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Anyone else scalp QQQ/SPX options with 20–90 second holds? Analyzing my results after a +20% month.
Before the close, breakout stocks to watch
Before the close, breakout stocks to watch
CPI Sets Up Potential for a Squeeze, ASML Reinforces the AI Bull Case
Not invited to Anthropic's $2T investor day? Me neither.
Does dealer gamma actually predict next-day SPY range? I measured 60 days of it
Before the close, breakout stocks to watch
CPI, Earnings and the return of the corporate bid
Retiring in 8 to 10 years, going 80% S&P 500 / 8% QQQ / 6% SMH / 6% single stocks. Rate it.
Why do people constantly argue overvaluation when the earnings tell a different story?
Before the close, breakout stocks to watch
Sold my QQQ $758 puts expiring today at $4.21 Before Sell Off
🚀 [DD] WHY $MONQ50 IS THE NEXT MULTIBAGGER ROCKET SHIP TO THE MOON (GME VIBES INTENSIFY 💎🙌)
Before the close, breakout stocks to watch
Rate my Portfolio. What would you do differently?
Lost close to $5000 of capital and need help
I think I got robbed on this QQQ iron condor today 🤦♂️
Pension Funds Are Selling $32B of U.S. Equities But the Setup Is Improving
Selling 30-DTE TQQQ cash-secured puts after large QQQ red days — looking for criticism
Has anyone consistently beaten QQQ over the past 15 years?
The cucks favorite investment basket is voo
2-year update 37, blue collar lawn care business owner. $173k then, $248k now. Still aiming for $1M or retire by 45. Posted here two years ago at $173,000 and got a ton of advice, some of it good. Figured I owed an update.
I Was Too Cautious Yesterday, But I’m Not Chasing
My Iron Condors got absolutely racked today
$QQQ Gains- All because I fell asleep on Friday
$QQQ I bought these to sell same day in mid afternoon but fell asleep… any chance here in getting out alive?
NEVER KYS PART 2 — We are almost even with QQQ since I downloaded Robinhood❤️
Took $2 profit and missed out on close to $600 profit
$250k invested in an eToro QQQ CFD for 20 years, should I move to IBKR despite a huge tax bill?
What % of your portfolio is in single stocks vs ETFs?
What % of your portfolio is in single stocks vs ETFs?
I stopped journaling option spreads using the mark price
The Warsh Effect and Wednesday's Rate Announcement
What % of your investments do you have in single stocks?
Don’t underestimate the impact of Dario saying “we must slow development of AI due to safety concerns”. Should impact QQQ bigly
Investment thesis for week 9/14 - 9/18
For poor man 0DTE options, is IWM my best bet? 🤔
Options buying with a $100K account ? (Intraday vs Swing)
Debit spreads taught me that being right too early can still be annoying
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
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Memory stocks ruined QQQ for me
We are \~5% off QQQ ATHs and yall are acting like it’s a panic selloff lol
Should have just bought QQQ shares and hold in Ira account. Oh wait never mind this is wsb sub.
Can't spell QQQ without QQ.
https://preview.redd.it/ygdojgoj19wh1.jpeg?width=1206&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7d9d9f9a9cd6089ac2c010bee07b674d5bab8dba QQQ 0dte 😭
Was out of the market for the last 2 years waiting on a Trump crash. Bought 6 figures of QQQ on October 7th. I require all you regards bow to me, King of the Regards.
