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Momentus getting attention. Still under radar. No more debt. Vigoride Orbital service on Space X transporter. Institutional invested. This will run with Space X. Double digits soon.

Why no one is talking about 🍎?

What Market makers do for a living and how it affects your options trading

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House Rep Gil Cisneros disclosed 3 $VLTO buys. His industrial sector trades have a 8% SPY-adj return 90 days after disclosure.

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House Rep Gil Cisneros disclosed 3 $VLTO buys. His industrial sector trades beat SPY 72% of the time after disclosure

The craziest month of my life.

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I think the market is one bad headline away from absolute chaos and nobody’s ready for it...

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Diversification Isn’t Just About Reducing Risk

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Posted GEX levels before market open Friday— 8 out of 11 held at king by close

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What to buy during a market correction or crash?

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Does this mean to full port SPY puts?

92% under performance to spy

Anodda day anotha SPY gamble

Bull case - SPY

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What is the 0DTE meaning behind the last hour of trading on big days

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Smol spy wins

Ancient Alien Plays

Thanks for the pump, Donald

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The effects mentally of throwing everything in SPY vs Managing your assets yourself and making trades several times a month.

No More PDT Restriction

100% winrate today scalping SPY and TSLA, made $14k and it’s my birthday too 😝

2k - 10k Profit Trading 0dte AMA

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I built the most honest VRP put credit spread backtest I could. 7 years, 5 symbols. Terrible

Fired my old fart financial advisor, stopped swing trading, started taking profits, started buying the dip (PT. 2)

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Strategy proposal, critique requested

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minute-by-minute SPY options replay tool for backtesting strategies using historical options data

Print tomorrow or Fries with that?

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TGT (Target) is probably the only recession proof stock

SPY 😳🤯

The New York Knick's winning the finals will trigger the collapse of the global economy.

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Rep. Tim Moore just disclosed a new $T (AT&T) buy, his Communication Services trades have been crushing it

I love 0 dte

How to gamble away 200$?

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Leverage in retirement accounts?

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0 dte is life

$37.04 —> $2,017

How do I short my dad? (Pigeonmaxxing)

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SPY: New all-time highs on -40% volume? What gives?

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interest data for spy puts over the next month is off the charts?

INTC 15:1 LEVERAGE POSITION CLOSED, TRADED SPY 0DTE $5K --> $22.4K

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18 year old who just started - any advice would be appreciated! I don’t know how to diversify properly.

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Home Depot ($HD) Earnings Tomorrow - Insider Buying Just Hit

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Do you withdraw or invest if war breaks out or society begins to collapse?

The ultimate bear signal was formed last week

I’m the guy behind the Wendy’s dumpster, markets will go green

Bird Law Expert here...

Let’s try this again

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SPX Income Options Strategies

Concentrated O&G, offshore drilling, infrastructure, fertilizer and coal.

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Can one of y'all please screw up take a physical shipment of 100 barrels of oil to my local gas station

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Don't wanna be part of Elon's $1.75t valuation SpaceX passive investing bank heist of SPY? Here's how to build SPY ex-SpaceX on the day.

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Backtesting guidance

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Book-level delta def matters more than I thought for condors

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Backtest 5 mon data for a couple of years

Is there any way for the market to recover?

Anyone else get in their head watching people make huge money on options?

This is either the most or least regarded contract I’ve ever bought.

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How are you using charm / CHEX?

Happy Friday everyone!

I joined the regard army

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I analyzed every congressional disclosure for $SNOW since Feb 2025, buying on disclosure day returned +37% median, 100% win rate across 8 trades

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-16,190 loss in 14 minutes SPY 0dte may 1

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Is this the beginning of the End? All indices across the world go negative - All at Once.

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AM I COOKED?

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The market giveth, the market taketh and giveth back again in 20 days.

