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2023-12-13

Can't stop trading Options? You may be addicted

Addiction is the inability to stop consuming a chemical or pursuing an activity despite causing harm.

Very much the same happens to people who trade. Can we define trading addiction as a crossing a line between being passionate about investing and losing the ability to stop trading.

The problem focuses on the brain and understanding how its reward systems can train you to trade compulsively and dangerously.”

Here are some signs of addiction

You spend far too much of your free time trading.

You are trading stocks at work (and it isn’t your job)

The “high” of trying to find the next “moonshot” is the focus of attention.

You have feelings for 

Why options are addictive?
Options traders said options are addictive because it can gain 2000% but only lose 100%. ------------- Do you agree with them? Do you find options trading addictive? What's your attitude towards options?
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