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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.
Had a good day (with full transparency)
Curious how many of yall are profitable all time?
$SPY -- Bullish? -- 3DTE -- MU Earnings + Semi Catalysts
Why is QQQ/QQQM down 3.5% when NASDAQ is down only 2.1%?
The TSX is holding the line again today
Stocks are not "Plummeting Across the board" Your portfolio is just over-concentrated in tech.
i audited my daytrades from YTD and the results were interesting
QQQ recovers it's losses for the day in AH
Up 4X trading calls on the WSB T10 stock picks starting on January 2nd (thx 4 sndk). What are your new top picks? Will summarize comments
Warsh's first FOMC presser is Wednesday and nobody seems to be talking about the dot plot risk
Warsh's first FOMC is tomorrow and I have no clue what to do with my port
How am I doing? Started options 5/28 Nano account
Iran Peace Deal: QQQ up 2% // TA-35 Down 2% - a First since Trump got elected
SPCX is getting force fed into every index and you regards are measuring it wrong
What $10k invested in 8 major indices would be worth today *PART 2*
SpaceX is gonna rocket then drop to pennies but we have an opportunity here
SpaceX is gonna pump then get dumped but we have an opportunity
What $10k invested in 8 major indices in 2011 would be worth today
Bullish thesis for SPCX into the summer
Bullish SPCX Mechanical and Macro Thesis in the next month
Is the wheel strategy a viable FIRE income plan vs. the 4% rule ?
SpaceX is gonna rip and options is the best way to play
I waited till 4:15 for QQQ to breakeven like a dog
I waited till 4:15 for QQQ to breakeven like a dog
QQQ moonshot of today. Holding till it's a 20 bagger!
SpaceX: People are getting this IPO wrong
Mentions
What happened to all those QQQ commercials
QQQ with the 2 month wedge pattern 😂 you ain't slick qqq.
Hi I am the QQQ manager on duty today, how may I assist you ?
$SPY $QQQ Energy is only 2% of index, media making too much negative news , more than reality Ready for strong earnings, neglect Iran News
Hey buddy, what's your cost basis for QQQ?
SPY and QQQ both stuck in the opening range lol
Imagine being a boomer tech QQQ investor instead of a chad only up SPY one trick pony
If your portfolio doesn't beat the QQQ everyday are you even winning? Qqq is -1.3% today. Your port better have dropped less than that
$SPY $QQQ $SMH AI infrastructure never stop for Middle East
QQQ put debit spreads were solid weekend protection. My week has started well.
QQQ 0dte puts are printing rn
QQQ being absolutely murdered
Memory recovering with QQQ slipping further down. This truly was the bottom. Congrats to all the buyers
How is QQQ still not V yet when the top holdings are pumping
Can we get the QQQ circuit breaker that was promised to us 3000 years ago? In reverence for our fallen Korean brothers?
My QQQ 740 EOW are still going to print \*Insert PePe huffing Copium emoji\*
Debating QQQ calls reee
Why does MSFT literally inverse the QQQ nowadays lmao
I'm gonna need a ceasefire to save these end of week QQQ Calls
I would be ecstatic to make back $100k of my $200k loss on QQQ puts
QQQ has strong companies behind it, but even great companies go through corrections
It is your money, your home work and your decision to grow! Using such methods, so called astrology, made nice money many years and this year too. [https://imgur.com/TS19BCz](https://imgur.com/TS19BCz) Even today market will be negative, but my account will be positive as I took 50k worth of QQQ puts in my 4 accounts. one account proof => [https://imgur.com/gYFvLgU](https://imgur.com/gYFvLgU) I do not use margin, use my own cash to grow both in Roth and Taxable. Many are blind eye on TA, it is just ignorance of that subject instead of learning how it is scientific !
so if I sell my 0DTE QQQ puts at open, QQQ will crash. If I hold them, QQQ will rocket up. I am currently taking bribes
The chart might be the wrong place to look for the answer on this one. QQQ's top 10 holdings are \~45% of the fund — so "QQQ chooses a direction" really means "a handful of mega-caps choose a direction." And that choice has a calendar, not a trendline: Alphabet reports around July 22, Microsoft and Meta on the 30th, Apple and Amazon on the 31st, Nvidia in late August. Whatever the wedge does before those dates, the prints will overwrite it. One thing I'd gently flag on the framing: "if it breaks up, bullish; if it breaks down, correction" covers both outcomes — that's a description of a consolidation, not a forecast of one. Which of those reports do you think the market has priced wrong going in?
