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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
Stocks are not "Plummeting Across the board" Your portfolio is just over-concentrated in tech.
i audited my daytrades from YTD and the results were interesting
QQQ recovers it's losses for the day in AH
Up 4X trading calls on the WSB T10 stock picks starting on January 2nd (thx 4 sndk). What are your new top picks? Will summarize comments
Warsh's first FOMC presser is Wednesday and nobody seems to be talking about the dot plot risk
Warsh's first FOMC is tomorrow and I have no clue what to do with my port
How am I doing? Started options 5/28 Nano account
Iran Peace Deal: QQQ up 2% // TA-35 Down 2% - a First since Trump got elected
SPCX is getting force fed into every index and you regards are measuring it wrong
What $10k invested in 8 major indices would be worth today *PART 2*
SpaceX is gonna rocket then drop to pennies but we have an opportunity here
SpaceX is gonna pump then get dumped but we have an opportunity
What $10k invested in 8 major indices in 2011 would be worth today
Bullish thesis for SPCX into the summer
Bullish SPCX Mechanical and Macro Thesis in the next month
Is the wheel strategy a viable FIRE income plan vs. the 4% rule ?
SpaceX is gonna rip and options is the best way to play
I waited till 4:15 for QQQ to breakeven like a dog
I waited till 4:15 for QQQ to breakeven like a dog
QQQ moonshot of today. Holding till it's a 20 bagger!
SpaceX: People are getting this IPO wrong
Mentions
QQQ will forever either go sideways or down, except for a few short weeks in a year where it goes straight up.
QQQ 720c here Full port send it
A good call would be buying around range 670-690 on QQQ for monthly calls
Cmon QQQ hurry up and dump so I can put some clothes on and commute to my normie job
QQQ needs to go down like 3 more dollars
The Doom of ~~Valyria~~ QQQ
I was going to buy QQQ calls at 714 but I turned it down. Could have made 15 million, something like that. 10, 5 million. Something like that. I turned it down.
felt, chop city for 2 months, been adding to QQQ each time we drift down to 700
QQQ going back down, there is a war going on outside
$IBM as higher index $QQQ $SPY still push passive flow high to IBM as part of index
I studied option price charts for month on the NASDAQ. I knew there was patterns. I know that something like 80% of all QQQ options right now are <5DTE. So whatever is happening right now is more important than anything else because of the impact of option flows and hedging. I am very confident that market makers are using option options for hedging purposes which means the hedging of those options can happen at any point. Most people think that market makers are instantaneously hedging Delta, but they are not because that is an impossible operation. I believe from my own research that market makers are opening their books and taking more directional that to manage risk on shorter time frames like every four hours or six hours or something like that. The reason is because of overnight gaps. It’s much easier to manipulate price action during overnight. I think market makers use end of day in the last 15 minutes into the close and the 15 minutes after close of Goodwill to set up their attacks or defense for overnight and the next days. I think the most explosive convex positions can exist on buying options that are cheap and depressed as late as possible to expiration the day before. If you track any single stock, you will find these patterns with putts where they explode 100 to 500% overnight because of a gap down but the Pat patterns and smoke trails left on the price charts are very obvious if you know what you’re looking for. So I add five minute price charts to all of the semiconductors and the NASDAQ for short day options and I spend most of my afternoon looking for situations where there is opportunity for an overnight gap down. Regime transitions happen every single day. The market mechanics of pinning and momentum and mean reversion happen every day. Which has led me to find these very unique opportunities that seem to happen about once a week or every two weeks or you can make all of your money on just literally buying some puts at close. I think right now a lot of marketmakers view the hedging process as like a Band-Aid that has to get pulled off so they pull that off overnight and deal with the impact at open. Which means you can buy options at close sell them at open and call it a day. Recently, I’ve been tracking an overnight straddle, and it had profit the last two nights, for example. Buying a call and put like the $720C and $690P cost $0.86 and $0.64. Call opened at like $1.8 and put $0.05. Net profit of like \~25% for basically doing nothing
Need QQQ back to 715 🫠
QQQ ain't doing shit today I'll load up eod
Remember the 2021 QQQ top, and honestly, it felt extremely similar. You don't actually know that it's over until it's way over.
I never dreamed I would see the day when QQQ became anti-correlated to 6 of the Mag 7, but here we are, and we've been there for over a month.
$IBM $SPY $QQQ. Too many Algo scammers funds, SEC should look at them, how they use option to damage big company stocks
Lmao Poorweave and CRYIREN both flat on QQQ up over 1%. Dumbass AI companies. Get fucking owned idiots.
