I was earning well from my business and thought ₹42 lakh was not a life-changing amount for me. Weekly options changed that perception. I started with ₹50,000 positions, then ₹5 lakh, then sometimes over ₹20 lakh exposure in a single day.
One violent expiry session destroyed most of what I had built over years. I came home and told my wife everything. She cried, not because of the money, but because I had secretly mortgaged jewellery to maintain margin.