These past couple of days, I've been a bit obsessed with options, honestly, time value is just "slowly deducting your patience fee." The most straightforward perspective for buyers: you didn't hit the right direction, nor caught the volatility, so that little bit of time keeps eroding daily, making you more and more anxious; for sellers, it seems like collecting rent on the surface, but actually they're betting that nothing big happens—before a black swan event, that small time fee isn't enough to cover the risk.

I'm not pretending here, just like opening a coconut: first test if the shell is hard—whether the underlying's volatility is really "real," then decide whether to be a buyer and pay the tuition. Recently, hardware wallets are out of stock again, phishing links are everywhere, it feels like everyone's security awareness has improved, but trading psychology remains the same: afraid of missing out, clicking randomly; wanting to recover losses, adding positions. Anyway, I'll start with small positions to test myself, don't treat time as free.