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CME crypto index futures are kind of a big deal imo

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Scaling out fixed my 0DTE entries, but made my exits more inconsistent

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Make only one trade a day SPY 105%

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Putting the profits I made from SPY yesterday into AMAT and UMAC!!

How I 10exed my money in SPY in 6 years . 200k --> 2 million

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SPY +0.17% at Record | Energy Leads Sectors | Silver Surges +6.79%

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I moved 20% to treasuries a while ago betting on a pullback. Some data came in this week that wasn't in my thesis.

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Almost Took This Trade Today — Glad I Waited

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800% on SPY Calls - Wut

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800% on SPY Calls Today

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$2k to $16k today on SPY

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800% Gain Today on SPY

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Lost 350 on SPY puts yesterday. That was the first and last time I ever buy puts again.

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Broker that let's me set trades based off % of portfolio? i.e. buy as much SPY with100% of portfolio or cash available. Also set a time?

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As a gambling man, it's clear it's time to take profits

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As a gambling man, it's clear it's time to take profits

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3K to 16.5K SPY gains. Bought on the dips yesterday and today. Just closed during my flight with WiFi.

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The "Beijing Miracle" is Pure Copium

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Thanks SPY ! First time doing 0dte.

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I FINALLY BEAT THE MARKET

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Trading with Confluence Indicator

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DADDY’S LITTLE DISAPPOINTMENT: Lost the college fund on SPY Puts and now I hear the belt unbuckling.

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ThetaData rate limit?

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Closed a SPY put this morning

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The payoff for betting on the right direction: SPY Put 137%

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$OPEN Bull Thesis

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$OPEN Bull Thesis

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$OPEN Bull Thesis

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I backtested share buybacks from 2006 to 2026.

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How to diversify (as an European)

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Weeklies on calls until SPY 800

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# the WSB PIGEON wrong then, SPY still up 🤡 🤡 🤡

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Nobody cares stocks only go up. What happened to "sitting on the cash" back in april when SPY ran up from 630 to 750?

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!banbet SPY 371 1D

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RIP Neale Daniher you would have loved SPY hitting 750 this week

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The market pumping because oil dropping makes no sense at all. Why wasn’t SPY 1000 when oil was $55 per barrel

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Just read an article that technically everyone is richer, more employed and flush with cash hence the rise of gambling. Instead everyone is feeling FOMO and self disillusioned with their own finances - get this - because companies realized that they can make more money targeting ads to the rich while social media wealth flaunting has become normalized as more people spend time on them. Wells Fargo or Citi released a report back in 2006 basically saying they can ignore the masses and cater to the wealthy as inequality increased and make record revenues. So basically SPY 1500 is not a meme, it’s a certainty. It is time to take that loan, max margin, and throw it into the most leveraged tech plays you can. This is financial advice.

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SPY will hit $1000 before we realize it was a scam, in which it will dip then proceed to hit $1100 a month later

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\*when sp500 reaches 9000 within 2 months\* # BOLS FALLING FOR THE BOL TRAP LOL, BERS EATING GOOD THIS WEEK. SPY880 INCOMING

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Yeah clearly but on what? SPY $500 0DTE puts or smth? Cause this is a straight vertical drop, no slow burn at all.

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Yes, if SPY drops 90% in less than 2 weeks, I will get margin called. 

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What about my SPY 1/21/28 calls? 

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Well I have to admit I am fucked. $13k on SPY $740 5/29 @2.70. BUT AT LEAST I HAVE BALLS TO TRY THE YOLO FUCK IT. I will now be a permabull forever

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Is there anything more written in stone than 0DTE SPY calls on Tuesday?

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#SPY headed straight to $1000 in the next 12 months especially after SpaceX, ChatGPT and Claude go IPO LMAO🤌

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Your conviction plays in your Roth should be buy 6500 of SPY and leave it alone.

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I heard SPY was going to have a minus 1.5% day Tuesday. At least that’s what Barron told me

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I’m going full port on SPY 5/25 calls

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If KOSPI can do a +8% day, so can SPY, we did it last year!

