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The whipsaw description rings true, because the last breakout system I tinkered with died the same way on choppy small caps, lots of little exits a few percent lower and nothing to show for it. What I keep wondering is whether the rule itself is broken or just mismatched to IWM, since a market that actually trends for months would give those 20-day breakouts room to run. Have you tried the identical setup on something that trends more cleanly, just to separate the rule from the ticker?

Backtested the Donchian 20/10 breakout on IWM, 2019–2026: +5.4% total vs +103.6% for buy-and-hold across 53 trades

Probably…. At least recover to 50% retrace… Tell you what though; today was organized selling.. The GREAT ROTATION! Leading the charge will be small caps (IWM) and but of course TSLER — you saw the relative strengthened in both….

**Title: Looking for feedback on my advisor-designed investment portfolio** I'm looking for some feedback on my portfolio, which was originally designed by a financial advisor. I have a moderate risk tolerance, a 7–10-year investment horizon, and am looking for long-term growth with reasonable diversification. **Current Portfolio Allocation (excluding cash)** |Ticker|Fund|Allocation| |:-|:-|:-| |**U.S. Stocks**||| |IWF|Russell 1000 Growth|16.54%| |IWD|Russell 1000 Value|15.88%| |IJH|S&P Mid-Cap 400|7.12%| |IWM|Russell 2000 Small-Cap|6.84%| |**International Stocks**||| |EFA|MSCI EAFE|14.03%| |FRDM|Freedom 100 Emerging Markets|7.50%| |**Fixed Income / Income Funds**||| |FBNDX|Fidelity Investment Grade Bond|6.30%| |FADMX|Fidelity Strategic Income|5.81%| |FLXR|TCW Flexible Income|5.74%| |FGOVX|Fidelity Government Income|4.23%| |FRIFX|Fidelity Real Estate Income|4.17%| |**Gold**||| |IAU|iShares Gold Trust|5.84%| **Overall allocation (excluding cash):** * U.S. stock ETFs: 46.38% * International stock ETFs: 21.53% * Fixed income/income funds: 26.25% * Gold: 5.84% I'm planning to invest an additional $350,000 and want to evaluate my current portfolio before doing so. Would you keep this structure or make changes?

Left is new lows. Right is new highs. At 3:57 on a bloodbath of a day, the 30-second tape was 0 highs against 77 lows. The 1-minute was 14 against 108. The 5-minute was 270 highs against 179 lows. The 20-minute was 572 highs against 1,194 lows. SPY was $754.69, about −1.9%. QQQ was $689.50, about −3.6%. IWM was about −1.8%. Aggressive buys were about 32% and sells was about 24% as shorts covered positions into the close. How did you do?

Apparently 🥭 is unfazed by oil prices and current market action. Nor is he fazed by any of the market’s past reactions to his tariff wars. Instead of being a lame duck, he may turn into a bull in a china shop. Unfortunately, it may not pan out into a bull market. Calls on NUE? VIX? Thinking put leaps on SPY and IWM.

Just bought IWM 277p and NVDA 200p

Options in ETFs like SPY, QQQ, IWM etc. Simple long calls/puts. No complex strategies like iron condors, spreads etc. You can see my posts on this subreddit growing a small account this whole year. Now, growing a small account to buy Christmas gifts.

44% profit. Sometime I can be greedy, I temp it. I find options sweet. I know this week is a bit brutal with the earnings and FOMC. Stay away if you are a beginner. Why in the beginning I don't do more contracts? it is simple plan, I let my profit grow a bit in my account. Then, I will scale like you saw I did in my previous posts on this subreddit over many months. If you cannot get profit consistently with 1 contract, one trade, don't fool yourself to use thousands in your account and then risk 5% and and then cry. This is outdated rules. Loads of demotivating comments and posts everywhere. Hope you get inspired with my small profit and account growth 😬 I need money for Christmas gifts. No one is going to give me for free, I am not so beautiful. I started with a $250 account, aiming to reach $5k profit in 50 trades. You saw on many of my previous post I was growing another small account. Hope you get inspired. Life is short. I will try post the trades. Simple options strategy, no wheel, iron condors etc. Using simple EMAs, VWAP etc to see the trends, levels calculations. Trade: 4 contracts = $120 total profit. Total options cost = $276 44 % profit Time in Trade : 6 min. A little morning glory 🤤 $10 per contract per day, it makes a huge difference with time. Don't be greedy every time. My trading plan and strategy is trading one trade a day, 2-5 times a week depending on availability. If you are learning by yourself, give it 2-3 months to see how you are progressing. If you believe I am lucky every day with the trades and posts 🤷🏻‍♂️ so be it. I believe I have no choice, I put in the effort and keep doing, any loss is my loss as it is me executing my own trades and money. I only day trade options on ETFs like SPY, QQQ, IWM etc. Timestamp on the broker is UK time. So, entry time of 2.02 is 10.02 ET. I trade on my phone, screenshot is from TastyTrade. EMA 200 and VWAP on the screenshot for TradingView

Sell-off moved to IWM since open. Selling small-caps to buy dip in tech?

IWM, SPY and QQQ options can be traded now with Robinhood. I’m able to buy/sell options pre-market.

Well those 200 IWM puts looking good this morning.

i'm gonna buy TLT calls again tomorrow and maybe IWM calls but I haven't checked the price on those yet. not sexy but should be easy money

Yeah that's how I'm reading it too. QQQ IV is also running about 20% vs about 12% on SPY, so the options market is already pricing it to move more. If 713 goes early I wouldn't count on that wall doing much with gamma negative under it. IWM I'd expect to hang around 284 unless something knocks it off. Month-end too so some of this rolls off by the afternoon.

the split between big caps and small caps makes sense with IWM being the only one pinned in positive gamma, that thing tends to just grind sideways when it's sitting on a strike like that QQQ two bucks above the put wall with negative gamma underneath is the kind of setup that can get ugly fast if sellers show up at the open

IWM is still green. Apparently QQQ is the trash etf. 😂

bols gonna try to hide out in apple and IWM tomorrow.

And IWM is up. wtf

Fun thing about all this is it's tough to sell this on being a macro fundamental thing at all when the RSP and IWM are continuing to do what they're doing. It's possible it's November 2021 again, except this time there's been years of above normal inflation instead of about a year, which has millions extremely frustrated. But honestly based on what I'm seeing, if QQQ closes where it is in the overnight, it's probably going to be another quick Trump flush like 18 or 25 with nothing huge panning out yet again.

why if IWM includes retail and other sectors excluded from QQQ?

Here’s to hoping my IWM $280 puts x 200 do anything tomorrow. 🥲

IWM and chill 🙂😌

IWM on an 8 day short squeeze bender for no reason lol

Well, there goes half the IWM pump.

PUT THOSE SELL ORDERS IN IWM