QQQ

Intelligent_Kick_436

It only gets worse! Had $300k draw down because I just froze during the quick 2022 sell off. Eventually but slowly got it back, but I am not proud of that. Instead, those scars have stuck with me and I'm a lot more affraid of being caught in another deep draw down - so I've done things like panic sell-all (Feb 2025 when things got rocky). Also started selling ITM calls again in Oct 2025, and again now I'm selling deep ITM calls against my indexes. I rolled my QQQ options four times last week: $590 2WTE, $585 3WTE, $578 4WTE, $560 6WTE. Ideally things just stall out in the $580 to $600 range and my shares are called away in May (at $560 strike, and I keep the extrinsic + intrinsic for a break even around $600/share). Worst case things keep tanking and I have to keep rolling down further.

mykesx

All VOO and 1 share of QQQ.

Easik

I don't think this approach is foolproof. I treat my defensives as capital preservation and my offensives as a long or short depending on market conditions. I moved to 50% defensives after October and my 50% offensives were shorting the market. So being up 30% on 50% of my "defensive" plays, let's me move some of that to bonds to further preserve the gains and my offensive plays shorting carvana and other trash companies has been another 30% gains. I'm up about 14% YTD right now and honestly moving to 75% bonds right now feels like the right move. I'll keep my short / synthetic shorts going on Carvana and QQQ, but it'll only move the needle a few more % unless these things crater. I just don't see any merit in being long until Itchy gets neutered.

Retropixl

Yeah overall it sucks, tbh though I think things like QQQ and VOO will rebound much quicker than something like VXUS.

ExplanationNormal339

Scaling back to 10–12% monthly is smart with [$QQQ](https://aimytrade.io/ticker/qqq?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=comment&utm_campaign=smallstreetbets&utm_term=QQQ&utm_content=variant_1774112284643_63w2x5) down near $582 support—tighter spreads mean less room for error.

__redruM

Alright, I’ll bite, $250k to invest, happy with a little risk like QQQ, what do I do with $250k that’s better than 50% VOO and 50% QQQ.

PralineTechnical5685

YES, FOOL is for fools. No risk management that's asinine watching a blue-chip like FMC go from $112 to $12 with buy, hold no matter what. Now you need 933% run to break even. Profit taking exit strategy: none, Buy QQQ, IVV, VUG, etc. ETF's

TheInkDon1

"Something is *always* going up, it's our job as traders to find it." That's my philosophy, and I believe it's true. Though in 2000 and 2008/9 I wasn't paying as much attention to my trading as I am now, so I can't 'prove' it. But now I'm watching daily (or nearly) and taking notes of all my trades, as well as weekly account balances. Are we in a bear market now? No. Are we in a correction? No. But are we headed in that direction? Sure looks like it. Have you looked at a 1-year or 3-year chart of the S&P or Nasdaq lately? Going down. This is [SPY and QQQ](https://stockanalysis.com/etf/compare/spy-vs-qqq/). Change the view to 5 years, then 3 years. Both are clearly going down. SPY peaked at 695 on 2/2. It's at 648 today, down 6.7%. 10% is a "correction," and 20% is officially a bear market. Did you look at the chart of the 3 ETFs I'm in? Let me pull one of them out and compare it to SPY: [XOP vs. SPY](https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/compare/xop-vs-spy/) The 3-month is a good view: XOP up 42%, SPY *down* 4.7%. Do you see how it works? The *whole market* doesn't go into correction or bear at the same time. It's just an average of the 500 companies in the S&P 500 Index. And even though that index is going down right now, I guarantee you could look through those 500 companies and find many that are going up. That's why I say it's our job to find them. Just because you're told we're in a bear market, don't sit in cash: find the things that are still going up. There'll always be some. Take care.

mayorolivia

I don’t understand trying to stock pick right now. The entire MAG7 has been dead money in 2026 and since last summer (except Google which went on a run after the antitrust suits were settled). QQQ is dead money. The market is pricing in a lot of geopolitical, economic, and AI uncertainty (eg, software defensibility, capex ROI, competition). Don’t try to outsmart the market. IMO, best thing to do is buy the indexes and be patient.

Top_Cockroach313

Also hint QQQ Long Dated PUTS Thank me later bros

princemousey1

Just use IBKR for S&P ETFs or QQQ or ACWD.

Cozyteammate

If you're OK with 10% per year, then it's a buy But keep in mind of opportunity cost. SPY/QQQ could also yield 10% per year or more, while being much more diversified and carry less risk. This mean that GOOG has more risk than SPY/QQQ, but by buying GOOG you are getting very little excess return for far greater risk. It might not be worth it. If it seem confusing, I suggest you copy my comment and talk with AI, try to understand it, because if you do, it will boost your investing journey by a lot.

