🎯 “The 2% Club: Why Most People Fail in Intraday Options Trading (And How Not to Be One of Them)”

If you're jumping into intraday options trading hoping for Lamborghini dreams with chai budget discipline—read this before you blow your trading account.

Ever felt like you're just one trade away from quitting your job and living in Goa?

Or maybe you thought, “Today I’ll make ₹5,000 in 15 minutes. I saw it on Instagram.”

Well… welcome to the wild, caffeinated world of intraday options trading, where the rewards are flashy and the failure rate is statistically depressing.

But before you swipe up on the next “₹20,000 ka profit in 3 minutes” YouTube short, let’s see what actual data and facts have to say.

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📉 So... What's the Real Success Rate?

According to SEBI’s official 2023 study, a brutal reality hit Indian traders hard:

• 🧨 89% of retail traders in F&O lose money.

• 💰 Only 11% make any profit.

• 🏆 And the top 1% keep most of the profits.

Let that sink in. That’s worse than the acceptance rate at IIT or IIM… but the only “degree” you get here is in Regret Engineering.

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📊 The Truth Behind Those Numbers

Let’s break down why most traders fail at intraday options:

1. 🧠 Emotions > Strategy

You enter the market with a “plan”...
Then the candle goes red and suddenly your “plan” turns into:

“Bas ₹500 ka loss aur le lo market, then I’ll exit. Pakka.”

This is where revenge trading begins, and your brokerage account starts to resemble a leaky bucket. Fast.

2. ⚡ Leverage = Double-Edged Sword

Intraday options offer crazy leverage. Just like credit cards:

“Use ₹2,000 to control ₹1,00,000!”

Sounds sexy... until the market sneezes and your money gets COVID.

3. 📲 YouTube Experts = Modern Day Snake Charmers

You’ve seen them:

“₹15,000 profit LIVE in 2 minutes!”
“Bank Nifty 100% accuracy strategy revealed!”

Reality?
They made money once.
Then made a video.
Now they make more from YouTube than from options. 😅

4. 🧮 Lack of Math and Patience

Options decay. Greeks matter.
Delta isn’t a flight to your dreams. Theta will eat your soul if you're long without reason.
But hey, nobody told you this on Instagram, right?

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🧠 Analogy Time: Intraday Options = Cricket on a Treadmill

Imagine you're playing cricket…
But on a treadmill running at 20 kmph.
You have to bat, run, and hit sixes—while the ground moves beneath you.
That’s intraday options.

Swing trading or investing, in comparison, is like Test Cricket.
You get time. You get strategy. You think. You adjust.
You don’t try to win the match in 6 balls.

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😅 Real Talk from a Former Intraday Addict (Me)

I’ve been there.

• I’ve entered a trade because “this candle looks bullish”.

• I’ve skipped lunch just to monitor the screen.

• I’ve stared at the chart like it owed me an apology.

And guess what?

99% of the time… it didn’t end well.

That’s why, after mentoring hundreds of traders, I’ve come to this belief:

Intraday trading is NOT a wealth-building tool.
It’s a psychological test disguised as a money-making tool.

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🔥 Who Actually Succeeds in Intraday Options?

✅ Professional traders with
– Proven backtested systems
– Deep understanding of option greeks
– Strict risk-reward and capital discipline

✅ Institutions and algorithms
– With access to co-location, insider data, and speeds you can’t match even with 5G

So unless you're treating this like a full-time job (with therapy on the side), it’s better to stay away.

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💸 So What Should You Do Instead?

Here's what I recommend (and teach inside the TSM Hub):

✅ Learn Swing Trading

You ride trends, not ticks.
You don’t stare at the screen like it’s Bigg Boss finale.

✅ Focus on Long-Term Investing

Buy quality stocks, hold them through cycles, let compounding do the heavy lifting.

As Warren Buffett said:

“The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.”

So unless you're looking to be the market's donor, start shifting your game.

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🚀 TSM Hub = Your Financial Freedom Tribe

In our community, we don’t chase 5-minute thrills.
We build 5-year plans.
We focus on:

• 📘 Education

• 💼 Ethical Wealth Creation

• 🧘🏽‍♂️ Trading Psychology

• 📈 Realistic, repeatable systems

And most importantly, support and accountability.
Not hype.

👉 Join The TSM Hub Telegram Channel
For insights, updates, and truths nobody on YouTube will dare to tell you.

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📚 Final Analogy: Intraday Trading is Like Tinder, Not Marriage

• It’s fast.

• It’s tempting.

• But it rarely ends in peace, satisfaction, or stability.

If you want real financial commitment, choose investments that grow with you.
Not those that ghost you at 3:15 PM.

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👋 Signing Off...

If you’ve read this far, you already have more awareness than 90% of traders out there.
Use that awareness.

Ditch the noise.
Follow the process.
And remember — it’s not about how fast you make money.
It’s about how long you can keep it.

Stay wise, stay invested.

— Soubhagya Sahoo
Mentor | TSM Hub | Long-term Thinker

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PS:

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