SPY

EmphasisExcellent210

I've made 2600+ SPY 0DTE trades over the last 8 months with minimal draw down and consistent returns, could totally be luck, but this is not guaranteed to blow up.

EmphasisExcellent210

you should see my trading history then, 2600+ SPY trades over the last 8 months.

mmjI

been trading SPY and ASTS FDs, can I get an inv

mehmeh42

On Jan 29th SPY was at 694 and he bought 6 days out at a 1% swing. This same option as of Friday would be a 683 2/13 which is $3.11 bid or $300. He has been watching the trend on the 3 month which is hilariously predictable.

mehmeh42

On Jan 29th SPY was at 694 and he bought 6 days out at a 1% swing. This same option as of Friday would be a 683 2/13 which is $3.11 bid or $300. He has been watching the trend on the 3 month which is hilariously predictable.

TJMBeav

Goodluck sir. I have a substantially larger position in puts on SPY and QQQ. I will buy you beer if you wish.

MagnesiumKitten

wald: just holding AAPL since April 2024 has yeilded a \~30% annualized total return compared to \~17% for SPY. Even without trying to time the market it has outperformed. That is a more than acceptable return. Yeah that's 26 months, and you could have done similar in 8 months .......... And you could have just as easily bought in April 2024 at $170 sold in July 2024 for $230 within 3 months with 25% profit in 90 days, where you're taking over two years ........... When you have a decent valuation and see a good opportunity for it being significantly undervalued and notice the overall health of the stock from that it's future performance, you can pretty easily wait since you've noticed the momentum as well, which could help the timeframe you have to wait in that sector

callsonreddit

I just realized SPY +1.9% and RDDT -7% on good earnings What this mean?

orangeyougladiator

BTC tracks the Qs, not SPY.

callsonreddit

No BTC mimics SPY

ServoFFXI

This market isn’t being held up by Robinhood dip buyers praying at the 100DMA. It’s being held up by $600B+ in AI capex, earnings revisions that can’t keep up, and funds that have to own this stuff or underperform. Sideways chop ≠ distribution. This is absorption. Big money doesn’t FOMO tops, they buy while everyone’s bored and arguing over lines on a chart. If this was a real breakdown, price wouldn’t keep snapping back every time sellers try to push it. “Support becomes resistance” only works when there’s a crowd trapped and panicking. Who’s trapped here? Funds with 5-year mandates and cash printers? Lol. They don’t care about your breakeven line. Nasdaq vs SPY divergence? Cool story. In every growth bull ever, SPY plays boomer anchor while tech reloads. SPY holding its 100DMA is not a short signal, it’s the market saying “relax.” Buffett Ratio screaming overvalued? Yeah, it screamed that for years last cycle too. GDP math doesn’t price AI buildouts, and margins aren’t mean-reverting when demand is structural. Valuation only matters after earnings stop exploding. Shorting QQQ at the 100DMA is cute, but it’s also how you get vaporized when Jensen coughs on a mic or some hyperscaler bumps capex guidance by 5%. One gap up and those puts go to zero while you refresh Yahoo Finance in disbelief. TL;DR: This is a capex + earnings market, not a vibes + liquidity market. Until earnings crack or the money actually stops, drawing lines and yelling “correction” is just cosplay trading.

Walden_Walkabout

If you have the prescience to be able to pick the tops and bottoms of the market you absolutely could make lots of money off volatility, but my personal opinion is that is a fool's errand. Volatility happens due to uncertainty in the market and the inherent unpredictability of the many factors businesses face. It is very easy to look backwards and say when to buy and sell, much less easy to do it in a forward looking manner. In the meantime, just holding AAPL since April 2024 has yeilded a ~30% annualized total return compared to ~17% for SPY. Even without trying to time the market it has outperformed.

-TrueFacts-

Next leg down lol - bro the man in the White House is bullish as a motherfucker and will do almost anything to be remembered as an economics genius, even to the point of drastically debasing the dollar. There's always fluctuations, drawdowns and sectoral rotation, but anyone who gets caught up in your mumbo jumbo will likely underperform the SPY.

