QQQ

Sharkkboy6

Wen QQQ $570?

Based_Commgnunism

SPY, VOO, SPLG, FXAIX, IVV are all the same thing. VOO is just the most popular. VTI is a total market index which is technically more diversified containing small amounts of small caps, REITs, etc. But practically speaking it performs the same as VOO. These funds are all highly diversified and market cap weighted. QQQ is not the same, it's a somewhat arbitrary selection of mostly big tech and growth stocks. Boglehead strategy or any strategy that seeks to capture average market returns says you shouldn't buy QQQ because it isn't market cap weighted and it's sort of actively managed in the sense that companies are listed based on a set of requirements. By buying QQQ you're trying to outperform the market and statistically when you do that you are much more likely to underperform the market.

Icy_Low_2400

QQQ, have no idea what to do then

Accomplished_Suit651

QQQ up 2% and Tesla down 5% today, and I will give handies out for this entire godforsaken sub

Fangore

I have the EXACT same story. Only different is my portfolio is VOO, QQQ and SCHD.

greyenlightenment

crypto is like the worst thing ever. shit never keeps gains. QQQ way better.

greyenlightenment

btc dying off again, shorting this garbage + long QQQ is the most profitable thing invented

updownleftrightabsta

It's up 3.55% ytd. QQQ is up 7.42% ytd

buisson44

They say VOO but instead use QQQ. Higher beta. US is good for tech and that’s not going to change

wontongomez

SPY and QQQ are the number 1 and 2 most traded ticker on the exchange by volume. This means they have a lot of liquidity. If one day you decide you would like to learn derivatives, it is helpful to hold SPY and QQQ because of its liquidity. Yes the expense ratio is more than VOO however if you sell your stock in a brokerage account just to transfer your assets to VOO, you have to pay capital gains tax. I would just keep it simple with SPY and QQQ and who knows maybe one day you will learn how to sell covered calls on your shares.

Darkstarx7x

Similar position, I ended up going with VOO, QQQ, VXUS, and IBIT. With 50% of that being VOO. I wanted to be safe, favor tech (huge believer in AI), have exposure to international stocks, but also take a chance on BTC.

Fun-Sundae4060

You have an investing account? Learn as much as you can about personal finance, debt, investing, and compounding returns. At your age I would really advocate for a heavily weighted portfolio of equities. Leveraged ETFs if you can stomach it. Something like TQQQ but QQQ if you really don’t want leverage. Hedge with GLD, ZROZ, and CTA. Those are precious metals (gold), long term US treasury bonds, and managed futures respectively. They serve to hedge your main position of equities and provide dry powder when equities are down.

Charliebush

OP is asking about holding it until year end, not long term. I bought $TQQQ on 4/4 and am still holding. Currently up 92.03%. Over the same time frame, $QQQ is up 29.67%. TQQQ is a perfectly fine tool to hold during bull market. It may not maintain 3x, but it will surely outperform the underlying asset. Back test it if you don’t believe me.

Healthy_Peanut6753

Yes, I used to work at ProShares - the issuer of TQQQ. It's short realized vol. In a rising market, it will outperform QQQ by more than 3x.

Investoid

QQQ is very tech heavy. I believe it is investors who favor this impression that the coming AI and tech revolutions will far exceed the other ETF options at some point. Essentially VOO is more stable and spread across different industries and QQQ is expecting a moonshot in their lifetime. At 27 years old I don't think at this point it's a huge issue between either, though some people would probably take risk off the table as they get older, so a younger person may go QQQ until they are near retirement. It's extra risk but they do have a lot of time to wait. After about 15 years in VTSAX for myself I am fine with the outcome, very low admiral share costs and about 12% return per year. It's apparently not as popular a choice but in the end it turned out okay because I stuck with it, even during the troubled periods.

Nuclear_N

Run the 5 year compare on yahoo finance. SPY=VOO. QQQ is a nasdaq index....QQQM. VOO does not equal QQQ.

