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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
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
Mentions
What I see says more like 15-16 years to get to $1m and that’s if you “perfectly” hit the low for QQQ in 2002-3. And today you would have $4.5m, because it has been ripping higher in the last decade or so. Assuming an initial lumpsum of $140k, which was a lot back then.
If you invested in the S&P 500 or QQQ, you would almost certainly be a millionaire.
I find SPY easier to trade as it doesn’t move as much as QQQ but since QQQ has more movement I can get more trades in a day.
I could never take the responsibility for another trader. All I can say is trade one thing so you recognize the pattern. I trade QQQ and SPY. Never buy options in the first 5 minutes of market open. Heavy premiums. Learn about Max Pain and how the dealers work including gamma flips. Don’t get over leverage and don’t let bad trades keep running. Watch VIX NVDA TSLA etc when trading. Learn how those coordinate. Keep aware of Fed announcements and be prepared for the results. I buy quick when I see the move, and then set a limit order to sell for X cents more than I paid. Develop your own trading plan and stick to it. Make rules for yourself when you fuck up. After a bad trade, take a deep breath, walk away and refresh your head before making another trade. Don’t think about the profit left on the table. Profit is profit. I think that’s all I got and what works for me.
VIX is 50 then i take out loan and full port QQQ calls
Damn, got burned thinking QQQ/NQ was going to hit PDH.
**BanBet Lost** — /u/more-aero (0W - 3L, 0%) | Ticker | Entry → Target | Move | Time | Result | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **QQQ** ▲ | $716.06 → $722.00 | +0.8% | 6h 2m | Lost |
Was it priced in the last 2 midterm years when US10Y was moving up in September and then QQQ corrected 20%?
Citadel & Jane Street are responsible for something like 45% of the options volume on SPY/QQQ and it's in their financial interest to keep it as pinned as possible
QQQ moved -0.22 since close last Friday
How is QQQ not dropping to 714
lmao $NVDA can't even match $QQQ or $SMH on this pump
scalped 3% of port via 0dte's on QQQ. feeling good
Tech looking extremely strong. I think QQQ closes 719.
1.2% day on QQQ is actually unhinged
Yes, please do your research and dont listen to anyone on the internet, especially me. You have to figure out what your investment goals are, and I think you have to learn a few lessons the hard way like we all do. This isnt advise of what to do but for me I have short, medium and long term plays.Take NOW for example, I think it'll run up more, but i snagged some a while back and sold for a 35% or so gain. I personally dont feel comfortable holding on to some tech plays at the moment. Bjt for me I have about 10% in gold or gold adjacent things. I also have about 10% in Crypto (BTC / ETH / SOL) and i would strongly caution anyone to put a penny into crypto without a lot of research and I dknt think now is a good time to get in. But then I have probably 5% in index funds, just SPY / QQQ. I have my tech, im personally still on the defence and mining sector. My favorite stock is a canadian bank stock. Im up 120% in the last 4 or 5 years plus the 5% dividend. The general idea is just not to have all your eggs in one sector. I know not being in tech feels like you're missing out but trust me there will be swings. So I have a few tech stocks im often in a d out of.
If you want to know how the biggest books are hedging this exact risk, you can just read the options tape. Open interest changes tell you what was *opened* - not merely what traded. From Thursday's close (last fully settled session), the largest **new** positions opened across the entire US market, by notional: * GLD puts - 74,750 contracts, ~$2.97B * IWM puts - 84,976 contracts, ~$2.44B * NVDA calls - 111,407 contracts, ~$2.42B * META calls - 25,776 contracts, ~$1.75B * **SMH puts - 23,204 contracts, ~$1.17B** * HYG puts - 91,760 contracts, ~$0.71B Three things that bear on your question: **1. SMH puts are the literal answer.** SMH is the semis ETF - the cleanest single-instrument expression of "AI/tech risk". About $1.2B of *fresh* downside protection went there in one session. Not QQQ, not SPY. If you want the same hedge shape as the size, that is the wrapper they used. **2. It is not a one-way bet.** The same tape opened ~$2.4B of NVDA calls. The big books are not net-short AI - they are holding the upside and paying for tail protection on the sector wrapper. That is a very different trade from "rotate out of tech", and it is usually the cheaper one. **3. The company it keeps matters.** IWM and HYG puts were opened alongside it. Small caps and high-yield credit are liquidity hedges, not semis views. So at least part of that SMH put flow is a macro hedge wearing a tech costume - worth knowing before you copy it as a pure AI-risk trade. Caveat so you can weigh it properly: OI settles only after the close, so this is always one session behind, and it shows what was *put on* rather than direction. Closing trades are excluded - these are new positions only. It tells you nothing about who is on the other side. No position in any of the above.
