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Buying QQQ is easy. Holding through the drops is a whole different thing
Racking up 100% trading options day after day adds up to big money
I Trade for a Living - Here’s My Setup for Semis, SPY and QQQ
Buying QQQ is easy. Holding through the drops is a whole different thing
Deconstructing 0DTE Option Losses: Traders Freeze During Intraday Volatility Surges
$200 > $5,000 challenge day 1
SPY closed the week in the deepest positive gamma I've seen in a while (IV ~9%)
When I put $5 on a stock I win , put $50 in I lose almost every time.
Buying the APPLE dip might not be a pro move.
Prepare yourself for the Regime Shift
Prepare yourself for the Regime Shift
QQQ $660 calls expiring today, ngl thought it was over at one point
July 24/27/28 is the first time in history that the S&P 500 was positive 3 days in a row while QQQ was negative 3 days in a row.
Bought 60k worth of QQQ LEAPS and 20k worth of DRAM LEAPS
HYG Just Broke Down From a 3-Month Triangle Consolidation. Is the Equity Market Next?
Stared into the abyss today
SOX just hit bear market territory. This earnings week is make or break for semis
I model dealer gamma daily. Right now all three big index ETFs are negative-gamma below their flip,
1DTE $21K SPY FD Yolo - 735P 7/20/26 220x @ .96 Each
Regarding the Recent Stock Market Movement
Regarding on the Recent Stock Market Movement
June CPI missed big but I'm not buying the full rally yet
Always a Pleasure $HOOD. Thanks again QQQ
Always a Pleasure $HOOD, Thanks again QQQ.
QQQ gonna spike soon (UP or DOWN)
Held these 0DTE over weekend. 11K QQQ calls am I cooked?
If June CPI comes in hotter than expected, is the better trade Treasuries or SPY/QQQ puts?
Investing is really a lifelong battle against our own emotions
A huge trade just happened on the Nasdaq 100. Bulls are taking notice
Your wheel is probably less diversified than delta makes it look
SpaceX is trading below its opening day price in its third week. Bag holder or bargain.
SpaceX is trading below its opening price, might not be the red flag it looks like.
Not meaning to spread FUD, but I just found this on the QQQ graph, and it's freaking me out
I think QQQ goes higher. Do I sell or keep this because theta?
Liquidated all positions: Sitting on $1.2M cash for a 2026 macro restart. How would you deploy this for the next decade?
I have currently sold all my stocks and have $1.2 million in cash on hand. I would like to purchase a new batch of stocks to hold for the lo
Trying to generate alpha using Nasdaq retail activity data
It ain’t much, AMZN, XSP, QQQ this week! First fully green week!
I built a simple “Regime Filter” using SPY and QQQ to decide when I’m allowed to buy new positions
Want to hear from the people who sold their QQQ (and other Nsdq 100) because of the addition of SpaceX
When will QQQ be more $ per share than SPY?
Rally into July 44th and July 17th, Q3 20% market correction, October melt up.
Rally into July 44th and July 17th, Q3 20% market correction, October melt up.
Rally into July 44th and July 17th, Q3 20% market correction, October melt up.
SpaceX to join Nasdaq-100 index on July 7
I used ChatGPT and Codex to build and backtest SPY + QQQ 0DTE trading bots
I was a six-figure trader 18 months ago. Today I officially qualify for food stamps. AMA.
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QQQ 750 close do it big dawg
So cause I didn’t get MU calls that’s just gonna go straight line up no dips and cause I got QQQ puts we aren’t gonna have NVDA negative price action have any impact on the market. This is all a fucking scam why do I bother
You're asking to time the market to avoid the drawdowns. Talk about emotionally nerve-racking! I have held QQQ for almost 8yrs, never sold any, only added to. I ignore the pullbacks.
QQQ 722 close please 🙏
ffs how many times QQQ need to be rejected here
Still up 8.5% on the QQQ 5-day chart. disgusting
QQQ pumped $8 in 40 min just to fuck w everyone 🤣
QQQ literally just the same chart as SPCX now lol
Aiming for a retest of yesterday's high on QQQ then repositioning
QQQ DUMP PLZ (so hopefully we will pump)
Big sad after trying to get QQQ 715C a little after open but my orders didn’t fill in time
Sold My QQQ $727 puts this morning before it shot back up.😆. Now loaded with the puts again 😂
wtf was that QQQ SPY dip?
