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Welfare states you said? At least half the world population currently lives on welfare. Huge improvement right there.

The banking industry (in the modern sense of the word) begun in Italy during the Renaissance. You think that people in Moses' time for example carried ATM cards and Travelers checks to conduct business freely?

Oh please, free markets existed long before banks were even created :D

REAL money has to be a store of value and maintain its purchasing power over a LONG period of time. History shows that only gold (and silver) have been able to accomplish that goal for centuries.

In essence, buying deep out-of-the-money call or put options is like playing the lottery, it's exciting of course but the odds are against you.

What do you mean free money? I sell you a put option for example and it expires worthless, so I pocket ($$$) the premium you paid me, where is the problem?

Oh boy, don't get me started with the FED (Federal Reserve system) again.

Inflation is theft, period. Prevent banks from creating money out of thin air (via the fractional reserve system, which is nothing more than the biggest Ponzi scheme on earth) and restore the Gold standard and you will have virtually zero inflation forever.

Some US states have done just that a while ago. In fact the idea is not that new. http://english.pravda.ru/world/americas/09-04-2009/107378-us_currencies-0/

You sell (write) out of the money put or calls options for example. Since the market is not moving (or moving just a little bit) the options you sold would expire worthless almost 100% of the time and you keep the premium.

You can do both, sell the indicator AND profit from it. I can sell an e-book on how to catch more fish (for let's say $100 per copy) and still catch as many fish as I want from the local lake, no?

Emotions need participants. No participation (traders) no emotion. If somehow a group of traders could artificially create a flat market with their own trading activities (via a trading algorithm of some kind for example), then they would discourage enough traders and soon the liquidity...

The Dow Jones more than doubled in price during the last 5 years alone, so the market is anything but flat! :D

Yep. Over 5 grand per year in trading costs in my case, piece of cake. Some traders spend as much as 50 grand commissions per year or more day-trading/scalping stocks but who cares, Yep. Forget about making money with no money, it does not work. Yep. It's a well-known fact that IB make...

So bottom line and to get back to the subject of this post: do option sellers have a trading edge? The answer is yes.

Yep, Picasso's paintings were wildly used as a medium of exchange some 3,000 years ago.

Should we really be concerned as traders, Grandluxe? After all, it still has virtually zero impact as far as our daily trading activity is concerned.

:D (Not making fun of you, TheRumpledOne)

It's not even a question of emotion, if markets become flat for an extended period of time, nobody will trade them anymore and liquidity will dry up to almost zero. And then who will take the other side of the trade? Think about it for a second. Bottom line: it's not in their interest to...

In flat markets you can make a killing selling options. In fact, with options, you can make money no matter what the market is doing.