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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
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
Mentions
imagine waking up to QQQ 741
I HOPE YOU HELD YOUR QQQ 730cs!!! :money: :money:
1k to gamble today 0dte QQQ Calls or puts at open?
amd could easily do a 10% move tmr if QQQ rips
please look at gold chart and QQQ chart after 2009, they are literally identical. gold crashes alongside stocks its just an interest rates derivative. you buy gold after the crash not before it
Because healthcare, biotech, financials, and software have been ripping. These are things that are in SPY that aren't in QQQ. Ontop of that, the Qs are way heavier in semiconductors which have been in the doghouse. When they talk about rotation - that is the result
Can someone tell me why QQQ still below their highs while SPY already made new highs and close to it now
This is why you buy QQQ AND UPRO best of both worlds
Why is QQQ not moving more than SPY on a green day? It's like they only have 100 of the best companies in the world
I would consider having at the very least $1,000. Even then, you're going to be limited in what you can trade, especially since so many liquid stock options have underlying stocks that are in the $500-$1000 range. That makes single legs calls and puts prohibitively expensive. You can trade, in some cases, typically in cheaper stocks, $1 wide spreads, but I wouldn't go any wider than that on $1,000 because each contract could place up to about 10% of your total portfolio at risk. Keep in mind too that especially with $1 wide spreads, the delta and theta are so close together that you're waiting until very close to expiration to see enough movement to make those trades profitable. One thing you'll learn, if you haven't already, is that once you get 14 days or less to expiration, the value of your options can swing wildly and you've got to manage them very closely or you'll get burned. One other thing that I wish I'd known starting out - make sure you understand what to do if you get assigned if you're going to do credit spreads, especially. It will happen, and if you are doing spreads, your ultimate risk is limited, but it will freak you out because suddenly you'll have a big negative "buying power" or cash position on your portfolio and you need to close or sell the other leg to exit out. The first margin call is a doozy. I would not make trades that risk more than 10% of your account, and that includes making similar trades that are highly correlated (in other words, don't just buy a bunch of SPY calls with staggered expirations and strike over a short period of time, or buy a mix of SPY calls and QQQ calls, and think that you're diversifying). You do that and the market has a sudden correction and it could wipe you out. If I were you, and it would probably be easier if you had at least $2K in an account, I would start by buying 100 shares of a stable, established company with a share price in the $10-15 range and then selling \~60 DTE covered calls against those shares at a strike higher than what you paid for the shares; or in the alternative, selling a put (if your account allows) in one of those stocks at a strike below the current market price and which you believe the stock is unlikely to fall to. If in the case of a covered call, your stock rallies and the call gets exercised, you still make money - it's just capped. If the covered call isn't reached, then you've made a profit on the covered call and you can sell another one. If, in the case of a cash-secured put, the stock falls below the strike price, and the put is exercised (forcing you to buy 100 shares), you can either sell the shares, or you can hold them and sell a covered call against them (this is sometimes referred to as a "wheel". This is comparatively low risk compared to just straight options trading, and you'll get a feel for how options mechanics and pricing work.
It’s for intraday and weekly directional hedging. NVDA appears to determine the momentum and sometimes direction of handful of ETFs and equities. The problem is QQQ will move lower or higher tracking NVDA even when the other top 5 constituents move in the opposite direction.
\^Best answer yet. Play your odds best with a broad US index fund since it’s low probability you will pick it with a single stock play. you could also do QQQ if you wanted to really concentrate in tech…the nice thing with sp500 etf is you get some non-tech/AI exposure to spread your risk better.
**BanBet Lost** — /u/stock_dude9 (3W - 3L, 50%) | Ticker | Entry → Target | Move | Time | Result | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **QQQ** ▼ | $708.34 → $700.00 | -1.2% | 1d | Lost |
QQQ 730 tomorrow or I go for drinks with a married man 😒💅
The last majority of the sticks within QQQ are more expensive than Nvidia. Why do you want to exclude the cheap one.
I am holding myself from buying long puts on SPY and QQQ. I think I will get cheaper puts next week and 2 weeks from now, the market will crash. Sept 16 will be decisive.
If you’re not cherry-picking timeframes and are going off the numbers today, comparing them to actual historical averages, Both QQQ and SPY’s historical average is up only very slightly, while QQQ and SPY have gone up a ton, pointing towards an actual earnings inflection.
I'm a bull in general. But today's run up was some load of BS so I hope these 1DTE QQQ puts print tomorrow.
QQQ launched in March of 1999.
Why QQQ still looking like that ⛳️
if you find one, run the correlation of it against QQQ, you might find out it's pretty close given many other stocks are correlated to nvda also. correlation of qqqe vs qqq the past year is 91%, for example. But, 0.75 beta to qqq so moved less (but same direction on most days). make sense?
