My takeaway:
What I like about Ocdoms’ story is that he learned that options are not about predicting the market perfectly.
Long Call/Put focuses more on price direction.
Short Put changes the question to: “Would I be happy to own this stock at this strike price?”
Real trading experience can teach you which strategy matches your risk tolerance.
But Short Put is not risk-free. If the stock falls sharply, you may be assigned shares at the strike price and face a large unrealized loss.
The most important lesson is to understand the strategy before focusing on premium income.
Bottom line:
Options should be used as a risk-management and decision-making tool, not simply a way to make quick money. For beginners, understanding assignment, maximum loss, position size and cash requirements is more important than chasing high premiums.