QQQ

dankeyschon

Literally just keep buying SPY/QQQ dips and never sell, and you'll outperform 90% of people here who don't. Funny but true.

noahmfs

If Nvidia goes to 195, QQQ will be beutiful

G0D5M0N3Y

No, actually Fedex Puts, GM Puts, QQQ Puts, Vix and Uvxy Calls, and some daily weekly monthly cons.

scottmotorrad

Strongly agree that leaps is the play. Hoping the downturn lasts another week so I can throw my bonus into QQQ and SPY leaps

TickTockTaudit

Friend’s sister started dating this new guy, no one likes him. As a favor to her, we included him in a golf foursome. On the first tee box he is shit talking her and how he hates all her friends…which is literally the three of us. On the 16th, I didn’t realize he walked all the way to the green looking for his ball in the trees. I hit a pull draw with my 3 wood and hit him dead in the chest, on the fly, from 200. Just fucking incredible. Anyway, calls. QQQ 650 by June.

Jay3377

We all know it's green the first 2 days where QQQ runs to 615 and red the last 2 days of the week and QQQ comes back to 594 again

beachsandwichen

QQQ 620 eow

Sea_Gene264

$589 QQQ puts please print Monday then I can go long on more calls Tuesday letsgoooo

Hamzehaq7

dude, love that you're back in the game and refining your strategy! sounds like you've got a solid plan going on. for ETFs, QQQ is definitely worth checking out, especially with tech stocks making moves lately. also, you might wanna look at IWM for small caps or even some sector-specific ones like XLF for financials if you're feeling risky. premiums can vary, but it’s worth a look. just remember to keep an eye on those support/resistance levels! keep it up, man!

Fomo4life69

Up 70%. Sold everything and bought QQQ puts and CVX calls

Got_Engineers

It’s not that they’re deferring hedging it’s that they’re delaying the process and the inevitable. Of course, firms selling and buying options would be hedging instantly especially in the 0DTE space. But what if they hedge those options with other ZODTE and the inevitable happens overnight when price can actually be controlled more by market makers. The reason I bring this is how these massive blocks have been traded . The $585 QQQ puts from Friday expiration were bought in a single block 50k volume Monday march 2nd. If you look at price action of QQQ from that Monday, price rallied all day long. What happened overnight? Massive gap down. The same thing happened last Friday that same contract was traded in 25k blocks twice back to back 5 minutes apart. What happened over last weekend and into Monday? Same thing another gap down. Tl:dr that these dealers and market makers are creating and leaving massive swaths of inventory from this hedging flows and they’re being systematically targeted because the hedging functions are mandatory

HugeAd5056

Difference is, if the market crashes back to April 2025 levels, you’re looking at a 50% drop on TQQQ vs a 33% drop on QQQ. Probably won’t happen, but it would be something like that.

Got_Engineers

There was like 1 million put contracts that expired on $QQQ $600 strike Friday and “someone” was “selling” equivalent volume on worthless calls Thursday and Friday. Despite the market not rallying at all Thursday or Friday, a market participant was selling worthless 0DTE calls all day long. I believe the market will go straight up Monday because of this hedging flow . Not sure about the rest of the week, but it’s been pretty clear. These straight pumps on Monday have been coming from the residual inventory of leftover massive options volume expiring. I don’t think participants are hedging these contracts until the next day because whoever whoever ends up buying those worth this calls are obviously hedging along with the person that sold them. But what if the person that sold the hundred thousands of worthless 0DTE collected the premium and didn’t hedge until Monday?

HystericalSail

It's a rebalancing act. The whole point is SPY and VT being a better place to be than QQQ during the chaos. While SPY will be hit by the declines of Mag 7, holders of SPY will not be locking in losses by selling leading companies to go on a garbage buying spree. SpaceX will only temporarily suck all the oxygen out of the room, the recovery in Mag7 positions should take place in short order.

PutSpreadDaddi69

IWM vs QQQ over the last 5 years.

HystericalSail

AND that index holder will have passively sold their profitable, growing Mag 7 holdings to raise capital for that new 6% stake. Yeah, I'm convinced enough to reduce QQQ in favor of more VT and SPY.