Sushi_in_my_booty

SPY 700 is like the tren/dbol sterioded out market, it’s cool, my retirement looks hawt but you know that’s peak, after 2 years of twisted teas and a hormone dump we are right back to SPY 420 and where $20 isn’t seen as an insult anymore

itsnotshade

I think a simpler way of putting it is that there’s a rotation out of tech into other sectors that either got hit hard by tariff fears or are positioned to do well whether or not tech booms. The fact that qqq couldn’t hit its previous ath before collapsing should be a giveaway. It would take all the software companies coming back and/or the mag 7 that are spending big for it to just come back to where it was a week ago. I think it’s safer to go long IWM and SPY but yes be cautious about QQQ popping off again.

mavica1

Start out VOO for long term very low risk stuff, then venture to QQQ/SPY for a bit more volatility. Still low risk. Thats as far as I go, so thats all the advice I could give lol. Also, I may elect not to buy in right this moment.

pink_ego_box

Bag7 will bring down the rest of SPY with them for sure

Sushi_in_my_booty

So how low are we going? It’s all happening soon. We see the writing on the Wall. Is SPY 420.69 the bottom?

stonksonlygoupyolo

trade 0dte SPY/QQQ flip a coin go either up or down.

filthywaffles

The bid-ask spread sucks, the expiration selection sucks, but I still trade it. It allows me to respond to changes in volatility, and scale in and out over time. I stick close to the money when selling puts because in SPYM 1) its smallness allows me to take a closer delta, whereas I get really nervous with SPY and tend to do deltas in the teens or 20s 2) I intend to get assigned, so being near the money is fine 3) assignment means less churn against that bad bid-ask. I don’t want to trade in and out of it, roll and manage, and get shredded by the bid-ask. The bid-ask of the ITM calls isn’t great but they aren’t awful. I’d say it’s worth it in the sense that the bid-ask is kind of the extra insurance you pay for staying small and manageable, and being able to scale in more heavily when the price drops. And if you can scale, your timing doesn’t have to be as perfect as it is with a large SPY trade.

VOO_bull_forever

SPY

AceTracer

Agreed, some of us think SPY isn't nearly broad enough.

frogboyjr

SPY 700 literally guaranteed this week

PlayingIn_LA

I'm a noob but can you even get ATM options on SPY for under a thousand? What do 0DTEs cost on high IV days?

reggionh

you’re not wrong, but it’s priced in. this is not an insight unique to you. if you feel so convinced though you can always short SPY/VOO, easy money

pmotiveforce

Puts on SPY loaded up for wed, and mstz calls in place too. Let's fuck this shit up.

crazybitcoinlunatic

If you are only trading 0dte such as the SPY or SPX. Do you really need to know whether the dealers are short or long gamma? Most people who buy 0dte are speculators and I don’t think anyone actually sells covered calls on 0dte, why would you. So isn’t it safe to assume, dealers are usually short calls and short puts for 0dte?

Etheikin

!banbet SPY 700 7d

Etheikin

!banbet SPY 700 1w

Dal-Thrax

SGOV. In the long term SPY.

Varrooom

Since you got laid off, I would transfer the 401k into a Fidelity Rollover IRA. That way you have more investment choices than the Vanguard TDA 2065. If you put it in an SP500 index fund like IVV, IVW, SPY, VOO, or VOOG then your $410k would grow to $4,444,229 in 25 years assuming an 10% average annual rate of return. If you and your wife’s $1 million was just invested in the SP500 then you would have $10,834,706 in 25 years assuming a conservative 10% average annual rate of return. If you want to get to $20 million then you need to add some individual stocks with good fundamentals to your portfolio. Once you reach to $20 million when you’re 65 then you can diversify into high quality dividend stocks paying average of 5% dividends a year. Thats about $1,000,000 a year in dividends. Pretty good retirement income I would say.

Crazy_Donkies

Sure thing. Look at a chart of SPY for the past 5 years. This week's dip happens every few months.

DapperSoftWarez

Nice work, I had a very similar day today. It was only my second day trading options and I came out +12% for this new account with SPY also. This is super addicting easy money. None of my trades felt risky and I only had two that I bailed on for a a super tiny loss.

Internal_Field5970

In 2024 SPY went from 465 to 597 and the dollar grew. What change in 2025???  🤔 

TradeVue

I mostly agree with you. the difference is the objective, not mechanics. Covered calls don’t reduce downside risk they just reshape outcomes. On MSTR the real risk is the stock, premium is just a buffer. And assignment isn’t a failure it’s an expected outcome that should be planned for But comparing SPY 1 DTE calls to longer dated MSTR calls isn’t apples to apples. Short dated calls are gamma risk, 30–45 DTE calls are mostly theta and vega, especially in high IV. the mistake is selling calls on the entire position. Partial coverage lets some shares run while monetizing volatility on the rest. Income targets depend on IV, when volatility drops, income drops, and that’s fine. Covered calls are bad when used to force yield. They work when IV is elevated, size is controlled and assignment is treated as normal not regret.

