Scott Nations

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Prof G Markets · Your Brain is the Worst Investor in the Room — ft. Scott Nations · 16 Jan 2026 podcast

We will get to the bubble, but just continuing down this thread here.

this dynamic that you're describing of a lot more, this huge inflow of options traders who are trading off of this volatility, which is itself becoming almost, it's its own industry.

Something happens that gets people anxious and you see a lot of movement and activity and then people go in there and try to scrape as much money as they can.

And we're seeing a lot of this in the zero-day options market, which grew to 59% of total options volume in 2025.

In other terms, these are the shortest term options available to traders.

So I guess as an options trader, what do you make of this explosion in options trading that we're seeing, specifically really short term options?

What does it tell you about the state of the markets right now?

Yeah, I think there are, let's say, three things going on that drive this explosion in option trading.

One is that options can be a great tool.

And I like to point out that if you buy a stock or you short the stock, then your payoff profile is, it's a 45 degree line.

On the other hand, if you add options,

to some sort of equity position, then you can create superior, completely different, but superior payoff profiles by combining the two.

And it took a while for people to really understand that and to grasp that and to come on board.

It also helped that all the online brokers now charge zero commissions.

So if you were dubious before, you have less reason to be dubious now, and you might try your hand at option trading.

And then the gamification of zero DTE options.

That's an analogy to the meme stock craze.

I'm not a huge fan of zero DTE options because of that.

The things that really make options a neat vehicle, they kind of break down when you're talking about zero DTE options.

It's more of a bet.

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