Stop suppressing QQQ, fuck you Jane I know this is your doing
**BanBet Created** ▲ | **Record:** 0W - 1L | Ticker | Target | Entry | Move | Expires | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **QQQ** | $730.00 (above) | $720.06 | +1.4% | 6h 30m |
My QQQ bag offloading is very similar to my ejaculation = premature
I sold for a lil loss and scalped profit from QQQ so I’m not built for shades
IBM. 250-260 today possible $IBM earnings not bad, it’s normal earnings 2-3% earnings variations normal, all don’t move like memory Diluted Earnings Per Share: GAAP: $2.27, down 2 percent; Operating (Non-GAAP): $2.93, up 5 percent CPI: 3.5% Time to load BigTech before big earnings spike. $QQQ $SPY $XLK $XLC $XLF $MU $NDA and more memory and AI stocks shift It’s not bad earnings
QQQ relative strength to spy... It's tech time babayyy
$IBM earnings not bad, Diluted Earnings Per Share: GAAP: $2.27, down 2 percent; Operating (Non-GAAP): $2.93, up 5 percent CPI: 3.5% Time to load BigTech before big earnings spike. $QQQ $SPY $XLK $XLC $XLF $MU $NDA and more memory and AI stocks shift It’s not bad earnings
this intra day rally setup is obvious, QQQ up 1% DIA flipped green, gonna be a vicious run up all day
QQQ feels like it will turn deeply red today
its going to be a +2% day for QQQ
I have a 720 QQQ call. No way this holds.
Nooo wrong way QQQ I need 20% green
am I gonna have to watch a soft headline cpi push QQQ to 724 so I can regret not full porting 714 calls yesterday
sense: IBM !== QQQ
IBM crashing but QQQ pumping make it make sense
After a red day QQQ yearns to go higher. Tale as old as time.
QQQ is made of 100% semi stocks LMAO
Sold everything in early February of ‘25 and went cash (401k and all). Market dropped 20% over the next few weeks. Felt like a god damn genius. Never bought back in though. Between tariffs, war, AI bubble, I kept telling myself now is not the time. QQQ is up nearly 40% since I sold.
Dude, QQQ up 0.5% it’s gonna be crazy gains today
You could do that too. I think they have a 0.03% difference in expense ratio as of now, so qqqm is technically better I guess. Iam just more used to the price of QQQ so I find it easier to track. they move same percentages so if you’re just starting out and aren’t used to anything you can go with qqqm.
’d recommend investing that money into a brokerage account of your choice. Depending on your risk tolerance, you could consider sector ETFs like XLF, XLK, or XLV, or gain exposure to broader markets through QQQ (Nasdaq) or SPY (S&P 500). Since SPY trades at a higher share price, SPYG — often called the “poor man’s SPY” — is a solid growth-oriented alternative if you’re working with a smaller amount, like $2,000. If you’d prefer a more conservative approach, you could allocate some of the funds to a money market account instead. Another option worth exploring is setting up a trading bot — linked to your brokerage account through whichever AI platform you prefer — and starting small, with just a couple hundred dollars, to see how it performs. This is only my approach! There are more than 3 ways to skin a cat!
QQQ futes green… buy the dip 🚀🚀🚀
It’s more like a leveraged QQQ
I sold all my monthly calls for weekly calls once QQQ went under 710 pls let this be the bottom 🙏
-.5% on KOSPI is equivalent to +5% on QQQ
just short crypto and buy the dip QQQ
QQQ Really needs to lock in.
Would love a QQQ drill. I got lots of 705p for tomorrow
690 on QQQ and 735 on SPY before the CPI data is released will be hilarious.
QQQ will never be high again
Is QQQ half of it isn’t back by fundamentals U think PLTR PE DDOG AMD or PAWN make sense ?
On QQQ, I sell the puts and calls by distance and premium. I want $1 unless it is super safe and far. For the $1 distance depends on IV. Low IV you are only getting $6-7 distance on the put side and $5-6 on the call side. On MU, I wanted to sell the $900 put expiring today, but it wouldn't let because I have 2 other puts that go out 1 week and 2 weeks. So the broker denied the trade as concentration risk. I wanted to sell $900 put because looking at max pain levels there were several put walls before it and resistance levels. I did sell the 980 short call for $200 right at open because a short call offset my puts and brokerage was fine with it. Choose $980 strike expiring today for the same reasons. Max pain showed several calls walls before it to protect it and resistance looked strong.
