### Comment:
They’re the absolute heroin of option trading. Started nice with some like 2 weeks out - market has an OK day and I’m up 30% - sweet! 
  
 Gradually you start to notice the market gapping up/down overnight and see how much those short term ones can move....you turn like $600 into $3K in a few hours because SPX moved .8% one time and you’re fucking hooked

### REPLY:
Haha exactly. 
  
 One of my huge bets was like $40k on zero day SPX. I bought a fuckton of puts around about a year ago when it was super turbulent. 
  
 Lost 17k in a few hours and bitched out of the trade. If I had held until EOD, I would have been up 12k

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