Options Trading Essentials: The ULTIMATE Guides

Description

In this course, you will :

• Develop a good knowledge of alternatives and how they work.
• Learn options techniques for profiting from any market (increasing, declining, or range-bound).
• Determine which options are liquid and which are illiquid (risky to trade).
• Determine the risk exposures for your option positions.

Syllabus:

1. Options Trading Basics

• Basics of Call Options & Put Options
• Option Strike Prices
• Options Expiration
• Intrinsic & Extrinsic Value
• Exercise & Assignment
• The Bid-Ask Spread
• Option Volume & Open Interest
• Order Types

2. Implied Volatility

• Implied Volatility Basics
• What is the VIX Index?
• What is the Expected Move?
• Trading VIX Options
• Implied Volatility Rank vs. Implied Volatility Percentile: Which is Better?

3. The Option Greeks

• Delta: An Option's Directional Exposure
• Gamma: The Change in an Option's Directional Exposure
• Theta: An Option's Rate of Price Decay
• Vega: An Option's Sensitivity to Changes in Implied Volatility
• Position Delta: The Directional Exposure of an Entire Option Position
• Delta Hedging 101
• Long & Short Gamma

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