Great comments. Especially for those who are math and computer challenged, it is important to live on intuition. That is how I survived trading options for the last 6 years now going 7.
I often complained that as a small retail without fancy math and trading models, I had a great disadvantage. It is generally true but the pros among you pointed out that I was way too pessimistic, that the greatest edge of a retail was I could pick and choose what, when and how I trade.
If you're willing to trade SN vol. $7K haircut under TIMS/PM. Vol stressed (down) to bottom two decile figure.
lol ... I just read my 2019 posts in this thread and I now realize how little I really knew. Now that I am trading every day, it is very different to just reading books and quoting someone else's ideas.