The Advanced Options Trading Course (Updated 2026)

Explore the short naked put strategy, a one-month, time-decay income play that sells near support to profit from a range-bound or rising stock and collect the premium.

Explore how the bear call ladder turns a bear call into a bullish three-leg strategy by selling an out-of-the-money call and buying two out-of-the-money calls on the same expiration.

Master the long combo strategy for bullish bets: buy an out-of-the-money call and sell an out-of-the-money put two months out, with the stock at support in a bull trend.

Learn the call ratio back spread, a bullish options strategy that seeks explosive upside around earnings or FDA drug approvals, with limited downside and uncapped profit potential.

Apply the strap strategy to profit from a large stock move, buying one at-the-money put and two at-the-money calls two to three months out, ahead of earnings.

Explore the collar strategy: own stock in a bullish long-term uptrend, buy a protective put, sell a call, and manage risk across a one-to-two-year horizon.

Master the short naked call strategy in bearish or rangebound markets by selling a one month out call near resistance to capture time decay and premium income.

Explore the bull put ladder strategy, a bearish option setup created by repairing a bull put trade with a higher-strike put sale, a middle buy, and a lower out-of-the-money put.

Apply the short combo strategy to bearish bets by selling an out-of-the-money call and buying an out-of-the-money put two months out, offsetting time value at resistance.

Explain the put ratio back spread, a bearish options strategy with limited upfront cost designed for big downside moves. Use Macy's example to show setup, risk, and potential reward.

The strip strategy buys one at-the-money call and two at-the-money puts two to three months out to profit from a large downside move around earnings, with uncapped potential.

Use the long call condor to implement a neutral, range-bound strategy with a low-cost debit, limited risk, and potential reward as the stock trades between middle strikes over a month.

Employ the long put condor to profit from range-bound stocks within about one month using a net debit setup, with defined risk and key break-even points noted alongside time decay.

Explore the short straddle, a high-risk credit strategy for range-bound stocks over about a one month timeframe, selling at-the-money calls and puts to profit from volatility convergence. Watch for gaps.

Sell out-of-the-money puts and calls to form a short strangle in one month timeframe when stock is range bound. This credit trade carries uncapped risk but offers a capped reward.

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Master chart analysis with TradingView by navigating the platform and interpreting Japanese candlesticks, moving averages, Bollinger Bands, momentum and volume indicators, and real-world examples.

Master the TradingView interface to navigate charts, candles, intervals, indicators and templates, and set alerts and watch lists for retail trading.

Explore how candlesticks convey daily price action with open, close, high, low, and wicks, and how color and body shape signal momentum.

Master drawing tools on TradingView to mark support and resistance with trend lines, rays, horizontals, and channels. Learn how rectangles and regression channels reveal market memory and range-bound trading.

Understand how Fibonacci retracements and extensions map swing highs and lows to key ratios - 38.2, 50, and 61.8 - identifying potential support, resistance, and confluence with trends.

Learn how moving averages, including SMA and EMA, reveal trends, dynamic support and resistance, and signals from the 50- and 200-day lines, plus pairing with oscillators.

Learn how the macd uses a 12 and 26 period setup and a smoothing line to measure momentum; the histogram shows divergence, momentum shifts, and crossovers traders use as confirmation.

Explore how Bollinger bands measure volatility with a 20-day moving average. Identify overbought, oversold, and squeeze signals for trend trading in stocks and forex.

Explore momentum indicators, including RSI and stochastic, to identify overbought and oversold conditions and divergences. Combine with price action and moving averages for confirmation.

On-balance volume indicator tracks positive and negative volume flow to infer trading direction, often used to confirm trends and breakouts with accompanying volume patterns.

Use paper trading on TradingView to simulate trades, test trading rules, tweak take profits and stop losses, and use strategy testers and Pine language to build strategies and automated trading.

Master a complete technical analysis system to trade profitably using candlestick chart analysis. Identify support and resistance levels, and apply trading psychology and risk management strategies with real-world examples.

Learn to read candlesticks by interpreting open, high, low, and close prices, color coding, bodies and wicks, and the psychology behind bullish and bearish momentum.

Learn to read long and short candlesticks, gaps, and wicks to gauge conviction and momentum, identify bullish and bearish reversals, and recognize trapped sellers driving big moves.

Use multiple time frame analysis to confirm trend and consolidation with volume-backed buy signals and candlesticks; study longer-term charts like Apple to spot bullish pennants and gaps for day trading.

Identify support and resistance levels on charts and observe how market memory reacts at barriers. Use fibonacci retracements with volume and candlestick signals to confirm trades in an uptrend.

Master Fibonacci retracements and extensions, focusing on 38.2%, 50%, and 61.8% levels, price action signals, and confluence with round figures.

Explore how pivot points guide trading with the trend, using 15-minute and daily charts, highlighting hammer signals, gaps, and key support levels as buying opportunities.

learn to identify market trends using the exponential moving average and the MACD, interpreting the EMA slope, MACD histogram, and crossovers to gauge momentum and trend direction.

Explore how Bollinger bands combine a 20-day moving average with two standard deviation bands to gauge volatility, trend, and potential breakouts, including compression signals.

Apply the stochastic oscillator to spot overbought and oversold signals, use 14-period range dynamics and price divergence, and filter crossovers with a moving average in range-bound markets.

Trade within trend rather than reversals, especially in a downtrend, using pullbacks to short and signals from Makdisi indicators and Bollinger bands, with stop losses set by support and resistance.

Navigate choppy markets by trading with the prevailing trend, identifying support and resistance using the stochastic oscillator and moving average crossovers, while practicing disciplined risk management.

