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GGLL trade closed in 20 minutes, walked away before the chaos got worse
I've been playing around with a few portfolio ideas on TestFol.io and ended up with five different versions that combine Fama-French Small Cap Value, leveraged ETFs, and trend following. They're all backtested from 1988-2025, and I'd love to hear what people think.
Compared to mechanical dollar-cost averaging into the Nasdaq, wouldn't this method yield better returns?
Trying to generate alpha using Nasdaq retail activity data
Imagine this happening to people's retirement account in TQQQ or SPXU lmao.
Heard there was a market crash. Fly off the shelf PUT gains!
$650,000 ish gains in 2.5 years, feast your eyes onto my gains.
Is anybody else dumping the Nasdaq 100 due to SpaceX?
Does selling OTM put and put spread tend to have negative EV?
Last month, ChatGPT told me to sell TQQQ position immediately.
Buying $309K of TQQQ on margin Monday at market open. No real reason. Wish me luck.
Buying $309K of TQQQ on margin Monday at market open. No real reason. Wish me luck.
108% vs S&P 500 ~40% over 2 years... timing + leverage or mostly luck?
My tech-heavy portfolio is up across the board, TQQQ leading the way
+$8,000,000 in April (188%). AMD and TQQQ on margin
“Basic” port gains with only QQQ, TQQQ, AMD and MU + QQQ LEAPs
Threw in my last $200, USO is treating me well and TQQQ is my hail mary 🌚 let's see if we can get off the Wendy's value menu
Musings of yours truly + positions
INTC BROKE ALL TIME HIGHS. SO DID I.
“TQQQ 4/24 calls are dumb, you’re just giving your money away.” Yeah. Ok. Sure.
$65 TQQQ 4/24 calls for .10 a pop? Should I .. just buy way more?
Stocks 3x ++ potential in next year
Seeking feedback -> Launching a web application for probabilistic stock and ETF price modeling.
Why should I not buy $5000 worth of TQQQ for a 10+ year investment
TQQQ and Gold Strategy using the SPY 200SMA (Three Phase Strategy)
The Gold and Silver Crash is Inevitable and Predictable by Market Structure
Will I get assigned since my put landed at the money at expiration?
Opening SPY Positions Today after Selling All QQQ on 12/31 to Avoid Wash Sale
5 years ago I revealed the Ultimate Investment
Sharing my wheel trading journey (last ~12 months) — looking for feedback
Yall really not hearing me huh AAPL and TQQQ
My 7-Year Wheel Evolution: From TQQQ Premium Harvesting to Regime-Based Risk Control with MARFIN
Thank you TQQQ, KMX, GLD & SLV. Can you see when I discovered the joy of buying options?
Cannot beat the market but leverages are showing massive gains over market as far we can look back. Some can argue on imaginary backward projections, but the rules have changed to prevent sharp drops.
Am I an idiot for wasting time on limit orders instead of just hitting bid/ask?
TQQQ December 12. 2025 5elling cash-covered PUTS
I asked Claude Opus 4.5 to autonomously develop a trading strategy. It is DESTROYING the market
This guy made over $700k trading in the past 6 months just trading TQQQ and SQQQ.
Trying to make money (need feedback)
Is there an Index fund like the S&P 500 that has equal investment instead of proportionate stock investment for the top 500 US Stocks?
Mentions
Probably need ro hold a short position as a hedge..SQQQ or SOXL should work if you insist on holding the TQQQ
Nothing to sell, I literally just hold shares of TQQQ
Hilarious part of it all was that, I went on a multi week trip with my GF when all this crazy upside started kicking off, so I sold CC against my 3x position to just try and find some middle ground. Unfucked myself halfway through the trip after missing out on a bunch of gains, but, still, My port went from something like 15k to near 30k. Back down to 17k in this past week or two just holding shares of TQQQ, and 2000$ in GOOGL leaps. Fuck me right? No love for my money.
