SPY

taplar

Opinions vary, but my view on the sell for 31 days and then buy back in, isn't the ideal approach. The preferred approach would be to sell the thing that you may want to buy back later, and immediately buy something that is highly correlated. Consider if you had a loss in VOO, you could sell it and immediately put the same value into SPY or FXAIX. To date, no one has provided an example of the IRS considering different index funds to be similar enough to count towards a wash sale. So, so long as that is an option you can generate a loss without losing exposure to the underlying assets.

nickfromstatefarm

A lot of my regular holdings didn’t do great, but my portfolio got carried by aggressive RKLB/RKLX positions assisted by long term SPY/VOO holdings. Crazy year.

ResponsibleValue7745

SPY is currently $682 bro

Low-Researcher-9375

"I think replacing spy with voo would likely trigger the wash sale." -- I don't think that's true. Based on my read of wash sale rules, ETFs are the least likely to trigger a wash sale, as long as the two ETFs are issued by different financial institutions. So replacing SPY with VOO and vice versa should be fine. Of course VOO is preferable with the lower expense ratio.

neutralpoliticsbot

I bought a shit ton of SPY calls before it was clearly a end of the year sell off by people who have no idea how taxes work

neutralpoliticsbot

SPY is up 19%

mislysbb

Dude could’ve taken 1/4 of that 750k, threw it into a bunch of SPY/SPX calls at various points this year and doubled/tripled his money

Couture_Fashion18

For small Accounts - go with credit spreads like I do with SPY also !

Wallaby8311

Ok so you're telling me that SPY will triple in 5 years guaranteed 

ResponsibleValue7745

SPY $500 Dec 2026

Internal_Field5970

SPY 700 in Shanghai 

Same-Brilliant2014

Going all in SPY600p dec 2026 ☺️

Moist-Pumpkin-5336

All he had to do was put it in SPY and wait. Heck, even putting it in $MO would've generated $50k+ in dividends each year which he could've gambled with.

Cultural_Thing1712

NGL European indexes are a pretty good buy these days. You don't get nuked by USD conversion rates and they have solid returns. IBEX35 returned 50%, DAX returned 21.5%. Even the CAC40's 16.1% return was better than SPY.

ShittyUsernane1222

My predictions for 2026: \-OpenAI chapter 11 \-Magnificent 7 become magnificent 3.5 and enter banking industry \-🥭 forces US citizens to get "Patriot chips" on their hand to buy and sell stuff. \-WW3 due to Taiwan and Israel-Iran Shenanigans \-WW3 and WW1 Trenches become vogue TikTok trend. \-"6 7" War Robots are released by China and US. \-All Quiet on the Western Front becomes a best seller for the next decades. \-US somehow fumbles the War and loses yet 🥭 somehow manages to become world president(TM). \-Climate Change absolutely demolishes a few Countries, Russia and Canada becomes a major tourism and Immigration destination for its mild weather. \-SPY somehow reaches ATHs and beats previous YTD gains after dumping continuously for months in 2026.

weasler7

Been using for about 3 months for the XLK-like strategy. I liked it's performance and TLH harvesting enough to add the SPY-like and EFA-like strategy 1 month ago. I haven't had any problems, although tracking error for the XLK strategy is -1%, SPY is +.9%, and EFA is +.5%. Seems pretty easy to administer. They haven't been around for a long time though. I am interested in moving assets to the long/short direct indexing strategy eventually - for which Frec is the only provider I know of not locked behind an AUM advisor.

nadoterisback

The last 32 years of SPY was just a big bull trap. Starting from 2026, the next multiple decades will be straight down. Your grandkids will see SPY back in double digits. Happy new year. Bull is fuck.

DopeBook

SPY-Ron condor! But don’t lose 50 mil.

autumndrop

For low fees and long-term stability, many people stick with broad market index ETFs rather than individual stocks. Personally, I use SPY (S&P 500 exposure) and QQQ (more growth/tech-heavy). They’re low-cost and easy to invest in regularly.

