Options Trading Essentials: The ULTIMATE Guides
Offered By: Udemy
Course Description
Overview
What you'll learn:
- Develop a solid foundational understanding of what options are and how they work
- Learn options strategies that can profit from any market (rising, falling, range-bound)
- Identify which options are liquid and which are illiquid (dangerous to trade)
- Determine what risk exposures your option positions have
In this course, you'll learn how to unlock the power of options in your investment portfolio.
Whether you want to use options as a supplement to your stock investments, or you want to become an options trader, this course will help you get there faster than anywhere else on the web.
In these video lessons, you'll learn the most important options trading concepts with tons of examples and visualizations. In fact, there are over 200 visualizations you'll see throughout the course that use REAL option data to help you learn the key options trading concepts.
After completing this course, you'll have mastered:
1. Options Trading Basics (e.g. basics of call options and put options, strike prices, expiration dates, volume and open interest, assessing the bid-ask spread, order types, etc.)
2. Implied Volatility Topics (e.g. What is implied volatility?, interpreting and using the VIXIndex, understanding the "expected move," trading VIXoptions, and much more)
3. The Option Greeks(e.g. assessing an option's exposure to stock price changes, the passing of time, changes in implied volatility, and how to use these Greeks on a position level)
4. Options Trading Strategies for Rising, Falling, and Range-Bound Markets
All in all, this course will teach you the absolute essentials related to options trading. Even better, you'll learn faster than you would with any other resource.
Our students have raved about the learning resources we've put together, and we want you to benefit from them as well.
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Taught by
Chris Butler
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