After being in crypto, I would never go back to stock options. Not sure I'll go back to stocks either. It's kind of like, why buy overvalued stuff that just retains that value because the US operates on a 401k system? Imagine no 401k investors. Whatever stock prices would result from that, would be the actual prices for companies, because a 401k investor does zero research, they buy a mutual fund which forces money into that sector according to arbitrary rules (not research, not value). It's a really silly game for large cap stocks, and has nothing to do with company values or actual investing. Jim Cramer would spot the tops in the stock market by watching mutual fund flow statistics which were published. When the mutual funds stopped getting the 401k flows, the market was topped and then a crash would follow in the months afterward.