A buck fifty buys a coffee? Where?

No, everyone has their own trading methodology/style.

Over the years, mine switched with needs, desires, and more than a few "debit lessons".

I spend far more time, out of the market, than in the market.

I like to wait, wait, wait ... then start, then add 'n ride. Then, if the market is actually cooperating (not a normal event) pound that sucker, push the knife to the hilt and twist it.

Or, which is more than likely ... take a loss larger than I originally planned.

Never got into commodity options .... we/I used to say .... Since time immemorial, men have taken on great risks ... made and lost fortunes, in some type of commodity futures game.

Then they came up with commodity options so that women and children could play too."

They made them suckers (commodity futures options) illegal in the thirties for a reason.