QQQ

OddSyrup2712

That was your tip to buy YOLO calls on QQQ.

Iwubinvesting

DCA mindlessly into S&p500 or QQQ. There are moments of high valuations when S&p500 is around high PE valuations (like now) that the returns is generally around -2 to 2% per year over the next decade. It's probably better to add some bonds or ex-US index to the mix to increase your ROI. Bonds are at 4% returns and developing/emerging markets are at lower end of PE valuations historically.

sam99871

Now I think I see what you’re talking about. You have a choice between buying QQQ at 100 or selling an itm csp, and selling the itm csp is better if the stock goes down. You have a paper loss of $8 but if you’d bought the stock instead you’d have a paper loss of $10.

Newbiewhitekicks

Investing in QQQ(M), SPYG, SPMO sort of stuff. There’s been a ton of popularity in taking uncompensated risks. We should also normalize reading the prospectus. A lot of people have no idea what they’re buying.

EventHorizonbyGA

I was referring to just what I traded. IWM and QQQ, ITM. Most people who are professionals don't gamble on far OTM ODTE.

Conscious-Move-2018

QQQ is trading at 590 3.2% drop on 590 would be around 571 Premium on selling a 571 put strike is .40 .40/571\*100\*252 = 17.5% 17.5% would be maximum return rate assuming all sold contracts expire and price remains constant. Why are you so content on misleading others trying to look like a know-it-all on reddit?

runitup420

MSFT, AAPL, COST specifically and dca in QQQ

Glock7enteen

Lol what? Nvidia was $212 on November 3 QQQ was at 625 (close to its highs) on November 10. Obviously there will be dips and the chart won’t be perfect, but you track based on the highs/lows not the actual chart itself. The high was early Nov. lows mid November. Now seasonality tells us we get new highs either this week or early December.

FollowingAway9452

You didn’t “pick bad stocks,” you built a Vegas portfolio inside a retirement account. A Roth IRA is supposed to be boring: VOO, VTI, maybe QQQ, and a couple long-term conviction names. Instead you loaded it with leverage ETFs (BULL, UP), China names (JD, BABA), super-speculative plays (NBIS, ONDS), and then wondered why your balance moves like a crypto chart. Going from $100k → $67k isn’t a market problem, it’s a portfolio construction problem. If this account really matters to you (and it should), simplify it, stop trading inside it, and treat it like a 30 year compounding machine instead of a 30 day gamble. The recovery becomes way easier once the portfolio stops fighting you.

Ok-Amoeba4472

Full port QQQ weekly calls at Wednesday 12 minutes after close, thank me later

bbmak0

D-0 What happened if the QQQ drops below your shorted call price, You will force to own the shares, you just buy it ? D-1 What would you do the next day drops another 5%. What would you place your shorted call options? which DTE and delta you sell the call? D-2 Let say another day drops another 5%, what would you place your shorted call options? DTE and delta? D-3 Let say the next day market rally 7%, what would you do?

Ok-Amoeba4472

!banbet $QQQ 625 2w

sam99871

So imagine QQQ is at 100 and you sell an itm put with srike 110 and you get a $12 premium. QQQ falls to 90 and you’re forced to buy it for 110. You overpaid by $20 and your premium was only $12. That’s an $8 loss.

sam99871

Unless QQQ falls during the time between selling the put and having it exercised?

UndergroundHQ6

To be honest I don’t even know. I went to buy puts on AMD and was sticker shocked by the price lmao. If I had to guess, I’d say the recent AI bubble worries, burry/thiel/softbank exit from NVDA probably just put a high IV blanket over all of tech 2 months ago I told myself I should take a break from day trading and just full port QQQ 700 Jan exp and just keep my head down for the holidays. Thank god I never pulled that trigger lol

Lejuju86

You did not invest, you gambled. Take this as a lesson and invest in ETFs at least (QQQ, SPY, VTI etc...), not in single stocks and even less options at this stage. Long term you will be fine, but stop gambling!

