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Options Trader Curriculum - Dubai


Course Times

Course

Times

Options Trader Part 1

Friday & Saturday 2:30pm - 10:30pm

Options Trader Part 2

Sunday - Tuesday 6:00pm - 11:00pm


Course Agenda - Part 1 (Days 1 - 2)

Days 1 and 2

  • Options Trading Overview
  • Market definition and Terminology
    • How to read an Options Quote
    • Expiry Cycles
  • Options Price Codes
  • Why should we use Options?
  • Naked Call Options and Put Options
  • Profit and Loss Diagram / Payoff Graphs
  • Pre Trading Analysis
  • Market Analysis
  • Pre, Post, and Inter-Market Fundamental Analysis
  • Options versus
    • Resistance, Support and Futures
  • Evaluation procedure
  • Constructing an Options Payoff Graph
  • Options Leverage Example
  • Placing Orders
  • Time Value and Price Decay
  • Option Pricing and Volatility
    • Volatility and Prices
    • Volatility Coefficient
    • VIX and S&P Index
  • Market Conditions
    • In-the-Market, At-the-Market and Out-the-Market
  • The Greeks-Delta, Gamma, Theta, Vega and Rho
  • Option Strategies Overview
    • Covered Calls, Straddles, Strangles, Butterflies and Spreads
  • Option Strategies
    • Long and Short Straddles, Long and Short Strangles
    • Butterfly, Credit Spreads, Horizontal and Vertical Spreads
  • Bullish and Bearish
    • Call and Put Spreads
  • Call v/s Spreads
  • Leaps and Option Myths
  • CBOT, DGCE, DFM, DIFX and DMEBM


Course Agenda - Part 2 (Days 3 - 5)

Days 3 - 5

  • Technical Analysis Review
  • The Black-Scholes Model
  • The Greek Revisited
    • Delta, Gamma, Theta, Vega and Rho
  • Price Resistance and Support
  • Log Normal Property
  • Historical and Implied Volatility
  • Portfolio Insurance
  • Volatility Smiles
  • Synthetic Positions
    • Long and Short
  • Using Proper support and Resistance and Volatility Analysis
  • Order Placement
  • Call Spreads
  • Position Adjustment
  • Creating a Synthetic
    • Credit Spread
    • Debit Spread
    • Iron Condors
    • Strangles and Straddles
    • Types of Option Traders
  • Strategies
    • Non-Directional
    • Iron Condor Sell
    • Low Risk Straddle 1&2
    • Butterfly
  • Risk Reversal
  • Enhanced Collar
  • Case Study
  • Mechanics Of Futures
    • Example of a future trade
  • Convergence of Futures to Spot
  • Forward Contracts
  • Forward Contracts v/s Futures Contracts
  • Portfolio protection using Hedging
  • Hedging Strategies using Index Futures
    • Long and Short Hedges
    • Optimal Hedge Ratio
  • Examples in Oil Markets