How a Financially Independent Investor Has Returned 33% in 2025 Chaos
As an options trader, Erik Smolinski thrives in chaotic markets. “In the options-trading world, what you need is not necessarily persistent, directional moves like most standard buy-and-hold portfolios might,” he told Business Insider in May 2025. “What you need is volatility, which is what we’ve got in spades.” Smolinski has been trading since 2007, when