QQQ

Gom_KBull

my brokers down for maintenance. off the top, ill say about 8x QQQ 555 Jan 2 2026, and 40x TQQQ 50 Jun 2026

defiantnoodle

Maybe SMH, QQQ? but I don't really know either

The_Worst_Trader

Honestly man as long as you put your money towards anything that’s not going to die by your retirement age you will be fine. Find stuff you want to put money in, when you’re a share holder in a company you are a partial owner. So what would you want to own? What do you think has long term value? The most important part of how you invest especially at your age is consistently dollar cost averaging into the market. Daily, weekly, monthly, etc. find out an amount of money you can consistently invest until retirement age. Most people do weekly or monthly. It doesn’t matter how much it is. Just put something in consistently. The idea is you don’t want to skip putting money into it at all, and the older you get hopefully you can increase what you’re consistently putting into the market. If you really just want to know what exactly to put your money into and don’t care about buying specific companies, just buy ETFs or indexes like SPY, SCHD, VOO, QQQ, etc. Regardless you’re doing well man. Don’t look for any get rich quick schemes. The goal is to set yourself up for an easy and hopefully early retirement. It will take decades. The market is a time game brother. The sooner you’re in the better.

drummer820

Good questions. Most of my strategy has been divesting away from Big Tech, AI companies and the Nasdaq-100 in general. I am using “short” a bit loosely (and incorrectly) here to mean put options. True shorting does scare me and I don’t trade margin. The main company I targeted was coreweave starting in September when it got on my radar and just how unstable their financials are. I have locked in profits about doubling my investment so far and still have LEAP puts on coreweave, QQQ and ARKK extending to December ‘26 / Jan ‘27

slayton5us

90% portfolio VOO, DIA, QQQ Also sell puts and sell calls on Hood, RIOT and Tesla

baldneenja

I use trading 212 and in the uk QQQ is on it. Which country are you in?

Good_Ride_2508

I have QQQ and must be equal or mor ethan QQQ, that is my aim always.

zigtrade

Shhhhh... No one tell him how well off he'd be if he had just bought QQQ 5 years ago.

wsberry

Dumpster fire, truly dreadful, want my 101? Keep it simple, follow the money crypto: BTC/USDC only Equities/etfs (12-24mo IH): SPY/QQQ/IWM core, with somewhat speculative stock picking: lean value tech and ai adjacent companies with good bones and recent strong earnings growth, ideally in energy, utility, industrial as they will be the first to see revenue gains, regardless of the current state of the AI “bubble”. Active Options (24hr IH): swing/day trade SPY/QQQ for 10%-50% gains on each trade Passive Options (3-6 month): high volume, high liquidity names (think NVDA, TSLA, etc. ideally with stocks priced above $100) 50%-300% gain on each trade Assuming your age as: 18-35

dlinhat70

Have not looked recently, but all of IWM is about the same total cap weight as the largest cap QQQ stock.

UOkayBrah

\>Investing in QQQ in 2008 yields 15x return DCA over 17 years Nvidia (his strategy specifically) - yielded 14.8x Great, show your work

1ThousandDollarBill

I bought 100 shares of QQQ on Nov 19 at $600 a share. My plan is to sell in twenty years. I’m up to 751 shares.

DoinIt4DaShorteez

You could probably do some consolidation amongst your 20 short-medium term low conviction Tech & Other stocks just for convenience, but I don't see anything wrong per se with having that many, or your overall plan in general. If you can't buy any US ETFs like QQQ I would probably use a different platfrom, but I don't know anything about UK platforms or rules.

slayton5us

Be safe man VOO, QQQ, DIA

slayton5us

90% portfolio is VOO, DIA, QQQ

slayton5us

Keep it simple VOO, DIA, QQQ

RetiredEarly2018

If you do not plan to touch the money for 20+ years, then safe and efficient (the way those terms are usually used) shouldn't come into it, because over that span greater volatility generally means greater returns. I would thus be thinking something like QQQ rather than VOO or S&P 500 or even VWRL.

