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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
Even with SPY jumping up 0.65%. TSLA still stayed red 😂📉
Yea, I'm thinking I'm back. $502 -> $4,369 in a week doing SPY 0DTE trades
I lost 3k in stocks and options, how do I come back from this?
You guys are down how much? SPY is barely off the highs
Chips vs. SPY: SMH +46.89% and SOXX +64.66% YTD — The Performance Gap Is Widening
The Democrat focused fund DEMZ was featured in the New York Times on Friday
HYG Just Broke Down From a 3-Month Triangle Consolidation. Is the Equity Market Next?
A true degen day: $326 -> $906 after dropping below $100 3 separate times
$SPY 0DE Gains - Claude Bot Making Me Money Now
Stocks tank yesterday, Trump account funded…coincidence?
I'd give anything to go back and never try trading.
I'd give anything to go back and never tried trading
$214K USD Value In Shares Yolo $AMPG | 36,200 Shares @ 5.90 Cost Basis
SOX just hit bear market territory. This earnings week is make or break for semis
Day 1 of making $50 to $500 by trading SPY options once per day
I model dealer gamma daily. Right now all three big index ETFs are negative-gamma below their flip,
If SPY doesn’t hit ATH by EOM, I’ll show my cheeks!
Seen at time square gift shop, bullish signal for next week
DD: the market literally crashes in sync with the lunar cycle and you idiots have been reading 10-Ks 🌑📉
1DTE $21K SPY FD Yolo - 735P 7/20/26 220x @ .96 Each
+230k SPY 0DTE, five out of five 🎯
Regard play of the week: AAPL 7/16 Puts 0dte
Why the Market Has Been Crappy
What is the Tax rule for "constructive sale/straddle treatment" of futures on SPY
Have you ever seen a weekly and daily chart of SPY so well coiled and oiled to make new highs?
The 230pm-415pm $SPX/$SPY scalp strategy I posted 2 days ago has now worked 2 days in a row since posting it here. Going to keep this going.
A SPY 0DTE averaging-down mistake that cost me $1,514
Wall Street has had this view of the market for years. Now it’s coming to retail…
Probably the 1,000th “Where do I start” post. #femedition
I backtested "buy whatever you guys are talking about" for 12 months. It beat SPY by 15 points.
June CPI missed big but I'm not buying the full rally yet
Don't think I've ever seen more extreme option gains - IBM 07/17 245P
Scalping $SPY & $SPX 2:30pm to close is the way to go.
MSFT Bear Call Spread, 96% PoP but risking 10x the credit — sanity check?
Take the blessing of "I give you 100 hints"-Orange-Man
Mentions
🍊 won a war and a golf tournament in the same weekend. SPY to 800.
Yeah it’s a hedge. Like I’m short oil and short SPY same time over weekend. Oil bet will more than pay off loss of the puts on SPY. No biggie.
Wait until the FOMO and greed kicks in SPY ATH tomorrow
Equivalent to SPY -0.3%
so if SPY touches $760 this week its puts right or is that to obvious
I’m getting ready to go to bed. Can someone take my shift of watching futures and make sure they don’t rug it. We are on schedule for SPY +1.5% tomorrow
**BanBet Created** ▼ | Ticker | Target | Entry | Move | Expires | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **SPY** | $744.00 (below) | $747.03 | -0.4% | 23h 60m |
Playing that opening gap candle down on SPY has worked for days and days. Load puts at open, sell them 10 minutes after the open. Surely it’s about time for MMs to flip the script and gap this bitch up for a change. Let’s trap some bears tomorrow
Taco said SPY 1000 and there is certainly a case for it. I am an optimist
SPY will hit 756 then its reckoning time
Is it too early to celebrate SPY ATH
Was 👌 close to pulling the trigger on a couple SPY puts to hold over the weekend since SPY pulled off a 1.5% on Thursday and nearly 1% on Friday. Thank god I didn’t because mango man said fuck your puts, it’s TACO Saturday.
