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Holy crap! I might actually make money! QQQ 453 Put.
Options Profit Calculator - Feedback on Potential Trades
Today started off tough, but the market eventually came through!!
Are QQQ options a viable way to capture this week’s earnings calls?
Soo , Russell .. what’s up man ? 🫨
12 Stocks to Hold in 2024 to Beat QQQ, SPY and SMH (or SOXX)
I’m looking to add another stock or two to my portfolio, any recommendations?
What are some ways to Hedge a portfolio with some thing I can buy on the market
Think $QQQ pulls back next month? History would agree...
FOMC Week… 1-26-24 SPY/ ES Futures, QQQ/ NQ Futures, 10YR Yield, DXY/ US Dollar and Cl/ Oil Futures Weekly Market Analysis
FOMC Week… 1-26-24 SPY/ ES Futures, QQQ/ NQ Futures, 10YR Yield, DXY/ US Dollar and Cl/ Oil Futures Weekly Market Analysis
FOMC Week… 1-26-24 SPY/ ES Futures, QQQ/ NQ Futures, 10YR Yield, DXY/ US Dollar and Cl/ Oil Futures Weekly Market Analysis
Feel I made a lot of bad investing decisions in the past few years
PCE Tomorrow… 1-25-24 SPY/ ES Futures, QQQ/ NQ Futures, 10YR Yield, and DXY/ US Dollar Daily Market Analysis
PCE Tomorrow… 1-25-24 SPY/ ES Futures, QQQ/ NQ Futures, 10YR Yield, and DXY/ US Dollar Daily Market Analysis
PCE Tomorrow… 1-25-24 SPY/ ES Futures, QQQ/ NQ Futures, 10YR Yield, and DXY/ US Dollar Daily Market Analysis
PayPal shares fall after CEO announces AI-based products
PayPal shares fall after CEO announces AI-based products
I'm the $2k to $50k Options Account Challenge Guy and I Have Some Gains to Share From My Larger Account
I should have sold earlier when I was up 100%
Retrace Inbound? 1-24-24 SPY/ ES Futures, QQQ/ NQ Futures, 10YR Yield, and DXY/ US Dollar Daily Market Analysis (Tesla Earnings)
Retrace Inbound? 1-24-24 SPY/ ES Futures, QQQ/ NQ Futures, 10YR Yield, and DXY/ US Dollar Daily Market Analysis (Tesla Earnings)
QQQ or VOO which one will you choose ?
Trading SPY + QQQ off /ES and /NQ chart anybody else do this?
Question about ETFs: What happens if the provider goes under as a business?
The Reason why the Mag 7 can’t be stopped and QQQ will keep going up
On the topics of imposter syndrome, trading groups and online/remote support
Thinking through 0DTE ATM wheeling QQQ
Going to bed holding all QQQ puts and futures are up 0.60%
What stock/suggestion have you gotten from this sub that actually WORKED?
An explanation of Friday's Price Action that brought SPX to All time Highs.
What happens to options expired ITM AH but not enough cash in margin account?
Options expired ITM but not enough cash in margin account
$SMCI Options expired ITM but not enough cash in account
$SMCI Options expired ITM but not enough cash in account
Buy QQQ Calls now, 420 Support Level Reached
Is it possible to move SOME of my investments to a new brokerage, but not others without simply selling them all and buying them back?
Selling Long Deep ITM Cash Secured Puts. Good Retirement Strategy?
What index fund do I pick for my Roth IRA?
Histogram Insights on 1-15 Day Returns Across Various Assets
is anyone else noticing, we're living in an exponential curve in the stock market?
Lost eBay Lego bid war, now have 1.3k, what stock to invest for coping
Is it normal for the index funds to be weighted this heavily by mega caps?
BANBET: The 10y-2y treasury spread is gonna go >1% by Jan 2025. $50k on the table.
Investing in the top 10 highest weighted companies of the QQQ would have resulted in almost a 4x higher return vs the QQQ
Epic V Continues to Show How Little Risk Exists
Analysis: Why solar is the best place to mark your money in 2024.
