His Roku 297-strike puts were expiring the next day (or the day he cashed out):
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/yolo-day-trader-transforms-760-107000-2-high-risk-trades
The Reddit geek who raked in $100,000 with 2 trades is 'taking a small break'
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His Roku 297-strike puts were expiring the next day (or the day he cashed out):
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/yolo-day-trader-transforms-760-107000-2-high-risk-trades
Hey, BlueWaterSailor is treading down the treacherous road of trying to teach me options, and he is a great teacher, IMO. My head is exploding on this shit. (Kinda' like the OptionSellers.com guy's head when he zigged when he should have zagged.). So if he cannot make you understand why those trades worked, then I am DOOMED. The FACK is all this craziness.
So all you gotta' do is buy puts on stocks that are about to go real bad. How hard can it be? LIKE TESLA! I HATE THEM! Take 'em down! Bloody electric car nonsense from a nonsensical guy.
Hold on a sec ... He made some money and then used the winnings to press his "luck." That sounds like good trading to me. We don't know if the initial money were also markets' money.
"But instead of walking away with his winnings (a roughly 6,500% gain), Choi embraced "WallStreetBets" "YOLO" aesthetic and plunked it all down on another risky trade: A few days later, Choi bought more puts, this time they were puts tied to the S&P 500 exchange-traded fund that trades under the ticker "SPY".
Do you seriously consider risking a large amount of money that was won by pure luck to be "good trading"? I'm trying to imagine any rational scenario in which this could be true and not coming up with one.
The term "market's money" allows losers to whistle past the graveyard, and I'm somewhat surprised to see you using it.
I think the OP was being sarcastic..
No, the world doesn't make sense. trader99, YOU are the OP. So you are now talking about yourself from a 1st-person perspective in the 3rd-person?
Do you seriously think that he never traded options before and made the money purely by luck playing two different instruments?
"Soros has tought me, noted Druckenmiller, that when you have teremedous conviction on a trade, you have to go for the jugular. It takes courage to be a pig. It takes courage to ride a profit with huge leverage. As far as Soros is concerned, when you’re right on something, you can’t own enough.
Soros argued that the way to build long-term returns was thruogh preservation of capital and home runs. You can be far more aggressive when you’re making good profits. Many managers, once they’re up 30 to 40%, will book their year (that is, trade very cautiosly for the remainder of the year) The way to attain truly superior long-term returns is to grind it out until you’re up 30 to 40 percent, and then if you have the conviction, go for a 100% year. If you can put together a few 100% years and avoid down years, then you can achieve really outstanding long-term returns."
Even looking at it right now, after hours, I see 0.01/0.03 for the 80 strike on the put side. $50 up the chain, you're at 5.05/5.15, or 255x assuming mid for both. 800 to 108k is only 135x, so it seems feasible.