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I can't beat the market. I won't ever beat the market. After years I realize that now. It's VOO for me.
📓 Daily Brief: Theta Gang Goes To Wendy's
Quick SPY hit today, a trust small street bet W
Trading off Biblical Prophecy [SPY Jan 16 2030 $650 Put]
climbed the mountain just to fall straight down.
I HAD A DREAM!!! Choppy summer market
I built a free tool that keeps a daily history of your Finviz screeners
I used ChatGPT to backtest a SPY 0DTE strategy and Codex to build an automated IBKR bot
$SPY -- Bullish? -- 3DTE -- MU Earnings + Semi Catalysts
Help me understand what is limit price
🚨🚨🚨 $WEN DD: WHY WENDY'S IS ABOUT TO SEND YOUR PORTFOLIO TO THE MOON 🚀🚀🚀
Yes, You CAN "Time The Market." And I'm Going to Prove It, Again.
Yes, You CAN "Time The Market." And I'm Going to Prove It, Again.
SPY Isn't Pricing Much Movement, But Protection Is Still Expensive
Update 7: Oops, lol. ~$1,447.94 -> ~$2,712.06 -> $222.20
Warsh's first FOMC presser is Wednesday and nobody seems to be talking about the dot plot risk
Warsh's first FOMC is tomorrow and I have no clue what to do with my port
How many of you have actually calculated your returns against the S&P, properly, and how many are just assuming you're beating it because your portfolio is green?
How viable is a hedge fund that trades exclusively in SPY 0dte’s
I have lost every position I've taken since june started.
Serious discussion: Is it time to full port healthcare, or am I regarded?
All My Eggs in One Basket: Keep holding NVDA or Sell at a Loss?
Sustainability of Weekly Covered Calls + Cash Secured Puts ATM on 50% of SPY Portfolio
My 15-point GO/NO-GO checklist before any options trade, because I kept breaking my own rules
When Iran war started SPY was at $686 and today $756 (Nearly +10%)
100k SPY 6/16 744c YOLO held through iran deal / Trump's birthday weekend
RSUs and ESPP, cash out and invest in ETFs, Dividends, SPY, or leave it?
[OPEN SOURCE] Last month, I deployed an options portfolio managed by AI. I'm up over $4,000 since
Europe Is Too Scared to Grow, So Their Money Keeps Buying My SPY Calls
$300 deposit Tuesday -> $6,120.97 ($5k withdrawn + $1,120.97 cash left in account)
Tesla is worth $100 trillion not $1 trillion. Here's why.
Tesla is worth $100 trillion not $1 trillion. Here's why.
Why not SPY puts with SPCX IPO
What’s SPY closing @ tomorrow? Place your bets
Bought 2 minutes before the news dropped.
SpaceX: People are getting this IPO wrong
Yesterday: $300 -> $33 -> $770 into today -> $382 -> $2,494 -> ended $2,177 but with CALLS, bitch!
Yesterday: $300 -> $33 -> yesterday -> $770 into today -> $382 -> $2,494 -> ended $2,177 but with CALLS, bitch!
Tried to join bulls today but we know where the money is🐻📉
I Sold All My VOO for a Concentrated NVDA Bet. Should I Have Just Bought Options Instead?
Me watching the SPY shit its pants for the 4th straight day in a row, like:
What's the equivalent of SPY for europeans?
Is the macro pivot actually happening or are we just being played by the Fed?
Mentions
How much is SPY rising tomorrow? I'm thinking 10% up (with MSFT still being red)
#Tomorrow will be another one of those "green" days where SPY is the only green stock LMAO🤌
Boring individual stocks that are trading at a discount. There is nothing ‘mad’ about my mad money account. Its beta is right about 0.9. But I have managed to 3.5x the SPY with boring companies that everybody knows but nobody valued until ***SNAP*** …. and thank you very much. Alpha isn’t hard to find. It just takes time and patience. The market will revert to the mean
This shit is so obviously going to sell off hard at open when SPY hits 740. Sorry bulls.
They need to cook the data tomorrow so I can get that SPY 760
blessed to be holding WEN and SPY calls alongside you beautiful regards 🥲
SPY chart looks like it was trying to double bottom; but there was too much buying pressure, so the best it could do was a pair of balls (one hanging lower than the other).
The expense rate for the 401k and plan manager for the funds through the company is relatively high. My point was the understand if it would be better to buy VOO or SPY direct through Roth or a regular brokerage.
