apparently options trading in the uk is insanely fee-intensive... (its not just you). check https://www.cmelitegroup.com/ maybe...

well glad it's not just me getting bone jobbed, friend of mine said his company charges £15 per trade so I may even have stumbled across one of the cheaper places

what would you be paying per trade in the land of the free ?

tdameritrade charges 65 cents per contract iirc... some other brokers are cheaper but they also do snake shit like hold ACH transfers for 5 days so they can rake the interest, etc.

daaaaang us brits getting hella bone jobbed here

also now that ive owned stocks for 10 hours i can conclude that stocks are faggot

apart from easyjet, easyjet is god

update i sold everything and lost a couple hundo stock are faggot

i mean, dont get me wrong because im brazenly guilty of yeeting off appalling sums of money based on nothing but spurious vibe checks, but this feels a lot like you limping in late position with trashy connectors because youre bored and tired of watching other people rake pots... you caught bottom pair or something and called to see if you improve on the turn, wasnt feeling it, and decided not to see the river.

ok cool, but we both know how tricky it is to be profitable like that.

its a difficult market to 'catch the bottom' on because we see so many false reversals based on nothing but hedge funds and institutional investors tossing around fed liquidity injections, and now with the fed cutting out the middle man its going to be even weirder.

if you want to make long term plays in covid recovery reliant industries like airlines / cruise lines, imo you have to be ready for much, much lower lows before they turn profitable, or you have to wait for a viable covid cure or at least mitigation before you take a long position.

the alternative is just making pure technical analysis plays and going after momentum, which is high variance for even the most experienced and talented traders.

if you just want to limp with any two based on position and a hunch, youre going to probably have to do it a few times before you find a profitable spot.

this was the plan, i was basically trying to catch the bottom of corona if that makes sense lol

at the time it seemed like a return to normal could be not too far away with cases / deaths dropping and things starting to open up in europe i thought the usa could follow.

obv we know what a shitshow the usa turned into and second spikes are a thing in europe too so yeah best case now we finally get on top of things next summer but idk if thats even gonna happen.