You currently can buy his spy contract for $0.01 You can buy his QQQ puts for also $0.01 each
Flaw A: "Since my LEAPS has higher delta, I’m in no jeopardy if QQQ rises"Delta is not static; it is governed by Gamma.Your Dec 2028 LEAPS (~830 DTE) has very low gamma (~0.001 to 0.002). Its delta crawls slowly as the underlying moves.Your weekly short call (7 DTE) has exceptionally high gamma (~0.020 to 0.030).The Inversion: If QQQ rallies 3% in two days, the short call’s delta will surge from 0.50 to 0.90+, while your LEAPS delta moves only from 0.70 to ~0.76.The Result: The position flips to net negative delta. Any further upside beyond that point causes the position to lose money overall. When you close the entire spread at 1 DTE, your short call’s intrinsic gain will outpace your LEAPS' gain, capping your upside far below your target and forcing high churn/slippage.Flaw B: The Asymmetry of a Fast Selloff (Delta Bleed)Selling a weekly ATM call yields ~0.75%–1.0% of the underlying share price in extrinsic value (e.g., $5.34 on a ~$719 underlying).If QQQ drops 3% in a week (~$21.50):You collect the full $5.34 premium on the short call.Your 0.70 delta LEAPS loses approximately $15.00 in value.Net loss for the week: ~-$9.66 per share (~$966 per contract).The weekly premium offsets only about one-third of the downside move. In a standard 5%–10% market correction, your LEAPS value will deteriorate much faster than weekly premiums can offset.Flaw C: The "Never Sell Below Cost Basis" TrapIf QQQ drops from 719 to 660 over 4–6 weeks:Your adjusted cost basis may still be around 705.If you adhere to the rule of never selling a strike below your basis (i.e., you only sell strikes $\ge$ 705), a 705 call on a 660 underlying is ~7% OTM on a weekly expiry.A 7-day 7% OTM call trades for pennies (often $0.10 to $0.25). Your weekly yield evaporates from 3% to 0.05%, leaving your capital tied up in a depreciating LEAPS with minimal cash flow.
I’m holding my QQQ 730cs, even though they’re up a lot, we going for the moonshot 🥹
if you didn't make money on QQQ today you should probably quit
MU finally Green. Wonder if QQQ rips even further now
backing up the truck and loading up absolutely dirt cheap SPY and QQQ calls on this fake dump
I feel like this is a strange request. You yourself admit that "the entire top 20 holdings in QQQ feel like their direction is driven by NVDA", so why would you even expect excluding NVDA to make a big difference? QQQ is generally structured to be top heavy, consisting of strongly correlated tech names, often all capturing the same theme at the same time. Removing a single name (even the largest one) barely changes this. If you don't want NVDA's price action, you probably don't want QQQ. QQQ has one of the most liquid/strongest options markets in the world. If you forego it in favor of some less popular ticker, your trade executions alone will probably cost you more than anything that NVDA does. You're better off doing your options with QQQ (or NDX) and then maybe taking inverse positions directly with NVDA (which has one of the strongest options markets of individual stocks). That's likely the most efficient way to get what you're looking for.
I am seeing a 26-27 P/E ratio for VOO and a 29 P/E ratio for SPY. QQQ’s P/E ratio really hasn’t changed much at all. The numbers are only very slightly higher than historical averages because we’re in an AI supercycle and all the growth companies are superseding expectations. If someone holding VOO or SPY or QQQ gets a 40-60% gain versus a 5-10% gain in a historical average for P/E ratio they won all day.
Why is there a high correlation between BTC and QQQ????
If you're looking specifically for no NVDA exposure, I’m not aware of a clean QQQ equivalent. Maybe equal-weight Nasdaq funds are probably the closest simple option
0DTE QQQ, and SPY Options.
Gave bers fair warning about QQQ 730 EOW 🤷♀️
QQQ VWAP Still at 713 where tf is the volume?
Well thanks NVDA for making my QQQ puts lose value. I still have faith that QQQ is about to drop some before close.
I’ve got QQQ puts for tomorrow
QQQ hit 715 and I will make money to lose tomorrow.
its cup and handling right now. It's just consolidating. It's heading towards 728 (Referencing QQQ)
QQQ give me my money!!!
I tried this with Arrived. I put about $6,000 into small positions across 18 properties, split between their long and short term rentals, and let it sit for 4 years. TLDR: I am working to get what money is left out to pay off some debt instead. Between unrented time, evictions, and renter churn I "made" about $500 in dividends on my $6000 over those years. Ultimately poor liquidity means I will walk away with less to get my money back. Would have just been better off sticking with QQQ or a direct REIT if you really want RE exposure.
C’mon QQQ 720, you don’t know how much I neeeeeed thissss 😳
QQQ 0DTE and SPCX leverage shares
WE ARE GOING DOWN BY END OF DAY. Confirmed by my source that works as a maid for QQQ CEO.
