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The Nasdaq 100's valuation premium over the S&P 500 is near a 9-year low. Is tech actually expensive anymore?
QQQ 10 dollar green rocket up my anus at open
Buying QQQ is easy. Holding through the drops is a whole different thing
Racking up 100% trading options day after day adds up to big money
I Trade for a Living - Here’s My Setup for Semis, SPY and QQQ
Buying QQQ is easy. Holding through the drops is a whole different thing
Deconstructing 0DTE Option Losses: Traders Freeze During Intraday Volatility Surges
$200 > $5,000 challenge day 1
SPY closed the week in the deepest positive gamma I've seen in a while (IV ~9%)
When I put $5 on a stock I win , put $50 in I lose almost every time.
Buying the APPLE dip might not be a pro move.
Prepare yourself for the Regime Shift
Prepare yourself for the Regime Shift
QQQ $660 calls expiring today, ngl thought it was over at one point
July 24/27/28 is the first time in history that the S&P 500 was positive 3 days in a row while QQQ was negative 3 days in a row.
Bought 60k worth of QQQ LEAPS and 20k worth of DRAM LEAPS
HYG Just Broke Down From a 3-Month Triangle Consolidation. Is the Equity Market Next?
Stared into the abyss today
SOX just hit bear market territory. This earnings week is make or break for semis
I model dealer gamma daily. Right now all three big index ETFs are negative-gamma below their flip,
1DTE $21K SPY FD Yolo - 735P 7/20/26 220x @ .96 Each
Regarding the Recent Stock Market Movement
Regarding on the Recent Stock Market Movement
June CPI missed big but I'm not buying the full rally yet
Always a Pleasure $HOOD. Thanks again QQQ
Always a Pleasure $HOOD, Thanks again QQQ.
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
Mentions
One thing that would change how I read that chart. A lot of the S&P side of the comparison is the same stocks. Something like 86 of the Nasdaq 100's names are also in the S&P 500, and roughly 87% of what QQQ holds is already inside SPY. The Mag 7 on its own is about 34% of the S&P now. So the spread can compress without any stock re-rating at all. If those names keep taking weight in the S&P, its multiple drifts toward the Nasdaq's as arithmetic. That is a third option alongside your two, and it needs neither tech getting cheaper nor everything else getting dearer. Before concluding anything I would run the same comparison against the equal weight S&P instead of the cap weighted one, or against the S&P with the top 10 taken out. If the premium is still near a nine year low there, something real happened to relative valuations. If it is not, the chart is mostly telling you how concentrated the S&P got.
I don't think QQQ vs SPY is really a valuation question anymore, it's more of a concentration one. between how top-heavy SPY already is and how much overlap there is with the Nasdaq 100 names, picking one over the other isn't really diversifying away from tech, it's just choosing how much extra you're layering on top.
well gg there goes USO calls and QQQ puts. Full port into HTZ
You’re trying to tell me that the 5% pump on SPY and QQQ that directly started the day after fed didn’t raise rates was in no way pricing in probability of rate hikes going down and was STILL mispriced by nearly 1%?
Chat, why is QQQ and SPY pumping? Any good news?
QQQ gonna go up just enough pre market and right at the open so even if it does fall I’ll basically end up B/E and if hold it’ll just chop all day or keep climbing but if I sell at open cause I don’t wanna play anymore it’ll sell
ffs did taco say something? gonna get nuked on my USO calls and QQQ puts :(
A narrower premium does not automatically mean tech is cheap, it can also mean the rest of the market got expensive while the index overlap got bigger. QQQ vs the S&P is less clean than it used to be because so much of the same mega caps sit in both. I’d look at absolute valuation and concentration risk, not just the spread.
Easy mistake. You typed an S instead of a T in front of the QQQ.
Knew QQQ would manage to just climb up all night since I got trapped in puts couldn’t sell at the close yesterday much wow so much fun
The relative premium has clearly compressed a lot. That part is true. The open question is whether tech actually got cheaper or the rest of the market just caught up in valuation. A smaller gap doesn’t automatically mean QQQ is a bargain in absolute terms. I still lean toward having exposure to both. SPY for the broader market and some QQQ (or similar) for the growth/quality side, rather than treating it as an either/or decision. The old “tech is ridiculously expensive vs everything else” argument is definitely harder to make now.
QQQ vs SPY is basically growth vs diversification. Depends what problem you're trying to solve
I’ve been doing this long enough to know that if I longed after a 5% run on ES and a 10% run on QQQ in < a week when it cools off and I lose it would be “well duhhhh what did you expect it needs to cool off” and if I short on the idea of taking a breather and things clearly being short term overheated it’s “hahahaha gay bear cope harder”
Tinfoil hat time but since $APP is a high-beta QQQ proxy play, it got punished accordingly. What I mean is, Sandisk, WDC, APP all had the exact same candle after the print. Purely algo driven. QQQ was also running an 88 hourly RSI from July's "bottom", we went straight up. This is simply just institutions derisking and if/once QQQ resumes its uptrend so will APP. It was never about the 1% miss
Any SPY or QQQ plays today?