vermilli21

I come from the future just to tell everyone that the mods are ghey. Also SPY 666

RamCockUpMyAss

Congrats on 50k dow - next up 60k, 750+ SPY. 2026 going to be absurdly profitable

Accomplished-Dig1100

I actually do believe in MSTR long term I think there is a growing use for bitcoin hope* for bitcoin to take off Too much hopes in the air dude. I am not an expert but I started on small account lost and made money and lost and made money and lost and made. So SPY, QQQ, IAUM, SCHD, SGOV (40%) GOOG, MSFT, APPL, TSMC, META (40%) 10% Yolo on options and 10% high risk high reward stocks. Sell IAUM, SGOV when market tanks and buy other stocks equally. When made money on options during ATH keeps buying SGOV IAUM SCHD. And now my account dosen’t tank abnormally. Hope you do same

AMDeez_nutz

!banbet SPY 695 1d

AMDeez_nutz

!banbet SPY !banbet SPY 700 2d

AMDeez_nutz

!banbet SPY 700 3d

AMDeez_nutz

!banbet SPY 700 5d

Val44x

BERS gunna need 🥭 to have the most coked out crazy posting spree of all time this weekend to have any chance. It needs to get ugly or else SPY is opening at 700 on Monday

CMDR_Shepard96

Biggest SPY pump in like 8 months & my options didn't react at all 😆😆 (I understand why) https://preview.redd.it/8my4m3z7pzhg1.jpeg?width=1439&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e4d69577c8ccf3c7c7ddbe399e6098d51cf2ff9a

shadowzardpi

True. Only SPY and QQQ

keagator

I don’t think I’m ready to move on from my beloved SPY

forrealjeff

SPY 1000 by Monday. 💯💯💯

Ok_Cry7572

What you think will happen to SPY based on this chart https://preview.redd.it/1x63n6difzhg1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5dbe47eac19662c509ff1447832c61083fdc4a8d

One_Yogurtcloset3455

So your options are: either sell puts on SPY or all in on GME calls and fuck tour dentist

dankmemeking21

Dude is refusing to answer how he lost the 400k. Then he talks about having 78K in MSTR of all stocks lol. Needs to just SPY/VOO and chill.

Ok_Cry7572

Q4 Revenue Growth, YoY % Change... AMD $AMD: +34% Meta $META: +24% Google $GOOGL: +18% Netflix $NFLX: +18% Microsoft $MSFT: +17% Apple $AAPL: +16% Amazon $AMZN: +14% S&P 500 $SPY: +6% Tesla $TSLA: -3%

gratatatatatatat

Overnights irrelevant, drops are to fuck options and rises are to fuck options. Basically everything intraday has the same purpose lol If you actually wanna see how market is respond to economy, need to broaden scale to months - in this case we are basically choppy/flat for 6 months likely due to a combination of fear from AI but the strong earnings so far have prevented a complete rotation, though a lot of tech is struggling and SPY is propped up by other sectors.

ExplanationNormal339

People sleeping on risk management talking 'conservative plays' while holding ATM calls in this chop. The real move is tracking support/resistance levels like the $420-$425 range on SPY—I posted the technical breakdown here: [$SPY](https://aimytrade.io/ticker/SPY?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=comment&utm_campaign=smallstreetbets&utm_term=SPY&utm_content=variant_1770429404969_6rcqyq). Stop guessing.

I_am_Nerman

You have SPY

NoMePlz

Put on SPY real quick

El_Jeffe24

The problem with options is you're reading one high risk play with another high risk play. If you start selling CC on your MSTR shares, you risk turning your unrealized losses into realized losses when you sell at a much lower strike price than your initial share price. And if you have the conviction that it will go back up, you risk losing the shares you think will go back up. If you really want to increase your portfolio value using options, I would leave your MSTR alone. Forget about it, let it do its thing, set it and forget it. Sell puts on "traditional" stocks (not high risk stocks, not stocks that you think might 10x, not stocks you think are the next Nvidia or Palantir). We're talking Mag-7, consumers like coke, Ford, Costco, etc. Or VOO or SPY if you want to do an ETF. Then if you are assigned you can sell covered calls on those shares. Now you're wheeling and relatively safe (or at least significantly safer than working with MSTR).