I don’t know man, it’s look scary that everything turning red but not QQQ 😅
C’mon QQQ!! Pop a blue pill and get back in there 🍑!!!
Oil’s expensive rn, we’ll need QQQ 720 where we’re going 🍑😈
!banbet QQQ 720 4hrs or I’ll oil wrestle u/31andnotdone on webcam 😳
Last deposit on space stocks QQQ only from now on when I find a good entry
No… it’s necessary!! Initiating QQQ 720 docking sequence :ahyes:
Fuck it I’m buying QQQ puts here
TSLA pulling QQQ up singlehandedly lmao
poorer? look at QQQ brother we making money out here!
Lotto 722 call on QQQ. I bet MM frontrunned an annoncement
Fear not my brother bers!! For is it your great honour to die at the hands of the Titan QQQ!!! 🙏 Bask in the green light, and accept this fate 🤗
LLM providers face an outage, and QQQ pumps. Coincidence? I THINK NOT!
Bro wtf I just went to take a shit and shower and came back to my QQQ 0DTE at almost a +1000%
**BanBet Lost** — /u/Forward-Mention-6395 (0W - 1L, 0%) | Ticker | Entry → Target | Move | Time | Result | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **QQQ** ▲ | $718.06 → $746.00 | +3.9% | 4w 2d | Lost |
Grabbed MSTR Lotto $120P for next Friday. The QQQ and SPY rip might stick but I don’t buy the BTC one holding.
QQQ 715C were also .05 and just hit 3.44
A little bit ago, I saw someone post "I'm all in on 0DTE QQQ puts" Ooof 💀
Dumb play. Never buy puts on QQQ. That’s 101 shit
I'm -%43 on my Odte QQQ put. Should I sell? Strike price 714.
I look away and QQQ moons once again. 😭
Rip that guy who went all in on 0DTE QQQ puts
wow wish tech were actually mooning aside from QQQ
Why in the fuck would the QQQ be up 1% today.......
I'm all in 0dte QQQ puts Let's gooo
\>be me \>buy QQQ Cs \>immediately go negative \>sell for break even \>watch QQQ not stop \>MFW
QQQ and SPY have gone up 30-50% in the past 2-3 years while their P/E ratios have stayed exactly the same and within their historical averages.
Watched my 714 QQQ call go from +100% to -50% to +150%. Thank you MM I’m out for the rest of the day.
Thank God I dumped those QQQ $715 Calls before that massive run up - If I make too much money, my wife might leave her boyfriend and move back home
tesla is the Mike Tyson of stock market financial engineering. The overvaluation is a FEATURE, not a bug. It ensures there's an unlimited supply of retarded short sellers and put buyers such that all tesla has to do is put out a vaguely bullish announcement to force massive amounts of short covering that spikes the stock. they can then borrow against that stock price to print more money for themselves. it also inflates both SPY and QQQ which in turn inflates tesla all over again. jack bogle, you're a retard for thinking cap weighted indexes wouldn't be gamed by wall street.
Thank you! Started following you and I appreciate your levels. Caught the move up at open, down in the second 30 min candle, and down again in third 30 min candle. I’m not trusting the candles I’m seeing and it feels like this compressed volatility is going to rip us up; fintwits says down; market moving sideways 😑 I trade 0-1DTE call credit and put credit spreads on SPX, SPY and QQQ, so I prefer chop.
QQQ going down puts for next week if you want $$$
<0.5%!! 😡😡 QQQ officially bankrupt!!! 😦
QQQ is going up, but Sandisk is still stuck in the mud
If QQQ hits 730, I’m gonna oil wrestle all the hot babes in the wsb daily ppv 😏💅
another $4 candle on QQQ 😴
QQQ is a dog! And sometimes a dog needs a whooping to get in order 😡
Hope you bought your QQQ 730 calls :hesright:
Come on QQQ Overcome the fucking sellers
QQQ gonna catch up or getting dragged by AVGO, which isn't even getting beat up that bad.
Did you happen to talk to the QQQ CEO?
Wait a minute I wanted QQQ flair instead scam lol 😆
don’t fight the trend. QQQ is heading lower friday
The fact that Hock apparently spend an hour touting the wonders of AI on the call yesterday and his stock is down about 3% today should tell you a ton. We are in an AI hardware sucks world atm (also in an Marvell is going to steal market share from Broadcom world) and there is nothing that can be done to change it right now. Good chance the next legit attempt by QQQ isn’t until early November even if it leads nowhere in the end. It seems like we’re replaying the chop suey world from late October.
Even if QQQ did a drawdown to 650 (8%), would it really matter? These smaller drawdowns are always getting shrugged off and then we’ll be back to ATH within months.
Probably. I follow a dude who is convinced QQQ is going to around 650 very soon and is shorting basically all tech. Pretty high conviction, he's shorting with over a mil total