SPY

AdCritical5383

SPY 12k would be fucking crazy. Where do I sign up?

Dazzling_Marzipan474

Honestly just don't imo. It has very rarely paid off in the long run. Timing is the problem and it's very expensive to short. You need like a -5% move just to breakeven for 6 month SPY puts. Everyday it goes sideways you lose to theta -$55 for a 10k bet for 6 months on average. So it costs you $55/day just for the opportunity to short the market. Not even counting the other dollar or so you can get from the risk free rate.. You have to overcome, monetary expansion, automatic retirement buys, drip, corporate buybacks, and pay for it and get the timing right. Of course the market is stupidly overbought but there's no reason it can't continue. Good luck if you do though.

SexyBunny12345

Buy SPY puts

Elegant_Primary_7133

QQQ and IWM are your best bets both cheaper than SPY with solid liquidity. Just don’t go too cheap or you’ll pay for it in spreads

DoctorBaconite

Hopefully this helps make up for stupidly selling 3 SPY $700 03/17 CCs last Monday. I knew it was a bad idea and did it anyways so I kind of deserve it.

d33p7r0ubl3

VM what do you think SPY will do on Monday?

MartinMcFly55

25–4/17 expiry $700 lotto calls I bought on SPY Monday, because I convinced myself the market is being just irrational enough. Bought at .04, sold at .15 the same day, because I felt like a degenerate. _They went to $985 two days later._

Impressive-Trash382

With 300 contracts, you are a day trader who snipes. I'll bet that position was open less than 10 minutes. Swing trading 300 contracts of SPY, you account better be 400k already to back up risky moves like that.

stonketship

I think both sides want the war to end but neither knows how to do it without looking weak. 🇮🇱 will likely fuck up the ceasefire (heard they already did but havent confirmed) so curious how Iran will react to that. War back on may be enough for a red monday or SPY could be up 5% who tf knows anymore 🫠

Intelligent-You-6144

SPY700 calls at 630, 2mo..err...weeks out

QuickInvestIQ

I personally wouldn’t not buy an S&P 500 inverse ETF like some people have mentioned. These are not meant for long term holds. The beta slippage will erode the value of your position even if you are correct about the direction of the market. Buying SPY puts is probably the most effective way to short the overall market but be aware that there is both a time and volatility premium associated with them.

Hairy-Literature8672

1. Enable options in your trading platform. Accept disclaimers about risk. 2. Go to SPY and open the Options Chain during trading hours. 3. Buy to Open 10k worth of put options with strike price close to whatever market price is at that time, and make sure the expiration is 3-6 months from now. You'll notice the cost to you is 100x the price you see on the screen, per contract. So 1 contact for 5.00 is $500. In this example, you'd buy 20 contracts for 10k. 4. Cross your fingers and take profit or cut losses anytime before expiration during market hours by clicking Sell to Close. Good luck!

bikkhu42

!banbet SPY 620 1w

CultofCedar

Shit straight cooked this week for me. Bought BULL on a whim with some SPY calls earlier in the week and now I’m picking up a Leica and lens tomorrow. Easy pocket money. I love this casino.

Shoganai_Hito

SPY $715 EOD Monday or I donate my left testi to science and better humanity Disclaimer: already had all me kids

poopy_wizard132

SPY infinite money glitch!

diefy7321

SPY $900 EOY but bers would still say “bUt He’S lYiNg!” LMAO 🤌

Micheal_Hancho

You can buy puts, sell call credit spreads, or some combination of both. For example, you can sell a 725 call and buy the 735 or 745 call for 5/29 and get about $300 -$600. If you get the direction right then you keep a lot of the premium. You don't get the direction right but SPY stays below 725 you can still profit.

what_could_gowrong

I bought two SPY $706 puts expiring Monday eod. Let's see if this lottery ticket hits

ericDXwow

So you mean SPY 800 by end of April?

DeHunter_54

SPY730

cupofchupachups

You wouldn't have had the massive dips. Is SPY barely being above where it was in October really that great? 