Analysis: Why the solar industry is the best place to park your money right now
Been learning to trade options since September.
Why is there such a huge difference in the value of ETFs that track index funds, and the value of the index funds themselves?
Lost 50% of my 2023 earnings on QQQ puts. Lord help me
Feetr Data Dump: ATNF MINM RPID OMGA JFBR SMFL
Long-term leveraged futures if you believe in the EMH
Mentions
Damn, again missed out on QQQ end of March. I terribly suck at this.
Believe it or not that drop from 1.5 to 1.2% gain in QQQ was a generational buying opportunity
The dollar has devalued heavily, but I don’t trade based on biases, I follow trends. I average a thousand dollars a day trading futures/ options. These all time highs are definitely inflated, and that’s not what I’m trying to argue here. Don’t trade based on your opinion of the economy, follow the trend, and trade stocks that have momentum off of catalysts. This isn’t a debate on whether or not the economy is in shambles, it’s about stocks continuing to make higher highs and reaping the benefits of a runaway retard market. I think we’ll ultimately see a major pullback in the future here, because the market has pushed way too far way too fast. I’m not holding any long term positions at this point other than VOO, QQQ, and POET, because the market is so dangerous at this point. As a day trader it’s not my job to trade based on biases, it’s to follow the trend. I went to school for software engineering and worked in the industry for almost 10 years, but have chosen to focus on my trading after years of success in the market. I think the entire market is extremely inflated, and there’s a multiplicity of reasons for it being inflated. I am not buying any stocks at this level. My only recent purchase is 10,000 shares of poet that I bought at 8 dollars a share and other than that I’m simply holding VOO and QQQ which I will continue to buy on dips for years to come.
If the news about talks about talks keep coming the QQQ can keep climbing. 😊
QQQ seems to be outperforming spy/voo at pretty staggering rate
QQQ lolololol puts on tech for next week eanings will make me generational wealth
I’m calling QQQ top at 666. It’s the perfect number
Profit it profit, but I think I left around 3k on the table with QQQ calls yesterday if QQQ opens this high
Nasdaq and SPX are indexes, SPY and QQQ are etf’s sporty spice. By the way intel is at 86 right now. The whole market has rebounded quickly off of the lows. There are some laggards, but the market as a whole is back in greed territory and we’re continuing to make higher highs as time goes on. I agree that the indexes are skewed, I just don’t understand what you’re even trying to argue at this point. Even the Russell two thousand is at all time highs.
Told you boys 660 on the QQQ today....hope you loaded up
idk man you tell me why semis just went up more than 50% after \*nothing changed\*. Not to mention, they didn't even go down that much during March 10% drawdown for SPY and QQQ
I like how SPY, QQQ and oil all go up together like it was intended.
what's more regarded, INTC @ $90 or QQQ up 1% pre mkt while SPY +0.20%?
these days anything below +1% for QQQ premarket is considered a red day
Alright start the little thread, what plays are you making today like for real not just eyeing and why. SOXL semiconductors are the bees knees POET? WSB regards need to fill me in on this play AMD/INTEL I’m sure will pump with some profit taking here and there. QQQ/SPY is always acceptable as the play
I don't remember very many times that QQQ is up nearly 1% in premarket while SPY is essentially flat.
Is QQQ or SPY more interesting for 0dte yolos
Vm, thoughts on SPY & QQQ, please?
