IWM
iShares Russell 2000 ETF
stock NYSE ETF

You can trade RUT for now, no IWM. And so far nothing on Nasdaq.

If this is real this is a game changer for swing traders who want to minimize/capitalize gap risk. Hopefully they at least add QQQ and IWM.

It is true lol..but yeah I only trade credit spreads and this is a far safer way to trade than futures. It seems like today might be the first night session so who knows how many contracts will be traded and what the spread is. By the end of the year SPY IWM QQQ DIA. Will be 24 hours too hopefully. And by next year, 24/7 365

ChatGPT is goated; taught me how to trade.
Anyways I started off with a $300 account, I want to prove my strategy and I can be profitable before I size up 😂
I’ve messed around with XSP paper trading I like spy and I also like IWM it’s more small account friendly and I personally like how it moves.

Here @OP, I did it for you. This is investing $20,000 as a lump sum, 5,000,000 simulations, picking an ETF out of the given list, picking a date for which data exists (generally, from the start of the fund up until 2020), and investing the whole thing on the next trading day.
Then the results are averaged for each year. Prices are accurate as of yesterday's close.
(**note:** repost, and i'm removing the little emojis that my stock backtester script spits out because the bot doesn't like them)
(lumpdca) xiaodown@lab:~/code/lumpdca$ python simulate.py 5000000 20000 --tickers \
SPY,QQQ,IWM,VTI,EFA,VEA --lump-only --yearly
Investment Strategy Simulation
Running 5,000,000 simulations with $20,000 investment
Using 16 processes on 16 available cores
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[████████████████████████████████████████] 5,000,000/5,000,000 (100.0%)
EFA from 2011-07-01: LUMP value $51,425
IWM from 2006-03-10: LUMP value $99,098
QQQ from 2000-09-23: LUMP value $168,170
SPY from 2006-11-01: LUMP value $147,153
VTI from 2019-08-10: LUMP value $52,176
SPY from 2014-10-05: LUMP value $86,602
VEA from 2020-08-17: LUMP value $38,454
SPY from 2013-12-18: LUMP value $95,755


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SIMULATION SUMMARY
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Total Simulations: 5,000,000
Starting Capital: $20,000
Time Elapsed: 7.26 seconds
Ticker Filter: SPY, QQQ, IWM, VTI, EFA, VEA
Mode: Lump Sum Only

Returns Analysis:
Strategy Median Average Min Max
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Lump Sum $85,098 $123,298 $29,098 $760,309

Best Lump Sum:
QQQ $760,309 (from 2002-10-09)

Worst Lump Sum:
IWM $29,098 (from 2020-12-24)

Lump Sum By Start Year:
Year Count Median Average Min Max
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2000 119208 $159,826 $162,953 $129,510 $285,438
2001 201827 $186,581 $200,347 $91,365 $541,237
2002 201538 $204,530 $254,106 $93,398 $760,309
2003 202085 $208,704 $246,108 $82,828 $641,108
2004 202670 $184,469 $198,549 $69,617 $469,717
2005 202302 $166,867 $182,504 $59,454 $434,923
2006 202378 $149,265 $165,042 $48,579 $420,748
2007 261626 $90,588 $120,699 $41,465 $355,670
2008 262790 $108,706 $146,935 $44,311 $583,763
2009 261679 $147,686 $175,261 $57,726 $579,253
2010 262606 $107,333 $137,207 $54,169 $347,938
2011 261781 $93,333 $119,791 $49,900 $292,526
2012 263127 $84,000 $109,512 $52,543 $255,799
2013 261088 $69,451 $91,014 $43,294 $216,495
2014 261798 $57,098 $75,756 $40,957 $168,170
2015 261902 $54,353 $70,230 $41,059 $141,753
2016 262398 $57,098 $70,069 $44,471 $143,686
2017 260976 $46,321 $57,508 $36,485 $114,046
2018 261759 $43,066 $50,524 $34,351 $93,428
2019 261866 $42,000 $48,390 $34,859 $89,562
2020 262596 $43,066 $44,110 $29,098 $78,608

Note: Large outliers detected. Median may be more representative than average.
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The point is, some years are better than others, but it all comes out in the wash, and time in the market generally beats timing the market.

Yoooo I hope your doing well. I’m here asking for any guidance,insight or advice
I trade spreads IWM QQQ SPY tbh im refining my strategy daily after wins, losses, etc. Im an electrical apprentice pretty active job and sometimes it makes trading a little difficult and overwhelming… sometimes im rushing or I miss trades from not having a moment to pull out my phone then I check and missed my entry and im altering my strategy to try and fit my life and spreads has seemed to be the best fit 😂 I’ve thought about forex before or after work and ive been paper trading it practicing sharpening my craft … not greedy for gains just want a second income really for a bit more freedom I save and invest most of my money that doesn’t go towards bills so a second income wont hurt…
But I only enter from 1 to 3:45, 5 to 10DTE, shoot for .15-.25 delta then I TP ASAP I try not to close same day because of PDT and I recently noticed put spreads are more consistent.
Any tips, guidance, or criticism I’ll take it, very dedicated and looking too make some $ in the market… don’t need 10K days 🤣🤣
yet.

Day 1. IWM $274 0DTE puts paid today. I wish I got in earlier but profit is profit.

IWM got way ahead of its skis for this energy environment lmao

Why is IWM not 30% down today tho? It should be at least 30% down

IWM puts

Hey look, the worst collection of stocks, IWM, is up again.

Options on CAR are just silly. Short IWM a few weeks out for like 900% less IV

IWM is waiting for me to buy ITM puts so it can continue it trajectory to moon

IWM is the most unstoppable index

IWM is like a retard with a passed out chick and no supervision

Another day IWM green. God I want someone to nuke us and take me out of this misery

SPY is shaky, but market is still holding. If IWM joins, things can turn messy quickly.

As you say, you have no idea, and are asking at a place filled with bad ideas and ulterior motives in many cases. Do not buy any stock pick you receive in this post. Instead, write down the tickers and track them weekly over the next year. You'll learn a little about price movements, and also how important it is to avoid acting on bad advice.
Well, here's some GOOD advice. Take the money and put it into a well performing ETF. They are baskets of stocks, and thus spread the risk among many stocks. Go to [Investopedia.com](http://Investopedia.com) and search for any terms that I write of that you are unfamiliar with. To save you a bit of research here, I would advise IWM, an ETF which tracks the Russell 2000. It is the best performing exchange ETF that I track in my (commission-free) E\*Trade account. That list includes the DOW, NASDAQ, NASDAQ 100, S&P 500 as well as the Russell 2000. Right now IWM is hot leading the others with 11.89% YTD, as well as coming in a close 2nd to the NASDAQ with 47.66%(IWM) over the last year. Any in that list are good, although the DOW is the weakest.
Go to YouTube. There are literally thousands of videos you can learn from. Decide which style of trading suits you most: Day Trading, Swing Trading, Investing, or Buy and hold for many years. How much time you spend on this endeavor is directly tied to the type of investing you are comfortable with.
I could go on, but I just looked at your screen name, and I see you have only 5 post karma and 0 comment karma, which makes me wonder whether this is real or a bot post. Start engaging and commenting in posts to reassure people that you are an actual human.

IWM just rocketing. Is it small cap squeeze season

The rotation out of big tech into small caps during volatile moments to capture upside and write calls. The rotation back into large caps will most likely occur when mid east calms down and interest rates get cut. The IWM will probably take a large hair cut.