Vegetable-Ad1512

Googl, QQQ , and AAPL Leaps (PMCC Strategies) all worked well with well managed Covered Calls in 2025.

Technical_Raisin4061

If you do like a front-loaded DCA strat or just set it and forget it strategy, depending on your time horizon, lets say for long-term 20 years investment you DCA it over lets say 3-5 years to average out your position or just put your position in and then stop investing in it for the remaining years of your time horizon, you reap massive returns But that is only in that scenario, if you would be doing like a normal DCA strategy, or just periodically investing each year some amount, then yes that wouldn't make you much more, or probably even less than a regular QQQ or SPY DCA'd over the same time as the TQQQ since the later positions wipe out your returns from the massively amplified moves (short-term) A lot of people would say it's a stupid idea, but if you really put your position and let it sit for like 20 years then you are taking assymetrical risk, you might lose 100%, but you can easily profit 500% or much more, just depends on how much risk youre able to take

Worried_Quarter469

Below average year, excluding negative years, QQQ +20%, SPY +15% Most of Mag7 20% below highs of the year

setec404

Yeah I spend my QQQ shares at the store all the time.

NilsTheChef

TQQQ can work in specific scenarios, but it's important to understand the mechanics: - TQQQ resets daily, meaning it's designed for short-term holds. In choppy markets, volatility decay is real - if QQQ goes up 1% then down 1%, TQQQ loses value - Your strategy worked well during a strong directional recovery after a significant drop (buying oversold tech) - This approach is timing-dependent and wouldn't work in prolonged sideways or downtrending markets - TQQQ fell ~75% peak-to-trough in 2022, and ~96% during 2008-2009 (backtest models) Your disciplined entry/exit and position sizing were key to success. Most importantly, you understood what you were buying instead of blindly following "never touch leveraged ETFs" advice. Risk management matters most.

HaruoPanda

If your buddy's looking at a 20-25 year horizon, I'd suggest avoiding individual stock picks and leveraged ETFs for the bulk of the IRA. Those leveraged ETFs are designed for short-term trading, not long-term holds (decay can kill returns). For long-term success, consider a core allocation to a low-cost total market ETF like VTI or VOO (70-80%), with perhaps a tech sector tilt via QQQ or VGT (10-15%) if they want some growth exposure. If they're genuinely interested in crypto, a small allocation (1-3%) through something like GBTC might make sense, but emphasize this should be money they're comfortable potentially losing completely. Remember: diversification is what builds sustainable wealth over decades.

HaruoPanda

Using margin to pay off higher-interest debt can make mathematical sense since you'd reduce your interest costs, but it comes with significant risks. With your ETF portfolio, the main danger is a market downturn triggering a margin call. If your investments drop 20-30%, your broker could liquidate positions at the worst possible time. Margin requirements can also change without notice. While your SGOV (short-term treasuries) provides some stability, your QQQ and BTC exposure adds volatility. Consider safer alternatives like a balance transfer credit card or personal loan refinance. If you do use margin, have a backup plan to quickly pay it off if markets decline.

cannythecat

Im done with being a gay bear. Tech bros are too rich and powerful. There's no stopping them. Im full porting QQQ leaps. If AI isnt a bubble we will get rich together. If we are in the dot com bubble 2.0 then we will be at the soup kitchen together.

Dramatic_Ad7472

Diversify ODTE? With what QQQ IWM. Don't know how to play those markets, sorry.

UndergroundHQ6

Do you only play SPY? QQQ is more explosive but the breadth has to be there. Are the gamma flips + call/put walls how you time your exits? How often are you full porting?

