Why you don't buy in premium

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A wide, expensive stop

Buying deep in premium means your stop-loss has to travel through the entire remaining discount zone before it's proven wrong, a wide, expensive risk for a shallow reward if it works.

You're trading against natural sellers

Sellers, meanwhile, are naturally more interested in premium prices, they're getting a better rate to sell at. That's exactly the crowd a late buyer in premium is trading against.

The same logic flips for shorts

The same logic flips for shorts: selling deep in discount means fighting the buyers who see that cheap price as attractive, with a stop that has to survive the whole premium zone above.