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Frequent-Basket7135

Sell winners and put into VOO/QQQ?

Unhappy-Selection-53

I have some friends who say it’s tough to trade in this market & make a profit. My core investment the last 10 years has been positions in SPY & QQQ & I’ve made reasonable profits without worrying which way my stock or option is headed next & not losing any sleep. Sometimes simplest is best.

DreamfulTrader

Any ETFs options trading is profitable like SPY, QQQ, IWM etc. Starting with 0DTE, it will burn you. You can check my posts and comments on the subreddit, I am now posting my entries and exits. I am doing one option trade a day, 2-5 times a week. * If you start with 0DTE, it will burn you. Trade with non 0DTE with your strategy until you get profitable. * I switched with 0DTE this year with my same strategy as I wanted to grow my account faster and restarted with a $300 account to $60,000 in 6 months. Some may find it too aggressive * With 0DTE or with any options, you need to get **in and out in a few minutes and take your profit.**

Mco1965

SPY or QQQ I get in first 30 min. Find The direction per levels. Take a small bite set a stop loss and get out with a small Profit. Hopefully. If I can’t tell the direction early I go to another underline or simply don’t trade that day. Live to trade another day

MrBlueEyedFox

People are freaking out about SpaceX being included in indexes when they base it off the free float of shares. So one share of VOO will probably hold like 0.20% per share, and QQQ will hold 0.40% or 0.50%. So for every share you buy, it's less than a dollar. That doesn't seem too crazy.

Ahamadrayasbaboon

The retirement account narrative is tired. Anyone buying QQQ in their account has other funds available, too. 

Santarini

Sell all your QQQ

notseelen

this is kinda how I buy. I do low-cost diversified index... unless there's a big sale I bought QQQ during the September 2025 dip, and more during the tariff day. it's already up 60% I guess QQQ *is* a diversified index haha, but i am not ballsy enough for individual stocks yet (I did buy a paycheck of NVDA and it did double already)

aDonkeyWithACarrot

I am the chosen one We live in a simulation I am the only person that’s actually ‘real’ I have QQQ calls that expire Monday God will indulge me you shall see

OneTwoThreePooAndPee

Gonna ride out $SPCE in QQQ?

ZaraBloom418

Sold $20k Nvda to pay off student loans Then the 200k extra rides in QQQ https://imgur.com/a/aC3aI1H

stirrainlate

Buy QQQ and also buy maybe 1-2% of $ on one of those bear etf. You make yourself a dirty nasdaq 99 etf on your own.

joe0228

VOO or QQQ and ignore the market for a while

NotMe357

TACO should start a war with Cuba this Sunday and make a peace-deal with them on Monday so SPY can go up 1% while QQQ go up 2%. Peace is always good for the world, but to have Peace we need War first.

JohnBrownsErection

Retiring in your 40s is possible, but it is not a secret ETF, it is not “just buy more SCHD,” and it is absolutely not achieved by discovering one forbidden ticker in a cave behind Vanguard headquarters. It is math. Horrible, beautiful, soul-stripping math. To retire that early you basically need some combination of: High savings rate High income Low expenses Aggressive but sane investing No lifestyle inflation goblin A plan for healthcare Enough invested outside retirement accounts to bridge the gap A willingness to live like a spreadsheet monk while everyone else leases emotional support trucks The investing part matters, but not as much as people want it to. The main lever is not “VOO vs QQQ vs dividend ETF vs covered call income cauldron.”   The main lever is how much money can you shove into the compounding furnace every single month without ruining your life? Very rough math: if you want to spend $40k/year, you probably want around $1M–$1.3M invested depending on withdrawal rate and risk tolerance. If you want $60k/year, maybe $1.5M–$2M. If you want $100k/year, congratulations, you need dragon-hoard money and possibly a side quest involving a tech salary, business ownership, or marrying a suspiciously wealthy widow. The “retire by 40” version is brutal because you only have six years. Six years is not a compounding runway. Six years is a financial knife fight in a parking lot. Unless you already have a large portfolio or very high income, that probably means extreme savings, career acceleration, business income, house hacking, geo-arbitrage, or some other major life lever. The “retire in your 40s” version is much more realistic. At 34, retiring at 47–49 gives you 13–15 years, which is still aggressive but not completely insane. That is where maxing retirement accounts, taxable brokerage investing, keeping expenses low, and increasing income can actually start looking like a plan instead of a manifesto written in caffeine. Portfolio-wise, boring usually wins -  Broad index funds for the core. Maybe some small/value or growth tilt if you understand the risk. Avoid blowing yourself up chasing “early retirement income” products that are really just yield cosplay with NAV decay wearing a fake mustache. The real FIRE formula is spend way less than you earn, invest the difference automatically, increase income, avoid dumb debt, and do not let your lifestyle expand like a raccoon in a marshmallow factory. Also, early retirement does not have to mean “never work again.” It can mean financial independence, part-time work, consulting, seasonal work, a lower-stress job, or working because you want to instead of because your landlord has you in a chokehold. So the answer is: yes, it is possible, but the path is less “find the perfect investment” and more “turn your savings rate into an industrial weapon.” Investing is the engine. Savings rate is the fuel. Lifestyle inflation is the raccoon chewing through the brake lines.

