QQQ

Axe_Raider

if they are charging you money to just hold QQQ you are right to be done with them.

Axe_Raider

you said "pension funds" and i wondered which "pension funds" are being forced to buy it. if a pension has QQQ it's not required to keep holding it. holding QQQ is kind of risky for a pension, even if it did not have SpaceX.

HesusHrist

baby coffins are QQQ

_TheOoze_

Am Bol. Tuesday: 1. Nurse hangover 2. Buy ASTS 5/29 $110c 3. Buy LUNR 5/29 $40c 4. Buy NOK Jan 27 $20c & NOK Jan 28 $20c 5. Stay long CRAK, XLU, DRAM, SMH, AAPL shares 6. Sell CSP weeklies on SPY and QQQ for theta lunch money[](https://www.investing.com/indices/italy-40-futures)

gopoohgo

QQQ +0.8%    Please AMD and SNDK

trust_it_bb

First they coped with weekend chart. Then they coped with futures, on a closed trading day. Its copium all the way to SPY 350 and QQQ delisting

Mobile-Bar7732

Considering there are very lax rules for algorithms and trading I think Elon is going to use an automated trading platform to pump the stock price so it can meet the minimum requirements for index inclusion. This is why he's been fighting to lower the requirements. Once it's in the indexes, funds like SPY, VOO, QQQ, etc are forced to buy shares when they rebalance the funds.

Mannipx

When is the IPO so I can be ready . also get out of QQQ lol

AskPatient1281

DO you want to be aggressive? QQQ Do you want to be balanced? VTI

Fastest_light

VOO, or VTI, QQQ, QQQM, no individual stock, no cryptos.

ServerTechie

Switch to FNDX instead of total US market (VTI), S&P500 (VOO), or Nasdaq (QQQ). FNDX uses RAFI fundamentals index to select stocks based on company health and cash flow, not market cap or hype. If you use a target funds though in 401K or otherwise, you’re kinda stuck.

Saltlife_Junkie

I bought puts against QQQ

Equivalent-Rip-1478

Who’s gonna trade QQQ on the Canadian markets tomorrow?

cowboycookie1337

I like to day trade options on QQQ but I’m super long on every single space stock right now

Ahamadrayasbaboon

My SGOV position dwindles as a percentage of my IRA as SPMO, QQQ, and VONG fight to take the whole thing over on the way up. 

TreGet234

Would you now go all in on QQQ or is it a bit extended?

Regular-Hotel892

Leveraged ETFs as well as options on Leveraged ETFs are path of returns bet. If you have some signal that tells you there’s going to be some consecutive days in a row in the same direction, or the opposite (very choppy up down up down and you want to fade the LETF) you will likely do better choosing LETF products over the underlying. Inversely, if you have some signal on the underlying ( “I’m unsure on the path but I think QQQ is headed up within the next 12 months more than priced in the options market” for example ) you’ll likely do better on QQQ than TQQQ. In my opinion this is a better way to think about it than purely the volatility, sorry if it doesnt answer your question

Finance_and_chill

I disagree. Its still more leverage. Ie, If you look at 80 delta options for jan 2027. Right now thats 610 on QQQ, 56.5 on TQQQ. One can buy 5 calls of TQQQ for every 1 of QQQ. Now here's the leverage: lets say QQQ finishes at 800. Thats $190(call price ~$139)=~$51 gain. 800 is 12% up from today. Lets say TQQQ goes up 30% instead of 36%. That puts it at 100. Thats $44.5(~28.5 price)=$16 gain but you have 5 calls so $80 total. So same dollar amount invested gets you a higher return.

juicevibe

Wow. Clearly you don't know how to pick stocks. Stick to VOO or QQQ.