HorsedickGoldstein

More risky: SPY puts 3-6 months out Less risk, but still risky: SQQQ or an inverse market etf, leverage optional

Great-Engine7416

I trade on Robinhood because I work a day job in the office and can’t be trading a real setup anyways. The money that I risk on my options is money I expect to lose, but obviously I try not to. After 3 years of trading options I’m up about 300% of my total deposits. I think I often have a good feel for where price action is taking things, but I have let some very profitable trades, like 1000+% trades, expire worthless because of not respecting my own mental stop losses. Really though I treat most of my options trades as all or nothing trades. I agree tho it’s a pretty shit platform, though it’s gotten better. MMs routinely play around the automatic option close outs, so I only go for cash settled options (SPX vs SPY) that can capitalize on the end of day pumps and dumps.

Great-Engine7416

I have some framework I like to follow specifically regarding gap ups and gap downs that seem to be pretty reliable at offering some good entries. Really I just trade SPY/SPX options and occasionally some swings on tech stocks around earnings. My formula is simple, look at the trend and the price action, while also understanding the MMs are trying to screw over the maximum amount of people every single trading session. Basically inverse what makes logical sense, especially when price action supports it. Counter trend moves are much harder to time, and yet everyone out there is trying to find the next big short. 🤷

Early-Ad-5814

I have a great idea. Slap 200k into a treasury bond or just SPY. Then fuck around with the 50k

Sharp-Direction-6894

There is something just so beautiful about SPY & NVDA closing at 700+ & 200+, respectively, together.

PuhleaseHold

At this point, I think if we launch a nuke SPY will crack 1000 

flat-waffles

This is the last fucking time i believe these oil doomers shits been down or flat ever since i bought in. Its actually all fake news and theres no oil crisis at all. SPY to 1000

yeetfeet353

Jokes on them, I bought SPY calls AND puts. Fool me once…

Zerkron

SPY +2% Monday

ericDXwow

SPY 800 by end of month!!!

ThaliaFaye

strait is pivoting to AI, SPY 1000 on monday

usrnmz

I don't know for how long Hormuz will stay closed. But yes, I am long some oil and short some SPY.

thenorthernwhiteboy

Just paid for next years tuition in SPY calls today 🙏

Treemanithan

80k is a lot of money and can easily give you massive returns in the long run if you just put it all in the SPY etf during the next big dip and leave it alone. This dip may come this year, next year, or in 5 years, but I'd just wait till then.

Constant-Sweet-3718

The entire market is one big ponzi scheme. Casinos have rules. Unlike the stock market, the odds and probilities are known and well established within the casino. For example, look at roulette. Your odds are 1/35 or 1/38. Bets on red/black is near 50%. The market swings wildly one way or the other based on a number of factors. Some are unknown. DJT tweets something "positive" and SPY jumps 10% in a day/week. The rules aren't fix. Not well established. Because they can adjust the rules whenever and whatever they want to benefit the rich and powerful

Successful-End7689

If you’re short-term trading, you’re better off trading SPY or QQQ. You can position better and eliminate the risk of everything going up while your sector or stock still goes down. It’s also easier to read since the overall market generally tracks macro events better.

Shoganai_Hito

Threw $2500 at SPY 0dte today. Went -$1250 within 2 min and was about to sell. Got a work call for 5 min and it went back to +$250 Thank you coworker

shower_optional

!banbet SPY 720.69 1w

DrElkSnout

That SPY flatline after hours is mega fucking sus...

cannythecat

!banbet SPY 750 30d

ChampionshipOdd947

May 2026: Nuclear war. Everyone is annihilated. June 2026: SPY hits 800

RockasaurusRex

Psst. Psst, hey 'gard. I've got some cude oil WTI $60/brl in my van back here. Also got some SPY calls with no premium. Yep that's right, back in my van here...

Chemical-Coconut-203

Is there a free site/app to check open interest for ETFs like SPY?

Sufficient-Flan1565

Y talking about SPY? If QQQ goes 725, boys i will be fucking rich 🤑

_rockthemike

In back from 2028. SPY made it to 850. Inflation ramped out of control. We had a massive drop back to 600 by April, then pumped to 1000. Plan accordingly

heyheyitsandre

Currently I have 8 shares of DIA, 15 SPY, 17 XLK, 16 VXUS. 10k liquid in an emergency HYSA, usually leave about 3-4k liquid in checking. No type of debt of any kind for my fiancee or me. I earn about 85k gross, contribute 8%, company matches 6% and puts discretionary 2% into a Roth 401k as well. I have a personal Roth IRA I haven’t touched in about a decade that I used to put all my money in when I was 16 working part time, about 8k in that last I checked. My fiancee and I are both in fortunate positions family wise where whenever our parents pass we should come into 4+ million dollars. So we won’t really need money by the time we are 60. I know maxing my personal Roth is probably best but I just think I should be trying to be a little more aggressive to maximize my net worth by age 40 or 45, rather than needing to make sure I can retire at 65. Should I be doing anything differently vs just pumping 2-3k into these ETFs whenever my checking acc starts to grow more than I need it to be? Are there any other ETFs I should be looking into? I feel like I tick all the industries with these but might be overlooking something. Also don’t know if there are any medium term bonds or something I’m not considering like that that are targeted to pay off in 20-25 years.