Tmdngs

Just buy QQQ and call it a day

GiardinoStoico

whilst all of you are investing in a highly-questionable QQQ ETF, I am investing in Vanguard TWINKETF (XXX)...

hroaks

No the answer is QQQ

Slightly-Blasted

DCA into spy. DCA into SCHD. DCA into VOO DCA into QQQ for heavier tech exposure. Do 1K in each a week, 200$ a trading day

aur3l1us

I’m in the same boat (wanting to buy a house but can’t yet financially make it work without immediately being house poor) and I’ve decided one 60/30/10 split of VOO/QQQ/individual picks like GOOGL or crypto once it looks like a bear market is confirmed.

vsmand1

NVDA dragging down my SPY and QQQ calls

Jacobwitg

Firstly QQQ is highly risky and not very well diversified. Secondly SPY has not beat me by a large margin, matter of fact it has given almost the exact CAGR. But you have to compare to a world index, not just American indicies. And I have nowhere said what stocks I own, so I don’t know where you get that from. Once again a pretty stupid comment.

bshaman1993

Well makes sense coz both SPY/QQQ have you beat my a large margin over the same time period. Why are you investing in risky growth stocks if you want to live off your portfolio?

bilboomerbaggins

QQQ

dimethylhyperspace

I saw a crazy data set that tracked all the times SPY/QQQ was positive for the three days before and day after Thanksgiving.. 90% of the time the following Monday was red and 50% it bled into Tuesday. Took a small amount of profits here in case that pans out and I can swing back in at a lower entry

szokdogg

QQQ calls bought 15 minutes ago up 32%, crazy

TomatoSpecialist6879

I can't believe I lived long enough to see the day where INTC is carrying QQQ and SPY again after 25 years

Financial-Watch3034

Hopefully QQQ holds at 617

TopBuyer777

Loading QQQ 620 calls for Monday

Quotama4

I hold all the big tech in QQQ. I don't need American banks, insurance consumer staples energy and production stocks if these dont outperform their EU counterparts by a lot. Tech is the only thing that outperforms in the US for the last so many years. Which means it now dominates the S&P500, I totally get that. S&P500 is however now far from the diversified mix it is made out to be. So QQQ that is what I am exposing myself to. And to diversify the mixI take the all those Banks, insurers, energy and production from the EU market. Since those boring stocks are not doing any better in the US. I can tune the amount I invest in tech and the amount I invest in more boring stuff. This way I take less currency risk than just holding S&P500. And most of the boring EU stocks are performing much better than Americans think. MSCI europe etf is +16% YTD. In EURO, not dollars, while the dollar moved 13% in the wrong direction for us EU folks.

Reasonable_Mud_3470

I'm just interested in why the couple QQQ puts I have for hedging still have value.

DataStructuresKid

QQQ Strength unmatched. +5% in a week.

Commercial_Horror204

SPY QQQ ALL UP NVDA WIll V to FOllow

Aristothang

Yikes. Not only are you unable to form a proper thought, you also can't read. Literally every post I've made specifically addresses QQQ vs Nvidia. At least the other guy showed some sign of intellect. I actually feel bad for you.

SoloOutdoor

Barren Wuffett needs to tweet he bought 4 billy in QQQ

lowguns3

Can QQQ rip 3% just real quick pleeeease

Aggravating_Fig6288

Quick 25% scalp on QQQ 0DTEs and I’m out, half day today and EOM means algos are in max retail fuckover mode

TickTockTaudit

If you took a Time Machine to any random day in the last 100 years with a bag of cash, the best thing you could do is buy a house or dump it into the market THAT DAY. If you’re worried about more dips or a sideways 2026, put half in covered call ETFs and you’ll make money no matter what. QQQ/QQQI 50/50 or SPY/SPYI 50/50. I like the Qs a lot more but this sub focuses on S+P for whatever reason

Aristothang

Simple concepts are insane to intellectually challenged people, it's ok. I'll keep making it simpler and simpler until you understand. Investing in QQQ in 2008 yields 15x return DCA over 17 years Nvidia (his strategy specifically) - yielded 14.8x He underperformed on a pure percent/multiple basis. That's it. End of conversation. All other variables are unknown, therefore irrelevant. We don't know his starting account size, how much was or was not used, when he DCA'd, what could have been, etc. There are many stocks he could have held from 2008 that outperformed QQQ. It doesn’t matter. His strategy failed to outperform on pure percentages compared to holding QQQ over the same amount of time. This is a fact. Please stop making more of an ass of yourself by continually convoluting this simple point.

