Look, I know that we trade options that expire in a day or a week or a month, but the goal for

traders is to be around for decades.

And that's why long-termism isn't about holding trades longer.

It's about building systems and habits and frameworks that last.

All right, hey everyone. This is Kirk here again at Option Alpha and welcome back to the podcast

show number 243 where we're going to be talking about long-termism and this to me is

the new battle cry for short-term options traders as we continue to see traders myself included

start to push the boundaries into shorter duration shorter shorter DTE options trading, we need to remember

the importance of maintaining an ideology, a framework, a philosophy of long-termism because

I am consistently seeing people fail in their short-term trading, mainly because they

just fall victim to very simple pitfalls and traps and frameworks and psychology traps that

really derailed their long-term success. And so what I wanted to do today is kind of dedicate

an entire episode on discussing this. And I have I wanted to do today is kind of dedicate an entire episode on discussing

this. And I have to tell you that again, as I mentioned in the intro, I know that we trade

short duration options. And many people are trading more shorter duration options. Zero, one DTE,

seven DTs. But the goal still is the same. I don't think the goal has changed

for many traders. Your goal as a trader is not to be profitable today or this week or this month,

but to be here consistently for years, dare I say decades.

And so when I say long-termism, it's not about holding trades longer.

It's not about buy and hold.

It's about how you build a system, a framework of habits, risk frameworks, thinking

and probabilities and risk, like we talked about

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