u/I-am-Jacksmirking ·
Reddit — r/options
· May 22, 2026 at 22:33
· ⬆ 6 pts
· 💬 23 comments
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Summary
Two comments unanimously advise against active options trading and recommend buying index funds (SPY) instead.
Dominant sentiment: discipline and long-term indexing over speculative gambling.
No specific earnings or ticker-level analysis discussed; community focuses on behavioral change.
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[+17] u/Oathbreaker31: You could have just put that money in SPY a decade ago and let it compound instead of gambling.
[+6] u/need2sleep-later: Let's review: Your lifetime P&L is 120K and you blew up a 100K account and you really don’t know if you have such a propensity to gamble?
Maybe you should review your previous trades and analyze why you took them. You should also start journalling your current trades including your state of mind and other factors. Then every day/week do an in depth review.
Or just buy some index funds and find another hobby.
Both top-voted comments suggest putting money into SPY over a decade to compound growth rather than risking it on options. The thread’s critique of gambling implies SPY is a lower-risk, reliable long-term vehicle for rebuilding capital. Buy and hold SPY to recover from losses, avoiding short-term speculation. No explicit counter-arguments in the thread; implicit risk is missing out on higher returns from active trading, but community views that as too risky.
This Reddit post, published May 22, 2026,
features r/options community
discussing SPY.
1 trade idea extracted by AI with direction and confidence scoring.