Saltlife_Junkie

I’m buying leaps puts against QQQ. History will repeat itself. It always does. Waiting patiently. I laid the late 90s charts over 2025 - to now. Inflation , job growth, interest rates etc… almost identical. Next time the 10 yr goes over 5% this party is over.

_le_slap

Wait wtf? SpaceX will be in QQQ?

joe4942

Markets mean revert. At some point, tech will slow down. Worth remembering the QQQ and XLK traded sideways for most of the last year.

Peresviet

Very interested in the stats, do you guys have any clients that make it? I frequently trade and immediately diversify winnings into SPY/QQQ, wondering if there’s a better strategy for 7figure accounts 

C2theC

You have way too many that can just be managed with the QQQ or XLK ETFs. Maybe SOXX if you’re feeling aggressive. Sell the losers. Offset with the lowest winners. Put towards the biggest winners or better, in ETF. Consider VOO for some balance though tech is like 40% of the S&P 500 currently.

betarhoalphadelta

"Buy and hold" isn't for individual stocks. "Buy and hold" is for things like broad indexes / mutual funds. An S&P 500 index fund is something you buy and hold. You're already diversified, and you're just betting on the long-term growth of the economy. It's designed to be passive investing. Individual stocks, you buy when you have built a thesis that the company is worth owning, and sell when you decide that thesis has changed and it's not worth owning. That might end-up being a long-term hold. It might not. But it takes thought and research. It's active investing. IMHO, especially based on your other comment replies saying things like the below, I think your strategy is more luck than skill: >That’s the problem, I don’t have a thesis and fundamental to follow. The truth is that you have WAY too many stocks to develop a thesis on all of them, especially if you're working a full time job and trying to also do things outside of your work as most early-30s people do. You're heavy in tech, which has been good, but you're benefiting from high exposure to a sector rather than, IMHO, sound trading strategy. Even your funds (HLAL/SPUS) are heavily in tech. You likely would have done similar just throwing all your money in QQQ. If you want to develop as an investor, I'd suggest paring a bunch of this down and reinvesting them into index funds. You can do things like VOO (S&P 500) or VTI (whole US market) or QQQ (Nasdaq so tech-heavy), or even HLAL/SPUS if you have religious reasons you want those types of funds. Then, with a smaller portion of your overall investment pool, start actually figuring out how to evaluate individual companies. Work with no more than 3-5 companies. Develop a thesis on the company, a reason for investing. Before every investment part of your thesis should be the question "what would cause me to exit this investment in the future?" so you know when to spot a stock that no longer fits your thesis. IMHO that's the next step if you want to be an active "investor". And if that sounds like too much work? Just invest in the indexes and let it compound. For most people, that ends up with higher returns anyway 😉

avilacjf

Given how thin your investment strategy is I would highly recommend trimming and reallocating to QQQ, VOO, or VT based on how bullish you are on big tech/USA. The more you put into ETFs the less you'll worry about individual picks getting too bloated or huge drawdowns. You must first understand that chasing FOMO is the worst investment strategy because you'll trade mainly on emotion. Otherwise you'll just be ping-ponging back and forth, getting frustrated watching stocks skyrocket past your steady ship. If you want to time the market my best advice is to DCA but have a multiple for when the Fear and Greed index is in the red. Say you want to put in 1K every month, you do 1.5k when the F&G is in the red and 500 when it's in the green. Alternatively you can swap into a leveraged ETF like TQQQ (3x QQQ) when the index is on extreme fear and trade back into the regular QQQ once it's back in the green. These are some general ideas I use.