Embarrassed_Tax_3181

Apparently there’s 45% normal volume on the QQQ average today, but it’s a half trading day so actually decent volume

95Daphne

Apparently there was a data center outage last night for the CME, so there wasn’t any futures trading for hours. QQQ is +0.5% in premarket, but I expect nothing special and probably should relax more.

chut22

I created what I think is a safe and well diversified long term portfolio. Point out any flaws or oversights. || || |Asset|Percentage|Vehicle|Notes| |S&P 500|50%|$VOO|Ol' reliable| |High Dividend ETF|10%|$VYM|Value Stocks / Passive Income| |Developed Markets ETF|10%|$VEA|International Exposure| |Real Estate ETF|10%|$VNQ|Asset Diversification / Passive Income| |Gold ETF|5%|$GLD|Inflationary Hedge| |Bitcoin ETF|5%|$IBIT|Inflationary Hedge| |Speculation / Hedges|5%|Growth Stocks / $QQQ|Swing Trades / Hedges| |Cash / Bonds|5%|Cash / $BND|Cash & Cash Equivalents for buying opportunities| |Total|100%|||

chut22

I created what I think is a safe and well diversified long term portfolio. Point out any flaws or oversights. || || |Asset|Percentage|Vehicle|Notes| |S&P 500|50%|$VOO|Ol' reliable| |High Dividend ETF|10%|$VYM|Value Stocks / Passive Income| |Developed Markets ETF|10%|$VEA|International Exposure| |Real Estate ETF|10%|$VNQ|Asset Diversification / Passive Income| |Gold ETF|5%|$GLD|Inflationary Hedge| |Bitcoin ETF|5%|$IBIT|Inflationary Hedge| |Speculation / Hedges|5%|Growth Stocks / $QQQ|Swing Trades / Hedges| |Cash / Bonds|5%|Cash / $BND|Cash & Cash Equivalents for buying opportunities| |Total|100%|||

Anonymous_So_Far

I don’t really mess with crypto. BTC is a risk asset in my view, or at least is highly correlated with SPY/QQQ. And I understood the underlying much better in those markets. Typically commodities hedge equities, so that doesn’t quite hold with BTC.

Junior-Appointment93

Never tried. But thinking of an iron condor either on SPY or QQQ

TickTockTaudit

*Random incel comes to options gambling sub to astonishingly admit he can’t please women. Possibly never tried. Possibly super closeted gay. Anyway, calls. QQQ 650 January 2026

CDBOIChill

Don't get most of your advice from here. This is pure gambling. Most of your profits from here should go to reasonable things like Nvidia dip or QQQ.

Physical-Broccoli-36

What will QQQ open at? If futures are green? I have 630C 2 December

x2manypips

Stop trading and buy and hold VTI and QQQ forever.

jensenskawk

QQQI is a covered call strat on companies that are in QQQ. Its not a covered call strat on the index QQQ.

Acceptable-Tax3886

Idk what you mean, I think u meant to say in the first sentence “QQQI is a covered call Strat on companies in the QQQ…” Idk what ur trying to say but it seems paradoxical, but QQQI is literllly a covered call Strat on the QQQ. Which I agree QQQI or covered call on the QQQ is rarded

jensenskawk

QQQ is a covered call strat on companies in QQQ. I never said it was a covered call strat on QQQ. Bruh

Acceptable-Tax3886

Bruh is QQQI not a covered call strat based on QQQ lmao

jensenskawk

Covered calls on QQQ returns is ass. Might as well buy and hold QQQ.

