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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.
The market giveth, the market taketh and giveth back again in 20 days.
CME crypto index futures are kind of a big deal imo
Scaling out fixed my 0DTE entries, but made my exits more inconsistent
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
SPY +0.17% at Record | Energy Leads Sectors | Silver Surges +6.79%
I moved 20% to treasuries a while ago betting on a pullback. Some data came in this week that wasn't in my thesis.
Lost 350 on SPY puts yesterday. That was the first and last time I ever buy puts again.
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?
As a gambling man, it's clear it's time to take profits
3K to 16.5K SPY gains. Bought on the dips yesterday and today. Just closed during my flight with WiFi.
Mentions
Going to buy SPY 0DTE's and hope for the best.
500 strike SPY puts as tail hedging for a $1M portfolio is actually smart risk management. the key is not treating it as a trade — it's insurance. budget 0.5-1% of portfolio annually on rolling 3-6 month OTM puts and don't care if they expire worthless 95% of the time. the one time they hit, it saves your retirement
SPY bleed feelds uncomfortable I wonder if tech drops at open then bleesds up
Nah, I'm not convinced this will hold. SPY already dropping back to before the news dropped. Peace of mind in poor is better than stressed rich regard.
SPY is up on the year, month, and week... I think youre doing something wrong
NVDA is trading at 21 fwd PE. If anything they’ll just rotate to keep SPY from dumping
One day SPY will hold its morning pump for me… one day.
"SPY Reaches historical a $1000 on increased hopes of a peace agreement" - Dec 28th 2026.
So is today the day QQQ overtakes SPY?
Imagine hysterically panic selling SPY at 751,40 and then watching it reaching ATH in seconds.
REMINDER THIS PUMP IS WITHOUT A DEAL WITH A DEAL WE DOUBLE EVERY STOCK PRICE SPY 1400 not a meme
Every correction in SPY looks like that right afterwards, according to the 5Y
#Why buy SPY when QQQ is pumping 3x more and their down days are almost similar? #QQQ is basically UPRO at this point without the leverage and fees.
Why buy SPY when QQQ is pumping 3x more and their down days are almost similar? QQQ is basically UPRO at this point without the leverage and fees.
So apparently record amount of americans is late on credit card debt, but SPY is booming so economy is probably healthy 😁👍
"Thinking of selling SPY to reallocate to \*TQQQ"
SPY gonna slow bleed into open but then close 757 today. Book it
SPY has died. enjoy your down day
I have SPY calls $770 for June 30 and $850 for Jun 2027. I think it's going to pullback, going to buy $1500 worth of Puts for high $740s.
tbf it is kinda euphoria. Being going on since a while. SPY and QQQ made their entire yearly move and more in less than 6 weeks. But yeah I agree it could pump some more, idk, at some point a pullback will happen, just might not be that big. Or maybe the pullback happened already last week idk
SPY will hit $1000 before this peace deal comes through no doubt
MU is carrying SPY thats crazy 😂
Why is it taking so long for SPY 800?
it would be extremely funny if US-Iran war escalated only for us missiles to mysteriously malfunction due to UFOs disabling them causing 🥭 to order an full retreat of CENTCOM while loading up SPY calls.
I'm buying SPY calls at open. You've been warned ⚠️
they're really about to rug the SPY premarket move bro i cannot win
SPY coming back down to earth rn
Let's talk next week, shall we? Next Wednesday morning at SPY, same time.
SPY 760 back on the menu
if you bought MSFT 5 years ago, you’d have less returns than SPY 🌞👍🏻
Hyundai is the 3rd most influential company on Kospi, UT yes I agree it is much less diverse than SPY.
SPY watch out! There’s a QQQ behind you…
Kospi is just DRAM disguised as an index. Absolutely no diversification whatsoever couldn't hold the plate to SPY.
Sk hynix and Samsung sk went up another 10% last night, and they were only up 5% the night prior, before MU went +24%. South Korea's version of SPY (Kospi) has gone up 210% in the last year.
I’m becoming long term investor, buying SPY 1dte calls instead of 0dte
I own both SPY and NVDA (who knew there were two of us). But it's for long term holding. If that's what you want, you can probably sell for a profit and reallocate soon.
Moron bears dont realize that we're not buying SPY at aths. SPY's ath will probably be 50,000 reached in the year 2250, so buying before then is free money.
Are datacenters going to start printing oil? Everytime AI stocks go up and pump SPY, oil drops down 😂
When will it actually come down to its proper place? SPY 320 is the fair value and that overpriced junk is making the crash all the more probable. We have failed every future generation.
