I understand that feeling about the market movers. I now trade with the statistics on my side.
I rarely stay in until expiration. I trade to a specific target profit and have a limit exit. Otherwise, within a week of expiration, I'll roll or occasionally take a loss.
If you want to learn you could follow my HIT (How I Trade) posts and/or learn from tastytrade.
Thanks for your link to options training posts. I note that you don't trade to expiry date (VERY WISE). I'm not sure I have the patience for something that can't be held for the long term. I try to make as few investment decisions as possible.