natalie_merchant_fan

And that's why QQQ is going down

Far-Doctor3527

TLDR: VT and chill Hello, responding here because I am also unhappy that my passive funds will buy SpaceX. I have decided to not take any action regarding the SpaceX IPO, and accepting that my funds will buy it even though this IPO seems like an obvious grift. I am not trying to convince you to take action or not take action, just explaining my reasoning because this IPO has made me worry about my portfolio and maybe this will be helpful to you in your own decision. First let's understand what types of funds could be affected by the IPO: \- Total world market funds (VT and the like). These track the total world's equities market, which is roughly $154 trillion in market cap. \- Total US market funds (FSKAX, FZEROX, VTI, VTSAX, and the like). These track the total US equities market, which is roughly $77 trillion in market cap. \- S&P 500 funds (FXAIX, VOO, and the like). These track the largest 500 companies in the US by market cap, which total to about $62 trillion. Note that this is about 80% of the total market. \- S&P 100 funds / Mega cap funds (FGRTX, QQQ, and the like). These track roughly the top 100 companies in the US, totaling roughly $55 trillion. Note that this is roughly 70% of the total market, and roughly 89% of the S&P 500 \- Large cap funds (FNILX, FSPGX, and the like). These are functionally equivalent to the S&P 500 so I will not add anything here, they may be slightly larger or smaller percent of the total market than the S&P 500 depending on holdings. \- Mid cap, small cap, and international funds: unaffected The first thing you want to think about is: what are you invested in? You don't have to go super granular but most passive investors have their investments in some version of the above funds. Are you more of a total market person, or more S&P 100? It doesn't matter which one you are, but take a look at your portfolio and understand what you are invested in. Now let's assume SpaceX does IPO at $2 trillion and let's look at how the SpaceX IPO affects the broad categories: \- Total World Market Funds: 2 / 154 = 1.2% of the total world market \- Total US Market Funds: 2 / 77 = 2.6% of the total US market \- S&P 500 and other large caps: 2 / 62 = 3.2% of the S&P 500 \- S&P 100 and other mega caps: 2 / 55 = 3.6% of the S&P 100 Now let's assume that the worst case happens: SpaceX IPOs at 2 trillion, and then the price goes literally to 0. If you are mostly in total market funds, your portfolio would go down by 2.6%. If you are mostly in large cap funds, your portfolio would go down by 3.2%. If you are mostly in mega caps, your portfolio would go down by 3.6%. But let's be realistic, even with this IPO likely being an Elon grift, do we really think this is going to 0? I don't. Maybe it loses 50% of its price, maybe 80%, I don't know. But it's a real company with real revenue (though small revenue compared to its huge valuation), so it's not going to 0. I'm not going to redo all the calcs but just for example, assuming it goes down by 50% and you are mostly in S&P 500 funds, your portfolio would go down by 1.6%. But here is the biggest consideration: 100% of SpaceX is not going to be publicly tradable. We don't know exactly what the percent it is going to be but likely only like 5%. This means that the indexes will only track 5% of SpaceX's market cap. So assuming SpaceX IPOs at 2 trillion and goes down by 50% and you are mostly in S&P 500 funds, your portfolio would go down by (2 \* .05)/62 = .16%. To be clear, this is like a fifth of a percent, which is inconsequential, the market moves more than this on a daily basis. Another point: I don't know what is going to happen in the future: I don't know if SpaceX's price will actually shoot up for whatever reason, so as an uninformed person, I think actively shorting SpaceX is not a good idea. Remember the famous quote "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent". I am a regular person and don't have any privileged information about what is going on with SpaceX so I think shorting it would be equally risky to shorting any other company that doesn't have a high-profile controversial figurehead as Elon Musk, which is something I wouldn't do (and likely something other passive investors wouldn't do either). At the end of the day, passive investors get to benefit from all of the companies in the market without having to do the work of researching and understanding each business, and making bets about which one will go up or down. We have benefitted from all the other great businesses that have continued to skyrocket without having to use a second of time to evaluate them. If you want to take action against the SpaceX IPO that is totally ok, but you could be introducing complexity to your portfolio, and spending your valuable time thinking about how to hedge against something that will impact your portfolio less than regular daily market fluctuations. Again, not trying to convince you one way or another, and to reiterate, I am not happy that I will be buying into this IPO passively because I do think it is a grift, but by looking at the actual numbers I have decided that this is not consequential. So to summarize all of this information, even though I am more of a Fidelity stan than Vanguard, "VT and chill".

JRockBC19

Is there any practical HARM to holding voo/vti/vug, or is it just redundant? With ETFs I always see people recommend just 1 largecap growth ETF to hold most of your funds in that category, but is it for actual upside or just due to redundancy? If I wanted to split my VOO holdings between VOO, QQQ, and SPMO for example, even though they currenly have a lot of overlap is there anything wrong with that approach?

