I agree with Maverickz. In the end it really come down to risk management. I came from a different spectrum, however, I like to be the writer of the stock options.
In my opinion, trading options is more advantageous than trading straight stock. When I started out with trading options I started...
Can you please give a high level highlight on this: "There are much more reliable and safer ways to make money in the market that don't require a trader to guess any of these things."
and why is this "more reliable and safer" than trading options?