Essential Options: Strategies for Mastering the Stock Market
What you'll learn
- By the end of the course you will have option strategies for Bull, Bear and neutral market conditions along with an understanding of technical analysis and risk management.
Requirements
- A basic understanding of how to buy and sell stock online and a desire to add options to a portfolio. Having an online brokerage account with charts, option chains and option approval will allow students to better apply their knowledge as they progress through the course.
Description
Join Pro Market Advisors (PMA) founding partners Rick Swope and Shawn Howell as they introduce you to some of the core principles and teach you the strategies necessary to becoming a skilled option trader.
Designed for novice stock investors and beginning option traders, the PMA Essential Options course: provides twenty-five video recordings from PMA’s online webinar training sessions along with their 58 page Intro to Options color manual in PDF and three 20 questions quizzes to test your knowledge. In total you'll receive over four hours of video training. The Stock Market Training course covers topics such as Technical Analysis, Risk Management, Stock Selection and Six Basic Option Strategies (Long Calls, Speculative Puts, Protective Puts, Covered Call/Buy Write, The Collar and Bull Call Spreads.
Rick Swope and Shawn Howell founded Pro Market Advisors to offer you quality, non-hyped, real world financial education. PMA partnerships include the leaders in trading and investing: E*TRADE, Chicago Board Options Exchange, The Options Industry Council, NYSE Euronext, NASDAQ, and ISE. Rick and Shawn are also the co-authors of Trading By Numbers (Wiley Global Finance, 2012).
Take this ultimate Stock Market Training course and learn stock market for beginners with 6 essential strategies.
Who this course is for:
- This course has been designed for novice stock investors and beginning option traders wanting to learn the key option strategies to profit in a variety of market conditions
Instructor
As a veteran in the financial industry and primary education provider for E*TRADE, Rick Swope has presented in hundreds of seminars across the U.S. and around the world. His expertise includes technical analysis, market strategy and risk management. Rick has presented with some of the top financial exchanges including the Chicago Board Options Exchange, the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ OMX. Rick created the first market technical analysis consulting team for a financial firm with $1 trillion in client assets. He has extensive media experience including a regional PBS weekly show, a national PBS pledge program and numerous radio and television appearances. He is the principal author of the Amazon bestseller, Five Points for Trading Success (Wiley, 2007). Rick has the ability to present trading, investing and financial topics with humor and energy – suitable for a financial and non-financial audiences alike.
Shawn Howell is an accomplished speaker, trader, author, and educator, having presented to hundreds of audiences around the world. He is a CBOE Master Instructor and serves as the primary educator for E-Trade. Shawn regularly presents with the CBOE, NYSE, the Options Industry Council, and many other industry icons. As an expert in the use of various financial instruments, Shawn teaches skill based technical trading strategies designed to consistently outperform the market while mitigating risk. Over the past two decades, he has held executive positions with some of the financial industry’s leading brokerage and training firms. Shawn’s style of presenting and educating incorporates entertaining and enlightening “real world” stories and examples to teach the audience seemingly complex concepts in a way audiences at all levels can absorb. He is the co-author of Trading By Numbers (Wiley, 2012) and co-founder of a successful consulting firm specializing in retail and corporate investment education.