I just added too much on the upside, leaving myself little room to add on the downside. I just hold TQQQ right now, and have been for a while. I guess It's not horrendous but, idk, I piled in too much at the high side and have little room for this low side. If we dip to 40/50 level i'll be very upset
anyways, im down from 27k to 18k in the port just holding TQQQ kinda wanna shoot my dick off
DCA into TQQQ and come out ahead of VOO regardless in the long run. My TQQQ position from a year ago is only up 28%, really sucks right now.
Anyone holding a triple leverage ETF of any kind, longer than a month, is simply an uninformed gambler. It’s the easiest way to get wiped out. Go look at most of them, they are all fairly new. Why? They delete every ETF that doesn’t make it through the crashes and make new ones. So the ones that even make it as far as TQQQ are all from the last time they died, like the 2008 crisis. QQQ won’t go under, but TQQQ or SQQQ will over years.
ya, it'll be fine. I punted \~450k CAD into triple leveraged etf's today for semis (SOXL & TQQQ). Those are gonna print hard.
I bought \~$300k CAD of SOXL and \~$150k CAD of TQQQ which is basically calls.
Sometime in the next \~2 weeks, yes. Which means --- everyone thinks that and we bounce sooner. So I bought SOXL today. It is heavily correlated & you gotta frontrun that flow as that's how you buy the dip (successfully). Currently sitting on -8%, but w/e. I'm buying more tomorrow and more on friday. Gonna average down till then. Something to remember - is that the korean admin is having emergency meetings to address the sudden drop in their stock market. It's like if the S&P500 fell 40% in a month. The US admin would be shitting bricks / doing everything in their power to turn that around. Korea is no different... they'll figure something out. So yah - imo we are close. I also bought some TQQQ today. Down \~3% on that atm.
When Kospi brings TQQQ back down to $66, i'm going all in...with limit sell at $67. 🤭
When do we full port TQQQ
TQQQ is a way to 3x your retardation
It's literally about you buying TQQQ at the top. Thanks a lot, retard.
And just like that my journey into DCAing TQQQ begins
Well it's day 14 of my strategy of just full porting into TQQQ to get 10% 24 times to go from 10k to 100k. It's not going well. Gonna just do what's reasonable, sell covered calls for now.
Guys I am all in TQQQ is everything going to be alright?
How’s your TQQQ position? I’m down 11%
I think too much emphasis is put on the decay aspect, Even for much longer periods than recommended the decay is pretty trivial compared to the tax hit reallocating it. I still have some TQQQ from April last year sitting at 160% today and even with recent downtrend and decay it's still better than just buying QQQ even 14 months out. If the market went down then that's a different problem than decay lol
TQQQ gang is in shambles
SOXL or TQQQ - gonna load one or both. There's no way there is less value and demand and cost than 3-4 months ago. This will level off and soar.......
Just about to go all in on TQQQ..........
TQQQ is gonna be sexy again, give it a week.......
Buying TQQQ is like magnifying your retardation
TQQQ & SOXL. Goodluck to all.
VOO and SPY are essentially the same thing, just a matter of branding. They both track the S and P 500 (a list of 500 large US companies, can think of as the 500 largest US companies). TQQQ as you said is 3x leveraged QQQ (Nasdaq). The Nasdaq is the tech index, so it is even more concentrated in tech compared to VOO/SPY. The S and P 500 is now also pretty heavy in tech, but there is a difference between say 40-50% tech and 100% tech. 3x leverage means TQQQ is designed to return roughly 3x the returns of the Nasdaq on a daily basis. This means if Nasdaq increases 2%, TQQQ should return a little under 6%. If Nasdaq drops 2%, TQQQ should also drop a little more then 6%. Because it is more difficult to return 3x as opposed to 1x, the fees for TQQQ are a bit higher, which is why the returns will not be exactly 6% of QQQ. My understanding is that leveraged ETFs besides from the inherent risk of being 3x returns, also are somewhat worse for long-term holding, due to math reasons that I haven't really looked into since they don't really appeal to me overall, but this article goes into some of them [https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/121515/why-3x-etfs-are-riskier-you-think.asp](https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/121515/why-3x-etfs-are-riskier-you-think.asp) I think honestly if your investment knowledge is such that you did know what TQQQ is, it is likely best to avoid leveraged ETFs. If you want to keep it simple VOO or SPY should do just fine.
