Indicator-Free Options Trading: Community Trends, Performance Insights, and Investor Implications

A Reddit post details a trader’s 6-year profitable indicator-free options strategy relying on volume, price action, and order flow (focus on 3-4 familiar instruments and patience) [2]. Comments reflect diverse approaches: some avoid all indicators (e.g., codeartha), others use minimal tools like moving averages (as algo triggers), combine with RSI for risk management, or shift to macro signals [2].

2025 sees a growing trend in clean chart trading, with Discord as the primary platform and Reddit as a secondary space [1]. A personal experiment found 30-40% lower profits and a15% win rate drop when trading without indicators [6]. Industry stats note only5% of traders succeed long-term, but those with4+ years of experience have an85% success rate [9]. Volume and order flow are key for confirming trends, but no large-scale studies on indicator-free options performance exist [5,9].

The Reddit trader’s long-term success aligns with research on 4+ year traders’ high success rates [9], but contradicts the short-term experiment’s profitability drop [6]. The growing trend suggests interest, but the lack of robust data limits validation of widespread indicator-free options profitability [1,6].

: Scarcity of large-scale performance data for indicator-free options trading; 95% long-term trader failure rate [9]. : Community resources (Discord/Reddit) for learning [1,2]; volume/order flow analysis adds value to trading decisions [5].