Options & Futures Quotes

Buying futures isn't much different from blowing $10,000 at the craps tables in Vegas. Futures prices depend on short-term, highly volatile price movements. As with gambling, you occasionally win when the market moves the right way at the right time. But in the long run, you're gonna lose. In fact, you can lose it all. Options are as risky as futures. With options, you're betting on the short-term movements of a specific security. The only real use that you may (if ever) have for these derivatives is to hedge (e.g. using put options allows you to postpone selling your stock without exposing yourself to the risk of a falling stock price). [2019] - Eric Tyson

Options and futures markets, which are popular with day traders, are zero-sum markets. So who wins and loses in a zero-sum market? Some days, it all depends on luck, but over the long run, the winners are the people who are the most disciplined. They have a trading plan, set limits and stick to them, and can trade based on the data on the screen - not based on emotions like hope, fear, and greed. The stock market is not a zero-sum game. As long as the economy grows, company profits will grow, and that will lead to growing share prices. There really are more winners than losers over the long run. [2011] - Bryan Borzykowski

Stock options are a fantastic instrument to trade when traded on daily or weekly charts. Day trading stock options is extremely risky and difficult, and not for the novice trader. [2008] - Markus Heitkoetter

There are sophisticated investor who never buy or sell stocks. They trade only in options. They can make much more money with less money investing in options, in less time. [2002] - Robert T. Kiyosaki