You predicted the stock right — and still lost money. Here's why.
1. Novice Tutorial Function Description
It happens to new options traders all the time: they called the direction correctly, the stock moved exactly as expected, and yet their option position came back negative. The culprit? Picking the wrong strike price. That's exactly the lesson our new Options Beginner Tutorial is designed to teach.
Let's say it's May 12th, and you're bullish on Tesla. You think TSLA will climb from $432 to $447 by June 1st — that's a solid +3.5% move. You open the tutorial, look at the June 1st call options, and here's what you find: Strike price 425 option gives you +2.49% return while others are negative return.
Even with the stock moving exactly as you predicted, most strike prices still lose money. Only the $425 strike brings profit.
This is the options pricing reality that trips up most beginners — and why strike selection matters just as much as your market view.
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