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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.
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
Would love a QQQ drill. I got lots of 705p for tomorrow
690 on QQQ and 735 on SPY before the CPI data is released will be hilarious.
QQQ will never be high again
Is QQQ half of it isn’t back by fundamentals U think PLTR PE DDOG AMD or PAWN make sense ?
On QQQ, I sell the puts and calls by distance and premium. I want $1 unless it is super safe and far. For the $1 distance depends on IV. Low IV you are only getting $6-7 distance on the put side and $5-6 on the call side. On MU, I wanted to sell the $900 put expiring today, but it wouldn't let because I have 2 other puts that go out 1 week and 2 weeks. So the broker denied the trade as concentration risk. I wanted to sell $900 put because looking at max pain levels there were several put walls before it and resistance levels. I did sell the 980 short call for $200 right at open because a short call offset my puts and brokerage was fine with it. Choose $980 strike expiring today for the same reasons. Max pain showed several calls walls before it to protect it and resistance looked strong.
Bro just an Elon hater PLTR is literally more overvalued and in QQQ but he don’t care
My 3dte QQQ puts are going to make me rich tomorrow.... Then I'll spend it on plane tickets and blow, and be back to YOLO by Monday.
Glad the old guard neocons are finally exiting, time for the technocrats to fully take the stage. Own QQQ or related stocks or forever be condemned to the underclass.
Divide the cost of one QQQ OR SPY share into otm calls everyday and you will out perform the spy it’s THAT ez now retire and suck my cawk for telling you the secret to life’s riches
Is QQQ especially tech heavy? I thought it was basically a market index like VOO.
Is your QQQ position held in a non-registered account? If in TFSA or RRSP the sale will be sheltered and then buy an index ETF.
I would take the slow approach. QQQ will only increase whether the market tanks or not momentarily theres no way you come out losing in the long run.
$SPY $QQQ $SMH $XLK big ER time. There are 12000-20000 target attacks on Iran, market digest and move higher. By strong earnings Few more even 1000 times more , does it make difference to market ? Big earnings drive index high.
Well exactly. But the OP is doing unnecessary things here. * He says elsewhere that he has a 10M portfolio. He doesn't need more diversification, sounds like he's probably already diversified enough. * Most likely some portion of his other investments are broadly indexed. Which means he's heavy in tech there too, because that's the index. Tech is ascendent, has been for a long time. It's unlikely he's bailing on tech even if he gets out of QQQ. * OP needs to read up on Charlie Munger. Over-diversifying is lame. It's a great way to hold down your profits and keep you from earning money. Diversification for diversification sake is an incorrect view of the market. * People largely don't understand the mag7 or big tech as profit generators or why they've been on top for so long. Big tech today is not at all the same as big tech from 20-30 years ago. Big tech today is already diversified, each of these companies is a hydra into a dozen industries each by themselves. Is Amazon a consumer shipping company, a movie studio, a streaming service or a cloud provider? This is why they are incredibly unlikely to fall down. Falter for a short time sure, temporarily have occaional setbacks. But go to zero? Lose all your investments? Won't happen. Can't happen.
I got distracted at the end of the day today and didn’t sell the QQQ calls I was holding. They’re expiring in August so it’s not too bad but I’m still bout to get cooked by the Koreans
Sounds like you have at least 25%ish then in QQQ? Probably too much for your age at this valuation imo. Can buy puts out to hedge your position if you don't want to sell it all and want protection.
Congratulations man, that’s terrific. I’m assuming you’ve owned for over a year. I’m wondering how you got those kinds of gains based on that size investment? Long term capital gains would be around 240-250K I’m guessing? You might just rip off the band aid. You’d still have over a million in after tax dollars. Question is, where are you going to put it? In my view, while always a risk, it’s not like you have it all in a single stock. It’s not as diverse as it could be, but QQQ is a high quality index fund.
How far out the leaps on QQQ. Hedge your position as far out as possible and break into yearly chunks to sell.
