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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 $6,120.97 ($5k withdrawn + $1,120.97 cash left in account)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?
Why I think Berkshire Hathaway is the best investment right now
Going all in today on SPY puts, wish me luck.
Bought this for today, is it realistic?
Came across buy and hold 17% CAGR portfolio backtested since 1987
I missed out on 10 grand because I had a meeting at 11am
🚨 New Congressional Trade Disclosed 🚨 15% return, 70% win rate (Buy at disclosure, sell 90d later)
Bogle vs. Buffet vs. Dalio - Long-Term Investment Strategies Backtested over the last 20 Years
Bogle vs. Buffet vs. Dalio - Long-Term Investment Strategies Backtested over the last 20 Years
The market panic looks overdone follow up- choppy ahead of CPI, but positioning is improving
I analyzed which sector is most sensitive to hot CPI reports (24 - 26)
First time day trading with PDT gone, doubled my account today. SPY puts Friday and today. All intraday trades, wins in red boxes.
The market panic looks overdone - Korea, SMH,SOXX, VIX, Jobs, and Oil
Went from a +6,467.76% gain to a measly +4,735.41 gain on MU LEAPS. The one time I should've listened to you regards I didn't. FML
Some honest assessment of my investing strategy and why "steady but surely" beats "get rich now" if you're not devoted to trading
Turned a $2k account into -$738,000 while the market was closed. Am I fucked?
Would anyone actually use a SPY 0DTE-specific backtesting platform?
When the media says a market crash is coming, the opposite always happens
Having to sell $10k to pay bills. Which one would you pick?
Volatility Hit SPY. The Case for Staying Invested Still Holds.
Glad I held these SPY puts. Up 300% today.
Port opened -30% and ended +170% thanks to SPY
SPY calls are the easiest money there is right now
For those investing in S&P 500 ETFs (VOO/SPY/IVV), how have your returns been?
10-Year Backtest: Leveraged Momentum Turned $10K into $347K (vs. SPY) - Thoughts on the Strategy?
New Congressional Trade Disclosed: 20% median return, 95% win rate
New Congressional Trade Disclosed: 20% median return, 80% win rate
Get Your Salad Tossed With $SG — Green Is Literally In The Name, Cannot Go Tits Up 🥗🚀
THE BIGGEST BILLIONAIRE HAS SPOKEN OF A RECESSION , WHERE DO YOU THINK THE RECESSION CRACK WILL HAPPEN
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SPY and QQQ calls baby
Yeah. Id trust any random here to make an ETF thatd do better than any of the Ark funds. SPY has almost doubled since pandemic peaks her flagship Ark fund is down almost 50% in that sane period.
You said you want long term growth though so the easy button is to just put it in SPY and forget DCA and everything else. Or SPYG which is tailored specifically for growth. SCHG would be another growth specific option. If you wanted to do DCA then look into the CSPs and get those premiums while you wait. Selling options rather than buying them.
Look at your debt. Are you paying 6-8% or more? Pay it off. 2.5-4%? Probably better to keep the debt. I don’t know how old you are but it sounds like you’re relatively young. Put all in HYSA now. DCA up to 30% in SPY. 20% in bonds. Maybe buy some gold if you’re worried about gov debt and inflation and a crash. You need cash for a down payment or anything in next few years? Could keep rest in the HYSA. If now, put into SPY or other comparable vehicle.
Sell cash secured puts on SPY every week
SPYM isn’t exactly illiquid. State Street lists it with about $137B AUM, 3.4M shares traded on the primary exchange, and a 30-day median bid/ask spread of 0.01%. For a weekly/monthly investor, that’s probably more than enough liquidity. SPY is the better trading vehicle, but for buy-and-hold the lower expense ratio matters more.
Well no shit, I didn’t say it wasn’t risky, but people claimed it was the worst, when it literally beat SPY.