DTF_Truck

!banbet QQQ $610 72h

Sea_Gene264

Ohhh I see the confusion. I’m talking about $QQQ. $589 is -1% for the nasdaq.

oxphatxo

I think you just have to remember that this is just a PMCC strategy with extra shit to cover your ass. Shares are expensive, leaps are cool but plagued with theta and directional risks. Getting them to act more like shares at 1/4 the cost is really the goal. Downside protection for free isn’t exactly crap. It’s supposed to cushion, better than nothing in comparison and free. A slow uptrend is bad, that’s the only thing I really agree with you on in your response. It was never intended to be full downside protection. We will have to see in due time which works out better, shares, naked calls, or this. I’ll be keeping the strategy going for a while. Probably going in on it with QQQ whenever the market decides to turn around. Ask me later if you’re interested…

oxphatxo

I think you just have to remember that this is just a PMCC strategy with extra shit to cover your ass. Shares are expensive, leaps are cool but plagued with theta and directional risks. Getting them to act more like shares at 1/4 the cost is really the goal. Downside protection for free isn’t exactly crap. It’s supposed to cushion, better than nothing in comparison and free. A slow uptrend is bad, that’s the only thing I really agree with you on in your response. It was never intended to be full downside protection. We will have to see in due time which works out better, shares, naked calls, or this. I’ll be keeping the strategy going for a while. Probably going in on it with QQQ whenever the market decides to turn around. Ask me later if you’re interested…

aronnax512

MSTR would be around 0.4% of QQQ. SpaceX would be around 6% of QQQ. In other words, an index fund holder would own ~15X as much SpaceX as MSTR.

A55BAG

SpaceX, OpenAi, Anthropic, Databricks, that's about 4 trillion worth of unprofitable tech IPOs that could be coming to QQQ in 2026. With the rule changes there will not be a real price discovery.

Vegetable_Push6542

Wow what a shocker, Don the Con lied once again and now oil is skyrocketing. -2% for QQQ on Monday give it up bols.

Vegetable_Push6542

Weekend Oil ripping again, should be a -2% day for QQQ this Monday

steady_compounder

This is the kind of thing that makes me glad I hold VTI over QQQ. The NASDAQ-100 is already top-heavy and adding a $1.75T company that wants to change the rules for inclusion just makes it worse. Passive investing works because the rules are supposed to be neutral. Once you start bending index rules for individual companies, you're basically picking winners with extra steps.

Longjumping_College

There's also a real chance QQQ hits $275 again, if we have a long term war that turns larger

stockist420

What does semi retired mean? How does the post relate to the title? Why ask about QQQ first then mention Nasdaq.

ChiefInternetSurfer

Even if you did post it a month ago, not everyone lives on Reddit. This is my first time seeing this, thanks for sharing it. Now I have to decide whether or not to stay invested in QQQ, or swap it out for something else…

Good_Ride_2508

If nasdaq-100 includes SPACE-X after 15 days, the decision is crazy for QQQ and TQQQs. Why? (even though complex situation, trying to show simple way how can it be harmful) Space X lists at nasdaq with 5% of float. Legally allowed ( Page 5 reference www dot sec dot gov/files/ipo-investorbulletin.pdf ): Underwriters can support the trading price of the new issue in its first few days of trading with certain trading activities, including purchasing shares of the company. This is often done to keep the trading price from falling too far below the offering price. Once this support ends, the stock price may decline significantly below the offering price. They keep the price for 15 days and then nasdaq-100 at the close of 15 day. Now, the price is pegged at when nasdaq-100 linked date. Simply space-x valuation is offloaded to NDX/QQQ holders. In future, when rest of the 95% is eligible to sell, every sell is spread across QQQ distribution. This means QQQ is used as a scapegoat for Space-X valuation. QQQ and TQQQ won't grow long time !

peanuts-in-my-jelly

QQQ* 680

VictoriaAutNihil

Enough that on Monday, I'm selling what I'm in the green/black: PLTR, AMAT, IBM, QQQ. My current losers are high quality, but if they drop another 10%, they're going as well. I'd rather a t-bill until this Iranian debacle shows some possibility of soon ending. I'm not in my 20s, 30s, 40s; otherwise my strategy would in all likelihood be more aggressive.