Idk rules on old posts but this happens to me a lot too. A few days ago I paper traded QQQ all day and made money every time. Then I finally spend real money on one trade and literally 30 seconds later the stock drops a ton and the stop loss kicked in, then it jumped back up high where I’d have made a lot of money
SPY and QQQ are skewed indexes that poorly reflect the market as the top 15 companies in SPY make up 40-45% of the AUM, so growth stocks and mid caps that are not AI hype haven’t done as hot. Meanwhile it has only been around 3 weeks since the SPY has gone vertical but that is all due to manipulation tactics by orange man, little guy
1000% correlation between QQQ and USofO 🤔
Today’s the day pal. I wish you nothing but the best I think it’s going to print too but I’m all in on QQQ calls with my life savings of $200
Do you have timeframe for this when QQQ will be forced to selll MAG 7? Actually will there be any public announcements on this or will these just be insider action and public sees news six month
QQQ dump 0,5% pumps 0.5-1.5% for a couple of days right after.. This market ignores bad news and pumps on a fart
Earlier QQQ was pumping while USO was pumping, now QQQ is drilling together with USO, can’t make this up 🤣
Stop thinking of this as trying to win it back—that mindset turns into chasing returns, whether the market is high or low. Treat what’s already happened as a learning experience. Going forward, focus on building a solid foundation. Whether it’s a retirement account or not, it’s usually wise to keep the majority in broad market ETFs like SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) or Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQ), which have delivered strong long-term average returns. If you want to experiment or take higher-risk trades, carve out a small portion of your capital for that—so you’re learning and participating without putting your overall progress at risk.
Start with 1:1 R:R spreads or condors on SPY/QQQ
You guys and this joke make me laugh. 65% of SPY is buy and hold by everyone in the world. The rest is MM hedging and buying on a daily basis. It will pump and V recovery forever. On purpose. Every broker makes piles of money on daily SPY and QQQ options and youre wondering why it moves like a meme. FFS.
My QQQ call might be saved
QQQ is green for the day? Lol
Preach, I’m like 200k in QQQ LEAPs since last Monday lol 😆
a well diversified portfolio is QQQ and USO 😎
Just a reminder Burry has QQQ 500 P expiring December 2026. And no he did not buy these at the top.
The market is doing what it needs to to fuck up my QQQ strangle
My QQQ 654c back ITM lma
QQQ for calls, SPY for puts
QQQ recovering hard from any red days. The money will continue to be printed.
Here's the core problem with your understanding. You don't realize that you are arguing against the very concept of a capital market. Your claim is that insiders are going to ever so slowly drain liquidity from QQQ against their will. Answer me this, how is that any different than SpaceX IPO'ing ***at all***? Even without QQQ, when SpaceX IPO's, assets are going to rotate out of existing names into SpaceX. That's the game. That's the capital market. Assets will rotate to buy other assets. Including ones 'retail' is holding. There is no world where any company IPO's and the liquidity from the stock does not pull from everything around it. Index fund or not! And unless you think the insiders are going to sit on cash in a mattress for the rest of their lives that liquidity is gonna go right back into the machine.
There is not a single 401(k) plan that invests in a mutual fund tracking the Nasdaq. Full stop. You are making this up. >im not sure why thats the point you keep overlooking Because it has nothing to do with the post I was responding to. If you paid any bit of attention you would see that the post I was responding to is that retail would be holding the bag. 😒 As if you didnt already have a choice to invest into something other than QQQ or SpaceX. SPX is not being forced into SpaceX, DJIA is not being forced into SpaceX, RUT is not being forced into SpaceX. There is only one single index fund that is buying into SpaceX. And not only is it a choice to not invest in QQQ, there's a pretty damn good one like SPMO which already tracks 100 momentum stocks of the S&P500.
There is not a single 401(k) plan that invests in a mutual fund tracking the Nasdaq. Full stop. You are making this up. >im not sure why thats the point you keep overlooking Because it has nothing to do with the post I was responding to. If you paid any bit of attention you would see that the post I was responding to is that retail would be holding the bag. 😒 As if you didnt already had a choice to invest into something other than QQQ or SpaceX. SPX is not being forced into SpaceX, DJIA is not being forced into SpaceX, RUT is not being forced into SpaceX. There is only one single index fund that is buying into SpaceX. And not only is it a choice to not invest in QQQ, there's a pretty damn good one like SPMO which already tracks 100 momentum stocks of the S&P500.
You mean QQQ is more volatile?
