Start from Zero
Beginner Course
Learn what options are, how they work, and how to place your first trade with confidence.
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1
What Are Options?
Understand what an options contract is, how it works, and why traders use them.
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2
How Options Contracts Work
The mechanics of an options contract — size, expiration, and obligation.
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3
Call Options Explained
Everything you need to know about call options and the right to buy.
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4
Put Options Explained
Everything you need to know about put options and the right to sell.
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5
Buying vs Selling Options
The fundamental difference between being a buyer and a seller.
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6
Strike Price Explained
How to pick a strike price and what it means for your trade.
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7
Expiration Dates — How to Choose
Weekly, monthly, and LEAPS expirations and when to use each.
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8
Option Premium — What You're Paying For
What makes up the price of an option and why it changes.
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9
In the Money, At the Money, Out of the Money
How moneyness works and why it affects everything.
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10
How to Read an Option Chain
Break down a real option chain — strikes, bids, asks, volume, and open interest.
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11
Intrinsic vs Extrinsic Value
The two components that make up every option's price.
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12
Delta — Your Option's Direction
How delta measures your option's sensitivity to stock price movement.
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13
Theta — Time Decay
How options lose value every day and what that means for your trades.
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14
Gamma and Vega — The Other Greeks
Two more Greeks that affect your positions in important ways.
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15
How Option Prices Move
What actually drives option prices up and down day to day.
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16
Implied Volatility for Beginners
What IV is, why it matters, and how to read it.
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17
Your First Options Trade — Step by Step
A complete walkthrough from picking a stock to closing the position.
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18
How to Close an Options Position
Sell to close, buy to close, and when to let options expire.
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19
Paper Trading — Practice Risk-Free
How to practice trading without risking real money.
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20
Common Beginner Mistakes
The most expensive mistakes new options traders make — and how to avoid them.
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