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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
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.
Mentions
many of them but here's two: Everyone thought NVDA was going to shit last year. Right before earnings. I bought $2000 of call options. Earnings was a blow out. Easiest $10k i ever made. Lesson: everyone on Reddit (and everywhere else) is usually wrong. Liberation Day: I bought $QQQ and lots of it. I got prices around $400-440. They have almost doubled now. there were probably better things that I could have bought, but the lesson is not to sell in that kind of situation. I've been doing this for 2 decades on and off now. I feel like it's finally getting easier, but I know so much more than I used to. If you like always learning and have a good source of income for more... training credits, then it works. Finally you should buy a good ETF and hold that. That's your benchmark to aim for (and to beat). It should also be most of your holdings for when you get things wrong, because you will get things wrong.
You need to be in QQQ and SOXX calls. Everything selling off in SPY except semis and data center. Multiple SOXX tickers pushed through their 50ma today. SOXX is likely to follow next week. Probably going back above $600 within two weeks. Puts will be burned. SPY opening at least $773 Tuesday.
Bought AAPL 307.50 9/11 Puts at open and sold for a nice profit 💲 Then tried my luck on a 0DTE QQQ 718 Call and made another 250$
QQQ 740 1w!!! 🤗 Can’t banbet it cause I’m banned 😔
YTD Performance: 📈S&P: +12.75% 📈Nasdaq: +14.05% 📈Dow: +11.13% 📈Small Caps: +20.75% 🥇Gold: +2.51% 🛢️Oil: +59.16% 💵US Dollar: +0.89% ₿ Bitcoin: -8.82% \#YTDPerformance $SPY $QQQ $DIA $SPX #GOLD $GLD #Bitcoin $BtcUSD $IWM $RUT $USD
**BanBet Lost** — /u/jwin40 (0W - 1L, 0%) | Ticker | Entry → Target | Move | Time | Result | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **QQQ** ▼ | $717.06 → $218.00 | -69.6% | 1h 44m | Lost |
That QQQ close is America’s close! That’s a :pepetrump: close
Your last chance to full port into 0DTE QQQ calls and achieve financial freedom. This is totally financial advice.
Large difference between AI and the dot com bubble tho. Dot com bubble - QQQ had a PE of over 100. Here it has a PE of \~30. 30 looks healthy for tech. Yes some will win, some will lose - but it's not like it's going to bring entire market down with it. If you index and don't pick winners you'll be ok.
QQQ dead flat just how they planned out over dinner last night.
Was up 2gs on my QQQ 0dtes, about to treat myself to a spa day this weekend. And this assholes dumped it back to 717, why even bother 😒💅
OHH FUCK OFFFF QQQ!!!! :screech: :screech:
QQQ is such dogshit! Why do I even bother 🙄
That was what my initial comment to your post was if I am not mistaken. I was using QQQ and my weighted Beta is 1.61 and was using that to evaluate my risk and the possible hedging with QQQ puts if needed. The laddered puts would help to hedge . but I would rather manage my positions as I explained in the new links. I posted something on how to manage the trades when things go wrong. You probably know most of it from what what I can tell, but for whatever it is worth, we all run into this dilemma of trying to recover out losses when the trade does not go as expected. So I wrote about it and use that as my guide every trading day. The important thing is to be able to manage the trade when things go wrong, because stock move around and can fall fast too. If you have access to kindle Unlimited, you are welcome to read about it on [amazon.com/dp/B0H7P6CQSG](http://amazon.com/dp/B0H7P6CQSG) . Any feedback would be appreciated. There are 14 strategies covered her including covered calls ans CSPs, and each strategy has the following sections: Each strategy covers; * What the strategy is and how its payoff actually works * When the adjustment conversation starts, and the trigger signals that say it is time * The fixes experienced traders weigh, and the trade-off behind each one * The story of the Greeks, so you understand why a position moves the way it does * A worked example with real numbers * The common traps, and how to avoid them . Great discussion and kudos on a great post with a very important question you raised .