Astronaut-Proof

This sounds like you’re trying to cure your heroin addiction by smoking it, rather than injecting it. I’m sort of in your position except take out a zero and my plan is to slowly accumulate LEAPS in SPY during red days. When backtested, most of the ITM LEAPS tend to do well (100%~ a year). Take for example the 01/15/27 600C. If bought on 09/30 at $61.00, you’d be up around 101% by now. This is not a cherry picked example as the price of SPY hovered around $560 during that time and it was not the top nor the bottom per se. Realistically, this is the most risk I’m willing to take that can still net a gain and not blow up my account. I sleep way better now and if I have red days, I don’t worry because I have time. Since you make a decent amount of money, I’d probably one LEAP on red days, and if we enter a correction I’d buy two or three of those.

aloysc

Asians who panic sold last week will return on Monday to FOMO back in for the grand SPY 700

Dazzling_Marzipan474

It highly depends on how much work you wanna put into it and also how much time you have to do the work. Trading options if done very well is a lot of work because you can't just keep doing the same companies, some get overvalued or change. Selling options CAN be safer if done correctly but it all depends on which stocks and for what premium. It's all give and take, if you sell high IV options without any hedge then you will be bag holding at best for a long time. If you have huge capital the safest is prolly just selling SPY options. Or any great company that is under valued and has decent premium. No point trading if you can't beat the benchmark unless it's for retirement income. It's all give and take. I sell on higher IV stocks that I truly like and don't mind holding for a year or two if I have to. I'm also willing to double down when things go south.

dbd209

I feel like I left a lot on the plate today. I was very confident in the fact that the market would bounce today, and I ended up putting some of my cash to work last night, but only around 15% of it. If I had deployed close to 50% of my cash, I could have easily had a 5 figure day. Disappointing. I feel like these type of dips are the ones where you have to capitalize. You had all of finance twitter spazzing on 3 bad days, people making fun of Saylor and BTC going to zero, etc. MSTR was an easy buy at sub 110 levels and I regret not buying given all the obvious signs that we were gonna bounce today. Next week will be interesting. I feel like today will be a big sigh of relief, and we probably continue this range within SPY and QQQ for a while. If Monday is not red, then today's jump up is probably here to stay for a while, or until Orange Man does something stupid again.

SPY-Talk

The number one best time to invest was 20 years ago the second best time is right now. You don’t need a lot to start. It is definitely something that will not make you rich quick! I would use investopedia.com to become a little more knowledgeable and probably do something like dollar cost average into an S&P 500 ETF something like SPY, VOO or QQQ. I encourage you to keep your money and do some studying for the moment. I would not advise following somebody on YouTube or anything like that cause ultimately you’re in charge of your own due diligence and research and your profits and losses

moosewithamuffin

SPY 700 next week

WetRacoon

Did you miss the part where the market crashed to where it SPY was a less than a third of today’s valuation? Or are we just excluding data when it helps?

Gamer6322

ur right, time to buy a bunch of SPY puts and calls with my whole portfolio. im a genius

Opening-Run5871

Make sure you’re nailing all your advantaged accounts first (401k/HSA/Roth IRA) to max out all your benefits first but SPY/VOO is a great place to start Make sure you set aside a 3-6 month emergency fund to cover yourself in a high yield savings account as your solid base

TravisHunt0

The rotation into energy the past few weeks has been pretty apparent, but overall I think its because a lot of charts look like shit on a 3 month or further frame, but the market itself ($SPY $QQQ $DIA) is still somehow being propped up, mainly by all the round-tripping giants in the tech sector. It feels like the beginning of The GFC when lots of small/mid cap was already bleeding out, while the market was staying afloat somehow. Most mention the year 2008 when referring to the crisis, but the real damage to the S&P didn't come until the very end of that year, and moreover through the beginning of 2009. But before this, the cracks could be seen late 07 and thru 08. Thats what right now feels like

ultrachem

I won my banbet today, said that SPY would hit 690. Ber in shambles

pekas13

!banbet SPY 666 3 days

Ok_Ambassador_4311

SPY 700 next week

TJMBeav

Bad week for a bear to have been banned. Got alot of rotation and profiting done and I'm again positioned with some time on my puts and profits banked and dry. Only in $SPY 660 and now $SPY 690 April puts as well as a bunch of April $QQQ 450 puts. FWIW, absolutely raped cash gang with my April $SLV 66 put play. So much fun, but 400plus% gain was enough. I also round tripped some $IBIT 38 calls. I did cheat during my ban to post at least the buys?

leisdrew

If you can't cut it in these back to back 20%+ SPY years you need to report to your nearest Wendy's dumpster asap

Accomplished-Club690

Yeah, margin was nice to have though. Now I gotta deal with cash settlement + less money to buy QQQ/SPY.

