let's practice papertrading!

learning options trading for free, it's a whole other animal! I look forward to gaining at least a basic understanding of how options can be used to improve position, or at least realize how volatility factors into the equation. so far, being just a few days into the practice stage, I am down quite a bit. I'm very glad that this is paper money.... I have noticed that the pricing of options varies considerably as the daily pricing of the underlying changes, I saw swings of over 50% intraday on my options, which leads me to believe this will be all about timing more than anything. volatility is insane....