Not a crash. Not bad luck. Something most traders never check. ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
Nobody warns you about this one.
It's not the loss where you were wrong on the stock. Those make sense. You missed the read, you lost, you move on.
This is the loss where you nailed it. You called the direction. The stock did exactly what you said it would do. And when you checked the position — flat. Red. Gone.
I've had thousands of traders come to me with some version of the same question: "How is it possible I was right and still lost money?"
It's not a trick question. It happens every single day.
Options positions carry a daily cost from the moment you enter. It runs against you whether the stock moves or not. Be right too slowly and the trade drains before your thesis has time to work.
Ten seconds to check it before you enter. One number. Most people skip it entirely.
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— Don Kaufman
P.S. If you've placed an options trade, been right on the stock, and still lost — that isn't random. One of these five checks explains exactly why it happened. Read it here.
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