Advanced 24 lessons · 8h 10m

Options Professional

Trade options the way institutions do. This advanced course covers premium pricing mechanics, the Greeks, implied volatility, multi-leg spread construction, and building a rules-based system that scales with your capital.

What you'll learn

  • Understand how intrinsic value and time value combine to form an option's premium
  • Read Delta, Gamma, Theta, and Vega to judge a position's real exposure
  • Model how implied volatility moves premiums independent of the underlying price
  • Compare calls and puts across strikes and expirations to pick the right contract
  • Build a rules-based options system with defined maximum risk on every trade
  • Understand how earnings, macro events, and time decay interact near expiration

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Course Curriculum

24 Lessons in 5 Modules

Module 1: Premium Pricing Mechanics

4 lessons
  • 01 Intrinsic value vs. time value - what you're actually paying for
  • 02 Why premiums decay faster as expiration approaches
  • 03 In-the-money, at-the-money, and out-of-the-money strikes explained
  • 04 Reading a full contract chain across strikes and expirations

Module 2: The Greeks

4 lessons
  • 01 Delta - how much the premium moves per $1 in the underlying
  • 02 Theta - quantifying daily time decay on long positions
  • 03 Vega - how implied volatility shifts change your premium
  • 04 Gamma - why Delta itself changes as price moves

Module 3: Volatility

3 lessons
  • 01 Implied volatility vs. historical volatility
  • 02 Volatility crush around earnings and major events
  • 03 Reading IV rank to judge if premiums are cheap or expensive

Module 4: Calls, Puts & Direction

4 lessons
  • 01 Long calls for defined-risk upside exposure
  • 02 Long puts for defined-risk downside exposure and hedging
  • 03 Choosing a strike: trading off cost against probability of profit
  • 04 Rolling a position to a later expiration

Module 5: Building a Professional System

5 lessons
  • 01 Defining your edge - quantifying historical win rate and R:R
  • 02 Position sizing for a $10K, $50K, and $100K+ account
  • 03 When to close early vs. hold to expiration
  • 04 Trade journal structure used by professional options traders
  • 05 Performance review process - monthly and quarterly
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