You Can Increase Your Trading/Investing Income (And Control Risk) by Adding "Options" to Your Capabilities... Two Key Reasons to Learn Options Trading: Options trading is attractive because of the opportunity to have very large exposure with a small amount of capital. Less Risk Than Any Other Trading Instrument: A trader can obtain an option position that will mimic a stock position almost identically but at a huge cost saving. Options work as a guaranteed stop loss order while offering unlimited profit potential. They are the most powerful and flexible tool among financial instruments.