Reddit Posts
At what point does owning SPY + QQQ + a growth ETF stop being diversification and start being the same bet in different wrappers?
I trade for a living - why I’m still bullish into CPI and the levels I’m trading on SPY, QQQ, oil and DRAM
Built a free dealer-gamma (GEX) map for SPX/SPY/QQQ — tell me where the methodology is wrong.
DD - The case for SPY 130,000 by 2048
Option Loss No Internet +30k to -$20k
UPDATE #7 (The End. For now at least.): I’m Bout To Pull The Greatest Trading Comeback OF ALL TIME $19 to $1 million
From Olive Presses to Power Laws: A 2,600-Year History of the Call Option
gonna full port SPY 8/14 $800C with 40k monday at open AMA
For anyone wondering exactly how much QQQ and VOO/SPY actually overlap, here is the math.
Do you think HTZ will help me recover the $23k loss from SPY ODTE?
Do you think HTZ will help me recover the $23k loss from SPY ODTE?
UPDATE #7 (The End. For now at least.): I’m Bout To Pull The Greatest Trading Comeback OF ALL TIME $19 to $1 million
The Nasdaq 100's valuation premium over the S&P 500 is near a 9-year low. Is tech actually expensive anymore?
I Trade for a Living - Why I’m Buying Dips After the Forced Buying is Over and More DD on Gold and Liquidity
SPY predictive dashboard with ChatGPT contd. not financial advice just for fun
While I Profited a Couple Hundred….this is the worst loss I’ve ever experienced
YOLO: SPY 7900 by Friday. I’m all in on 7850 Calls,
I Trade for a Living - What Comes After the Rally & the “Hidden QE”
SPY at $774 in overnight trading
Experiment: 1 month, SPY ODTE closest to $X (up to 100), buy at specific time T_buy and sell at T_close constantly fixed over the time. Can alternate between put or a call. What are your suggestions for X, T_buy and T_close?
Question: How do passive index funds like VTI, VOO, SPY, ETC., work?
SPY at ATH ($773) with 40 minutes to go
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
Made $200 Off PUTS on SPY’s Most Bullish Day
SPY at unsustainable levels. Could go a hair higher. The maco situation does not support a forever run.
Deconstructing 0DTE Option Losses: Traders Freeze During Intraday Volatility Surges
Why the actual fuck is SPY pushing ATHs this week?
UPDATE #6: I’m Bout To Pull The Greatest Trading Comeback OF ALL TIME $19 to $1 million
UPDATE #6: I’m Bout To Pull The Greatest Trading Comeback OF ALL TIME $19 to $1 million
Why $TT is going to 10x your degenerate portfolio: The Great Heat Wave Shortage of 2026 DD
delta hedging and your returns - community research pt8
There’s no way these ppl at simpler trading make money
Gamma setup into next week — SPY’s pinned in deep positive gamma, $AMD $PLTR Earnings
SPY closed the week in the deepest positive gamma I've seen in a while (IV ~9%)
UPDATE #5: I’m Bout To Pull The Greatest Trading Comeback OF ALL TIME $19 to $1 million
UPDATE #5: I’m Bout To Pull The Greatest Trading Comeback OF ALL TIME $19 to $1 million
UPDATE #5: I’m Bout To Pull The Greatest Trading Comeback OF ALL TIME $19 to $1 million
UPDATE #5: I’m Bout To Pull The Greatest Trading Comeback OF ALL TIME $19 to $1 million
SPCX: from "new space age" to a measuring stick for the AI bubble
Just when your puts expire worthless the market tanks
SPY hitting us with the middle finger EOD
$326 -> $78 -> $16,619 in less than 96 trading hours (over 213x from low point)
1DTE option held overnight SPX went up .75% but I still LOST money
Solid week: Up over 3,000% on SPY/SPC 0DTE calls and puts, cashing out
Update: Now $502 -> $5,741 in 6 trading days + looking like I'll double if the market opens where it's at
Generational lock in. 15k-6000-45k-700-15k-2.5k(now) next week 100k
Mentions
Feels like everything possible is priced in. Haven't seen a -5% SPY day in a long time.
