
Understand what an option is, and what its main components and types are.
We identify what the essential elements that affect the price of an option contract are. You'll also be able to understand how these elements work to affect the price.
Get to know and understand what the main 'option greeks' are, and what they tell you about your trades.
Understand what the difference between buying and selling an option is, what the advanatges and disadvantages of each are, and what the ideal scenario to buy or sell is.
Learn the difference between the instrinsic and the extrinsic value of an option. Be able to calculate each, and understand what they mean for your trading.
Learn what a breakeven point is, and how to calculate them in each of the strategies we teach you in this course.
What is an option chain? How can one buy, sell, and create option spreads through an online brokerage?
Understand the impact that time to expiration has on options pricing, and identify scenarios in which you can profit from this phenomenon.
Discover one of the most important -and often overlooked- components in option trading: volatility. Learn the difference between historical and implied. Understand the concept of IV rank, and learn how to use all this to establish more successful trades.
Understand the concept of probability in options trading. Learn the difference between probability of being ITM and probability of success. Identify which options and trades are likely to have the best -and the worst- probabilities of success.
Understand the impact of this often overlooked element in options trading. Learn how liquidity -or a lack thereof- can make or break a trade. Discover where to find liquid underlyings, and how to take advantage of it in your trading.
Learn how the strategy is built, what the trading philosophy behind it is, what its risk/reward setup is, how its P/L and breakeven points are calculated, when the best time to trade it is, what type of underlying and market conditions are ideal for it, how the option greeks affect it, and what its advantages and disadvantages are.
Learn how the strategy is built, what the trading philosophy behind it is, what its risk/reward setup is, how its P/L and breakeven points are calculated, when the best time to trade it is, what type of underlying and market conditions are ideal for it, how the option greeks affect it, and what its advantages and disadvantages are.
Learn how the strategy is built, what the trading philosophy behind it is, what its risk/reward setup is, how its P/L and breakeven points are calculated, when the best time to trade it is, what type of underlying and market conditions are ideal for it, how the option greeks affect it, and what its advantages and disadvantages are.
Learn how the strategy is built, what the trading philosophy behind it is, what its risk/reward setup is, how its P/L and breakeven points are calculated, when the best time to trade it is, what type of underlying and market conditions are ideal for it, how the option greeks affect it, and what its advantages and disadvantages are.
Learn how the strategy is built, what the trading philosophy behind it is, what its risk/reward setup is, how its P/L and breakeven points are calculated, when the best time to trade it is, what type of underlying and market conditions are ideal for it, how the option greeks affect it, and what its advantages and disadvantages are.
Learn how the strategy is built, what the trading philosophy behind it is, what its risk/reward setup is, how its P/L and breakeven points are calculated, when the best time to trade it is, what type of underlying and market conditions are ideal for it, how the option greeks affect it, and what its advantages and disadvantages are.
Learn how the strategy is built, what the trading philosophy behind it is, what its risk/reward setup is, how its P/L and breakeven points are calculated, when the best time to trade it is, what type of underlying and market conditions are ideal for it, how the option greeks affect it, and what its advantages and disadvantages are.
In this lecture, we publish the results of our proprietary, three-year-long study on the different success rates of the strategies discussed.
What to do now? We offer the tips you need to get your trading started, a discussion on the best online brokerages, the type of account you should open, the amount of money you need to get started, and how to avoid the common problems option traders face.
We recommend the best trading platform to execute option strategies like the ones discussed throughout the course, with the lowest commissions in the market.
This is a document where we list the definitions of some option-related terms that we use frequently in the course. It can be a handy reference when watching the lectures or doing the quizzes.
There are several option and financial courses out there. Most of them promise to teach you a set of strategies that can deliver huge profits with limited risk. The fact is, most retail option traders actually lose money. Sure enough, they might have a couple of successful trades at the beginning. But sooner or later, the odds play out, and poor trading techniques cause a cascade of errors.
The goal of this course is teach you the way professionals play. They don't lose money, they make a consistent profit. The profits might not be a 700% return on one trade, but rather, a daily 1% return in many. When you add the numbers up, you will see that the smart, patient trader actually wins the race at the end of the year.
The course will not be delving into non-essential information. You do not need to know about complex strategies that have very poor success records, or delve into excessive mathematics or chart reading. We have backtested years of financial data to show which strategies actually, consistently, work. This is not our opinion, it is what the statistics show. As a result, we will only focus on the top most statistically successful strategies, and will teach you when to use which, depending on the market conditions and your personal trading profile.
At the end of this course, not only will you have solid knowledge about options trading, but you will have the benefit of knowing what works and what doesn't. You will know how to take advantage of volatility, the implied mathematical probabilities, and the time to expiration. Oh, and you most probably be able to get back the money you invested in this course in one trade.
What makes this course stand out from the rest?