I'm closing my QQQ puts and rolling down to at the money puts later in the day to cover all the catalysts
They're the exact same thing. If you're really gonna hold do QQQM as it has lower expense ratio. Invesco created QQQM for that purpose because they didn't want to lower the fee on QQQ since its their cash cow. QQQ for trading and options liquidity, QQQM for buy and forget. Same issuer, same holdings, slightly different fee structure.
QQQ: Pump SKHY: Sleep
QQQ up 93% in 3 years we really deserve 10-15% pullback crazy numbers
Moving from an index like QQQ to an individual tech stock like MU is a completely different ballgame. QQQ has its gaps, but MU can easily blow past your strike walls on a random piece of sector news or a competitor's earnings report
QQQ makes sense, index 0DTE rarely gaps hard. MU isn't the same, it's had double digit overnight gaps before, so your "one bad month" rate on QQQ won't hold there. I'd size it like undefined risk and buy a cheap far OTM wing, barely touches the $17 credit but caps the bad-gap-day cost.
It and its cousin Microsoft have turned into inverse ETFs for QQQ
I have 0 shares in MU and have never traded MU. I'm not even talking about forward PE. MU's trailing PE is half the QQQ average. Being realistic, MU reported half of NVDIA's quarterly revenue and is priced @ 20% NVDIA's market cap. Those are just the numbers.
SPY, QQQ and AMZN puts on the main account. If the market even opens at these levels, sell your house and buy stocks and calls first thing tomorrow LMAO.
Have a bunch of SPY, QQQ and AMZN calls. The reason why I sleep like a baby is that I know that Axios is working overtime to come up with some absolutely fantastic news in the morning before market open.
That’s funny, I put all 8k I had left into QQQ 1DTE puts. So it’ll open flat
Cooked. Last week I held 5k in QQQ 1dte calls just slightly OTM. Samsung earnings overnight, by morning the calls were poof, like a fart in the wind. Never again
It was a solid play tbh. He expected a 9$ move to the upside for QQQ and it's currently moving 10/11$ in pre-market. You guys are mocking him but his analysis was correct, he just picked the wrong direction.
It's amazing how QQQ kangaroos around 705-725 while the stocks I hold ride a one-way escalator to hell
Honestly SPY isn’t even down that much, it’s at Fridays lows. QQQ on the other hand tehehegege
Looks like SPY and QQQ puts are saved😝
SPY -2% and QQQ -3% type shit
Futures are down 1% so QQQ will open around $715. Doubt it will rally 3% tomorrow.
no more oil, so QQQ is now pivoting fro AI into drilling operations
It's still up 120% yoy...imagine if SPY or QQQ did that
KOSPI is being nuked atm, your QQQ is cooked.
Rose high fast af, boiii. Seriously though, compare KOSPI to QQQ on a year graph for some perspective.
Honestly, I have some heavy calls for Monday and I’m sweating. Panicking actually, war is not looking great, futures opened red, spy and QQQ on a nasty downtrend, historically, we are fucked. However I’ve seen market explode green once in a while at this trend so who knows
Bears say tech is drilling and QQQ is down only 2 dollars LMAO
Came here, read the comments and opened trading view expecting SPY at 740 and QQQ at 700. SPY is at 752 (down a whole 2$ from Friday close). Ber r pathetic LMAO
SPY going back to 745 and QQQ going back to 705
Sell QQQ puts expiring friday, hold till expiration
I'm in healthcare, financials, and shorting QQQ right now 🫡
Statistically, DCA-ing into OTM SPY and QQQ call leaps do not lose money since 2008.
I did buy some lotto QQQ puts on friday. However, given the amount of times ive seen this exact red to green sunday-monday move, i don't have confidence.
QQQ will end up +1% tomorrow right?
$665 QQQ PT this week. Inshallah it will happen
| Ticker | Target | Entry | Current | Move | Expires | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **QQQ** ▼ | $702.00 (below) | $725.19 | $726.27 | -3.2% | Jul 15, 4:27 PM | | **Record** | 2W - 0L | 100% | - | - | - |
Really hope you’re not full porting and considering $MSFT with this strategy. While the company mints money, it has some erratic swings. You can open a position and keep building or go with an etf like $VGT or $QQQ as it’ll be a top holding.
individual names hit differently than index weeklies into earnings. ASML and TSM move on bookings/orders and capex guidance, not the headline print, so you can nail the EPS number and still get run over. NFLX reports Thursday after close. first time on single names, IV crush works against you even when you're right on direction, so I'd size smaller than your QQQ/SPY habit and lean spread over naked long.
