Option Strategies: The Reality of Trading

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The reality of trading? $S&P 500(.SPX)$

You can be completely right and still lose money.

> Price hits your exact level

> Does what you thought it would

> Then stops you out anyway before the move actually happens

Just how it goes sometimes.

Trading is about having something that works when you do it a hundred times.

One trade doesn't tell you anything.

20 trades? 50? That's when you start seeing if you actually have an edge or if you just got lucky.

Consistent traders don't care about landing one huge winner or having one good month.

We care about not blowing up, trading the same thing every time, not losing our mind when trades go against us and making money most months.

Anyone can screenshot one big win.

Show me six green months in a row though.

If you don't get how probability works you'll take every single loss personally. But if you do get it you'll just see each trade as one attempt out of many.

Stop trying to be right every time.

Try to be consistent instead.

That's actually how you make money doing this.

For SG users only, Welcome to open a CBA today and enjoy access to a trading limit of up to SGD 20,000 with unlimited trading on SG, HK, and US stocks, as well as ETFs.

🎉Cash Boost Account Now Supports 35,000+ Stocks & ETFs – Greater Flexibility Now

Find out more here.

Complete your first Cash Boost Account trade with a trade amount of ≥ SGD1000* to get SGD 688 stock vouchers*! The trade can be executed using any payment type available under the Cash Boost Account: Cash, CPF, SRS, or CDP.

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