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RT's, I've heard tht about 90% of all options purchased out of the momey
expire worhtless. Can anyone confirm/disprove this with market statistics?
Brent
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> From: THE DOCTOR <droex@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: RealTraders Discussion Group <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Stocks vs Commodities
> Date: Tuesday, December 30, 1997 9:38 PM
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> David,
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> Just so you know 30% of options expire worthless and over 60% of option
> traders, when asked, consider themselves successful. Your post just
> repeats some common pieces of misinformation.
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> Additionally if 90 % of something happened all the time the world would
> evolve and the losers would eventually die out.
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> For the last 12 calander quarters buyers of options have faired better
> than sellers in 10 of the 12.
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> The CBOE and OCC both print markey statistics books every year. They
> are free...you really out to get the facts.
>
> Send me your address and I'll have one sent to you.
>
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