QQQ

Andy15291

So last year, at the end of April and early May, I put \~15k into Sterling Infrastructure, which was 100 shares at the time. It has been very volatile and I ended up selling on a stop loss at $420. So, I got $42k in cash. After great earnings, in greed I brought in after hours at $490, and a stop loss sold it with some recent volatility at $390. So I lost $10k. But, I've slightly more than doubled my money after just under a year. If you told me a year ago that I would double my money, I would have been ecstatic. But, now I keep thinking that if I had not had that stop loss, I would have $42k. I know it's ridiculous, but I have decided I'm staying out of it. I could have done far worse with a volatile stock, plenty of people have lost a lot of money on them. And, of course, if I would have brought back in, I would have been up a bit. But, I might not have been. And, I just used about half my investments to buy a condo, and don't want to screw up the remainder (\~150k) One thing that impacted my thinking. In the early 2000's I left a company with a small 4k 401(k), and brought JDSU. I rode it all the way down till it was worth $80. That decision has stayed with me for decades, which is why I put stop losses in. I've also decided that I'm keeping my remaining money in QQQ and the Fidelity semiconductor fund FSELX. If an individual stock makes me worry, I'm getting out of them while I'm ahead. I know I'll never hit a home run with ETFs and mutual funds, but I won't lose it all, either. How do you guys handle those thoughts of "what might have been?" I've had to force myself to look at it logically that I doubled my money in a year and to stop thinking of that and risk doing something stupid due to greed.

tkreadit

Since inception, GPIQ is lagging both QQQ and SPY. What is there to like? [https://imgur.com/a/rG4PHd4](https://imgur.com/a/rG4PHd4)

tkreadit

You do not need dividends for that, you can just sell a bit of your non-dividend stocks each year. A stock that pays a 2% dividend is the same as one that doesn't pay any and you just sell 2% of it each year. The dividend is built into the stock price, it is not some magic extra cherry on top. There is no free dessert. In the above, own the Qs, sell 17k out of the 360k and you still have the same 343k left to appreciate without any capped upside because of the covered calls. Since inception, GPIQ is lagging both QQQ and SPY. What is there to like? [https://imgur.com/a/rG4PHd4](https://imgur.com/a/rG4PHd4)

dimdada

Cashed in my AVGO leaps in February. I’m looking at PLTR at these levels. I’m thinking $130 and below is a good entry point. Took some QQQ LEAPS a week ago. Quick $20 gain in less than a week.

helipad668

Lmao, this is exactly how it works. market makers and algorithms are there to take as much money from retail traders as possible. 0DTE options on SPY QQQ dictates the direction the market makers move the market, it’s all designed to take money from retail. You don’t believe that, you’re the low IQ one here buddy

mayorolivia

Joining QQQ April 20 and ER April 30. Will hit $1k this month.

Mean_Bumblebee1945

QQQ is up 0.5% already over the weekend. 0.25 after hours and another 0.25 on weekend ustech. Its only Friday, so this will end in a 1% gap up. Corn is also spiking up

sylphvanas

I have QQQ puts and software calls. Do I want green or red Monday in the markets?

Venice_LA

told myself this was the year of just holding the QQQ's, and to leave it and forget it \[spolier\] sold that shit to trade small cap semis \[/spoiler\]

Sweaty_Platypus69

Hyperliquid showing not much movement for the indexes - QQQ/SPY which seems to confirm what everyone is saying here. Pretty much the indexes have priced in whatever likely outcome this weekend discussion.

Avocadonot

Yeah, QQQ lol

EastSatisfaction405

I'm exactly in the same boat. I do not need the money right now but I am learning this so that I have a way to generate some income in case the seemingly inevitable layoff happens. I just started in January with a put credit spread and then moved to iron condors. I was doing great until Microsoft shat the bed, so right now I have had 88% success ratio. Here's what I am doing with the caveat that I am also learning, have margin available and I am very conservative. I will shift most of my trades to QQQ and SPY, always enter under .150 delta and will try to get out as soon as possible. I may take opportunistic trades on other tickers but being very careful. This Delta is non negotiable for me, I want as low risk as possible. I am doing mostly 5-spreads on credit vertical spreads and 10-spread on iron condors. I still need more discipline getting out of a losing trade, sadly didn't manage it with MSFT and I got burned with a max loss, it was just 5 contracts fortunately. Another important thing. This account is a 1/3 of my investments so I can tolerate some losses there