JoeAceJR20

If I had 750k I'd put 700k into a safe ETF and the QQQ and use 50k for multiple options contracts. If I lost all that 50k, which I wouldn't I'd stop before I lost that 50k, I'd still have 700k between QQQ, spy, and a high income ETF.

Throw_Away_TrdJrnl

Too poor to sell QQQ CSP hahaha

Chuque

compare it to QQQ

soad1331

All these Investco QQQ ads during the NCAA tournament. I know what you're trying to do and I'm not falling for it.

jnyprtn

Also selling low delta CSP on QQQ. It’s only a for a couple hundred a week but better than sitting out.

johnlovesbigwomen

IF you had of risked $ 100,000 on SPY OR QQQ puts after Crabel low was taken out after 7:00 AM, you would have made at least $ 1,000,000! Diamond hands? You got LUCKY!

Hamzehaq7

ugh same here, my portfolio's down like 12% too... mostly messing around with calls and trying to catch those bounces. idk what it is, but this market is just rough right now. even with the SPY and QQQ taking a hit, I thought I could play it better. any thoughts on when it's gonna turn around?

greyenlightenment

QQQ was 10% today at one point?

FlyWannaBeRichGuy

Bought 950 NVDA calls for Monday... Hoping we go to 185, thinking if dude pulls out of Iran this weekend, Monday will be a 4-5% QQQ day. Wish I didn't lose my ass the last few days expecting a bounce...

csr8765

Monday QQQ will be up 2% and MSFT will be up 0.23%

Zuko2001

Don’t be shocked to see hulk dick Monday 3% on QQQ back to 600 just to confuse this shit out of the market before next leg down

T1m3Wizard

Thank you! You're a life saver. I'll head over to QQQ soon and try not to make the same mistake.

Technical_Scallion_2

Me and my 200 0DTE QQQ calls (for Monday) applaud this, sir!

Valkorion335786

My hope was 640 so I could finally go full port long on QQQ lmfao

Fearless-Paint-7680

QQQ weeklies should print IMO

Fearless-Paint-7680

A good idea MIGHT be to buy LEAPS on the dip of QQQ/SPY right now. You could probably make most of it back when the inevitable TACO happens

Illustrious_Pair2990

Can QQQ get to 590 in 2 1/2 hours?

NVDAismyg0d

Your capital gains taxes go toward Israel Your capital losses go to Jewish finance executives bonuses  You are a slave. Buy QQQ calls and be freed

gjbaca17

Up about 9%. Been riding around 2-3 negative NDX beta weighted portfolio since January with long put spreads and short call spreads on QQQ, SPY, TSLA, PLTR, IBIT, FIG, MSFT. Mostly long Vega and short theta right now but looking to pivot once I hit some price targets.

Gunove12

Holding my QQQ Calls over the weekend. Wish me luck nerds

nationalist77783

bought the top on QQQ and XAUT. 1/3rd of my account is gone… My liq on the XAUT(gold) is at 3850, may god help us

Day-Chicken

I would probably pick up short dated QQQ calls as there will be some correction. Those are dailies too and extended option hours until 430 so you have a few minutes

Fhyzikz

Ok 15 QQQ 600c loaded for Monday's shrek donger of a bear rally

jazzyjjcups

Such a joke QQQ is bouncing into the close, shit should be down at least 3% today

trollboter

20 more dollars and my QQQ calls are in the money!

Fhyzikz

Just bought $50 worth of QQQ 600c for monday in case of retardation

gatovision

These are the days all those 0DTE SPY/QQQ bulls get obliterated trying to avg this mess down. Trained hard on BTFD mentality that worked for 3 years straight.

Outrageous_Length975

Laughing my ass off with my 80% cash position getting 3.5% APY. Slow and steady for the next 3-6 months while we see a full 30% correction and recession declared, then start deploying into QQQ.

jlw993

QQQ to $540 before you know it

MoreOutcome8541

No I got 12k in. I’m 100% sure QQQ will hit that price at some point in 3 years

EaterofSnatch

VOO up 15% over last year, QQQ up over 20% same time frame. What do you want? 30-50% gains on US market every year?

EvolvingDior

I had my chance. I did not move all of my VGT/XLK/QQQ into HDV. Only a measely 10% of it. And then I got complacent.

Pretty_Ad_7885

i have a solution to current problem : "Vote kick NVDA from SPY and QQQ"

Inifity

QQQ is already close to 10% from all time highs

Chim_Pansy

It happens. Fortune favors risk-takers but you also open yourself up to more vulnerability. The same principles that got us there in the first place are the ones that took it away. Is what it is. The ride sure was a thrill though! Glad to hear life is good for you with all that time between then and now. It's extra reassurance for myself too. My events happened around this time last year with Trump's tariff shit and I bought the dip repeatedly on SPY and QQQ calls thinking tbe market would have a massive rebound

SuspiciousStable9649

VM at 1:47 pm said: I expect a grind lower into the close as weekend risk aversion kicks in, targeting a SPY close around 649 and QQQ near 582. If that 650 support on the SPY cracks, we accelerate toward 644.

