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Young People And Options

Let me spill out some information. Next-Generation Investors Are Different. An organization called "Finra" published this information. In a 2021 survey the Finra Investor Education Foundation found that 36% of respondents aged 18 t0 34 said they have traded options. That compares with 21% of respondents ages 35 to 54 and just 8% of respondents age 55 and older. Then there are crypto investors. According to something called a Pew Research survey based on Feb 2024 data, 42% of men aged 18-29 have invested in, traded, or used cryptocurrency compared with 17% of women in the same age range. Interestly, just 17% of all adults say they have invested in, traded, or used a cryptocurrency, according to the same 2024 survey. When it comes to buying on margin,in 2021, just under of a quarter, or 23%, of investors ages 18 to 34 said they have made purcheses on margin, compared with 12% of respondents aged 34 to 54 and 3% of respondents age 55 and older. Opening accounts is now easier and...

Boeing and Google Calls the Best on the Day After a 800 Point Dip.

No one saw the drop coming. It was a really bad day. Stock holders would now be caculating their forty percent losses in their portolio to now reaching fifty percent. That's how bad it was. Some people say that playing options is to difficult to do yet owning stock is not always a walk in the park. Here are two of clips. The first one shows what was happening with the stock Google and the second clip shows
Boeing. These are of rebounds in the markets near the end of the trading day. The last hour of trading. Frequent "Google" and Boeing-option-traders" loved it. Now here are the opening numbers thirty minutes into the market on the following day. Things are up enough to give Call option traders a tradable opportunity.
Now can to see option trading as being interesting? Here is the strange thing. Go back and see the number of contracts traded on Google in the first three or four minutes of trading. There was suprisingly only one. With the size of our earth and the millions of people in the stockmarket why did only one trade happen which would have included premarket activity? That's strange to me. On the next day Wednesday, Boeing popped.

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