Real talk? How to profit from a potential surprise hike today: 1. Wait for red to settle down. 2. Buy the dip with 3x SPY or TQQQ. 3. Everyone realizes this is a "gesture" for "credibility" but the money printer will stay on, effectively doing monetary doublespeak. 4. Market will shake off and have a big recovery rally. 5. Profit.
I could see SanDisk eventually going to 600 but for now I think there should be a tech button. Thus - long TQQQ.
Yep, long TQQQ, SQXL - https://preview.redd.it/ckaemdffw6gh1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9807225875f1fec9d23eb8fe612b0c28bdb28f3c
After selling my TQQQ position 1.5 weeks ago and buying BRK-B, I feel like thanos when he finally sat down. Its like I just have a constant bliss feeling after you nut. Its amazing
TQQQ easy money now, right? Right?!
Real talk. How to profit from a surprise hike today: 1. Wait for red to settle down. 2. Buy the dip with 3x SPY or TQQQ. 3. Everyone realizes this is a "gesture" for "credibility" but the money printer will say on, effectively doing monetary doublespeak. 4. Market will shake off and have a big recovery rally. 5. Profit.
Would you start to pay attention once TQQQ is overtaken by SQQQ or will you still ignore it all?
I think my TQQQ purchase last week will haunt my port for… awhile
Holding TQQQ is deviant behavior. Look up contango.
took profits on GOOG calls to buy some RDTL, GOOG shares , and TQQQ heading into next few weeks
>Tech stocks are all crashing but I'm choosing to believe in them one more time # Show us your TQQQ calls!
if TQQQ hits 60 I'm buying, don't care what the latest bol/ber narrative is
My portfolio is still >50% TQQQ. I’m in trouble
It's not 10-20%...its 10-20 cents TQQQ is a good day trading stock....wait for the intraday dip....but you can get fucked if turns down...and stays down.
WTF? I was told that holding ETFs was safe? How the fuck am I down so much? Port: SOXL, MUU, TQQQ
Options on TQQQ? 1-800-GAMBLER
Should I double down on TQQQ?
Won't say I'm a bear, I but I flip between TQQQ & SQQQ depending on how the market is moving. Bought SQQQ at $38.76 a couple weeks ago, I'm up bigly right now
This is free easy money guys. Just full port TQQQ at the bottom and sell when it bounces $2.
With TQQQ everything is 3x faster. Winning or losing.
QQQ or TQQQ calls
some mf in TQQQ sub telling me iran runs TACOS lmao
Why do you say this? Retailer can get better returns if they understand market and risk! Simply state, a person invest apps 700k in TQQQ during 2023 drop now holding 5.3 millions posting weekly statistics of his holdings and sharing info.
I want the inverse of this. TQQQ to 600 would be cool next week.
What do yall think if full porting TQQQ Monday
QQQ can't possibly go any lower. Full port calls on TQQQ.
Check the TQQQ sub, a lot of users held through long drawdowns and did ok
It’s kinda sad thinking that all I had to do my entire life up till this point was buy TQQQ, it shouldn’t have worked but it would have
TQQQ could reach 55$ still if we get the same kind of 35% correction from ATH as from last october to the iran war low.
All in’d TQQQ at $64, we cook from here
I’m up 150k ytd, the market must be even now! No got lucky bought TQQQ in april and sold in June 70% gain.
Why not TQQQ? Remember: past performance is not indicative of future results.
I guess offloading 500 shares of TQQQ at market close was a good move yesterday
Good luck! The problem with shorting is that you have to get the timing 100% right or you get wrecked! If you buy TQQQ after a -20% correction, you know even if its drops further you gonna be good eventually, but with shorting it can be different..
Upped my allocation to 300 shares TQQQ, grabbed a few short term QQQ calls, 1 short term SPY call, some GOOGL calls, IBM calls, ORCL calls, and NFLX calls most of which expire next year GL to me, +7000$ if TQQQ hits 88
Riding TQQQ, waiting for the quick pump on AMC so I can dump.
