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I'm definitely far younger than you; however, I agree. The problem is that there's no timing it. So positioning yourself such that you leverage other factors to make money in a market (e.g. delta-neutral positions that are long/short time/volatility) are all you can do if you want to play the game without having high directional risk.
I definitely agree it's not publicly available. I too applied in Dec 2020 and just the other day (09 March) received a key. Hang in there, it'll come :)
I use Brave and DuckDuckGo (bing) as my primary coupled search engine.
However, sometimes when I am trying to find resources on a particular issue/library/framework, I have to invoke :g (google search) in order to find those results; otherwise, thy're absent from the DDG searches.
Until this is addressed, the search really won't be that competitive, unless this is some weird niche thing that I think is more widespread than it is?
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Glad someone rebutted. I'd like to add the person on the other side of a retail long options trade can be a market marker or people like me that sell to retail for the same reason. :)