\> Correct. Notice that this is a far different statement than rugpull of the century imminent. We are not arguing on this point. I didn't imply I expected a crypto-like rug pull. I do expect a liquidity drain. Invesco's QQQ is a third of a trillion in itself, and the mimic funds and ETFs will all follow suit. Glad we agree there. That's the huge pool of sloshing liquidity I expect to rock the boat, and possibly underperform longer term due to selling winners like NVDA, GOOGL and AMZN to buy SpaceX at the top of the hype cycle. And if the 2T valuation sticks (which it should, short term, considering how little of the company is being offered relatively speaking) then other indexes and funds will have no choice but to include SpaceX sooner rather than later. Even actively managed funds tend to index quite a bit to avoid drastically underperforming the benchmarks. I did buy back 360 MSFT put contracts I shorted a couple weeks ago. So yeah, as you say, already nutted up and bought puts. Mostly because I needed the cash backing that position deployed elsewhere, not because I expected they'd be assigned. The problem with an options trade is having to be right not only on direction but also time frame. There are more up days than down days, statistically speaking. I'd be a much bigger doomer if I didn't have to factor that into my positioning. The odds are in favor of permabull over permabear. Me, I'm never perma anything.
Nah, you see them all. "Well actually, because he could have gotten 20%, or more, month over month doing everything I would have done, but don't do, he is a ragard!" Oh oh oh, don't forget this jem. "If he put it all in SPY/QQQ it would have been more already! That's the minimum standard!"
Chat I wanna quit my job by December so I need to build my savings up but I wanna do some yolo trades to get there faster BUT the responsible thing to do is spam buy SPY, QQQ cuz market makes no fuckin sense... So what should I do chat Knowing I could quit literally tomorrow is a green goblin in my mind But I need monies to sustain for 2 or 3 yrs cuz i am gonna do my own thing so biz expenses plus travel and living expenses So I can't afford to go to 0 Maybe I throw a few hundred each paycheck to 1dte 0dte and if it hits I try to win streak Thoughts??
Vm, thoughts on SPY & QQQ, please?
>this is not business as usual Correct. Notice that this is a far different statement than rugpull of the century imminent. >QQQ is cloned a dozen ways to Sunday. This is just wrong. God forbid you don't mean TQQQ. Unless you mean the Nasdaq. Only index funds tracking the Nasdaq will have to buy into SpaceX. Actively managed mutual funds like in a 401k will not. There are probably hundred ETFs that have a tech sector tilt. I personally prefer SPMO. Which you continue to ignore exists for some reason. >401ks are FULL of Nasdaq clones No they are not. FXAIX for SPY is not the Nasdaq. Total Stock Market even less. How about you put your money where your mouth is, nut the fuck up and buy some God damn puts instead of rambling to me about how sure you are of the next cataclysm. I'll remember this buddy don't go deleting your account when the next catastrophe doesn't happen 😒. Is it any surprise you doomers are wrong every single time the moment this changes everything is supposed to happen?
QQQ 654c Fully believe some weird shit will happen overnight lmao
SPY, QQQ, IWM….all have the same exact chart. Seems very organic and totally not manipulated.
If we do the opposite of each other then it’s 50/50 odds one of us gets rich, right? A few days ago I paper traded QQQ options all day, never lost money I swear. Then I finally use real money and 30 seconds later it drops huge amounts and my stop loss sold it. Right after that of course it jumps back higher. Time to make a investing website for others to follow
Tell me, how many IPOs get included in one of the most popular indexes on day 1? This is not business as usual in the least. QQQ is cloned a dozen ways to Sunday, and every one of those clones will have to follow in lockstep. That's their design. And 401ks are FULL of those clones if not the branded product. Then there's fund managers doing stealth indexing in order not to underperform the indexes. Elon knows exactly what he's doing with this day 1 inclusion in QQQ. And possibly other ETFs. It doesn't take a chatbot to understand all those funds will have to sell current holdings to raise liquidity to buy into a new holding. That money HAS to flow from current companies market capitalization to provide a new entrant's market cap. What makes this a special case is the ginormous size of this IPO, and the insane, unjustified premium QQQ clone holders will be paying to get it day 1.
