Options Primer
CPD 1 Hour
This short course will focus on understanding the mechanics of options and their uses in trading and investment.
1.1 What is an Option?
1.2 Call Options
1.3 Put Options
1.4 Options are All Around Us!
1.5 Pop Quiz
1.6 Tell us what you think
2.1 Option Pricing Fundamentals
2.2 General Factors that Determine Option Prices
2.3 Underlying Price and Exercise Price
2.4 Time to Expiration
2.5 Interest Rates
2.6 Volatility
2.7 Pop Quiz
3.1 Option Payoff
3.2 Call Options
3.3 Put Options
3.4 Pop Quiz
4.1 Why People Trade Options
4.2 Protecting the Value of Your Shares
4.3 Capitalising on the Share Price Movements
4.4 Using Options Give You Time to Decide
4.5 Pop Quiz
5.1 How are Index Options Different from Single Stock Options?
5.2 The Key Advantages of Trading Index Options
5.3 Pop Quiz
6.1 The Greeks
6.2 Delta
6.3 Theta
6.4 Gamma
6.5 Vega
6.6 Rho
6.7 Minor Greeks
6.8 Tell us what you think
7.1 Common Options Trading Mistakes
7.2 Pop Quiz
Instructions
Questions