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Selling SPY puts at 630 was THE SMARTEST THING ever done, I wish I did it

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Yea. There's /ES for SPY and /NQ for Nasdaq

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but you will need to rebalance as its weight in SPY changes. .

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If SPY opened right now, it’d be over 750.

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Being a bear seems cool until you realize you have to root for World War 3, Hanavirus Pandemic, Oil at $150 a barrel and a recession to get a -2% day on SPY

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IRAN war has ended. SPY TO $900

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Hmm welp my WMT calls will fully offset my SPY puts Cool Just great

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When will you bers accept the fact that no deal is actually needed to make SPY pump. It’s the idea that makes this shit pump. Same thing with rate cuts. The only way to make money in this shit market is to be more regarded than the market itself

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We will have seen SPY 550 by eoy 27.

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I’m p sure there are more MSFT bagholders in this sub than SPY who expect it to open at 430 ! Dreams do come true

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Just need SPY to be at a casual $753 on Tuesday. Shouldn't be too much of an ask.

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Nah bers have been going nonstop since Market close. It’s joever for them. SPY +3% day Tuesday to finally cleanse the filth from this sub once and for all 🚀

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At this rate, SPY 760 open tmrow night haha happy Memorial Day you regards!

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No etf or fund manager is going to be putting in buy orders in IPO day, that's not how fund rebalancing works.  Most large funds like SPY and VOO rebalance quarterly, and a mid-june IPO means they won't make the Q2 revbalance.  

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I know marker crash is at very low chance of happening. But have you bulls thought what are you gonna do if it crashes? Buying calls at current levels IMO is extremely risky if you randomly get hit with a Flash crash of -20% on SPY, and get margin called for a lot more than you have initially invested depending on leverage, could get into a generational debt. There wasnt a real crash for 15+ years (and Yes they do happen). In my opinion the risk of crash gets higher the longer 🥭 keeps avoiding reality. That is the main reason why I would not do calls at this point because that lets say 50k you put into calls, could turn into -400k when crash happens, because it wont stop at 50% margin call. and you just got into generational debt..

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market gonna crash hard soon I wouldn't be surprised if SPY hits 600 by EOY

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Am Bol. Tuesday: 1. Nurse hangover 2. Buy ASTS 5/29 $110c 3. Buy LUNR 5/29 $40c 4. Buy NOK Jan 27 $20c & NOK Jan 28 $20c 5. Stay long CRAK, XLU, DRAM, SMH, AAPL shares 6. Sell CSP weeklies on SPY and QQQ for theta lunch money[](https://www.investing.com/indices/italy-40-futures)

Sell in may is almost done with us hitting ATH. Leverage yourself to the tits in June is about to start. SPY 1000 EoM not a meme

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SPY with 8 green weeks in a row and somehow it’s the bols that are denying reality 🙄

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Oil and SPY going up is a daily occurrence for 5 weeks

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November 2026, SPY 840, ships going through the strait for months following an agreement that neither side publicly agrees is what was agreed upon. Oil is at 73. Bers still on the edge of their seats for it to fall apart every day.

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Oh boy SPY futes already up .5. Heres hoping for another 2% by tueday

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First they coped with weekend chart. Then they coped with futures, on a closed trading day. Its copium all the way to SPY 350 and QQQ delisting

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Considering there are very lax rules for algorithms and trading I think Elon is going to use an automated trading platform to pump the stock price so it can meet the minimum requirements for index inclusion. This is why he's been fighting to lower the requirements. Once it's in the indexes, funds like SPY, VOO, QQQ, etc are forced to buy shares when they rebalance the funds.

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That's funny. Jokes aside, i feel anyone with less than 100k should almost never go cash(unless it's needed). Their ability to time the market is more likely delayed and will miss more upside if they just sit and hold. And if you need to get out of a risky trade, move it to something like SPY, VOO or VTI, don't sit cash.