Training_Crow9094

I felt QQQ options give you better % returns when price moves are sudden in either direction

JacquesHome

You seem to be really stuck on the stock buybacks and bad Google leadership. Don't take this wrong way, or do, I don't think you are in any position to judge Sundar / Google as having bad leadership. First, Google has more than enough cash to spend $50B a year on CapEx AND do stock buybacks. Second, Google has trounced the QQQ by 1.5x over the past 5 years and by 2.5x since Sundar became CEO. Google dominates every market it plays in Search, Ads, and Youtube (kills Netflix by a wide margin). They have a portfolio of Deeptech bets that would make any VC jealous.

illinformed-will

Not sure about the 'trillions of dollars impossible to predict'. When NVDA alone wipe $500 B in 2 weeks, add other mag7 and top10 QQQ and it is trillions $ wiped in a day or 2 of sharp drop. When you look at all those stocks charts in broad market big moves (pump or dump), they're perfectly indentical, meaning all algos are tuned to the same presets and trade in 'harmony'. A part of that is they trade in 'basket' yes. But the baskets explanation is not enough, the 2 past days for example gold was in harmony with QQQ stocks wich don't make sense only by the basket/sector approach. So it's not one actor that rug pull, but coordinated rug pull from biggest actors algos doing the same thing at the same time. Algos run autonomously on millisecs trades, but the preset and tuning is done by humans. Same people own and control the narrative via news. So no tinfoil hat but retails (individuals and those who give their money to funds like life insurance) are just liquidity for institutions and big funds i guess. Options liquidity also comes alot from retail. Like you i try to understand, for now i just get that the moves are coordinated and not randoms. How they're determined is another story. Riding with the wave and avoiding bull/bear traps is the only way to make money as a individual trader.

dogs_and_stuff

Holding NVIDIA calls and QQQ puts at the same time……..is there a strategy here I’m not understanding

EvolvingDior

QQQ dropped 75% during the dotcom bust and took 15 years to recover its ATH.

NormalAddition8943

It will be in the tape for the QQQ251231P570 contract. The largest buys and sells so far were: - ~23700 contracts on Nov 3, 2025 for ~5/contract (QQQ was $632) - ~21500 contracts on Nov 18, 2025 for ~$11/contract (QQQ was $598, -5%). Assuming the same person bought and sold the majority of these (say, 20,000) then yeah - it was roughly a 2x gain (and they're out of the trade now).

InternationalTop2410

!banbet QQQ -5% 7d

Batcraft10

!banbet QQQ +2% 3d

Scriptum_

Even if you have a physical certificate... it's still a legal entitlement to a share Good practice to download reports from your broker on a regular basis. But the ability to borrow against your capital is important. This week, I used my excess liquidity to hedge QQQ, protecting my capital. Could I do that with a physical certificate? Maybe, not easily...

internetroamer

Time will prove who is right based on returns. My average return rate is about 18% but I only started in 2019 and my main thesis is just go toward big tech etfs so I hold ETFs like QQQ, MGK, VUG. So it's been a good bit luck

AnimalStyleCreole

Sorry OP. Thanks for sharing your loss porn. You're helping people. Look at the positives - 130k is still a solid foundation to build. You can look back 10-20 years from now and be proud of your end of year 2025 decision. Put 20k into checking/saving as your safety, gamble 10k as you wish (i.e. like an F U put contract on the SPY, but if you get this 10k fun fun gamble money wiped out then STOP) , split the rest of your 'long term port' 10 year + hodl (..your last 100k..) equally into different etf's, across all industries (or go heavy in VOO, QQQ, etc). Or just put that last 100k all into the GAYMAN and don't look at it for 10 years.

Formal-Kale2431

I’d add QQQ for some spice

95Daphne

Yeah, for QQQ and the Nasdaq Composite both being down about 7% from their highs, there's been a lot of damage technically within tech already. It's Feb 2021 esque or early 2025 esque. If the Nasdaq can rip off a rally stretch, I think it's going to be without help from spec tech and it's going to most likely set up an issue similar to 2021 to come back to burn markets overall outside of risk off type stuff like staples.

fspyrofs

Meanwhile you can easily buy and hold 30% SPY 30% QQQ 10% NVDA and 30% Bonds (for midget strippers and Wendy’s pop and burger secure cash-flow) … but OP decided he was special and knew better

Odd-Block-2998

QQQ $550

Wind_Ensemble

Two days of 0DTE puts. On Thursday morning everybody was screaming how green it would be so I just inversed wsb. Lol. QQQ and then AMD.

Galaxy_AI

No more cuts under Powell, says BofA It's over, guys. Blood red on Monday. QQQ to $500 EOY.

