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My portfolio evolved from bear to bull
My portfolio evolved from bear to bull
Hypothetically: What would happen if someone bought SPY 0DTE calls up to the position limit?
This clown show has gotta stop at some point. Almost full port into SPY puts LFG
The market can’t crash until billionaires finish building immortal moon bunkers
WHY THE MARKET ONLY GOES UP UNTIL THE RICH ACHIEVE SPACE VAMPIRE STATUS
I finally made it out of the hole and in the green after 5 years!
It’s SO fair! I LOVE you all I LOVE you all!
Vote against S&P changing rules to fast track IPOs into the S&P 500 indexes(SPY, VOO) - (Deadline TOMORROW, May 28)
The generational bull run is over lol , SPY is in freefall. Iran deal ruins US
Studying for the CFOA exam and went down a rabbit hole on short strangle delta
Posted GEX levels before open today 5/26 — 9 out of 9 held at king by close
A 26 Year SPY Volatility Analysis Study, summarized.
House Rep Gil Cisneros disclosed 3 $VLTO buys. Why this is the next AI Data Center play.
Tuesday's 5/26 GEX levels before the open — last week 8/11 held at king
Created an Open Source Options Trading Platform - OptionsCanvas
Tried explaining covered calls to a date and now I’m banned from Applebee’s.
Created an Open Source Options Trading Platform - OptionsCanvas
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.
What Market makers do for a living and how it affects your options trading
House Rep Gil Cisneros disclosed 3 $VLTO buys. His industrial sector trades have a 8% SPY-adj return 90 days after disclosure.
House Rep Gil Cisneros disclosed 3 $VLTO buys. His industrial sector trades beat SPY 72% of the time after disclosure
I think the market is one bad headline away from absolute chaos and nobody’s ready for it...
Diversification Isn’t Just About Reducing Risk
Posted GEX levels before market open Friday— 8 out of 11 held at king by close
Does this mean to full port SPY puts?
What is the 0DTE meaning behind the last hour of trading on big days
The effects mentally of throwing everything in SPY vs Managing your assets yourself and making trades several times a month.
100% winrate today scalping SPY and TSLA, made $14k and it’s my birthday too 😝
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)
minute-by-minute SPY options replay tool for backtesting strategies using historical options data
Print tomorrow or Fries with that?
TGT (Target) is probably the only recession proof stock
The New York Knick's winning the finals will trigger the collapse of the global economy.
Rep. Tim Moore just disclosed a new $T (AT&T) buy, his Communication Services trades have been crushing it
How do I short my dad? (Pigeonmaxxing)
interest data for spy puts over the next month is off the charts?
INTC 15:1 LEVERAGE POSITION CLOSED, TRADED SPY 0DTE $5K --> $22.4K
18 year old who just started - any advice would be appreciated! I don’t know how to diversify properly.
Home Depot ($HD) Earnings Tomorrow - Insider Buying Just Hit
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
Concentrated O&G, offshore drilling, infrastructure, fertilizer and coal.
Can one of y'all please screw up take a physical shipment of 100 barrels of oil to my local gas station
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.
Book-level delta def matters more than I thought for condors
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.
I analyzed every congressional disclosure for $SNOW since Feb 2025, buying on disclosure day returned +37% median, 100% win rate across 8 trades
Is this the beginning of the End? All indices across the world go negative - All at Once.
Mentions
SPY 10000 is around the corner tbh
The SPY/VOO is not a clear cut case. The IRS has never made a statement about what is "substantially identical" with ETFs. Many claim that VOO and SPY, although they track the same index, do not have identical holdings and therefore will not create wash sales if selling one at a loss and immediately buying the other. This is an open question. There are many more that claim that you can swap between similar ETFs that track indexes from different index providers. There are 3 or 4 major index providers. So for example, there are VTI, ITOT, and SCHB that are in total US stock market index ETFs, but technically they follow different indexes. Companies like Betterment and Wealthfront have published white papers on how they use similar, but not substantially identical, ETFs like this to tax loss harvest. The IRS has not approved, but neither have they objected.