Bro just an Elon hater PLTR is literally more overvalued and in QQQ but he don’t care
My 3dte QQQ puts are going to make me rich tomorrow.... Then I'll spend it on plane tickets and blow, and be back to YOLO by Monday.
Glad the old guard neocons are finally exiting, time for the technocrats to fully take the stage. Own QQQ or related stocks or forever be condemned to the underclass.
Divide the cost of one QQQ OR SPY share into otm calls everyday and you will out perform the spy it’s THAT ez now retire and suck my cawk for telling you the secret to life’s riches
Is QQQ especially tech heavy? I thought it was basically a market index like VOO.
Is your QQQ position held in a non-registered account? If in TFSA or RRSP the sale will be sheltered and then buy an index ETF.
I would take the slow approach. QQQ will only increase whether the market tanks or not momentarily theres no way you come out losing in the long run.
$SPY $QQQ $SMH $XLK big ER time. There are 12000-20000 target attacks on Iran, market digest and move higher. By strong earnings Few more even 1000 times more , does it make difference to market ? Big earnings drive index high.
Well exactly. But the OP is doing unnecessary things here. * He says elsewhere that he has a 10M portfolio. He doesn't need more diversification, sounds like he's probably already diversified enough. * Most likely some portion of his other investments are broadly indexed. Which means he's heavy in tech there too, because that's the index. Tech is ascendent, has been for a long time. It's unlikely he's bailing on tech even if he gets out of QQQ. * OP needs to read up on Charlie Munger. Over-diversifying is lame. It's a great way to hold down your profits and keep you from earning money. Diversification for diversification sake is an incorrect view of the market. * People largely don't understand the mag7 or big tech as profit generators or why they've been on top for so long. Big tech today is not at all the same as big tech from 20-30 years ago. Big tech today is already diversified, each of these companies is a hydra into a dozen industries each by themselves. Is Amazon a consumer shipping company, a movie studio, a streaming service or a cloud provider? This is why they are incredibly unlikely to fall down. Falter for a short time sure, temporarily have occaional setbacks. But go to zero? Lose all your investments? Won't happen. Can't happen.
I got distracted at the end of the day today and didn’t sell the QQQ calls I was holding. They’re expiring in August so it’s not too bad but I’m still bout to get cooked by the Koreans
Sounds like you have at least 25%ish then in QQQ? Probably too much for your age at this valuation imo. Can buy puts out to hedge your position if you don't want to sell it all and want protection.
Congratulations man, that’s terrific. I’m assuming you’ve owned for over a year. I’m wondering how you got those kinds of gains based on that size investment? Long term capital gains would be around 240-250K I’m guessing? You might just rip off the band aid. You’d still have over a million in after tax dollars. Question is, where are you going to put it? In my view, while always a risk, it’s not like you have it all in a single stock. It’s not as diverse as it could be, but QQQ is a high quality index fund.
How far out the leaps on QQQ. Hedge your position as far out as possible and break into yearly chunks to sell.
It’s a valid question. CPAs and fiduciary financial advisors are typically not specialists in retirement withdrawal strategies. Most firms have lots of pros who know how to build wealth but few have expertise on how to withdraw investments from various buckets while optimizing taxes and ensuring things like Medicare penalties are not triggered unnecessarily which minimizing RMDs. The sequence of withdrawls from cash accounts, 401k, IRA, Roth IRA, pensions, how to maximize qualified dividend income, etc is important. In this case it would seem that taking an annual profit up to the limit of your expected tax bracket is one approach. This would expose you to a big pull back but also to continued growth. As you get closer to 60 the risk of a large QQQ pullback would reduce.
I swore I’d never play QQQ why didn’t I listen to myself
Taxes and investments are tricky. Imo, investment decisions come first. You can lose a ton of money in seconds on the market, while tax consequences are predictable. 1 if you think their is room on the upside hold. 2 if you think its going to drop this year, sell. If you want to reduce tax exposure and are comfortable keeping a position, sell half this year, then half next year. Or spread it over multiple years. 3 if you believe QQQ will go down from its highs, then recover, sell, take the profit and tax hit, then buy back in at a lower price. Good luck
So QQQ was 20% lower when the Iran war first launched back in April. Can we see a 20% drop back to where it was just 3 months ago
Only good reason to sell it in bulk is market timing, if you think you can predict a big QQQ drawdown and get back in. But do the math on how much you think you could win on that price swing and compare it to the tax loss.
My first sentence was serious, because that is how the recent intraday charts look. The rest of the comment was a jab at all the recent comments and posts about how MMs control the entire market, even ETFs like SPY & QQQ, which derive their price point & valuation based on the S&P or NASDAQ 100. I think it highly unlikely that MMs hold such large positions In the companies that comprise the S&P or NASDAQ 100, as to be able to manipulate them.
