how i learnt trading with options (self talk)

: what i want to say is this

: that we can know when the trend starts or ends but can't tell how long it is going to last....

: and i have often noticed that

: indicators go silent / mute / meek / underground during strong trend storms.......

: they neither signal up nor down nor pause.....

: like a warning system signal which develops a snag when it is needed most

: the best and perhaps the only strategy available at such times (the one i am following now) is to keep trading in the direction of the trend with trailing auto stop loss

: options become virtual futures when they come in the money (after adjusting for the premium)........but are much less risky in the initial stages when the trend is not fully formed.

: sometimes markets go berserk.....that's the time we should stay sane.....self talk

: i just have literacy knowledge of options......but that serves me quite well when coupled with indicators/strategy/plan/method

: options are very simple.......complications are optional

: i have learnt options only from practical.......theory was so confusing.....

: i just learnt the basic meanings of options and learnt their behaviour by hit and trial....

: learning their beauty and ugliness on the way.....

: life or options......avoid theory, plunge and learn......

: that way u r spared of the wrong info which u otherwise might have to unlearn later.....

: and unlearning, mark my words, is a very painful, if at all possible....given the "investment" one has already made.....

: fear of losing investment is bigger and more crippling than fear of being wrong in the direction of trade....self talk