ES is great, but as you said, size is the issue, and that is what holds me back because it creates too much exposure for my portfolio. I used ES before mostly for put credit spreads. Assignment should not happen on SPY either if you place a farther OTM calendar and close it before price gets close to the short leg. I do not close based on a fixed rule, but rather as soon as IV comes back into balance ... basically, I trade anomalies in RV/IV. Sometimes that can take one day, sometimes 20 days. But after more than 20 days, vega is already too weak, so I may leave the option open a little longer to let theta do some work, but not for too long because then gamma becomes the problem.
| Ticker | Target | Entry | Current | Move | Expires | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **SPY** ▲ | $750.00 (above) | $742.25 | $741.75 | +1.0% | Jun 15, 8:46 PM |
| Ticker | Target | Entry | Current | Move | Expires | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **SPY** ▲ | $760.00 (above) | $742.05 | $741.75 | +2.4% | Jun 19, 9:35 PM |
Let's say SPY opened at 740, popped a bit to 741 then slow-bled down for a while. Premarket it was as low as 735. I would've already been thinking puts at open but let's say, like Friday, I wasn't at the comp right at open, so I get there as I see the slow burn. I'd likely wait til it's getting closer to 735 and then hit ATM calls going the other way. It depends on the pace it's calling too - if it's slow-bleeding I'll wait til closer to 735 but if it plunges down half a point in seconds along the way, I might get calls right off the back of that if it does that into say 737 or 736. In those cases I'd likely get 737 calls or 736 calls depending on where it hit. Why ATM? Because if it fiddles around sideways for a bit and then goes up, I still want to be able to get gains. If I'm too far OTM then I won't get gains if that happens. It's the best blend of risk and reward at least for how I trade.
SPX options, not SPY. And if you're buying vix calls/vx futures bc you think vol is going to go up. VIX/VX typically has a pretty high negative correlation to SPX returns. So you're pretty much making a short bet on the market. If you are indifferent on which way the market was going to go. You'd just trade a delta neutral straddle.
#Could things be any better for America? In the same weekend we won the World Cup as well as Iran war. SPY should gap up to $800 on Monday. LMAO🤌🦅🗽⚽🥅
I trade a similar idea, but mostly using ES futures options instead of SPY. So assignment risk is not the main issue for me, but contract size and risk management become much more important. My approach is fairly systematic: enter on a specific weekday, use defined front/back expirations, and exit after a fixed number of trading days rather than holding into expiration. For backtesting, I don’t have clean long-term historical ES options data, so I test the logic on SPY options and then adjust the interpretation for ES. It’s not perfect, but it helps evaluate entry timing, exit timing, IV regime, and how the actual P/L path differs from the calculator profile shown at entry.
So, do I keep buying SPY shares, or ..?
Its 15th June. \> Iran gave Trump his birthday wish (a deal). \> Govt said AI is important and will invest billions. \> SPY gapping up \> Portfolio back to ATH and more. \> crush replies to my "what that ass do" text with ":come find out. "
!Banbet SPY $769.00 5d
check with your favorite AI. Spacex can be recreated for 60 billion or so. You don’t think someone else will just copy it? He has a very weak product now and it is all about what is coming as usual. but if he grows to 100 billion in sales and with an all time high multiple of 30 times sales.. SPCX will be worth 3 trillion so about .8 trillion more than now. why risk your money on him being able to do this in 3-5 years? Just buy SPY and do better.
The overwhelming advice from people on Reddit (and this thread) is to invest in an index fund like VOO or SPY. Set it and forget it. That’s about as safe as you can get in the market, and pretty much the exact advice any worthwhile financial advisor would give you. So idk what you’re trying to say. This ain’t wallstreetbets. Financial advisors very rarely outperform simply setting and forgetting with VOO/VTI/SPY/other major index funds. Most portfolios I’ve seen from financial advisors are basically just a more complicated VTI - their “magic diversification” is a split of different market sector ETFs or mutual funds that all basically add up to what you’d get with VTI. The real magic comes down to risk tolerance and knowing how much you can invest and how much you should keep in low risk things like money market. You don’t need to give someone a cut of your portfolio for the rest of your life to figure that out.
Were you doing 0dte SPY?