The Nasdaq index change is worth watching but I'd separate the two concerns a bit. Index inclusion itself doesn't mean passive investors are "buying at inflated prices" — they buy at whatever market price exists when rebalancing, same as always. The real risk is concentration: if SpaceX joins at a $1.5T valuation and immediately becomes 4-5% of QQQ, that's a meaningful chunk of every passive dollar that flows in going forward, which could create a self-reinforcing bid. The SEC 15c3-3 change is actually the more interesting part to me. Allowing large-cap equities as collateral for broker-dealer borrowing introduces a reflexivity loop — rising prices increase collateral value, enabling more leverage, enabling more buying. We've seen this dynamic before in other asset classes and it doesn't end cleanly. The Morningstar index methodology discussion is probably the most underreported of the three. If major index providers start optimizing for something other than pure market-cap weight, the whole premise of passive investing shifts. Worth keeping an eye on but I don't think it's a "run from VOO" moment yet — more of a slow structural change to monitor.
Who's 401k is buying QQQ? Theyre all mutual funds that just so happen to have similar tilts. There is no 401k plan that is going to be forced to buy SpaceX in the same way QQQ/QQQM do. >passive funds will need to sell current solid companies This is just completely wrong. I think your AI chat bot is having a stroke. Thats for admitting that you have zero clue on how shit works around here and just parrot the same upboat headlines like the good little sheep you are. >Space X will tank the index 6% That's a ceiling by the way. Because I don't think you understand what you're talking about. Also, liquidity outflow is precisely the point of IPO. It's for the public to buy in so stakeholders can sell out. That's how every IPO in existence works
Go back to $647 QQQ, i’ll buy in there. Thanks.
SpaceX will be 6% of every QQQ following index. Rug pull not needed, it'll just be a slow bleed to contribute the passive 401k flows as continued liquidity. Eventually SpaceX may grow into 2T worth of assets and revenue as a result. But it'll likely take a long drip of capital from the markets to get there. And that's the problem. Passive funds mirroring QQQ will need to sell current solid companies to raise cash to buy in at a 2T valuation into a company that may one day have revenues and profit high enough to justify a 2T valuation. It certainly won't on day 1. All tech will likely take a hit as SpaceX sucks 6% of oxygen out of the room with a clever bit of financial engineering.
Immm 2hrs from Niagara Falls.. but QQQ s Falls just awakened
Same deal idiot. Who is forcing you to hold QQQ? When there's already SMPO? He'll even the SPY is already basically tech tilt. Also, you simply fundamentally misunderstand how ETFs work in the first place. If the SpaceX IPO ever does "rug" it drops off the ETF. And even if it doesnt, you really expect me to believe a single stock is going to drag the entire ETF long term? Do you really not grasp the size of these funds?
Yes, you do have to take risks, but hoping to get rich quick by invest investing money in stocks in a video game company that has been floundering for a decade, is stupid risk. To use a similar analogy like sports betting, this is the equivalent of betting money on the Jets winning the Super Bowl simply because the odds are amazing. Yeah, if it pays out, you’ll be the richest man alive, but you’re ignoring the fact that the Jets haven’t been good in like 40 years. If you insist on betting on a risky stock, take the money you would put in Ubisoft and invest it in QQQ or a partial share in Nvidia. At least then, there’s a decent chance based on how heavy the future is, you’ll make some money.
Every passive ETF mirroring QQQ will be a bagholder, will be providing Elon his exit liquidity for years.
It gets even better. When SpaceX is financially engineered into QQQ, all the QQQ-tracking indexes will have to sell Magnificent 7 to raise enough cash to buy in at this nutball valuation. This will put quite a bit of pressure on all tech indexes, which will likely sell off. I've moved out of QQQ for that reason. Other passive indexes should be hit less, and are a place to hide out while still receiving upside exposure. After the QQQ bloodbath is over it might be worth looking at various momentum themed indexes.