QQQ puts on friday.... 10k
My AI Slop Analysis: I'll give you credit for one thing: the screenshot is real money and real gains, which puts you ahead of half the posts in this sub. But let's actually look at what you're showing us, because the numbers tell a different story than the post. Your account sits at $1,301,268. You're up $182,333 this year, which is 16.29%. That means you started 2026 with roughly $1.12 million dollars. FartPolluter's comment landed because it's mathematically correct — you needed a seven-figure starting stack to produce this result. That's not a criticism of you personally, it's just context that the post doesn't provide. Here's where it gets interesting. The S&P 500 is up 11.09% so far this year. You beat it by about 5 points, which is genuinely respectable. But the Nasdaq 100 is up 18.61% — you trailed it by 2 points. Your return for 2026 lands exactly between SPY and QQQ, which is the return profile of someone holding a balanced large-cap portfolio with a moderate tech tilt. Nothing wrong with that. But look at your equity curve in that screenshot. It's smooth. It rises almost continuously with tiny blips. That is not what a low-float penny stock portfolio looks like. Low-float trading produces jagged, violent curves with gut-punch drawdowns. What you're showing looks like broad market exposure, not a hand-curated watchlist of overlooked micro-caps filtered through 55-day moving averages. Now the method itself. You describe watching price action around 5/13/34/55-day moving averages and changes in volume and liquidity. Those are tools. Every charting platform has them and every retail trader uses them. What's missing from your description is any specificity about what you're actually looking for — what configuration signals an entry, what signals an exit, what your position sizing looks like, what your actual win rate is. "I look for stability in multi-stage trends" is a sentence that could describe anything or nothing. And then the post ends with a funnel. Not a shared watchlist, not a specific example, not a trade breakdown — just "send me a DM and I'll invite you to the free group." Your only replies in this thread are "Send invitation." Not a single response discussing the actual methodology you came here to share. Maybe the group is genuinely educational and free forever. Maybe you're a millionaire who got bored and wants to give back. Both are possible. But from what's actually visible here — vague method description, unattributed returns, smooth curve that doesn't match the strategy described, and a CTA that ends at a private group — there's not enough here to act on. If you want to actually help people, post a specific trade: ticker, why you entered, what the setup was, where you put your stop. One real example is worth more than a hundred free groups.
If you wish to buy puts based on probability of rate hike, QQQ would be better than SPY, and VONG/VUG/MGK/SPYG would be even better. Or sell calls on growth stocks and buy shares of value stocks (AVUV, AVDV) or quality stocks (SPHQ). I’m not changing anything currently, but the market does appear to be preparing for a quarter hike by EoY. Because it is expected, there may not be much drop in growth (or interest rate sensitive) stocks for puts to pay out…it might just stay flat for a bit. Probably depends on if it comes before or after midterms, since conclusion should lead to upward pressure.
Thanks. You have 3 strangles and 3 naked puts requiring 60 K in collateral to produce $886. With 60 K, I can sell 6 NDX put spreads on Friday afternoon for Monday expiration for 2.45 each or 1470 total. NDX is the index where QQQ is based. The put spread is 29020/29820. The short strike has a delta of 0.05 as compared to your QQQ 720 put delta of 0.25. I can sell a lower strike at 28880/28780 to get 1.50 each or $900 total. The short strike has a delta of 0.04. This is my strategy: [https://www.reddit.com/r/options/comments/1s5n636/i\_picked\_half\_a\_million\_pounds\_of\_pennies\_ytd/](https://www.reddit.com/r/options/comments/1s5n636/i_picked_half_a_million_pounds_of_pennies_ytd/) [https://www.reddit.com/r/options/comments/1sbgx7w/comment/owhq384/?context=1&screen\_view\_count=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/options/comments/1sbgx7w/comment/owhq384/?context=1&screen_view_count=3)
You sold 6 QQQ puts and 3 calls to produce $886. How much collateral is used.
QQQ ATH in honor of Lindsey
I bet my rent on QQQ calls that hit and paid my rent with QQQ calls
Boy this is the definition of picking pennies in front of a steamroller. MU can explode/drop 20% in a single day. QQQ 5% easy. It’s all rainbow and sunshine until it’s not. Rather than doing naked strangling I suggest you do 0/1 dte iron candors if you really wanna continue doing this
Are these naked options? What is the collateral for each QQQ strangle?
It’s in the post 😭, 35% QQQ and 3% SPY
We’re going to have talks QQQ +2% Full out straight closure and military action QQQ -0.3% and then green within 45 minutes
I think we all have cashed out that old IRA account from that bullsbit job where we had and quite at 27, took a trip, bought some drugs and toys, and funded a Robinhood account, doubled our money, cashed out profit, rinse/repeat, lost all but 10,352, brought it back to 150,372, cashed out, Yada yada, Trump…Tariff….Iran, now $42,538 and just scalping QQQ OPTIONS, right?!?