Glam34

Similar but with QQQ. Im sure you could outperform SPY by selling CC...on SPY

Fomo4life69

QQQ dropped 33% from 2022 to 2023 because of the energy crisis back then. This is the biggest energy crisis ever… could be -50%

Fomo4life69

Sold everything in my Roth (all tech). Holding CVX calls, XLE commons, QQQ puts. Plan to cut shorter dates puts and reload on every bounce. Taking all profits and dumbing into Amazon LEAPs when this blows over

sirzoop

QQQ is +24% since this post, even including the recent decline.

sirzoop

QQQ is +24% since this post, even including the recent decline. LMAO

wrestlerkid

As a results of the actions of Donald Trump, the American economy will suffer devastating consequences. An economy that was already fragile and headed towards recession as now had its fate sealed. A recession much greater than and much more catastrophic than the 08 recession is now a 100% guarantee, thanks to Israel, Netanyahu, and Trump. Inflation which was already very high to begin will soar to unprecedented levels rapidly (it already has- notice it cost about 35% more to fill up your car this week?) That being said, I've sold all 15 of my stock positions last week (when Trumped made false claims of a short term war to pump up the market), and bought multiple puts. Will be purchasing substantially more SPY and QQQ puts this week/ selling calls, increase gold & silver exposure and increase BTC holdings. That being said, I highly advise against in going on long on US markets at this time.

fungoodtrade

upper side of channel sell call credit spreads, lower side sell put credit spreads. I will usually leave QQQ spreads 10+ points OTM, so if the channel is 612-590, I write call spreads that are 625/635 and put spreads that are 580/570 . You can start there and keep selling closer to the money until it reverses. At that time you should be opening the put side as you are closing the call side. I suggest QQQ or SPY and targeting known supply and resistance levels. There are people trading 0DTE spreads. I'm usually trading 14DTE, or 7DTE. theta decay is pretty rapid. Longer DTE spreads don't have as much theta decay, but give you more room to roll. This is income generation from volatility that's all. Its not a long term directional bet. You can do iron condor as well, where you open both sides of the spread at the same time. I do that as well. I will sell any equities I have that are in the green next week. I will hold the losers for now, though I will also aggressively sell CCs on them, so if they continue down I can lower my cost basis as well.

jay4281

Damn crazy story! Thanks for the response. 2 more questions and that’s it haha. So you were lucky enough you had enough to cover all that and be able to exercise to cover but take me, a 10k account, who just made a credit spread of 20x on QQQ at 600 even if 1 contract gets assigned there’s no way I can cover. Should I just stop doing this? Second question - more of a statement is I heard to trade SPX because it’s cash settled only. Do you agree this is a better route?

Rude-Substance-3686

damn what’s everyone’s base case for the next 3–6 months on SPY and QQQ right now I’m treating this like late‑cycle startup funding, trimming the crazy bets and letting only the strongest conviction plays keep runway

amartya_dev

QQQ and IWM are good alternatives with cheaper premiums. Also look at liquid names like AAPL, AMD and NVDA or sector ETFs like XLF and XLE. But sticking to one ticker (like SPY) can actually help you read price action better.

fungoodtrade

I'm thinking insert today, snatch the uranium, Delta pinned down and trapped during asia, show lots of burning tankers during euro, and then successful extraction at 730EST and finally end the war at 830EST... QQQ 612 if the timing is right... cmon hollywood, help them get this right for all of us.

savemoney_god

SPY QQQ DOW, -5% Monday

meatsmoothie82

were gonna get a “mission accomplished” on Sunday. QQQ is not allowed to stay below 600 because that would make the lizard people angry, and you won’t like the lizard people when the lizard people are ANGRY 🦎 👽

Naijan

Thing is, while I did some put options on QQQ 2 weeks ago, it has been rather neutral, I do not exactly believe the market is rational enough that out of us, I am the winner. There is always some fuckery going on

Individual-Habit-438

there can be 1 million gallons of provably terrible shit...and all it takes is one boastful and naive and premature social media post from that guy and we're up 1.5% on QQQ at the Monday open.

TheGeoGod

I’m very bearish here. My cat 🐈 says 453 QQQ is coming

PatrickBatemansEgo

Very much doubt that timeline. QQQ and SMH just turned to downtrend while mags and other main indices have already been for a while now. Semis are last leg to go.

Fomo4life69

I have QQQ puts that expire next Friday. Up 70%

Baudri_Hard

No bitcoin has always been a hedge when you think your currency is going to shit because of war etc. btc has a very high beta with QQQ typically yet didn’t move at all this week because of capital flight

jay4281

Nice explanation. Can you explain more about getting assigned? Like worst worst case scenario? Say you have no buyers to close and end up getting assigned? Is there a way out if you don’t have the capital? I ran a call spread today with 20 contracts of QQQ luckily it went down and I closed for a profit but say I couldn’t close and am on the hook for 2000 shares of QQQ how would I get out without 1.2 million in capital lol.