Forget about options and just buy leverage etfs (SOXL, TQQQ etc) when there's a market crash (QQQ down 30% or more)
This was mostly my idea post 2022. If you think the makret is frothy, stay the course in QQQ or SPY because the opportunity cost of being wrong is too high. But if the market does crash then SPY will likely only be down 30% or so meanwhile many tech stocks will be down 50-70, so you can sell spy at a loss to rotate into the beaten down yet good companies. I suppose you could do something similar with TQQQ
Hey man i know its hella profitable, but like i said consistent trades on SQQQ and shorting TQQQ is extremely dangerous. I lost $30k on SQQQ last year, but have made around $80k off of TQQQ swing trading.
The point about volatility drag scaling with the square of leverage is the most underappreciated concept in leveraged ETF discussions. People see 3x and think 3x returns, but that -99.98% max drawdown tells the real story - you'd need a 5000x return from the bottom just to break even. Your point about layering options theta and IV on top of an already-decaying instrument is key. The implied vol on TQQQ options already prices in 3x the underlying move, so you're paying a premium for leverage on leverage. Anyone selling options on LETFs thinking they're collecting easy premium should look at what happens to short gamma exposure when those instruments gap 20%+ in a single session.
If really want to invest TQQQ for long run, try DCA on it.
Lets see, the opposite would be: You buy TQQQ until you start seeing a down turn, then shift to QQQ until TQQQ breaks even.... If you want to lose money, yeah, I'd make sense.
Lump sum investing is nice and all, but its not really that realistic... for anyone (unless they suddenly decided to go all in on TQQQ with their retirement savings... right before they retire, which is beyond bonkers). A more useful case would be DCA. Most people do not suddenly get 10K to invest out of no where. Instead, its more like they invest $100 of their monthly paycheck.
Bro TQQQ is +55% SOXL +395% over the last 12 months. Everyone who’s been investing longer than a year is in complete euphoria. These babies are whining because they probably went all in the market a month ago and are freaking out
Yeah I read it, did you read the Ai generated response? TQQQ is my bread and butter, holding a portofolio over 100k through covid as well as selling and wheeling it for close to 10 years. Will be doing that the next 30 years, come back and ask how I am doing.
Just because someone posted a chart doesn't make it right: "Yes, the chart is wrong (or at least highly misleading). portfolioslab.com The image shows TQQQ (red line) dramatically underperforming QQQ (black line) over the full period since ~1999, with TQQQ ending far below QQQ (roughly in the low tens of thousands vs. over $100k for QQQ). That's not accurate based on real/hypothetical performance data.Key Reasons Why It's Wrong:TQQQ launched in 2010 — any "since 1999" chart for TQQQ requires hypothetical backtesting (applying 3x daily Nasdaq-100 returns to the pre-2010 period). This is common but sensitive to exact methodology, fees, and rebalancing. Post-2009/2010 bull market dominance: The Nasdaq-100 (and QQQ) had one of the strongest sustained uptrends in history, driven by tech. This environment heavily favors leveraged ETFs like TQQQ despite volatility decay. Real data since TQQQ's inception shows it massively outperforming QQQ. averageannualreturn.com Recent performance examples (with dividends reinvested, approximate as of mid-2026):10 years: QQQ ~$10k → ~$60k–$70k (annualized ~19–21%). TQQQ ~$10k → ~$350k+ (annualized ~42–43%). averageannualreturn.com Since ~2010 inception: TQQQ has turned $10k into millions in many backtests/charts (often 20,000%+ total return vs. QQQ's ~1,000–1,500%). totalrealreturns.com"
Most who follow LETFs would not advocate for unhedged buying of TQQQ or any other 3x leveraged ETF. Most instead would combine leveraged ETFs with uncorrelated (not necessarily negatively correlated) assets that limit exposure. For instance, backtesting for this exact same period with 50% TQQQ, 20% ZROZ, 15% GLD, and 15% DBMF, and annual rebalancing, yields leverage tech at 1.5x - 1.8x QQQ that also combines other assets (treasuries, gold, trend following managed futures) that have a positive total return over long periods and allow for rebalancing into these assets during a tech bull run. There will always be risk of treasuries or gold and tech moving in the same direction during a cash (uncorrelated is not negative correlation), but since 2000 strategies such as these backtest with returns approximating 2x QQQ with the same max drawdown, and better sortino and sharpe ratios than QQQ, even when including the dot com bubble and great financial crisis, among other market events. While nobody should hold only TQQQ alone, strategies using TQQQ or leveraged ETFs that, at least on a historical basis, give the holder a good opportunity to beat the benchmark on a longer term basis.