RIP man, bought 50 x QQQ 709 calls at the opening dump for $3 a pop, sold them for $3.5 45 seconds later for a tidy $2500 profit, now they are worth $10 each and I'm sitting here with my dick in hand, missed out on $32.5k in under an hour 😭
Man i just paper handed these QQQ calls
Damn. Should have bought QQQ calls right at open. 5 mins in went straight up.
the fact QQQ can climb 200 but spy barely moves
Can QQQ close at 720 today? It would be nice
QQQ IS FLYING FUCK YOU SPY GO UP HARDER. My calls are still down
I went full port into QQQ in 2020 and I've been buying and holding since then. I look at it as a way to replace job income and get to financial freedom. I try to think of what it's worth at the end of each year instead of day to day, it keeps me motivated to buy more QQQ whenever I have spare cash
I’m playing DRAM and QQQ, account got fucked yesterday if these don’t work out gg for me
Unbelievable, right after I sold my QQQ calls we pump in a straight line. They really just liquidity hunted me. Those 716c I bought for 0.80 would have more then doubled
QQQ 720 today? Askin' fer a fren...
The post above was 100% my own writing but I do use AI significantly more than the average person and am Leo Aschenbrenner levels of bullish on AI. I'm not dumb enough to buy on margin like he is but I do have long dated calls on QQQ/hyperscalers that are up well over 100% in the past year. If there is a bubble and it pops I'll be fine if I lose it all.
Guys I don’t think my 0dte 723 QQQ call is gonna cash
Sure, but selling weeklies far OTM will likely yield more premium than any single day gain. Further, if a company jumps past your strike, close the option at a loss and you won't get assigned early if done in the same trading day. If someone trades away all of their extrinsic value to exercise early, you probably either missed a detail like an ex-dividend date. Otherwise, early exercise is welcomebecause the option buyer takes the entire risk of the stock falling, while you got paid for potential upside. You could get unlucky and lose upside potential. Missing out on the next big one is my specialty. Still, volatility generally works both ways. A stock that can climb 10% can probably fall as much or more. If you sell a CC, and the underlying goes down 10%, you'll still collect option premium whereas other investors holding the stock felt the full loss. If the stock rebounds, repeat as open as desired. Lastly, don't set strike prices that you can't stomach getting shares called away at. If you sell below market but still profit, you have some just fine. Chasing premiums and holding to expiration are common traps to avoid. Sell delta in a low range even if the premium feels trivial. If you think the stock is going up, buy calls or at least shares. I've had a CC close 1 cent below my strike, which was several steps OTM at the time. When you see both the underlying stock and the option move favorably to you, it feels pretty awesome. Could you miss the next Nvidia? Possibly. I did. However, I sold at a profit and at the time, no one knew the top was a long ways up. Having shares called away just above strike is a perfectly fine way to take profit. CC's aren't as foolish as you might think. I don't want to sell QQQ, but the premiums are no joke. I know the ETF is likely to give a couple ticks against that days direction. While tiny in real dollars, this makes a fairly safe $10 to $100 plus with ODTE's. That adds up, and a CSP will offer a premium to buy your shares back. No risk of unwanted assignments when truly day trading. I'm saying it's the be all end all. You'll never get rich. It beats SPY by about 3% - 4%. Time value of money makes that type of trading offers a fairly safe income stream in exchange for max potential growth.
I got 10 x 710p on QQQ. Sell em at open or hold boys?
I prefer John QQQ, where he has to fight for the account he set up and forgot the password for
Thank god I sold my QQQ for only a small loss. I'd be super pissed off rn
**BanBet Lost** — /u/WarenBoffet (0W - 4L, 0%) | Ticker | Entry → Target | Move | Time | Result | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **QQQ** ▼ | $707.49 → $680.00 | -3.9% | 2d | Lost |
voo is objectively worse than QQQ by a longshot. it has never and will never perform as well as QQQ.
More indicators probably won’t help much because nobody knows in real time if a pullback is normal. If a bad QQQ drawdown would force a sale, the position might be too big. Checking the P&L every day mostly adds stress.
I love those huge red days before I had kids and more disposable income. I just DCA few thousands into VOO or QQQ every time the market dips 1% or more.
Well... I guess that depends.... Are they QQQ puts or SPY puts?
QQQ, how many times do I have to tell you... wrong way!
QQQ will at least retest $700
QQQ coming off overnight lows is annoying. Just go straight down to $700. I swear I’ll change my ways and buy calls
Was referring to QQQ/NQ
QQQ makes Tqqq feel like cakewalk.