Coloradodreaming1

10% is about right if you are tech heavy like QQQ which is down 10% from January 29 highs. Man things felt amazing at the end of January. Kind of like last year where February and March were a disaster. Hopefully oil resumes flowing through the straight of Hormuz by next month and we the world gets past this self created geopolitical crisis.

Good_Ride_2508

Big account loss appx 0.2% (mostly etfs trade like qqq,slv,voo,gld etc), but smaller roth accounts are 5% to 7.5% gains. I was keeping them in etfs like QQQ/VOO/GLD etc, but Jan 2026 started trading (not comfortable to hold etfs) QQQ/VOO/GLD.

Coloradodreaming1

Do nothing should be the mantra every time. It’s too late to get out now and if you did and things continue going south when would you get back in. Lots of people bailed in 2009 at the worst time never to return. I good analogy I heard is to act now would be like the scene from Rocky where he is trying to catch a chicken. Why drive yourself crazy over analyzing oh no what should I do in a down market. Discussions of market timing come up every time there is a market downturn. Of course you can do the opposite of what you are thinking of doing and use new money to buy more VOO or QQQ. Pulling a George Constanza Opposite Day move would be epic and a story to tell Reddit at the end of the year. This too will pass … maybe in a few more weeks or by the end of April or December? Lastly you are 35 not in your 60s.

A_Dragon

First rule of trading, recognize the environment you’re in. While generally undercuts have worked while the market was at/near the lows it seems to be the case that QQQ/SPY are starting to finally break down so I’d be cautious when buying anything in this environment. Having said that, if your risk management is good I don’t see why you can’t try it, just make sure you have a cushion into the end of the day due to potential overnight volatility.

Glad-Lie8324

The only way you could sort of mimic this exposure without options is SQQQ or shorting a QQQ yourself. That’s not going to really do what puts do, but given the constraints it’s the next best thing. 

Chief-Sheed

Is META going to pump based on the %20 layoff news? Wanted to buy some calls today but said I’d wait till QQQ drops further next week 😭

ThetaFarmingRegard

sold a $590 put on QQQ for $750 before close, expiring next Friday…which one of you dirty bears bought it from me

kittenkatpuppy

Explain this like I’m 5. I have 22k worth of QQQ puts and vix calls.

Grouchy-Papaya169

Can we just squeeze the shit outta $QQQ to idk $650 by COB Monday 😂😂😂

ShanayStark7

It seems PSQ is the next best alt to a QQQ put.

No-Improvement3164

Are the 50dma and the 100dma going below the 200dma on QQQ?

ShanayStark7

I see, but you would think that the difference is very minor so you would just buy QQQ? Is that right (I mean the trouble may not be worth it as opposed to just paying invesco 0.18%)?

BraveDevelopment9043

7 min before market close I said, “oh shit, it’s Friday!” And proceeded to check that I had SPY and QQQ puts ready. Whew!

No-Consequence-8768

No, that's like TQQQ. QQQ is Very minor. Had you held all components(\~101stocks) separately as weighted as rebalanced, etc..., less the ER. You would come out ahead of QQQ/DNX100.

ShanayStark7

When you say even QQQ has math decay, you mean if I lose 50% then I need 100% to go back? I assume that's about it?

edatx

Nasdaq looking at doing this too. If they do I'm selling out of all my SPY / QQQ and related ETFs.

heidieliisa

I would go with QQQ or SPY. The first one has higher premiums, but SPY is a bit less volatile. I have done both. Currently, I have the longest expiry QQQs. I start at 80 delta, and when they rise to 90 delta as the stock market goes up, I roll them up in strike back to 80 delta for a credit. If they go down, I will just keep them. Then I sell weekly (roughly 10 days) covered calls against them, typically at 20 delta. I have also done individual stocks like AMZN, META, and NVDA, but I feel QQQ provides better diversity. I also keep a lazy eye on RSI. I don’t sell calls on the very red days, as it typically just backlashes on the following day and covered calls would quickly get ITM. I roll the short calls up in strike bit by bit if they get to 40 or 50 delta. It is easy to do with QQQ as they have daily expirations; for example, I can add one extra day and a $2 higher strike for a small net credit.

