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IWM caught up and every industry was green

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Credit to:
* somermike on marketable securities from GameStop SEC filings [5/3/2026 post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1t2l9y2/correlation_is_not_causation_but_ebay/)
* greencandlevandal on total return swaps from Avis SEC filings [4/9/2026 post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1sh2x35/guys_there_is_something_happening_in_the_market/)
My last 2 new swaps tracking posts:
* 5/2/2026 - [A look at ebay swaps, XRT fail to deliver delayed settlement, and XRT, GME and 15 other new swaps tracking - 5/2/2026 update](https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1t2tiak/a_look_at_ebay_swaps_xrt_fail_to_deliver_delayed/)
* 4/25/2026 - [Upcoming GME swap expirations, XRT fail to deliver delayed settlement, and XRT, GME and 14 other new swaps tracking - 4/25/2026 update](https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1swipry/upcoming_gme_swap_expirations_xrt_fail_to_deliver/)
Last 2 swaps activity breakdown posts:
* 9/27/2025 - [GME, XRT, and 25 other swaps activity breakdown. Added 4 stocks.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1nsypy2/gme_xrt_and_25_other_swaps_activity_breakdown/)
* [9/20/2025](https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1nn3re9/gme_xrt_and_21_other_swaps_activity_breakdown/)
What are swaps, big picture on ETFs, FTDs, settlement can kicking, ETF and FTD juggling, etc:
* LoPiano swap, ETF, FTD, options discussion: [4/11/2026](https://www.youtube.com/live/hFO3OU0zJ7A) and [4/25/2026](https://www.youtube.com/live/D_CKtHW83qQ)
* TheGameStopsNow [2/24/2026 post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1re1ps2/1_the_failure_accommodation_waterfall_where_your/)
* VariousScenes [12/23/2025 post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1pu38lr/cycles_theory_revisiting_the_puzzle/)
* Counterspell_This [12/9/2025 post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1pileus/total_return_swaps_trs_deep_dive_dd_and_rceos/)
* samgungraven describing [swaps](https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1cy1xv4/great_explanation_on_how_swaps_work_and_current/)
* Arcanis_Ender 12/8/2025 comment: Swaps allow the parties to effectively hide their positions from the public. Bullet swaps were famously used by Bill Hwang to blow up his family office Archegos Capital via margin call as well as the counterparty involved--Credit Suisse. Those bags passed on to UBS who was forced by their government to absorb them and their toxic liabilities. The swiss government opted to HIDE (seal) the swap data regarding Credit Suisse collapse for 50 years as well. Swaps are very hard to trace by their nature, but they allow parties to have hidden short positions from their structure without actively impacting the Short Interest % of a stock. This keeps the cost to borrow low, just like when a market maker abuses their creation/redemption privileges on an ETF to artificially inflate supply of a stock that would otherwise have low liquidity.
* HashtagYoMamma [11/14/2025 post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1owqv0b/reminder_youre_being_gaslit_the_price_makes_no/)
* Long-Setting [11/1/2025 post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1olv8ox/memorandum_for_the_record_due_diligence_report_on/) - Snippet: A total return swap (TRS) is a derivative contract where one party (e.g., a hedge fund) receives the total economic performance (gains/losses, dividends) of a reference asset (e.g., $GME shares) from a counterparty (e.g., a bank), in exchange for periodic payments based on a fixed/variable rate. Unlike direct short sales, TRS allow synthetic exposure without borrowing shares, evading "locate" requirements and enabling indefinite position recycling.
* LoPiano 9/23/2025 on Newton's yellow/pink/red swap theory, see 15:50 mark: [youtube video](https://youtu.be/Ak-Xz8WpJ-A)
Swaps data source:
* From the DTCC website. Example (change the date portion to retrieve other dates going back up to 2 years): [https://pddata.dtcc.com/ppd/api/report/cumulative/sec/SEC\_CUMULATIVE\_EQUITIES\_2025\_08\_30.zip](https://pddata.dtcc.com/ppd/api/report/cumulative/sec/SEC_CUMULATIVE_EQUITIES_2025_08_30.zip)
* Alternatively via Amazon domain, example: [https://kgc0418-tdw-data-0.s3.amazonaws.com/sec/eod/SEC\_CUMULATIVE\_EQUITIES\_2025\_08\_31.zip](https://kgc0418-tdw-data-0.s3.amazonaws.com/sec/eod/SEC_CUMULATIVE_EQUITIES_2025_08_31.zip)
* XRT's ISIN and RIC: US78464A7147 and XRT.P
* GME: US36467W1099 and GME.N
* For brevity, tracking: CHWY, EBAY, GEF, IEP, MSTR, NTRS, PSKY, RCL, SIRI, U, VSCO, WBD, IBIT, IJH, ITOT, IWB, IWD, IWM, IWR, IWS, MDY, VB, VBR, VXF