CommercialWeakness22

https://preview.redd.it/n1g55e75k33h1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2d1800a03cbcae0bd2cb1561fcb2cdfedca53809 End of 2023 beginning of 2024 I was trailing SPY and QQQ. Ended 2024 with 50% gains, 2025 with 40% gains, this year 23% so far. Not gain porn by any means but still doubling the S&P and almost the NASDAQ gains over the last 2.5 years. It isn't over until you give up and decide to only contribute to your retirement accounts like all the others settling for an average of 7% annual growth

Necessary_Abroad9978

The best and closest thing I have found to that is MGK, the Vanguard megacap growth fund. If one of the MAG7 dies off and gets replaced then the ETF is in good shape. The fees are also lower than QQQ or QQQM I believe. I'm aware that there are ETFs specific to the MAG7. You could also substitute that portion of the portfolio with a tech ETF and google stock in my opinion, since I'm not real big on facebook or tesla. For the average investor, ETFs are the way to go. I would not be picking individual stocks.

Flat_Tire_Again

If your looking for leverage on an index don’t but 1 - TQQQ option by 3 options of the under index or (index equivalent) etf. If you can’t afford 3 - QQQ options try 3 - XLG options for example. They have long term positive drift and not the negative baggage of Leveraged ETF’s.

ndwillia

How different is this than QQQ?

DrSeuss1020

And I assume the idea is it still pretty much tracks QQQ performance overall? I would imagine the yield would eventually drop if the market volatility comes down but that seems unlikely to happen anytime soon with this administration 🤣

circlebust

Yes, the chickens will be coming home to roost hard with that one. SpaceX will be what, 3% of SPY or QQQ? So what will happen is that the investor will open the short position equaling 3% of his entire passive portion of the portfolio -- which by the way is a lot. I'm an active trader and I rarely risk 3% of my entire capital on a single bet, and never on a short bet or something where I don't have an extremely high conviction. And the short will just mostly sit red there. In the best case, SpaceX is basically floundering around and treading water, which means your position will also roughly flounder around or be slightly positive, but probably it will be red most of the time. At that point, you're just asking yourself, why did I even do that? What's the point? These 3% could work more productively. That hedge makes sense for large hedge funds, I don't think passive investors need to concern themselves with this.

Degenerate956

Time to put $1k on QQQ, so by time I’m OPs age I’m set.

ApathysLastKiss_

I'm jealous of you euros for once. I just found a 5x leveraged QQQ etc and a 3x leveraged SNDK etf, but they aren't traded on US exchanges. Lame.

No-Consequence-8768

Soxx has done 35% annual returns in last 10 years. SMH 37%. Nothing wrong with adding a sector(this case sub sector) to your portfolio. ALL the Index & S&P funds have increased their weight of semis, if you feel they will continue to grow(which should) make them whatever % you want, 10%,20%, etc... XLK is 100% Tech will have more semi weight than like a QQQ.

pineapplekiwipen

the last leg of this rally will be so completely regarded and unbelievable that even bears will be buying in we're talking QQQ probably at least +50% from here

Ok-Arm125

!banbet QQQ 730 3d

InvestingNerd2020

I'm not a fan of overplaying my hand in sector ETFs. However, making it 30% of your portfolio is fine. Example in a taxable brokerage account: \- 70% VTI or SCHB \- 30% SOXX. Could be replaced with FTEC or QQQ.

IAmTheDownbeat

Let’s normalize proposing with shares of QQQ.

Alarmed-Improvement

In my eyes, six months to a year is fine. I'd be more worried about any QQQ investors

Alarmed-Improvement

>Your option is to take control your self, or quit investing all together. Or just change the index. Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO) won't include it but Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQ) will.