According-Page8618

QQQ holding that 593 for 5th time since february lol. it bounced back 4 times, will it also bounce back a 5th time? prob flush to 581

Crazy_Donkies

Today I bought QQQ 4/17 hedge puts, a lot of 12/18 USO puts, and AMD long calls and shares today.    I'm clearly conflicted and belong here.

HeftyBox3580

My QQQ 603c are not printing. Time to resume business as usual and go back to being ghey

TickTockTaudit

Bought 3/27 QQQ puts. And also 3/27 QQQ calls.

Ok-Barracuda39

QQQ is stored in the scrote.

brannock_

You made me look at the SPY and QQQ weekly candles. SPY is actually moving down while QQQ is about to lock in its 3rd straight weekly doji which is something I've never seen before on a major index

According-Page8618

so funny, QQQ hit 593 on: 5 feb > mooned back to 617 17 feb > mooned to 610 and later to 617 02 march > mooned back to 613 09 march > mooned back to 613 today > moon back to???

cannythecat

QQQ 600 0de calls on cost 5 cents, buy now plunge protection team will pump us up to 600 support level

Jadedtrader33

QQQ under $600. It’s over.

Extension-Ad917

Based on what? QQQ is only down 2% since this war started and private credit started shitting itself

AluminiumCaffeine

QQQ -6% peak to trough is kinda crazy strong lol. Im about -10% now but this feels so slow motion

HeftyBox3580

I’m 🌈🐻 and got bull trapped by buying QQQ 603c

ecoburner87

QQQ bouncing around 591 would be pretty bullish actually

unwanted_hair

SPY/QQQ about to kiss the 200DMA

Just_Candle_315

True growth stocks like, SCHG and QQQ peaked in late Oct and have been on the decline since. With Q4 of 0.7% and unemployment rising combined with increased costs (oil) recession seems imminent

ecoburner87

D.C. is pumping liquidity into the markets, selling Treasuries, shorting oil, probably a bunch of other schemes they have to prop the market up, all hands on deck, i think Fed and Treasury are working together. i think that's why BTC has been pumping and QQQ/SPY being held up with puppet strings. check the Fed's assets/balance sheet (search FRED Assets), steadily ticking up since 2026

ckami_91

0dte 580 QQQ POOTS

ihopethisworksfornow

Predictions: 1.) Next week there will be a horrendous dump on high volume that will take QQQ below 580 as it becomes clear that the energy crisis will persist and big boys make their move 2.) At this point, the thread will be filled with people calling for the total collapse of the global economy forever and ever, and posting things like “QQQ 400p this thing is going to pre-covid levels” 3.) Over the next 3 weeks, QQQ will continue to dip, finding support in the 560s, before violently dropping to 555. 4.) Mango will pump the markets somehow. Violent Shrek cock rally to 578. 5.) Slow bleed bear market for 1 year starting in September. Mango blames Europe, says this is happening because France is gay.

Perfect-Loquat-7791

Small gains still count, building discipline & strategy beats chasing big moves. QQQ could be worth exploring too.

Lanky-Ad-4579

!banbet QQQ 596 1H

noahmfs

I have a month out calls on QQQ down 30% nothing but 🙏 at this point

FalconsBlewA283Lead

Hopefully a little bit more of a flush this afternoon, SPY and QQQ both approaching the 200 DMA. Doesn't mean that's the bottom but def a level I'll deploy some capital after waiting patiently this week

_Marat

I bought 1 month to exp QQQ puts at 600. Eating clean over here.

MoreOutcome8541

I can’t wait until we see our mango in chief crying on live tv begging people to buy. QQQ to 300

Nefarious_AI_Agent

Those have pretty high expense. If you want AI exposure your probably better off buying QQQ and maybe SMH

---Right--Tackle---

Most Mag7 is trading at a ~market multiple. Imagine not full porting QQQ leaps here 🤡

ElonMuskTheNarsisist

QQQ is literally basically at an all time high people say it’s crashing lol

Chief-Sheed

META at $618 is tempting. Problem is that it’s not even that red of a day. Might have to wait for QQQ 585.

Specialist_Spite5930

Orrrr buy puts on QQQ expiring Monday

spudbro00

QQQ 500 is not a meme

looool_k_libtard

Get absolutely fucking owned tech bulls. Anyone putting money into this circle jerk of useless FRAUD deserves to lose every dollar they have. Short QQQ below $100 so that these clueless CEO’s finally get fired.

SlimPerceptions

QQQ down 10 dollars in 2hours on no news. Smh