I'm not sure what it is you feel that justifies that smugness from you based upon your posts to this forum, considering that you are simply human like the rest of us.
A limitation of texting is that it eliminates voice inflexion and face expression so it gets much harder to realize when someone is being ironic / sarcastic or just kidding. I was obviously joking about the loan and all. But now seriously, if someone takes a bank loan and plays them on the slot machine as a result of some stranger's advice on the Internet, they had it coming one way or another.
I've been doing this "online text" thing for a very long time. https://www.elitetrader.com/et/thre...-clients-low-deposit-req.361999/#post-5468416 That is not a "joking" comment. That comes across as serious advice. And you were not joking about the 150 IQ thingy, either, because you keep mentioning IQ in your posts. There's no need for that. Whether you have 50 or 200 or anything in between IQ matters not. It's not funny, or important, or relevant.
This forum would we much better if it had downvotes. Those downvotes would hide comments like the one our highly-gifted fellow has posted. Then we wouldn't need to read nonsense. Specially when the escaping route that he/she is taking is "everything was a joke". Such a sign of extreme intelligence... Looking at the initial question: Which broker should we use to trade options in Europe? I guess I can add a helpful comment I tried to trade options with brokers in Europe but ended changing to the US. The reason was that the expiration date in most of the options was fixed and couldn't be sold during its lifetime. Trading options in the US gives you normally the freedom to sell that option if you are in the money. I couldn't do that with the broker I chose in Europe. There are many US brokers that accept European customers, so I would say that the best route would be to choose an American broker.