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Any beginner traders want to join me on my journey?
Out of a job, but making more day trading
My portfolio evolved from bear to bull
What is the best strategy to allocate and optimize a 100K investment?
Must be SOME big players among you degens: Can one of you take advantage of this moment and announce a QQQ ex SPCX ETF so I can buy it?
Posted GEX levels before open today 5/26 — 9 out of 9 held at king by close
Tuesday's 5/26 GEX levels before the open — last week 8/11 held at king
Lost $26.4K - Finally ready to talk about this January QQQ put loss
Lost $26.4K - Finally ready to talk about this January QQQ put loss
Lost $26.4K - Finally ready to talk about this January QQQ put loss
Real QQQ Charting: 2000 v 2026 Market is calling for BAT SIGNAL
Posted GEX levels before market open Friday— 8 out of 11 held at king by close
What is the 0DTE meaning behind the last hour of trading on big days
I built the most honest VRP put credit spread backtest I could. 7 years, 5 symbols. Terrible
I made my own options Auditor and Journaling system
I'm not afraid of a .com-size bubble, and you shouldn't be either. Here are the numbers:
100% VWCE for a 30+ year horizon, does it actually make sense, or are there better options?
Concentrated O&G, offshore drilling, infrastructure, fertilizer and coal.
Publiqué el siguiente paper: ¿Qué pasa después del breakout del Opening Range en QQQ?
¿Qué pasa después del breakout del Opening Range en QQQ? Lo medí.
Book-level delta def matters more than I thought for condors
The more you learn investing, the more you realize there’s not much to optimize beyond saving more, staying invested, and avoiding mistakes
20 y/o F looking for advice for my portfolio
CME crypto index futures are kind of a big deal imo
I’m building an AI options trading assistant and publishing the paper-trading results publicly
Scaling out fixed my 0DTE entries, but made my exits more inconsistent
Let's party like it's 1999! $140k of Cisco ($CSCO) earnings gains
Gambling my rent money on Cisco earnings
I finally rest and watch the sunrise on a grateful universe
OpenAI expects over half of all internet users will be active on its platform by 2030.
Sharing today's trades: I closed out my positions with a profit of $300,000.
Riding $100k of gains into Cisco ($CSCO) earnings
$QMY - Growth & Technology 10% Buffer - sharing why I'm still holding
AMD GOOGL INTC MU stocks, QQQ ETF
210 —> 1100 of MU and QQQ options last week
Deposited 14k a couple weeks ago. Was down to 2.5k on Tuesday. Full ported into 0-1 DTE QQQ calls 2 days in a row and almost x4'd.
Everyone’s a millionaire here, but I think I’m doing ok.
Went all in on OTM 1DTE QQQ calls just before close last night to try and save my regarded portfolio
Sold my MSFT calls because it started to inverse QQQ too much. Not a good sign.
Edward Jones advisor wants me to invest with him instead of on my own.
Free tool to catch the 'someone knows something' flow before the move
I only had one losing day this month, but my total profit still increased by $352,178. Thanks to the market and those who helped me, I want to share this joy.
Mentions
Please QQQ spike one more time?
Taking profits from my 0dtes and taking an opportunity to rebuy my Friday QQQ puts up here for cheaper.
I PAPER TRADED MY FKIN QQQ CALLS LEFT 10k ON THE TABLE AND NOW SWITCHED TO PUTS TO REVENGE TRADE
Dude I have made so much money today from SPY and QQQ this is ridiculous
Hahaha what a fucking day. Went to go sell one of my QQQ 745c 0dte right before that spike, and instead sold all 4.
Shit, may have been greedy not selling these 0dte QQQ calls for a bit of a profit on that quick spike. Get the feeling I may get theta'd out now.