Worth separating the two risks people fold together here. On American style ETF options like SPY the risk is pin and early assignment, which others covered. On cash settled European index options like SPX the assignment risk is genuinely zero, but there is a different one that catches people. The settlement value isnt the Friday close you see on the chart. AM settled SPX options settle against the special opening quotation on expiration morning, built from each component opening print. Those prints dont all happen at once, so the SET can land meaningfully away from both Thursday close and Friday regular open. A spread that looked safely OTM at Thursday close can settle ITM on a gap morning. That basis between the print you watch and the SET you actually settle against is the under discussed risk, not the mechanics of cash settlement itself.
If you aren’t retiring in the near future it doesn’t really matter what happens in the short term Go look at what the last few big crashes look like now on the “all time” chart for SPY
SPY is so out of touch with the 200wma it’s insane
>Where things can get tricky is ETFs. SPY and VOO are considered substantially similar so you can't sell SPY for a loss and then buy VOO. I deliberately didn't mention that just for brevity. I think SPY/VOO were the actual examples they gave me too. My easy way to remember the rule ever since has been to sell an EFT for a single stock or vice versa, or completely change sectors "just in case"
> Or you could just... do nothing? Am I misunderstanding or is 1.8 trillion a good deal less than the market caps of Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc? Like, I think Microsoft's days are basically numbered with the enshitiffication of Windows, but I'm not going to dump SPY or QQQ over it. I'm pretty sure the bodega next street also has a market cap that is sensibly less than Google, Microsoft, Apple. But they don't have the same revenue and profit either.
You are right but attacking SPY in anyway will get you downvoted every time. Weighting will tilt more toward tech if SpaceX is actually able to change the rules and get into S&P 500 sooner.
you guys are aware that Don has told his people he wants to be in office for $SPY $1000 right? like you don't actually think he's gonna let someone else take credit for that milestone, do you?
Or you could just... do nothing? Am I misunderstanding or is 1.8 trillion a good deal less than the market caps of Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc? Like, I think Microsoft's days are basically numbered with the enshitiffication of Windows, but I'm not going to dump SPY or QQQ over it.
Nope, I'm not. But my portfolio has been cranking and I'm very happy with the gains. Portfolio is 70% SPY, then the remainder is mostly MSFT, NVDA, GOOGL. I have a couple of degenerate options plays at any given time but never had any take off.
Did you read what OP wrote? Similar companies are fine, just not the same company. And selling for a gain and then rebuying does not trigger wash sale rules, it's only for losses. Where things can get tricky is ETFs. SPY and VOO are considered substantially similar so you can't sell SPY for a loss and then buy VOO.
Check income trading. Mainly you gain from options time decay. SPX Best and SPY Ride Trades are doing good (even in these higher growing market)
True. 2025 SPY was down in my currency. But this year dollar recovered a little and the stock market went up even more. So if i held us stocks which i did (only a few) I get a double effect.
What's so hard to understand? 40% of SPY is mag7 plus broadcom and micron. AMZN retail basically doesn't matter, so the only other one that depends on an average person spending money is AAPL. So the onus is on you, show me the disastrous earnings.
most of them don't beat the market lmao there's only a handful of firms that beat spy long term, and because they're so rare, they literally become famous straight up any hedge fund that's not famous does not post good returns vs SPY
I sold most of my stonks a few weeks ago. If you look at SPY, there's a dip. Yeah. Right before that I sold. I didn't buy the dip because I thought it would keep dipping. But it didn't. And it kept climbing. To avoid writing a whole novel here, I realized I don't know what the fuck is going on, and neither is anyone else. I might actually buy some stonks (because I don't do \~\~hard drugs\~\~ options) on Monday.
I don’t touch puts on the SPY or QQQ. 10 times in a row within 10 seconds of buying a put a giant green candle came out of nowhere. It’s like I’m the inverse and the chart looks for certain it was going to dump or I’d chase a red candle and it’d instantly reverse. Scary stuff.