Hi all,
Looking for some advice on what to do with \~$100k cash that we have sitting in a checking account, debating putting a big chunk in the market. I'm 31 yo, looking to buy my first house in the next two years and would like to liquidate some of my investments to do so. My trading account has 270k in it, have $500 monthly automatic deposits into SPY, could probably bump up.
My investing strategy has shifted to just putting $ into SPY but have little amounts here and there in ETFs or single stocks but when I see how good my returns have been with SPY, makes me debate shifting my whole portfolio there. Including my portfolio positions below. I use Fidelity.
|**Symbol**|**Description**|**Current Value**|**Percent Of Account**|
|:-|:-|:-|:-|
|SPY|STATE STREET SPDR S&P 500 ETF UNITS|$104521.63|39.60%|
|ONEQ|FIDELITY NASDAQ COMPOSITE INDEX ETF|$30696.72|11.63%|
|AAPL|APPLE INC|$14904.84|5.65%|
|COST|COSTCO WHOLESALE CORP COM|$14887.16|5.64%|
|UFOX|ETF SER SOLUTIONS DEFIANCE CONNECT|$9701.16|3.68%|
|FQAL|FIDELITY QUALITY FACTOR ETF|$8340.04|3.16%|
|MSFT|MICROSOFT CORP|$8172.34|3.10%|
|GOOG|ALPHABET INC CAP STK CL C|$6942.79|2.63%|
|GLD|SPDR GOLD TR GOLD SHS|$6347.70|2.41%|
|DBP|INVESCO DB MULTI-SECTOR COMMOD PRECIOUS METAL|$6098.61|2.31%|
|FTEC|FIDELITY MSCI INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INDEX ETF|$5801.63|2.20%|
|FSTA|FIDELITY MSCI CONSUMER STAPLES INDEX ETF|$5434.43|2.06%|
|AMZN|[AMAZON.COM](http://amazon.com/) INC|$5365.20|2.03%|
|FDIS|FIDELITY MSCI CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY INDEX ETF|$4467.08|1.69%|
|ARKW|ARK ETF TR NEXT GNRTN INTER|$4384.05|1.66%|
|PKG|PACKAGING CORP OF AMERICA COM USD0.01|$3256.07|1.23%|
|TMUS|T-MOBILE US INC COM|$3059.71|1.16%|
|ABBV|ABBVIE INC COM USD0.01|$2436.64|0.92%|
|ABNB|AIRBNB INC COM CL A|$2124.90|0.81%|
|QQQJ|INVESCO EXCHANGE-TRADED FD TR NASDAQNXTGEN100|$2104.07|0.80%|
|IYG|ISHARES US FINANCIAL SERVICES ETF|$1985.53|0.75%|
|TGT|TARGET CORP|$1933.86|0.73%|
|NVS|NOVARTIS AG SPONSORED ADR|$1842.23|0.70%|
|IPAY|AMPLIFY ETF TRUST AMPLIFY DIGITAL PAYMENTS ETF|$1694.24|0.64%|
|IWM|ISHARES RUSSELL 2000 ETF|$1483.81|0.56%|
|FDN|FIRST TR EXCHANGE TRADED FD DOW JONES INTERNET INDEX FD|$1064.44|0.40%|
|IBM|INTERNATIONAL BUS MACH CORP COM USD0.20|$827.79|0.31%|
|PYPL|PAYPAL HLDGS INC COM|$760.68|0.29%|
|PBJ|INVESCO EXCHANGE TRADED FD TR FOOD &BEVERAGE|$751.95|0.28%|
|XLK|SELECT SECTOR SPDR TRUST STATE STREET TECHNOLOGY SELECT SECTOR SPDR ETF|$671.27|0.25%|
|Z|ZILLOW GROUP INC CL C CAP STK|$452.80|0.17%|
|EEM|ISHARES TRUST MSCI EMG MKTS ETF USD DIS|$431.27|0.16%|
|EEMS|ISHARES INC EM MKT SM-CP ETF|$348.02|0.13%|
|PFE|PFIZER INC|$165.61|0.06%|
|SDZNY|SANDOZ GROUP AG SPON ADS EACH REP 1 COM SHS|$160.62|0.06%|
|ALC|ALCON INC|$149.43|0.06%|
|GOOS|CANADA GOOSE HOLDINGS INC COM NPV SUB VTNG SHS ISIN #CA1350861060 SEDOL #BF0B2F6|$135.60|0.05%|
|CGC|CANOPY GROWTH CORPORATION COM NPV (POST REV SPLIT) ISIN #CA1380357048 SEDOL #BR1G4F8|$2.26|0.00%|