SPY 800 please and thank you
Dollar dumping SPY pumping
just keep buying SPY 750p and QQQ 700p if they ever go over
Most SPY companies are barely up…SPY was 744 at the end of after hours Friday…yet SPY pops 1% here in overnight Futures? wtf this shit stinks like something funny time and time again
Entirely depends on your risk appetite and time you want to hold. AI infrastructure is in its early stages but extremely volatile. Semis + memory + data center buildouts are all growing thanks to enormous mag 7 capex. They all confirmed it’s going up through 2027 and likely until 2030. But can you handle enormous drawdowns if Trump decides to restart the war? Many are also taking on big time debt to keep up with the demand/scale, so something to keep in mind if demand slows. Long term growth mag 7 (besides Tesla) are always a safe bet. It’s hard to imagine Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc will slow down anytime soon. But they basically move the indices anyway so most people just buy SPY or QQQ. I’m a big fan of TSM personally. I personally don’t like dividends, at least dividend focused stocks, because I am younger and want the companies to reinvest in themselves rather than pay out a dividend.
Why doesn’t SPY have to report earning?
Peace pump and FOMO to SPY +2%, New ATH tomorrow praise allah
SPY is slightly above fridays close >!BEARS R FUK !<
Called SPY into my office, and told them the hard deck for this hop was 7400. Knew it, broke it, followed QQQQ below after it called no joy. Why?
SPY ATH tomorrow and I’ll stick the biggest watermelon I buy up my ass
SPY ATH tomorrow and I’ll rent a yacht for the next WSB meetup
If SPY hits $750 tomorrow I will download Grindr and let a stranger cum in my mouth.
+7.03% YTD... isn't SPY +9.35% YTD?
It’s so over SPY 600 tomorrow
Think about how dumb you'd have to be to buy puts against the strongest market/economy ever recorded in the history of human civilization. SPY is mooning to $800 FAST
To buy SPY (again) or not
Concepts of a deal that got completely blown up by actual missiles sent QQQ up $200 and SPY up $140 in 2 months
Bears underestimate the insane manipulation that will keep SPY going to 1000 may as well just join the bulls and go along for the ride
Yes my SPY 730 calls from last Wednesday are so heavy and worth so much that I can barely hold till expiration
SPY would have hit 900 already if 🥭 got his nobel peace prize first
Only SPY is QQQ has been almost literally decimated lol
The FOMO tomorrow will be crazy and shorts will cover to SPY +3% tomorrow
we'll be back when we see SPY breaking ATH
We have peace. Why isn't SPY 800 already.
Appreciate the thorough response. Don't always get that around here. Will certainly do more research before diving into SPY options.
So what’s this equate to at the open? SPY 755/756?
Market makers have kept SPY basically pinned for the last 48 hours. For people who say the market is not manipulated - how can you explain that one??
Zoom out of SPY the last 30 years or 20 years fuck it the last 12 months? What do bears see?
WSB in shambles SPY still at 744 What did we learn about trusting the Koreans this week
Zoom out of SPY the last 30 years or 20 years fuck it the last 12 months? What do bears see?
We all know it’s a lie from 🥭 and he’s trapped and desperate to get out. But that’s got to be good for another 0.7% on SPY. The escalation doesn’t come until Wednesdays
It's mostly luck with just enough skill to convince you you have the secret sauce to trade them with an edge until your account bleeds out or explodes. You can get better entries/exits with experience, but as an instrument, 0DTEs are mechanically designed to take money from retail over time. Every position is rapidly decaying from theta so your timing and read needs to be perfect every time. Mechanical stops don't really work out other than to prevent complete catastrophes as any stop tight enough to matter is also tight enough to cut most of your winners. Pile onto a drop/spike that reverses before you can get out and you're either stuck closing for a likely large loss or having to hold and hope it goes even further in the direction you initially predicted than when you bought in. Because even if the underlying gets back to where it was when you bought, the theta loss and likely lack of velocity that was there when you purchased the option means you are stuck underwater. So of course the natural 'solution' to this is to add to the original position like OP did. You're getting a cheaper theta and now if SPY moves back to your entry you should be net positive, close out the trade for a nice win. That works great, until it doesn't. Because now if it moves against you after a second trade you're even worse off than before, and you get tempted to add a third time because of course your read wasn't wrong and it's going to drop/spike any second. Only now, the market decides to just oscillate in place for 30-60 minutes and you are watching theta eat your first, second, and third buy-ins. Pretty soon, you're thinking a 4th buy in to average down even further might be in order and then a tweet spikes or crashes SPY and you either made or lost a shit ton of money instantly.