GoldenPresidio

It’s a “single stock” if you look at sp500. But looking at QQQ, you’re looking at only 100 stocks total. And at that valuation it’ll wind up being like 3-4% of the index. It’ll weigh on the index a little bit when you compound. Over time But I agree it’s still big enough to materially change your strategy

ThetaEdgeHQ

The practical answer underneath the noise here is that the exposure problem and the volatility problem are two different things and need different tools. The exposure problem: if you hold QQQ specifically, the NASDAQ one hundred small float multiplier rule means SpaceX inclusion gets weighted at three to five times its actual free float percentage. The practical fix some commenters pointed at is correct, swap QQQ for an equal weight version like QQEW or for a broader vehicle like VOO or VT where the inclusion math is much smaller. That is an allocation move, not a hedge. The volatility problem is different. Retail can not actually hedge an index IPO inclusion event with stock allocation alone. The cleanest expression is a long dated put spread on QQQ dated around the inclusion window, typically thirty to ninety days after the IPO date, because that is when forced index buying compresses then mean reverts. The IV term structure already prices some of this, the front month is cheap relative to the three to four month dated options where the inclusion driven flow concentrates. Put spreads also limit the bleed if the event passes uneventfully. Panic selling everything today or sitting in cash for two months is the option that combines highest cost with worst outcome distribution. Picking either the allocation move or the targeted hedge is the practical answer. Doing both is overkill but defensible if the position size warrants it.

_WhatchaDoin_

I don’t know, this post seems a lot of recency bias to me. And clearly, the data shows (1) it is not a lie, and (2) it has not been decades. But heh, you do you, and can use confirmation bias to prove your points. You can compare BRK, SPY, and QQQ since 1999. BRK did overall better than SPY for pretty much all the time (except in 2000 when it dipped more, but caught up, then did better). BRK did better, by far, than QQQ until 2019. And yeah, in 2006, perf of QQQ for the past 7 years was god awful. QQQ then increased a lot, and dropped a lot in 2022, matching the overall perf of BRK. Then after it bounced back. So here, we are just saying that tech had a crazy growth in the past 3-4 years. I know that people on reddit are saying that investors who did not invest in DRAM stocks are idiot (because it did +100% in a month). Well, we’ll see how it will do in the next 5-10 years. [https://totalrealreturns.com/s/SPY,BRK-B,QQQ](https://totalrealreturns.com/s/SPY,BRK-B,QQQ)

Bagholder147

Check the Volume on the 680 SPY and QQQ options. 6/18 It's weird as hell. But who knows. I'm sure it will run at first. But these changes scream dump.

Primary_Ads

this is only accelerated by 6 months which isnt nearly as bad as QQQ

Primary_Ads

buy SPCX calls like a month out and then sell them if they go up. if SPCX doesnt do much you will lose the money but otherwise be safe and if it goes way up then can sell and then rebalance into QQQ to offset SPCX dilution. or rotate into spx. then you arent going to be diluted during the fast listing and the sell-off wont affect spx rebalancing as much. or do nothing and hold through the volatility.

RIVNMoonMe

Buy low-fee actively managed funds that have a profitability factor. Avantis (AVUS, AVEG, AVTM, ...) and Dimensional (DFUS, ...) are good. Avoid passively managed funds weighed on market cap like VOO, SPY, QQQ, etc.

llamaflocka

Damn are my QQQ 730 calls saved by none other than world peace?

big-mo

QQQ 730

supernova-infinite

I have $4000 in cash sitting in my Fidelity account. I'm a passive investor with main investments across VOO, QQQ, SCHD. However, I would like to experiment with this $4000 to maximize my returns. What are some ways to do this?

bruh67letsgo

All I know is I ain't touching QQQ for a hot minute. I am a SPY/VOO goblin until the Space X fast track into the NASDAQ shakes out.

Halbaras

Just ditch QQQ if you have it and buy VT or VOO. The pump should have given way to the dump by the time it gets added to the S&P. Absolutely nothing says you need to own a NASDAQ index fund, if you really want 'high growth high risk tech' there are plenty of other ways to achieve it. I'd agree that its a pretty worrying precedent for the NASDAQ to set between changing the free float rules to overweight tiny floats, and allowing fast entry (while this specific IPO also lets existing shareholders exit earlier than normal). I'd worry less about this particular IPO wiping anyone out (besides a few foolish active investors), and more about the floodgates the index's greed has opened. SpaceX's tradeable market cap will 'only' be $80 billion in non-NASDAQ indices, so its unlikely to distort the prices of anything else besides he other space stocks Reddit obsesses over but which make up a tiny proportion of the overall index. Tesla has been sitting at unhinged valuations for years but doesn't move the wider market.