I’m confused. QQQ all time high was 746.16 in May. Right now it’s sitting at 717.30. A year ago it was 560.77. This is not extreme volatility. Just be patient. A year from now, 5 years from now, 25 years from now - QQQ is positioned to do extremely well. But there are guarantees. It will have ups and downs. This is what investing is. You need to chill investing in the market. If you follow your emotions you’ll buy high and sell low every time.
SPY is manipulated don’t buy puts, QQQ puts are the way
spy is just so sexy compared to QQQ.. and i am fullported into qqq
QQQ almost sold off the +2,5% on tuesday, fuck this lol
short QQQ, long europe. GL tech bros
I bought QQQ last night when I saw this an I'm down this morning
I also hold since end 2021 ,QQQ achieved 14.5% average since inception. Its a winners list and it beats sp500 by a lot, just because tech can scale up sales much faster then traditional manufacturing. Its more volatile but if you hold the index it doesn’t matter, eventually its back to new ath’s. I know even switch between QQQ and TQQQ after a correction, those swings in TQQQ are something else 😂
I bought QQQ for $415 during Liberation Day, so I'm not having the angst you're experiencing. I only check my accounts on the green days and buy on the red, that's my investment philosophy.
I’m not trying to be mean, genuine question, want that to be clear. Why invest if you’re mental is not gonna be able to handle the expected volatility? Or invest lower size? A lot of people got absolutely destroyed this last two months. If you were only in QQQ, you actually did pretty well compared to a lot of other portfolios.
QQQ is honestly a pretty weird fund when you dig into it, and it's only as popular as it is thanks to being there first and the way GICS classifies companies. VOO is purely market cap weighted and as neutral as a single-country US bet can bet. Owning it isn't making any statements about sectors or technical strategies, you just own the market. It is legally classified as a diversified fund. QQQ tracks the 100 largest market cap stocks on the Nasdaq (the Nasdaq-100 index) only, using the weights published by that Nasdaq. This has never strictly been market cap weighted, and the Nasdaq has fiddled around with their methodology a lot over the years (and has dispensation to arbitrarily change the rules for their index weights in 'exceptional circumstances'). For example, under the rules they've introduced recently to benefit SpaceX specifically, companies with a tiny float can be up to tripled - so QQQ is forced to buy three times more SpaceX than is reflected by the actual pool of available shares. QQQ has become fairly socially acceptable for self-described 'passive' investors to slot into a portfolio for 'aggressive growth', but it's really just a proxy for US megacap tech, or a way to overweight the Mag7 within a portfolio. In reality the Nasdaq-100 is just the top 100 companies on the Nasdaq exchange excluding financials (so you get Kraft Heinz and Costco with the tech), which is a fairly arbitrary classification. Nobody obsesses over a hypothetical 'only certain NYSE-listed stocks' fund the way they do over QQQ. The reason it's not done more cleanly through a market cap-weighted tech vehicle is because under GICS rules, Google and Meta are counted as communications companies, and including that sector with technology would bring in the likes of Verizon. Tesla and Amazon are classified as consumer cyclicals, and you can't add that sector to a tech etf without bringing in Home Depot. The Nasdaq corresponds fairly roughly to what consumers imagine a 'tech company' is, so buying it is the default. QQQ isn't the default because it's a specific bet on weightings set by the Nasdaq exchange, which companies list there and mega cap tech continuing to dominate. None of that is actually all that passive. Legally they're not even classified as a diversified fund. IYW is arguably a better expression of what retail buys QQQ for, and if you look at it and go 'that looks too concentrated', you shouldn't be buying QQQ either. **TLDR; VOO is a real passive fund, QQQ is a mild form of active investing for people who like to think they're bogleheads without honestly engaging with the higher potential risk and reward.**
why did i decide to buy QQQ instead of spy..
Interesting! Congrats on making back! Do you trade exclusively QQQ not SPY? How do you figure out such days? And when do you buy your strike options? Early in the morning or just random? For example tomorrow what do you think will happen? It seems like we can go down
OK, I am NOT saying to do this, but my options account went from $300k to $10k - and then I had two big days and was back to $240k. It requires some black swan days and being in a "fuck it, I'm all in" mood, but it can def happen. So all is not definitely lost, although it probably is. I would advise waiting for a big volatility day until it's already a 2% move, then go all in on momentum with OTM 0DTEs hoping it's a 3%+ move. I did that on June 6 and 9 with QQQ puts, and then this Tuesday with QQQ calls. Of course it can V on you, but at least you have a reasonable shot at 5-10x.
Buying is simple, psychological endurance during pullbacks is the real challenge with QQQ.
i need some clean V on QQQ or SPY :pray:
QQQ and SPY are connected? Genius
SPY rejected the $777 today, have to see how QQQ plays out tomorrow. Usually both of them are connected.