Look at a range, it's mixed. QQQ IWM RSP QQEW XLF XLV and BTC
Most stocks/sectors are lagging, the Qs are leading. And big enough to keep dragging the index up.

Hey I’m in. I’m running trading bot trading 1dte option spreads on SPY QQQ IWM and building new one for trading futures

At this point in my trading "career," I'm almost strictly an ETF guy and primarily only in broad market (SPY, IWM, QQQ), sector ETF's (e.g., SMH, XBI, etc.), the most liquid crypto ETF's (IBIT, ETHA), and TLT.
I like things simple and don't want to be looking at a spaghetti-works when I open up my account, don't want to spend a ton of time managing positions on a week-to-week basis, want to be comfortable not having to sweat over shit, and don't want to have to navigate around earnings announcements.
There are two things with market crashes: (1) Having BP in reserve so that you can take advantage of them; and (2) Managing what you've got on with some degree of patience.
The first is somewhat easy: don't be in 100% all the time and don't add positions if they aren't better than what you currently have on. Let the stuff with a decent entry ride, fall off, and then re-deploy, laddering out at intervals, assuming you can get in at break evens better than what you currently have on, etc.
Patience with stuff you're bag holding for whatever reason can be tough (looking at you, ETHA and IBIT). Do I want to be rolling my short calls out 90 days or greater to get paid a decent premium without giving up max profit? No.