It’s a valid question. CPAs and fiduciary financial advisors are typically not specialists in retirement withdrawal strategies. Most firms have lots of pros who know how to build wealth but few have expertise on how to withdraw investments from various buckets while optimizing taxes and ensuring things like Medicare penalties are not triggered unnecessarily which minimizing RMDs. The sequence of withdrawls from cash accounts, 401k, IRA, Roth IRA, pensions, how to maximize qualified dividend income, etc is important. In this case it would seem that taking an annual profit up to the limit of your expected tax bracket is one approach. This would expose you to a big pull back but also to continued growth. As you get closer to 60 the risk of a large QQQ pullback would reduce.
I swore I’d never play QQQ why didn’t I listen to myself
Taxes and investments are tricky. Imo, investment decisions come first. You can lose a ton of money in seconds on the market, while tax consequences are predictable. 1 if you think their is room on the upside hold. 2 if you think its going to drop this year, sell. If you want to reduce tax exposure and are comfortable keeping a position, sell half this year, then half next year. Or spread it over multiple years. 3 if you believe QQQ will go down from its highs, then recover, sell, take the profit and tax hit, then buy back in at a lower price. Good luck
So QQQ was 20% lower when the Iran war first launched back in April. Can we see a 20% drop back to where it was just 3 months ago
Only good reason to sell it in bulk is market timing, if you think you can predict a big QQQ drawdown and get back in. But do the math on how much you think you could win on that price swing and compare it to the tax loss.
My first sentence was serious, because that is how the recent intraday charts look. The rest of the comment was a jab at all the recent comments and posts about how MMs control the entire market, even ETFs like SPY & QQQ, which derive their price point & valuation based on the S&P or NASDAQ 100. I think it highly unlikely that MMs hold such large positions In the companies that comprise the S&P or NASDAQ 100, as to be able to manipulate them.
If it’s a long term investment for 10 years out, good odds that QQQ beats the S&P 500, so just hold
Do the staged sell to lower taxes. QQQ is concentrated in Mag 7 that has massive earnings so it will just get bumpy before they return to ATH. But no one can tell you what to do as this is why I didn't invest in QQQ. At worst though you took the risk and even after selling a paying taxes did at least as well as VOO and can now put that in SCHD or whatever.
Are you me? JK, but I did recently retire and have a large unrealized capital gain in my taxable account (not QQQ but a few of the FAANG that I bought with over 10x gains.) sold a bunch of AMZN and some AAPL January 2025 (needed some cash and wanted to "de-risk") and the tax bill was a bitter pill to swallow (especially since AAPL.) Don't forget NIIT. It may not be the smart but I'm holding the rest and only selling when I need a paycheck. I am playing around with collars to de-risk some. And to all saying "don't ask reddit, get an accountant." We do. Sometimes it is also fun to ask peers since there's as much feel to this as science. The accountant can say "you will pay 23% LTCG + state tax" and then you are wondering if that's better than the potential drop. Emphasis on potential.
Go somewhere in between and sell half and pay a pretty big tax bill. Park half of it in somewhere more broad. And then spend 5 years withdrawing out of QQQ
I wouldn't worry about it. This isn't what you would call a concentrated position. It's diversified. Granted, it's heavy in tech, but even if AI takes a dive, tech isn't going away. If QQQ falls soon, it will recover, too. Much like the internet, AI might be overvalued on wall street right now and take a dive but it's not going away--it's only going to grow long term. Especially if you say this is part of a $10M port, you can sell this while the QQQ is doing fine, and if tech takes a drive from other holdings while you wait for it to recover. Direct indexing (particularly if you use a fund) will be high fees and you need to sell off something else to open the direct indexing position. Don't just sell it all and pay the taxes. That's silly. BTW I say that as someone who is rapidly diversifying almost $2M in gains and is paying the 20%+3.8%+10.3% (or more) CA cap gains taxes on it. The difference is that mine is in only two cyclical \[and correlated\] stocks, so I need to diversify to protect it. If it were spread across QQQ, I'd let it ride.
You have a 10m portfolio. If QQQ dropped 50% it would not impact your life.