If it’s a long term investment for 10 years out, good odds that QQQ beats the S&P 500, so just hold
Do the staged sell to lower taxes. QQQ is concentrated in Mag 7 that has massive earnings so it will just get bumpy before they return to ATH. But no one can tell you what to do as this is why I didn't invest in QQQ. At worst though you took the risk and even after selling a paying taxes did at least as well as VOO and can now put that in SCHD or whatever.
Are you me? JK, but I did recently retire and have a large unrealized capital gain in my taxable account (not QQQ but a few of the FAANG that I bought with over 10x gains.) sold a bunch of AMZN and some AAPL January 2025 (needed some cash and wanted to "de-risk") and the tax bill was a bitter pill to swallow (especially since AAPL.) Don't forget NIIT. It may not be the smart but I'm holding the rest and only selling when I need a paycheck. I am playing around with collars to de-risk some. And to all saying "don't ask reddit, get an accountant." We do. Sometimes it is also fun to ask peers since there's as much feel to this as science. The accountant can say "you will pay 23% LTCG + state tax" and then you are wondering if that's better than the potential drop. Emphasis on potential.
Go somewhere in between and sell half and pay a pretty big tax bill. Park half of it in somewhere more broad. And then spend 5 years withdrawing out of QQQ
I wouldn't worry about it. This isn't what you would call a concentrated position. It's diversified. Granted, it's heavy in tech, but even if AI takes a dive, tech isn't going away. If QQQ falls soon, it will recover, too. Much like the internet, AI might be overvalued on wall street right now and take a dive but it's not going away--it's only going to grow long term. Especially if you say this is part of a $10M port, you can sell this while the QQQ is doing fine, and if tech takes a drive from other holdings while you wait for it to recover. Direct indexing (particularly if you use a fund) will be high fees and you need to sell off something else to open the direct indexing position. Don't just sell it all and pay the taxes. That's silly. BTW I say that as someone who is rapidly diversifying almost $2M in gains and is paying the 20%+3.8%+10.3% (or more) CA cap gains taxes on it. The difference is that mine is in only two cyclical \[and correlated\] stocks, so I need to diversify to protect it. If it were spread across QQQ, I'd let it ride.
You have a 10m portfolio. If QQQ dropped 50% it would not impact your life.
If your total portfolio is $10m, why do you want to sell all QQQ and reduce tech exposure? It is just 10% of your portfolio and your other 90% is already diversified.
NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE: i would call Invesco…ask them about this…If you stay within the same fund family, in the case of QQQ/Invesco and you put whatever you decide is best to trim out of QQQ and into a more secure option that has less Beta or Volatility you DO NOT necessarily create a taxable event…IF….IF you get Invesco to assist with the movement and IF IT REMAINS in the same fund family…
Broadly I'd suggest you model out bear/average/bull cases for all your liquid assets (you can do more than just 3 cases such as -10 -20 -30 -40 for "bears") and use that to help determine what is the maximum nominal drawdown you'd accept on QQQ. Then you can liquidate an amount that makes this nominal drawdown amount improbable to impossible. The larger the weight of QQQ, the more impactful it is and vice versa. But truth is if QQQ crashes, everything goes down with it. Top 10 weights in SP500 and NAS100 are getting closer and closer to matching with each passing year. In other words, the most successful and profitable companies are concentrated in tech. NAS100 is no longer the risky index from 25 years ago, it drives the modern economy. I'm retried early as well. I still have individual stocks to liquidate, and pushing proceeds into VOO QQQM SMH SCHD VIG VYM JEPI QQQI. I have high conviction on the individual stocks so just converting when I feel it's advantageous to me. But it's your money, and if you feel like playing crystal ball with it is the best choice than by all means go for it. You're asking here because I'm assuming your fudiciary didn't suggest the panic sellout route.
**BanBet Created** ▲ | **Record:** 3W - 0L | Ticker | Target | Entry | Move | Expires | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **QQQ** | $718.01 (above) | $710.90 | +1.0% | 23h 60m |
!Banbet QQQ +1% 1D My first two wins were legit, third one was a glitch by wsb bot so it should be 2-1 but whatever
You could hedge QQQ with a leap put...
Essentially there is only 2 asset classes that have outperformed debasement plus inflation over last 15 years, crypto and QQQ & SPY (hard assets and tech equity). Only QQQ and Crypto comfortably clear this hurdle rate. Hold.