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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
Can we break out of the QQQ channel that we’ve been in since 2023
NVDA Confirms the Memory Bottleneck, PCE Stays Mechanically Hot & Positioning Turns Bullish Into Jackson Hole
Bear season on the way. Rainbow gay bear reporting for duty!
Has anyone had consistent success with the 'retirement trade' strategey of a morning reversal trade?
Everyone loves tech stocks right now. That’s exactly what worries me about the next 10 years.
Everyone is piling into tech, semis and AI stocks. Valuations say the next 10 years of returns will be very low
In 1999 at the peak of the internet bubble, QQQ launched and retail piled in. Then came the 73% drop and 15 years underwater
I found an Infinite Money Glitch for Timing the Market
Buying Index funds will always be better than buying mega caps.
I built a free dealer-gamma + live options-flow terminal for SPX/SPY/QQQ. No signup. Tear it apart.
Beginner looking to make my first options trade — how would you approach this?
Beginner looking to make my first options trade — how would you approach this?
Brought it at the top and sold it at the bottom
The S&P 500 is now more concentrated in tech + AI than during the 2000 bubble. Most investors still don’t realize how extreme it is.
Paper handed my full port, 3.7k gain vs 18-19k gain
Michael Burry Loads Up On QQQ Puts, Boosts MU Short As He Braces For ‘Larger Fall’ — Here’s What He Did To NVDA, PLTR And TSLA
Got exercised at the strike automatically 800k worth!!
It's a sign, market crash tomorrow QQQ to 385
SPY Is Coiling Below $775 What Could Trigger the Breakout
US market - VOO or CSPX QQQ or CNDX or anything else?
Mentions
https://preview.redd.it/psrdkpm9gcsh1.png?width=1364&format=png&auto=webp&s=5a74a8fff4e8dfd628daccf60e77ac6bbd3356cc Someone sold 191k of these at $7.87 a pop for \~$150m in a stock-plus-options cross, that size is nearly all of the 200,912 open interest so it’s 99% a sell-to-close of existing long puts. They’re taking off downside protection rather than paying up for new puts (so this really isn’t bearish). Source: [https://financhle.com/etf/QQQ/options/O:QQQ261218P00660000?day=2026-09-28](https://financhle.com/etf/QQQ/options/O:QQQ261218P00660000?day=2026-09-28)
Realistically QQQ is gonna end the year up like 35% while 95% of the stocks in it will be at 52 week lows
**BanBet Created** ▲ | **Record:** 13W - 5L | Ticker | Target | Entry | Move | Expires | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **QQQ** | $743.81 (above) | $736.45 | +1.0% | Sep 30, 10:45 PM |
SPY $760 and QQQ $735 calls
| Ticker | Target | Entry | Current | Move | Expires | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **QQQ** ▼ | $734.00 (below) | $737.50 | $736.45 | -0.5% | 20h 37m | | **Record** | 9W - 0L | 100% | - | - | - |
OI and vol is huge on QQQ 660p 12/18
| Ticker | Target | Entry | Current | Move | Expires | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **QQQ** ▼ | $734.00 (below) | $737.50 | $736.45 | -0.5% | 21h 48m | | **Record** | 9W - 0L | 100% | - | - | - |
SMH or QQQ calls?
It looks like SPX will touch 7800 at some point this week. That’s what the positioning was looking like on Friday and it seems relatively unchanged today, despite the heavy selling and choppy close today. I want to see QQQ 745-750 and I’ll close out most of my qqq calls but leave some runners. My target is to have them closed out before Wed close
I play QQQ looking for 743 to print close to market open. Then 739 for close. QQQ has a bit more action than SPY.
Good job though) Is there a big difference between SPY and QQQ? I tried them once and got slightly intimidated. The bid-ask spread was very big and the volume was not
That gap from 726 to 722 on QQQ is getting filled in the next month, guaranteed.
Somebody knows something. QQQ $660p $150 million position. https://preview.redd.it/hoz1m325lbsh1.jpeg?width=1796&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bea205a1618046603dd7d13e0c7c2e32ab70fa4f
Yeahhh QQQ we not seeing 750 till next year. 🫡💯
SMH or QQQ calls ?
The title establishes that TQQQ rallied today, but provides no percentage move, volume, or index comparison; those details distinguish a broad rally from a volatile spike. How did QQQ perform alongside it?
**BanBet Created** ▼ | **Record:** 9W - 0L | Ticker | Target | Entry | Move | Expires | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **QQQ** | $734.00 (below) | $737.50 | -0.5% | 23h 60m |
nvm SQQQ doesnt have calls, just buy QQQ puts
1000 shares of QQQ is so boring
QQQ 750 EOW so u/Federal-Watch makes bank :dance:
🥭 should formalize Jensen’s actual job and make him the new SI press secretary. In charge of pumping various SI stocks and making sure QQQ always goes up.