Austin_Destroyer

Wake up. It's 2025 again. Sell err'thing. Buy SPY puts. Then, on liberation day, buy long SPY calls. That's how last year could have gone, but nah. It's 2026 and not a single thing looks attractive. P-puts? Fuck is this a groundhog year?

Own-Wolverine-5361

!banbet SPY 686 1d

Own-Wolverine-5361

!banbet SPY 686 2d

Own-Wolverine-5361

!banbet SPY 689 5d

Organic-Lie4759

Looking forwards to another year of staring at SPY for six hours and watching it finally move in the wrong goddamn direction every single fucking day at 3:44 pm. Happy New Year!

Wallaby8311

Infinite expansion of the market is not sustainable. In 5 years SPY could be halved and still overvalued.

ArchegosCapitalCEO

SPY negative YTD. Bul will never recover

AimShot

Man, it’s still rough living in Europe and only netting +3% on SPY because the USD took a dump..

Chemical-Fun3692

Which one is SPY? It looks like it’s also mirroring the S&P 500? Not sure why it has 3 letters.

Tridelo

My confidence in SPY 700 EOY has considerably increased, compared to yesterday.

notentertained90

Stop trading SPY contracts Trade SPX. No more wash sales bullshit to worry about 

TheInkDon1

Well if you called it for the 10th and a little beyond, then you nailed it. Is your method something more substantive than astrology? Maybe a Ouija board? You'll want to choose which side of the expected dip you want to play. Maybe both. So you're either placing bearish bets before the market goes down, or bullish ones when you think it's bottomed and about to come back. [OptionStrat.com](http://OptionStrat.com) is a great place to model option trades. You'll want to use SPY and/or QQQ, maybe IWM too. Click the "Build" tab at the top, then left side, Novice -> Basic: play around with Long Call and Long Put first. Change DTE and Delta and see what you'd get. And under Intermediate, look at Credit Spreads and Debit Spreads. Those 4 things should let you do what you want to do without too much fuss, and they're fairly intuitive. But if you're comfortable with options you could look at some of the other strategies there. And I'm really kind of curious about your method, so if it's more than astrology or supernatural, would you DM me what it is? Be good. Mike

JustinKSU

Check out SCHK and SCHB. Personally I prefer SCHB over SPY.

ArchegosCapitalCEO

SPY flat YTD. Bul will never recover

BeerJunky

SPY and chill would have worked much better than whatever this is.

neutralpoliticsbot

Happy new year even to the bears. I actually beat SPY this year. Feels good man

-LabApprehensive-

Ok so heres the deal. Put 15% of your pay into SPY every single week. Pretend it’s taxes or something. Put it on auto pilot this is key. You need to treat this money like its already gone. Come back here in 5 years. you will have 100k.

SomaComa-AP

Really upset with myself only up 15% on year. First time not beating the SPY since 2022

Careless_Inspector88

Lose money on SPY obvioulsly.

Charming-Charge-596

I think there's a LOT of idiots trading ODTE SPY who lose everything then warn others not to trade options because options are bad.

Gcard1986

Put your money in the QQQ and SPY and sit back and watch it grow.

Blooblack

Oh, I see. Understood, and I like the way you think. So, if I may ask, do you buy options more often on individual stocks (e.g. your Nvidia example), than on, say, SPY or QQQ? Or do you do both stocks and ETFs? If you do both, what if any difference in success rate have you experienced when comparing the two categories?

wafflepiezz

Watch this wsb REGARD INDEX outperform SPY next year.

Sufficient_Winner686

Don’t. Don’t do any of that shit you think makes you sound cool and just throw 10-20% or whatever you can into the SPY. I promise if you go down this road, we will see you posting losses on other subreddits. I’ve said this before and I was right.

Own-Wolverine-5361

!banbet SPY 685.45 5d

Own-Wolverine-5361

!banbet SPY 689.50 7d

Own-Wolverine-5361

!banbet SPY 690 9d

Sick0h

If SPY can pump 2% each day for the next 3 trading days, I can break even 

lmaixiv

59%. Most of them are options wheel and weekly DCA SPY.

