Just plugged in my phone charger, and my head immediately started spiraling the same way it does with “battery anxiety”—thinking about options again… The buyer, put simply, is like someone being charged every day by “time”; even if you don’t do anything, your power still drains. The seller looks like they’re collecting an electricity bill, but really they’re taking the one thing everyone fears most: the sudden jump-out power outage. Recently, everyone has been tying together ETF fund flows, US stock risk appetite, and crypto price swings into the same storyline, and the more I read, the more panicky I get—once this narrative catches fire and volatility hits, the buyer’s time value may not hold up, and the seller is also likely to get hit hard out of nowhere. Anyway, before I place any orders now, I tell myself one line first: am I paying rent waiting for the market, or am I being the landlord betting that the place won’t collapse… and then I go check the option premium and the expiration date clearly, so I’m not emotionally authorizing a trade on the spot.