Why Do We Avoid Options? 📊 $SOL ran 60% in three weeks last cycle. $ETH had its breakout. I had directional conviction on both and ran perps on both, watching funding bleed every day, knowing an options position would have cost me exactly what I set and nothing more. I still didn't switch. The honest reason: I knew what a call was. I did not know how to open one in under two minutes without second-guessing every input. Strike selection, expiry, implied vol the gap between understanding the instrument and using it under real market conditions is wider than any CT thread has ever acknowledged. So I kept paying funding. Kept accepting liquidation risk. Kept running the instrument I understood even when the smarter instrument was sitting one tab over. Most perp traders I know have done the same calculation and landed in the same place. The problem is that the complexity lives exactly where you need clarity most, at the moment of entry. That gap is still there for most traders. #Macro Insights#