NazgulSandwich

QQQ has already priced in lower oil prices in the newr future

Local_Math_5512

This is why many people choose to buy the "picks and shovels" instead. Buy the A.I infrastructure stocks instead or invest in QQQ so that you have some exposure to the winners regardless of who they end up being.

kerrykingzgo-T

Have you tried building wealth by investing in QQQ 0DTE's? You literally cannot lose, we are all rich here.

confused_teabagger

QQQ

helipad668

How the fuck do you think SPy only pumps? It’s because retail keep buying puts and market makers keep squeezing retail, retail is what drives the price on Spy QQQ.. Market makers Anglo are designed to go against retail and take their money, if you don’t know this you’re the dumb regard

Mark_Underscore

Pick up 6, 9 , 12 month QQQ puts that are about 20% below current market price. Sell soonest to expire on VIX spikes. Rinse and repeat. Free crash insurance.

EmeraldEnvyBop

You might be right, but careful with the pattern matching here. A 10% bounce off lows can be a dead cat or just a normal rally in a volatile correction. Plenty of corrections had sharp V bounces that never revisited the lows. If you’re fading this, at least have a clear invalidation level. Markets can stay irrational way longer than feels reasonable, and shorting indices into strength can get painful fast. Also worth watching breadth and credit spreads, not just price levels on QQQ.

No-Improvement3164

My watchlist sure had a lot of red on it yesterday to close flat and QQQ green

Clackamas_river

If QQQ hit $340 it would be the least of your worries that you were right. That is regarded AF, there would have to be a flock of black swans on an Asteroid. I don't think China nuking Taiwan could even halve the entire market by then.

SlartibartfastMcGee

If this is a serious post, then you lucked into buying at the absolute bottom of a large dip, basically matched the performance of QQQ and are acting like it’s because of some strategy you had. The fact that you are looking down on an 18% return YOY is telling. Most investors would kill to lock in that much of a return for the next year, and you think it’s worth sneering at.

Rock_or_Rol

MSFT should be coming out with something soon I’d think APLD - insane earnings and growth CQQQ - Deepseek v4 soon (or short QQQ) MU - insane earnings USO or oil futures - depending on this weekend

Infinity_ashim

Hi, I'm Ashim from MarketCrunch AI. I agree that sentiment is pretty beaten down for software, but the "sandbag and cut costs" playbook is getting tougher to execute for a sustained bounce. We're seeing more companies get dinged for weak forward guidance even after a beat, suggesting the market is looking past the immediate quarter. While AI efficiency is a common narrative, the actual impact on margins and growth needs to show up in the numbers, not just on the earnings call. That's the real hurdle for a "monster comeback." $SPY $QQQ

istari

Extreme QQQ puts

dataCollector42069

Some regard just bought $10k worth of August QQQ $340 puts lmfao

dataCollector42069

This is so regarded that u/[MoreOutcome8541](https://www.reddit.com/user/MoreOutcome8541/) this is literally financial advice. Buy less QQQ calls at a higher strike. these are a guaranteed loss regard

ExplanationNormal339

That 582p block is worth tracking because it landed when QQQ was at $611.07—about 5% downside, which isn't deep enough for a typical hedge. More likely it's positioning ahead of inflation data (March breakdown just dropped today). If QQQ holds above $608.33 support, the put buyers lose credibility; break below and you've got real conviction. Either way, watch the volume on any bounce—single prints don't mean panic selling.

Reasonable-Tank-3421

I mean I agree with the sentiment but betting on QQQ below 340 by August means your money would better be spent on shelf-stable food.

ApathysLastKiss_

wAiT for the gap to close under QQQ then load long dated calls and hold those mfers

AcademicStandard3701

YOOO THE QQQ $582p FOR 04/17 has over 200k oi are we in a fukin boo trap!! Lmao

MarketCrunchAI

Totally agree with the sentiment on international diversification. I've been doing something similar, not quite 25-30% yet, but definitely increasing my exposure beyond just US large caps. Valuations here feel stretched, and while the US market has been incredible, it's hard to ignore the potential in other developed markets. My main concern is still currency volatility, especially with the dollar's recent strength, but I think the long-term benefits of diversification outweigh that risk for me $SPY $QQQ $VYMI

yaboyalaska

I bet OP is right about the talks and QQQ will fade to exactly 607.01

VeryStableGenius

I'll tell you: mix of long-term T-bonds and funds, cash, value and div stocks. 35% short hedging position QQQ. Longs include 300 shares of BRK-B but sold long ATM covered calls when it hit its recent high (gut feeling said it won't stay above 500). In various retirement, mostly big chunk of TIAA guaranteed asset class, cash, some dividend stocks trading at low P/E.

