: 1+1=2, but 2-1=0
Can’t believe QQQ didn’t pump with SPY
Semi are still down 5% this week while Spy is up and QQQ is flat. Sadge.
Sigh…you may or may not believe when I say that I have puts. I know all too well this has a very good chance of v’ing by Monday. Unless the strikes and counterstrikes that come are obscene or there is other serious news, the low ass liquidity after hours on top of it barely dumping are more bullish than not in my opinion. -.4 or so drop on QQQ pricing news like that is not bearish. Should have cascaded harder with that volume. Not excited for puts tbh. Who knows tho I’m a certified dumbass
So calls on SPY and QQQ? Because inflation goes up and money printer go bbrrrrrrrr
See I knew my 8/5 QQQ 685 covered call would be fine
PS5 broken ✅️ Down 19k if my QQQ calls get cooked Mon ✅️
easiest QQQ scalp day i've had in weeks, algos had it on easy mode or something
Sounds like an actual big escalation if Israel is getting all giddy about it. Can’t wait for QQQ to fall 6% Sunday night as oil surges to ATH and gas is $7
Those QQQ 685 puts for Monday are looking pretty good. Open the casino so I can close them please!
Bought some QQQ 689p 15 min before close and biched up and paperhanded them for 40% profit. Back to the dumpsters for me, but with a biggie bag.
I work in substance abuse treatment. I just had a game changing idea. I’m going to open up a inpatient rehab for traders where you can only buy VTI or VOO for 30-60 days. And exposure therapy were your forced to watch people trade 0tde QQQ options. 💰
Also problematic is the fact that it's not something the market doesn't know. Guys like me aren't exactly balls deep in these hail Mary stocks cuz I think AI and tech will not be printing money versus QQQ or VOO or BAC in 5 years.
Even though I'm down like 50% for the past 2 months, I actually made money this week with QQQ calls yesterday 😅
Almost broken even on my QQQ calls and that stupid dump at the end made me down 1k
QQQ will open at 700 Monday 🎸
I think the last minute was EOM rebalancing. Completely caught me off guard though. QQQ being bought up after hours again.
Please remove memory stocks from QQQ. Thank you.
Snagged QQQ 8/7 calls at 3:59:50… i have forsaken bear gang
Monday calls for QQQ dirt cheap rn
Let’s get another +3% on QQQ on Monday
gay how QQQ didn't pump at all like SPY did
9/30 QQQ 750C or should I go for 8/31 lmao
How in sweet fuck is QQQ green on the 5 day