If your total portfolio is $10m, why do you want to sell all QQQ and reduce tech exposure? It is just 10% of your portfolio and your other 90% is already diversified.
NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE: i would call Invesco…ask them about this…If you stay within the same fund family, in the case of QQQ/Invesco and you put whatever you decide is best to trim out of QQQ and into a more secure option that has less Beta or Volatility you DO NOT necessarily create a taxable event…IF….IF you get Invesco to assist with the movement and IF IT REMAINS in the same fund family…
Broadly I'd suggest you model out bear/average/bull cases for all your liquid assets (you can do more than just 3 cases such as -10 -20 -30 -40 for "bears") and use that to help determine what is the maximum nominal drawdown you'd accept on QQQ. Then you can liquidate an amount that makes this nominal drawdown amount improbable to impossible. The larger the weight of QQQ, the more impactful it is and vice versa. But truth is if QQQ crashes, everything goes down with it. Top 10 weights in SP500 and NAS100 are getting closer and closer to matching with each passing year. In other words, the most successful and profitable companies are concentrated in tech. NAS100 is no longer the risky index from 25 years ago, it drives the modern economy. I'm retried early as well. I still have individual stocks to liquidate, and pushing proceeds into VOO QQQM SMH SCHD VIG VYM JEPI QQQI. I have high conviction on the individual stocks so just converting when I feel it's advantageous to me. But it's your money, and if you feel like playing crystal ball with it is the best choice than by all means go for it. You're asking here because I'm assuming your fudiciary didn't suggest the panic sellout route.
**BanBet Created** ▲ | **Record:** 3W - 0L | Ticker | Target | Entry | Move | Expires | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **QQQ** | $718.01 (above) | $710.90 | +1.0% | 23h 60m |
!Banbet QQQ +1% 1D My first two wins were legit, third one was a glitch by wsb bot so it should be 2-1 but whatever
You could hedge QQQ with a leap put...
Essentially there is only 2 asset classes that have outperformed debasement plus inflation over last 15 years, crypto and QQQ & SPY (hard assets and tech equity). Only QQQ and Crypto comfortably clear this hurdle rate. Hold.
It’s likely today was caused by a wsb retard who full ported QQQ 723C at close on Friday. I’d like to meet you, whoever you are. You deserve a place in my royal court of autism.
Just pay the tax & derisk if you're asking this IMO. The amount of times I see people "hold on because I don't want to pay taxes on my high risk stuff" and then lose it / panic when it drops... it happens a lot. Like - sure - you get a 6 figure tax bill. Bite the bullet, pay it, and notice how all your stress disappears. Flip it around a bit - you have 1.26m in a "higher risk, non diversified" investment. Imagine a situation where you STILL HAVE >$1m, secured in low risk passive investments. Security for for life. Your choice is basically "security for life, pay the tax the ensure it" or "continue holding high risk investments". QQQ is "stable" in a sense - but its HEAVILY tech focused. What happens if... AI turns out to be a bubble? We're going to drop more than 20%, that's for sure. Would you be able to stomach that?
I would agree with the main comment here since you’re comfortable selling at least some. I don’t know if you’re whole 10m is in QQQ but if it is, that’s over 100 potential QQQ weeklies you could sell to generate further income. If they get called away so be it, you get a little bump from premium. If they don’t, you get paid to wait. Obvs wouldn’t deploy all 100+ at once but ATM weeklies are around 8.0 most weeks per contract.
Be super careful with direct indexing. It BARELY makes sense, and only if using like Frec/Wealthfront where they charge like 0.09% for simple indexing. Or if you're already paying management and they will do DI-ing for free. But for sure don't mess with it if they are going to charge 0.4% or something. If you do the math its REALLY hard for it to make sense, even at 0.09%. DI-ing can help you spread out the gain to get more in lower brackets, but with $10m portfolio and dividends do you really have any space in 0% bracket ever? Seems doubtful. Or if you're likely to be able to hold till death heirs can get step-up. If it was like a single stock that'd be one thing, but QQQ long term isn't massive risk. I'd probably just hold.