**BanBet Created** ▲ | Ticker | Target | Entry | Move | Expires | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **QQQ** | $766.92 (above) | $710.11 | +8.0% | Fri 11:33 AM ET |
Yes but in different ways. The QQQ call was probably the best one. The others seem like they are kinda cooked
Bers plz roast me, I’m holding this: AMZN: $250 call - June 2027 GOOG: $345 call - Feb 2027 MU: $1050 call - Jan 2027 NBIS: $180 call - Sept 2027 QQQ: $730 call - June 2027 All bought Thursday/ Friday
Honestly that’s a great spot. What if 0DTE options happen to have a floor of premium? like you track QQQ notice OTM/NTM strikes $5 away bottom out around $0.15-$0.4. You notice these cheap depressed contracts happen to have the most convexity. You track this for a while and notice that these contracts have an opportunity to go up a lot. So now you have a strategy right there if you want to get your fingers wet with trading options, you observe that you could potentially only risk maybe $0.3 everyday to potentially earn really good return. And at a minimum, you can set a stop loss on this as well. That’s how I started
He would have $410k if he put it all into QQQ one year ago. And wouldn’t have had to do anything
I don’t see a violent rebound until QQQ is in the 680s at least, and I am a permabull
those who know how to play volitility fairly well and take the damn profit can probably use this to pick up spy QQQ etfs cheap with the profits. assuming it doesn't lol off a cliff after. 20% off my retirement is used for this I slightly been beating out spy barely past the first ones free redemption period.
If GOOG or AAPL miss earnings by 1 cent we're seeing QQQ 600 :pra
well the nasdaq has retraced back to the top of that red candle... probably going to start moving lower. That candle essentially took QQQ to 700.
Federal-Watch is thetagang, but she tends to make bullish memes despite her positions sometimes being bearish. In fact, I can clearly remember her making fun of bears despite having entered into a bearish spread on QQQ (we have the same banbet).
We actually don’t know if their calls or puts. It would be 0dte QQQ 770c or something. Whether it’s one or the other depends on the car their driving lmao
0 days to expiry on QQQ options. Do not try this at home
| Ticker | Target | Entry | Current | Move | Expires | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **QQQ** ▼ | $700.00 (below) | $745.53 | $710.11 | -6.1% | Thu, Oct 29, 1:24 PM ET |
it's cause SPY is only down a little bit. QQQ is more indicative and Nasdaq 100. All of AI getting killed but most people aren't concentrated in those names.
Wait for a bounce than ditch or trim some of those. You don’t need to make it back where you lost it. And then buy some NVDA, APPL, TSM and something like Costco, Netflix etc and then get an index fund or 2. SPMO, QQQ, for example. Still growth but won’t Titanic in a correction.
Ah, but they behave very differently on different days. SCHD historical drawdown (all time, not Oct 2011) SCHD -33% vs SPY: -57% vs QQQ: 83%, conversely QQQs peak performance was 930% vs 460% SPY vs 327% SCHD since October 2011 when SCHD was first launched. SCHD is generally more insulated from volatility, SPY is in the middle, and QQQ is highly sensitive to rate decisions and risk-on vs off narratives. I generally gamble SPY and QQQ options while SCHD doesn't really have options liquidity, hence why I use all 3 for different purposes and at different times! Hope that helps.
Any chance QQQ does 540 next week?
Space X has to catch up to their insane valuation. SK Hynix is another cyclical bet. QQQ granted we have another tech boom. Like those promised mushroom compute hive minds.
Jesus, I can barely keep track of one ticker. How could you possibly manage this many? Just stick to two or three things you really like and gamble all your money on that. I personally stick to just SPY SCHD and QQQ for both gambling and long term investing
QQQ is probably going to open down 2-3% tomorrow. Bottom may arrive sooner than expected though.
I’m going $50k in QQQ calls Monday. Stop me. 💯🫡🤨
I think it’s a combination of political shit and pr-earnings entries. This market is going to rally hard into November and December. I’ve started buying more shares in SKHY and AMKR as both are now below my original purchase price. Once QQQ goes sub-700 I’ll start selling more puts for December. I expect to rally hard (there will be chop into November/December) but direction is back to 740-750 on Qs. Then January is a shitshow. In December, I’m selling as many March calls as possible and buying back in January/Feb
People worried about 8 straight red days for semis should prepare for a decade of red. The entire tech sector is going to fall 90% from here. You’ll be able to buy QQQ for $90 soon. Good chance Apple and Microsoft go under, Google will likely just get acquired by SpaceX which will hit 25 trillion market cap.