Yes — I’ve been working through this with automated SPY 0DTE dry-runs and some broker/order-path testing around Alpaca + Robinhood. The biggest lesson so far: the entry signal is only half the problem. The part that can hurt you is the boring plumbing around risk, fills, and monitoring. A few things I’d be careful with: 1. Don’t use the same loop for scanning and risk monitoring. A slower scanner is fine for finding entries, but once a position is open, I want a cheap 1-minute monitor watching stops/time exits. 2. Make the max loss real. If a contract costs $0.80, that’s $80 at risk. I wouldn’t let the bot “account” for it as $50 just because that’s the intended risk cap. 3. Paper trade the exact execution flow, not just the strategy. Log quote, spread, assumed fill, entry, exit, and why it closed. Options backtests can look clean while live quotes are messy. 4. For 0DTE, I’d add an underlying-based emergency stop too. Option marks can lag or get ugly fast. 5. Keep multi-leg automation simple at first. Partial fills/rejected legs/reconciliation are where a lot of the hidden complexity shows up. The setup that feels safest to me is: use the “smart” logic for selecting trades, but use boring deterministic scripts for monitoring and exits.
Wow, you could literally could have bought a 2x levered long SPY and never worked again. If this post is real, listen to me, you are being delusional. Stop. Get some help. Or don’t, keep going to we can laugh at you.
40% per day? GTFO, no one is making 40% a day consisently or more likely you are a massive failure because your calls doubling that's just making money on increased volatility which will evaporate and theta will rear its ugly head. Plus if you were the big swinging dick you claim to be who the fuck buys SPY calls. SPX or XSP are cash settled, 60/40 tax, and there is plenty of liquidity considering no one wants to pay 40% to the federal government when you could be paying way less plus if you sell an option it can't be exercised early. |Feature|**XSP (Mini-SPX Index Options)**|**SPY (SPDR S&P 500 ETF)**| |:-|:-|:-| |**Tax Rate**|**60% Long-term / 40% Short-term** (regardless of how long you hold the trade)|**100% Short-term** (Ordinary income for positions held under 1 year)| |**Wash Sale Rules**|**Exempt**|**Subject to wash sales**| |**Settlement**|**Cash-settled** (No physical shares exchanged)|**Physically settled** (Results in SPY stock shares)| |**Exercise Style**|**European** (Cannot be assigned early)|**American** (Can be assigned early/after-hours)| |**Size**|\~1/10th the size of the standard SPX index; highly comparable to SPY in notional value.|Standardized (1 contract = 100 shares of SPY)|
there does seem to be that rare trader who has a sixth sense for daily movement and can swing trade SPY options. they're the ones who make me most upset. but it is what it is. I'm not one of them.
#Don't even bother checking futures. SPY has no relation to stocks anymore. We can have 90% of stocks red and SPY green or vice versa. LMAO🤌
This is how you scalp. I do this daily with SPY and typically end the day anywhere from $1500 to $3800 (today thanks to WEN). https://preview.redd.it/x4d2t4nopc9h1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=ba99352ab9e2cba91cc3d007d20ad2d64cbeef8e
SPY has some low hanging ballsack
750 is the strike which SPY will gravitate towards. If it opens above it, but puts. If below, buy calls.
I stopped swing trading last year, after discovering i can make consistent gains scalping SPY. I withdraw my profits weekly and keep enough to make fairly nice trades. https://preview.redd.it/zb1x3r25jc9h1.png?width=1079&format=png&auto=webp&s=0a7c930547206d32082607e291881cf561f96c34
About 90% of fund managers have underperformed the S&P500. Managing a fund that size is much different than investing in SPY in your 401(k). Cash management, debt portfolios within the fund, private equity that the public doesn't see, hedging and constantly managing costs and inventory. I also would guess that he has more uncorrelated assets in the fund than we know about. Someone who sold their company for, or inherited, $200 million wants to know that the team managing that money knows what to do, and who to do it with, especially when things go sideways. I never met the guy, but so much envy and jealousy in these responses. Most of them never had to manage $1 million, let alone billions; That being said, it's comforting to know that the good people commenting here in reddit can do a better job than Ackman.
Didn’t FDX just get added to SPY?
I went from 25k in 2020 to 850k in 2025, lost 250k in a few weeks when TMC dumped. I put the remaining 500k in SPY then 100k left in TMC, I'm at 650k now and I paid my taxes on the gain. Don't be dumb and take profit even if it only selling half.
Bols have been so mouthy tonight with all my comments. Only thing to do is bid a goodnight to all while MU, QQQ, SPY and IWM are starting to point down. Sweet dreams.🐻
Oil drilling even more. USO below 70 now. If PCE comes colder than expectations, SPY may gap up 3-4% due to amount of people caught offsides LMAO
We need a MEM7. SPY getting rugged by Bag7.
