Why Retail Traders "Buy Options" and Professional Trader "Write Options"
Retail traders are always looking at buying options because technically you have chances of making unlimited profits with investments of small premiums, very
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Although having a tested and sophisticated trading system is very important, the difference between an amateur and a professional trader lies somewhere differently.The reasons for unnecessary and avoidable losses of amateur traders can often be attributed to the following 5 points:The Successful traders can control their emotions and are mentally very very strong. They know how to react and come out of Uncomfortable situations and do not blame others for their losses.
As it turns out, more and more traders are losing their trades and even getting their accounts blown up by trying to short at the “top” and going long at the “bottom.”Take Gaurav, a young trader who called me after losing Big money in Going Long in Tata Motors after it lost 30% of its value from Highs around 600. He told me how he was so confident about going Long in Tata Motors because he thought that the correction would end at that major technical level and gave me 10's of reason that stock has made a bottom. He ended up losing almost half of his trading accounts as Tata Motors continued to slide and finally has to exit due to margin shortage.
There is rule of 90,90,90 in trading which means "90% traders Blow of 90% of trading capital in 90 trading days".The majority of new traders can make big mistakes that take their accounts to zero during their learning curve. So How to aviod being part of 90,90,90.