3 Reasons People Trade Options

[The Option Specialist]( 02/22/2021   |   [View in browser]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [3 Reasons People Trade Options]( There are generally three reasons to trade options: 1. Earn some income, 2. Hedge some risk, and 3. Speculate. It's impossible to perfectly segment trades by motivation because traders and investors all have different goals, opinions, positioning and reasons for making trades. But let's be honest, the majority of small investors right now are using options to speculate... Is there some new user adoption here now that you can trade options for free on many platforms? Sure. And are some of these options traders using them for risk management purposes? Of course. But is there an army of people out there who are bored and using options to gamble on a raging bull market? Absolutely. And when you see how some of these trades are executed it's hard to blame them... 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