If you want a solid steady return with no risk just buy T-bills. If you want a better return and are potentially willing to take short term losses just buy SPY and don’t look at it for a while. Also SpaceX can’t crash the market they are a rocket company that makes no money and has 20,000 employees.
Your age matters. But unless youre over 50 just invest it all at once. OR take a look at Cash Secured Puts and sell some options to get assigned at a price you like on something like SPY or SPYG and take some and go ahead and buy and sell covered calls. Take the premiums from CCS and CSPs and use it as income or just use it to buy more at whatever price its at. Whether you use it as income or growth also depends on age
BTC and SPY on hyperliquid already sniffing out the incoming red day.
taking a win is good but I wished you bought some SPY
For perspective, if this was all in SPY, this guy would make \~170k annually from dividends alone
Hedge funds better drive the SPY up 4% on Monday after that Knicks W
Well, that was the sign. SPY 630 by September. Cap it.
The wheel can work in many markets but you will need to diversify your tickers a bit. Figure out how much cash you need per month. Is it $10k or $20k? You could probably realistically clear 1-2% per month with the wheel but it will take practice to get there and be able to adapt in changing market sentiments. If you want $20k per month, then I would target maybe just doing covered calls on stocks you already own. That way, you can stay fully invested and grow your principle every month while using the lowest risk option instrument. Go all in on QQQ or SPY and just run covered calls targeting ~1% returns per month. You could sell weeklies at roughly 0.25% returns or just do monthlies that return 1% or a combination of both. If you are ITM you can roll out or lose your shares and buy back in on any dips. As an example, you could sell 30 contracts of July 10 756 C for total premium of 6.74 per contract for total credit of $20,200. You are good if QQQ keeps going up, but then what do you do if it corrects 20% and your principle drops below $2MM?
Can you guys pick a more realistic number for SPY opening Monday, like 1000
SPY $700 on Monday and bears will go extinct.
The most recent comparison from PortfoliosLab shows: * SPY: 15.55% annualized * ARKK: 16.35% annualized The slight difference comes from the exact ending date used and ARKK’s much higher volatility. SPY’s expense ratio is 0.0945%. ARKK’s expense ratio is 0.75%. So ARKK costs about: * 7.9× more than SPY * An additional $1,311 per year on a $200,000 investment To put that in dollar terms: If you started with $100K you would have a $403K return with $ARKK and $410K with $SPY. Congrats regard, you had to have a higher return to earn less money.
damn man, "cooked" is a familiar feeling lol. SPY feeling glued is never fun, especially when you're hoping for a market mover. i keep an eye on his posts with the politician tracker on ThetaPal but honestly, the market's been kinda shrugging off a lot of the political noise lately. have you thought about selling some super short DTE calls on that thing to collect some premium while you wait for the boom?
Put mine on 750 SPY calls 0tde Monday! Mortgage and new driveway or telling the bank I don't need credit now that I have the house. B&B guests can park in the grass.
Just buy SPY or a levered long index if you want to get frisky. Once you start losing, it can get really bad and really quick.
You can sell naked puts at Fidelity but their collateral is 2X Schwab’s requirement. For example the June 17 SPY 730 put requires 9,900 collateral at Schwab and 17,535 at Fidelity. (A 730 CSP requires 73,000.)
Her fund is doing better than SPY in the last 10 years
Monday smells like SPY 776 or something
ARKK beat SPY in the last 10 years
Everyone is like OMG we're going to SPY $1 billion on a peace deal. I'm just thinking how we're going to lose the bi-weekly fake pumps on every fake peace deal.
Just getting back to zero means you're probably still in the hole though. I made a couple of dipshit decisions with TMF back in 2022 and my portfolio was decimated by like 60%. It took me 3 years to break even but even then the benchmark that I was holding myself to had appreciated another 20% in the interim. Beating the benchmark (let's say SPY) is the 'real' break even.
SPY’s down 30%. XOM’s up 100%.
Long ass bear thesis on wsb again You know what that means SPY 900c 9/16
So both Calls & Puts on SPY multiple times a day?
