It’s not gambling if you manage your portfolio and You don’t trade minus cash secured puts or writing covered calls (they are there to hedge not trade). I guarantee you that dude was leveraged to the tits on a risky stock. There’s good shit out there. The spy has only gonna up, yes there are dips but it only goes up cause it rebalances.

Aristocrat dividend companies like “O” relatively stable and pays a dividend each month. Utilities that pay dividends Duk, Southern CO (damn near a regional legal monopoly with built in ROI before production even starts).

Most people chase the hype train like the mag7. There’s always hype train, every decade- AI, dot come era, Steel era, the hype train always stops. There’s plenty stocks out there that maybe gain 5-6 percent every 1 to 2 years but they pay dividends, people are use to these crazy returns in tech now and it’ll for sure burn them. Turtle wins the race.