Yes. Options have existed for a very, very long time, well before 0 DTE existed, for starters, so prior to 2022, daily 0 DTE wasn’t possible. To more directly answer your question, and also disagreeing with the other regarded individual who replied to you: options can very much be profitable to retail. Simple, long-dated calls are one way to do it. For example, if you mechanically buy a 2-year SPY call whenever the market’s down more than 20% and hold to expiration, you’re likely to come out way ahead (past performance doesn’t guarantee future profit blah blah). The market is not often down 20%, so this isn’t a get-rich quick strategy, but it’s not unreasonable and has historically very good returns if you’re choosing a strike that isn’t absurdly OTM (say, if you pay for an at-the-money call). You can reduce the cost (and profit/risk) by using a long-dated spread instead (so for example buying the at-the-money and selling a call 10% above the current price at the same expiration). There’s also selling index puts - again, not a road to riches, but as a way to add a small amount of leverage during times of elevated volatility. The typical internet-approved version of this is to sell 15-30 delta, 45 DTE puts, but there are a ton of ways to do this profitably, and also plenty of ways to quickly blow up your account. If you’re selling options, you very much need to be keenly aware of the leverage you’re handling, and also how volatility changes both the options price and the margin requirement (you can get blown out of a short put due to changing margin requirements even when the trade remains profitable). The question you asked is really broad, something like “how do you build a house,” so I’m speaking in really broad terms with just two tiny examples in an ocean of possibilities. But the short answer is yes, you can very much be long-term profitable with options strategies. However, ultimately, options are just another tool. You really need a thesis on the underlying, and if that’s wrong, some complex options genius setup isn’t going to save you from being wrong. So don’t get too caught up in the options mechanics at the expense of understanding why the underlying is behaving the way it is. It’s the latter that will make you money; options just add to the toolbox and can, for example, make you money if the underlying doesn’t move (which isn’t possible with shares apart from whatever dividends you get).

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Currently on a RC cruise right now and was supposed to fly Spirit back home and now stranded. I normally only fly Delta but booked spirit for this trip to save ~$1500. Now I have to fly back on a different airline to a different city and drive the rest of the way. I’m really dreading that travel day.

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Ongoing lawsuit against OpenAi. In court he admitted to creating OpenAi to basically destroy google :/ This was like in his court testimony in the past week or so. Google is fucked, everyone here's just huffing copium acting like downvoting the bearer of bad news is gonna save their google calls :/ here's an article on it from the past week court filings/details: [https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/30/tech/takeaways-elon-musk-openai-sam-altman-lawsuit](https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/30/tech/takeaways-elon-musk-openai-sam-altman-lawsuit) Plus everyone's forgetting that GOOG's revenue is like \~55% from search engine services... and OpenAi is eating their lunch. Let's not forget that Deepseek and other Chinese Models are eating Google's lunch by providing search engine services via ai FOR FREE. But yes. Let's all downvote the bearer of bad news, like I invented this information -\_-

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A 33% increase is a pretty massive difference lmao and when its most popular destinations are jammed airports everyone else flies to for marginally more money spirit just doesn’t have much of an advantage. One thing people on Reddit also don’t realize is that the average American is not giving up luxury for affordability. This just isn’t Europe whether it’s because they can afford it or because they put it in a credit card or they save less I don’t know and I don’t care but we see it in cars, we see it in phones, we see it in airlines, we see it in hotels, we see it in homes - Americans will spend more money rather than give up amenities and downsize.

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Don’t forget to save for taxes. That’s about 10K in taxes too 🤷🏽‍♂️

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Bear accounts I follow are praying for a bombing to save their puts

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As someone who is able to save a lot, I am intelligent enough to know that not everyone has the circumstances that allow that.

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LMT is my favorite way to lose money. Global demand shock for their products and the stock can’t hold a green day to save its life.

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Damn spirit, they should have let that JetBlue merger through. This is on politicians/government because they were figuring out how to save these jobs when they were having obvious financial issues without a bailout need.

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Did you figure out how much you have to save for taxes? Pay attention to the wash sale

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