Time !

Time is a weapon. It's up to us to use it in our favor, or against ourselves.

Choose the wrong timeframe for your trades and it becomes your fiercest adversary, magnifying risk and igniting emotional chaos. Master it, and time morphs into your greatest ally, giving rationality the upper hand over impulse.

Picture this: you buy calls that expire in a few days or even the same day 0DTEs. The promise of fast money is intoxicating. But reality hits hard and fast. Short-dated options don’t buy you opportunity, they buy you pure chaos. In a compressed window, anything can (and usually will) happen: a geopolitical shock, a rogue algo flash crash. And while all that drama unfolds, theta decay is chewing through your premium like a runaway chainsaw, even if the stock is moving your way, just not fast enough.

Less time bought = exponentially bigger risk.

The numbers are brutal and consistent:

FINRA: 72% of day traders finish the year in the red.

SEC (forex day traders): ~70% lose money every single quarter.

Brazilian futures study (300-day sample): 97% of day traders lost money; only 1% beat minimum wage.

These aren’t anomalies. They’re the rule. When your horizon is measured in minutes or hours, there’s zero buffer for randomness. One bad tick, one wider-than-expected spread, one news headline and your position is DONE.

Why trying to defy the odds ?

Sadly, most fintech apps -not to mention FinX gurus- are deliberately designed to keep you in this exact losing game. They push instant execution, one-tap options buying, real time P&L that flashes red and green like a casino slot machine, and confetti when you make a trade. It’s not about building your portfolio or compounding profits, this is engineered for immediate retribution and constant dopamine hits. Every ping, every notification, every exploding rocket emoji is there to keep you clicking, not to keep you rich.

They turned trading into TikTok with leverage.

Now flip the script.

Buy options with 30+ days to expiration , or better yet, 45–60 days. Now suddenly time is working for you instead of against you. You’re no longer a hostage to your screen. A post-earnings gap down? A sudden sector rotation? A volatility spike that shakes out the weak hands? No problem. You have breathing room to let the setup play out, to average down if your thesis is intact, or to exit calmly instead of panic clicking at the low.

Most importantly, distance creates detachment. When your trade has weeks — not minutes — to work, you stop trading with your heartbeat and start trading with rationality. Decisions shift from reactive and emotional to deliberate and rational.

Time stops being the enemy that punishes every mistake in real time…and becomes the ally that forgives temporary noise and rewards conviction.

In trading, the clock is always running.The only question is whether it’s counting down to your explosion…or counting up to your success ? Funny thing, is up to YOU !

Buy yourself the one thing no amount of leverage and no dopamine dripping app can ever replace: time.