On the other hand I had to sit on my ass on my conviction picks for a year or two watching SPY outpace me, and only finally now am I very slightly outperforming. Not worth the stress, even if you ARE right.
Do you remember last month when SPY was down around $630? At that point you could have bought a 3/19/2027 LEAP on SPY, a long call on the $865 strike was $1. A single contract from back then went from $100 to $1200 today. When the market shits the bed buy long dated LEAP Calls. This is probably the most sure fire buy option strategy I can think of.
if the index options are cash settled European style options like SPX then you have no risk of this happening as there is no assignment risk. the vertical spread has a defined max loss that you already have the collateral for when entering the trade. if you’re referring to American style index ETF like SPY then that is where assignment/exercise risk is real and could cause you to be long or short shares of SPY unintentionally.
Yeah I remember my firm doing various allocation backtesting on different index funds in a risk-linked strategy. QQQ's relative performance even a few years ago versus SPY for the past two decades was incredible. Decent arguments to drop SPY for QQQ tbh.
Does the 200 WMA mean anything to SPY ?
Definitely true of QQQ and SPY
Just drive your uber and stop with the day trading. Stick to SPY
She suggested we meet next week at baseball game. She’s 34 and I’m 24 - unsure if it’s a date but I’m excited! Wonder how long this lasts before I get the, “you’re very respectful but I’d like to stop seeing each other” text. Idk, never been w anyone older so maybe it’ll go different. :/ wish me luck, SPY to $800 or something around there.
Degenerate gamblers looking to bet on SPY, NVDA, or the next pump-and-dump should head straight to the r/wallstreetbets Reddit community for daily loss porn and diamond hands.
I was early to the SPY Iran war just paper handed I had I held could have made a nice penny
If you want something more tech heavy go QQQ. If you are a bit bearish on tech you can do SPY
cnn reporting that Iran is actually digging up the enriched uranium like they were asked. I can’t think of another time in history when a country had basically won a war as soon as it started, only to end up losing it. SPY 800 eow
He’s saying that the sentiment that 90% of people can’t beat SPY makes sense when you look at how regarded this sub is, and the odd or overly cautious things value investing subs focus on - thus it’s not so much that it’s difficult, it’s that most people are stupid. Easy to say in a bull market like this one.
Monday you will full port 0DTE in SPY and not tell us
SPY to 50000. Market will never collapse.
!banbet SPY 750.12 3d
Circling back. The HOOD leaps are up 150% total, stocks up 20% this week. Something something 50 years, something something beat SPY
Literally only ever do calls. Just SPY and NVDA, I think because they were mostly 0DTE I ended up buying high on the day damn near every single time for SPY, meanwhile NVDA has just been fucking me ever since earnings (a little before even actually)
Another great day. Finally green ytd (because most of my portfolio is contrarian bets) and on my way to catching up with the SPY. I've been trying to be more concentrated into my best ideas.
All I buy is calls, namely SPY and NVDA
We got -1.5% move on NVDA at literally last minute. Call me crazy but that was an insider move, war and bombing starts, and market is going to dump hard on monday and probably crash in June wiping out the last 3 months of gains, back to SPY 6900 or lower. Then hard rally to 8500 in July as 🥭 declares Victory in Eyeran and prints his 250 dollar bill between July 4-10.
Bears if you just wait about months the overheated market will finally crash back down to SPY $800. Be patient.
SPY 800 next week, 1000 end of next month, bers forever extinct, golden age indeed
SPY is for trading VOO is for holding
If I had gone all cash when SPY was 630, I would have missed on 30% gains. May not sound much but it’s a big deal for me…..
Not the only one but there is a clear pattern with oil and SPY that I have a strong feeling someone in the WH is behind.
SPY used to do that shit regularly. I don't k ow how many times my Fridays were saved because of that
SPY calls burst into flames at the end there
That PLUMMET on SPY at exactly 15 after omg
Has QQQ ever been this close to SPY?