Trenavix

It's pretty sad to see when your portfolio of like 20 mixed stocks and ETFs is underperforming both spy and QQQ... But at the end of the day at least my portfolio is more ethical I guess and is not far behind. A win is a win. Most people don't gaf about ethical investing tho

R3dFiveStandingBye

I just meant if I already have funds in index’s like QQQ I don’t want to take the tax hit to sell it and put them in individual majors but going forward I can see the viability of it

atpplk

> Or you could just... do nothing? Am I misunderstanding or is 1.8 trillion a good deal less than the market caps of Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc? Like, I think Microsoft's days are basically numbered with the enshitiffication of Windows, but I'm not going to dump SPY or QQQ over it. I'm pretty sure the bodega next street also has a market cap that is sensibly less than Google, Microsoft, Apple. But they don't have the same revenue and profit either.

DesiOtaku

There's QQQ, but it has Tesla and Palantir.

mr-sandman-bringsand

https://www.investmentnews.com/practice-management/spacexs-index-fund-debut-will-look-nothing-like-what-most-investors-expect-says-jacob-friedman/266776 They are floating a tiny percentage of the spaceX shares so it’s like having $500 of SpaceX exposure per $100K of QQQ exposure

TheUnvanquishable

Everybody knows that at the price is a scam, but also everybody knows that it'll go up. Man, they have changed all the rules in the NASDAQ so that everybody that buys QQQ will buy a slice of it at the inflated prices. That's how committed they are to taking your money, so you can be sure it will go up like 20% in its first day. Safe profit.

DogOfDreams

Or you could just... do nothing? Am I misunderstanding or is 1.8 trillion a good deal less than the market caps of Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc? Like, I think Microsoft's days are basically numbered with the enshitiffication of Windows, but I'm not going to dump SPY or QQQ over it.

da6id

SPYG for now will dodge the fast entry of SpaceX (if you think it will plummet) and returns basically match QQQ. If you really want QQQ and aren't day trading, choose QQQM for lower fee ratio.

FatFluffyFish

So what did you do? Short memory? Short semicon? Puts in SPXW or QQQ?

Lemonbee7096

Why not QQQ if I may ask?

No-Improvement3164

I don’t touch puts on the SPY or QQQ. 10 times in a row within 10 seconds of buying a put a giant green candle came out of nowhere. It’s like I’m the inverse and the chart looks for certain it was going to dump or I’d chase a red candle and it’d instantly reverse. Scary stuff.

BuySellHoldFinance

Selling too early is why I index. QQQ and chill if you want to bet big. otherwise VOO and chill if you want something stable.

reality_hijacker

Luckily for you, you don't need to buy individual stocks. With the fast track update, you would be buying SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic with QQQ and SPR.

brock2063

Me in 2025: Ai is kinda meh and not too useful *My QQQ up 20% in 5 months of 2026* Me in 2026: Wow this AI thing is amazing! Sign me up!

Got_Engineers

I loosely track key strikes on OPEXs throughout the rest of the year like $600 put for example. As put are all so cheap. December 18th $600P has seen multiple large blocks of volume like over 75K volume over the last few weeks. I assume buying because the candle was green. All of this is obviously part of some larger position, but whoever purchases 75k end of the year OTM puts at like $20.0 is a whale. I personally just bought some July OPEX $600P. Volatility at the lowest levels of the last six months. I don’t trade on margin so I can’t sell options, but there’s so many opportunities to make so much money because volatility is so compressed and push to the extreme on the call side for premium . If I had the money, I would be selling some June and July MU/SNDK calls, buying 5X the June and July and December QQQ puts, and holding a bunch of the other proceeds as cash to redeploy if needed. Even for June OPEX you could sell a $725 QQQ call for $23.09 and buy 3x $700P $3.46 x 3 and pocket ~$1300 in proceeds from premium to hold and deploy. If we get any sort of correction in the next week, you’re pretty much making money instantly. The call premium is so expensive, but so fickle with any sort of downside to it.