To see if a fund is returning your own capital, do not look at the S-1. You want the SEC Form N-CSR (the annual and semi-annual reports) or the fund's monthly Section 19(a) notices. The Section 19(a) is the exact breakdown showing how much of the dividend came from net investment income, realized capital gains, or actual return of capital. For active covered call funds like JEPQ or QQQI, return of capital is rarely a literal Ponzi scheme, but it is often a structural yield trap. If a fund writes call options, it caps its upside. During major bull runs, the fund cannot capture the full index gain, but during downturns, it takes the full hit to the downside. If they pay out a twelve percent dividend while the NAV drops, they are slowly eating their own seed corn to maintain the yield. The only way to verify if their options strategy is actually adding value is to track its time-weighted return against the underlying index or a simple index ETF. If the time-weighted return, with all distributions reinvested, underperforms a plain buy-and-hold of QQQ over a full market cycle, the manager is not showing skill. You are just paying an expense ratio for the illusion of monthly cash flow. Are you tracking the total return of these funds against a benchmark, or are you just looking at the monthly dividend payouts?
Atp QQQ just dip to 735 and erase ALL my money
Should I buy QQQ or is it getting too expensive
Ah shit. Missed the QQQ 743 pump to get out of some of my calls breakeven, and now this 15m candle below 742 is effing me up.
I need QQQ to go more UP please and thank you
Saylor should just pivot to QQQ instead of bitcoin smh
Any thoughts on QQQ possibly reaching 750 today?
QQQ dips once more, will it go back to today's lows? Or will it shitfartdickuptheass rocket? Find out next time on WSB...
Vix is up 4% today while the QQQ and SPY are green. Clearly people are hedging even when the market is up. Usually you see VIX up like this on a red day. The VIX is almost always going down, that's not suprising. You should be asking questions when it's going up though.
red candle on oil = shrek on QQQ; 400 green candles on oil = slow melt up on QQQ
GOOG, AMZN, TSLA and AAPL dumping and QQQ nooning, what a joke
Well gonna grab some lunch and hope QQQ is pumped to 745 by the time I'm back.
would QQQ be up 4% if oil was flat or red
All the macro data is total garbage, VIX is running up pretty quick, yet QQQ simply will not go red
Fine I will realize my QQQ call loss are you happy??? Can we go up now?
Yolo into QQQ puts please.
Bought QQQ calls. I am ready to get hurt again
QQQ +84% over the last 14 months
QQQ up $180 in 2 months 🥀
there are two stories. first is that SpaceX is going to pump and dump leaving retail holding the bag before it crashes in a year second is that SpaceX is going to have some nefarious self-reinforcing loop where index funds are required to buy and then buy again and then buy again to infinity they cannot both be true. yet i have heard both of these from the same account, which is only explainable by derangement. when pressed they come up with a weird series of events to try for both of them be true rather than give one up i do not like the index rule changes, but aside from QQQ they are not very significant. for QQQ i have been urging people to get out. but it is a high-risk fund for gamblers so i do not think i convinced anyone
non stop 4 dollar pump on QQQ in an hour lmfao
QQQ up on news of no deal, no negotiation, and Strait shut
Zero pull back for pretty much 2 months straight on the QQQ daily.
At this rate, QQQ catching up with SPY is not a meme
I am banning SPY from my 0DTE calls. Fk this shit. I am going QQQ calls only.
I should've bought calls on QQQ, FK SPY
why does QQQ not realize it takes a trememdous amount of oil to ship all these chips
USO up 7%, VIX warming up, QQQ is like nah I'm good I'll stay green thanks.
Not sure I’ve actually seen QQQ go in such a dramatically different direction than SPY.. Curious
God forbid QQQ stay red for more than 10 minutes
SPY, QQQ pretending nothing is happening.
Iran suspend talks with US. QQQ and SPY reaches ATH... you cant make this shit up haha..
QQQ and SPY trying so hard to go green lmfao
It's 10 am and QQQ hasn't even moved a proper dollah what the fudge is going on.
SPY wake up and go up, dont make me switch to 0DTE QQQ calls
Remarkable that SPY and QQQ aren’t red. Bulls have regard strength.
