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The Warsh Effect and Wednesday's Rate Announcement
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
low volume on QQQ pump, feels fake
No chance they raise rates. QQQ going to close +3% today. This is King 🥭’s America
24M, making about $95k/year in the US and looking for some advice on how to position my taxable brokerage account for the long term. Current situation: * Roth IRA + Roth 401(k): \~$35k total, 100% VOO * HYSA: Usually keep around $10k-$15k * Schwab taxable brokerage: \~$23k * About 95% of the brokerage is currently in QQQ * No major debt that is affecting my investment decisions I'm comfortable with risk and market volatility. I don't see myself panic selling during a downturn, and I'm generally looking to invest for the long term. My main concern is that I'm probably too concentrated in QQQ, especially considering my retirement accounts are already 100% VOO. I like the growth exposure of QQQ, but I'm wondering if having almost my entire taxable account in it is taking on unnecessary concentration risk. The one thing making my time horizon a little difficult to define is that I may want to buy a house in the next 3-5 years. That's definitely not set in stone, though, and I don't necessarily consider the entire $23k brokerage account to be my future down payment. If you were in my position, how would you think about diversifying the taxable account? Would you keep some QQQ and start directing new contributions toward something broader like VTI? Add international exposure? Actually sell some QQQ and rebalance now? Or leave the existing position alone and diversify with future contributions? I'm mostly interested in hearing how others would approach the concentration issue and what kind of allocation you would consider for someone my age who is comfortable taking risk.
1% day on QQQ seems kind of sus...
QQQ puts before Warsh speaks are so free
just need SPY to catch up to QQQ
VOO will outperform over time. QQQ will outperform VOO over time. VT will be less volatile
Yeah. I sort of expect an initial dump either way while everyone waits for the commentary. The important thing to me is how good is the bounce and do key support levels hold here. I want to stress: if the bears can't crack key supports here (SPY 754, QQQ 700), we are going to rip. Bears have had chance after chance for weeks to crack these levels and haven't been able to. But yadda yadda on advice and this is my own opinion as an online individual dufus.
**BanBet Lost** — /u/noTATrade7 (0W - 1L, 0%) | Ticker | Entry → Target | Move | Time | Result | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **QQQ** ▼ | $718.36 → $640.00 | -10.9% | 1w | Lost |
The days QQQ is holding upward momentum but SPY is collapsing are the absolute worst because I have SPY calls instead of QQQ ones
Be me, 1:59 PM on FOMC day. I log into Reddit to check WallStreetBets, and thousands of smooth-brains are already weeping in the megathread. "B-bro, my 0DTE $720 calls lost 70% value in three seconds even though QQQ ticked up $0.50!" "IV crush is a hedge fund scam, JPow and Warsh rigged Vega against us bro!" Absolute paper-handed beta behavior. Imagine buying 400% implied volatility lottery tickets 60 seconds before a Fed rate decision and crying when the premium evaporates into thin air. What did you think was going to happen when the microphone turned on at 2:00 PM? You sat there sobbing into your cold Wendy’s fries because Delta couldn't outrun Vega. Pathetic. Real degenerates don't fear IV crush—we fuel up on it. Put the IV crush straight into my veins. Inject 0DTE volatility collapse directly into my main artery. I want the Greeks to violently rehouse my entire net worth before the press conference even hits the 10-minute mark. While you paper-hands are frantically setting limit orders trying to salvage $12 of premium, I am market-ordering 200 contracts of far-OTM options right into a $4.00 bid-ask spread. Enjoy your 1.5% annual yield risk-free high yield savings accounts, you risk-averse cowards. See you behind the Wendy's dumpster or on the moon at 4:00 PM.
Dont worry everyone, ill dump my entire portfolio into 0DTE puts on SPY and QQQ . Kevin will have NO choice but to maintain interest rates causing ATH by EOD. Youre welcome 🥲
wow, if QQQ could have been at this price yesterday before close, I would not be poor anymore
Held QQQ calls overnight, should I close them at open and switch to puts before Warsh commentary?
You could have bought any other stock, SKHY, MU, META, indexes like QQQ and SPY in that case. Why NVDA, what was your catalyst 😆?
The Nasdaq is largely made-up of 9-10 very wide-moat companies. Point being, the narrative that QQQ is so “rate-sensitive” seems less true (or at least less correlated) these days, imo.
r/ValueInvesting: Your P/E is as as empty as your soul! Mankind ill needs a savior such as you! QQQ: What is a Value Investor? A miserable, unleveraged pile of cope. Enough analysis… Ignore fundamentals! BUY MORE!"
