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I didn’t lose a lot but enough to feel it! Trading options can teach you a lot, it is one of the few areas where you need to form an opinion, reinforce it and t
by ericmcer 6y ago
I didn’t lose a lot but enough to feel it! Trading options can teach you a lot, it is one of the few areas where you need to form an opinion, reinforce it and then have it either affirmed or torn down (at great cost). Sometimes I wish political, social and economic opinions had to withstand such an immediate and potentially costly test, would certain teach some people some things.
- ve55 6y agoIt definitely took me quite a few lessons to have a good idea what I was doing there myself. Skin in the game is definitely important, and has become increasingly less common in society, to the detriment of many systems.
- WalterBright 6y agoA big reason free markets work so well is it is an inherently "skin in the game" setup. This does a better job of weeding out irrational and unproductive behavior than any other system.
- mettamage 6y agoMy teacher (organizational psychologist) was warning banks before the 2008 crisis about their bonus culture, precisely because they don’t have enough skin in the game. Also, as an employee, I don’t have enough skin either. I could get fired, I might not be promoted. That’s a whole different level than that one could lose everything immediately as some entrepreneurs.