QQQ is green and SPY is red. Need CEO of SPY to come out and report earnings to boost us
Well shit. Maybe I should have held my 735p QQQ over the weekend. The last 45m pump into close on Fri made me switch to calls instead.
Hey , count me in , I’m just starting QQQ and SPY 0-3DTE options , I’m starting with 58$ I just read in another post but I forgot to write down the symbols of someone else who was also only trading QQQ and SPY till he realized 2 other symbols which were much better and now I’m looking to find that post and checkout what they were
You kind of missed that 29.95% of the Nasdaq related QQQ ETF is in just 5 stocks that are in related businesses. Who really cares about seasoning because the Nasdaq isn't what I would call diversified anyway. It is a concentrated tech index.
Don't have excessively overlapping funds. Have 1 core fund and 1+ complimentary fund(s). Things not to do: No VOO and VTI. Pick one, not both. They are both core funds. A revised portfolio for you: 70% VTI and 30% QQQ. QQQ is the complimentary fund to add additional growth.
DTE is not a stock symbol !!!! It actually is also , but when regards on wsb write it they are referring to options and it means Days Till Expiration (D-days T-till E-expiration) and when they write a number in front of it for example 0DTE it means they are buying options from whatever ticker symbol and in this example was SPY or QQQ that are expiring in 0 days which means that it’s expiring today because it has 0 days left till it expires. And if they write 1DTE it means the options they are buying will be expiring in one day which means tomorrow it will be expiring and for that reason u can get them often for really cheap and if u bought a call and SPY or QQQ goes up than that option will also takeoff 🛫 along with the ticker.
VT sucks and is easily beaten. Over 5 years: VT 70% VOO 93% QQQ 127% SPMO 187% Why would you want to hold all the companies including the worst trash?
im up 120k on my portfolio, yet im still mad because my qqq call expired worthless -50k on 30 march, the day itall turned around, if i bought the calls 1 day later it wouldnt have expired, after it expired i sold my MU calls to buy more QQQ for less risk, if i didnt do that i would be up like half a mil, shiet
Oil up VIX up SPY up QQQ up, is anything down?
QQQ recovering thank god
Software can't save SPY and QQQ today
QQQ has doubled in the last 3 years! 🥳 This game is so easy! hope u haven't crippled ur financial future doing stupid shit thinking ur smarter than the rest of us!
0DTE Calls and puts on QQQ
Hello all, I am new to this group and generally new to investing as well. I am 32M that just opened my brokerage account and put about $500 in it. This all feels extremely overwhelming, specially seeing a lot a people 5-10 years younger than me having a ton of money in these accounts(props to you guys). My portfolio right now consists of ETFs; VOO, QQQ and VTI. I am aiming towards building a solid foundation. I am here to look for advice, sources of information, and really anything that can help me out. Thanks in advance!
