Introduction to Options - Complete Course for Beginners (Udemy.com)
Learn everything you need to understand and start trading options.
Created by: Samuel McCulloch
Last updated August 2017
What you will learn
- Learn how to become a successful options trader.
- Implement our proven trading strategy that netted 67% in 2014
- Understand what options are and how to buy and sell them.
- Implement tested options strategies on a day to day basis.
- Understand how to setup ThinkorSwim for trading.
How it compares
Against the other 278 rated Udemy courses in Trading & Investing on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 30% of them
- Reviews2,385#36 of 279 by number of reviews
- Length4.5 hoursshorter than 49% of them
- Last updatedAugust 2017earlier than 95% of them
Course Description
We at Traders Insight have put together this comprehensive options course so you can to learn how to supercharge your trading and learn how to make money consistent profits every month.
At the end of this course, you will have all of the tools necessary to make 3-5% consistently selling options safely. You will also learn how to buy options to make massive gains, earning thousands of dollars in even one trade! You will be led, step-by-step, through basic options terminology, how options work, how to sell them, and most importantly, strategies that you can use right away to begin to make money.
You will also get an in depth look at the trading strategy that we used to make 67% ROI in 2014.
We want you to become apart of our trading community at traders insight. Our goal is to make you money and this course will be your guide. Once you complete the course, both Matt and I will be here to help and guide you to becoming an options master.
There is no other course like this! Take this course now!
Music in trailer is from Bensound
Instructor Details
- 4.4 Rating
2,385 Reviews
Samuel McCulloch
I work as a professional options trader working for private clients. We use a short premium selling strategy selling Volatility.
I've been investigating what makes the world tick for my entire life. Money and philosophy are my two greatest passions. I've helped teach people around the world how to be successful in trading options and to take accountability with their life. I'm an avid reader of the classics, such as Plato, Aristotle, Nietzche and other major philosophers who have influenced modern though.
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Reviews
By Mark Johnson on 8/16/2024
It is the best information and explanation I have seen yet on setting up TOS I am really liking your programs. Keep it up, and I really like that I can go back to learn something over and over again. If I dont quite understand the subject.
By Arthur Pfeffer on 4/14/2023
Very comprehensive, probably the best free course on options out there! BUT I'd love to have the charts explained. I do not see the things you see in there. I see only combinations of colors, numbers, and lines. So all the time you spend talking about the chart is wasted (on me at least). You might want to explain how to read those charts first. Still 5/5
By Glenn Theunissen on 4/6/2023
Of all the options courses I have tried on Udemy, this is BY FAR the best! Very clear explanations make it easy to follow for beginners. Intermediate traders could also get some inspiration from the trading plans and rules that Samuel shares in some of the videos. Overall, I would recommend this to every trader who is looking for more education of just a refresher.
By Alessandra Colli on 2/7/2023
I appreciated the practical examples and the effective way concepts were explained. Some options strategies were not so clear, maybe a theoretical explanation before would be useful, like sample payoff/strike price plots. In the puts quiz a question is misleading since you say a trade profit is 0 but actually there is a loss
By Stephen Holtzkener on 7/19/2022
You lost me at the end of the last section (before option strategies) when demonstrating ThinkorSwim (which, BTW is not available to Canadians like me). But I'm sort of understanding section 5, option strategies so far.
By Walter McCormick on 12/22/2021
Very clear instruction that made it easier for me to understand. I would recommend this course to everyone. I have slot to learn and I will review this course again but I feel I have a much better foundation to work from
By Francisco Carvajal on 1/22/2020
It helped me with the basics. But when explaining the application and trades through the chart was quite confusing.
By AMIN IMTIAZ on 12/23/2018
This lesson is for mostly Advance level Option Traders, “selling” puts and calls is certainly not a beginners thing. The author should have made clear on that when he speaks a lot of these technical jargon.... this is certainly not for any regular joe learning options trading.
By Greg Mckenzie on 4/18/2016
Well done I've have plenty of courses and books on options but your course so far blows away everything I've read very detailed and your examples are so clear that I can't see anyone not understanding options. I can't wait to see what else you come out with because I'm sold. Thank you for putting together a great course and taking the complex side to options and making it easy to digest
By Matt Retherford on 3/29/2016
Basic but good, solid information and comparisons as to what Options actually are. Lots of outstanding CLARIFICATION of specifics. If you know basically NOTHING about options and want or need to learn the basics, ALL the way up to SUCCESSFULLY TRADING THEM? This is the course for YOU.
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Overall Score : 88 / 100