Acceptable-Tax3886

I think ur better off buying QQQ and writing your own covered call strat on it tbh

Nervous-Ingenuity509

QQQ? what does that mean?

jensenskawk

Selling CSPs on QQQ with 200k is sustainable to buy food and pay some bills.

MagJack

If you had to live off of 200k in QQQ and couldnt make any trades besides selling to cash out, how long could you make it before being back behind wendys

MagJack

do you all vote for the shareholder stuff? Schwab will not stop annoying me about voting for QQQ. I'm sure my little 65 or whatever share vote will change the direction of the fund

ksiwillbepregnate

I been buying QQQ options for always around .4 to .5 and sell for 100$ more and its always worked but i buy right at opening.

favicocool

Examples as of this moment? Aside from SPY/QQQ? Asking for a friend

MutaliskGluon

Sharpe ratio is such a shitty metric when you outperform SPY/QQQ. https://imgur.com/a/fMX4ylY Like according to this graph, my performance isnt good because the Sharpe is 0.89 lmao.

Technical_Scallion_2

Pundits in 2000 “the internet is just starting” - well yes, but the initial investor mania is now ending. The next 10 years will be gradual rollout of IA advances while the QQQ drops 60% right along with it.

Quotama4

Always the Bashing that EU stocks are irrelevant. I hold US tech through QQQ and a EU ETF ( which has little tech ) and actually I do pretty well this way. The EU etf grows pretty stable without a lot of tech / AI exposure outside of ASML. Accumulating ETF so any dividends get reinvested. Not doing bad at all. Yes its not as high growth, but consistent returns year on year. No overvalued stocks you really have to worry about and less worry for me about exchange rate risk. And no hedging is not worth it over long term 20 year plus. Take out magnificent 7 from S&P500 and performance would be worse than the EU ETF. So yes I take the qqq and other US stocks for higher growth more risk and keep a stable foundation of EU stocks. Its not terrible in returns. Without the EU stocks, return this year would be lower.

TheBoringInvestor96

I allocated 20% of my account to be available for timing the market, just to help that itch. TQQQ is my favorite one to use. Whenever the underlying QQQ goes down 20% or more, I buy into TQQQ. When the Qs recovered and the TQs are up 100%, I sold half and return the principal back to the boring SPY and let the remaining half run a bit more before closing out. Worked like a charm in 2020, 2022, April 2025.

bawireman

I own a lot of tech companies. One thing I do that you could consider it put a bigger percentage into VOO (in your case, into QQQ and VOO - or you could cut one of those). That way if tech completely collapses at some point, you won't fall all the way off the mountain. I think owning tech is GREAT, especially right now when we are on the verge of a tech revolution.

Neteru1920

I focus on the indices because I don’t have time to research individual companies as mostly a futures trader. QQQ and Spy credit spreads work well. QQQ volatility is perfect for me.

D_Pablo67

If you are going to buy ETFs, especially broad market indexes like VOO and QQQ, you do not need a financial advisor. You need a plan for how much to invest every 2-4 weeks based on your budget. Investing is best done as a steady patient habit.

MrCockingFinally

Your main issue is that VOO and QQQ are both already extremely tech heavy, then you added in even more single tech stocks. Given your age, high risk plays like this are probably ok, since you have a ton of time in the market ahead of you. But some diversification is probably not a bad idea.

TheRealArmament

You’d be up 72% all time instead of you’d just dump it in QQQ

UOkayBrah

The fact you're still parroting that is insane. Is it really so hard to understand that you compare dollars invested to Z security at X time to the same amount of dollars invested in Y security at X time? 10k invested in NVDA in 2008 + 174K invested in NVDA in 2020 >>>>>>> 10k invested in QQQ in 2008 + 174K invested in QQQ in 2020.  You can do the math yourself if you don't believe me. The dates don't even matter, as long as the dates the assets were purchased were the same between the two comparisons. Maybe you can find an exact scenario where a DCA into QQQ at multiple dates out performs NVDA DCA at the same dates but given NVDAs beta is over 2, NVDA is the best performing tech stock and the ETF now ties 10% of itself to NVDA, I'm going to say you cannot.  Did he earn enough risk adjusted return to make it worth over a large sample size? No idea. We don't know his port size, his other trades, his port beta, or anything else really. If you wanted to have a risk adjusted rate of return conversation you could, but that's a different conversation. The point stands that what you said about underperforming the market is 100% wrong. 

