Here’s a free resource for options trading that is better than any other one I’ve been able to find.

It’s a course on YouTube that covers what you should know about how options work and what it takes to build profitable trading strategies.

Link to Course (YouTube):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO9JV75mYNQ&list=PLkPHxWteEIyalnHl06rBDJVd04JqqdZoT&index=1&ab_channel=PredictingAlpha

Course Length: 3.5 Hours

Difficulty: Beginner friendly, covers typically complex topics in an easy to understand way.

Value: 5 stars. The best free course on options I've seen.

Course Syllabus:

The starts right from the basics of how to think about trading and how options work. It goes over volatility, the greeks, structures, research, and three data driven trading strategies.

1. How professionals view the world of trading
2. Options fundamentals crash course
3. Understanding volatility
4. Trade research
5. Option greeks
6. Staddles & calendar spreads
7. Introduction to option strategies
8. Strategy 1: Finding expensive options to sell
9. Strategy 2: Earnings trading
10. Strategy 3: Calendar spreads

Course Deliverables

Completing this course will put you in a really good spot. It will give you the trading foundation you need to understand what it looks like to run profitable strategies in the options space. The benefit of this is twofold:

1. You’ll be able to start trading strategies that are profitable long term
2. As you go about doing your own research and learning more, you’ll be able to differentiate between the BS and good information.

Note: This course was put together by Predicting Alpha.

They are an affordable code-free platform for quantitative option trading. Realistically you need a minimum of $10,000 in trading capital, probably 1 year experience, and some understanding of data for it to be worthwhile to check out. If that is you then you can check the platform out here. There’s an offer that includes 6 months of 1on1 coaching right now, which is pretty ridiculous IMO.

I encourage everyone here to go through this course. If even 10% of us do, the quality of trade ideas and discussion we can develop together will increase tenfold.

Happy Trading

~ A.G.