Yessir, started this year and dipped my foot in the stock market. Swing trading Lumentum and started investing in general. Recently got into QQQ options
And it deserves to be much less. SPCX is just using QQQ as exit liquidity.
Boring weekend so far. 1% up on SPY and 2% up on QQQ if nothing regarded happens.
VOO (instead of SPY) and QQQM (instead of QQQ) because they have lower expense ratio but invest in same underlying indices.
**BanBet Lost** — /u/Samjabr (0W - 3L, 0%) | Ticker | Entry → Target | Move | Time | Result | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **QQQ** ▲ | $725.31 → $729.00 | +0.5% | 1d | Lost |
Thank you now I’m even more motivated to outperform QQQ 😛
At least all the 401k's and pension funds holding QQQ won't have this as a very large portion of their portfolio for very long
Dont you think that depends on your diversification…? 🤔 eg. if you already have financial sector ETFs then maybe add a QQQ or QQQM ? but if you want broad U.S. that’s your VOO or SPY… very different. Maths your expense ratio and compounding in an excel if it makes your decision-making FEEL more CONTROLLED. 😵💫
QQQ calls as soon as the gates open
**BanBet Lost** — /u/hioman01 (0W - 2L, 0%) | Ticker | Entry → Target | Move | Time | Result | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **QQQ** ▼ | $709.61 → $700.00 | -1.4% | 2d | Lost |
We seem to be up on both SPY & QQQ, not sure why. Hyperliquid
Options are the financial temptations of the flesh And QQQ 0dtes got big ol’ titties
5x long QQQ 5x long everything. Dips will be bought and eaten up PDQ.
QQQ has outperformed and in my opinion will outperform. More than half the SP are zombie companies.
You can’t go wrong with either but you are young so just do QQQM (it’s the same as QQQ but just has a lower expense and less volume for options (don’t worry about that for now).
As a QQQ investor i really hate this. I’m now a bagholder. Spacex will drop 80% in the coming year and when the available shares will be released more into the market it will make spacex a bigger % of the nasdaq 100 while it catches the falling knife. This i just robbery to all nasdaq 100 holders
Holding both SPY and QQQ puts
Standard advice for young people who don't want to spend hours researching stocks is to just buy a broad market index fund. VOO is Vanguard's version of the S&P 500 which is the 500 biggest US public companies. SPY is the same thing with a different name. QQQ is the 100 biggest companies on the Nasdaq which is more tech focused. They have significant overlap (I think almost every stock in QQQ is also in VOO). If you think tech will outperform the broader market, you should buy QQQ. If you think it will underperform, pick VOO. Ultimately, your decision won't matter too much, one way or another. When you have a small portfolio, contributions and savings matter the most. Once your portfolio is larger than 100k, then investing decisions start to matter more. (Also, At your age, your primary focus should be investing in yourself so that you can earn more money in the future (college, apprenticeships, etc.))
I used to do that all the time in my 20’s. With almost the same parameters as you. Now in my 40’s I never do that. QQQ has kicked everyone ass the last 20 years. It includes overpriced companies, unprofitable companies, ADRs, companies with massive debt, etc. The problem is that you miss out on the company like Micron, maybe they have negative growth for a year for whatever reason and we don’t own it before it pops 1000%.
Right there with you on the QQQ puts. Holding $724 7/17s. Dispersion is insanely high with so many catalysts next week.
Lost $1700 on SPY and QQQ puts value but still holding SPY $754 puts and QQQ $723 puts expiring on 7/14
QQQ vs VOO final knockout battle!
Yeah for sure, I don't know her so I'm giving the blanket advice I'd give any 15 year old You're right tho - she'd learn about risk and reward faster with QQQ or it's spinoffs If she wants to do something more active/engaged, I'd definitely go your route She can learn about expense ratios with QQQM or income strategies with QQQI
She should stick to non-sector specific index funds until she knows enough to make that call herself for her own risk profile. VOO WAS my tech-exposure recommendation as opposed to the true conservative answer which would be VTI until she knows enough to specialize In short, I agree with you, but due to her young age I feel it's better to keep it maximally diversified while she uses the time to learn about her specific investment style Maybe she's a value investor, maybe a growth investor, maybe she ends up selling theta to option freaks But for now she's a 15 year old with homework and friend group drama and everything that comes with being a teen and QQQ can swing a lot for a new investor and comes with its own drama of "is it a bubble?"