I bought 10 SPY 770 puts that expire tomorrow just before the close today. I guess we’ll see which one of us is the degenerate in the morning 😜
I can justify SPY going up and down bigly tomorrow due to manipulation…therefore markets will be closed
Welp SPY looks read to dump but mango could make an announcement any second, as per usual
AI told me SPY is currently trading at 570
OK grok give me a list of historical data of large SPY moves after a CPI comes in extra soft Make no mistakes
The volume is so dead on SPY and Nasdaq even with the earnings reports showing good
Quietly watching [$SPY](https://aimytrade.io/ticker/spy?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=comment&utm_campaign=SmallStreetBets&utm_term=SPY&utm_content=template_1786485296235_668tpb). The implied move is the first thing I look at. Not advice, just where I tend to.
Captains log. Star date 8112026.3. SPY has chopped in a $2 range for 5 days straight. Morale is low amongst most of junior level crew. Senior officers are just in shares and don’t care. They have begun averaging into long dated SPY leaps. The retarded crewman have started hallucinating and buying penny stocks. The science officer recommends treatment with standard big booty Latina’s. We are approaching their home world soon and this should serve as a nice reprieve for the crew.
Buy EOY 400 puts on SPY
Remember folks, you survived the Great BER Market of August 11, 2026. Casualties are piling up and margin is calling on the worst day since 1987, SPY down .32%. We now return you to your regular scheduled CPI rip to Spy $780 tomorrow morning.
Stop buying SPY and listen to boomers
When you’re a smart day trader like me who can make 13% in a day, you laugh at the normies who get excited about 13% \*annual\* SPY gains. /s
Holding SPY and QQQ puts, SOFI calls
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ydCvkxuNm4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ydCvkxuNm4) HEY HEY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY IM BUYING THIS TONIGHT YOU'RE PROBABLY A DUM BER RIGHT? I KNOW THIS CANT BE RIGHT HEY BABY CMON I BOUGHT CALLS ENDLESSLY AND SPY WAS THERE FOR ME SO NOW ITS TIME TO ALL IN AND MAKE IT EVEN MORE I KNOW THAT I CAN LEVERAGE MORE IT AINT NO LIE I WANNA SEE SPY BREAK ATH BABY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY DONT WANNA BE A DUM BER TOO JUST ANOTHER ENTRY LIQUIDITY FOR MM TOO YOU MAY HATE ME BUT IT AINT NO LIE BABY BUY BUY BUY
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ydCvkxuNm4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ydCvkxuNm4) HEY HEY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY IM BUYING THIS TONIGHT YOU'RE PROBABLY A DUM BER RIGHT? I KNOW THIS CANT BE RIGHT HEY BABY CMON I BOUGHT CALLS ENDLESSLY AND SPY WAS THERE FOR ME SO NOW ITS TIME TO ALL IN AND MAKE IT EVEN MORE I KNOW THAT I CAN LEVERAGE MORE IT AINT NO LIE I WANNA SEE SPY BREAK ATH BABY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY DONT WANNA BE A DUM BER TOO JUST ANOTHER ENTRY LIQUIDITY FOR MM TOO YOU MAY HATE ME BUT IT AINT NO LIE BABY BUY BUY BUY
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ydCvkxuNm4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ydCvkxuNm4) HEY HEY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY IM BUYING THIS TONIGHT YOU'RE PROBABLY A DUM BER RIGHT? I KNOW THIS CANT BE RIGHT HEY BABY CMON I BOUGHT CALLS ENDLESSLY AND SPY WAS THERE FOR ME SO NOW ITS TIME TO ALL IN AND MAKE IT EVEN MORE I KNOW THAT I CAN LEVERAGE MORE IT AINT NO LIE I WANNA SEE SPY BREAK ATH BABY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY DONT WANNA BE A DUM BER TOO JUST ANOTHER ENTRY LIQUIDITY FOR MM TOO YOU MAY HATE ME BUT IT AINT NO LIE BABY BUY BUY BUY
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liZm1im2erU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liZm1im2erU) THIS LONG DICK WIGGER AINT FOR THE SHORT LOVIN YEAAA I ONLY BUY CALLS THATS MY FKIN PROBLEM I CAN ONLY LONG SPY I GOT A FKIN PROBLEM SO IF U A FIND A GEY B3R THATS A FKIN PROBLEM BRING THEM TO THE CASINO MAYBE CALLS CAN SOLVE EM
