The Complete Options Trading Course (Updated 2026)

Learn the basics of options in simple words, including calls and puts, rights and obligations, strike prices, expiration, intrinsic value, time value, and reading option quotes.

Learn how buying and selling calls and puts work, with strike prices, premiums, and expiration, and compare the risk and reward for each position.

Master support and resistance to time options trades, buying calls near support and selling calls or puts near resistance for defined risk and upside.

Identify bullish and bearish trends with the exponential moving average and its crossovers, and use it as dynamic support or resistance to guide options like selling puts or buying calls.

learn to use the macd indicator in options trading to identify bullish and bearish trends via zero-line and crossover signals, and to time moves with 200-day and 50-day emAs.

Learn practical risk management and position sizing strategies for options trading, starting with a small number of contracts, using a simple formula to cap risk and protect your account.

Master the long call strategy: buy an in-the-money option with time to expiration, accept time decay, limit risk to premium, and target 2–3x reward.

Learn the covered call strategy, a bullish option approach that sells an out-of-the-money call against a stock you own to collect premium within 1–2 months as the stock trades sideways.

Explore the synthetic call strategy, a bullish setup that replicates owning a call by pairing stock with a protective put. Use it around earnings to hedge downside with unlimited upside.

learn the bull call spread: buy a near-the-money call and sell a higher strike call with the same expiration to gain leverage on an uptrend while reducing risk.

Use the bull put spread to generate short-term income with a credit by selling an out-of-the-money put and buying a further out-of-the-money put with the same expiration near support.

Harness the long put strategy to profit from a falling stock by buying in-the-money puts with 3–6 months of time, while setting stop losses, managing time decay, and breakeven.

Master the covered put strategy by selling short stock and a put to collect premium, profiting from time decay on a range-bound or downtrending stock.

Hedge a bearish position with a synthetic put by shorting the stock and buying a one-to-two-month near-the-money call for protection around earnings.

Apply the bear call spread strategy to profit from a stock in a downtrend or range by selling a short-term out-of-the-money call and buying a higher-strike call, leveraging time decay.

Learn the bear put spread strategy, buying a six-month out-of-the-money put and selling a farther out-of-the-money put to profit from a downtrend while capping risk.

Execute the long call butterfly to profit from a range-bound stock by buying one OTM and one ITM call and selling two at-the-money calls with equal strike gaps.

Learn the long put butterfly: a neutral strategy buying a far put, selling two near puts, and buying a closer put to profit from a range-bound stock with capped risk.

Explore long straddle, a neutral options strategy that profits from a large move up or down by buying at-the-money call and put ahead of earnings or news, with defined risk.

Explore how the long strangle buys an out-of-the-money call and put to profit from a move driven by news or earnings, with defined risk and lower cost than the straddle.

Learn to use TradingView for chart analysis, interpret Japanese candlesticks, and apply moving averages, Bollinger Bands, and momentum and volume indicators to gauge market movements.

Navigate the TradingView interface to customize charts with candlesticks or bars, set intervals and timeframes, apply indicators and alerts, and organize symbols, watch lists, and data windows.

Learn to read candlesticks for options trading: opening and closing prices, highs and lows, body color and wick length reveal momentum and patterns.

Explore how to use drawing tools on TradingView to chart support and resistance with trend lines, rays, horizontal lines, and channels, including regression channels and rectangles, for range-bound trading.

Learn how Fibonacci retracements and extensions use 38.2%, 50%, and 61.8% to locate potential support, resistance, and trends, while stressing Fibonacci as a secondary indicator.

Learn how moving averages plot price from closing prices, compare exponential and simple moving averages, and use 50 and 200 day crosses for trend direction and dynamic support and resistance.

Use the MACD to measure momentum with 12- and 26-period averages, reading the histogram, zero-line crossings, and divergences to time entries and exits.

Learn to use Bollinger bands to measure volatility around a 20 moving average, recognize squeezes, and spot buy or sell signals within trend and resistance.

Use momentum indicators in TradingView to spot overbought and oversold signals with RSI and stochastic, signaling possible turning points; confirm with price action, support, resistance, and moving averages.

Learn how the on balance volume indicator measures positive and negative volume flow to infer trading direction, confirm trends, and complement other chart signals with forex, crypto, and stock examples.

Practice and refine trading strategies with paper trading on TradingView, using simulated orders, take profit, and stop loss to test profitability and improve setups.

Learn a complete technical analysis system to trade profitably, using candlestick analysis, long and short candles, and key support and resistance levels, with trading psychology and risk management.

Learn to read candlesticks by identifying open, high, low, and close prices, color coded red and green or black and white, with bodies and wicks indicating momentum and market psychology.

Analyze candlestick length and body to gauge market conviction, interpret gaps, and identify bullish or bearish signals from long versus short candles, including wicks and reversal patterns.

teaches multiple time frame analysis to identify trend and consolidation, using volume and candlestick signals across hourly and shorter charts to trade with the trend in day trading.

Identify and draw support and resistance on charts, observe market memory and breakouts, and use Fibonacci retracement with candlestick signals and volume for confirmation in uptrends.