ChairmanMeow1986

Not 70-90%, but 50ish percent for sure, it's only been in very specific circumstances and you have to take in opportunity cost. Take RKLB, NBIS, or ASTS for instance as they are retail favs, I bought them early in the year so my cost average is considerably even current prices and fundamentally I monitor them. Their ATH we're pricing in a lot of growth potential over time that got erased as the general trend turned down as VIX (volatility) spiked, liquidity everywhere got shot behind the barn just as the government shutdown was really starting to bite and the US Admin decided to play around with an additional 100% tariffs on China and 25% on Canada (With the future of Rare earths in question). It sucks to buy near the top, but it's important to know if what you hold. What it's fundamentals, outlook. Don't borrow conviction from a community, build your own or you will generally buy high, sell low, or hold under-performers for years. I'm not saying sell now, everything is down and trend is down. Most (not all) things would probably be hold to exit on opportunistic rally if you are posting this. Know how to garden, plant seeds and harvest a growth portfolio or diversify to preserve wealth and manage risk is my opinion. Not mine and an odd one for sure, but there was that guy who lump sum his inheritance (700k?) from his grand mother into Intel at about 40$ (I think) riiiight before it slid right down 50% to sub 20$. He would have had a break even exit last month after holding for about a year. My point even mentioning this is both about opportunity cost and that the best time to cut your a bad trade is quickly or not at the WORST time (I am assuming shares over contracts here). Now what you hold and why you took the trade, look for an exit based on that not when it's broken down this much. Maybe you bought at the top, but unless it's like the worst momentum stocks this is 'probably' not where to look for an exit. Lot's of trash out there though, so know what you hold. I would say it needs to be a fundamentally sound company with a sound narrative, not a penny stock that's 'going to turn things around,' don't be an ape, a community member or borrow conviction from a community. If any of the OG GME/AMC people had sold one of the multiple rallies that are still far above any recent ATH's, they had until Nov 2021 and put it in SPY or QQQ they'd have done much better. You don't necessarily need to cut at the WORST point, but you can decide the priority exists to re-allocate on a decent exit. For people not around or don't remember, GME was really, really, like stupidly shorted. I don't remember the particulars very well, but suffice it to say they were in bad shape fundamentally, lot's of debt and getting their lunch (market share) ate. Maybe there was a turn around story, but it would have been slow and only really worth taking at it's lowest points a few months before shorts got squeezed. I never read any of Keith Gills (Roaring Kitty's) DD or even looked at the fundamentals, but the essence of this type of trade is if the price rise quickly market makers will use buying the underlying to maintain a delta neutral position and Hedge Funds that have large short positions (not puts, but have borrowed and than sold the shares hoping to buy them back lower than the interest of borrowing costs) will start to be forced to buy back shares to manage risk, both of which drive up the price short-term, i.e. a short or gamma squeeze. This was after WSB minted Tesla millionaires, and than retail squeezed AMC on the same thesis a couple months later and GME was supported again. Know your trade and pick an exit target on something like this, don't be exit liquidity. At this time I had an allocation (less than a 1%) of gambling money I'd momentum trade with I lost a luckily low amount and took an offered exit (I honestly would have made money if I wasn't so outraged about HOOD turned of the ability to buy, pure stubbornness (emotional trading) turned it into a small loss). Shorts close, retail nailed hedigies to the wall if hey dont sell. It was funny but MOASS happens during the squeeze and than dilution happens to finance debt. Looking for a trend reversal, upwards here. Best winds on choices.

WhoRuleTheWorld

If you tried to follow the trend on QQQ or SPY you’d have gotten rekt though? Theres so many reversals it’s almost always worth betting on a reversal. I thought the same would happen with MSTR

No-Improvement3164

I sold a QQQ 11/24 570p for .40. Monday morning that will probably $.10 unless we crash over the weekend. Not hitting home runs. Slow and steady.

SecondSt4ge

Voo and VXUS or just buy VT. You could do just VT and when there’s dips in QQQ buy that or QQQM. Vanguard total stock (VT) has a mix of US stocks and some international stocks like Taiwan semiconductor.

D_Pablo67

Yes, run. You can build a simple portfolio of broad market ETFs like VOO and QQQ. If you want some higher expense ratio ETFs with top managers, look at Wedbush Dan Ives AI Revolution (IVES) and Fundstrat Tom Lee Granny Shots (GRNY).

theb1gnasty

I mostly followed, but what did you do exactly at the end? You just ended up dumping your money into QQQ puts right before QQQ dipped a few points before the end of the day or something?

frumpydrangus

It’s QQQ, nerd

Daft_Vandal_

QQQ calls. Yeah you deserve that one

Defiant-Pipe4468

I am an early-career professional that has started building an investment portfolio over the last year or so. My long term goal is to save for a house, but in the short term, I’m mainly focused on building a diversified portfolio that isn’t too dependent on one specific sector / area. My current portfolio is broken down as the following: 10% in GOOG (my only single company stock) 10.5% in QQQ 17% in XLK 36% in SPY 20% in SWVXX (Money Market fund that serves as my emergency fund) 6.5% in cash on hand I want to diversify a bit more into other geographies or other ETFs. While I have probably a bit more risk tolerance given I am still early in my career, I want my investment portfolio to be a “set it and forget it” exercise that I make regular contributions to. Does anyone have any advice / suggestions for good options to continue building? Thanks so much!

