> For those who aren't aware) The problem with options is that your liability with them can get bigger than your equity. You buy 10 shares of Newthing.js for $1

> For those who aren't aware) The problem with options is that your liability with them can get bigger than your equity. You buy 10 shares of Newthing.js for $1000 ($100/share), the maximum you're losing is $1000 > You shortsell NTJS because they use JS instead of Ruby with a strike price of $90 but guess what NTJS rose to $200 per share and now you're down $110 per option you put (minus the call option sell price). Regarding your edit about the trading example, you are conflating so many things to make your point. People that know how to control risk don't have this problem, or use those terms. Your risk issue is shortselling an options contract. Not shortselling a stock, which would be the actual opposite of your buying example. The options equivalent of both your buying example, and the corrected opposite, would lower your risk substantially more than purchashing/shortselling in the shares market, instead of increasing your liability. Let me know if you wish to have that explained. It is distressing for me to see misinformation forming a mob against a benign market, which may result in even worse regulations for managing risk.