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Options Curriculum

Our Options program is an interactive personalized online session with a trading professional which allows you to learn from anywhere around the world at times that are convenient for you. This program is available as a private 14-week course or as a personalized individual session.

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These are some of the topics covered in our options program:

Introduction to Options

  • Buying Calls & Puts

  • Selling Calls & Puts

  • Strike Price

  • Levels of Trading

  • Contracts and Contract Prices

  • Open Interest & Volume

  • Intrinsic & Time Value

  • Strike Price & Breakeven

  • Volatility Resources

Trading Psychology

  • Psychological Evaluation

  • Identifying & understanding Your 'Bad Habits'

  • Dealing with Trading Emotions

  • Creating Your Mental Checklist

Putting It All Together

  • Setting up a brokerage platform

  • Choosing & Analyzing Trades

  • Executing Your Trading Plan

Options Strategies

  • Trading strategies involving options

  • Simple strategies

  • Straddles

  • Strangles

  • Horizontal and Vertical Pricing

  • Index Trading

  • Speculation and Hedging

Economy & The Web

  • Understanding Economic Impact

  • Taking advantages of Different Situations

  • Trustworthy News Sources

  • Options Resources

Developing Your Strategy

  • Strategy Ideation and Testing

  • Setting Up a Demo Account

  • Importance of Strategic Back Testing

  • Importance of Journaling

  • Creating Your Pre-Trade Checklist

OPTIONS 14-WEEK COURSE

Week 1

Foundation of Options Trading​

  • What is an Option? (Calls vs Puts)
  • Buying and Selling Calls & Puts
  • Strike Price, Contracts, and Expiry
  • Levels of Trading and Broker Permissions

Week 3

Entry & Exit Techniques

  • When and how to enter an options position
  • Chart patterns and setups for options
  • Exit triggers: profit targets, trailing stops, time-based exits
  • Common mistakes with entries and exits

Week 5

Options Strategies​

  • Long Calls and Puts
  • Covered Calls
  • Cash-Secured Puts
  • Pros, cons, and ideal use cases

Week 7

Intermediate Strategies​

  • Vertical Spreads (Debit and Credit)
  • Risk-reward planning for spreads
  • Simple examples with trade planning

Week 9

Understanding The Greeks

  • Delta as a directional gauge
  • Theta (time decay) in simple terms
  • Why Vega matters in high-volatility trades
  • How to glance at Greeks without overcomplicating things

Week 11

Trader Psychology

  • Recognizing emotional patterns
  • Revenge trading and overconfidence traps
  • Building a simple “Mental Pre-Trade Checklist”

Week 13

Real-World Market Context

  • Understanding macroeconomic events
  • News catalysts: earnings, FOMC, CPI, etc.
  • Evaluating trustworthy information sources
  • Filtering macro into your strategy

Week 2

Understanding Value in Options​

  • Intrinsic Value vs Time Value
  • Open Interest and Volume
  • Breakeven Calculations
  • Volatility (implied vs historical)

Week 4

Options Position Sizing & Risk

  • Sizing your options based on account size
  • Fixed dollar vs percentage risk
  • Using volatility and trade structure to guide sizing
  • Real-world risk management examples

Week 6

Strategy Based on the Market​

  • Bullish, Bearish, and Neutral Market Environments
  • Choosing the right strategy for the setup
  • Strategy choice based on market volatility

Week 8

Advanced Strategies

  • Straddles and Strangles (Neutral and Volatile Market Strategies)
  • Iron Condors (high probability setups)
  • Calendar and Diagonal Spreads

Week 10

Speculation vs Hedging

  • Using options to speculate on short-term moves
  • Hedging stock portfolios with puts
  • Risk-off trades during high uncertainty

Week 12

Creating Your Own Strategy

  • Building your own trading approach
  • Journaling: what to record, how to review
  • Using backtesting tools and demo accounts
  • Reviewing what is and isn't working

Week 14

Execution and Going Live

  • Setting up your brokerage for options trading
  • Choosing and placing live trades
  • Monitoring and managing active trades
  • Final checklist for going live with real capital
*The syllabus is only used for university/college purposes
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