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There’s no Stupid Options questions, just Stupid Options Courses, SurgiFi attends Benn Eifert’s Class

The Derivative

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Buying and Hold Is the Biggest Thing for a Retail Investor

As an investor, in general, you should theoretically get paid over the long term for taking risk and providing a service of some kind with your money. If you're thinking about anything that's like feels like short term speculative trading, there's zero expected return to whatever you're doing. And then there's negative expected return after you factor in that there's like pretty material trading costs in a lot of cases. So especially in options, right? If you're going into your brokerage account and trying to buy and sell options as a retail investor, like you're going to be paying lots of money to market makers. You have to ask what is it that I'm trying to do?"

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