Bought some 6/2 SPY 770’ lottos
#Before the war started and Hormoz Strait was wide open SPY was at $670. Now we are at $755 on talks that strait might open again LMAO🤌
MMs really found a way to close SPY as close to 7600 as possible huh. Jesus
Good luck. It’s a good strategy if you’re disciplined and you pay attention. My suggestion: start with SPY or QQQ, which has dollar wide spreads available (I like XSP for tax advantages but the fees at that scale will eat you alive). At a dollar wide your drawdowns are obviously much smaller and you can test the strategy without going broke. Longer term $5 or $10 spreads are more efficient if you can afford the losses, but manage your risk accordingly. It’s just a different and (I think) better way to play options. Instead of buying OTM calls or puts and hoping to catch a huge directional move with a <10% chance of profitting, you’re taking the other side of the trade and stacking smaller profits 9 times out of 10. You don’t even have to be directionally correct, you just need to be not massively wrong.
NVDA and GOOG holding SPY back from 760 right now
VIX going up SPY also going up ok
Nothing pumps the market faster than when I sell my SPY calls
people kept telling me for so long that individual stock picking is pointless and you are guaranteed to underperform over time. meanwhile my individual stock portfolio has returned an average CAGR of 40%+ over the last decade (including all of the crashes btw). SPY has had a CAGR of 15% and QQQ 20% for reference
I am starting to regret those SPY 760 0 day. 🤡
SPY -0.05% Stay tuned for peace deal soon pump of 5%
So SPY will end 2026 above $900?
SPY has these insane Vs while my positions keep dumping
I don't do DUE DILIGENCE, I don't do THOROUGH ASSET RESEARCH, I don't do RISK MANAGEMENT I go ALL IN on SPY 0DTEs and if I end up donating to the market I CRASH INTO A WALL AT 90MPH
SPY playing some red light green light, everytime I look at it, it stops movin
Imagine paying fees for a financial advisor and underperform SPY for years
# God hates SPY. He absolutely loathes QQQ. He plans on sending SOXX straight to hell.
It will pass SPY soon don’t worry
SPY spiraling the toilet drain
An actual deal confirmed by both sides, can see SPY gap up 4-5% well into getting SPY 800 in range for the summer LMAO
That's it, IWM, give up hope. Embrace the dread of selling at a loss just to fill up the gas tank. You were never special to begin with like SPY or QQQ and you'll return to a valuation that reflects that well before they do. 😈
Judging from SPY’s char we won the war 4 times now…can we go for a fifth?
What does it say I have more faith in this SpaceX meme stock squeeze than the SPY at this point LOL
Genuinely wtf is wrong with SPY
It’s similar returns as SPY over 5 yrs period..
780-800 SPY on Monday if deal is good. 730-740 if no deal.
Hey SPY wanna double these weekly gains and give them to the next week?
If we get Iran deal today or tomorrow, we will also get rate cut talks on Sunday. SPY may open at 800 on Monday LMAO.
should've bought calls on SPY
SPY doing a little macdonalds pattern
lol another instant bounce just as SPY was getting close to its daily low, you couldn't make this shit up
If it's stressing then sell a big chunk of it and just put that into SPY, keep a chunk in (and stop checking it, just leave it) in case analysts are correct about it still having more than 100% upside from here
SPY chart looks like 🥭's polygraph when asked about Barons trades
Its literally a function of options premiums on SPY but okay, math is a scam
ahh yes I'll sell before close friday, then for whatever bullshit reason SPY goes up another 2% on the weekend and i miss it I fell for it the past 4 weekends, not falling for it again
SPY should be 655 and not 755
SPY dancing to Kat de Luna's Wind Up (wall street still at lunch)
SPY just add 5% in two hours. I know you can do it!
Spacex legit doesn’t care what SPY does
Sadly I threw this in a couple days ago to have some fun on SPY options, but I'm still waiting for RH to "clear" (i.e. bank some interest) and can't take out any contracts lol. Shares for me 😭
SPY you were doing so well, keep going down
$SPY what a shit show
Can't believe SPY is going to retest $755 again. Oh the huge manatee.
in a different universe, SPY is 700