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I recently went through all of these tests and they're extremely trivial. I got through them with barely any knowledge about the topic. Even though I can now do options trading, I'm not going to touch it or anything like it until I've put in far more independent research, if at all.

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Buying options really isn't a problem. Your losses are capped at your premium if the options expire worthless.

Selling options is where it gets _very_ dicey afaik. It seems like the person in question was selling covered options which is the safer way afaik.

But yeah, you shouldn't be super scared of buying options. Selling options, in my opinion, requires more understanding.

That I can recommend. It is extremely easy to loose money with it and end up with _nothing_.

Especially the heavily leverage products can go from +100% to -100% in hours. And then your money is just gone. And you have nothing.

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