Nasdaq shrugs off inflation beat as it surges to all-time highs. For all of this and more,

including a deep dive on crypto derivatives, I'm joined by Imran Laka of Options Insight.

Imran, welcome to Real Vision. Thanks for having me. Of course. Well, how about you just

tell the audience a little bit about yourself. You are a veteran of the derivatives

industry of options trading, both on the sell side and on the buy side, and now you have

your education course options Insight. Just tell people a little bit about your background.

Sure. So, I'm Imran Laka. Hi everyone. I've been a options trader for around 20 years.

I started my career at Credit Swiss, ended up at Merrill Lynch, traded through the financial

crisis in 2008 there, sort of ran the desks there for a while, equity derivatives out of Europe,

then I went to Citibank for a while, then I had a short stint at Blue Cross Capital,

now I run my own company where I teach people how to trade options.

That's great. And Imran, I think options are so important because they really are a large part

of the financial markets, and as we've seen this year with gamma squeezes and short squeezes

and alike, they really can't influence the price action, but they're not that well understood.

So, I think it's important what you do, educating options, and that's why I'm glad to have you here.

Now, that's great. I mean, I totally agree. There's just been an absolute explosion in options

activity over the last couple of years, and it's great because they're such good products,

and they allow you to express your views in leverage ways, and they allow to hedge your positions.

But, you know, what worried me is that a lot of the kind of new retail traders who have entered the

fray are just using very, very simple, quite naive strategies like buying two-week call options,

and whilst that has worked right for them, it can go very wrong, and you can lose all

of your money very quickly. So, you know, in my courses, I try to explain the intuition behind

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