Sourced are telling me QQQ is Stable. Please god
This is a serious question, and I require serious answers only. Is QQQ going up or down?
\^ exactly. Over the longterm the leveraged etfs ALWAYS underperform their underlying asset. Otherwise anyone could have bought TQQQ and beat QQQ.
This is what's for tomorrow. Kevo cuts 25bps, QQQ hits $750 and fucks every hedge, yields crater for no discernible reason, TLT goes parabolic to $86, Bessent explains what the fuck just happened while eating Doritos in a press conference, Ken Shitadel and the other asset managers lose their literal shit live on CNN and FOX. Then Donald takes credit for the strongest market in years while bragging about the billions his family made in prediction markets. It will be glorious.
A record of over 20 billion dark pool inflows was registered on SPY, IVV and QQQ on close today. Whales are not buying if the market dumps
Somehow this markst will go up. Idk how, but the QQQ is going to rally.
Fuck those bogletards, can’t say QQQ
Oil situation worse than July yet QQQ is 10% more than it was in July
You don’t mess with the bond market. You must have more time on your hands than I if you want to begin a diatribe on short term and long term rates. The 10 year rate is the key number. The Fed controls short term rates not long rates. It still has an impact on longer term rates because of sentiment. The 10 year was at 4% a year and a half ago. It has been creeping up and once it goes over 5%. At 5% investors will take a guaranteed 5% instead of the stock market. Sounds like a good time for a Strangle. IWM & QQQ. IWM would be more cost effective. If you get down like that. The bond market runs the stock market long term. You’ve had 20 years of easy money and when money contracts it can get ugly.
QQQ only at 705; up 0.08%/from close. What pump are we talkin about?
I own CATL stocks . Just buy them on the Hong Kong stock exchange (HKEX) . Outside the USA electric vehicles and hybrids are typically 50% of new vehicle sales in most Western democracies. Sales continue to expand rapidly. The USA seems to lag because despite all the complaints; gas and diesel is typically still 50-75% cheaper in the USA of what people in most countries pay. CATL dominate global battery tech and sales . I've owned a small business in China now for 26 years and have been buying goods from manufacturers in China and selling in my home country during that time. I'm a regular traveller to China to trade shows. In the past few years I've seen EV's in China move from a curiosity to absolutely dominanting the market. It's easy to see the future for the world when driving around in China where in about 10 years I've seen gas and diesel cars become dinosaurs . I noted just this week than EV's and Hybrids now outsell internal combustion engine sales in Australia. I use Interactive Brokers( IBKR) online platform to trade stocks all around the world. I've found it's better value to buy stocks direct from their main listing exchange than buy the "American" version on a North American market plus it seems only a matter of time before the Ai bubble bursts and USA stocks crash massively. Virtually all S&P ETF's ROTH's 401k's are dominated by just 7 tech stocks , so even if folks have SPY or QQQ their 401k's are seriously exposed to Ai stock Using IBKR; it's easy to buy stocks all over the world. There'd 2-3 other globally large online brokerages you can use that are reputable; I settled on IBKR because of the range of financial instruments I could purchase . About 90% of my stocks are not in my home country and buying a stock in a different country is no different than buying in my home country. I have stocks in Switzerland , Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan Korea , UK and Hong Kong exchanges . The process is identical . Set up an account on the platform, send some $ and then select the exchanges you want to buy stocks from ( takes about 8-12 hours to add a new exchange ) and then just enter the stock code and your bid price I just sold some GLD ( gold) stocks on the NYSE as rather than "paper" gold I want to buy some physical gold ; it took 4 days from the time I sold the stocks for the money to transfer through to my home country bank account . The delay was because I hadn't set up my bank account to send funds back out of my IBKR account to my personal bank account. Once my banking details were set up in IBLR's system it took about 4 hours for the money to hit my account.
**BanBet Created** ▼ | **Record:** 0W - 2L | Ticker | Target | Entry | Move | Expires | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **QQQ** | $684.22 (below) | $705.38 | -3.0% | Sep 22, 9:50 PM |
QQQ and SPY are both under their 10, 20 and 50 day moving averages. this is a selloff
When kevin warsh hikes rates, everyone who expects the huge market crash will get crickets instead. they will panic and cover their shorts and puts. This will cause a massive rally in SPY & QQQ until end of day. Thursday will then gap down 1-1.5%.
