“The benefits are limitless and yet the risk can be tapered.” I have heard this description paraphrased in a thousand ways. To a certain extent, I do agree and I was tempted to allocate some capital into options but I have decided not to in the end. In this post, I will share some reasons and views on options and how trading options might not be investing at all. Options is similar to gambling Yes, I understand that options deal with the same stocks that investors buy and own, however it is essentially betting on a single direction of the stock within a certain time frame. It is the same as betting on randomly drawn numbers that have no real correlation with the amount of money you put up for the bet. At this point, I think it is probably debatable because some people buy stock with the same...