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Apple is literally the final boss of this market, if it sends it’s taking SPY with it 😂 Only thing that scares me is how crowded this trade feels, everyone and their grandma is loading AAPL calls right now. I’m riding with you but I’ve got tight exits, Cupertino rug pulls hurt different.

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just SPY and chill man....assuming no financial crisis

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Bers will soon realize that there is no fighting this market. Oil is still at 100$ but we are going to pump 1-2% everyday till we reach SPY 1000.

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Bols will soon realize that there is no saving this market. Oil is still at 100$ and we are going to drill 1-2% everyday till we reach SPY 700.

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Are futes and SPY aftermarket open today/tomorrow?

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Mango furiously negotiating the deal with a hallucination of Jeffrey Epstien while staffers look on helplessly. SPY to 900

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SPY is going to pump. Sorry but this market isn’t rational.

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SPY is going to crash. Sorry but this market isn't rational.

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If anything this all just shows how powerless civilization truly fucking is. We’re genuinely just at the mercy of the whims of fate as it installs benevolent and hopeful folks to mentally unstable demagogues into positions of power through completely random sequences of events, and whatever and wherever you’re born into is just sort of what you get. Anyway, SPY 760 by EoW buy calls.

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🥭 has enough to manipulate oil, interest rates and stock prices .. until SPY is at 500 he won’t make a deal.

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SPY $800 wen??? Kevin sees no inflation! Full port 800 Spy call..

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Bro: 4. 0dte SPY gamblin’

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The “deal” they’re negotiating is another 60 day ceasefire anyways … we’re gonna be at SPY 900 with a few more fake deals by then

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Monday peace deal signed, Tuesday SPY hits 300 and MSFT will still find a way to tank below 400

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SPY is up 80% in five years. Find me a better safe return

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All this noise just for SPY to gap up 2% at open https://preview.redd.it/srjtizy8q43h1.jpeg?width=160&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=36dfa7e71f743b7e8aa4f35340db4d0c82728276

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You’re so clueless that you shouldn’t be stock picking. Just buy SPY and forget about it

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short its weight in SPY, buy SPY if its 5% of SPY For every 100$ SPY exposure, sell short 5$ SPCX

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Serious question, how do I avoid buying this piece of shit if I own SPY or VTI? I'm assuming it's pretty much impossible but cur

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!banbet SPY 760 4d We all know reality matters not

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Buy SPY and stocks, DCA and wait . Trade options in paper trading to learn and in a year, you’ll be ready. Or switch brokerages if you can’t wait.

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Concepts of a deal managed to pumped SPY past 700

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Chin up: $1000 of gold bought in 2003 should be worth about $13,600 today. Compared to being responsible with $1000 of SPY you beat the market (SPY would be worth about $11,250 today). Now go pawn that ring and buy some NVDA.

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I made a strategy the other day and back tested it on tesla from 2022 to now and it was up 30000% percent. It did the same on a few other ones but on SPY it was down like 30% lmao

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Well boys my sunday prayer is seeing SPY +5% EoW.

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A Tuesday open green SPY candle of +2.5% will add how many inches?

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Mango you better sign this deal and send SPY up 5% this week

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🥭Tuesday at 8:30: The Iran deal is almost finished, there may be few small sticking issues to be resolved such as Uranium, Hormuz tolls, sanctions, proxy terror financing, war reparations, etc. But other than that, it's really almost done. SPY pumps 2% at open

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I’ve been trying to make a ban bet for SPY 776 for the 250th anniversary. I wouldn’t be surprised if King NVDA was 250 to join in on the meme market.

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SPY up 13% since the first fake deal/ceasefire. I sure hope I can continue to be exit liquidity in this way! Use me baby!!