softboiledjadepotato

A dude burning down a factory in desperate response to untenable cost of living. And record low consumer confidence number since survey began in 1952 = QQQ +.14%, 8th green day in a row

ConsciousStreet-0866

Just a non-serious, baseless claim. The correct answer is that you have no idea. I used Anthropic Claude to model a scenario in order to drive the point across. Sharing its response below. --- Person A vs. Person B: A Tale of Two Investors The Setup Both investors start with $100,000 on February 11, 2000 — four weeks before the NASDAQ peaked. They follow an identical discipline: deploy 5% of remaining cash into QQQ every single week. The only difference is that Person B has exit and re-entry rules. Person A — The Pure Believer Person A’s first four weeks of buying happen at prices between $109 and $118 per share — essentially the most expensive QQQ has ever been. Each week, 5% of remaining cash goes in, no questions asked. Then the crash begins. By the end of 2000, QQQ has fallen to $57. By late 2002, it hits $20. Person A never stops buying — in fact, the DCA mechanic means they’re deploying meaningful cash at these cheap levels, which will eventually help. But the damage from those first few weeks of buying near $118 is structural. A large chunk of early capital is permanently impaired. Over the next decade, Person A endures what can only be described as a decade of financial purgatory. QQQ barely recovers to $40–55 by 2007, then the 2008 financial crisis hits and it crashes again to $25. By the 10-year mark in February 2010, Person A’s account sits at just $25,834 — a loss of 74% on their starting capital. Their maximum drawdown touches −87.5%, and they spend nearly 10 full years underwater, meaning their portfolio value never once crosses above its previous peak during that entire stretch. The recovery only arrives around mid-2014. By the 15-year mark, Person A has clawed back to $65,768 — still 34% below their starting $100,000 in nominal terms, and deeply negative in real terms after inflation. The mechanics of DCA did what they were supposed to — accumulate cheap shares during the crash — but the starting conditions were simply too punishing. What most people don't realize is that the starting conditions for any investor are random. Person B — The Disciplined Exiter Person B starts identically. They buy QQQ at $109–118 for the first four weeks right alongside Person A. But then something different happens: when QQQ’s daily close drops below its 100-day moving average in the spring of 2000, Person B sells everything and steps aside. At that point, QQQ is somewhere in the high $80s to low $90s — a painful but survivable 20–25% loss on those early purchases. What happens next is the critical divergence. Person B sits in cash while QQQ collapses from $90 all the way down to $20 over the next two years. They are watching the carnage from the sideline with nearly their full $100,000 still intact. The re-entry conditions — price above the 50-day SMA, with the 50-day SMA above the 100-day SMA — take a long time to trigger in a sustained bear market, which is by design. Person B doesn’t chase false recoveries during the 2001 dead-cat bounces. When they finally re-enter, it’s into a QQQ priced in the $25–35 range. Now their weekly 5% DCA is buying nearly 3–4x the number of shares they could afford at peak prices. They accumulate aggressively through 2003–2007 as QQQ climbs to $54. The filter then protects them again in 2008, triggering another exit before the worst of the financial crisis, and a re-entry in 2009 at depressed prices. At the 10-year mark, Person B has $102,354 — essentially breaking even in nominal terms, but vastly ahead of Person A’s $25k. At 15 years, they’ve grown to $126,348. Their maximum drawdown is −49.4%, and their longest underwater period is 3.82 years — less than half of Person A’s decade underwater. What the Numbers Actually Mean The gap between these two outcomes — $65,768 vs. $126,348 at 15 years, a $60,580 difference on the same $100k starting capital — comes entirely from one thing: capital preservation during the dotcom crash. Person B’s filter didn’t make them brilliant stock pickers. It just prevented catastrophic early losses from compounding into a decade-long hole. This is the core thesis behind systematic TAA: the math of losses is asymmetric. A 50% loss requires a 100% gain to recover. An 87% loss requires a 669% gain. Person A spent 15 years trying to dig out of that hole. Person B never fell in.

Weekly_One8412

Just be careful, because this whale probably bought at todays high, so he’s already in the green on this position. A dump to 600 on QQQ would give him all he needs to pull out with a sizeable profit.

Ok-Path8057

Anybody else notice QQQ $660 calls expiring the 24th shot up at close

mrgr33n420

-5 MNQM6, 10 MCLK6, 28 QQQ $619 CALL 30APR26 see yal Sunday night.