I do SPX in extended hours, SPY during trading day
SPY 700 or 800 on Monday. I don’t make the rules
you guys don't actually think Don's gonna let some other president get credit for $SPY 1000 do you? he's gonna make it happen.
760 SPY calls will print
If you put them all in 0dte SPY at the bottom and then sell when the price goes up, you can make it back pretty quickly.
Circling back to [$SPY](https://aimytrade.io/ticker/spy?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=comment&utm_campaign=SmallStreetBets&utm_term=SPY&utm_content=template_1781390385583_bioi8o). I check where the open interest is sitting before anything. Still deciding for myself.
Need SPY and APLD to pump harddddd
10% day tomorrow on SPY, War over and signed. strait of hormuz maritime traffic is fully opned
So deal signed tomorrow, surprise rate cut Wednesday…SPY 800 Friday. Ber fukd.
Be aware of the wider bid-ask spread due to the four-leg structure, as well as the assignment risk on SPY. Ideally, the front-month short legs should have elevated IV relative to the back-month long legs. The goal is for front-month IV to fall while back-month IV remains stable or rises..
The one and only time I had the idea of "hey, I'll do 4-5 weeks out and just hold!", the market took an absolute shit that day and I lost over 20%. On fucking month out options. Never again, lol. I felt stupid watching them then waver each day but not really recover. I have been tempted at times to buy LEAP SPY calls vs. withdrawing money when I do win, but as things sit now I feel like things are overpriced too much to warrant that. There's going to be a pullback at some point, timing it's a bitch though.
I did this week $480 to $5400 doing 0day SPY puts but now that I have decent buying power I’m trying to play long dated swings instead now
If you can tolerate taking gains, just switch to SPYG. It has the same protection as SP500 SPY or VOO and basically tracks with QQQ
Excited for SPY to 1000 during the third term
Too the moon on Monday! SPY calls making a last minute come back like the Knicks 🔥
This is such bad logic. Unless you’re comparing it to holding shares/LEAPs for a year (which, 0dte scalps on SPX rather than SPY covers long term gains anyway)… how is it different tax-wise than any other trade? “Screw making money… think of the taxes!!!” 🤡
0DTE calls near the money typically cost around $100-400 per contract. They can move significantly very quickly, not unusual to see +/-50% within a few minutes - so very easy to lose money, but can also make a lot quickly. Yesterday SPY also saw some big jumps so it’s possible they made it all in a few minutes with just 10-20 contracts, or could have been a dozen trades over the course of the day.
I like 0.2% OTM options. SPY on good/bad days usually moves like +/-0.5%, and on sideways days it can move +/-0.2% I've rarely seen SPY move less than 0.2% in a day
How much OTM do you buy your ODTE? Is there a big difference in intraday theta decay between a 2 dollars, 5 dollars, and 10 dollars OTM for a position like SPY?
Do you stick to one SPY 0dte a day?
Try SPX, not sure what is your size and invest per trade, but if you able to pull this with SPY, you can do the same with SPX and then you got two advantages: 1. Tax benefits 2. No risk of assignment, but since you are doing in and out, this is not imp, but tax advantages are real.
On IWM, SPY? What stonk?
!banbet SPY 778.69 72 hours
SPY 800! Fuck u bers!
My 1dte SPY calls from Friday better print
VIX is calculated from SPX options, especially OTM puts and calls, not just puts. Also, “better off buying puts instead” is not automatically true. Buying SPX/SPY puts is a **directional bearish bet**. Buying VIX products/options is more of a **volatility/fear bet**. They can move together during selloffs, but they are not the same trade.
We're going to rip past ATH and then remember everything is totally fucked. Full port SPY ATM Cs at open, scalp, flip, repeat till lunch and then be cash.
it’s really is vibe and luck based. in the beginning where i had the most success i was literally just watching the 1min candle chart on SPY, calls when i thought it was too low, puts when i thought it was too high and made a fuck ton of money. i then went to learn price action and stuck indicators all over my trading view and then went broke. i’m back to just trading shares with a shit ton of leverage cuz at least they don’t expire
SPY on hyperliquid is going down on the deal news LMAO.
lol i bought SPY 0dtes with margin on wealthsimple and went $10k into debt. didn’t quit and i’m only down $2k now
If SPY opens at 900 my calls might be saved
Cmon baby lets see a +2% at market open on SPY.