We’ll see. I think QQQ closes above 750 EOW, but if not I’ll be giving half my gains back :hmmm:
I had QQQ puts, and switched to calls. Most profitable day in Septembull!! :chad:
if QQQ falls through 735 today we are completely fucked
Yoooooo PUMP MY QQQ CALLS BABY 🤑🤑🤑
**BanBet Won** — /u/more-aero (1W - 3L, 25%) | Ticker | Entry → Target | Move | Time | Result | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **QQQ** ▲ | $734.71 → $740.00 | +0.7% | 39m | Won |
Guys, my QQQ ETF is down big today. Am I going to be fine?
**BanBet Created** ▲ | **Record:** 0W - 3L | Ticker | Target | Entry | Move | Expires | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **QQQ** | $740.00 (above) | $734.71 | +0.7% | 4h 12m |
The obvious thought is that yields and oil and mortgage rates cause a correction in equities. Which means instead, oil and yields will plummet and stocks will shoot to ATHs +5%. QQQ 777 by Xmas
**BanBet Created** ▼ | **Record:** 1W - 5L | Ticker | Target | Entry | Move | Expires | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **QQQ** | $715.00 (below) | $734.24 | -2.6% | Oct 3, 3:21 PM |
what the fuck i went to fap and came back and QQQ is now down 1.6%?????
QQQ cliff diving! Wahoo
Alright give 730 QQQ it'll be beautiful
**BanBet Won** — /u/BathingApeBape (1W - 0L, 100%) | Ticker | Entry → Target | Move | Time | Result | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **QQQ** ▼ | $745.04 → $735.00 | -1.3% | 2d 13h | Won |
Important to hold the SPY and QQQ almost flat, so if you look back they pic random stocks to pump at any given time.
Covering a little here (QQQ) and I know I will regret it
For real. Thanks op. Just bought my weekly buy of $300 VOO and $100 of QQQ. At least it will crash before the dividends pay out
Every bounce is a trap. We will be lucky if QQQ and SPY end up positive on the year
It's crazy that a 5 point down move in QQQ feels big LMFAO
WELCOME... TO THE BLACK MONDAY OF THE 2000s! SPY -67, QQQ -69, NVDA -99 ALL TODAY! PUTS = GENERATIONAL WEALTH
Your puts are cooked. Tesla is inverse QQQ.Watch it moon at open
I mean the table shows a bunch of setups and QQQ isn't even on it so I don't know what that guy's on about. Anyway that Nov 720/650 spread in the screenshot looks interesting, the protection start point is pretty reasonable for a market that's been on a tear. I'd probably ladder a few different months instead of going all in on one expiration though, spreads like these can get weird if vol stays crushed
Most investors are clueless how heavy they are in tech if they own broad market ETFs like SPY and QQQ.
Green by open, my QQQ 730p weeklies shall will it into existence
hope for a -2% QQQ open to buy the dip
put all in QQQ leaps and then talk : )
I held QQQ puts over the weekend so this goes green, you can sleep well bulls
buy QQQ on dip as always . recovers the fastest
VOO or QQQ. Stop trying to pick winners.
On the surface, VUG looks like the better hold. But its top 10 holdings are about 63.5% of the portfolio. The number for QQQ is 47%. Both numbers are obscenely high, I'd like to see them at 20%. VUG's 26% in just NVDA and AAPL is a bet that I don't want and those two occupy 10% less in QQQ. VUG has more holdings but is less diverse. On that basis, I'd choose that QQQ.
What price is QQQ key support zone?
Massive red day tomorrow. QQQ will finish down 4%.
Why do people even bother the charts tell you what’s happening better than the news does. The QQQ is going down 1% on no news? Bet your ass trump is about to say something 😭
Flat Monday incoming!!! :screech: :screech: We’re turning QQQ into a flat line and calling it a year :rich:
I mean this is boring. Praying for -50% drop from here on SPY and -70% on QQQ
for daily volatility scalping what do you all find is best, just QQQ 0dte's
for daily volatility scaping what do you all find best, just QQQ 0dte's?
QQQ calls because of China Nvidia news is a no brainer, right?
And if they dont go the entire market will keep rolling up. Just like when QQQ diped last month the S&P was still trading at all time highs
btc dumped as always. only QQQ keep gains
You buy the 0DTE calls when QQQ is about to go up. Alternatively, you buy the 0DTE puts when QQQ is just about to up down. If you bet correctly, you make 60x. If you bet incorrectly, you lose 1x. Keep trying until you make the 60x.
You buy the 0DTE calls when QQQ is about to go up. Alternatively, you buy the 0DTE puts when QQQ is just about to up down.
I am short QQQ and SMH. That is fine after record gains. The difference is, I did not go full retard and only allocated 1% of my port, and I think that's excessive. Also, I am long UMC with 5X and some green 2027 leaps.