Odd-Block-2998

MSFT, SNOW and CRWD literally give up in a bull market. lmao Portfolio trailing > 5% from QQQ.

Dornitz

QQQ still on a winning streak 🤑

1UpUrBum

That was still in the dotcom crash. These are short term it only takes a day or 2 to wipe out large amounts. A 15% relief rally can be gone fast. Just do it yourself. Get a chart and put on a moving average envelope. For SOXX set it at 10 days and 10% range (noramlly6-7%). SPY is 10 and 3%. QQQ is 10 and 4%. See what happens. In hard selloffs it can go down more. But not for long.

Expensive-Big-8725

most of the individual stock volumes look pretty alright for the day but SPY and QQQ are measly - whats up with that?

corporalboobs

AXTI and QQQ puts got me down. USO and PLTR calls got me downer. 15 mins to market close and I’m seeing red across the board. Can’t wait to do it all again Monday.

Crazy_Donkies

How will oil impact NVDA or GOOG.  If you're buying something to bet the oil trade, it isnt QQQ.

Fair_Philosopher575

QQQ -0.01% after a whole day is diabolical work algo. Fuck off

drew-gen-x

This is where I get hated on by both the bulls & bears for looking at charts. Just like I was called a perma bull for BTD the last 2-3 weeks, I'm looking at the $QQQ and there is heavy resistance around 610. We've already had 8 straight green days for $QQQ; I just don't see how it doesn't at least retest its 200 DMA of 597. I guess they did add WalMart to $QQQ a couple months ago. Maybe they could kick out a couple software names and add $CAT and $DE to $QQQ to stay above the 200 DMA. /sarc

Salums

how can QQQ be flat with NVDA nearly +3%, AVGO +5%, AMZN +2%, what's pulling it to the bottom ?

NotMe357

Damn, volume of SPY and QQQ is so bad. Its unbelievable! Lol

Weekly_One8412

QQQ 613 0dte

Stack_Johnson

!banbet QQQ 600 1w

HeftyBox3580

What’s driving SPY and QQQ off a cliff since 11:25 ? MSFT, NVDA charts are much flatter

Low-Resource-7082

QQQ being pinned at yesterdays close for around an hour now is some the most tilting shit i've seen in a bit l

breakyourteethnow

The ETF was 1% behind QQQ in 2025, you realize it basically tracks the portfolio giving the slightest bit of upside but actually returns on capital which can be used to invest in growth stocks?

sloanemonroe

Looks like their main objective today is to keep QQQ green by at least a few cents.

Stack_Johnson

!banbet QQQ 600 1w

Stack_Johnson

!banbet 1w QQQ 600

tantedbutthole

I bought a put on QQQ for an expiration of today. I lost 90%

drew-gen-x

You're gonna have to wait for a glitch in the Matrix to appear for a full market crash. It's all 0's and 1's on your screen. Being serious thou, the market is acting very similar to 2000-2007. We just didn't call them Josh Brown HALO stocks in 2001. But those stocks plus gold & commodities have been outperforming the $SPY for quite awhile now. The $IGV software stocks have been crashing just like 2000-2007. The $QQQ as a whole has vastly underperformed world stocks ex US or $VXUS by over 10% these last 6 months. If you look hard enough, the glitches in the Matrix are starting to appear. People are just blind or numb to it all because they are all too busy just staring at the $SPY.

UnivalveX

QQQ down a mighty -0.01% after +9% run in less than two weeks

MutaliskGluon

Closed my QQQ puts that I bought early morning for a tiny 20% gain. Market can crash now that I have no puts. Apparently CTAs still have up to 38B to buy today/next week and are working up to 99%ile exposure when they were at 1%ile exposure last week lol. That explains the insane melt up and strength. Algos are literally just programmed to buy any dip because their entire backtesting model goes back to like 2010 or 2011 and they dont have any sort of 2007-9 or 2000-2002 in their backtest. Stability creates instability...

sal4you

Fading the QQQ's was/is the right play me thinks.

