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Is Options Trading Gambling?? 🤔🎲

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Is Options Trading Gambling?? 🤔🎲

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What's the difference between what

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you're doing in gambling? Cuz when it

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comes to options, you could be right

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about the stock and just a little off on

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the timing, and that means you're wrong

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overall.

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>> I I hate the gambling analogy because

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gambling means so many things to so many

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different people. Again, it all starts

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with what your objectives are and what

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your risk tolerance is. And on top of

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that, you have to understand that I do

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excessive amounts of probability

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analysis. So, I essentially run through

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every theoretical scenario on that trade

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that could happen that I'm aware of. I

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look through every scenario, good and

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bad. I make an assessment on how likely

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each scenario is to play out based on

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actual research. In this case, over 100

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hours of deep research [music] in

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Amazon. You're playing probabilities.

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So, I guess theoretically, everything in

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life is a gamble if you want to look at

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it like that. I mean, walking outside

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your door is a gamble because there's a

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theoretical possibility you could trip

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and die, right? That's why I hate the

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analogy. It's not like investing versus

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gambling. It's like, do you understand

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the risk you're taking?

Interactive Summary

The video discusses the common comparison between options trading and gambling. The speaker rejects the gambling analogy, emphasizing that options trading requires rigorous probability analysis, extensive research, and a clear understanding of risk tolerance, rather than relying on chance.

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