The mags are awake premarket….SOMEBODY FINGER POP MY ASSHOE SPY 🚀
Would you rather get paid in scratcher tickets or SPY poots?
Would you rather get paid in scratcher tickets or SPY poots?
oil -3% already even before US trading hours and some ppl think SPY isn't gonna have shrek cock on it 😭
Two months ago SPY was at 635, now it’s only on 755, come on, we can pamp it more
I am not saying SPY never goes down. It will have a 2008 style bear market someday in our life. But the odds of SPY recovering are much higher than individual stocks like Micron or Meta.
Where were you when SPY reached 780 with a 4% gap up on peace deal getting confirmed?
The May 8 top thesis had merit at the time — positioning was crowded, vol suppressed, NVDA carried unusual concentration risk into earnings. But the catalyst broke the right way: +85% revenue, Q2 guide raised to $91B (±2%). NVDA going into the print was the single biggest reason markets *could* have rolled — and the print resolved the uncertainty bullishly. The top-call needs a different anchor now. If you're still leaning short, the better setup looks like late summer when hyperscale capex commentary updates on Q2 earnings calls (late July / early Aug). If MSFT/META/GOOGL flatten their AI capex trajectories or extend deployment timelines, that's the credible deceleration trigger — not vol positioning. The K-shaped breadth concern is fair though. SPY ex-NVDA / AVGO / MU is barely positive YTD. If the market is going to roll, it'll be the leadership cracking — and the leadership just printed +85% revenue. Hard to fade that until you see hyperscale capex guides bend.
I like to buy SPY puts when the S&P 500 is at an all time high
Alrighty, so i have a hypothetical i've been thinking about. S&P500 is the standard we are measuring strategies against. Ideally, we want to beat that to at least have an argument that a strategy may have an edge. Suppose I buy DEEEEP ITM LEAPS on SPY. So time value is relatively small. I think at it's limit, like if spy is 750 and i buy a 1$ strike price for 2029, there will be close to no time value and it will almost all be intrinsic. The time value that's left, given the risk is pretty much zero is just the tradeoff that the option seller could have just bought bonds. So that tiny bit left is actually just based on the fed interest rates. you could take that remaining dollar and put it into bonds and match the performance of SPY. Now suppose we look at a fixed income corporate loan fund. Like JAAA or something like it. This technically has higher risk and so return higher dividend payments than bonds. At this point, by many, these loans are rated higher than the US govt. Whether you agree with that or not, could we not use something like this to beat S&P500? Like lets say i have 75000 to buy spy. I spend 70000 and change to buy a 50 strike leap and use the remainder to buy JAAA. I then collect the dividends which will be higher than fed rates, which will be higher than my tiny time value. By the end of expiration i will have beaten spy by some amount proportional to my strike price and corporate loan fund rate when compared to just buying spy. I aint back testing this shit, so you guys should just believe me.
“At least I have exposure to Micron via SPY” he consoled himself while being poor and not wanting to buy the top. But he was deceived, for the top was not yet in.
Have like 1k SPY calls at 664 which I got for dirt cheap. SPY gap up to 668-670 means that I will make 500k LMAO.
I don't believe in Meta, Tesla, Netflix out of the Mags. Meta was great but they are being attacked from all sides: social media fatigue, advertising fatigue, useless AI, bad brand. Netflix keeps raising prices and their shows aren't that great anymore; too dependent on consumers who are cash strapped. The first thing to go when wallets tighten is discretionary like streaming plans. And Tesla is tesla; over priced and will be rangebound for the next 10 years. If you want the Mags; just buy the QQQ or SPY. Nvidia is reaching it's stagnant stage and it's hard to grow as fast when you are so big. Microsoft is suffering the same fate. What's pushing the markets is the largest companies outside the top 7: Intel, AMD, AVGO, JPM, etc.
Is QQQ the superior index over SPY at any timeframe? I have yet to find any timeframe where SPY can be better than QQQ. Maybe 100 companies is all you need for efficient indexing.
When do we realistically think SPY 800
I remember reading my 1st bubble post when SPY was around $325. I got scared and did very un-American ber like activities. Lesson is, never bet against 🇺🇲. It's all fake and 🌈.
Looking forward to a gap up overnight to $755 for SPY..... I'm extremely bullish, pardon me. YEEEEEEEEE!
SPY is up. ~7% ytd. Meanwhile you’re down 95%. Decision were made. Thanks for the free money.
I got banned last week when SPY hit 744.95 and my banbet was 745
If we get the deal confirmed overnight - and we are almost sure to, don't be a hero and try to short the 2-3% gap up. We are going to 780 on SPY and stay there till end of the month. Start buying puts after that.