*Translation***: SPY OPENS UP AT 800 MONDAY**
You guys don't understand. Deal to initiate negotiations is bullish AF because it means we can pump on every 1% progress made in the "negotiations". Anyway SPY 1000 EOY
Since I'm linking to this a lot since I put the full list of posts in here, I will share an important piece of advice. From a technical "acktually" standpoint, I'm partaking in the gambler's fallacy. The fallacy is generally that past results predict future results, but more precisely it's if the roulette turns up red say 5 times in a row, or in 15 of the last 20 times, it's more likely to turn up black on the next spin, or the one after if not, or the one after, etc., and additionally technically that you can take advantage of this by backing up plays (aka DCA, dollar cost averaging, etc., which works radically differently with options which I'll explain). Yes, tons of people have gone broke doing this in casinos, trading, what have you. It's not infallible. It's highly regarded, and highly risky. BUT compared to what most degenerates here are doing, like buying 120k shares of a penny stock, YOLOing various market cap strikes of an IPO that by any stretch of the imagination has market cap waaaaaay over the actual value of the company, in general YOLOing, etc., this is less risky and much more likely to actually build up an account from very little vs. piss it all away in an instant. I know this because I've gone the straight YOLOing route enough times over the years on what I thought were "sure plays". Not even just over the years - early this year I was throwing money away here and there, I haven't done the stupid shit like playing through ERs in a long time, and have even 99.9% of the time in the past few years now been sticking with SPY vs. playing individual stocks which is IMO better for a variety of reasons unless you're a practical insider of a company with how well you know them, then by all means play individual stocks. So that was the setup to the actual important piece of advice, which is this: I've talked about "backing up plays", which is sort of like doubling down on them, but with important differences: 1. I'm playing mostly ATM options (EOD maybe slightly ITM which is safer). When I'm starting with only $300, I might have to play a bit OTM earlier in the day because of the pricing especially lately with the high volatility. **If something moves against me enough that I need to back my play up, the options I bought are probably no longer ATM.** 2. Therefore, if my goal is to play ATM, it's against that goal to double down on the options I bought before. Those aren't ATM anymore, they're OTM. 3. Now why this is crucially important to what I'm doing NOW vs. what I was doing a month plus ago the last time I traded: THERE IS NO PDT RULE NOW. I don't HAVE to buy the same option to avoid an additional round trip that counts towards the 3 daytrades in 5 days. And thank fucking god, because that was a recipe for disaster. 4. So even though it's a pain in the ass to close out multiple positions when the time comes, I still will buy a strike or two inside of what I bought, NOT the same strike. 5. "but y tho?" If shit moves sideways for 5-10 minutes, an OTM option might lose 5-10% of its value, or much more if it's later in the day. An ATM option might still lose a bit, but nowhere near that. I don't absolutely need the market to immediately move in the direction I need. This is what was killing me before, just months ago. I was chasing what were probably bad plays, and the absolute worth thing would happen. The market would either go sideways or slow burn against me and not at all take a sharp move in the direction I wanted - until it was too late. On RH, "too late" is 3:45pm onward because they'll auto-close open 0DTEs at that time. This also killed me just end of day Thursday but to a lesser degree. I got caught in that slow burn up, and I did a few things wrong besides completely mistiming the original puts: 1. I backed my play up way too soon multiple times. 2. I did initially buy same strikes twice when I did that, but because I was backing my play up too early and my strikes weren't really OTM yet each time. 3. Before I knew it, I had 10 options 3 points OTM, 20 options 2 points OTM, 20 options 1 point OTM, and 10 options ATM. I think that was over the course of 7 buys. Want to guess at end of day what those 3 points OTM options were worth, when I'd paid maybe $1 each for them? Something like 7 cents each. Bad, very bad. At some point I should've bit the bullet and rolled those back to fewer / closer ATM strikes. New lesson even amidst 20x in 4 days. The one and only thing I did right was when things moved solidly back in my direction towards EOD, I closed almost all of it out vs. waiting for a reversal to get boned even more. That I need to do more often - I would've been up more yesterday if I'd done that with the calls I had left. Instead I waited and a slow burn down got me so I sold IIRC at $0.55 vs. $0.80 I could have. One final note: Yes, if you're wanting to play options that will take advantage of ERs coming out minutes after 4, do NOT play 0DTEs on Robinhood because you'll suddenly get sold out at 3:45 and wonder wtf. Use WeBull or whatever. WeBull is fine, it just always felt more cumbersome to use for me. When it's approaching that time, play 1DTE if you want to play til the final 4:15 bell.
