The "daily Call" From Option Alpha: Options Trading | Stock Options | Stock Trading | Trading Online

Hey everyone. This is Kirk here again from optionalpha.com and welcome back to the daily call. Today, we are going to be talking about why I believe options trading is seen as a dirty business. I use the word, dirty business because that is the word that somebody used when they were arguing with me and trying to tell me that options trading serves absolutely no purpose in the market, basically that it should be outlawed, it should not be something that people can do, there's should be no way that people could trade options. I was trying to explain to this person why options trading and the derivatives market in general serves a very important purpose and position and role in an efficient market and in a mature and growing economy or global market. The idea here is that with an options or derivatives market, you have the ability to transfer or remove risk and that's really what it comes down to. If you think about it like insurance because that's really the easiest way to do it, when you buy a house, you are a