Oof, this is painful. I 100% agree with the point being made, but the way it is made, particularly with that super misleading chart, is so sus. * The chart is log scale, which exaggerates the red line decline while obfuscating the red line's recovery. If the 10k line is the middle line, 1k is the bottom, and 100k is the top, a decline from the middle to bottom line is only 9k, while a gain from the middle to top is 99k, huge difference! This makes the early decline of the red line look like it's much worse than it actually is, in comparison to the black line. Furthermore, when the redline recovers, it obfuscates that the recovery is 100x, whereas in the same timeframe, the black line only gains 10x. * This kind of chart is being criticized in comments for being start-time dependent and that moving the chart to various other start times, like 2010, would have a different result, which is correct. But the higher level point to make is that **all such charts are sensitive to start-time** and thus should be avoided altogether. Much better metrics, like rolling 5 or 15 year window averages, would average out the impact of start-time selection. I'm not able to go back to TQQQ inception with my free account, only to 2016, but according to portfoliovisualizer.com, the rolling 5 year annualized average return for QQQ vs. TQQQ was 19% vs. 32%.
ok, get into TQQQ after the next crash, clear!
Good to admit it. Put that money into QQQ and never look back. Auto deposit 5k a month and literally never check it. Thats what I do. If shit gets REALLY red? Buy some TQQQ to scratch the itch.
If you do this you buy TQQQ after a crash. Not at any random time. Run the simulation after buying TQQQ when the market had a 20-40% crash.
For my education, Why are you better off using qqq options instead of TQQQ? There's better bid ask spread I'm sure but are you saying something else?
Probably put money in QQQ until you start seeing a downturn of a certain percentage, then shift to TQQQ until it QQQ breaks even.
It would be interesting to see a 60% TQQQ 40% SGOV proxy. They’d be rebalanced quarterly. It would probably have very different results.
**BanBet Lost** — /u/KeyReaction892 (0W - 2L, 0%) | Ticker | Entry → Target | Move | Time | Result | |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | **TQQQ** ▲ | $73.50 → $78.00 | +6.1% | 2d | Lost |
Just sold all my TQQQ to derisk in case of fake V. Made a neato $400
Guys i am leveraged to the tits in TQQQ what the hell is going on
What kind of boomer is in SPY in TQQQ exists 🤑? Nah...but for real, you said buy SPY calls 😞
TQQQ is better for short term and QQQ is better for holding long term. Because I'm generally a swing trader I use TQQQ. Liquidity is a issue relative to QQQ so you do have to deal with slippage.
One of those all in with your paycheck days. $TQQQ, $DRAM, $SOXL, $UDOW
Any investing comes with inherent risks of loss. Some are infintesimal like US debt (eg SGOV which will be roughly similar returns to a HYSA) while others can be very high (long term holding of triple leveraged funds like TQQQ). Understand that the market has good days and bad days, and even good years and bad years but on the whole will increase over time. As long as your risk isn't too high (yolo 100% into a risky business) and your timeline is long enough to smooth out the ups and downs you will come out ahead. You mentioned that you have young children, have you considered 529s to help save some money for their education?
Replaced some SPXL for TQQQ. This shit aint dying
Not winning enough, too little dips, too much market manipulation TQQQ was suppose to go to 10$ but now it seems it never is 😞
It's a bad time to be full ported in the TQQQ, ugh
I just go back and forth from SQQQ to TQQQ to keep it simple
Feeling like that was bottom. TQQQ’d to the tits just now
Bought TQQQ at $70 today- looking to sell north of $75 in the next couple days hopefully
This is it guys, the bers won, I full ported into TQQQ at the top