“My name is John and I am a recovering options Trader”

Discussion in 'Trading' started by Jdesey, May 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM.

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  2. Tokenz

    Tokenz

    No wonder why I still can't kickflip on a skateboard!
     
  3. you have short legs?
     
  4. cesfx

    cesfx

    Jon Jones?
     
  5. Tokenz

    Tokenz

    No, kickflips are just difficult. I used to be a heelflip kind of guy, but now I can only kickflip and not heelflip
     
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  6. Cabin1111

    Cabin1111


    I think someone has not left the building...
     
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  7. TheDawn

    TheDawn

    Yes options is a special beast, the only kind of asset where you can still lose money even when you are right and yet can still make money when you are not right and yet just when you think you've got it made, you lose everything that you have earned just because you are too wrong. So at the end, you never make money because when you are right, you are not right enough and yet when you are wrong, you can be wrong too much. It's like there is always something going against you. When you are right, the time decay goes against you or the volatility is just not enough but yet when you are wrong, you think you can count on time decay to help you but no all of sudden time doesn't decay anymore and instead the volatility just explodes and completely blankets you. Where was the volatility when you were right? LOL All those ten's of thousands of dollars that you lost, you could've earned those when you were right. Why couldn't you earned those when you were right? LOL You know there is no way to make money to make money in options trading and yet you keep looking at all those lucrative premiums and you think there is gotta be a way to earn these premiums...

    That's ok. We have all been there. It's options, literally what it says what it is, options, an amazing instrument where nobody is making money and yet everybody is making money or vice versa.
     
  8. TheDawn

    TheDawn

    ok that's WAY too many asterisks for me to guess what that word is. LOL
     
  9. themickey

    themickey

    Retarded?
     
  10. traider

    traider

    think it ends in arded