Cav829

Could it? Sure. Like I'm not trying to be totally doomer against it, but the valuation makes no sense. And no, this isn't Tesla part 2. Tesla had an initial $1.7 billion market cap. Think about it this way: Tesla's initial market cap was 1/6th of RGTI's current market cap. $1.5 trillion market cap is two AMDs. So we know it's massively over-valued. We know there will be likely turbulence as Nasdaq ETFs and funds are forced to rebalance. It doesn't take a genius to see a lot of pumping and dumping here. Will it crash the market in the next month? Who the fuck knows. SpaceX is far from the only problematic company that will be in the Nasdaq after that. Could it mark the Nasdaq's top for a while? That seems more likely. If you're looking for a sensible middle-of-the-road move, just move some of your QQQ/Nasdaq allotment to an S&P fund for now. I mean that's not a terrible idea anyway with how overheated the Nasdaq is.

abstractraj

Oh! I see. Now it makes sense. Then maybe put a little into SPUS. This is a sharia compliant subset of the S&P. Although the ER is higher than a QQQ. Something to look at for a little diversity if you want. I’m not a financial advisor of course

NoMore_stu

Is PSY/QQQ a better place to park over VOO?

ATPsynthase12

This is Recency bias. Before 2015, the foreign market out performed the US market following the dot com crash until 2015/2016. Many people act like QQQ is the greatest etf on earth, but they only look at the last decade of returns. If you zoom out, you’ll see it underperformed from the dot com crash and took 15 years to reach its dot com era level of price per share. Including the foreign market in your portfolio diversifies you so that in the event of say an AI bubble or an economic down turn on US soil (both are likely), that you can keep your entire portfolio from shitting the bed.

Capable-Magician2094

Proposed change for S&P500 is to bring it from 12 months to 6 months so not as wild as QQQ.

Jerikolol

MSFT is going to 0$ B A N K R U P T and removed from SP500/QQQ as it should be

cazzeo

Except they changed the rules to triple the free float in QQQ and put it in there after only 3 weeks instead of 3 months.

ohgodthehorror95

For the market itself like index based ETFs (QQQ, SPY), sure. But not necessarily true for individual stocks. Not all stocks go up. And even if they do, a lot of them can still underperform the market.

Ansiktstryne

They only include the float, which is 5% for SpaceX. This means that even with a $2 trillion valuation it will be weighted as a $100 billion company by most funds. Just stay away from the Nasdaq100 (QQQ).

Painkiller8900

Thanks — works across all tickers not just SPY and QQQ.

Piyushhdangii

8 out of 11 is honestly pretty solid consistency. GEX levels definitely seem useful for intraday context, especially on high liquidity names like SPY and QQQ.

MoonManBigFish

So we sold QQQ under Bush because we were angry about the BS and we all looked around at each other and said what have we done now we are suffering…..fast forward to today we are angry again at all the BS but now we decided to buy QQQ in anger and never sell so now we look around and we have money yet still angry much better this time I guess we got smarter

Specialist_Cup_3603

Because most of technology stocks is halal + $pep + coca cola stock , the most safest option is QQQ ETF the price now is at 717.49$

Altruistic-Pin3207

Solid — 8 of 11 is well above darts, and the AAPL/MSFT/AMZN "didn't pin exactly but stayed in range" is the part most writeups skip. Curious whether your hit rate splits cleanly across the king-magnitude buckets. Big absolute-GEX kings (SPY/QQQ where dealer hedging is biggest) should be more reliable pins than the meme-y single names. I started logging mine in [strikerate.ca](http://strikerate.ca) by underlying and the result was less flattering than I assumed — most of my "GEX edge" was really the index ETFs, not the single names. One Friday is signal but not a sample size, so the underlying-level split is where the actual edge call is.

cyberfire101

morning dip-and-rip around 10:30 is a known intraday pattern tied to early profit-taking clearing out. the risk with 0DTE is one gap day wipes weeks of gains, so sizing matters more than direction. if you want to backtest that exact window on QQQ perps outside market hours, markets xyz lets you run that setup 24/7 which traditional brokers cant.

