nobody would have been hard on him at all if he's just been like, "whoops, I fucked up. better luck next time."

but instead, he's been so fucking radically persistent to prove that he's somehow right, even though it's very clear that he's just fucked a bunch of options trades. like you said- the underlyings haven't moved enough for his calls to be worth anything, so even if he got the direction correct over SOME SPAN of time, it doesn't matter. dude doesn't understand options. if he'd been holding $15,000 of stock instead, he may have made some money on this watchlist... but he doesn't realize that that's not how options work lol.