kluv85

I’m missing something here. I checked NVDA vs QQQ including splits and dividends reinvested and NVDA dominated QQQ returns since 2016. https://preview.redd.it/e9pybaq13q3g1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b1a9abfff3c0d20e3290063ca059dce084d9071b

Ambitious_Designer97

You are wrong. You are comparing a lump-sum investment of the entire principal into QQQ in 2008 versus splitting the same principal into multiple installments through dollar-cost averaging on his NVDA position.

Dagobot78

The question was how do i diversify? 1. Sell VOO and buy and equal weighted S&P index fund, that would help decrease tech exposure without you selling your tech. 2. Sell 20% QQQ and buy 2 other sectors you don’t have… best of breed -> Morgan Stanley? JP Morgan or even Goldman Sacs. Maybe Lamar for lame steady dividend and low growth or a pharmaceutical like Eli Lilly or Pfizer (if they ever do anything again).

Asid_Phreak

Nice profit!! But why no SPY/IWM/QQQ???? Seems like a ton of extra work....

AnaIyze

it is so fucking weak inversing QQQ SPY. i bought calls on that piece of shit last thursday only to get shit on while SPY QQQ has ripped to the sky

Bivore

Your QQQ and VOO are already heavily tech stocks but also your closest thing to diversification. You could reduce some of the individual tech positions to increase those ones, thus keeping you tech heavy but also getting a bit more exposure elsewhere. But I think you’re fine either way, the bubble will pop at some point - but tech will remain the future and what people get the most excited about. Personally, NVDA is the one I’d deduct from if I were to do that.

gonosz11

https://preview.redd.it/dn4yrsgsio3g1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=69bc718677e4536aeaac8bb3252b813246d17f20 Haha , I bought this shit yesterday after losing 200k on 0DTE QQQ PUTS 😭😭😭

Immediate_Type4095

Im cooked if QQQ doesnt open below 610 Friday

ButtholeAnalogy

!banbet QQQ 570 4w

bearhunter429

#Ukraine war ends over the weekend and Russia agrees to buy $1 trillion of SPY and QQQ stocks to invest in America. LMAO🤌

ispooler

Bought 30% of my port on QQQ calls before close, highly regarded?

ispooler

Bought 30% of my port on QQQ calls before close, highly regarded?

drew-gen-x

I hope all the bulls parading around here bought their $SPY or $QQQ before 1100 EST or they were down for the day.

Gom_KBull

Bought 3x QQQ Jan 16 2026 554.78 Put @ $4.20 

MutaliskGluon

QQQ has spent most of today in an untested daily FVG resistance. With VIX crushed I think its worth getting some puts here with a condition of closing them if QQQ closes a day above this FVG. Gonna sell some SGOV to start this position

bilboomerbaggins

Just close SPY and QQQ + 1% and call it a day, I think that's fair

drew-gen-x

I have no idea what stocks will do day to day. I just look at cycles. If you create channel lines connecting the 1929 to 2000 to 2025 highs on the weekly S&P 500 we have heavy resistance level in this stock super cycle. We would need to put in a new ATH weekly close on S&P 500 before I change my bearish views. If you connect a channel line connecting the 2020-2022-2023 lows the $QQQ briefly broke below that channel support line last week. Again I will probably time my buys & sells on $SQQQ incorrectly over the next 3-6 months, but I have more than enough dry powder in cash to see how this plays out until the $SPY and the $QQQ put in a new weekly ATH close and I admit I was wrong.