I got calls on SPY expiring Monday so I’m praying for an insane bull market
SPY dropped nearly 3 % in a single day last week. How is this a sell the news situation? If weare actually getting a peace deal tomorrow the market will reach ATHs
SPY 750 next week please and thank you
Just got back from 2030. We have pumped to SPY 6969 on the 696th peace deal. We are now closer than ever before to finalizing the MOU of the concepts of peace deal. Whoremoose is still closed
SPY gonna trade sideways monday, anyways SPY 740 by EOY
How did you determine when to buy I do these plays sometimes when volatility is lower but I have a low loss tolerance and I’ll sell after making $20-$30 if volatility starts to reverse my gains. I also cut my losses early as well… if I let it go beyond $20-$30 then I have a hard time cutting my losses and I end up cutting when I’m down $100-$200. Do you buy large quantities? What is your “strategy”? Sounds like you had a lucky day but I also had a nice 0DTE SPY option run at the end of the day. I need some ideas. I will say TSLA options have been working really well for me. I had aa bad run cost me $200 but in general they are great for scalping a quick $25-$50 per option, sometimes double that. I don’t feel the need to push it - if I can do this a few times a day it provides a nice bump. Maybe my risk tolerance is too low. But i have been treading water with my account for over a year, slowly losing money.
If you buy into QQQ, you're forced to buy SpaceX. The execs who manage the NASDAQ index (that QQQ is based on) recently made some changes to their rules to allow SpaceX much quicker than usual. Statistically, new IPOs usually perform poorly for investors during their first year. More importantly, the rule changes happened in a manner that feels openly corrupt. The managers of the S&P500 index (that SPY is based on) decided to keep their sensible rules that have been in place for decades. So SPY investors won't have to buy into SpaceX for another year.
SPY to 770-780 then plateau feels very plausible to me. But who knows
So OP is the reason SPY went sideways on Friday...
In reality if the war ends the market goes flat or down because inflation goes down. I mean look at how SCHD preformed prior and SPY SMH and SPMO were flat for a year before the war. Was this all just a squeeze?
Always. There is always a bargain. You just need to find it. HINT —. It ain’t the SPY.
Instinct I guess. If it opens green and starts dumping, I wait for that candle to stall and then buy some calls, then sell on the inevitable V, and vice versa. SPY fluctuates so much you can rely on it making erratic back and forth swings at the beginning of the day, just play the reversals. You won’t make +200% gains on everything (or really anything unless you get crazy lucky) but you’ll make consistent +10-20% gains on those options and close them out quickly. If your account is below the 25k threshold you can only make 3 of these day trades a week before you get flagged as a pattern day trader though so trade accordingly. Also, im highly regarded (as are we all in this sub) so take anything I’m saying with a massive grain of salt.
Gonna be hammering SPY calls first thing Monday. We’re back, boys.
You can just invest in the S&P500. Tried and true method. Gains havent been as high as AI, but its also the long term set it and forget it method. Either SPY or VOO will get you in. VOO has a lower expense ratio, so I prefer that one.
QQQ in case there's no tech bubble plus SPY in case there is I suppose