Own_Association_2265

18 y/o incoming Austin nursing student. Tuition is fully covered by Pell + Texas grants, so I should graduate debt-free. Current situation: * $1,000 emergency fund * $1,400 checking buffer * Plan to increase emergency fund to $2,500 during freshman year Expected refunds: * Year 1: \~$8,250 per semester ($16,500 total) * Years 2–4: \~$6,750 per semester ($40,500 total) * Total refunds over 4 years: \~$54,000 Expected living expenses: * Rent: \~$450/month * Utilities: \~$50/month * Food: \~$200/month ( prolly gonna be larger but thats what the cushion is for ) * Total annual living costs: \~$8,400 * Total 4-year living costs: \~$33,600 Investment plan: * Keep a $2,500 emergency fund in HYSA * Invest $750 each semester during Year 1 * Invest $500 each semester during Years 2–4 * Auto-invest $50/month throughout college * Total invested over 4 years: \~$6,900 * Allocation: 70% VOO / 30% QQQ ( idk split can shift more voo? currently have a paper trading set to c how itll be ) * No individual stocks, options, crypto, or margin Based on my estimates: $54,000 total refunds * $33,600 living expenses * $6,900 invested = \~$13,500 remaining cushion/savings over 4 years (plus any summer savings if I move back home) My goal is to graduate debt-free, keep a solid emergency fund, and build a small investment portfolio while in school. Anything you'd do differently? Would you change the VOO/QQQ allocation, invest more aggressively, hold more cash, or keep the plan as-is?

golf_234

Decent point but i do see pretty big performance differences with them depending on conditions. I'm more or less letting them all run for a while, and seeing if I want to keep or cut any. did reduce the number of etfs though, currently in VOO VOOG VXUS SPMO VGT SMH QQQ by having them all running for a while gaining some insights as to how they are all performing in different market conditions etc with slightly different balances of holdings, even if there is overlap. if any aren't cutting it will definitely trim

Tamierox07

If you think of 5 years horizon it's just QQQ and chill. I see no clue to stockpick techs now. Besides we are in wsb ofc, so we do that stuff every day

CrozKillA83

Why would you be in VGT & QQQ at the same time; they have a 49% overlap? Use etfrc

Meandering_Cabbage

Yeah I remember my firm doing various allocation backtesting on different index funds in a risk-linked strategy. QQQ's relative performance even a few years ago versus SPY for the past two decades was incredible. Decent arguments to drop SPY for QQQ tbh.

Kredit-Carma

This is survivorship bias and luck you're witnessing. No one knew the surge would be this egregious, but some gamblers and semi fans are reaping the benefits of another critical supply chain bottle neck. You gotta remember the large number of account that blew up in most other "non mega bull markets". I haven't been getting "rich", but my IGV, CIBR, QQQ positions have been treating me well.

Lonely-Science-9762

QQQ and XEQT brother don't overcomplicate your life

RJ5R

same with buddy of mine but is just 100% QQQ for the last 20 years. nothing else out of pure laziness....said he shovels every available penny into it and doesn't even think about it he has almost $5 Million just sitting there in his fidelity account in just QQQ....dude knows nothing about investing and is crushing it making my VTSAX and chill look like amateur hour

raisedeyebrow4891

Definitely true of QQQ and SPY

gstxprz

I buy 2-3 shares every week of: QQQ, MSFT, NVDA, AAPL. Been doing this for the last 6 years. So far so good.

virtual_adam

I don’t think anyone *knows* they will invest, because we don’t know what the opening market cap will be at 1pm But in general I am a big megacap person. Remember all the talk about billionaires never selling stock to never pay taxes, so the bank gives them loans backed by the stock at impossibly low rates. Elon musk isn’t running some billion dollar short on QQQ to hedge himself They still need the stock to be propped up. My general investing thesis is that these billionaires or maybe trillionaire will bribe murder and do anything to keep their net worth up. If you could lose $100B tomorrow and you’re a very unethical person, wouldn’t you try to spend $1B to stop that from happening?