MoreOutcome8541

Every single crash has been preceded by a correction and a relief rally designed to lure retail into a false sense of security. Take one look at this sub and tell me that’s not what is happening here lmao. I have opened 340 QQQ puts expiring aug 21 — millionaire maker

SuspiciousStable9649

I didn’t know QQQ and Nasdaq % could get that far apart. 0.7 vs 0.4?

joeyeats

guys QQQ dropped 0.5% you know what that means

Specialist-Sun-4751

I think the bounce back for QQQ and SPY was too much too fast. If not today then next week it has to come down a little.

greyenlightenment

same as always: bitcoin sags as stocks go up. this is why shorting BTC such a great hedge. BTC will instant dump $3k on any hint of bad Iran news while QQQ hold up much better.

beachsandwichen

Haha QQQ keeps going up and the only stock that keeps going down is gamesuck and the CEO said it could take decades or centuries but they’re over there like we have 32$ warrants ahahahahahaha

Few-Frosting1634

QQQ puts

UnivalveX

looks like we never seeing SPY below 680 and QQQ below 600 boys

deathlyharry

QQQ -1.3% !1d

Day-Chicken

They should be but they're not. Why are SPY and the QQQ up??? Should be tanking

Kyunin__

QQQ please bless me and rise

DTF_Truck

How I decided to full port everything into calls. QQQ - 10% - Printed META - 10% - Prrrrinted TSLA - 80% - FUCK ELON AND FUCK THIS PIECE OF SHIT STOCK CUNT ASS FUCK TRASH How's your day going?

Loperenco

I would like to wipe ass with QQQ, what an utter pos

SpecialistB

!banbet QQQ -2.1% 1d

beachsandwichen

QQQ up SPY up BTC up Gamesuck uh uh wait a sec. That’s not right. They told me MOASS was right around the corner. Oh well. Guess Ill wait another decade or century like the guy said

optimaleverage

Yes playing options on leveraged products yields exponential leverage BUT options are designed to account for implied volatility, so the premiums tend to account for this with large spreads (their chains are not nearly as liquid as QQQ, and premiums have lots of juice in them).

Specialist_Exam_8433

Why this 10% QQQ rally have to take a week? Why didn't whales just do it in one day?

ShowerMotor

you need to think in years time not in the next time. Next? it can go up or down, free advice that is no different from a consultant. In years time? probably SPY and QQQ will be higher.

Philthatman

Why people trading beta QQQ when chad SPY moves like a motherfucker. 🫵( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) i thought you were gamblers?

MZ603

I made $5k on google today that easily could have been $50k. I’m a slow learner or absolutely incapable of trusting myself. Don’t worry, I’ll probably lose it on QQQ puts tomorrow

greyenlightenment

shorting btc and long QQQ still free money

Few-Frosting1634

SPY and QQQ calls

optimaltimemism

I still don't understand why those QQQ June 18 580p and 590p 80k+ contracts that were deep ITM didn't close up nearly 100% before the bull uprising. Anyone able to explain this because I have no clue why they remained open?

Retropixl

Garbage, there’s a reason these companies aren’t public. It’s because they don’t disclose their financials and likely aren’t profitable/are burning cash to fund their operations. Plus all of these companies are going to IPO in the next year or two, so what would be the point of holding this once they go public? They’ll just be added to QQQ or VOO and then you’re paying a 3.49% ER for no reason.

squidsauce99

630 QQQ tomorrow

cartoad71

I put 6k into QQQ today but feel like I missed the bottom badly. I do believe Microsoft will recover dramatically

BlueStreaks1799

QQQ, take me out to dinner first pls 🥲

corporalboobs

AXTI and QQQ puts, USO calls. Gonna watch my account go to zero one trade at a time. Thanks 🌮

Fisher_o_Men2024

I took about everything I had available ($5K) and bought QQQ on the day markets reopened following 9/11. It was a way to channel anger and show confidence in my country. It went down for a while after the purchase but it turned out to be my best investment long term. Oh and investing $957 over time in Nvidia after hearing Cramer talk about it. Can’t remember when, but that single investment with no more bought, is worth $16K today.

Hot-Ambassador8740

Double top on QQQ?

Aware-Teacher5389

!banbet QQQ $600 4d

squidsauce99

QQQ to 620 tomorrow?!?!?

Specialist_Exam_8433

For all the bulls, look at what happened between March and May of 2008. QQQ rose from about 42 to 50, then ultimately crashed down to 26 at its lowest before finally climbing back up. Not saying that big of a crash will happen, but I think it is premature to say we have bottomed. If anything now we're going to be stuck in a range where before it was between 600 and 630 and now it is between 580 and 610

salacious_lion

Could be yeah. I opened some dated ITM puts on QQQ today in case that happens.

No_Sample_8375

You didn’t lose 90k, you just paid 90k in tuition to learn not to trust politicians with your portfolio 😂 Grats on getting the principal back and taking profit on SPY and QQQ, that alone already puts you ahead of like 90 percent of this sub.

Loperenco

Puts on QQQ

salacious_lion

Thinking a retest of at least 600 on QQQ

concerndative

QQQ puts