Ever wondered where options trading actually came from? The story goes back further than you'd think—all the way to 600 B.C. An ancient Greek mathematician used astronomy to forecast a bumper olive harvest coming that year. Smart move: he secured the rights to use olive presses at a predetermined price before demand skyrocketed. He didn't have to buy them if the harvest flopped, but if it boomed, he could lock in the rate he'd negotiated. Boom—that's your first recorded call option right there. From ancient olive presses to modern crypto derivatives, the core mechanics remain unchanged: the right, but not the obligation, to transact at a fixed price. Pretty wild that financial innovation plays out on the same patterns across millennia.