Stocks and Options - How to Recover From Such a Messy Portfolio?

Listeners can't see your list of stocks and options contracts, but i think messy is a fair work. All of them are sitting at losses ranging from 21% to 97%. I recommend you sell everything you own and put the money in a low cost stock index fund. Many investors do just fine over the long term with zero use of options. Try not to develop a waigt until it comes back. On one of em carthic interest rates in the us have been near zero for more than a decade. That's caused all sorts of bubbly activity in investment assets, especially speculative ones.