respectfully what the fuck is this post you are ignoring that The float doesn't stay at 5%. the S-1 laid out a staggered lockup release rather than a single 180-day cliff, with insider shares unlocking on earnings, time, and stock-price milestones. As insiders sell into those windows, the float expands and SpaceX's index weight mechanically climbs over time. A low weight on day one is not a low weight permanently. you are ignoring the QQQ / Nasdaq 100 / Russel and focusing only on S&P 500, which I did not do in the video. Nasdaq adds it at 3x float-based market cap which actually inflatesSpaceX's weight above what pure float would give. you are ignoring that the actual scandal is not the day 1 dollar amount, its the rule changes themselves. To fit SpaceX in, S&P is proposing to cut the seasoning period from 12 months to 6, eliminate the minimum float requirement for megacaps, and waive the profitability requirement for top-100 companies. SpaceX currently fails the profitability, float, and track-record tests that have all existed since 2002 to protect investors. This is the scandal. It's not overblown! It's a big deal! Over 6 months hundreds billions of dollars of passive retirement money (+ active managers that essentially just track passive) is going to flow, mechanically, into one of the most overvalued IPOs ever with total voting control of Elon Musk (shareholders waive their right to sue him too! so no vote and no legal recourse for his actions) and your response is to use a weird nitpick to try and downplay it? (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/report-spacex-ipo-gives-musk-unchecked-power-and-forbids-investor-lawsuits/) with all due respect people much more accomplished in finance than me are even more upset about this than I am ("Samuel Kerr, global head of ECM at Mergermarket, said. “Given the high risks of IPO investing, combined with the huge premium valuations being mooted for megacap IPOs such as SpaceX, it is a reasonable question to ask whether passive funds should be forced buyers of these stocks.”) and this whole post reads like weird pushback from someone who wants to pretend nothing happened so they don't have to think about maybe money/power/access is enshittifying the current specific way they fund their retirement account. People should be upset about this. It is not overblown. seperately, /u/PapilioPacis post the brilliant correct information you have that I missed in one of my videos or post a public apology. Showcase your deep knowledge for everyone. Ideally do it on video so we can see the fedora. normally i would farm a big A clip out of this but we already have this week planned so i just wrote this
In QQQ it gets the 3x float multiplier rule, getting it's share at around 1% of the ETF at only 5% share being in IPO. And that's only with the 1.75T IPO valuation, there will certainly be various pumping schemes right after IPO.
If the end result is the same where you have to shell out $3500 a month, buying a $450k house is a nobrainer vs renting that same house and your cash outlay every month actually builds up equity and allow you to benefit from appreciation. How is that not an investment? Are homelessness while putting that $3500 a month into QQQ the answer?
Some hot blonde chick just delivered my chinese takeout from doordash. This is truly a k shaped economy Whatever, QQQ 800 eom
If your previous trading already underperformed, I wouldn’t let one lucky TQQQ run convince you to scale that up with serious money. Leveraged ETFs are built for short-term exposure, not really for ‘buy it and forget it for a year’ money. If you want growth, the 40/40 QQQ/VOO idea plus a small sandbox for individual names is a lot more survivable than turning the whole $150k into a bigger version of the gamble that happened to work once.
Moved life savings from tbills to a combo of American funds, QQQ & S&P on April 7th of 2025. Got incredibly lucky.
It may not be much but my holding pattern in QQQ always pays the bills while i wait for the next regarded play
imma just sit in QQQ till i see where this mess is headed
#In r/thetagang people brag about making 10% annual returns when you could have made 25% by simply buying and holding QQQ LMAO🤌
Can the premarket traders and main session traders learn from our Korean bros and pump SPY/QQQ to Valhalla?
Self-directed tax advantaged accounts can move holdings around today with exactly zero consequence. Corporate 401(k) plans don't even hold QQQ funds in the first place. USNQX is the closest casualty and even that is actively managed and not required to hold SPCX like QQQ does. \>Most uninformed passive investors won't realize they're index tracking funds will now include higher volatility. The principal bothers me the most. Higher volatility has been mathematically shown to actually increase passive investing strategies in the first place like through dollar cost averaging. [https://www.gestaltu.com/2012/02/volatility-harvesting-and-the-importance-of-rebalancing.html/](https://www.gestaltu.com/2012/02/volatility-harvesting-and-the-importance-of-rebalancing.html/)
Buying LETFs at ATH is a terrible idea. 40 QQQ/40 VOO/20 individual is very reasonable for growth without unnecessary risks.
I’m not a fan of QQQ. I prefer FTEC or VGT if you wanna double dip in tech. For me tech isn’t going anywhere, rather join in the fun rather than hating it
The closest 401(k) mutual fund that would be affected by this is USNQX which seeks to track the performance of the Nasdaq-100 but is actively managed and not even required to follow the holdings in lock-step like something like QQQ. And probably not even offered in the majority of 401(k) plans. Most people are barely able to get something that even strictly follows the SPX let alone IXIC.
QQQ Futes up half a percent, are there even any bears left alive at this point?
