Why Can’t Your Account Hold Onto Profits?
Are you familiar with this script: You spend hours studying financials, staring at K-lines to find entry points, finally deciding to buy. Result — buy at the peak. You comfort yourself as a “friend of time,” but the stock price keeps dropping, forcing you to cut losses in panic.
This really isn’t because of bad luck.
This is purely a mathematical probability problem. Traditional stock trading (going long) is essentially an “impossible triangle” game. To make money, you must do three things right simultaneously:
- ✅ Pick the right stock
- ✅ Pick the right direction (must go up, can’t go down)
- ✅ Pick the right timing
If any link fails, your principal shrinks. But on Wall Street, there’s a group of smart “rent collectors” who don’t need to predict stock price movements; even when stocks trade sideways, they still receive USD income every week.
Today, I want to help you achieve a mental awakening: stop being that “gambler” praying while staring at K-lines, try being the “house” that makes the rules.
I. Are You Here to Buy Lottery Tickets or Run the Casino?
In the world of Options, there are always two roles: Buyer and Seller.
The vast majority of retail investors instinctively choose to be “buyers”.
- Mentality: A few hundred to win tens of thousands.
- Essence: Buying lottery tickets.
- Outcome: Even if you hit the jackpot once, long-term you’ll be drained by countless “thank you for playing” losses.
While Buffett, institutions, and experienced cash flow traders often choose to be “sellers”.
- Mentality: Pursue high-probability certain returns.
- Essence: Running an insurance company or being a landlord.
- Outcome: As long as no catastrophic disasters occur (avoidable through risk control), cash flow comes in steadily like rent.
II. The Secret of Win Rates: 33% vs 80%
Why are sellers the “house”? Let’s look at the simplest mathematical model.
When stock price is at $100, there are only three possible futures:
- 📈 Big rise
- ➡️ Sideways (small ups and downs)
- 📉 Big drop
❌ If You Buy Stock (Go Long)
You only make money in “big rise” scenario. Sideways? You lost time cost. Drop? You lost principal.
Your win rate ≈ 33%
✅ If You Sell Options (Short Volatility)
As long as the stock doesn’t crash, you make money.
- Stock rises? Premium is yours.
- Stock doesn’t move? Premium is yours.
- Stock drops a little? As long as it doesn’t breach your defense line, premium is still yours.
Your win rate ≈ 66% ~ 80%+
Being a seller means you stand on the probability advantage side.
III. The Magic of Time: Making Every Second Work for You
Stock traders hate “time” the most. If the stock doesn’t rise after buying, capital cost is burning. But for option sellers, time is your best friend.
Options contain time value (Theta). As expiration approaches, this value accelerates to zero — and this is the seller’s profit source.
Imagine you’re renting out a house:
- Stock trading is “house flipping,” you can only hope for price surge to profit from difference.
- Selling options is “being a landlord,” we don’t care if the house price goes up or down 1% today, as long as the house exists, I collect rent every month.
This feeling of “account growing even while sleeping” is the magic Theta brings.
IV. Next Step: Building Your Cash Flow System
Many people lose money because they trade with a “gambling” mentality. When you switch to seller thinking, your goal shifts from “guessing tomorrow’s movement” to “building a $1000+ monthly cash flow system.”
This is what Silent Options exists for.
This isn’t some advanced rocket science, it’s a craft you can master through learning. Even with just $2000 USD principal, you can start accumulating wealth like a snowball.
📝 Silent’s Note (Key Points)
- Reject Gambler Mentality: Relying on predicting movements is hard to beat the market; relying on probability and time (being seller) enables long-term survival.
- Win Rate Domination: Stock buyers have only ~33% win rate, while option sellers have 80%+ base win rate.
- Core Advantage: We earn “time’s money.” Time passing itself creates profit for you.
👉 Next Preview: Since being a seller is so good, why do some still lose money? Next article, I’ll reveal the option seller’s “safety belt” — how to use options as risk control tools, not speculation tools.