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The Appeal and Seduction of Trading Stock Options

Don Fantry
5 min readApr 28, 2022

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Once you start getting interested in the stock market, be prepared!

You are going to get bombarded with news stories, and millions of ways “others” have become rich trading stocks. They want to sell you their “system” and what worked for them and how you can do it too.

Eventually, you will click on the right enticing ad, and then you will find your way over to the “magic” world of trading options. You don’t have to settle for a measly annual 10 percent return on your hard-earned savings. You can make 10 or 20 times that amount in a year and retire after a few years of trading successes!

All you have to do is check some figures, study some stock charts, click a few buttons and make some trades. Your family and friends will be jealous! You’ll be asked how you do it. Everyone will wonder, what does this carefree, wealthy guy do to make money and live as he does?

You’ll suddenly have all this freedom to do whatever you want and not have to answer to a boss or a client.

No more commuting to work, no worries about deadlines, you’ll laugh at the other working stiffs/suckers.

Isn’t it easy to be curious and interested? You are being seduced by the power and potential of trading options. Options trading gives you instant leverage and the…

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Don Fantry
Don Fantry

Written by Don Fantry

MRI Technologist, Writer, aka THE MRI FINANCE GUY: I enjoy reading and writing about Personal Finance, Healthcare, and learning Spanish.

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