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Retail is about 20% of the market, if you want to see really dumb trades, check the institutions. As an options trader I'm pretty sure retail volumes are very much lower than 10-20 years ago -high barriers to entry, and it's a niche market where brokers don't make much. 90% of UK optionable...

24 years of trading, I'm still here because I'm not a naked seller of options which long term is a losing proposition.

You clearly don't know -someone is on the other side of your losing trades. Mugs selling options think they are so clever, yet market makers are the people making coin every day.

I have a blog. I place a real trade each week online. I hope people are able to learn and if they want to look at 2nd or 3rd derivatives and further complexities, they can do that in their own time. Understanding options is best learned by real world examples, in real time. Call me a wanker if...

If you think you are smarter than the market makers then sell options. Otherwise learn some strategies that limit risk and bring greater reward.

IV at141% and theta 0.013? Glad I don't trade VIX options, that makes no sense to me

I was told that many auto loans in the UK are approved by salesmen who are banned from using credit agreements

Your moniker is the essence of my options trading. Your response is the polar opposite. All the best in your trading.

When Putin installed Trump in 2016, the long game came to fruition. Now the infantile orange malignant narcissist is still wrecking America by being allowed to spout lies that stupid people think are true. Given that by definition half the population have an IQ below 100, there are a lot of...

I think we are in a new era- and yes there is always manipulation but generally we can trade. It's getting weirder

In the UK they are doing this with FTSE -we are in another new era of scammers -thought that had ended until this year .

4 year old investigation so, maybe these girls felt it was safe for them to accuse poor Russ.

Good luck- I have a book somewhere and 17 traders ALL ended up trading discretionally and doing well.

To adress the original question, nobody gets found out with their BS trading comments and bogus track records. However the upside for sharing real information is 0.01% better than saying nothing. I only run a blog as it's fun for me and a very few UK options traders

Joe Rogan -about as useful as Trump although without killing 460,000 Americans Here's the grown ups: https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-us-government-trillions-lost-sept-11-670264168912

Trading makes money, investing requires luck.

I buy options as well as sell them - hence still here. I don't trade stock options, just the index because I like to make a profit. Good luck with EW by the way, good friend has never really made it work so I salute you.

I think you should respond to the naysayers, it's not really a complicated trade as described. As retail I wouldn't do it.

Well options have given me a goodliving for 20 years -each to their own. I cannot imagine the hassle of being directional

It's called a FLOPTION. That applies to any options trade that has a snowball's chance in hell of making money! Good luck, I'm being facetious