Able_Show_8560

bears on parade - meanwhile Qs are up over 40% off april lows when i went long via $QQQ and $SPY leaps. This dip is cute

MiscutKing

If I wasn’t forced to sell my puts I would’ve made 7k on QQQ 592 puts.. I love and hate this market.

sck178

It's pretty wild that at the end of October QQQ was at 635...

Complex-Emergency-60

Huh? S&P 500 and QQQ disagree with you

justheretocomment333

PLTR is cooked. Even on the QQQ pop it still lost today.

MutaliskGluon

It was more than a roller coaster haha. I was like pure SGOV + the EOSE position and while it went down 85% the market went up like 30% or so. It was devastating and made me question my entire strategy, research, and confidence in beating the market. Like, my account went from beating SPY/QQQ by over 2x to underperforming them. Really glad I stuck through it though. (outdated chart, my account is at ATH balance as of today) https://imgur.com/a/nMN6ek8

Tricky_Statistician

Market rebounds 1.5% and NVDA is down .35%. Nvda beats earnings, claims insatiable demand; jumps 5% before dumping. Rumor that they’ll allow sales to China, market pumps but nvda lags. Oracle down 5%, down 33% from the high. Yeah, everything is totally fine guys, just a little gully for NVDA. Looks like I’m going to lose my QQQ banbet for today but I’m sitting at 170% short positioning in my 401k via sqqq and nvd.. will see what next week brings.

DataStructuresKid

dang it, i was staring at those 593 QQQ puts at .40 cents for a long time. And i did not take the chance

ButtStuffingt0n

So what was the catalyst for the Nasdaq drag again in your view? Because right after NVDA reported on Wednesday, every AI stock was up 3%+ in overnights. Index futures instantly popped from slight negative to ~1%. We were trending for a very positive Thursday for QQQ until... ?

PNWPlayZ

QQQ 650C's 1/2 EXP are on sale Also selling Covered Calls on HOOD/RDDT EXP 12/12 (3 weeks with TG holiday, should be eating some theta)

CDulst

I'm currently 15% in QQQ, 30% in ETH and 55% in cash. This is the most retarded my port has ever been, I'm proud of it.

drew-gen-x

Against better judgement, I am going to hold my $SQQQ and $NVD shorts thru the weekend. I rarely, ever, short anything; but the disbelief among reddit & media that we will never again have a market correction is idiotic and usually a sign of market tops. This might not be the AI bubble popping that I think it is, but we will see $NVDA retest $166 and the $QQQ retest $565 within years end. That's my planned exit range.

RegularStation6670

Ah yes, QQQ strikes again.

Galaxy_AI

The bear market has begun now...QQQ to $500 for sure.

Galaxy_AI

The bear market has begun now...QQQ to $500 for sure. Loading more puts now...Free money

Galaxy_AI

Bear has begun now...QQQ to $500 for sure.

Crazy_Donkies

QQQ ends .2% up.  SPY .8% up.

Apartment_Remote

Right now the best pump and dump is QQQ and SPY. So many rug pulls. Don't trust the green. Lol

Evoeon

I am looking at a $3 green candle in the 15sec QQQ chart. What happened there? Happened at 13:48 in the EST.

PracticalMeeting5267

all in on QQQ 580 puts expiring 1 December

Samjabr

Just bought entirely too many QQQ 620 Calls expiring next Friday https://preview.redd.it/jh4r5bkcwn2g1.jpeg?width=941&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c0cd4efee193c879fb99b51d455bc4f5ef23610a

Kirko_Cousins

QQQ max pain was 599 **TYFYATTM**

dimethylhyperspace

Closed my QQQ calls for a loss this morning lol

Educational_Past7353

Arent you the guy who always talks technicals? Im surprised you didn't wait to see if QQQ closes below the 21 weekly ema and then enter. Seems like buyers are stepping in there and it's support 

sal1215

Why tf the mods taking down my post.. do i need a better one like this? Dude this is insane regard move. TAKE THAT MONEY OUT $16,000 profit = 4k to emergency fund (NO NEGOTIATION) 4k to Long-Term Investment Like QQQ or Acorns if you wanna be ultra conservative $8k LEFT. (USE WISELY) Now divide 2k into a new trading account 2k to spend on yourself 2k for bills 2k to keep in the account That way you don’t f it up tryna do it again Remember that most people make less than 4k in an entire 30 days.