Down on QQQ 654c so now I hold, like my forefathers did before me
Up 28% (QQQ) since taking office is flat?
QQQ will touch 654 and drop to 636 in the upcoming weeks. That's my assumption and what I'll be trading. if I don't post gain porn of 6 figures next month.... someone please contact my baby mama and tell her i said I still love puts and fk you.
QQQ 670 tomorrow big dawg do it
Buy QQQ 655 0dte calls now, 🥭 speaks in an hour and the TACO is coming.
once aapl, amzn, and googl join the great dump QQQ is toast
SPY is down 1.2% and QQQ 1.5%….
Sold my QQQ 654p this morning for a massive $20 profit. Nice
lmao I coward sold some QQQ calls in that fake pump just now
My laughed at At&T stock is still up over 2% and rising higher. I guess an Iran coup, $93 crude oil, & a $QQQ going straight down means you all still gotta pay your cell phone bill, huh?? : )
I want my relationship to be like QQQ and 650 level support
This market is honestly just bullshit at this point. The past few weeks I have been losing like crazy, I can't seem to place a good trade. I was up like 40% for the year, now I am back to even after all these crazy candles on breaking news. I'm about to just start investing in SPY and QQQ for the next few months 😭
I suppose it matters what you consider truly "passive." QQQ is passively managed but I wouldn't consider it a passive index.
OCT 29th 2025 - March 30th SPY down -8% OCT 29th 2025 - March 30th QQQ down -12.30% What's all this talk about only goes up this is crazy the market hasn't gone down or sideways for the past 4-5 months???
nope QQQ was -4% prior 5 months sideways / consolodation this is long overdue in fact given inflation and how much more everything costs
Sir we are literally .2% off ATH on QQQ, what are you smoking
QQQ about to go parabolic after lunch. Better get out of those puts now with some dignity
How tf is QQQ green with SAAS-pocalypse
this daily chart is super bullish on QQQ and SPY... momentum is real
Markers been going up. 4 years ago was beginning of the cycle - if you just bought QQQ straight long you’re up 2.5x :/ - don’t use that as gospel for investing strategy. That said finding good stocks and holding obviously is a sound strategy.
QQQ is up 18% in less than a month...why would anyone not wait for a dip
Perfect time to buy puts on SPY or QQQ and calls on USO or futures on NQ short and CL long
sell QQQ, buy VGT or VUG or XLK. if you have big pending gains in QQQ, congratulations on your victory. take your prize. if you absolutely positively cannot sell your QQQ, buy puts on it.
I thought I saw QQQ at 675 and I got excited lmao
I owned shares for a bit over 4 years. I sold in Feb 2026 and moved the funds into VOO/QQQ/AVDV/AVUV. I got scared off by what AI *may* do to Medpace. Looking at yesterday's report, that book-to-bill is terrifying. It's the lowest level that I can recall in the 4+ years I owned. And book-to-bill is the single most important forward-looking indicator for a CRO. And this isn't a blip. In Q1'25 Troendle said they had a path to re-build book-to-bill back above 1.15 by Q3 & Q4 and they nailed it in Q3 with 1.20. But Q4 came in at 1.04. Now 0.88. That's significant deterioration. Also 26.5% Q1 y/y topline growth is good but FY guidance is \~10% at the midpoint. That's an acknowledgement of major weakness in the pipeline for H2. This would be a wait and see situation for me.
I'm going to take a wild shot in the dark but I have a feeling QQQ will not end red!!!
QQQ back to ATH. who would have guessed!
so glad i got out of the casino last week and being lame with the QQQ
Decided I’m done playing SPY and QQQ weeklies and went all in on Google yesterday when it was down. Think I may have made the right call for today. https://preview.redd.it/387aezcjzxwg1.jpeg?width=1279&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9894891e2a6d557ce47af5f20961c2a8ce3b6e96
For retail and buy side, options are and should be a leverage tool, so take a view and use them wisely. Having said that, most people can't beat QQQ, not even Warren Buffett. Not trading advice of course.