WTH are you guys going. VOO QQQ and chill.
QQQ already down 0.63. We are so screwed
hope QQQ opens 2% lower Monday morning to buy dip
Monday closing price SPY: 650 QQQ: 500 MU: 500 SNDK: 800 NVDA: 150 SPCX: 0.99
I just know we will be testing 774 on SPY next week sometime and 726ish on QQQ. Just like when we reached ATH last week and everyone was so sure it would come back to the 760s well here we are. See you back at the top. Play accordingly
It’s because QQQ actually broke through the 50SMA and did not recover by close. All throughout the past year, we would always bounce there. Which is leading people to wait until the 200SMA which is about $703. I can see Asia taking us to $703 for pre-market and us bouncing at open
Idk man are you using technical analysis when making these predictions? Right now the spy and QQQ are both majorly bearish
Talking about many individual tech tickers. QQQ isn’t quite that low. Correct.
https://preview.redd.it/qna25sp6t1wh1.png?width=2102&format=png&auto=webp&s=59f68a4881032879d89a4efbcf1a906966b3f6d9 The last time QQQ printed a bearish divergence like this on the weekly, it dropped over 25% in the next two months. That would have it test support at 560, its low from March. I have been calling a pullback to the 680s, but honestly this is pretty bleak.
I’m 24, I started investing when I was 20. If I had been able to, I would have put as much money as I could have into QQQ. As it is, I was able to almost double just a few thousand dollars in two years.
If I was confident in the overall market I for sure would have kept it invested. But between the job market being absolute shit, and the uncertainty of AI, plus the fact that QQQ is filled with tech heavy stocks, I just wasn’t sure about it any more. If I’m wrong, I’m wrong, but I made the right call with ASTS. Sold for 63, it’s down to 40 dollars now.
If it rises, it rises. If it continues dropping, then I secured my gains and can invest back in when I actually have a good paying job. Well, if I’m able to get a good paying job. I’m not in a position to buy back in in either scenario right now though. Full time college, a part time job that barely covers groceries and fuel prices. I would have loved to continue dumping money into QQQ if I’d been able to.
I mean, if I felt like it was going to continue rising I would have kept it invested, especially the QQQ. The ASTS was an easy sell. With the way the job market is going though, I’m not optimistic about the immediate future. Sometimes feel like I’m wasting 15k on a degree I won’t be able to use because all the fields I’m looking at aren’t hiring, so I’ll be stuck in a retail job making barely anything.
I held QQQ for two years, I went through some dips with it, every stock I purchased of it basically doubled in price during those two years. Maybe it’ll bounce back up on Monday, who knows. If it does, oh well, I’ve got money I can put into college. If it doesn’t, like it has with ASTS, then I secured my gains, and if I’m in a good financial position I can buy back in when they’re low.
.com crash still gave us the Internet, but pretty difficult finding the winner in a haystack of losers, I went all QQQ this summer
I'd post a picture of it, but apparently that's not allowed here. Simply chart QQQ compared to DJIA. ...or simply chart QQQ, set it to weekly bars, and look for when people that bought at the top broke even. The answer is 2017, but it's nowhere near that rosy even because the purchasing power of the US dollar is constantly eroded as more dollars are conjured from thin air. It's unlike the QQQ has reached the 2000 peak today...26 years later if inflation adjusted. Cisco system only reached parity with their 2000 price last year.
I am short QQQ and SNDK over the weekend in a big way. We will not gap down. You’re all welcome.
Yeah I was thinking more single-stock options. Can play index options, more liquidity there, and I was seriously considering a huge play on April 7 QQQ options when the tape screamed "there's a deal" on Iran. My position sizes tend to be huge chunks of my net worth, whether it's options or shares, so being able to take in over $1m is a necessity.