fungoodtrade

thought it was headed to QQQ

Early-Front3917

Hi All, I am hoping to save to buy a home and afford a surgery. Both huge expenses. 40s, 85k-125k year dep on part time job and bonuses. I do have a savings as well as 32k invested, and diversified. (25% growth inc VOO, QQQ; 25% div QQQI, F, O, and more, 50% in VUSXX and VMFXX. Only $85 a month div. I'm wondering if it's smarter if I get a $100k trailer and losing investment cash. Or keep renting at an absurb 2500 a month. The trailer at least only slightly depreciates now with inflation. Id expect it to resell for $95k in a year based on the others that have sold. It is trailer park with lot rent. With the trailer I'd lose up front money but have 1500 more monthly to invest. Homes here are 6-12% increase a year. Very hard to outpace. Thus far my investment is at 10% but kind of a weird market. My pay is up 45% over last year. What are your thoughts if you were in the situation? Not financial advice.

anarchy_pizza

I agree the missed opportunity costs have be massive. But I reassure myself that when it hits the 50% return I could’ve had in QQQ will be easily dwarfed. Maybe thats part copium but i honestly believe it.

Will1790

Inverse QQQ and SPY/VOO

Specialist_Cup_3603

I got 1630$ to invest monthly , i’m 23 , i will continue buying $MSFT $NVDA $GOOG $ORCL $NVO $INTC , if i got more money i will buy QQQ ETF

RLazerbeam

0DTE QQQ puts 

Ansiktstryne

Pretty much every other index than the QQQ is free float adjusted. This IPO is extremely shady, but unless you buy into it directly you’ll be fine.

otterbarks

For the Nasdaq-100, yes. (That’s why I mentioned QQQ.) However, other indexes do not need to follow that rule.

not_a_cumguzzler

you think too highly of yourself. I shorted NVDA, TSLA, PLTR, GOOG, and QQQ. all at relative bottoms

circadiggmigration

Can you choose which etf a stock buys? No. You can buy VOO or SPY, they're keeping the original rules for SpaceX. Tesla is already an SP500 co because they more than qualify. Keep in mind the Nasdaq only allocates based on the free float and Elon is only releasing 5 percent of spacex so even if you own QQQ the addition of spacex will be negligible. They're not buying 1 trillion worth of shares. As for Tesla, there's no real answer. You knew Tesla was a part of it when you bought it.

circadiggmigration

Well, even if it did beat QQQ, QQQ has the benefit of owning underlying companies that can continue performing, creating things and generating revenue. Yes, most people "trade" QQQ but you're actually buy an index of companies when you purchase it. BTC is entirely speculative.

aotus_trivirgatus

Stay out of QQQ?

DreamfulTrader

Glad to see you also made money on IWM and QQQ 😁 Very well, just check my profile and you will see the posts I started since last 4 weeks on the subreddit showing my trade with entry times. From Jan to Mar, the screenshot are burried in comments. IWM is very good at getting profits, but take your profit, I see when I try to get more than $20 per contract, it is stretching it. Yes it happens on some days to get $50+ per contract but trying to get it every day is not good. \- I am doing IWM as I re-started with a small cash account to grow it from $300 to $60,000 in 6 months and it fits my strategy and this year I switched to 0dte. I am working full time, so I don't have much time to watch the chart for hours. 1h or so is good nowadays. \- I'll probably switch back to QQQ/SPY when my account is bigger later. They are money generating for day trading. You can see in my video from 12 months ago (see my channel in my profile), I was making profits on SPY and I show also the broker statement. I don't have time to make videos, I'll make some in a month or so.

otterbarks

Avoid QQQ(M), since the Nasdaq-100 significantly changed their rules in a way that exposes you to more SpaceX. Outside of that, most other index funds (VTI, etc.) are free-float adjusted. One of the games SpaceX is playing is they're structured with an unusually small float (just 3-5%), which surprisingly offers some protection because those funds will automatically scale down their investment in SpaceX to match. At 5% they'll treat it as a $50B to $100B company, instead of $1.5T. See: [https://www.reddit.com/r/Bogleheads/comments/1tkxhpl/protecting\_ourselves\_from\_spacex\_ipo/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Bogleheads/comments/1tkxhpl/protecting_ourselves_from_spacex_ipo/)

Saffuran

The market and people who invest in Elon are not rational. That being said the market is not the economy and fundamentals only matter to a certain extent. SPCX is going to rocket because the market is manipulated for it to do so, only about 5% or so of the company is going to be publicly traded (low float, artificially low scarcity meets FOMO conditions means price skyrockets) and the NASDAQ changed its rules specifically for Elon/SpaceX so that 7 days after it lists, if you have a retirement account that simply holds NASDAQ index funds (something like QQQ) you are also going to own some SpaceX. This has never been the case before. SpaceX is going to have a 24-48 hours of FOMO and aggressive institutional buying to keep the floor high for when the index funds start selling off portions of MSFT, NVDA e.t.c. to buy SpaceX, which is just going to drive it up again. GOOGL also owns a lot of private SpaceX shares so if you own Google you will also be getting some exposure to the IPO.

crithema

I you have 100k in QQQ, and spaceX will be 4% of that, short 4K of spaceX.