Master flat market trading by recognizing consolidation, waiting for volume spikes to signal breakout, and using stop losses and shallow pullbacks to manage risk.

Learn trading psychology and risk management strategies to protect capital, size positions prudently, and stay in the market with the longer term trend for a steady equity curve.

Master a complete technical analysis system to identify bullish and bearish sentiment, trade on support and resistance levels, and recognize chart patterns and momentum signs with real-world examples.

Explore uptrends, downtrends, and consolidation, using weekly and daily charts and moving averages like the 200-day, 50, 100, and 20 to distinguish corrections from trends and spot breakouts.

Learn to mark up charts with levels, trend lines, and channels to identify buying and selling areas. See how to place, customize, and transfer marks across time frames.

Explore the essentials of support and resistance, using horizontal lines and round-number levels to identify where price may find buyers or face resistance.

Learn to identify head and shoulders and inverse head and shoulders patterns, how neckline breakouts signal trend reversals, measure targets, set stops, and anticipate self-fulfilling reversals.

Explore double tops and double bottoms as reversal signals, with M and W patterns showing price tests near resistance or support and potential breakout moves.

Explore diamond tops and bottoms, showing how broadening patterns signal a loss of trend confidence, trap traders, and trigger breakouts or breakdowns in uptrends and downtrends.

Identify rounding tops and bottoms, measure the height to project breakout targets, set stops halfway into the pattern, and note longer formations reflect greater order flow.

Learn to identify rectangle tops and bottoms as consolidation patterns indicating distribution or accumulation, with breakouts, retests, stop losses, and potential continuation or reversal signals.

Explore the cup and handle pattern as a bullish reversal signal, analyzing psychology, breakout dynamics, and volume in crypto and stock markets for options traders.

Explore triangles and wedges, including ascending, descending, and symmetric forms, with converging trend lines and 80 percent apex, to spot breakouts and project targets.

Explore flag and pennant patterns, their bullish and bearish variants, with runs, consolidations, channels or triangles. Learn to measure targets from pattern height, place stops behind consolidation, and spot breakouts.

Explore dead cat bounce trading strategies in day trading, identifying gaps, resistance, and bearish patterns, using Fibonacci retracement and careful stop-loss entries to anticipate further downside.

Explore candlestick patterns, foundation for stock trading, and candlestick chart analysis to build profitable strategies with support and resistance, exhaustion signals, momentum, stop placement, and take profit levels.

Learn to read candlesticks by analyzing the body, wick, color, and open and close to gauge market sentiment and momentum on four-hour charts.

Learn to trade candlesticks with support and resistance by reading price action, recognizing breakouts and failed tests, and spotting signals like hammer, hanging man, and shooting star.

Identify spinning top, pin bar, and doji candlesticks to gauge exhaustion and indecision, and act on breakouts below or above their ranges with stop losses, within trend and support/resistance contexts.

Explore hammer and hanging man candlesticks in advanced options trading to identify reversals, understand the role of support and resistance, and trade breaks above or below with tight targets.

Explore inverted hammer and shooting star candlesticks to identify bullish and bearish signals at trend tops and bottoms, with breakouts and support and resistance.

Explore bullish and bearish engulfing candlestick patterns, how a larger follow-up candle signals reversal within a trend, and practical entry and stop-loss rules for daily charts.

Explore the dual candlestick harami patterns, bullish and bearish, the mother and baby candles, their gap and tightening formation, and how breakouts and stops guide risk on daily timeframes.

Learn tweezer top and tweezer bottom candlestick patterns, two candles with longer wicks signaling resistance or support and potential reversals, and apply break signals to navigate markets.

Explore triple candlestick patterns, including morning star and evening star, defined by gaps in three-day formations signaling potential trend continuation or reversal, with practical stops and breakouts.

Explore three white soldiers (green) and three black crows on the daily chart, illustrating how gaps and momentum signal continuations or reversals and guiding stop loss placement.

Analyze bullish and bearish abandoned baby patterns in forex, focusing on gaps, three-candlestick structure, wick adjustments, and how these setups signal pullbacks rather than guaranteed trend changes, with defined exits.

Explore reading stock charts, applying technical indicators and oscillators, interpreting chart patterns and candlesticks, and evaluating support and resistance for entry and exit points amid trading psychology.

Learn to read stock charts with candlesticks as the main tool, alongside line and bar charts, to interpret open, high, low, and close and identify uptrends, downtrends, and consolidations.

Master support and resistance concepts, including major and minor levels and break signals. See an Intel chart example with multi-timeframe analysis and horizontal levels.

Explore exponential moving averages (emas) for stock trading, using emas as support and resistance and cross signals, including golden cross and death cross, with 10/20 and 50-day lines.

Apply the MACD indicator to spot bullish and bearish signals: MACD crossovers with the nine-day EMA and zero line, divergences, and overbought or oversold conditions, illustrated with Exxon Mobil charts.

Discover how to compute and apply RSI, using 70/30 or 80/20 levels to spot overbought and oversold conditions, divergences, and trend reversals with support and resistance.

Explore reversal patterns with the double top and double bottom, identifying resistance and support failures to signal potential sell or short opportunities as bulls lose control.

Identify reversal patterns with the head and shoulders and reverse head and shoulders. Trace neckline breaks and the shift from higher highs to lower highs and lower lows.

Identify continuation patterns—triangles, flags, and pennants—to spot buy and sell signals on breakouts in uptrends and downtrends, using support, resistance, and exponential moving averages.

Identify the cup and handle continuation pattern, a pullback forming a cup plus a flag-like handle, with a buy signal on breaking resistance.

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