Background-Truth4837

Leveraged ETFs using AI. Over 30% return, lower drawdown than SPY for 2025.

sailphish

I’ve read a number of your comments and you seem a bit confused. A lot of the big funds (like VOO, SPY, VTI…) you can buy at any brokerage. You don’t have to buy VTI on Vanguard, you can buy it as Fidelity or Schwab or wherever. IMHO this is the best option. Vanguard has terrific funds, but Schwab and Fidelity are better platforms to deal with. I personally wouldn’t own any of the smaller proprietary funds (sometimes marketed as no cost, as they are all so cheap anyway) that are only available on Fidelity or Schwab, as it could force a capital gains event if you ever want to move brokerages in the future.

kerrykingzgo-T

You should keep your money in SPY

TheLoneWolf_218

No. Assuming this is a Schwab account which it looks like, the cost basis shown here is just the cumulative dollar value of exposure they bought over the course of a year. If you have a $50k account for example and buy and sell $50k worth of SPY once per day, the cost basis would show about $10 million over the course of the year. If you bought and sold $50k worth of SPY ten times a day it would show $100 million. People who day trade a lot will have an insanely high cumulative cost basis if if they have a relatively small account. I have no idea how big OP account is but unless they made 1 trade the entire year worth 75 million their account is most certainly not that high

Same-Incident8235

This honestly seems really helpful, I was trying to figure out a way to locate good stocks to trade because I mainly trade ETFS such as SPY because I’m so used to their OPEX cycle and their monthly behaviors, my only issue is that around the second week, I usually get trapped by thin liquidity and it’s really difficult attempting to time the choppy behavior SPY exhibits during the holidays or the not so active market periods. So main point is like finding a better alternative which are stocks that have more convicted institutional behavior than completely relying on one ETF. I’m usually decent at trading strong price moves (like whenever GEX levels are strongly positive or negative), and I’m using some other tools such as spot gamma, and using delta as a guideline, but I’m kind of trivialized with how to start this, I know you’ve provided an already really great detailed summary, but I was wondering what you would consider to take slowly throughout the process of making this tracker?

bearhunter429

#Next year is the year SPY dumps to $250 to celebrate America's 250th birthday LMAO🤌

BosSF82

BTC down 6% in 2025, SPY up 16% in 2025

Iunatic

So you basically mirrored just being long SPY/QQQ anyway?

TECH-ANAL-GOD

!banbet SPY $692.63 4w

Sick0h

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like if SPY went upwards.

Alternative_Fact2866

With that money, you literally just need to sell cash secured puts on QQQ or SPY at 20 Delta to make a bank. If assigned, just do covered calls. You're a clown 🤡

TECH-ANAL-GOD

I think that’s what I’m going to do. I would like to scale up eventually, but will follow your advice. I think just taking baby steps rather than leaps would serve me better in the future. I truly want to make this a full time job. Thanks for the advice! I really do wonder, also, if another opportunity like that will arise in about 2-4 weeks. I think SPY touches 691-693 by the fourth week of January. Feeling kinda confident, may banbet it.

DueHousing

But buying and holding SPY is gay

AverageAngling

Is it? When you’re getting like 1% of the returns you’d make from just dumping into SPY lol

Captain_Lameson

People in New Zealand and Australia, what's the SPY currently at in the future?