brock2063

Tbh I'd avoid the QQQ because it's one of the funds that'll include SpaceX earlier than normal. I'd do VTI. Even if Vanguard includes it early it'll be a small position.

hroaks

If you want something more tech heavy go QQQ. If you are a bit bearish on tech you can do SPY

sun_not_cold

Buy QQQ and call it a day.

sirzoop

Just wait till QQQ doubles from here a few years from now. You’ll be the one with the last laugh

aDonkeyWithACarrot

I have QQQ calls Good luck bro

ebikr

I’m completely screwed- significant gain on QQQ in taxable account. Corruption is everywhere these days.

CelebrationNo1242

The yields are 12% annually. Also it's literally just a fund that holds QQQ and sells covered calls for the income distributions lmao It's gonna underperform buy and hold QQQ like every selling covered calls strategy long term ever, especially with the unfavorable tax structure

babyd42

QQQ puts are in

HAIL_BAIJ

Especially on Fridays. I’ve made so much money with 0dte on spy and QQQ week after week.

Delulu_Maximus

QQQ, VOO is this a trick question

OrdnanceTV

Must be amazing to have enough to own a house and just gamble QQQ on the shitter instead.

DreamsSecretsNLogic

it's a dark art, not a technical science - out of the last 40 days (not including this week) QQQ has moved up between 1030 am and 1230 pm except for 14 out of the last 40 days. generally speaking after market opens it moves up a bit and then settles back down at 1030. apparently this is called a "rip and dip". if you look at the historical charts you can see that it moves pretty cyclically most of the time, goes up a bit, down a little and then back higher than it was. once it goes up and then comes back down i look for the price to stabilize for a few minutes, usually a few candlesticks sideways - and then if the price has been trending up i will buy a call. it's obviously not a real strategy but it has been working for me.

Mindless-Bug-8397

!banbet QQQ -5.79% 18 day

aDonkeyWithACarrot

I have 25 QQQ calls that expire Monday Pls no war this weekend

l3loodydemon

Honestly, you're right. Ironically, the biggest loss wasn't even from short-dated options at first. It started with long-dated oil calls. I convinced myself it was a near-lock because every crisis I'd ever watched from the sidelines ended with me saying, "I knew that was going to happen." So this time I sized up way too aggressively. Oil became a huge position for me because I was convinced I'd finally caught the big one. Then I got caught in the constant "peace, no peace, peace, no peace" headlines, started managing the position emotionally, and eventually got greedy when I was up significantly because I wanted 100% instead of taking a solid win. After that, I started chasing. That's where the short-dated QQQ calls and puts came in. Every loss made me want to make the money back faster, and that's when things really started snowballing. Looking back, the biggest mistakes weren't the contracts themselves. It was position sizing, greed, chasing losses, and believing my thesis so strongly that I stopped respecting risk. That's honestly why I made the post. Partly for self-reflection, and partly because if someone else reads it and avoids making the same mistakes, at least something good comes out of my stupidity.

SuperbSandwich

Has QQQ ever been this close to SPY?

Ok_Visit_5741

We're at a point of unrelenting euphoria that the market won't drop unless nukes do. And even then....? Around open I bought 5 each of QQQ 749c and 766c expiring Wednesday.

OK_Computer10101

$11 million worth of puts on QQQ were purchased right before market close

TotalInstruction

Good luck. It’s a good strategy if you’re disciplined and you pay attention. My suggestion: start with SPY or QQQ, which has dollar wide spreads available (I like XSP for tax advantages but the fees at that scale will eat you alive). At a dollar wide your drawdowns are obviously much smaller and you can test the strategy without going broke. Longer term $5 or $10 spreads are more efficient if you can afford the losses, but manage your risk accordingly. It’s just a different and (I think) better way to play options. Instead of buying OTM calls or puts and hoping to catch a huge directional move with a <10% chance of profitting, you’re taking the other side of the trade and stacking smaller profits 9 times out of 10. You don’t even have to be directionally correct, you just need to be not massively wrong.

caringforapathy

Well, I think I'm gonna hold onto QQQ 735p over the weekend here.