5c bars on Y axis of QQQ. Don't remember the last time the graph was so flat
Please let me win for once, QQQ to 720
NVDA and QQQ dump please
I had AI write a special song for you in the style of George Clinton, here’s the lyrics. Maybe that will put QQQ and SPY in the mood. Yeah! Calling all citizens of the United Universe! This is Starchild, checking in from the Mothership. We’re cruising past the Wall Street Nebula, And we see you down there, clutching your portfolios! Ain't nothing but a party, y'all. But the rhythm is getting volatile. Look out! **\[Chorus\]** Dump, mutha fucka, dump! (Get that liquid cash!) Dump, mutha fucka, dump! (Don't let your assets crash!) Dump, mutha fucka, dump! (We going down to the floor!) Dump, mutha fucka, dump! (We ain't buying the dip no more!) **\[Verse 1\]** The SPY is falling from the sky, Tears in the broker's eye. The tech is wrecked, the QQQ, Is doing the monster mash on you! Jerome Powell got the rhythm section too tight, They raising the rates into the night. Sir Nose D’Voidoffunk is shorting the trend, Waiting for the bull market to meet its end! Unload the shares, release the funk, Turn that high-priced stock into ghetto junk! **\[Chorus\]** Dump, mutha fucka, dump! (Free your mind and your equity will follow!) Dump, mutha fucka, dump! (It’s gonna be a bitter pill to swallow!) Dump, mutha fucka, dump! (Take it out of the index!) Dump, mutha fucka, dump! (Before it hits the complex!) **\[Bridge\]** La la la, defund the fund. La la la, the bear has won. Is it a correction, or cosmic re-direction? We need a bailout from the funk-delic nation! Hit me on the one! (Slap bass solo mimics a crashing stock chart) **\[Verse 2\]** You got your Nasdaq, you got your S&P, But it don’t mean shit to the P-Funk dynasty. The algorithms are losing their minds, Reading between the trendlines. Sell the Apple, sell the chip, We taking a ride on a different spaceship. If it don’t funk, it don’t float, Get your money off the margin boat! **\[Outro\]** Yeah, liquidate the groove. Move it or lose it. QQQ... down. SPY... underground. Just dump it, baby. Give up the funk, take the cash. Mothership landing on the trading floor. Going, going, gone...
QQQ is stuck in concrete right now
O' the sweetest of mangos, please bless me with QQQ 720. 🇺🇲🙏🏻
Eternally grateful for the last 3 months of sideways chop giving me more and more time to STUFF dinero into QQQ before the next FACE RIPPING rally up 🥹😇 🙏
I would like QQQ 720 at least :screech: It’s what I’m owed :hmmm:
Buying Tuesday QQQ puts and closing the laptop
**BanBet Created** ▼ | Ticker | Target | Entry | Move | Expires | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **QQQ** | $218.00 (below) | $717.06 | -69.6% | 1h 44m |
SPY, NVDA and QQQ puts and APPL calls locked in exp Wed
Wtf is this price action on QQQ? More like price inaction
QQQ looking gheyer every minute Time to start the weekend early :dance: Cya chuds :exit:
Sad day on QQQ :cry: Such a beautiful open for 730 just wasted :screech:
That is a good idea . Whether you choose SPY or QQ depends on your profolio. For a concentrated . high-Beta protfolio like mine, QQQ is a better proxy to use. I have one more measure that tracks my Loss /Gain at 21/14/07 DTE if each stock fell 5%, 10%,, 15% or 20% (Overall portfolio, and by ticker) and used Black0scholz model to estimate the option price. This is probably unrelated , but give me an idea in advance what the damage would be to the P&L at any point. It does assume IV at entry (which is a bit of a bummer) , but is directionally useful since the greeks interact a lot more when DTE < 21 days. I am also able to stress test my the rolls before I place them to see what my P&L would be on the entire wheel since initiation of the stock fell a lot more than my new strike. I adjust my strikes on that basis along with Volume Profile/POC/VAL\_HI/VAL\_Low as a guidepost . There are times (though less frequent when I place a strike below my cost basis if the volume profiles show that the stock will not reach the lower strike I am selecting. That give me extra premium for that month) . https://preview.redd.it/w3o1k6t37jnh1.png?width=1801&format=png&auto=webp&s=e5a037ad4a4d0637766305ff1f72d8c68217d28d
NVDA/QQQ going up or down rest of the day? Hmmmmm
They just refuse to let QQQ go red
NVDA single handedly keeping QQQ and SPY from dumping smh
Well pulled the trigger just now on MU, SNDK, NVDA and QQQ puts expiring 9/11….. the morning pump was impressive but the dive when orange man imposes more tarrifs on the semis will be spectacular.