OP was asking about VOO vs QQQ and VOO is more diversified than the latter. Of course there are other ETFs that are more diversified than VOO
Is it allowed if I give a non-fundamental, speculative reason? $APP has acted as a QQQ high-beta proxy play for a while now. Conveniently Sandisk and WDC sold off in a similar manner post-earnings, and the other handful of names that reported tonight. Leading up to this afternoon QQQ has been on a tear, 89 hourly RSI straight vertical from Wednesday July 29. I believe 'smart' money was already primed to sell regardless and this was the perfect excuse. What I'm suspecting, and hoping, is that once QQQ gets 1hr or even 4hr oversold, everything will recover (as it always does). Then "magically", headlines and media will start praising Sandisk's ER, talking about APP's SEC probe being cleared and how their quarter actually did perfectly fine, etc. There is always an excuse, narrative, or reason AFTER the fact. I truly think this is purely just a consequence of price action running too hot. They're derisking, taking profits, will buy back across the board in a few days to weeks time. "Price pays" - Brian Shannon CMT
Biased toward the Magnificent 7 stocks. However, the rest 500-7 stocks serve as cushion to reduce the M7 risk with more diversification. QQQ can fall harder than S&P.
Wait till you find out how much you "can" make on 15 to 20 min to expiring friday QQQ options
so tempted to full port 3x QQQ for a swing
1. NASDAQ 2. S&P 500 3. Dow Jones industrial average Those are the three most well known indices in the equities market. Look them up and learn about them. QQQ, ONEQ, QQQM, QQQE - these track the NASDAQ VOO, SPY, SPYM, SPYX - these track the s&p 500 And you shouldn't trade the djia, so I don't know any index funds that track that. All of these index funds are so that you don't have to pick winners and losers. You're just playing the market as a whole.
SPY is up 13% YTD, QQQ is up 17%, he's up 12%
VT and chill - diversify. QQQ is far more concentrated and more volatile.
Sure but Nasdaq doesn't have any control over the components of QQQ, it's just market cap weighted top 100 market cap companies on that exchange. And neither SPGI or Nasdaq own or operate any ETFs. Russell indices on the other hand, yeah do have some discretion at what gets included or excluded. But iirc LSEG doesn't operate any ETFs either though
Part of it is the fee, VOO costs a fraction of QQQ to hold. The rest is that boring is the point here, a broad index you never have to think about
QQQ is -0.11% why are all the bears yapping?
Why did QQQ rampage 3% yesterday? Stocks do random stuff
QQQ and VTI didn't really have a choice. QQQ is the top 100 nasdaq listed companies. And VTI is total market. The S&P Global, which creates the S&P 500 index, has discretion over the companies that add. Also they have a rule about companies needing to demonstrate 4 quarters of GAAP profitability before beinh considered for index inclusion.
Equal weighed QQQ holders in shambles?
“**Michael Burry Exits Microsoft, Rolls Nvidia and QQQ Puts Into 2027”** Inverse burry strat?** **
I bought QQQ about a year or so after it came out and it's now up about 1,500%.
They track different indexes and behave differently. QQQ - Tracks the NASDAQ-100 Index Index consists of approximately 100 of the largest non-financial companies listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange. As things stand today they are dominated by tech companies but does not have non-tech giants such as Berkshire, Visa etc. VOO - Tracks the S&P 500 Index Index consists of approximately 500 of the largest US companies including financials, utilities, and energy. Ofcourse it also includes all the tech majors. VOO excludes any international stocks. Tech has been on a tear for a while now and hence you see QQQ outperforming. Both provide different exposures. You make your choice depending upon the exposure you desire, your ability to accept volatility, risk level etc etc. PS: **QQQ is overwhelmingly a concentrated subset of VOO**. When you remove the few international companies listed on the Nasdaq, nearly every single company inside QQQ is already owned by VOO.
If SPY and QQQ keep the current trajectory, I may get all my money back 😝
Got QQQ puts and APP calls 🌝
heard QQQ calls and puts, which one we feelin?
QQQ calls at open it is thanks
Gold up today. SPY still has room to go up. QQQ, DRAM and SOXX are going to see a pull back.
QQQ is tech-heavy, while VOO is broad-market diversified. If QQQ drops 50%, it signals a localized tech sector bust that the broader economy can likely survive; if VOO drops 50%, it signals a severe global economic crisis.
QQQ really fighting to be green it seems
Don't regret taking the $209 profit from my QQQ calls now, would've been down 2.4k if I held