Prometheus_1094

My SPY 688c for 02.01 are cooked…. TY santa rally

nobertan

24.8% YTD, back to back SPY YTD beats. 35% of that being driven Google, either selling puts or buying and holding since April. Migrated portfolio to high confidence sectors and long treasury bonds (60/40) from a more broad growth basket back in March; have been using bonds for opportunistic put selling. (*Only accounting for 15% of the portfolios 24.8% YTD growth, basically just making the bonds work while my confidence bottomed out*). **Biggest ‘Win’** - dumping $40k into Google at the very bottom, based entirely on core business value, vs. them dunking on MSFT/OpenAI/Nvidia for AI hype. Idiot savant on that one. **Biggest ‘Regret’** - getting assigned $100k of Micron DEC30-2024 and wheeling it out immediately for a loss in January. Would’ve taken balls of steel to carry that through April to now that I absolutely don’t possess. This basically dropped me under SPY perf 2024. **Biggest ‘Disappointment’** - cyber security ETFs, specifically CIBR. Its allocation is bizarre, and performance pisspoor; Not fulfilling its job as sector bucket. *It’s getting yeeted day 1 2026, unsure on reallocation; maybe gambling money for* ***long dated Oracle Puts.*** *Their business plan is flawed, their debt management is dire and they occupy a lopsided risk/reward profile with OpenAI. I just need to figure out a date when the emperor’s lack of clothes is revealed, but I misplaced my crystal ball…*

bearhunter429

#SPY currently trades at a P/E of 30. We've never started a year where SPY traded at 30 and bols expect shit to pump next year. LMAO🎅🤌

TECH-ANAL-GOD

Flipped $13k to $46k with SPY puts today, rode it down at around 1:15 PM and didn’t sell til we was at 683

EmbarrassedKoala3982

i bought NVO at the top i bought NBIS at the top i bought HOOD at the top i bought MSTR at the top i bought OKLO at the top i bought ABAT at the top i bought CRWV at the top i bought SLV at the top i bought QS at the top i bought BYND at the top my next buy shall be SPY

GOOGAMZNGPT4

To answer the question you need to look at 2 key factors; **Risk** and **Behavior.** Let us define gambling; >the practice of risking money or other stakes in a game or bet Let us define investing; >put money into financial schemes, shares, property, or a commercial venture with the expectation of achieving a profit: All investing can be considered gambling. Functionally they are the same act, what determines the differentiation between them is level of risk and behavior. Think of it like a 2-dimensional risk spectrum. On the left hand side is low-risk investments, on the right hand side is high-risk investments. The entire spectrum is gambling. The entire spectrum is also investing. But we label actions on the low-risk end as 'investments'. And we label actions on the high-risk end as 'gambling'. The key differentiation between investment and gambling is that investments hover around the 5%-15% expected return targets, with minimal risk. Gambling in a literal sense often has a 50/50 chance or less of winning, with higher expected return targets sometimes as high as 100%. Higher returns, higher losses, due exactly to higher risk. Crypto has more risk than traditional investment options, so some label it as gambling. A HYSA, for example, has minimal risk than most traditional investment options, so most label it as investing. But then let us add in Behavior which allows you to swing any investment towards the opposite direction of the spectrum. You can abuse and exhibit gambling behavior on traditional low risk investments. You can also conservatively and intelligently invest in Crypto. For one, you can literally gamble with Crypto (high risk). Or - you can DCA a modest amount of discretionary income to get some upside exposure in your portfolio -or trade shares in Fidelty Crypto ETFs-, and you can set an automated exit price for your exit strategy and you can do this all with a level of investment that is comfortably within your risk tolerance. (much lower risk). It's no differently than DCA SPY investing vs gambling Options trading. Opportunities exist. Opportunities have varying risk levels. You have risk tolerance levels. You can't disconnect the asset from your behavior and how you choose to interact with it.

mks_csw

If you think your trading year was bad, there prob is one dude „yeah i lost my sons cancer treatment money on SPY 0DTE‘s“ in here somewhere

sailortyx56

Today saw more than 90% of S&P 500 stocks fall. The only other time this happened on the last trading day of a year, was December 31, 2009 when 467 SPY stocks fell.

kazkeb

I think you guys might be getting this whole tax loss harvesting thing wrong.... SPY is up 16% on the year. Most people (besides you retards) have unrealized gains, not losses. If anything, people are resisting selling right now, so that they can push those realized gains into next year. In other words, in recent history, the market has dropped at the beginning of the year that follows a successful year (2021, 2023, 2024). Now, for the important part... Do you want ketchup for fry sauce for those fries?

