Why most 0DTE traders lose (it's not what you think)

Most people who lose money trading same-day options don't lose because they pick the wrong direction.

They lose because of the clock.

A 0DTE option is a melting ice cube. Every minute that passes, time decay pulls value out of it, and on expiration day that bleed is brutal. You can be right on the stock, right on the move, and still watch the trade go against you because you paid too much and the clock ran faster than the price did.

I've sat on both sides of this market for over twenty years. I was there near the genesis of 0DTE, back at thinkorswim, watching how this flow actually behaves. 

And here's the hard truth: the pros on the other side of your trade don't need you to be wrong. They just need you to be early, sloppy, or impatient. The clock does the rest.

That's the whole reason DON-DTE exists. Not to talk you out of same-day options. To help you trade them like someone who knows where the money actually goes.

Three mornings a week, live at the open, I walk the setups in real time, the entries, the defined risk, and the ones I'm passing on. 

Because knowing what not to trade keeps just as much money in your account as knowing what to.

Stop fighting the clock alone.

Trade the open with a veteran. 

To your success,

Don Kaufman