Options and Futures Training: Basic Options Trading Strategies

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Basic Options Trading Strategies

The training session covers introductory spreads, straddles, strangles, butterflies and ratio spreads primarily used in option trading and trading strategies.

Trading options and derivatives – Strategy review

The session assumes familiarity with options and derivatives. If you need a quick refresher please see the introductory and intermediate courses below on Derivatives and Options products:

The Derivatives Crash Course for Dummies
Options and Futures basic products training course

Derivatives for Dummies – a first look at options and derivatives

A quick look at basic concepts and vanilla options as well as synthetic manufacturing of options at a higher level of detail. The Derivatives for dummies crash course is followed by an intermediate level course that reviews product variation and basic pricing concepts.

Options and Futures Training: Options and derivatives crash course: Terminology
Options and Futures Training: Options and Derivatives Crash Course: Forward, Futures and Options
Options and Futures Training: Options and Derivatives Crash Course: Payoff profiles – Forwards
Options and Futures Training: Options and Derivatives Crash Course: Payoff profiles – Options, Calls and Puts
Options and Futures Training: Options and Derivatives Crash Course: Synthetics

Derivative products

The second course on derivatives and options products digs a little deeper into products, pricing, sensitivities and product variations over ten easy to read chapters. Starting again from vanilla products we touch upon options on currencies and Forex, options on interest rates, forwards, futures an Interest Rate Swaps.

Options and Futures Training: Derivative Products: Review
Options and Futures: Derivative Products: Vanilla Products
Options and Futures Training: Derivative Products: Pricing Basics
Options and Futures Training: Derivative Products: Greeks and Binomial Trees
Options and Futures Training: Derivative Products: Options on shares, stocks, currencies and equities
Options and Futures Training: Derivative products: Exotic Options
Options and Futures Training: Derivative products: Options on rates
Options and Futures Training: Derivative Products: Forwards
Options and Futures Training: Derivative Products: Futures
Options and Futures Training: Derivative Products: Swaps