Nuclear_N

There are so many 500 ETFs and indexes....they are same same but different. QQQ is nasdaq and there are a ton of them. Further these overlap on the US market as well.

NVDAismygod

Bears pillaged at open. Puts on QQQ going -75% at open. Puts on all mag 7 going atleast -45%

vwboyaf1

SPY or QQQ or are they basically the same these days?

solariac

QQQ up almost 40% from the April bottom

NVDAismygod

QQQ ATH again LMFAO. Dumped it for no reason Friday just to pump on Sunday night. Sorry bears

dimethylhyperspace

Debated QQQ calls on Friday, but decided it was a bad idea after five up days. Guess I was wrong

EmmaStoneFan420

I panic sold 100K of QQQ (not at the very bottom) and used the money to buy a house, so no I don’t regret it.

gopoohgo

Dow > QQQ.   Everyone blew up the stress tests Friday AH.   Banks going to moon Monday-Tuesday as divy/buyback plans are announced 

bostonhold

Sure. It’s free, VOO, VTI, QQQ they all charge you. I’d go with this

schbloimps

I make 4k if QQQ stays above 527

OhBenjaminFranklin

Futes creeping up more. Not looking good for my QQQ put spread tomorrow. :(

ziggy-tiggy-bagel

It took QQQ 14 years to recover

Odd_Entrepreneur2815

S&P only 3x’d money in 10 years. QQQ 4x’d in same 10 and this is with the insanity of historically low rates, massive stimulus printing, etc. Ultimately you have to find a company that’s going to CAGR ~26% a year to achieve that return. I don’t know of any index’s or etfs that come anywhere close to that

tuliptrades

Buying $SPY or $QQQ when it dips below the 200ma is a sound strategy over the long term. Alternatively, if you lack patience, you could DCA.

Timely_Sand_6162

I had a similar situation in 2024. I had 200k, I invested lump sum divided between VOO and QQQ when market was soaring. From that time to now, it has gained 15%. It built my conviction even stronger. Time in the market is > timing the market. Go hard on dollars if you want them to work for you. As long as you are investing in index funds and for long term, it’s right way to go.

qw1ns

>Is it dumb to buy in now with the market at an all time high? If you have doubts (about timing), just buy SPYI hold long. When there is a pullback/crash/correction etc, whatever percentage drop(say 6%) you see, just take that percentage of SPYI and move to SPY or QQQ or even SMH. You always stay invested and will gain more than blind SPY (of course taxed for whatever you traded depending on the state and country tax laws).

shodogrouch

You have 2 choices - invest in the market or put in savings. Take your lump sum to start, go on a site like dub and copy trade one of these funds or grab something like a QQQ/Schd. Then add to it or something else every week. You’re going to make more than a savings account or CD or other without even trying and you might actually catch a rising star along the way. But this idea of waiting for the perfect time - doesn’t exist. It’s not stupid to buy today, tomorrow or next week.

XXXMrHOLLYWOOD

Due to volatility decay as well as lending costs of TQQQ you would look to see a 2.4-2.8x return compared to QQQ over longer periods but this varies a lot due to a variety of factors

Working-Math-9610

sell a pooot on QQQ..  4-5% away from current level.

GenMassilia13

Invest in IWF or QQQ. Put this for growth, if you want to grab some additional returns. If not, go to the normal boglehead strategy, like 60% VTI, 30% international and 10% bond.

That_anonymous_guy18

Well there is truth to that, but if you are young and you keep DCAing and your returns will be insane. Checkout TQQQ vs QQQ

Bigboi_alex

Lmao down A grand and about to be down AF once QQQ and SPY break ATH again lmao

Healthy_Peanut6753

Size too small for any of those meaningful compete with just parking it in QQQ or IVV.

