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"It really can just be luck" ...well, luck or insider trading.

• filoleg 4y ago
  For 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.