TopBuyer777

Loading QQQ 600 odte calls no brainer last hour we going to 602 area

Resident-Tumbleweed9

QQQ gained a whole percent 1:48 pm to 1:51 pm 🤔

Alarmed-Albatross-32

Prediction: IVP closes around its daytime high and runs to $0.30 in AH. Also, marketing rocking right now. QQQ is on a tear. Bull market might be in session.

DataStructuresKid

wow, i jsut made 150% in a heartbeat, QQQ 591 @ 2.00 is now at 5.50

WellAintThatShiny

DRIP stands for dividend reinvestment program. It’s where you automatically reinvest your divs back into the stock or fund. DCA means you just keep contributing the same amount each paycheck regardless of price. QLD is just a 2x leveraged QQQ. And QQQI is a covered call fund for QQQ. I prefer holding a split of those two to QQQ itself.

Legitimate-Ant6838

QQQ 595 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Just_Candle_315

Lol "rapid downturn"? Child this is a kiss on the neck compared to events I'VE lived through and anyway QQQ is up 15% ytd.... swing and a miss

Smart-Customer7503

bro wtf is it QQQ didn't hit 600 today

2Hosslovescash

QQQ will close exactly where it opened. Mark it.

MutaliskGluon

I loved that pump. Got into SQQQ when QQQ was up 1.05%. Kinda want to just sell and focus on work but this is too much fun

ashe141

My 0DTe QQQ made 60% in like 2 hours lol. Sold at the top thanks

alexmark002

Look how quickly QQQ dump, 5mins drop .5%

Admirable-Sun8230

both QLD and QQQ Imove similarly. DCA and DRIP... is tht the program where you lend out your stocks and you just keep holding the stocks?

BGM1988

But QQQ is up 103% …

NormalAddition8943

The article says Barron Trump’s Short on Nasdaq opened \~218,000 PUT contracts at the $570 strike, expiring December 31, 2025. This is false; there are only \~15,000 open PUT contracts at the $570 strike and Dec 31, 2025 expiration. Also, volume also doesn't show that he bought and sold out of these. Here's the actual option chain: \[December 31, 2025 QQQ PUTs $550 to $580\](https://postimg.cc/23qFCZtw)

PracticalAnywhere225

There was a new bottom today. At least on QQQ

howdudo

When the stocks crashed that one day recently, I asked an actual financial advisor what I should do. He told me put as big of a stake into QQQ as I could. That guy deserves the 1% I pay him.

Prestigious_Suit_202

QQQ oversold + dovish fed comments + fed rate cut odds to 50% = buy calls dipshit

PutSpreadDaddi69

The 500M market cap rule really sucks imo. Like, there are exceptional values down there given the horrendous IWM performance vs QQQ. But I guess I get it, ppl get literally robbed in the penny stocks

upwy

I have never seen QQQ lag spy like this. of course this is the first time I did qqq instead of spy.

Fuujimont

Help me understand why the stock market was so weak on 11/20 and suddenly positive on 11/21. What changed during those 24 hours? 11/20 came right after Nvidia’s strong earnings report, yet Nvidia, other semiconductor stocks, QQQ, and the broader market all fell. What drove that drop, and why did the tone reverse the next day? Am I missing any news from this 24 - hour period ? Feels like waking up in two different worlds with alternative realities, which have nothing in common ?

teamyg

my QQQ short position stopped out at 591.8, damn.

illinformed-will

Real QQQ 590 break out and it's on for a green close maybe... But for those dreaming of 600, put the pipe down 💀

Happy-Champion1661

why is SPY going to the moon but QQQ lagging so much? mkt not correcting anymore except tech?

mustardinthecustard

There's an old saying in SPY - I know it's in QQQ, probably in SPY - that says, rug me once, shame on - shame on you. Rug me - you can't get rugged again.

maomaocat

!banbet QQQ 591 1d

teamyg

Continue to hold my QQQ short positions, next target 565.

illinformed-will

We break 581 QQQ is joever for today guys 🍟

SimilarTap1419

All tech , QQQ , TSLA , PLTR , NVDA Those 3 control the entire a.i revolution economy. Never look at 3 weeks and think thats a long term view. 3yrs is more like it and NVDA will be 6T , PLTR will be 3T and TSLA will be 4T.

Commercial_Seat_3704

Approaching a -9% move on QQQ in 3 weeks

razor164

How much more down before I dump money into TQQQ? Im thinking when QQQ is 15-20% off ATH

nyjets239

Just sold all of my QQQ and full ported into GOOGL. Seems it's the only stock that can survive this market.

seifer__420

QQQ puts right here