Will SPY dip tomorrow if PCE increases? Similar to what happened after CPI and Fed interest rate announcement?
Breaking: GDP comes in at 69% MoM and PCE comes in at "Ber r Fuk", SPY up 420% pre-market
Whats happening with SPY tmrw?
That’s why if you’re doing 0 DTE don’t play SPY, play XSP instead, it’s about the same price as SPY, and is cash settled so they can’t liquidate you because all that happens if your option expires in the money is you get cash or lose cash if it’s out the money, no shares at all need to change hands. XSP is 1/10th of SPX and both XSP and SPX is more tax efficient than SPY because you get an automatic 60 percent long term cap gain/losses and 40 percent short term even if it’s a 0 DTE! I will never trade SPY ever again after discovering XSP!
SPY is opening at 738 and the selling is continuing, you've been warned
SPY fading overnight… is MU not enough to get out of the correction??
For anyone thinking MU can save the market, keep in mind MU is weighted at 1.87% of SPY while NVIDIA is at 7.64%.
#Tomorrow will be another one of those days where SPY and QQQ pump while 6 out of biggest 7 components are blood red LMAO🤌
My goodness market breadth is total ass, MU pump only sent SPY up 0.3 percent
Anyone else seeing this ball sack pattern on SPY
Mine was somewhat the opposite. I made 3k like nothing and I was feeling good about today and playing some credit swaps on SPY at close. It looked nice and bearish then late close on Robinhood got me and I got absolutely bent over. Anyways selling other positions that will most definitely make money in the future to do it again tomorrow. God bless
I think the regards are upset it’s not parabolic and that SPY futures aren’t either
WEN is holding and pumping up overnight right now. Where do you see sell off? I was just hypothesizing that if there is a bigger sell off in the market unrelated to WEN, it could bring down WEN too, otherwise we probably seeing ATH again tomorrow morning. There is some sell off in AI right now I think due to Korean market taking profits, but SPY is still stable. Just watch SPY action against WEN. If SPY is dropiing hard for some reason, WEN may follow suit but I wouldn't fully rule out a nice support for it still
SPY futures can turn all green as much as they want but AAPL and GOOG will not lose their commitment to being blood red
You could just buy SPX or XSP instead of SPY. You can sell them in 5mins when extended hours open
PCE and jobless claims tomorrow, might actually send SPY to 760
The Koreans and Japanese know how to pump a market. 3-5% days regularly. Meanwhile SPY can barely eke out a 1% day.
Just got off the phone with the CEO of SPY. He told me in the end we’re all going to make it and become rich and everything is ok.
SPY Jun 30 $603 Put
But the capex spending is what’s keeping BAG7 down so in that case they will go up while semis/memory go down and probably props up SPY even further.
Kinda scary that BAG7 are all so far away from ATH and SPY is relatively still close, the only reason is semi/memory keeping it up. If at any point the BAG7 announce capex spending cuts it will be a fucking flash crash 💀
Market Research: Just went to DQ to pick up some food and ice cream and while I was waiting a few minutes at this tiny shop 8 door dashers picked up orders. DQ staff could barely keep up with normal visits because of the hige demand for door dash. If people are spending twice the money needed on DQ then SPY still has insane room to grow. Also Claude just helped me diagnos a physical ailment and resolve it with exercises so medical care is cheaper too.
Pretty sure I’m legit addicted to SPY 0 DTEs. Nothing gets me going like SPY calls at 10AM.
I’ve said it before—ASTS and RKLB are crazy cyclical given how early stage they are. I buy and sell every boom and bust cycle. It’s free money. I don’t time it, if it feels right, I sell. It crashes, I buy more. It goes up again, I sell. If I’m wrong idc, I hold and wait. To be clear, I fully believe in both companies, am willing to hold long term. I sold around 110 and will buy back in soon. I’d still be fine holding it even if I bought at $110. It will go higher, as it has the last 5 times I’ve flipped it. Might just take another 3-6 months, but compared to SPY returns it’s fine.
They’ll cook the PCE books tomorrow and we open SPY at all time highs
SPY is totally detached from reality lol, it will tap 750 tomorrow
The BAG 7 is fading this pump from SPY
Idk looks like SPY is gonna fade and yes I have calls. Probably going to sell them at 8:15 AH
If you're trying to beat the SPY why not buy SPXL? Even if you had bought the top of the market right before the covid crash you'd still be up 250% today.