IT will rip in the morning, then when the announcement happens it will "tank" back to opening prices. Everyone gambling options loses (if you're playing QQQ, SPY that is). You're better off picking a single ticker, I chose ORCL today and that worked great.
i invested into VOO, VFVA, QQQ, SCHD, VXUS, and VTI and for my roth ira, i only invested into VOO, SCHD, VTI and QQQ
It is crazy that despite everything, the market remains remarkably flat. QQQ and SPY flat since May, DOW flat since June. Just chopping along rotating sectors but going nowhere fast. Feels like a coiled spring, similar to late 2025 into early 2026. Last time it broke to the upside in late March with indices gaining 20+% in a matter of weeks. This time? Guess we'll find out sooner or later
Tomorrow: 25bps raise. SPY and QQQ actually go up .35% on relief the fed is intervening to control inflation. 10 year yields go DOWN .2%. Data centers down 2% - 4%.
Could have bought 705 QQQ calls for 1 cent one minute before close. Now worth 50 cents.
QQQ is going to give up all the gains it had over the last 4 months.
Expecting a bounce tomorrow ngl. QQQ and SPY both hitting the lower bollinger bands
Last chance to buy QQQ puts while it’s over 700
This makes me feel better about my dumb-ass self buying a QQQ call. ODTE
WOW SEE, LOOK ABOVE I SOLD my PUTS, and QQQ breaks 704
VTI+VXUS or VT is a fully diversified world market portfolio. QQQ is not nearly as diversified. Nobody knows if VTI+VXUS or VT or QQQ will do better for the future because nobody can predict the future. By being less diversified QQQ has more uncompensated risk vs the world market.
Everyone inverse me to achieve financial freedom Tomorrow I will yeet myself into QQQ 720C
closing my 30k in QQQ puts that expire friday, time to buy (im always early)
Long term QQQ chart says we should dip to around 660-670 and then rocket to ATH right after
all things considered QQQ 705 is a nice up for the YTD
Put support is at 705 for QQQ and 760 for SPY. Good support levels
QQQ since mid June is pretty much repeating the same pattern as QQQ between October last year to March this year. Sideways for half a year.
If QQQ has a -10% day like 2023 year, I will be full porting 2% OTM 1DTE calls. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
It depends on what you are trading. Individual stocks. You can get screwed with them if you do not manage them properly. I only place credit spreads on the index’s, XSP, SPX,NDX. They are cash settled. Meaning the most you can lose is the collateral paid. Unlike SPY or QQQ where there is pin risk. You can lose more than the collateral plus any premium you received. If wanting to place credit spreads on single stocks the longer the better till expiration
Hold my QQQ puts or wait till FOMC meeting??
Nothing and everything is priced in, SPY and QQQ are not even in correction phase.
REVERSE V for the 3rd time again, QQQ to 704?
are we closing below 705 today? QQQ
in my opinion, it's best to invest in companies that you personally use and enjoy. I think RDDT and HOOD are becoming very popular and can only grow from here. I still invest mostly in VTI/QQQ/SPY but add a small amount to these two companies (among some others but I don't recommend those to you)
Why are people saying it’s ripping? SPY and QQQ down about .5% lol
That's not IV collapse, that's extreme theta decay. You're learning exactly why you can't hold 0dtes for longer than 10 minutes if it's not moving in your direction. There just simply isn't enough time left for the market to move another $4 higher on QQQ *and then past $709* for these calls to have much meaningful extrinsic value.
if QQQ could just break 700 that would be great
I also think QQQ will fall
They should pump AMZN and QQQ back to opening price to own the libs. I would feel extremely owned and may even cry
QQQ back to open price would be wonderful
Gimme that 701 gap fill on QQQ pls
Bought QQQ calls at 10, sold at 10:40 for a huge loss. Bought QQQ calls again at 10:40 and now holding another huge loss. Give me some luck and let me make back everything within the hour.
What FUD is driving QQQ down? AI BS still or something else now?
QQQ should be at -2% tdy lmao it’s getting propped up so hard
QQQ only down .5% is wild
If QQQ can go to 708 in the next hour I will quit this shit.
Is there any chance of QQQ rebounding today?
Someone said yesterday QQQ is the weak point / TACO kicker. If that’s true , beware the green candle …
QQQ 710 Calls are Fuc
What is holding up QQQ?
Please dump QQQ and SPY :pray:
Everything ⬆️ SPY QQQ ⬇️
I have about 3% in QQQ. That’s the riskiest single holding I have. Everything else is broad market index funds or bond funds.
Guys i sold a huge chunk of QQQ at the bottom , thank me later !
you could have just bought QQQ and held for 10 years then retire lol
What the point even if SPY or QQQ are flat or slightly green, almost no one are earing money. They just rotate tickers and sector almost every day.
If there's something strange In your QQQ Who you gonna call? Hoax buster (bustin makes me feel good)
QQQ won't give up 700 that easy
The day I redline puts on QQQ it barely goes down