never been a better time to be a bear cant wait to just buy puts an hour after open sell them mid day and repeat before last hour use the theta decay to your advantage stocks dont move at all for hours at a time so just buy before these volatility windows cash out before close which if you use a real broker gives you 15 min after market for Qs and SPY put profit into SGOV
Beating SPY over long term with one stock is! Also, I don’t think there’s as much risk involved as you think here. I mean the SPY is majority made up of these mega caps anyway, which have a safer risk profile than the rest of the index, and he’s buying most of the SPY on their pullbacks, at cheaper prices. I think people try to discount methods like this because they don’t want to believe it can be this simple to earn outsize returns. Sometimes it can be….. anyways OP isn’t necessarily a genius for guessing the biggest companies in the world would continue to provide returns. The hard part will be when the rest of the market starts returning and mega cap prices deflate. What do you switch to next?
>*i just made a grand in less than 10 min by setting a limit to buy 10 SPY 748p for .48 each and then setting another limit to sell for 1.48 which got filled in about 5 min or so*
**BanBet Created** ▼ | Ticker | Target | Entry | Move | Expires | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **SPY** | $730.00 (below) | $747.03 | -2.3% | Aug 4, 9:00 PM |
**BanBet Created** ▼ | Ticker | Target | Entry | Move | Expires | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **SPY** | $700.00 (below) | $747.03 | -6.3% | Aug 9, 8:57 PM |
SPY $751 puts, ASTS $71 puts, SOFI 13.5 calls, T $23 calls
I had my best week last week too. This week I broke even with a slight extra. I would suggest to not bank on a bull rally at all til we are either passed 750 on SPY (A smaller ETF what SPX is) or a breaking news catalyst like the Iran finds with U.S. etc. Or inflation at an all time low. We might be in this spot making Vs for a while at least til labor day when big money steps in.
That’s not what OP is comparing. Who the fuck compares performance of one stock vs SPY LOL
Glorious 🌮 all over again. If ee can stretch this war/peace thing over the next 2 years, SPY will hit 1000
Here’s Claude AI being a negative nancy for *shits and giggles*: The screenshots and the per-lot SPY comparison are the weakest part of his case, even though they're the flashiest. A "Lot Details" screen only shows positions he still holds. His own strategy is to trim into strength — so every lot he sold, and every position he exited at a loss, is invisible here. Three names that happen to be AAPL, GOOG, and AMZN over 2020–2026 isn't evidence of dip-buying skill; it's evidence he owned three of the biggest mega-cap winners of the era. Anyone who bought those on *any* schedule beat SPY. What his numbers can't separate: - **Stock picking vs. timing.** Buying the dip in AAPL beat SPY. So did buying AAPL at random. The dip-timing premium is the gap between those two, and he hasn't shown it. - **Regime vs. edge.** Post-COVID, essentially every drawdown recovered within months. That made "buy fear, sell strength" nearly unloseable. 2000–2013 would have handled it very differently. - **The portfolio claim.** "2x the index over 6 years" is the real assertion, and none of the lot screenshots test it. That said, the boring parts of what he describes — few positions, real liquidity, willingness to buy when it's uncomfortable, not touching options with the core — are legitimately the habits that separate people who do okay from people who churn. On the $10m comment: percentage returns don't care about account size, so the math scales down fine. What doesn't scale is the position. Holding 40% cash for a year is a rounding error in his life and a serious opportunity cost in a $10k account. And a 30% drawdown means nothing to him and can mean everything to someone whose savings that is. The advantage isn't the strategy — it's being able to be wrong for a long time without consequences. I'm not a financial advisor, and this is a read on his argument rather than a recommendation either way.
The pain is far from over. That cute little pump was just exit liquidity. SPY will see 7000 shoooon.