Master Fibonacci retracement and extensions to spot predictive price moves at key levels 38.2, 50, and 61.8, using price action, support resistance, and round figures for confluence.

Trade with the trend using pivot points as a guide, applying support and resistance levels and hammer signals to find quick, trend-aligned entries.

Identify market trends using the 50-day EMA and MACD, reading the EMA slope, MACD histogram, and crossovers to gauge trend direction and momentum.

Learn to use Bollinger bands as a volatility and trend tool, combining a 20-period moving average with plus or minus two standard deviations to spot breakouts and pullbacks.

Assess the stochastic oscillator’s overbought and oversold signals, crossovers, and price divergence in range-bound markets, while a moving average filters false signals and guides trades.

This lecture teaches trading within the trend in a downtrend, using pullbacks to short, with Makdisi and Bollinger bands signals, and relies on support resistance and stop-loss placement.

Navigate choppy markets by riding the longer-term trend. Use the stochastic oscillator to spot support and resistance, and practice disciplined money management.

Learn how to trade flat markets by recognizing consolidation, avoiding choppy ranges, and using volume spikes and brief pullbacks to set stops and target a 2-to-1 risk–reward.

Develop trading psychology and risk management strategies to protect capital, manage position sizing, and stay in trades with a steady long-term equity curve.

learn a complete technical analysis system to identify bullish and bearish sentiment, trade on support and resistance, master chart patterns, and spot momentum loss and gain with real-world examples.

Learn how to identify uptrends, downtrends, and consolidation across weekly, daily, and intraday charts, using trend lines and moving averages to spot corrections, breakouts, and opportunities.

Learn to mark up charts with levels, trend lines, and channels to identify buy and sell areas, support and resistance, across multiple timeframes.

Identify and trade support and resistance using horizontal lines and round numbers on Trading View, leveraging market memory and chart patterns to guide entry decisions.

Learn how the head and shoulders pattern signals a bearish reversal, with standard and inverse forms, neckline breaks, measuring height, targets, and stop-loss placement.

Identify double tops and double bottoms, i.e., M and W patterns, as bullish and bearish reversal signals, and apply practical breakouts with examples from 110–111 to 129.

Explore diamond tops and bottoms as reversal patterns that reflect a loss of confidence in the trend, with broadening formations, trendline tests, and potential upside or downside breakouts.

Learn to trade rounding tops and rounding bottoms by measuring the pattern height, projecting targets on breakout, and placing stops halfway into the pattern, with examples like Yum Brands.

Explore rectangle tops and bottoms as distribution and accumulation patterns in uptrends, highlighting breakouts, retests, and the implications of failed consolidations for trend direction.

Identify the cup and handle pattern as a bullish reversal signal with a rounded bottom and a brief pullback. Observe how volume confirms breakouts and signals trend changes across markets.

Explore wedges and triangles—ascending, descending, and symmetric—where price compresses toward an apex and trend lines guide breakouts that measure targets, typically at 80 percent of the way to the apex.

Explore flag and pennant continuation patterns, including bullish and bearish versions, with measured move targets and stop placement behind consolidation.

Master dead cat bounces in day trading by using gap resistance setups and Fibonacci retracement cues to time patient, low-risk entries.

Master candlestick patterns to trade stock profitably, building a solid chart analysis foundation. Learn support and resistance, exhaustion and momentum signals, stop placement, and take-profit strategies with real-world examples.

Learn to read and analyze candlesticks by examining the body, wicks, opens and closes, highs and lows of each four-hour candle, and color signals to reveal market sentiment and momentum.

Explore trading with candlesticks using support and resistance, spotting reversal signals like hammer and shooting star, and confirming breaks or failed breaks through price action.

Learn how spinning tops, pin bars, and dozy candlesticks signal momentum shifts and indecision. Breakouts beyond their ranges reveal bearish or bullish moves, while support and resistance levels guide entries.

Explore hammer and hanging man candlestick patterns and how they signal reversals, with practical trading cues and examples in forex pairs.

Explore inverted hammer and shooting star candlesticks, signaling reversal cues depending on trend position, with support, resistance, and failed candles guiding entries.

Master bullish and bearish engulfing candlestick patterns, learn how a larger following candle signals reversals, and set entries, stop losses, and risk-reward on daily charts.

Identify the dual Hiromi candlestick pattern, bullish and bearish harami, via gaps and tightening ranges on daily or higher time frames to signal momentum shifts and set up trades.

Explore tweezer top and tweezer bottom candlestick patterns, two candles with longer wicks signaling reversals at support and resistance. Learn to short on a break below the two-candle pattern.

Explore morning star and evening star three-candlestick patterns, their gap dynamics, and how breaks of the pattern signal trend changes, with stop losses and targets on daily charts.

examine three white soldiers and three black crows candlestick patterns, their bullish and bearish momentum, gaps, and the role of support, resistance, and stop-loss placement in trend analysis.

Explore bullish and bearish abandoned baby patterns in forex, noting gaps modify the three-candle signal, with a break of the third candle signaling a selling opportunity and possible pullback.