Spy is up 0.81% QQQ is up 0.84% at the moment.
I have no qualms having memory flat today. Damn bastards have been carrying the QQQ when every thing else was shit the past week
QQQ with the twin tower pattern. #neverforget
QQQ is showing early symptoms of a prolapsed rectum
**BanBet Created** ▲ | **Record:** 0W - 2L | Ticker | Target | Entry | Move | Expires | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **QQQ** | $722.00 (above) | $716.06 | +0.8% | 6h 2m |
Index inclusion really is the death blow for some stocks lol. NBIS got murdered after it was added to QQQ and now SNDK is getting brutalized after joining the SP500
QQQ looks like it's having a fucking seizure
> Bro QQQ is down 0.2% in the last 2 day and the s&p has been down close to a half percent almost every day this week.
on my roth ira, i’m in: VOO, SCHD, VTI, and QQQ on my on my individual: VOO, VFVA, QQQ, VXUS, VTI, SCHD
Loading up SPY and QQQ puts today 😝
Bro QQQ is down 0.2% in the last 2 days with everything getting worse, oil exploding, diesel ATH, bonds yields spiking, and now a hike pretty much confirmed.
Ya USO still dropping but SPY and QQQ moving up. We'll see what happens at open 😬
History will repeat itself! The twin towers of SPY and QQQ will be hit
I do SPY pretty regularly but haven't traded QQQ before. I'll check it out. They both creeped upward all night
QQQ up 91% in 3 years if you lost money then there's no hope for you bro. Go flip burgers.
If Korea and Japan can do a -3%, QQQ can do -9-11 %
oh, I hear ya. I didn't think of that. I bought QQQ and AAPL puts. But yeah, those QQQs were expensive as hell.
The QQQ puts I bought at the close because 5 down days in a row seemed unlikely and we were due a rally. So, INVERSE!
Do you mean in the last month or what? YTD SPY is up 10.6% and 1 yr 16% and QQQ is YTD up 14% and 1 yr 21%. I’m no investment banker but those seem like returns most people would take
I mean, to be fair, SPY and QQQ aren’t doing too hot either right now
Go QQQ tomorrow. Target 704 and watch it print. Be sure to get out before noon to avoid the chop.
You had over a 100k. You coulda decided to do any highly liquid stock like the SPY ETF or QQQ at prices hardly anyone could do. I mean shit you could've earned 10% off every year with that 100k just by holding all your positions in the S&P 500 alone! But you decided.......to do options on small valuation stocks.....
Unless QQQ is under 650 I’m not convinced we are in a bear market
You had me until you claimed SPY and QQQ “aren’t volatile”. You are somehow unaware of how quickly some make and loser money on 0dtes on the indices.
5% gain on QQQ and new ATH’s….massive rally in tech and semiconductors…it’s a hat trick. Mango tweet about humus, coool af cpi, like the fonz cool, and something so stupid it works. You’ll see. You’ll all see
your "hard assets" are just derivatives of interest rates. since 2010, gold and QQQ are the exact same chart. you buy that shit after the crash not before
10 year is going to hit 5.0% tomorrow. We'll probably pump 4% on it because it's the least sensible reaction, so...yeah. QQQ calls it is
So ridiculously fitting. Just the last few weeks. SPCX will crash because lockups. NBIS will crash because Burry and stuff. Bubble pops anytime QQQ drops 1%. BE will be out of business in days. All in LULU. NKE cuz shoes! GPRO cuz a YouTuber with a good voice. LUNR to the moon! Short CRWV cuz burry. Just chasing and chasing. 95% people here would be better off with hold pontoon. Excuse me. 95% of the ducks here would be better off staying still on the pont.
reminder that gold just tracks QQQ, and QQQ just tracks interest rates. you buy gold at the bottom, not at the top. it doesnt protect you from anything.
anyone holding QQQ puts overnight
Oracle is going to take down QQQ again :feetswing:
Well I almost never touch anything other than something that follows S&P or QQQ but bought a NVDA call earlier because spy was boring and I figured some individual stock may actually do something exciting. It didn’t and I just bailed on it fo the tiniest profit. What a boring market day
31st March - 2nd June QQQ 29% gain. -5% since then
Not buying QQQ calls is crazy work before CPI is crazy work NGL
QQQ price sep 1 710, price today 709.1 What happened?