Thought MU calls and SPY puts made sense . Turns out I’m just regarded
I bought some calls today SPY to zero
My routine: 0 dte on SPY daily, buy stocks with profits
Tomorrow the Koreans pump because of us, then we pump because of the Koreans, and then they pump because of us again. We will do this till SPY is at 800 LMAO
2020 was 3x crazier. You got limit up and down circuit breakers...on fucking SPY
Gonna be real here, if you take away MU DRAM and SPY calss, my YTD would be pretty pathetic
Scared shitless for SPY
#In order for MSFT to have a green day, SPY would have to rise at least 5% LMAO🤌
Bleed 1/2% before pce then a swift -2% on SPY
Ok, you know what. Now I'm genuinely happy for MU, SPY and QQQ Bols. Beacuse everyone's about to sellout of IWM on *quadruple* divergence and prob rush into tech.
And SPY still finished -0.05%.
Did you lose it all buying SPY calls?
Like SPY today at 12:30pm? https://preview.redd.it/qthavwn4xa9h1.png?width=627&format=png&auto=webp&s=b64500d6ff878cc35554c2d6ad6c5d2d565d38ea
No you’re not. I was “done done”, down to $26. A single 0DTE put, bought at open for $25 and forgot about it. At lunch, I open my phone and see my account at $960. The SPY had dropped from $745-ish to $728-ish. The very next day, bought 40 calls at $20 each. At lunch, my account was at $7,000.
Sorry bro tomorrow SPY -1%
SPY was higher during market hours. Relax
| Ticker | Target | Entry | Current | Move | Expires | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **SPY** ▲ | $736.00 (above) | $731.88 | $737.35 | +0.6% | 21h 39m | | **Record** | 1W - 1L | 50% | - | - | - |
Tomorrow's news today: Overnight SPY: 745 PCE comes inline or cold: 755 Truth/Tweet about PCE, upcoming rate cuts the "greatest market ever is coming": 760 SPY opens at 765. QQQ at 750.
I need SPY -1% overnight to hit my breakeven 😔
SPY pls go back down i wasnt done buying calls lol
i mostly only trade SPY, except when there’s going to be a huge move for a particular company. but, my point is, you only make big money trading volatility. without it, you’re basically in a high yield savings account. IMHO
What do we think SPY is doing tomorrow? Right now it's $737 and there's going to be a lot of intraday movement, but I'm wondering it's going to rocket past $750 or we'll see $720?
**BanBet Created** ▲ | Ticker | Target | Entry | Move | Expires | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **SPY** | $748.00 (above) | $737.84 | +1.4% | 23h 60m |
I got SPY PUTs for tomorrow hoping this shit ends up like Monday night so I can have another huge gain
If we somehow come out of tomorrow's data release unscathed, fully expect market to go on a historic pump to SPY 800 by July 4th. No chance we get any negative sentiment before 250th birthday
SPY for hedging a port QQQ for capturing gamma
Great, so we have at least a few more months of MU and SNDK going up 10% every day and sucking the life out of every other company in the SPY.
If SPY opens up 743+ tomorrow I will get a job at two different Wendy’s locations
#SPY down -0.05%. Microsoft down -3%. Microsoft never misses an opportunity to fucking drop dead. LMAO🤌
SPY rocketing right back up to even is not funny.
#When SPY drops every stock drops. When SPY recovers none of the stocks recover. LMAO🤌
Proud of MU for jumpstarting SPY's bullshit but everything still looks shitty. Hope I'm wrong though
I’m loaded to the tits with puts I bought in the last 15 minutes of extended hours for SPY
someday I will learn to by Qs calls instead of SPY
Hot PCE is going to get ignored due to Oil going down. But a cold PCE is instant 1% pump on SPY and 2% on QQQ. Very unfair, but it is what it is. Almost forgot, LMAO bers!!!!
That's only if the SPY gets to $760 by July 1
if you also bought SPY PUTs for tomorrow just remember Monday SPY and MU were both higher than they are right now and we still got a massive overnight dip 🤝
With the levels of speculation going into this earnings, I may be crazy, but I might double down on SPY puts at open tomorrow in anticipation of a selloff That might be exactly what they expect us to do though... So... calls? cool calls it is
SPY Opens 756 tomorrow Qqq 746 MU 1500
If data comes inline tomorrow, SPY can open at 760 and QQQ at 750 LMAO. Do not fight this fed and admin bers.
Now all Mehrotra has to do is grift for forward guidance and say double revenue next quarter or some shit, if he says anything stupid like Lip-bu did then SPY will -3% and redder than Mars tomorrow lmao
Seems suspect that they let them release before SPY options closed for the day lol
SPY and QQQ spiked just after close as a result of MU’s earnings.
Alright. How will MU affect SPY?