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Definitely full ported SPY calls for 800 EOM

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Of course its Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham getting in the way of SPY going up +4% at 8pm tomorrow

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Deal was lie all along: SPY -0.1%. Announcement of new deal, completion imminent: SPY +2.0%

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September SPY 760 puts. 🥂. For the future of USA. Too much winning Mr. President

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https://preview.redd.it/n1g55e75k33h1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2d1800a03cbcae0bd2cb1561fcb2cdfedca53809 End of 2023 beginning of 2024 I was trailing SPY and QQQ. Ended 2024 with 50% gains, 2025 with 40% gains, this year 23% so far. Not gain porn by any means but still doubling the S&P and almost the NASDAQ gains over the last 2.5 years. It isn't over until you give up and decide to only contribute to your retirement accounts like all the others settling for an average of 7% annual growth

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SPY at 500 and Iran can have whatever it wants

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I have about a million in SPY and then also a bit of some other things. I do a bit of the wheel also

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🌮 “We have a deal” Tuesday 9:31am 🦅🇺🇸 .. it’ll be a lie but SPY 780 anyways

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Damn so trump lied his ass off? SPY $900 monday

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Should’ve said we had a deal at 9:45am on Tuesday. Too much time for everyone to figure out this is the same thing as the last 8 weeks. Anyways SPY 780 EOW.

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To be fair I am like 85% port SPY on my big account

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SPY / VOO is really the only answer here

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[DETAILED MODE] ### PHASE 1: THE TEAR SHEET (LIVE DATA DASHBOARD) * Stock Name: Nokia Corp ADR * Stock Symbol: NOK * Price Action: $15.47 (Live) | +9.02% (Live Daily Change) | $14.45 (Open) | $14.19 (Prev Close). * Historical Price Return: +55.20% (1-Month Return) | +110.51% (Year-to-Date Return). * Options Structural Data: May 29, 2026 (6 DTE Expiry) | $16.00 (Target 1 / Call Wall Strike) | $17.00 (Target 2 / Exhaustion Ceiling) | $15.00 (Local VPOC Floor) | $14.00 (Historical Macro Floor). * Volume & Liquidity: 95,081 Call Vol / 54,954 Put Vol (Live Volume) | Heavy (vs. 30-Day Avg). * Volatility & Risk: $0.26 (Live ATR). * Sector Benchmark: Technology Equipment Sector is +1.29%. * Broad Market Benchmark: SPY is +0.05%. ### PHASE 2: THE FUNDAMENTAL REALITY CHECK (DATA + NARRATIVE) * Valuation (Hard Data): 89.69x P/E Ratio vs. Lower Sector Average (Trading at a steep premium to historical norms). * Profitability (Hard Data): Positive Operating Cash Flow | ~$19.2B Annual Revenue. * Cash Runway: N/A (Self-Sustaining, cash-dividend paying). * Revenue Reliability: Stable hardware revenues, though traditional telecom growth is slowing. * Competitive Moat & Maturity: Telecommunications Infrastructure & Networking | Established global player transitioning into AI data centre networks. * Momentum Exhaustion Flag (The Journey Context): The stock has surged over 55% in the last month and over 10% in the last session alone, placing it in an extended, high-momentum channel that is susceptible to rapid profit-taking. * The Recent News Mandate: The massive volume surge is driven by the launch of Nokia's AI Network Innovation Lab in California and a wave of Wall Street analyst upgrades (e.g., Deutsche Bank, CFRA) highlighting their pivot into AI cloud infrastructure. * The Future State Mandate: Q2 Earnings on July 23, 2026. * Fundamental Synthesis & Conviction Level: Fundamentally sound, legacy tech giant successfully rotating its narrative into the AI supercycle. Viable for a longer-term swing hold, though short-term price action is technically overbought. ### PHASE 3: THE PRESSURE TEST (THE SETUP) * 1. Short Interest Percentage (SI%): < 5.0% (Background Noise). Normal market mechanics. * 2. Cost to Borrow Rate (CTB): < 1.0% (General Collateral). No financial pain. Shares are abundant, and shorts can hold indefinitely. * 3. Days