Just a clarification, I didn't turn $10k into $113k just with returns, almost all of that were new deposits, like 84k of the 113k are deposits. I've been investing since 2016 by myself so when I finally decided to stop trying to be a swing trader in 2021 and convert myself into a value investor with a special fondness for tech. I changed everything I had done to that in 2022. I knew that value investing works after a lot of simulations, that's what made me not sell. MSFT was hit by "not racing for AI" as the rest of Mag-7, that makes the price fall a lot even when the business was intact. It is, I think, one of the best businesses in the world in terms of size, moat and income stream so I bought as much as I could seeing those prices. And about QQQ. I'd have 100% of my portfolio there but that ETF main advantage is (for me) also its main drawback. When an amazing company continiously grows, its weight into the index increases, same if a "bad" company prices fall, owning QQQ would own less of that "bad company". The issue with that is when not as great as I'd like business is skyrocketing because of a market hype, it starts weighting more and more on the index even if it's purely hype. That's the reason I still want to have a portfolio that consists on basically QQQ companies but with a slightly different allocation than the original ETF.
I suck at options plays. I started just flipping stocks instead and now I’m up 36% YTD lol. I’m great (so far) at picking a stock and direction but get killed with timing and strike price. It’s also much less work this way. Set it and forget it. I do a 80/20 rule for overall strategy and plays. 80% in SPY/QQQ 20% Risk plays (below) Then if I sell a risk play for a profit, 80/20 the proceeds into the next play. Sometimes I’ll sit on cash waiting for a downward day for a week or 2. $MU $MFST $GME $NVDA $SPCE $RVI Currently all risk play is in $GME, bought in at \~$18.50 about a month or so ago. Sitting pretty about now.
10-yr return on TQQQ (3056%) vs QQQ (574%). However 5-yr returns are 136% and 105%. It’s more of a long term swing when you’ve seen the market is down +30%
big green rip is literally the textbook IC killer, but at 45 DTE you still have time theta working for you. rolling the untested side closer is the standard move to collect more credit and tighten your breakeven, just don't panic-roll the tested side into a worse position. QQQ ICs aren't inherently bad, you just need wider wings or fewer contracts since it moves more than SPY.
i'm itching QQQ $752 , Expiration monday
damn, turning $10k into $113k is no joke, especially after that brutal first year. most people wouldve panic sold after -17% and missed the 2023 rocket that nvidia/amd play in 23 was perfectly timed, like catching lightning in a bottle. smart move trimming nvda earlier this year too, keeping a concentrated position at 3.5% feels about right the msft entry in feb was interesting timing, what made you jump in then? also curious why you want to bump up QQQ when you already hold several of the top components individually
the divergence between the two lines IS the AI bubble, Nasdaq 100 is top heavy in megacap tech while SPX has financials and energy dragging the average, so whenever QQQ pulls away from SPY that's basically NVGA and friends doing the heavy lifting. if you want the real visual, chart QQQ/SPY ratio and watch it go parabolic post-ChatGPT launch.
Income ETF's do not perform excessively better than normal etf's as a warning. SCHD is popular because it has stable companies that will likely run fine even during a recession. Most other income ETF's that do not have that defensive style will not perform especially well. There are technically funds that do **inverse** funds. So if you think QQQ is going to fail for example, there are ETF's set up to perform while its crashing. But all forms of the income funds only do well in the sideways market. They wont do amazing in the up or down. But yeah, the common options are - SCHD and CD/bond ladders. Alternatively, Keep 1-2 years of pay in some form of cash, HYSA, or a CD/bond ladder. Keep investing in normal ETF's in the mean time. I put some CC funds in a for fun account and I'm still not sure why. Normal ETF's would outperform and sell for more than the CC ETF's would pay. They will also recover better from the market down turns. It feels nice getting the cash until I realize that SPMO would have outperformed.
QQQ will be at 666 by end of October
We’ll fade the indexes all through October into mid-term, QQQ to just below 710, SPY to 725. Then rally into the end of year, QQQ 765, SPY 800
QQQ had a PE of well over 100 in the dot com bubble. It's like... 30 right now. Not even a close comparison
QQQ gonna rip into EOY. Bears are cooked
They just added SPX options though, so you're getting the same tax treatment as futures (in the U.S.). I personally just use it for my SPY 0DTE algo and earning interest on cash. I'll also sell QQQ 60DTE puts as well.
The reason we went up last week is because some retard sacrificed 50k of QQQ PUTS. We need another hero this week.
The best US ETF is the one you don’t trade. 70% VOO, 30% QQQ Create strong password, forget about account and come back 5 years later. Repeat once every 5 years.
I went all in shorting QQQ Friday, lets see if it pays off
I’m just liking QQQ I keep adding to it bi-weekly with my paychecks. Covers a lot of what I held individually
**BanBet Lost** — /u/Snoopiscool (0W - 1L, 0%) | Ticker | Entry → Target | Move | Time | Result | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **QQQ** ▼ | $727.98 → $715.00 | -1.8% | 5d | Lost |