JuneauMori

QQQ 742 EOD please and thanks

caringforapathy

Talk all week of a deal. 30 mins left in the session, nothing, and we're still up at 740 with QQQ. Crazy times.

sirzoop

people kept telling me for so long that individual stock picking is pointless and you are guaranteed to underperform over time. meanwhile my individual stock portfolio has returned an average CAGR of 40%+ over the last decade (including all of the crashes btw). SPY has had a CAGR of 15% and QQQ 20% for reference

NeezDuts91

god bless to the man who suggested QQQ puts. I am down to yolo again over the weekend. What's the move we at 1.5 bands.

UnholyTrigon

Hey Bers, my QQQ leaps I bought 3 days ago are already up 50%

Dude_HaHa

# God hates SPY. He absolutely loathes QQQ. He plans on sending SOXX straight to hell.

JuneauMori

We didn't goto 742 for QQQ on my birthday guys... :(

ExpensiveToes4729

I started using Wallace Finance for this exact reason. Kicked out Tesla (and now SpaceX) from QQQ. There are probably other ways to modify ETFs out there but I haven’t found them.

Scalpaholic

That's it, IWM, give up hope. Embrace the dread of selling at a loss just to fill up the gas tank. You were never special to begin with like SPY or QQQ and you'll return to a valuation that reflects that well before they do. 😈

Sea_Charge_3138

this is really baffling man. QQQ up 32% in a straight line in two months on Christmas Eve volume and every $0.20 dip gets gobbled up and no one wants to take a single profit

JuneauMori

Can we power hour into 742 for QQQ for my birthday, thanks guys

WalrusHonda

QQQ it is time , reveal your +1% true form

caringforapathy

May be biased because I've got QQQ 735p for Mon, but I think we dumping this aft.

aDonkeyWithACarrot

Then why am I holding 56 QQQ calls?

UnholyTrigon

Hey fellow bulls, can we give bears one free day? I kinda feel bad for them. My ITM QQQ calls barely move down these days

caringforapathy

Thanks to some fancy trading throughout the day I've been able to recover from my morning QQQ stupidity. My ALMU position ain't doing so hot still though - caught me off guard, wasn't paying attention to it and didn't realize it dumped on me.

UnholyTrigon

Noooooooo Ber stop, my QQQ ITM leap options just lost 0.01% in value after being up 300%

gervs99

Should I throw my QQQ/SPCE into Dell puts expiring Monday?

puts_every_day

Maybe these QQQ 710p for Monday are a bit too ambitious 😅

miss_L_fire

I was so happy that I sold my ASTS calls last night that I gambled half the profits back into 0dte QQQ at open. Could have taken profit after 10 mins but thought it would come back after the drop. Down 65%. Feel free to point and laugh at my greedy regarded ass

miss_L_fire

This price action is so fucking stupid I just want to sell my QQQ calls at a loss so I don’t have to watch it anymore but then watch it rocket

Cold_Load_327

Seems like the algos are slowly tightening their grip so we end up at exactly $739 on QQQ

Feisty-Payment9614

The straight is open! Why is QQQ not at 750?!

caringforapathy

Picked up a QQQ 735p for Mon at the top of that lunchtime candle, just in case things get fucky here.

JuneauMori

Come on QQQ break through the sell wall and rocket to 741 you know you want to

lookingforajob2020

casual 2 dollar pump on QQQ in 10 minutes

Medium_Beautiful_721

Tesla -20% YTD compared to QQQ and bulls still think it’s a great investment

New_Possible_284

I bought AMD, QQQ puts a month ago and they expire today, it means market reversal starts on monday

ActivatingEMP

You act like QQQ hasn't gone up 33% in the last 2 months

miss_L_fire

Stairs up elevator down, dumbass QQQ

AluminiumCaffeine

Stockpickers paradise imo, especially once QQQ is stuffed full of SpaceX

myboywears

QQQ calls once it pulls back to either $735 or $727