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Strategies & Market Trends : Waiting for the big Kahuna -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: stockycd who wrote (87591)	5/28/2009 9:21:52 PM
From: Real Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

That assessment is a bit drastic. Options trading is not very different from other types of trading, although there are specifics. In particular, you really wanna do a high probability hit (and then run). Of course, most traders lose money, and out of the money options provide an excellent opportunity to do it a whole lot faster. <g> There are strategies that are quite complex, and you are free to do all kinds of crap with various risk profiles. It can be no different than trading leveraged ETFs, for example, if you want it to be that way. FAS and FAZ are the same as call and put options on the appropriate financial index, for example.