MrForever_Alone69

Damn SPY and the Q’s ending red sounds like trouble for 2026. I guess giving frostys behind Wendy’s is back on the menu

Starkfault

Spent the last hour DCAing SPY $700c 1/16

HuntersMoon19

34%. A good chunk of that gain was RIOT. A good chunk of my losses from Oct to now were also RIOT. But double SPY, can’t complain about that.

WSB-mods-are-

im guessing anyone who bought SPY calls for Friday didnt check the open interest? lol ill be inpressed if we open over -0.5%

S-Club-Party

This chart literally shows SPY at ATH 🤦‍♂️

Kurtatebanica

SPY $670 on Friday

Long_Illustrator_988

> SCHG I mean, those hold different assets. May as well say NVDA outperformed VOO and SPY.

nadoterisback

The last 32 years of SPY was just a big bull trap. Starting from 2026, the next multiple decades will be straight down. Your grandkids will see SPY back in double digits. Happy new year. Bull is fuck.

jsie-iaiqhsi816278

!banbet SPY 696.96 2d

daviddjg0033

Greed gets the best of us. My advice: Do not scale up. If you trade SPW or SPY do not scale up to SPX. Buy a bunch of /mes instead of using /es. If you trade TQQQ/SQQQ or SPXL/SPXS do not scale up to options. Take that first $100,000 and never touch it again. Have two brokers or three preferably. You can recover because you are 6 feet above ground.

-IQ200

>[If SPY opens below 686, I wanna see a open pump fake & reject 686 for a mean slide. 🛝](https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/s/UFvRoq5snP) So the vision was there, just didn’t play out as planned. Opened above 686 & didn’t get the pump fake + reject until near end of day. 🙃

Mihermano2002

Wow SPY filled the gap between 12/19 and 12/22 last minute before end of the year. Trend might start to reverse might back up, $700 can we acc hit it in January

NotEasyOne_Regard

Because it indeed was genuine. I could’ve not seen to be honest 5 years ago that OZOP would crash. If you’ve put 10k 0DTE SPY or QQQ or whatever, I would’ve called you a regard but no because again, I looked at reports and graphs of OZOP 5 years ago and I could’ve not seen the crash.

Space__Pirate

Submit SPY calls for the 2nd. Banking on a new year rally after the tax lost harvesting today.

MagicJuggler

Wow. SPY down. TLT down. Metals down. Is this...deflation? Or just an EOY margin call?

truetech

thoughts on $SPY Friday?

BuddyIsMyHomie

Did you see that massive SPY PUT someone bought exactly 1 yr out?

Odd-Block-2998

SPY: 16.64% QQQ: 20.40% GLD: 61.48% SLV: 139.21% Main portfolio return: \~46.19% Portfolio return since 9/1/2025, when I started theta gang: \~31.96% QQQ return since 9/1/2025: 7.70%

Sick0h

Wow, SPY really decided to ruin my whole year on the last day wtf

EvolvingDior

SPY going back to the 670s.

MagneticRetard

sorry chuds but SPY 700 over new years I don't make the rules

hermeskino715

Can we get SPY 600 on liberation day anniversary?

blemdemman

they nerfed SPY 700 gah damn

smart_doge

My YTD summarized: - Trading Account: +12.2% - SPY: +15.78% - 401k: +20.42%

Illustrious-Coat3532

+29.25 YTD. Wasn’t as good as last year, but I still beat SPY.

CMDR_Shepard96

How could Boe Jiden do this to me.m Long dated SPY/GLD/B/MSFT calls just reaming me this week. https://preview.redd.it/qngbm5twulag1.jpeg?width=1439&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0efda9b7fa695ced90fbc06370d3afd43dfae35a

WSB-mods-are-

insane gains today anyone with the 0dte balls at open for SPY puts. you deserve those wins! happy new year and to another great year of trading! 🥳🍻🎊🎉

hungover247365

I agree, By wobble I mean largely rangebound and sideways. I don't expect we will see a double digit year again from the QQQs or the SPY. Will we see a meaningful correction? I also think it's unlikely.