SPY +3% tomorrow on renowned optimism over de escalation of conflict in Middle East
Scalp 0dte SPY $10 at a time
My notes … “Buy SPY calls” it’s on my desk
SPY 800c gonna be in the money by EOY
Brothers and sisters, we gather here today to remember the Great Bear Market of July 29, 2026, through July 30, 2026. It was a brief life, but a meaningful one. The bears fought bravely, armed with charts, doom posts, recession predictions, inverted yield curves, and seventeen screenshots of the same head-and-shoulders pattern. They swore the end was near. “SPY $700 by Friday,” they cried. “This is just like 2008,” they declared. Yet, at the opening bell, the market chose violence. Call options ascended to the heavens, portfolios turned green, and countless puts were reduced to decorative digital confetti. The bears are survived by their beloved VIX charts, half-finished YouTube thumbnails, and the phrase, “Just wait until next week.” Pallbearers include Negative Gamma, Bad GDP Estimates, and that one guy who bought puts at the exact bottom. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations of ramen noodles and margin capital. The official cause of death has been listed as acute exposure to an unexpectedly bullish market open. May they rest in puts.
750 open tomorrow on SPY 755 by close and then ATH on Tuesday It's literally that easy
No but there is a 4x SPY (SPYU) and you can get absolutely torched playing with it. Have fun
Just need a little SPY +2% tomorrow and I’ll quit options forever
You can also just miss out on SPY going up 25%.
OTM 1DTE SPY calls Whatever strike is 10 bucks 😘
well over long term momentum still wins? Spmo YTD still beats SPY twice over even though semi stocks crashed
You just know that even with a fake news deal the market going to gap up 2% on QQQ and 1% on SPY just because it can and will
The clean comparison is a shadow portfolio: every time you buy or sell a stock, make the same cash flow into the benchmark you could actually have owned (SPY, a sector ETF, etc.). Compare XIRR after estimated taxes, then compare max drawdown too. TWR helps judge the portfolio process; XIRR tells you what your actual dollars earned. Don't grade each winner alone or one lucky position will hide the rest.
SPY this year…you guessed it… flat 😐
Not gonna lie. I did get some SPY puts. But I’m hugely long so just hedging a bit.
Nice! I started a $1000 0DTE SPY account, non margin. Markets been really good for predicting swings lately. https://preview.redd.it/tgdxl95mqzgh1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1d5a19616d5c32dd9f9567bcb2a792de5e7a5663
you're never gonna win playing against citadel but sitting on SPY has been a winning move
SPY +2% tomorrow and I’ll stick two watermelons up my ass
bout to fry some catfish hope SPY does a -2% tomorrow
!banbet SPY -2% 3d Get fukt bols
I mean... SPY has pumped 18% in 4 months under the same circumstances. 🥭 tweets, Iran denies, nothing changes, market pumps.
The dip basically didn't even happen. SPY nearing ATH again
We are so close to getting back to SPY ATH Markets yearn for ATH regardless of news
my boi ayatolla junior is buying SPY calls for monday morning
Tiny green gap up tomorrow. Then a dump and then a pump. Then chop. Then SPY finishes up 0.47 cents. Most in this sub will have executed 14 trades in that timeframe and finish down 13%. “I broke even” they’ll convince themselves. Rinse and repeat for 3 more months. Then come the “sCAm!” posts.
That’s true. But yeah I meant AI stocks not SPY. Could see Mu going to $450 easily…
Perimeters of deal have been reached. We can all rest easy now. SPY 1,000 EOW
How much are you losing per trade on taxes vs just holding SPY though
Monday: MU🔻 SNDK🔻 SPY📈
Haha similar vibes to the guy who blew up his $200k port on SPY 0dtes and said “market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent”
My total portfolio that includes my losers, my boring half that is traditional index foundation and bonds, and my cash has averaged +27% per year vs SPY 17%. Typically 60/40 portfolio has returned 12%. The juice from my strategy on this half of my equity bucket and aggressively deploying cash on weakness has made all the difference.
SPY 760 tomorrow and I’ll stick 760 Costco hotdogs up my ass
Once i had credit spreads on SPY. 10 cons. It expired worthless. Like 2 dollars far. Next morning i wake up to see that i have 500k worth of SPY shares. Somebody exercised out of money options. I literally panicked and was shaking lol. Never happened before. But easiest 3.4k i made. I closed right away to bank the profit.
I think we pump for 2-3 days. Reality sets in that Iran isn't going to let Mango Taco. Continues to bomb ME assets, straits remain closed. Mango gets the yips, threatens to use the big red button. Repeat a few weeks until the last barrel, SPY nosedives into oblivion. "Obama and Biden caused this."