Can QQQ just dump, tired of holding cash and need a dip to buy
Cloudflare is not listed on the Nasdaq so no QQQ listing. Unless they decide to switch their listing from NYSE to Nasdaq. They would have been in long ago. Once they are GAAP positive in 1-2 years, they'll join S&P 500 though.
QQQ will shed poorly run companies Intuit, Super Micro And add the ones doing well Cloudflare
I'll save you guys the time: VOO YTD +13%, 1-year +23% OP's portfolio, which he's promoting for money, is YTD +12%, 1-year 17% Since he seems to be also concentrated in tech, the appropriate benchmark is actually QQQ, which is YTD +17%, 1-year +26%. I am up YTD +22%, 1-year +44% on a non-concentrated portfolio. Maybe I should make my own fund.
Thanks for the perspective. This is the only biotech stock I own, I bought the majority of my shares back when it was $3 a share. It's a company I've followed for years going back to when it was NantKwest...I otherwise don't invest in this sector. IBRX is a long term speculative bet for me. Curious if by "write options against them" you're referring to writing covered calls? If yes, I've been interested in that but not sure if it's a strategy that still works (even if you're conservative with how you do it). Additionally, when VOO, QQQ, VTSAX etc. are returning 15%-25% (give or take?) over not just a short, but intermediate to long term horizon...I also have a hard time arguing against investing in those, although I worry about whether or not those index funds, given that they track market cap weighted indices like the S&P, are truly as diversified as people think they are.
What's with the price action on NQ/ES QQQ/SPY
Like 70% of their market cap at ATH was two single stocks and it ran up 4x in a year This is not remotely surprising. If anything it's more surprising that QQQ hasn't suffered a similar fate
QQQ staying on its bullshit into AH is crazy
SpaceX is not Tesla. I believe in Starlink (amazing product) and Falcon rockets, but **70% of SpaceX's value proposition is xAI.** xAI currently has **1%** of the enterprise AI market and all of the founding employees aside from Musk have left. They are renting out excess compute to Anthropic, but the money in AI is in frontier models and semiconductors. The rest of the story is space-based data centers and moon mining. Total bullshit. [Patrick Boyle: SpaceX IPO Scandal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rS3fTbC7TE) Position: Long SpaceX via Invesco QQQ (thanks Nasdaq) https://preview.redd.it/mrc2guf1vuhh1.jpeg?width=1669&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b18285cfef3e80df7957447de5adb18b4bea78c9
NASDAQ made a few new rules for SpaceX. It's great, anyone holding an ETF tracking the NASDAQ 100 Index in any way is forced to buy. I would love an ex-Elon QQQ ETF. Anything he has ever touched can't be included from PayPal, Tesla, SPCX. I don't care if it underperforms over the short term because over the long term he's now the captain and no one can tell him anything.
I'm up like 10k in the last week, I sold like 150k worth of CSPs today on lagging stocks and got some calls on SPY/QQQ What has my full attention? A dying car company that was only saved because COVID caused used cars to triple in book value and they were able to refinance their obligations that I've tied up $500 in calls in
SPY and QQQ are old unc plays. Hertz and the like are for Chads
Nice, I have a bear credit spread on QQQ expiring end of the month. Cheers to us both!
QQQ just does that randomly? I thought they did a quarterly rebalancing.
Depends what the index fund is. QQQ and VTI are not the same.
I hope the same people that sold me my chopped QQQ calls/puts this week sold me the hertz calls as well. I want them to burn
Some how Robinhood shorted 1 QQQ from my account. But I was able to buy it back with $1 profit 😝
QQQ down only <1%, how can you all be down more than 10%?
You cannot trade options after hours or pre-market unless you are in a major index such as SPY or QQQ which do allow you to trade up until 4:15pm. If you have regular stock holdings you can trade pretty much 24/5, none on the weekend.
Shocking so NVDA closes the day exactly where the fake bullshit to keep it all propped up started and QQQ ends exactly where the fake bullshit started and I end the day breakeven so well played market you win everytime
QQQ saved once again by magic green candle LMAO
I am trying to be more disciplined and not hold any stock that is trading below its 150 day simple average. Looking at QQQ recently re-enforces that rule. Rather than the whole NASDAQ I am investing in sectors when the institutional money starts to move into that sector. It is more work than buy and hold, but I only manage my stocks one day a week (when the market is closed, so I am not as emotional).
lost so much in QQQ SPY options need that HTZ savior
0d QQQ puts at open. Almost instantly down 50%, sold for loss. Revenge traded and account is now at $400
Your basis is price, not returns. That’s ok because that’s where all beginners start. When you realize it’s about reducing your risk WHILE getting returns, you start to look at metrics that matter more. Look at the high and low for QQQ vs VOO. That’s called variance and when you standardize it you are looking at risk adjusted returns. As an example, would you rather have a 90% chance of 5% gain or a 1% chance of a 200% gain? Seasoned investor picks the first because not only is it better returns you also compound the higher return. Math part for above: The first option has an expected return of 4.5% (0.9 x .05) Second option has an expected return of 2% (0.1 x 2) The examples are extreme to illustrate the point. A more realistic understanding is compare the standard deviations for VOO and QQQ. The greater that number, the more risk you take. And remember it’s percentage of the dollar number. A lot of people assume if you are up 50% in one year and down 50% the next you are break even. But use a simple example to convince yourself it isn’t: YR 1: start with $1,000, 50% return, end with $1,500 YR 2: start with $1,500, negative 50% return, end with $750 So you could be up massively with QQQ versus VOO but the reason those returns are higher is because the risk works the other way. TL;DR better to pick the turtle than the hare.