kiwicanuck-

Monday is red for sure. Hope no one is holding SPY over the weekend.

xShiftfaced

I’m shorting the fux out of this market at SPY 750 but I’m going to ride the regard momentum up.

Fast-Steak-7730

We are 1/3 into the year and SPY is up nearly 4% after a 10% recovery in 2 weeks. This shit staying sideways or going to bleed

Great-Engine7416

$SPY 689C 04/14 expiry purchased 4 contracts at $0.19 each ($76) at 9:51AM PDT on 04/13. I think SPY was about $682 at that time, break even was $689.19. Sold all 4 contracts on 04/14 at 11:18am PDT for $4.22 each at around when SPY was up around $694. Proceeded to lose $850 on a 0dte contract right after that though, so I was only up about $800 on Tuesday’s close.

Valkorion335786

Watching SPY all time highs while I’m nowhere near financial freedom

Maximum-Magazine-333

SPY 730 end of week or what

Numerous-Stand-1841

The strait is closed again. SPY +1.5%

Murky-Gate7795

SPYM or SPYG are much cheaper but also much less liquid. IWM is very liquid and about 1/3 the cost of SPY. It also outperformed SPY last year.

WombatShwambat

If I had a dollar for every time I sold my SPY calls too early I would have so many dollars

flasticpeet

Throw ~30% in SPY. Keep cash in a money market and live off the interest.

Emergency-Ticket5859

Imagine how high SPY will of when they open the strait for real next time

DENIMSHORTS_840SCORE

If anyone needs SPY he will be in the break room eating a peanut butter and jelly

DuvelNA

You think SPY gives a fuck about this topic anymore?

itsnotshade

Ok so the plan is we’ll drop .5% then our most trust worthy leader will say peace talks are going great and Iran is just caving in to all our demands so we’ll pump 5% SPY 750 next week.

daviddjg0033

$760,000,000 in ETFs translates into what? $760M in futures is clear. Does anyone have to clear this before it goes through to ensure it is not a "fat finger?" Would they also pile in short? How much is typically traded in that in a day? A week? A month? What are the statistical odds of something happening? 3 sigma? 6 or 9? What is the mechanics behind this? When someone buys a K-1 form ETF like USO what does the ETF do? I am trying to compare this to a dealer buying shares when OTM options are bought and selling shares when that is sold - the whole, "does the tail wag the dog" question about options and the SPY500?

cankle_sores

Yeah same. I’ll probably be wrong but it’s also a bit of a (money losing) hedge given my main accounts are long SPX/SPY.

tabrizzi

Me too. My SPY puts will be happy

conoremc

SPY -0.05% "More" progress toward it actually happening: SPY 1.35% I think they've discovered an infinite money glitch

Sufficient-Flan1565

So calls on SPY?

Fast-Steak-7730

The market is tired of lies from US and Iran. Resume SPY800

Evander85

SPY up 2.3%

Valkorion335786

SPY gonna open at 714 and Ber gonna rage post more

DragonFruit-_-777

How are you a bear in this SPY 700 market????

Star_Lord924

There is gonna be all sorts of peace talks and agreements and promises made over thr weekend and sunday night SPY is already gonna be up half a percent once 8pm hits sunday evening and fomo is gonna tickle everyone's taint more so then today and monday morning SPY hits 718 before settling down a little

KMPItXHnKKItZ

Like many others, I was screwed over on my call when Netflix fell, but I made up my losses today on a SPY call right before the market closed so that was a good feeling at least.

davidbigham

Just need to block another strait next week. Then SPY 800

Slow-Recipe1438

SPY is up 34% since one year ago without anything about the real economy improving at all.

DesticularDorsion

"Sounds like a deal will be made! I better some more SPY." 