Not show up for work, throw away my alarm clock, move to state that does not have income tax, start slowly switching over QQQ to SGOV, get a vasectomy, travel around visiting friends & family, goof off each day, practice my dancing, and make love to a variety of beautiful women.
the QQQ is way more diversified than 1999.. like it even has Walmart now lol
Or sell naked QQQ or TQQQ calls
guys I have the answer:- PUTS and CALLS. here's my DD 1. What do people need?- Money 2. Who has money?:- Banks 3. Who lends money - the fed 4. Banks have had a mega hit this quarter because amazing trading \*unlike the rest of us 5. The fed announces CPI tomorrow - gonna print hot 6. hot print litereally means higher rates of interest FOR LOANS that THE FED gives - more money to THE FED 7. its literally more money coming into both the fed and banks. Here's my play by play- PUTS on QQQ because feds gonna choke on the mic. CALLS on FAS because banks about to print.
Short QQQ futures and buy something else with the proceeds
If you are planning to retire early, you can take advantage of 0% LTCG bracket to sell your most profitable lots - around $96k/year. If you are married with one spouse not working and no income, you can MFS your taxes and have that person use 0% LTCG on $48k/year. Of course it takes time to execute on this plan. If you are so worried, you can just buy put protection. Also if you have such a return in QQQ you have rode the index through some very big dips. What's the concern now - are you approaching retirement?
If your total portfolio worth is around $10 million, keeping the QQQ can help offset some gains with losses given you're invested in a non-registered account. Definitely don't sell it all in one go; it's pointless, if anything sell in chunks to offset gains/losses that you may or may not have had. As well, the stock market is literally driven by all things AI so there's no escaping, of course yes you can go into O&G and banking sectors for dividends and all that...
I’m buying QQQ 777 calls. Just don’t know the exp date. Or when to buy them.
I swear QQQ is was up like 20% in May alone
i just sold my QQQ calls solely because I saw people here talking about having QQQ calls
Up 4k earlier, down 400 now. 80% port into QQQ 714C for tmr .
QQQ calls. 20 days out. Because stonks only go up.
korea and iran to join board of peace, QQQ ath by end of week
$SPY $QQQ Who has better cash flow than big banks and big tech, watch strong earnings with more deregulation benefits
**BanBet Created** ▲ | Ticker | Target | Entry | Move | Expires | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **QQQ** | $717.00 (above) | $711.59 | +0.8% | 23h 60m |
I'm not a 🌈 bear, but not holding 750 -- again -- isn't bullish. Idiot won't TACO tomorrow; this is going to crater back to 740. Qs are gonna get pounded worse, too, just like today. Funnier, because those Mag7 CEOs bent the knee. QQQ 730p 7/17
QQQ +92% in 3 years if we have 15% correction coming next, will you survive?
7/20 QQQ 730C for CPI lol
I get the feeling these EOW QQQ $740 Calls might end up not paying out after all 😔
$MU $NVDA $SPY $QQQ. Which news is new, war, semi, Ai, or vibe , to worry much ?
OP asked “which would you buy”… I said which one I bought But for fun, I’ll answer a few of your other questions Who I am - doesn’t matter What’s my experience - been investing since 2009 What’s my knowledge - also doesn’t matter… I fix surgical robots for work What’s my portfolio look like - literally… why does any of this matter… I own CLOV, RKLB, QQQ, VTI, TSLA, and GOOG How many years have I been investing - 17 years… also why does this matter? What’s my salary - $75,000 base with OT… also why tf does this matter?
Just yolod QQQ calls into Wednesday
if you think this is bad, imagine how bad things are going to feel when QQQ retraces to 400
If I held my QQQ puts they’d be 60k lol. Made 100 off of it 😂. Love being over levered and scared
my targets for tomorrow open SPY 730 QQQ 680 AMZN 235 CPI comes in ultra hot and fed rate hikes are fully on the table.
14 of the past 19 QQQ sessions have swung 1%. That’s kind of nuts lol.