QQQ down 8 sessions in a row was not on my october bingo card
Asia follows much of the time, so they will sell Hynix, Samsung and Kyoxia (all memory), also TSMC and a bunch of other associated names. Indicies will drop at least as much as QQQ did. Gap down at the USA open, then a battle between buy-the-dip zombies and all kinds of sellers. The AI magic is gone, markets near all-time highs - profit taking on long-held positions does not require much thought now. Also, there was this (screenshot below). If bull-in-chief dropped a cope brick, it is an exit point. https://preview.redd.it/ie95our471wh1.png?width=709&format=png&auto=webp&s=9d6a2b2fd997ce893d83db122993c57b0b45394e
QQQ up 10% down 8%. Still winning. 😂
Okay... Very happy for your in-laws...really. I like stories of determination and overcoming adversity. ...and why would you watch 40% of your wealth evaporate? Nothing but nothing builds wealth faster than being on the right side of these massive re-allocation events. It's not about "whining" as you put it, it's about making unemotional, logical, rational decisions based on the evidence at hand. The equity market has been splitting in two all year and simply refusing to see it is not going to make it "unhappen". Would it surprise you to learn that the DJIA has outperformed the QQQ by 93% since the 2000 peak? Did you know that from the 2000 peak to 2007 the gap between the DJIA and QQQs was already a staggering 82.65%? QQQs -48.93% DJIA +33.72%. Go look it up yourself if you don't believe me. You see, it's not about "being fine" and "not whining" it's about assessing the situation absent emotion. Recognize opportunity when it presents. If we're at a similar inflection point, and I believe we are, then people that short the financialized manic bubble(XLK), and go long the real economy(XLB, XLI, XLE) will have the potential to build generational wealth.
I think it gets worse next week yeah. About another 5% left to go down on QQQ and SPY could start going down too. Then yeah after midterms I also expect a rally
680 is QQQ’s 200D EMA so it is the number to watch here
I think memory companies are at attractive valuations but they will likely go lower still. I have been saying QQQ goes to 680s from here before a bounce. If there are technical signs of a reversal I’ll go long though.
Experienced investors also recognize when obvious sector rotations are obvious. Just because something is falling in price does not make that something "cheap". Odd as it may sound, one of the largest market drivers this year is the way the overly financialized AI buildout is overtly driving money flow away from financialization and into the "real economy". This is going to continue and will hurt information technology. This makes the way to play this very obvious. Short information technology(XLK, QQQ)...long energy(XLE), materials(XLB), and industrials(XLI).
**BanBet Lost** — /u/Play_Background (1W - 4L, 20%) | Ticker | Entry → Target | Move | Time | Result | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **QQQ** ▼ | $727.79 → $705.96 | -3.0% | 2d | Lost |
Im shorting QQQ. Up +12% still down tho been shorting since April
I sold QQQ credit PUT spreads 2 hours before the market,listening idiots saying selling always better. I should have stayed w my long puts instead of trying to collect premium,and have at least $20k profit Long story short, don’t listen anyone. Most of them don’t know what they talking about
33 is young. Get an IRA or 401k going. Get some QQQ or VOO. Stop trading and buy investments you want to hold long term.
Heads up Starting Monday mega caps and index ETFs options like $SPY $QQQ will have extended trading hours. 7:30 a.m. and 9:25 a.m. ET and 4:00 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. ET.
IWL and QQQ don’t tell anyone
Iran war is literally covered calls on QQQ and SMH. I will feel unhappier if QQQ straight to $800.
Look. I swung QQQ 711p MSFT 527p CRCL 82p which all went 5x to 10x but I sold them all . Then chased calls all day. Some days just are self inflicted
Next week is about time Burry will open some short on AI then QQQ goes to 800
You guys won't believe this but $QQQ will retest $550 in 2028
You’re young. Stop gambling imo, and invest in Roth IRA, ETFs like VOO, QQQ live below your means , be a millionaire w no debt by 50
You make a good point. Since 30-40% of my trades are QQQ, i should test it out on MNQ / NQ , maybe just fire up a PROP firm to first try it out.