AltruisticDBS

Get QQQ or SMH/SoXX and move on.

buried_lede

So, when does it get included, day 1 or just in time for QQQ to catch the big dump!  Either way i think it’s a bad idea

Odd-Block-2998

How come QQQ is green while NVDA is red? Weird.

buonoxc

Damn - this sounds like a great case for holding indexes instead. Could just hold QQQ , VGT, SPMO, VOO one of those.. you don’t have to second guess your conviction on bad days, weeks or months when you hold an index. or copy trumps portfolio knowing he’s got the insider info. (He had a great day today).

CriticismMost3450

You can do it fairly simply, albeit it’s advisable to mitigate risk somewhat. I wouldn’t do this exact thing, but if you structure your investment this way, you should be fine. Buy 300 shares of QQQ @ $717.54. $215,262 Buy 3 puts, strike $755 Dec2028 for $10,000 each Total capital used = $245,262 The puts used guarantees you a payback of $226,500 in December of 2028. Now you play with it however you need, just mitigate the risk, sell covered calls to pay the monthly payment.

TheRealArmament

It hurts QQQ is up over 20% in one month

UnfazedBrownie

How are you doing with IWM these days? I used to be able to churn pretty well but not lately. QQQ has had to bail me out the last few times.

TheRealArmament

Should we sell and buy QQQ?

Otherwise_Emu_542

I exclusively trade the QQQ 0 dtes. It’s dumb… but I just follow the 9/15 EMA line crosses on the 3 minute chart. It works 75% of the time. 4k profits in 2 weeks trading with fixed $400-$500 per position with 25% StopLoss.

wandererarkhamknight

More like 0.7% of QQQ. Lower for VOO, VTI and VT, in that order.

Toyota_Chewy

In my very short experience of options trading, 0DTE’s seem very hard to manage. They fluctuate so quick from 0 to 100 in the blink of an eye. It’s almost unmanageable for me. I have started dabbling with 3-7 day SPY & QQQ chains. I’m winning so far, but very small gains rn due to uncertainty and inexperience… One question I do have, are those considered day trades by your broker?

Ok_Cry7572

QQQ has rallied +30% from March lows in 6 weeks. It has gained only +0.9% in the past 2 weeks. Only 0.9% cause that is when I started buying calls

DreamfulTrader

Yes, see my posts with the entries and exits. Some are in comments from Jan to March. I am doing 0dte since start of the year. One trade a day and maybe 2-5 times a week. Only on ETFs like SPY, QQQ, IWM etc

RunsaberSR

Just follow the money really. Billionaires, governments etc are shoveling money into tech/infrastructure. Me too. And I'll keep doing it until i see the money leaving or going elsewhere. If you want an entry, sit on your $ and wait for SPY/QQQ to hit the 200day EMA again on the daily chart after some "event". Then start scaling into something "safe", VOO, SCHD, VTI, QQQ/SPY etc to start out (OR SOXL, DRAM...i REALLY like CHPY). And just hold it. And keep adding. Then you wait. Then you're rich. 👍

aDonkeyWithACarrot

Buying Reddit calls almost ruined me Luckily I sold some to then buy some QQQ puts but I paper handed most of them I then bought more RDDT calls again

JuneauMori

Massive fucking dump for QQQ to 716 EOD

BBBY4ever

Literally all of the nasdaq is down but QQQ still green. Sus

Snoo23417

We live in a time when QQQ being only up 0.5% is a bear's delight.

JuneauMori

Look at this, QQQ about to break 718 resistance and then down trend some more. Never should've let greed take over

caringforapathy

Haha bought a 5/29 QQQ 710p at lunch and set a trailing stop when stepping out earlier this aft. It literally triggered and sold at the exact low of the day at 1:30 with the QQQ spike, and of course now it's up. Just wasn't my day today.