Do I hold my QQQ puts or sell them EOD?
pretty crazy that on this yield spike days TLT underperforms QQQ and IWM. You would usually expect to see QQQ down 3 or 4% on a day like today. But its 2026. Semi's and circular financing companies are the safe haven
Update: Just rolled a QQQ put to tomorrow for the first time. I think this is a smarter strategy. Almost too easy. I’m a little worried I’m missing something. 🤣 The strike price is $4 above the price it’s currently trading at, so I figured a $4 difference makes it less likely I can flip it overnight, but still small enough that I’m not working with huge numbers in case my math/understanding is off. It appears I made a net $700 to roll it one day, and also lowered the strike price by $1. Anyway, we’ll see how this plays out!
Total North America Oil production \~32 million barrels per day (bpd). Total consumption \~ 25 million bpd All Hormuz global Oil price crash very badly soon. War is not going everyday. It’s tit for tat. On top now Venezuela production bump. $QQQ $NVDA $SMH $MU $TLT $XLE $SPY all impacted today, its opportunity https://preview.redd.it/asq1kgq5mqoh1.png?width=740&format=png&auto=webp&s=81572eb3dcd7575eafc9edd2d8ec70a512a8aa2b
QQQ is fooked with bond yields...........
QQQ will open at 715 tomororw Will close at 708
And the QQQ’s. Welcome to September
I hope everyone sold their 0DTE calls. QQQ going to close at 708. Well, my puts hope it does.
hold calls, AMD dumps $4 in 10m. hold puts, QQQ pumps $2 in 10m.
So MU goes down 5X when QQQ goes down and MU goes up 1.5X when QQQ goes up LMAO im cooked
Right! QQQ should be below 704
Remember when QQQ rallied +$200 in 2 months on a peace deal? Well crude is all the way back and it looks like nobody gives a fuck
4th down day in a row. Feeling like maybe a few QQQ Calls for tomorrow is not the worst idea.
Sold QQQ 711.8. Thanks for the entry points lads.
SPY and QQQ get recommended mostly because the options are extremely liquid, not because everyone expects beginners to buy 100 shares and immediately sell covered calls. If covered calls are what you want to learn, starting with a lower priced quality stock or just paper trading makes more sense than forcing yourself into SPY. I’ve used Moon here and there to work through payoff scenarios but understanding the capital requirement and what happens if the underlying drops is more important than picking the perfect ticker.
Just bought more QQQ 680 puts. Send it easy money bols fk
QQQ prolly gonna finish green. Every 1% drop is seen as the greatest buying opportunity in history
Nice we survived the HORRIBLE dump (QQQ is up 0% on the week(
QQQ is 0% gain since May. So 5 months of no gains 😢
-.2% on the QQQ is enough to wipe everyone here
gonna be blood red friday as well, QQQ shows double top
Agree, but layer in to S&P and QQQ. Don’t lump sum.
How my QQQ $720 calls looking
I trade 0DTE (almost.) exclusively for a living, I trade QQQ/mag 7 Monday, Wednesday, Friday, QQQ/SPY On Thursday Tuesday. It’s the hardest form of trading by far, and it takes a level of subconscious pattern recognition and price action awareness that takes years to acquire. Very few traders will ever get to the point where they can do it successfully. I wouldn’t recommend any trader do what I do honestly. Too hard.
SPY gonna hit at least -1.0% look at how they massacred my boi QQQ
QQQ flash crash to 440 gonna rattle some brains
sold my QQQ puts too early as always ffs. Atleast these SPY weeklies print
QQQ is up 95% in last 3 years i mean we can't be surprised if it has 10-15% correction next
Would QQQ go up from this or no?
If PPI comes cool I am ready for the +2% QQQ day and 82k BTC since we printing money for everyone. If PPI comes hot, stock market run along with oil and interests ends today and VIX welcomes the 20 level. Bring it on mf's I am ready
Waiting for Friday to full port on QQQ puts😝