yeah, maybe, I don't know, 0dte full port QQQ calls
That’s right pump NVDA .18 in seconds to save QQQ you greedy bastards
If you throw up SPY, QQQ, NVDA, MU on a 4 chart grid, they are all identical today
Trippy top forming on QQQ
It's bad when HTZ is more stable then QQQ
imagine baiting into that fake QQQ pump
SPY and QQQ trying to end the day at 0.00%
QQQ hasn't moved for like 1.5 hours wtf
still f'd in my 710 QQQ 0DTEs but not bad
look like bulls tried to push QQQ...but man was that weak
Tape painting slop fake ass industry what was the reason for the 1% millisecond flash crash and recovery on QQQ?
Made 3$ on QQQ and lost 3$ on Hertz ??? XD what in the peanuts
Fuck all this shit man so we’re just gonna ignore that we dropped a whole dollar on QQQ in milliseconds and then recovered the whole thing in two seconds and we’ll use that to paint the tape as strength?
**BanBet Lost** — /u/Dizzy_Standard_1937 (0W - 1L, 0%) | Ticker | Entry → Target | Move | Time | Result | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **QQQ** ▲ | $720.99 → $829.14 | +15.0% | 1d | Lost |
I feel like we are about to flip into war mode and QQQ will go back below 700$.
So NVDA falling from 223 to 218 had zero effect on QQQ but it moving from 218.6-219.5 carries the entire index higher, got it.
I don't buy this fear. QQQ 730 by Monday night at latest
1. Buy after hours SPX calls tonight 2. Sell the calls 1 minute after opening bell tomorrow 3.load profits into 0DTE (QQQ, SPY, SPX) puts 4. Sell puts when they gain 30% within the first hour of trading 5. Watch as everyone else thetas to death chasing the rest of the day and plan for Monday.
And puts. This easily should be bleeding and be back closer to 712 on QQQ
what is this bs on QQQ where 4 candles are the same fucking size up and down
What. Is. Keeping. QQQ. Propped up. NVDA slides mu slides index stays afloat, when they rip even slightly it moons
Jammed it all in QQQ options expiring tomorrow 👍
It's almost like QQQ totally shot its load a couple times yesterday and now it needs a refractory period of about a week.
None of you stop and think hmm how did NVDA know 30 minutes ago that QQQ and SPY weren’t gonna slide any lower
Guernica has more structure than QQQ today 🧐
How low would QQQ be if it weren't for NSDQ lol
the green candles just arent that strong today for QQQ
Zero chance QQQ $720p’s pay like that today. They’ll wipe ‘em out by EOD.
That’s so nice of you market to give QQQ an 8th chance at the same level over the course of 2 hours, it really needs every chance it can get it hasn’t pumped in awhile
QQQ, you see how SPY is doing that? Do that
So cause the one I was scared to short was SPY that’s the one actually falling and QQQ staying propped up got it
QQQ and SPY did the switch
QQQ has been rejected 5 fucking times what the fuck are we doing just let it slide for fucks sake
Oh starts to look bearish? Let’s just jump the price of QQQ by .30 cents in a millisecond and see if it screws over enough people to run even though nothing even moved to support it
QQQ 750 close do it big dawg
So cause I didn’t get MU calls that’s just gonna go straight line up no dips and cause I got QQQ puts we aren’t gonna have NVDA negative price action have any impact on the market. This is all a fucking scam why do I bother
You're asking to time the market to avoid the drawdowns. Talk about emotionally nerve-racking! I have held QQQ for almost 8yrs, never sold any, only added to. I ignore the pullbacks.
QQQ 722 close please 🙏
ffs how many times QQQ need to be rejected here
Still up 8.5% on the QQQ 5-day chart. disgusting
QQQ pumped $8 in 40 min just to fuck w everyone 🤣
QQQ literally just the same chart as SPCX now lol
Aiming for a retest of yesterday's high on QQQ then repositioning
QQQ DUMP PLZ (so hopefully we will pump)
Big sad after trying to get QQQ 715C a little after open but my orders didn’t fill in time
Sold My QQQ $727 puts this morning before it shot back up.😆. Now loaded with the puts again 😂
wtf was that QQQ SPY dip?
RIP man, bought 50 x QQQ 709 calls at the opening dump for $3 a pop, sold them for $3.5 45 seconds later for a tidy $2500 profit, now they are worth $10 each and I'm sitting here with my dick in hand, missed out on $32.5k in under an hour 😭
Man i just paper handed these QQQ calls
Damn. Should have bought QQQ calls right at open. 5 mins in went straight up.
the fact QQQ can climb 200 but spy barely moves