QQQ doesn't hold quality companies. That's the anti-thesis of the index????
\>**DIRECTLY FROM YOUR RETIREMENT FUNDS TO THEIR BANK ACCOUNTS** There is not a single 401(k) plan that has a Nasdaq tracking mutual fund. What the hell are you talking about? And if this is in a roth IRA you can completely liquidate a QQQ position \*today\* with zero consequence
Part of what makes me and many other's not take you seriously is that this moral panic is really about Elon Musk than it is about QQQ or SPCX the company. Elon has been a rich white dude for nearly 30 years at this point having made significant gains during the dotcom boom. He's still the same dude. The same guy rushing to join the Epstein island. That was true 30 years ago and that's true today. But for some reason you guys are so sure that a significant crash is imminent because you hate Elon Musk. That's what this is really about. \>I'm frustrated at the continual pillaging of the common man in this country and it frustrates me to no end 1.) Investing in SPCX is optional 2.) Investing in QQQ is optional 3.)????? During an initial public offering private shares get sold into the public market. That is true for every single IPO ever. That's how this works. That's why companies IPO in the first place. That's literally the game!
No, it wouldn't. QQQ weights are float adjusted.
So SpaceX could cease to exist the next day and the index would still be up 18.5% YTD. QQQ is a riskier index than SPY. It makes sense to weight SpaceX more heavily.
Surely QQQ will stop melting up sometime soon right.
To be clear, QQQ will include SpaceX after 15 trading days? Or it will not?
Imagine having 50% taxable gains in QQQ tho and you have Elon eating your nestegg without permission... It becomes either pay taxes (losing the step-up on death) or pay Elon.... and every other private equity bastard that wants to rob you...
There are 3x QQQ and Semiconductor ETFs
What's the better buy: -full port into QQQ at all time high or -full port into this Microsoft breakout (still far from it's all time high)
QQQ has already changed it rules but other indexes have not yet done so.
> Or realistically it won't matter since the IPO is going to get pumped because of retirement accounts buying anyways due to NASDAQ? realistically do you think wall street has found an infinite money glitch? just make any old stock and then people "have to buy it" and it goes up? you should do the math on: * how many billions of dollars SpaceX is trying to raise * how many billions of dollars are in funds that follow QQQ * what percentage of QQQ do we expect SpaceX to be i would stay far away because i stay far away from every IPO, for better or worse. but the danger of listening to the reddit circle-jerk about "retirement funds being forced to buy it" is that you might actually believe it and think that it's going to go up.
if someone had a lot of QQQ they got rather rich these past 5 years and can afford to declare victory and leave.
QQQ is not float adjusted. the other indexes mostly are. this is causing a lot of confusion.
QQQ is not really an index like S&P500 or CRSP is. it is run as a marketing gimmick. QQQ will likely have a lot of SpaceX, but QQQ has always been a high-risk fund. sell QQQ, buy VGT or VUG or XLK. the other indexes, even if they made the rule changes will have small amounts of SpaceX.
i am not happy with QQQ changing the rules but QQQ has always been a high-risk fund.
Total market indexes (the ones most retirement accounts are invested in) allocate based on float adjusted market cap. Something like VTI will be allocating **0.06%** to SpaceX once it buys a week after listing because of the low float. A total nothingburger, even if SpaceX quickly goes bankrupt. It’s true that NASDAQ is doing weird stuff with QQQ, overweighting SpaceX above its float but the NASDAQ-100 is already considered a risky tech index so it’s not fair to compare what they are doing and imply the same risks exist for the rest of passive investing.
All in on SPY/QQQ 0DTE to make millions a day. Easy shit.
Let’s see I guess it’s going to be SPY 800 QQQ 795 and then it just keeps going
Since both are market cap weighted - and VOO includes 500 companies and QQQ only includes 100, QQQ will be impacted (positively or negatively) more than VOO - but it is still going to have a noticable impact on both.