I trade penny stocks and got tired of either missing real catalysts or trying to filter out ones that are just noise. So I built a scanner. Not selling anything; looking for feedback, and message me if you are interested in the idea.
https://preview.redd.it/9xgtahp2kryg1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=fa23f63b63c99414f9fa69eeb9cd8c48db22542f
**What it pulls:** SEC filings (8-K, Form 4, S-3, proxies, 10-Qs, 14As), PR Newswire, Globe Newswire, FDA approvals, [ClinicalTrials.gov](http://ClinicalTrials.gov), USA Spending contract awards, Nasdaq halts. About 80-100 events make it through to me every day after deduplication and ticker resolution.
**What it does with each event:**
* Classifies into one of 22 catalyst types (FDA approval, M&A, government contract, dilution, partnership, etc.)
* Scores using per-keyword weights learned from historical outcomes — "definitive merger agreement" weighs more than "merger talks"
* Multiplies by structural context: float, market cap, ATR, short interest, today's price action, sector momentum, market regime (IWM trend)
* Runs a GBM model trained on real outcomes that predicts whether certain setups will result in a move; it retrains nightly on new events that come through so hopefully will get more accurate over time
* Three gates must all pass to alert: catalyst score ≥ per-type threshold, GBM probability ≥ 30%.
**What you see:** a real-time alert in the dashboard with ticker, catalyst type, the structural setup it landed in (panic recovery, breakout from consolidation, fresh catalyst, multi-spike continuation, pushback in uptrend), sector ETF day-direction, score breakdown, and a "high conviction" badge if 6 of 8 quality criteria pass — small float, mcap ≤ $300M, ATR ≥ 4%, not already extended today or 5d, entry-friendly setup, etc. After alert, a 24-hour (after running it realize I will probably switch to 4 hours or less as 24 hours hasn't been helpful) watch window monitors price and other metrics such as volume; if it actually moves, a "confirmed move" alert fires too.
**Some of the better tricks:**
* Generic headlines like "Filed Form 10-Q" get scanned for actual newsworthy sentences — output becomes "Revenue +35% YoY to $12.8M" or "EPS $0.42 vs $0.35 consensus"
* Per-ticker tradability score — some tickers don't move on news, the model learns which ones do
* Self-correcting: every alert's outcome (peak return, time-to-peak, fade) feeds back into nightly model retrains
**Why I think it's useful:** the hardest part of catalyst trading isn't seeing the news, it's filtering. This scanner cross-references against learned outcomes, ticker structural profile, and same-day saturation — keeps the actually-tradable setups, drops the routine noise. I'm sure a lot of things like this exist already but I couldn't find anything that actually fit what I wanted to build. Not buying in at the moment because Im waiting for more data in order for predictions to be more accurate, but have made one trade so far; I bought on CYCU on april 27 right after notification came in, headline: "**Cycurion Delivers on 2026 Profitable Growth Strategy with $6 Million Win and $112 Million Backlog Powered by Innovative AI Solutions**" and made around $2800 in one minute, sold at +30 something %
Personal project. Open to feedback. attached image of what main screen looks like.

The 5 day range was 4.65 - 5.21, FYI. The stock is moving differently than in the past, so it's hard to make predictions. Many are convinced we'll melt up until June 29, but it looks to me like volume has dropped off snd there's a lot of money to be made in other sectors right now. I also notice the continued pattern of sharp drops in sympathy with SPY/IWM along with weak recovery.
CCs could be a good play, as long as you're ok with missing some gains. They've worked well over the past few years. I've sold some June $6 calls myself, only on about 15% of my shares. I usually close after 50% or by 21 DTE.

The spread is the obvious one, but the more interesting edges are structural rather than predatory.
Index rebalancing predictability is probably the biggest underappreciated source. When a stock gets added to the S&P 500 (or any major index), passive ETFs \*must\* buy it at the close on a known future date. That demand is fully telegraphed weeks in advance.
The creation/redemption arbitrage is another structural edge that doesn't cost ETF holders directly but generates significant revenue. Authorized Participants (JS is one of the largest) can deliver a basket of underlying securities to create ETF shares, or redeem ETF shares in-kind for the basket.
Options and vol surface edge might be the biggest of all. JS writes a huge portion of the options market on SPY, QQQ, IWM. Their equity desk's ETF inventory and hedging activity gives them the best possible delta-hedging execution costs. When retail buys SPY calls and implicitly pays a volatility risk premium, JS earns that premium while being better-hedged than anyone else.
Front-running in the illegal sense? Almost certainly not. But having better models, lower hedging costs, and trading against mechanically predictable institutional flows? That's the actual edge.