Flat-Focus7966

SPY 999 in a month & then rejects 1000 to go to 650 Nothing is unimpossible

PropheticMurmurs

There were multiple 100 baggers this week. TSLA calls, SPY calls, HIMS calls. And guess what? I hit none of them.

DesignerSea494

I took today off to be responsible and get work done around the farm. But when I saw SPY run I realized, “Why not call this a successful day and drink instead?”

nascarhero

!banbet SPY 750 1w

nascarhero

!banbet SPY 750 1 Week

SnooCompliments4883

SPY $675 Monday. Some shit is gonna happen this weekend I just know it.

HelloEarthSpaceWorld

The liquidity issues in later months can make managing LEAPS a nightmare compared to the easier fills you get with SPY. You might find better results looking at IWM or even QQQ for high liquidity at a lower price point if you want to avoid the spread widening out on you. Sticking with highly liquid tech names is another solid way to keep your capital requirements down without sacrificing volume.

OffSidesByALot

Only with options that have a high enough volume to have a narrow spread. SPY is the main instrument for this. I have also day traded Options on the qqq, ibit and SLV as well. For it to be worth your while though, it can’t be some thinly traded option where the bid is a nickel and ask is a quarter or something like that

One-Process-6547

SPY 700c on Monday would have given you a 246 bagger. 0.05 to 12.30 Could've Would've Should've

rwc5078

Even if they do SPY 720 it is

Ok_Visit_5741

The rally helped, but it was staggered a bit where SPY popped and then TSLA did a mega outsized move on Wednesday. I’m actually kicking myself because I put my money in positions where if I yoloed them and waited another day I’d have an experience like OP. Had SPY calls through last week, then MSFT calls over the weekend, withdrew a bunch and put a small amount into TSLA 395c. Had the plays but not the heart. Difference between turning $700 into $5k vs. $350k.

axewoodsman

You still have a lot of capital, and 15% is not a lot to recover from. I suffer a big loss from the gold and silver crashed as well down 9% (loss $55k). I avoid trading anything that can crash like that. I stick to ETFs and only use a tiny amount to buy individual stock. Just like you I stayed bearish too long and missed the recovery on SPY, that hurts. Going to wait for a new entry. Good luck to the both of us.

Godfather751

Anything can happen in this market, but are you pinning your hopes on peace talks in Pakistan on Monday? I'll be cautious on that front. Now, if on Monday a ceasefire is announced in the Russia-Ukraine war, the SPY will spike 10% in a single session.

d33p7r0ubl3

Iran embassy: "A strait that is "FULLY OPEN" is a contradiction. If it were fully open, it would be called Mar-a-Lago (open to anyone with $200,000)." They may have lost the war but their memes are on point. SPY 800 EOM

ThetaEdgeHQ

for LEAPS specifically IWM and QQQ are the most liquid alternatives with tighter spreads than most. XSP is technically cheaper but the liquidity is thinner on the back months. if your goal is premium selling rather than directional longs, selling puts on individual names with IV rank above 50 tends to give better return on capital than SPY LEAPS in most environments anyway

Urselff

Isn’t this the 13th straight day SPY has closed green?

PhilosophyIsAPath

everything 200%+ today was out by 9:35. Left a few 100% on the table for SPY and NVDA but all my account says is im up 17% on the day

amanj41

I’ve come to accept there’s no top. SPY $720 by EOD Monday, why not

PhilosophyIsAPath

Woke up with TSM SPY and NVDA calls, saw they were all up 200%+ and just decided to have a good friday and close them first 5 minutes

PhilosophyIsAPath

Calls printed this morning for TSM, Nvidia, and SPY. Sold 5 TSM 175C for 1.10, bought at 0.40. Sold my SPY 703C for 4.50, bought at 1.38. Sold my NVDA 200C for 2.50 bought at 1.10. Left money on the table but since ive switched my mindset from "This can go higher" to "I am up \*\*\*% I should take profit" Trading has become so much less stressful. Waking up and being up 17% on my account in the first minute of the day and staying out the rest of the day was a good way to start my friday.

Fast-Steak-7730

SPY moving like a goddam tech company

AerieZealousideal330

The yearly average gain in the SPY500 is about 10%. It's gained 11.9% in the last three weeks and the economy is definitely better than before the war started. So calls.

DesignerSea494

Time to press the advantage. 100k more into leveraged SPY.

Different-Volume-129

In a way…the tariff refunds do get back to us, just gotta be invested SPY 😈