Abject-Shopping-4492

After reading this I am confused and I trade options every day. You say you paid 70 for a June 27th expiration 390 call option on MSFT. Is that correct? And you say the delta is .6244. That does not sound right to me. As a general rule, options should be a small percentage of your portfolio but not 7 percent. It is always easier to trade the stock because you do not have to deal with the Greeks like theta or time decay or gamma and of course the volatility in this market is crazy. I do not know what will happen but it seems at the moment that money is flowing into the other SPY tickers other than Mag 7. That being said MSFT might do well but keep in mind, I bought this at 25O and sold half of my position on the move up, when you have that big of a move it can still pull back and be very strong. Money is flowing out of the big names into other areas now like copper and AI energy. Good Luck.

ExplanationNormal339

Bought the $675 breakdown yesterday at $674.50 thinking we'd finally crack it. Nope. I'm the guy who catches falling knives, but I've been tracking where these support levels actually hold up across the broader pattern—$SPY has three key zones I mapped here: [$SPY](https://aimytrade.io/ticker/SPY?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=comment&utm_campaign=smallstreetbets&utm_term=SPY&utm_content=variant_1770417110939_p2lil)

kazkeb

SPY dropped from 690 to 678 on 220M volume. It went back up to 690 on only 80M volume. That probably means something, but I'm too stupid to figure it out.

Ezekyle22

Not SPY 700. Which sucks for my calls.

CriticalBlackberry90

My feeling is that we'll continue pushing green but slowly. Rally seems to be weakening. Hard dips and hard bounces but not enough energy to break though. My prediction is that SPY hits 720 by end of month after Nvidia earnings and then we settle there for a while. My EOY target is 750. 800 EOY 2027. And then sit between 750 and 800 in 2028.

Public-Promotion-744

SPY bounced on the 100MA on the daily. if it had to go down it had to do it today, no way we going back on monday, not after a 1,92% bounce

FarCheck5189

SPY almost at ATH and this guy is saying WAR with Iran is priced in??? lol what

Odd-Block-2998

It is not inflation that truly matters. Rich people don't care much about inflation. It is not about having a low interest rate too. It is about liquidity. If money supply is reduced, wall street has to cut back on speculative asset bets. Kevin Warsh, the upcoming Fed chair, has made it very clear that he will cut rates, but in return he will drain the money supply. The only the printer is stopped, he will turn on the money destroyer machine. SPY $600 PT QQQ $500 PT

HaveAKlondike

Friendly reminder: SPY up .66% YTD; EEM up 7.5%

Valkorion335786

What if SPY opens at 680 on Monday Are you, as a gambler, prepared for this?

okcanadian94

if youre trying to speed run a divorce, try 0dte spy puts if youre trying to get rich quick, dont if you want something to save and earn interest, take whatever it is you can realistically save and divvy it up into VTI/SPY/VOO maybe some TNXT

Jazzlike-Okra-5399

SPY bounces back next week after this disastrous week we’ve had

Significant-Zebra-17

If you fell asleep at the wheel on Wednesday & woke up today $SPY is back to where it was when you nodded off. 🤣😴😴😴

lSazedl

Bout a bunch of cheap af SPY 700 calls for Tuesday. I've wasted money on worse options

Professional-Area230

!banbet SPY 686 3d

bad_detectiv3

How can he force etf like VOO or SPY to buy his ‘shitcoins’ aka space x shares?

Bob_the_peasant

SPY would be at 710 if the tech stocks could quit the whiney bitch routine

undocumented_twerker

Don't fuck me SPY. I need you at 700 next week to save the calls I'm holding over the weekend

PessimisticallyTrade

What are the odds SPY drops below 688 at 4:15?

financiallythriving

The same ol dance and song. Back to SPY 690

Switch5555

Bought $200 in SPY puts. Rolling for WW3

bad_detectiv3

Does this mean the index ETF like SPY will be forced to buy space x shares and for the first five month, it should be business as usual And on the sixth month, best practice is to sell SPY holding like SPDR or FXAIX to avoid becoming generational bag holder?

Bizonistic

SPY is back to near ATH, port still 20% down fuck me

HDauthentic

I bought SPY yesterday and sold it today, nice

Fhyzikz

Hell yeah my SPY put printed AH on the dump for ants

Taiyoken

So SPY pumps 2% but my stocks are flat from open or down 1%? They also fell like 5% when spy dropped 2%. Excellent

SmurfStop

What is he going to say to tank SPY back to 675?

Pure-Marketing-4236

!banbet SPY -2% 1w