need a -1% QQQ day one time
QQQ gonna 🦀 at 718 for rest of day :screech: Hate these bozos :sadsuit:
AVGO earning calls > QQQ Puts > Goog calls. Three strikes, thats an out
Load up on QQQ calls!!! :happy: :happy:
Give daddy a little bounce here QQQ
Are we seriously doing this shit again!!! Red QQQ?!!! Fukkin’ morons, we know it’s gonna pump you MM cucks :screech: :screech:
IWM trades on completely different fundamentals than SPY or QQQ
I got QQQ calls and stopped the pump. Switched to SPY puts and it stopped dumping. Either you give me $5 right now or I’ll switch again and force the market to move against me and fuck over your calls/puts
QQQ only being held up by NVDA, Nasdaq futures r red lol
Nonstop QQQ buying until I get calls then it acts like it has no clue what up means anymore
Why are SPY and QQQ so off?
We're going to get a news pump today to send QQQ to 728 followed by a Tuesday -1.5% day
Alright that was fun and all, but gonna need QQQ to fuck off back to 715 now...
QQQ pumps, SPY stays red. 🤯👍🏻
lmao my entire ticker screen is red minus semi's and memory and QQQ is up $4. The weighting on QQQ is pure genius. Even if AI hardware goes down we can still float it up. Sorcery
QQQ flying while SPY struggles to not collapse will never not anger me deeply
**BanBet Created** ▲ | **Record:** 0W - 1L | Ticker | Target | Entry | Move | Expires | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **QQQ** | $728.39 (above) | $721.18 | +1.0% | 23h 60m |
Obviously. QQQ will be up 1% today
**BanBet Lost** — /u/IWishIwasAwhale1 (1W - 6L, 14%) | Ticker | Entry → Target | Move | Time | Result | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **QQQ** ▼ | $707.43 → $700.00 | -1.1% | 2d | Lost |
Looks like their pic of the day to pump QQQ is memory. Earlier in the week it was Apple.
I posted this a while back on portfolio risk. I mostly sell covered calls and Cash secured puts on high Beta stocks , so have to be mindful of my risk at all times . The one thing I always keep handy is my Close-Out P&L - which indicates what my P&L would be if I closed all the positions (stock/options ... everything) immediately. If you cannot answer this question in a second, you need to rethink how to have this data available. As far as concentration risk is concerned , I posted this a while back [https://www.reddit.com/r/CoveredCalls/comments/1uu195l/the\_premium\_you\_collect\_on\_eight\_covered\_calls\_is/](https://www.reddit.com/r/CoveredCalls/comments/1uu195l/the_premium_you_collect_on_eight_covered_calls_is/) It shows the effect of on your combined portfolio and how the Blended Portfolio Beta works viz-a-viz QQQ and shows how hedging with puts could help reduce the losses if not totally eliminate them. Full disclosure - I have an app built around these concepts and use it for my porfolio management (journal) and it is a work in progress.
Sorry for your loss. Hope it wasn’t QQQ cause it’s green atm
I want my QQQ 730!!! :screech: :screech: :money:
Look at what they did to my QQQ :cry: :cry:
what a market reaction……. for a second QQQ almost erased its premarket gains 🙄
Bigger question is honest assessment of you have skill to beat s&p 500 or QQQ long term or better putting effort elsewhere. Jim Cramer does not beat either. And make 5MM being a pundit...
| Ticker | Target | Entry | Current | Move | Expires | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **QQQ** ▼ | $700.00 (below) | $707.43 | $717.22 | -1.1% | 1h 32m | | **Record** | 1W - 5L | 17% | - | - | - |
QQQ new ATH by end of day 🤯
SPY $3 from ATH, QQQ $25 from ATH set months ago...
I’ll come back in 5 hrs, when QQQ is at 730!! :kek: :kek:
OpenAI and Anthropic are not public companies, which means they are not in QQQ or its derivatives.
Maybe even QQQ ATH this month :happy:
I tried telling bers QQQ 730 EOW and they told me to fuk off So no concern for ber 😠 :kek:
QQQ 730 EOW!!! :money: And QQQ 745 end of next week :happy:
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 😒💅