XXXMrHOLLYWOOD

To automate it It might be a bit tricky because the indicator is being used on QQQ but you want to be actually trading TQQQ but I’m sure theres a creative workaround out there I just haven’t tested it yet personally

its_treason_then_

1. Posting screen shots of charts and asking for recommendations may yield some answers, but this is not the appropriate sub for it, purely based on what the Wallstreetbets family of subs focus on (reckless options trading). So if you do this multiple times, you may get good information, but you’ll also MORE likely get sarcasm, incorrect information, or something that’s not catered to what you’re asking for. 2. If you don’t know what EMA means or the significance of trend identification with moving averages (SMA v EMA) or how each indicator correlates to trends, then you already shouldn’t be basing purchase decisions off of indicators or charts. 3. VOO and others like it are growth ETFs. It’s more important to buy them and let them sit than it is to time dips or corrections. If you’re dead set on making money from VOO or QQQ or SPY or SPX (all are ETFs) then the only thing to do is to buy in and wait thirty years. If you need your money faster than that, you shouldn’t be looking at ETFs anyways until you’re comfortable enough to swing trade them. And if you don’t know your indicators, you can’t really do it without paying a person or service a significant amount of money to do it for you. And don’t get me wrong, ***accurate*** chart and indicator reading is PARAMOUNT to making profitable investment decisions. But if you have to depend on others to digest that data for you, it doesn’t matter if they give you accurate information, the time it takes has already resulted in you losing out on potential profits. The more aggressive the trade, or the more popular the underlying, the more money you’ll lose if you’re sitting around and waiting for someone to tell you “hey indicators look good, you’re gonna buy in now and then sell as soon as the indicators tell you to.” Create a ChatGPT account (or whatever AI model you prefer) and ask it to teach you how to read charts and understand indicators. You can explain knowledge you already have so you’re not relearning boring shit, and you can tweak the personality profile of the AI to speak to you in ways that help you better understand and digest information.

solariac

I understand. I just wish they would recommend SPY/QQQ instead of that shit and bonds lol

Turbulent_End_6887

Canada wants to tax QQQ, that simple.

XXXMrHOLLYWOOD

If you were to buy and hold QQQ you would have a higher return than using this strategy (but the max drawdown would be 53% instead of 13%) so you basically would make more profit but take on a lot more risk If you enter buy and hold at the wrong time with no strategy you open yourself up to an insane level of risk where it could potentially take years to recover (if you bought before the dot com bubble it would of taken you like 10+ years to just break even) This strategy is meant to utilize TQQQ so take the profit on QQQ you see and then multiply it by around 2.5-3x Would be around 3000% with a max drawdown of 40%

RealisticMain704

Buy TQQQ above QQQ's 200-day SMA, sell below. Adjust position size for volatility.

Jacob_Billingsley

I try to focus more on delta, so b/w .7-.8. Right now the index options I’m buying are on XND which is the micro nasdaq. Liquidity isn’t as high as SPY or QQQ Or even XSP for that matter but I try and bid the mid price or lower to get something fairly priced. Currently holding strikes at 170/180/190. Each cost between $5-7k per contract. SPY and QQQ are great and also liquid, but contracts are around $13-$15k

greyenlightenment

Bitcoin, when you enjoy losing money as QQQ keep going up

greyenlightenment

it sucks. QQQ way better. this is what II have ben saying for a long time. I keep being right.

WeGotThisMaybe

this is a very clever trading and investing strategy! Nicely done! For your LEAPS on index options that you DCA, what strike do you do? QQQ, SPY, XSP can get expensive to do monthly from each paycheck so curious which tickers and strike price you do!

Physical_Dirt7309

VOO, QQQ, VTI (not investment advice)

wild66side

QQQ nasdaq 100!

Baltimxre66

+$13k - invested in SPY QQQ and IBIT during March and April

tpthechamp

Bruh 0dte QQQ calls allday everyday, anyone shorting rn is openly inviting shrek to penetrate their anus

Ok-Comfortable-3174

All big crashes (recent) ALWAYS 100% pump +20% that's why you needed to buy all the way down on the Trump crash. This is data one of the bullish stock YouTubers showed and the data is holding up. The market has to go up too many funds and pensions for it to not go up. 4 big crashes and 12 huge pumps per year on average. Scared out it all in QQQ ETF that will always track back up. No mater what anyone says we can't go bearish for too long that's not how this system works.

rixster64

Long on SPY, DIA or QQQ

MillionBEAR_

Who’s ready for SPY 620 and QQQ 550 next week?