What are we thinking folks? Slight itm SPY calls after confirmation at 752? Or is that too rational?
Man if SPY had more semis I’d be so fucking rich rn
Not all indexes are cap weight. SPY is float weighted.
hello i am from the future, SPY will crash from 1100 to 900 in 2028
So is MU done? I just trade SPY brothers
The weekly puts being "1 cent" is the trap — that's not cheap, that's theta eating you alive on a contract that needs a 30% crash this week to pay off. You'd be rolling that every week, and the moment vol spikes (exactly when you need the hedge) the roll becomes way more expensive. You'd be buying high every time it matters. For $1M in S&P exposure, most people running this kind of tail hedge budget around 0.5-1% of portfolio annually — so $5k-$10k/year. The 2-year $500 SPY put at $14 is actually the more honest conversation: that's $1,400/contract, covers 100 shares, so you'd need roughly 14 contracts to hedge the full notional. That's ~$20k for 2 years of protection, or $10k/year — right in the budget range. The more capital-efficient version is a put spread — buy the $500, sell the $450 or $430. Cuts your premium by 40-50%, still covers the sequence-of-returns scenario you're worried about (a 30-40% drawdown in year 1 of retirement is the actual killer). You give up coverage below the short strike, but a 45%+ crash and a 35% crash have roughly the same impact on retirement math. If you want to get fancier, a collar (sell OTM calls to finance the puts) gets you close to zero-cost protection but caps your upside — might not fit a pure buy-and-hold mindset.
Wednesday has 0dte's. That's when Nvidia rips. SPY $760 tomorrow
You can live in real estate, which transforms “rent” from an expense to a capital investment. Depending on your location, real estate will likely make you more return than VOO or SPY, particularly in light of the “expense” and tax benefits. “Investment” real estate doesn’t sound like your area of interest. From experience, if you don’t want to or can’t fix things when you don’t know how or pull disgusting hair out of sinks and toilets or any number of annoying tenant requests, you will not prosper by constantly hiring tradesmen.
Need SPY 730ish tomorrow
That's exactly what I'm thinking too. But sometimes, I think if I was just a new investor, ignorant of world news and just looking at graphics, I'd look at SPY/QQQ and just think "oh, it's going up, looks like a safe buy" and, most importantly, I would not have a strong bearish bias due to remembering SPY being under 600 just a year ago.
I'm not going to give advice, but BTC is my only losing position at 17% of my portfolio. My returns this year is 33% so far with SPY and SMH. Best way is to be diversified.
I need a 2-3% SPY pump day in my life again
For SPY options though. This is now for certain stock options.
You're looking at it backwards. No deal is actually being priced in. It's just the rest of the world is more fucked than we are. SPY is the safe haven asset right now.
Half my port is in 3x leveraged SPY and has been for a while. Today was another, “this shit can’t possibly keep going like this…” but I’m still holding.
Honestly. As a teen investor that can afford to lose, well, everything, I would invest in growth stocks and semi-speculative names. The real key is to teach and utilize proper risk management techniques. You’ll learn so much more buying the more volatile semi-speculatively names than you will buying something like SPY and forgetting about it. If you want to actually foster an understanding of investing get her How to Make Money in Stocks by O’Neil and How to Profit in Bull and Bear Markets by Weinstein and slowly build a portfolio the right way.
I know exactly what you are trying to do. I too am in capital preservation stage and want my nest egg to last. If you have a lot of SPY holding I would suggest selling some Covered calls at around 15-25% above current price at 1 year out. Then take the premiums you receive from this and go BUY a put a comfortable strike. this will cap your downside, but also caps your upside. In reality this end up muting your volatility overall, but this is exactly what you are after. If you want to be slightly more active you can try selling them on 45d or 90d increments instead of 1 year as well. Im keep all my contracts rolling on [ThetaPal](https://www.thetapal.com?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=r-thetagang) with my dashboard to make sure I keep the premiums rolling in. sometimes the premium will burn 90% off in 50% of the time so it is good to close early.
SpaceX will only make up like 0.2% of SPY because they are only making like 5% of shares public
Bears need a -20% day on SPY tomorrow to break even
Most ordinary people are still struggling through working life just to survive. Who really cares about space or Mars right now? Stop hyping some scammy SpaceX IPO narrative, and please don’t include those kinds of companies in QQQ or SPY.
Nah man they said that they are closing the stock market when trump leaves office, this is everyone's last chance to get rich quick. $1,500 0DTE SPY calls, before its too late.
Inflation near zero. Gas prices all time guy. Real estate at a stand still with rates. Stocks at all time highs with the hopes that AI solves problems other than writing code. Am I missing something or should SPY be $599?