Sober_Alcoholic_

Man, yall are way too tied to being a bull or bear. Be a kangaroo if you insist on your bestiality. Anyway, Google under $300 is a no brainer. Capitalize on the fear. I unloaded my QQQ puts (too early, of course) and used the profit for $582 QQQ calls for Tuesday.

xSpectre_iD

Whenever this is done AAPL is gonna moon, can't believe the resilience today vs SPY and QQQ

beachsandwichen

They will be like omg it’s a rout and then on Monday QQQ will be at 598 and BTC will be at 70k and no one will give a fuck

GenesGeniesJeans

Less than 50 cents to go to close under the LOW from November for QQQ

Chim_Pansy

Trading one month to exp. options on SPY and QQQ when Trump's tariffs fucked the whole market. I stayed in on calls and burned my way down to $50k in a matter of about 3 weeks. I'd been doing well by sticking with my trades and averaging down up to that point. Hadn't encountered such consistently sharp movement such as a crash, and every trade paid off before that for a long time. Before that shit, I had a day I made $40k from sticking with a trade for a week and a half and many other profitable days from following my strategy, so I had reason to remain confident in the way I was trading. I traded back up to $130k over the next month, then went deep on a market recovery. I was right to think that but my timing was not. Burned my way back down to $60k, had to pay taxes from tbe previous year's gains as well, and kept spiraling down after that into more and more reckless trades. Learned a lot of lessons that I will apply in the future when I decide to trade again. It'll be fine

Chim_Pansy

You can't live off interest of $280k unless you make your annual expenses about $15k per year. What I should have done is just invested it in VOO and QQQ and let it grow while I kept working my job. It'd be $5 million by the time I retired even if I contributed nothing else.

joe4942

Tough time in the market but on the bright side, I'm only down -2% YTD which comparatively isn't too bad. By comparison: * QQQ: -5% * XLK: -6.3% * IVES: -8.8% * GRNY: -4.6% * ARKK: -11%

buttaviaper

fuuuck I was so down on QQQ calls and BRENT CRUDE made me break even, lost and made back 30% in a fucking day

lookingforajob2020

switching from puts to 3/27 calls on SPY and QQQ wish me luck

TheGeoGod

Power hour rug pull. QQQ down 3% into the close.

NVDAismyg0d

My girlfriend matched at Stanford for residency 🙏boys we getting more money for QQQ 0dtes

NVDAismyg0d

VIX double top with QQQ at support. We know exactly what happens next

NVDAismyg0d

!banbet $QQQ +2% 1W

ecoburner87

i've been bearish for 2 weeks and, honestly, i think we made the move we were going to make. i think oil breaks down and we're bullish a few days early next week. i think we're overestimating the oil pump like we all overbought the metals pumps. the US govt. will not let it run up too high, you already know that, so just trade with it. i think we'll see new lows in SPY and QQQ but not for another week or 2.

NVDAismyg0d

Banbet $QQQ +2% 1W

BookkeeperMotor4268

Mobile app is working but I just had a buy stop order on QQQ puts that it blew past and never executed.

Concerned_Fanboy

The 6 month zoom out on QQQ is actually frightening

TheGeoGod

Next support level for QQQ is around 560. If it holds then I’ll buy if it doesn’t I’ll wait till the next support level which is 530.

SuspiciousStable9649

What will SPY and QQQ be at market close today?

dontslambro

SPY is down over 5.5% in the last 4 weeks. Dow is almost down almost 8% Same with the QQQ

Samjabr

seriously, these QQQ 595s are toast, right? Anyone know if Mango is going to pump us into the weekend \*insert image of PePe huffing copium\*

Send_Lawyers

I loaded the boat on puts this week. The thesis is simple. Liberation day was a panic because we put 20% tariffs on everything. $120 oil is literally the same thing. Everything is 20% + more expensive. Check out airline tickets right now. Even the cheap southwest flights to Vegas are double what they were in January. Spy 600 may. IWM and QQQ will get hit harder. No rate cuts are coming. AI won’t save you. It will take 90+ days to bring US shale up and pumping. And oil will probably be 150 by then. Crashing down quickly when our production comes online. The strait will be closed for awhile. The amphibs and marines aren’t going to be to be able to get close to off load the marines. Or if they do the casualties will be horrific. Google a C802 truck launched anti ship cruise missile. Iran has heaps of em. Remember when the Ukrainians sank Russian prize ships in the Black Sea? And there wasn’t fuck all Russia could do about it? It’s kinda like that.