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ydCvkxuNm4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ydCvkxuNm4) HEY HEY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY IM BUYING THIS TONIGHT YOU'RE PROBABLY A DUM BER RIGHT? I KNOW THIS CANT BE RIGHT HEY BABY CMON I BOUGHT CALLS ENDLESSLY AND SPY WAS THERE FOR ME SO NOW ITS TIME TO ALL IN AND MAKE IT EVEN MORE I KNOW THAT I CAN LEVERAGE MORE IT AINT NO LIE I WANNA SEE SPY BREAK ATH BABY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY DONT WANNA BE A DUM BER TOO JUST ANOTHER ENTRY LIQUIDITY FOR MM TOO YOU MAY HATE ME BUT IT AINT NO LIE BABY BUY BUY BUY
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNtTEibFvlQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNtTEibFvlQ) IF YOU'RE NOT LONG LADIES AND GENTLEMEN GET READY TO LONG UP SPY AND QQQ ALL OF THE BULLS WHERE YA AT? WHEN I WALK IN THE CASINO ALL THE LIQUIDITY ON ME IM WITH THE BULL MAN CREW ALL CALLS ARE CHEAP WE LIKE 780 WE LIKE 800 WE CAME TO ATH EVERYBODY ITS ON! CALLS CALLS CALLS CALLS CALLS CALLS CALLS CALLS CALLS CALLS EVERYBODEEEE!
New moon and some eclipse tomorrow SPY will +3% at least Or I'm gay 🤔
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liZm1im2erU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liZm1im2erU) THIS LONG DICK WIGGER AINT FOR THE SHORT LOVIN YEAAA I ONLY BUY CALLS THATS MY FKIN PROBLEM I CAN ONLY LONG SPY I GOT A FKIN PROBLEM SO IF U A FIND A GEY B3R THATS A FKIN PROBLEM BRING THEM TO THE CASINO MAYBE CALLS CAN SOLVE EM
I would like to look at the underlying holdings before making it three different trades with three ETFs. SPY covers huge markets, but QQQ and a growth ETF that will add ton of same companies on top of that. I would check the overlap and sector weights first and then compare their behavior during various drawdowns. If they are all hit for the same reason they'll offer a more ornamental diversification strategy than actual diversification. There is nothing wrong with redundant holdings in certain situations to "tilt towards growth" you just have to be aware that you are do so.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liZm1im2erU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liZm1im2erU) THIS LONG DICK WIGGER AINT FOR THE SHORT LOVIN YEAAA I ONLY BUY CALLS THATS MY FKIN PROBLEM I CAN ONLY LONG SPY I GOT A FKIN PROBLEM SO IF U A FIND A GEY B3R THATS A FKIN PROBLEM BRING THEM TO THE CASINO MAYBE CALLS CAN SOLVE EM
can’t wait for them to release the most fake cooked CPI tomorrow and SPY to rip 6.7% so my 67 lotto calls make me 1/4th of a millionaire
Nah I’ve just been doing this to “jinx” SPY, I’ve had a good record contrary to what it says.
No reason to be bearish here, but we may go sideways for a while. Focus on individual names instead of the indexes. Unfortunately I think we need this fat orange Big Mac to actually secure a real deal that brings oil back in line before the next leg higher in SPY. Trying to short the index here is a good way to lose money.
Tomorrow SPY goes back to $760 like good little boy....
Doubt it. SPY $774 max. Call wall at $775 will need real volume to overcome.
ok bers you finally won now that SPY is down -0.37% from yesterday its clear the rugpull is in the room with you...you deserve this win
Every company on earth announces they have 5 trillion of AI backlog, SPY hits 1000 tomorrow.
| Ticker | Target | Entry | Current | Move | Expires | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **SPY** ▼ | $750.00 (below) | $772.80 | $771.08 | -2.9% | Aug 18, 3:09 PM | | **Record** | 0W - 3L | 0% | - | - | - |
SPY +2% tmr with this SMCI pump
Bubble pops tomorrow and we will start with SPY -5% tomorrow
**BanBet Lost** — /u/SteveBaloni (1W - 1L, 50%) | Ticker | Entry → Target | Move | Time | Result | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **SPY** ▲ | $770.79 → $773.00 | +0.3% | 2h 36m | Lost |
Holyyy my puts have printed. 🐻💵🐻💵 That one guy that said SPY was going to drop to 769 was right, I thought SPY was only going to drop to 772
Absolutely beautiful movement for SPY today, actual non insanity for once in fucking forever
That 770 bounce just tells me we're gonna be looking at SPY 780 tomorrow
SPY or GOOGL, now or tommorrow?