RampantPrototyping

>relief rally in big tech next week A relief from what? QQQ hit a new ath yesterday and sits 0.2% from making new ones

_kruetz_

The population of gaza has grown since Oct 12. Isreal is providing food directly to the people of Gaza since hamas was stealing it. The only people calling for genocide (intafada) are muslims. With your brainpower I would stick with VOO, QQQ, and the like.

JelisHermes

If you're holding for 5+ years, QQQ or a diversified ETF makes sense. You could also consider parking a small part into a stable, cash-generating business, even a boring one that grows slowly but consistently. The key is to stay invested, stay curious, and don’t chase hype. You’ve got time on your side, use it well.

Prestigious_Yogurt88

Conditions are ripe for a market downturn. And if it happens, I think SBUX will get hammered more than the broad market. And if market stays elevated, SBUX stock could still suffer if they don't reverse the shrinking business, which is why I see it as the more prudent short. I am dabbling more in QQQ puts the higher it climbs though. Out of curiousity, do you have puts or hedging with straddles? SPY or QQQ?

ModelingDenver101

Scared money make no money. I would personally do $10k into VT. $10k into QQQ. $10k into NVDA. Use the extra $5k for college.

worktogethernow

I am generally risk adverse at the moment. I think its going down, I don't know when, so I am not going to guess at a specific time selling long-dated call. I didn't exactly sell today, I sold calls earlier in the week and got my shares called away intentionally. Maybe I should have done a long-dated collar like you suggest. idk. I just want to hold cash right now until I figure out what to do. I had a really good run with QQQ over the last 6 years or so. I wanted to take the win and then think about it. Like I said, I am always wrong. The NASDAQ will probably shoot up like 50% in a month or something crazy.

Plantastic24

Profit taking. I'm expecting a pullback soon on QQQ to previous ATH of 539, possibly also gap fill at 533

Newbiewhitekicks

5 years is an insignificant period of time when analyzing performance. QQQ(M) is just 100 stocks that trade just on the NASDAQ and it doesn’t include financials. It also includes Pepsi but not coke because that’s what trades on the NASDAQ. I’m not sure why anyone would want that. These kinds of risks are called “uncompensated risks.” Anyway, if these 100 companies do well then they do really well, but if they stop doing well then it crashes hard. Generally speaking you don’t want this kind of volatility. If you truly want to invest this money, and you should, then you want VTI (a vanguard product) or FSKAX (a fidelity product) or SCHB (a Schwab product). Which brokerage are you using?

Newbiewhitekicks

They really shouldn’t be giving this kind of advice. QQQ is a higher expense ratio version of QQQM. Both of those are a marketing gimmick by the NASDAQ. There’s no reason to want just 100 arbitrarily selected non-financials that trade just on the NASDAQ. But, 5 years isn’t a long timeframe in investing. You might want to look for HYSA, CD, SGOV, treasuries, and those kinds of things.

Newbiewhitekicks

You should fire your personal finance teacher for suggesting QQQ(M).

dimethylhyperspace

QQQ has a 71 RSI..I think I'm gonna build a cash stack till it drops back into the sixties..

Ranepureko

!banbet QQQ 544 3D

putsellingregard

QQQ is tech heavy + any non financials SP is diversified across like 11 sectors

PROMlSED

Tech really carrying QQQ to not fall like SPY

worktogethernow

I sold everything to cash. Sell in June at the moon is the new sell in May and go away. My plan is to sit cash until late August and then see how things look. I am posting here to let you all know that, because I always do the wrong thing, QQQ is guaranteed to double between now and August.