TheGeoGod

We haven’t seen QQQ this low since. Checks notes beginning of September 2025

Samjabr

all of a sudden these end of the day QQQ 595 Calls seem... unlikely Except, when I sold some calls yesterday for $8, BiBi tweeted some shit, literally 5 minutes later, and those calls were 40x - not exaggerating. That's how they get me, every time.

ckami_91

QQQ Crushed through 200dma LOL

mneymaker

So its a good thing i haven't sold my QQQ puts so far exp for April 17th. They are at +50% (\~48k profit).

noahmfs

Well as retarded as it sounds get ready for Monday and Tuesday 3% up on spy and QQQ

Boromir-Wants-

Can someone explain what “perpetual future contracts” are. Coinbase introduces stock perpetual futures contracts for non-U.S. customers Coindesk 2026-03-20T08:51:00-04:00 Coinbase (COIN) said it began offering perpetual stock futures to eligible non-U.S. retail and institutional traders, extending its derivatives product line into U.S. equities. The contracts let traders take leveraged positions on a group of large-cap U.S. stocks, colloquially known as the Magnificent 7: Apple, Microsoft (MSFT.NaE), Alphabet, Amazon, Nvidia (NVDA.NaE), Meta and Tesla. Perpetual futures tied to the SPY and QQQ exchange-traded funds, which track the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 indices, are also available in some jurisdictions, the exchange said in a Friday blog post. Unlike standard futures contracts, perpetual futures have no expiry date. Coinbase's contracts are cash-settled in USDC, a dollar-pegged stablecoin issued by Circle Internet (CRCL.NaE) . Coinbase said traders can use up to 10-times leverage on single-stock contracts and up to 20-times on ETF products. Demand for round-the-clock equity exposure, it added, has been growing rapidly, and most of the offerings have been concentrated on decentralized platforms. The largest such decentralized platform is Hyperliquid, which earlier this week introduced S&P 500 perpetual futures contracts. The platform has become a hotbed for contracts tied to traditional financial instruments, including oil-linked contracts that are trading round-the-clock as war erupts in the Middle East. Coinbase also said the product uses the same risk engine that supports its crypto derivatives markets, with cross-margining across perpetual futures and spot positions. The move comes as the exchange expands the range of assets available on its platform as part of a bid to become the “Everything Exchange.”

Nova-JC

Drill into close SPY 645 QQQ 580 TSLA 365 🫡

Samjabr

whelp, I fell for it on that fake news headline. Overpaid for the pump - I am so fk'd unless QQQ gets close to 595... 🤡

GenesGeniesJeans

If QQQ closes below the Oct and Nov lows, it is J O E V E R

ThrowAwayJEY

Crazy. Just recently I sold about that much in shares of QQQ to buy a Lexus. I'll stop by Wendys to visit.

Clubpenguin8888

Yup it’s simply sentiment. Companies are still crushing earnings/expectations. IMO this turns out with an inflation spike similar to 2022-2023 and we’re heading to 2-3 years of pain, or this is same scenario as the tariff scare, once QQQ got to under 25 P/E last year with companies smashing earnings it was such an obvious hold nothing would have got me to sold

Embarrassed_Job_6662

I call it the limp dick formation. Same as you see on QQQ

RalphaDog

How QQQ is not down 5% this week is insane

BGM1988

20% market correction from the October high seems plausible( only 12% downwards on QQQ)

natures3

Tbh I’m only in SPY and QQQ commons

AlphaHarmony

Oil up makes inflation go up, rate cuts less likely, dollar up, discounted cash flow, growth companies heavily affected. It isn't the war itself, it is the supply chain disruption and uncertainty. Although, QQQ is outperforming SPY, so they are doing better than it feels.

awetfartruinedmylife

QQQ -9% from october peak

Desmater

Give me QQQ 590

cantTankThisFox

Just a graveyard of QQQ calls in my watchlist

beachsandwichen

QQQ calls

PatrickSebast

A $100 drop on SPY or QQQ is what I am waiting for tbh.

LikeSnoop

Can we ban this QQQ AI slop retard?

looool_k_libtard

Bulls are genuinely some of the dumbest people on the planet. There is no end to any of this until QQQ is below $200.

Snoo23417

QQQ acting like it's got a bottomless pit under it.

Samjabr

I fk'd up. I mean to buy 10 0dte QQQ 599 Calls - Accidentally bought 100 😔

Domitus_Aurelian

I heard this morning that 40% of the QQQ or SPY are officially in a bear market...

OkBandicoot9286

After the late afternoon wild QQQ pump, idk what to think today lol

aDonkeyWithACarrot

How are stupid bers feeling after QQQ went from -1% to -0.28%???? HAHAH. Green by open.

NVDAismyg0d

Massive QQQ shrek at open loading 

Fhyzikz

We end somewhere between 593-600 today on QQQ according to put/call ratio. I don't make the rules. Modern market is designed to fuck the most people and that's it