SPY + VXUS + VXF is effectively VT and if you were buying fresh and wanted that diversification you should just buy VT. It sounds like you don’t have a specific goal in mind and in that case just buy VT. If you did have a specific goal then you can make bespoke investment decisions. For example if you work for Nvidia and you have a lot of tied up equity, you no longer want to buy SPY as that is over-concentration. Maybe you direct index SPY with your employ excluded. Now that you are effectively cover the diversity of SPY through your employer stock and direct indexing you add VXUS and VXF to complete broad market international diversification. Young people rarely need multiple ETFs for exposure though. You have to have a strong argument not to just buy VT and it’s not something someone else can tell you. VT is the average of all investors. How are you different from the average investor and then make a plan accordingly. It’s completely ok if the answer is you aren’t that different from the average and can just buy the simplest diversified ETF.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ydCvkxuNm4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ydCvkxuNm4) HEY HEY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY IM BUYING THIS TONIGHT YOU'RE PROBABLY A DUM BER RIGHT? I KNOW THIS CANT BE RIGHT HEY BABY CMON I BOUGHT CALLS ENDLESSLY AND SPY WAS THERE FOR ME SO NOW ITS TIME TO ALL IN AND MAKE IT EVEN MORE I KNOW THAT I CAN LEVERAGE MORE IT AINT NO LIE I WANNA SEE SPY BREAK ATH BABY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY DONT WANNA BE A DUM BER TOO JUST ANOTHER ENTRY LIQUIDITY FOR MM TOO YOU MAY HATE ME BUT IT AINT NO LIE BABY BUY BUY BUY
There is no need to diversify SPY. Adding those ETFs makes you less diversified, not more.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ydCvkxuNm4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ydCvkxuNm4) HEY HEY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY IM BUYING THIS TONIGHT YOU'RE PROBABLY A DUM BER RIGHT? I KNOW THIS CANT BE RIGHT HEY BABY CMON I BOUGHT CALLS ENDLESSLY AND SPY WAS THERE FOR ME SO NOW ITS TIME TO ALL IN AND MAKE IT EVEN MORE I KNOW THAT I CAN LEVERAGE MORE IT AINT NO LIE I WANNA SEE SPY BREAK ATH BABY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY DONT WANNA BE A DUM BER TOO JUST ANOTHER ENTRY LIQUIDITY FOR MM TOO YOU MAY HATE ME BUT IT AINT NO LIE BABY BUY BUY BUY
Yeah that makes sense. I like the “each ETF should have a job” way of looking at it. The part I’m curious about is how you decide if that extra diversification is actually meaningful enough to justify the extra complexity. Like with SPY + VXUS/VXF, would you mainly look at the lack of holdings overlap or would you also want to see how much it actually changes the portfolio during different market conditions?
Swapped MU calls for SPY puts fml
No way SPY not hitting 773 today
Made $50 ON SPY puts today, AMA. brb, gotta put some fries in the basket, before I get the hose again.
Dear WSB, **CPI**? probs bullish. **OIL**? probs fine. **Trump**? Will never let this market go down. Therefore: SPY **CALLS** (surely). **Who's with me?!** Best regards. *Fellow trader.*
If SPY goes green green today I’ll shit in the middle of the mall
SPMO is better than SPY
I lost money on RKLB and SPX calls bought impulsively😂 QQQ and SPY puts are still holding
SPY going 🟩? I'm telling you, this day could've been an email.
I wonder how wsb would react if SPY suddenly had multi day multi circuit breaker dumps and dropped 20% non stop for a week
I'm currently riding CSPs I sold on SPY/QQQ and some calls I bought with the profits So either Im right that the markets trend up in the next month or I'm gonna eat a double bowl of shit
lol fair 😂 That’s actually pretty close to what I was getting at. Like you throw in SPY + QQQ + VUG and instead of seeing 3 ETF names, it shows you the combined underlying companies + your actual exposure to each one I’d probably want more than just the company list though. Like combined weight in NVDA/MSFT/AAPL, sector concentration, overlap %, maybe how those exposures behaved in drawdowns Would that be the kind of thing you mean, or are you mainly looking for a simple “here’s everything you effectively own” breakdown?