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We're giving SPY to Iran as part of the negotiation

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At least SPY is at a new ATH 🤌

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Yes, the chickens will be coming home to roost hard with that one. SpaceX will be what, 3% of SPY or QQQ? So what will happen is that the investor will open the short position equaling 3% of his entire passive portion of the portfolio -- which by the way is a lot. I'm an active trader and I rarely risk 3% of my entire capital on a single bet, and never on a short bet or something where I don't have an extremely high conviction. And the short will just mostly sit red there. In the best case, SpaceX is basically floundering around and treading water, which means your position will also roughly flounder around or be slightly positive, but probably it will be red most of the time. At that point, you're just asking yourself, why did I even do that? What's the point? These 3% could work more productively. That hedge makes sense for large hedge funds, I don't think passive investors need to concern themselves with this.

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SPY was $210 on the day Harambe died

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Tuesday predictions SPY $760 MU $850 NVDA $240 SNDK $1750 MSFT $390

Iran deal not priced in SPY opens -5% 🤡

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Iran deal priced in? Or $800 SPY on Tuesday?

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SPY is up 18% in a month and a half of war/fake peace deals since march 30th. Does anyone really think this is sustainable and not leading to either a crash or massive devaluation of the dollar? I'm genuinely curious? I plan to keep making money on weekly calls until it fails but really can't see this ending well...

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I dont think my strategy is well thought out. I trade using VWAP and 200 SMA. I’m usually looking at charts on Thinkorswim off my mobile device and place trades on Robinhood. I have other indicators such as RSI and TTM squeeze but some don’t work on SPX as there is no volume. While I’m at work I’ll just watch SPY on yahoo finance with VWAP and SMA. With lower equity between 1-5k I’d have to buy 20-30 points on the money. I think this is psychologically where I struggled as I would frequently get up to a decent account value 2-6/7 k and then I would blow my account trying to get my option to increase 50 to 100%. Most of the time I would be up during the morning catching the momentum and jumping out by 9-10 central and would feel bad about missing out on larger moves. I scaled to two contracts once I was past 5k. Still at the same types of strikes but generally 10 points away if it was later in the day. But after 5k I had enough to enter a position close it and open another to try to make back any losses. Psychologically, the hardest part was of course selling for a loss knowing that I couldn’t trade anymore and was at a loss. I think I kept the same strategy in scaling once I got past 12k and got up to 16/17 bit I was buying 5 points on the money and jumping out of positions way quicker. At this point my goal was to make margin maintenance requirements to be able to consistently jump in and out of positions. Once I got 25 I scaled to about 5-10 contracts 5 points in the money and would close out my position once they were 5 points or more on the money, holding of the momentum was there but also cutting all but one contract for fun. I got pretty reckless at the end immediately scaling between 10->20->30->40 contracts just scalping. Usually I’ll watch futures and read headlines and what not. But my final trade looked like consolidation and figured we were due for a breakout. I bought in at 40 contracts and price action moved against me by 10 points. I was down roughly 10k but at this point I no longer feared losing money like that as I didn’t have anything else left to pay off besides student debt. I noticed how quickly buyers stepped in after hitting VWAP and bought in for another 15 contracts. Sure enough price broke out and I immediately exited all my positions. Content with paying off my students loans after a 26k plus gain. Throughout the week I kept moving money out but keep my maintenance margin requirement but I was overall less worried about the losses and focused on maintaining margin

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I do 3x leveraged S&P ETF and puts on SPY. I am retired, so it is just cash flow (sale & withdrawal) management for me.

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Yea you could tax loss harvest but that also messes up whatever exit strategy you had for 30 days. You could hedge with a similar stock/option but it's not quite the same. But also the benchmark is SPY, taxes just makes it that much harder to beat literally just doing nothing

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