If Oil breaks 79 then SPY will teleport to 740 and QQQ to 700 before you can even press sell. LMAO
$NVDA $MU and many in $QQQ , $SMH, in 2026, spike hyper scaler already assigned 700 Billion spending, semi memory and tools already got PO , just they need to realize revenue each quarterly
Made money on SPY and QQQ puts.. now loading calls😝
$NVDA $SMH $QQQ $SPY who knows, possibly Iran war go longer like Ukraine, market digest it and move on with strong earnings
Not even 1% i think after seeing this shit im switching to QQQ options plays only
sometimes. other times it opens down then QQQ pumps 2% non stop until close
I have MAGS but its a long term hold. SCHG / QQQ for generic tech exposure. VFH has been on a tear lately as well
Okay QQQ we can go back up now
It brings me great pain to announce that I did not have QQQ puts today.
$SPY $QQQ $SMH Life without internet Life without smartphones Life without AI, soon impossible
I have been investing in my job 401k and my personal roth/IRA's for the past ten years. I've earned about 75k in total at age 29. I'm doing decent with my income now going from 40 to 72k a year. I've originally just invested for retirement and to basically never sell anything until I'm around retirement age. However, I feel like I've missed growth opportunities with some of the single stocks I've owned like TSLA or RKLB to reinvest into other stocks. I'm not losing money from selling, but it feels like I'm losing money from holding long-term. Should I just not attempt to get back into trying to invest in single stocks, or just use this extra cash I'm earning to invest in ETFs? I'm not trying to be a day trader, but there are times I look back in hindsight that I could have sold RKLB at $150 when I bought everything at $20. I know this probably is a common theme, but I usually see people either try to day trade or plan around building a family/owning a home. Which are two things that don't fit me personally. * How old are you? What country do you live in? 29 and USA * Are you employed/making income? How much? Yes and 72k * What are your objectives with this money? (Buy a house? Retirement savings?) Retirement and using it to fund lifestyle. * What is your time horizon? Do you need this money next month? Next 20yrs? 5 Years to 20 years. * What is your risk tolerance? (Do you mind risking it at blackjack or do you need to know its 100% safe?) I have an aggressive approach to investing. I have a high risk tolerance. * What are you current holdings? (Do you already have exposure to specific funds and sectors? Any other assets?) Biggest single stock bags are TSLA, NVIDA, RKLB, and AMD. I have some holdings in SPY, VOO, and QQQ. I need to look back in my personal account. * Any big debts (include interest rate) or expenses? No Debt.
$SPY $QQQ When he got cornered, dump few strikes to make market noise. Strong Q2 earnings coming, be ready
Bought lotto tickets for QQQ 718 LMAO🤌
A straddle is ATM. Strangles are out of the money. I own a few long dated QQQ options and most days around 10 I sell a far OTM put and call. The put is cash secured, or sometimes I'll buy a much further OTM put to protect buying power. The short call is secured by the long call. I put a market on close order on the short calls or if I have time I'll buy them back when they're near worthless and sometimes open new ones. If the put goes in the money i'll accept assignment and sell calls.
This QQQ reversal will be legendary, get ur tickets now
But even QQQ is down less than 2%
QQQ 714 close SPY 751 close
To most people, $QQQ is $SPY to them.
Mofos dont even look at $SPY anymore. They go balls deep in tech stocks If anything $QQQ is the new $SPY All this ahit is top heavy anyway.
What are we waiting on ??? QQQ just sitting there
Anyone remember the -5% QQQ day last month
Who’s holding those QQQ calls from last week? ☠️🙏🏻
my puts on QQQ did well
Also reporting in that I recently opened moomoo accounts and was approved for level 4 options, however like some of the comments here mentioned, I was unable to get tight limit fills. With Schwab and Fidelity, my same orders fill right away, where as in moomoo the order just sits there open. I tried this on super liquid underlyings: AMZN, META, SPY, and QQQ. I'll probably toy with it another couple days and call customer service to see if there are any changes / add-ons / or account settings that can influence this, but if not, I'll be pulling my money.