Odd-Block-2998

QQQ $600 confirmed

MillionBEAR_

QQQ 550 Open on Monday

MitchCurry

My extremely concentrated and risky high growth taxable brokerage returned 42.6% in Q2. More importantly, my much larger retirement brokerages returned 14.6% in Q2, beating VTI and SPY by \~4% but trailing QQQ by \~2.4%.

Caracalo

Fidelity says I lost $2,000 today because the bid/ask spread widened on my QQQ leap. Nice

endless_looper

Calls on QQQ buy Wednesday for Friday.

Gangstertango

VOO, JEPQ, JEPI, QQQ, tbh, I'd take out an option on VOO a few months out for it to hit like 10 bucks higher and let it ride

Apprehensive-Car9826

so youre saying i gotta play QQQ 0tds all week? there goes my port

TomatoSpecialist6879

QQQ and SPY rebalances are done off exchange and happened last Friday, this had nothing to do with it.

TomatoSpecialist6879

QQQ literally got pulled up by NVDA and AMZN with their combined weightage of 14.3% and you think it's GOOGL that's moving QQQ, shut up retard

wrecklord0

GOOG is 5% of QQQ... there is 2 class of shares for GOOG and they both contribute. Also it's up 3% now

ConfusedEagle6

Well there goes my Roth IRA. Sold all my QQQ to buy puts and then this happens.

TomatoSpecialist6879

GOOG is 2% of QQQ retard, NVDA is 8%. There's a reason QQQ barely moves whenever GOOG pumps

TomatoSpecialist6879

NVDA holding QQQ by the neck and forcing it to go up 🤣

DirtBerkle

I don't get it. All week every time I buy QQQ, it drops major. I watch it drop and drop and drop. Every time I finally sell it and buy SQQQ, it reverses. Like the exact minute. I don't get it. I don't see how it's even possible. Im holding SQQQ right now. I know the second I sell it'll shoot up. But instead I'm just watching it fall. I lost so much money in Trump's dumb tariff scam. Just tyring to make some back. I'm cursed.

IWasBornAGamblinMan

I just noticed something though it might be coincidence on QQQ if you a a Fib retracement from yesterdays close to yesterdays open, the .5 line is exactly where it bounced (on a line chart that shows closes only)

Odd-Block-2998

QQQ $540 -> $400 -> $550 -> $410 -> $560 confirmed. W-shaped recovery.

Odd-Block-2998

Shorting 200 shares of QQQ at $475. Not care. Will stick with it. US stock bull market is the world's 8th miracle.

ckami_91

Nuclear warhead hits NYSE QQQ and SPY +1% LMAO

DuneWormer

Why does it feel like a -.25% day on QQQ is legitimately the lowest we'll ever see in our lifetimes

PassiveF1st

IF QQQ falls to 540 i'll lose all my potential unborn children.

Remic75

Oh fuck my bad y’all. I put calls on SPY and QQQ…

eggplant_parm827

That feeling of holding QQQ puts of 0DTE 546 or 547 and knowing they will still expire worthless anyways. Nothing gets past the V.

tropicalia84

SPY and QQQ at all time highs. Is this stock market crashing?

-IQ200

Bears rejoice! (My QQQ puts got stopped out)

BeneficialBuffalo815

Locked in $30k profits this week on QQQ. See you boys next week to decide if I wanna be a gay bear again

tropicalia84

Best entry you're going to get on SPY and QQQ calls for the next 6 months right now

Abject_Engine2150

Two options: If the stocks are solid companies, like AMZN, GOOG, ASML, NFLX, etc. DO NOT SELL. Nobody under the age of 40 should be selling stocks as you are usually in an accumulating phase of investing. If they are stocks from unstable, not solid companies, sell and then invest either in a good low-index ETF like VTI, SPY, VOO, QQQ and/or great quality stocks... and hold them for at least 20 years before you sell any of it.

Yeezus_1

Bought in at the dip in April up 10% on VTI and 19% in QQQ lol

bigjimsribs

When’s the last time QQQ shed a couple dollars? Has it ever happened?