Wait but our QQQ play! How am I gonna sell without you :screech: :screech: :screech:
QQQ opens down at 704 on Monday then we bounce again back to 712. That’s my prediction
Some more context, there's no real magic. Since my window is SO small you can kind of feel if it's going to bounce around. SPY/QQQ tends to bounce off round numbers so if i see it heading towards one I'll set a buy at where the option is likely to be when it's close, take the quick win. I'm always watching the 9EMA first and i'll get puts or calls depending on it's current move up or down when it tests the 9EMA. I've been thinking of how to automate w/ AI and i'll try it eventually but so far it's too much of a "feel".
Just sell QQQ straddles at strike at open. It's gonne be alright.
U planning to buy QQQ, MU or AMD calls with it?
All are 0DTE options (or 1 DTE with MU) -- I stuck to SPX/QQQ mainly but did a lot of MU these past few weeks as I learned it's levels and how it ran. I decided to go ITM half way through as it seemed smoother and more consistent. Most common strat was buying slightly ITM QQQ 15-20 contracts (or 1-3 SPX) and sell for that .10-.15 gain on QQQ and 0.20 - 0.30 on SPX. I trade off the 5-min chat and watch the 9EMA-21EMA + VWAP indicator i found on TradingView and also watch volume bars. Volume especially matters in doing off hour SPX trades which somehow have been super successful (like a big SPX move on low volume, i'll scalp some on a small reversal)
QQQ had party whole week, not just 2d
Normal? When QQQ bounces off the 200 EMA evrry other day? It'll probably go up or sideways then bounce off it down again in 1-2 days. The trend isn't looking good with it dipping 1-3% a day.
QQQ puts expiring Monday were expensive. Gave thought to selling a couple CSP but it seemed to good to be true.
holy shit you're right. $QQQ down a $1 after hours on a friday. not seen that in a loooong time.
QQQ +3% after Iran war 517th pause.
Cashed out of VOO and QQQ this week If Anthropic and OpenAI have no clothes, I think things could get ugly
If you buy 1k worth of OTM 0DTE puts on QQQ every day for a year you will almost certainly have a day where it flies 55x. Problem is there are quite a bit more than 55 trading days in a year. I’d actually love to see the data of someone who tries this, just very consistent small moonshot bets for an entire year. I’d guess it’s disappointing compared to responsible investors but far superior to the average 0DTE gambler.
Market's done a great job of conditioning everyone how it's gonna V. And that's exactly why bulls lost buying $QQQ 0dte calls at $720, then at $715 and then again at $710
No. I did a last ditch effort and put it all on qqq and then shut off my laptop. Guess what happened? QQQ had one of its worst days in a long time.
No options. I was pretty spooked from drawing down my TQQQ during tariffs that I didn't go back in for a couple weeks. I went for QQQ, then moved to AMD. With my style, yeah, it does involve being acutely aware of what's going on.
QQQ -7% since 10 days ago. -70% for this bear market.
QQQ at May 4 level. Semis down 15% from late May. The market peaked then, summer sucked and now Fall is going to shit.
I used ChatGPT to do a backtest. Project SCHD methodology back to 1999 (etf started in 2011, index a few years before that), and DCA between the two yearly. The criteria is: DCA into QQQ when the 3y returns were higher for SCHD. When QQQ had the higher 3y returns, make the contribution to SCHD. It obviously resulted in a lot more SCHD contributions than QQQ. But it was roughly on par (<5% less total return) than QQQ only with much less than half the max drawdown. I think it definitely has a place. I think “low duration” equities, otherwise known as defensive stocks, definitely have a place on the risk ladder of a well balanced portfolio. Look at any value-ish fund like SCHD, SCHV, DGRO, VTV, etc and you can see a shape that’s different from the stone-skipping shape of growth funds.
$QQQ will retest July low before midterms
So badly need a 5% quick jump in QQQ next week, LOL.
QQQ is down 5% in a fucking week
Imagine being me, an elite trader, trying to make it off a Wendy’s salary when you chucklefucks make 5x what I make a month and blow your wealth on 0DTE QQQ calls. inb4 broke and hating outside the club (even if it’s true)