If you’re buying broad market etfs like VT/VTI you have to have a reason to have multiple holdings as they are already strongly diversified alone. There are relevant cases to own multiple funds for diversification. Did you buy VOO/SPY young and want to have a more diversified holding like VT without selling and incurring taxes. Then you can buy VXUS and VXF. Those hold international and domestic non SPY funds respectively. They have no overlap with SPY, so increase diversification. You will have to manually rebalance. Even in that case is optimal diversity worth the extra effort to you.
Give me the sweet sweet hammer candle on the SPY daily
If you buy puts, SPY will go to 800 in a single candle. If you buy calls, SPY will start a 30 year bear market. You can't win either way
**BanBet Created** ▼ | Ticker | Target | Entry | Move | Expires | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **SPY** | $758.00 (below) | $770.31 | -1.6% | 23h 60m |
**BanBet Created** ▲ | Ticker | Target | Entry | Move | Expires | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **SPY** | $775.00 (above) | $770.20 | +0.6% | 23h 60m |
| Ticker | Target | Entry | Current | Move | Expires | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **SPY** ▼ | $765.00 (below) | $772.29 | $770.25 | -0.9% | Aug 14, 2:55 PM |
**BanBet Created** ▼ | Ticker | Target | Entry | Move | Expires | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **SPY** | $765.00 (below) | $770.20 | -0.7% | 23h 60m |
It literally already paid off from that trump demand reparation post of Truth social SPY drop hard before anyone can get a screen shot of the post
Really hope SPY does something funny tomorrow.
Just put the rest of my buying power into 774c for tomorrow. SPY sour hour starts now….
CPI gonna put SPY at 774 tomorrow so we can continue the flat trend
The moment you buy 2 ETFs that hold the same companies it stops being diversification. I think the thought that “on paper it looks diversified because they’re 3 different ETFs” is fundamentally flawed logic. I’d say at face value that’s how it appears, but if you looked at the paper you’d see it’s the same companies over and over. Someone doing this in the name of diversification probably doesn’t really know what they are doing at all. Buying QQQ along with SPY is usually an attempt to concentrate, not diversify. Someone who wants “broad” market exposure but wants to lean a little more heavily into tech than the broad market ETF offers might do this. In the current environment it honestly isn’t even doing a great job of achieving that tho. SPY is already like 40% tech, and that’s just the companies officially recognized as tech. At the end of the day, It is important to know what you are investing in and why, and someone who is buying different ETFs that hold the same companies likely does not know either of those things, unless they are trying to get more exposure to something that their current holdings do not provide. Which, like I said, is someone looking for more concentration, not diversification.
**BanBet Lost** — /u/ObviousluSarcastic (0W - 2L, 0%) | Ticker | Entry → Target | Move | Time | Result | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **SPY** ▼ | $773.15 → $753.82 | -2.5% | 1d | Lost |
Back in my day SPY 770 meant something
3:57 NVDA tanks and so does SPY
Burrys prophecy will be fulfilled tomorrow SPY -20% tomorrow
Loaded up on SPY calls
SPY should be below 700, 600, 500 dollars. post covid speculation and capital inflow really created an colossal bull trap
bers definition of a rugpull is a -0.40% move on SPY.....bers are cooked
SPY will never go to 768 ever again
SPY -10% by Thursday close
I hope SPY tanks under 600 and QQQ under 500 🧸
AMD Shrek candles will continue as SPY adapts to 0 support environment, infinite downwards potential environment
Doesn’t seem like a growth stock, probably sub SPY returns and there’s no real innovation being done. You’d probably get similar or better returns in even SCHD..
Look at SPY flying again.
AMD will rise in the ashes of SPY. its called advanced money destroyer for a reason
Rotation from SPY to HTZ
Quick melt up to 772.45 on SPY before 3:30. Time it if you can.
#Every time I place an order for a contract, its price immediately jumps $50-100. I even tried super liquid contracts like SPY, NVDA and AAPL. This is the hidden commission MMs charge you in "cOmMisSioN fReE" trading. LMAO🤌
wow my SPY 770P actually gonna pay out
To be fair, I did want ya'll I bought SPY calls for Nov 20th, so dont expect a green day until AFTER that..