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That is one way/the best way to make money options trading. Is there any wiggle room in that statement for the alternative? If retail options traders come out
by MuffinFlavored 4y ago
That is one way/the best way to make money options trading.
Is there any wiggle room in that statement for the alternative? If retail options traders come out ahead winning overall 15% of the time... is that worth pouring time into? It becomes a personal decision on whether you should risk your resources/time given those odds.
The question I have is... why do some people win and some people lose? It can't just be luck.
- horsawlarway 4y agoI mean... It really can just be luck. Even the absolute rock star traders have a nasty habit of regressing to the mean on a long enough time line. It just turns out that when you have a several million participants - some of them have "a long enough time line" of 30+ years.
- pmoriarty 4y ago"It really can just be luck" ...well, luck or insider trading.
- filoleg 4y agoFor every option and share bought, there is someone who sold it on the other end. Doesn't require much insider trading, given that for every trade that went poorly on one side, it went well for the person on the other side of it. Whether it went poorly on the sell or buy side, it doesn't matter. Given this, you can see why there are just actual purely statistical reasons for tons of trades going well with zero insider trading needed for that. Half of them are bound to do well. Whether you can consistently stay on the "good side" of your trades is a separate story, though. P.S. Not trying to deny that insider trading exists, but its prevalency tends to be extremely overblown.