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Options Trading for Rookies: Basic Stock Options Strategies (Udemy.com)

Part 2: Learn to Trade Verticals, Iron Condors and the Five Golden Rules of Option Trading

Created by: Kal Zurn

Last updated August 2026

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What you will learn

  • Understand the basic fundamental elements of options trading
  • Learn what vertical call and put options are and how to trade them correctly
  • Learn how to effectively trade short call and put verticals
  • Understand how profits and losses work when selling call and put verticals
  • Learn how to effectively trade long call and put verticals
  • Understand how profits and losses work when buying call and put verticals
  • Learn how to use the five golden rules for trading verticals successfully
  • Learn basic iron condor strategies
  • Manage your own Financial Future
  • Trade basic option strategies profitably and with confidence

How it compares

Against the other 278 rated Udemy courses in Trading & Investing on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.7 out of 5higher than 85% of them
  • Reviews2,687#35 of 279 by number of reviews
  • Length3 hoursshorter than 64% of them
  • Last updatedAugust 2026more recently than 63% of them

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Course Description

*****Join our family of over 18,000 happy Udemy students who have enrolled in this course*****

Investing Strategies and Options Trading:

  • Do you want to learn how to trade options effectively?

  • How to trade in the stock market without losing your shirt?

  • How to increase your profits while limiting your trading risk?


In this Udemy option course, you will learn:

All you need to know about the Call & Put Vertical option strategy (both short and long)

  • What they are and how to trade them correctly

  • How to effectively trade short call and short put verticals

  • How to effectively trade long call and short put verticals

  • How profits and losses work when selling call and put verticals

  • How to reduce your risks while maximizing your probability of profit

  • The Five Golden Rules for trading vertical options successfully

  • Iron condor option strategy

  • and so much more!


Options trading is made easy.  

This course is packed with practical, insightful and educational option material.  You will learn all about stock options, option investing strategies, call options, put options, buying options versus selling options and other option strategies for income.

Learning how to trade options has never been easier.  We cover successful option trading strategies, options basics, how to do options trading and how to trade options for income.

We use option trading examples and visual illustrations of practical options strategies, to help you better understand options trading and how to trade them correctly.

This is a foundation course designed for those interested in learning the basics of trading options effectively and for anyone hungry to learn how to trade options.

This course is also for TastyTrade folks.  If you are a Tastytrader struggling to get up to speed, all my courses are designed to get you up and running in the minimal amount of time.

This course will teach you how to Trade Options and Earn Consistent Returns in the Stock Market for the Rest of Your Life.  It will start where "Option Trading for Rookies: Understand Options Completely" left off and take you all the way to trading effective option strategies, such as Verticals and Iron Condors.  


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This is Part Two of a 3-course option bundle: 

  1. Understand Options Completely (Part 1)

  2. Basic Option Strategies  (Part 2)

  3. Make & Manage Profitable Trades  (Part 3) 

In these three courses I will teach you how to trade options and earn consistent returns in the stock market for the rest of your life.  

I will take you from absolute ground zero of stock option trading knowledge (i.e. "what is an option?") all the way to trading different option strategies in only a few courses.  

There is no frivolous information here.  Our goal is to get you up and trading right away, so everything you need to know is here and presented in a straightforward and easy to understand format.  All the information is laid out and explained thoroughly on slides, and then illustrated on live trading platforms to show you how to use it in reality.

Myths will be busted:

1) Trading is not as complicated as professionals would lead you to believe, in fact it’s pretty easy

2) Trading does not take a lot of time.  You can do it from work or home in less than 15 minutes a day 

3) Trading does not take years to learn, I am going to teach you in only a few courses

No Fundamental or Technical Analysis is used or needed.  This program is based on strategy.  And strategy can be applied to any stock at any time.

Please also visit us at SharperTrades .com and take one of our FREE Webinars/Courses on Options.


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I'm a firm believer that "Nobody Cares About Your Money More Than You Do."  I want to teach you how to manage your own money, so you don't have to pay exorbitant fees to Money Managers who get paid whether they make money for you or not.  

Young or old, everyone can learn to trade.  All you need is the calculator on your phone and you have all the tools necessary to take this course and learn a skill that can make you money for the rest of your life!

This course is for all levels: beginners, intermediate and advanced traders! All you need is an open mind and a passion to be successful!

Enroll in this course now and start trading options successfully!


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All our Sharper Trades courses come with:

  • 30 day money-back-in-full guarantee

  • Unlimited lifetime access at no extra costs

  • All future additional lectures, bonuses, etc in this course are always free

  • Our Sharper Trades team is always available to answer any question you might have regarding this course. Answers are given in less than 24 hours!

  • Your trading success is our goal!

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Over 100,000 students have already joined Sharper Trades courses. Join a large community of successful traders.

Click "Take This Course" and Start Trading Successfully TODAY!

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Instructor Details

Kal Zurn

Kal is a successful options trader, founder of "Option Trading for Rookies" and a co-instructor at SharperTrades .com, an online trading education site that teaches effective and profitable trading strategies to over 100,000 students in 167 countries.

In 2013 Tastylive (formerly "Tastytrade"), the largest online financial network in the world, featured Kal as one of its original Rising Stars.  He remains the only "Rising Star" teaching on the Udemy platform.

Kal has spent over 10 years and thousands of hours learning how to trade options successfully, and has distilled all his knowledge down into simple, easy to understand courses that can get anyone with the desire up and trading options in only a few hours of instruction.

Kal is a passionate instructor whose goal is to teach people to "manage their own money" and achieve financial freedom.

You don’t need to be an expert to make money in the stock market. All you need to learn is how to increase your Probability of Profit and Manage your Winners and Kal will teach you that!

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Reviews

4.7

2,687 ratings on Udemy

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By Michael Bush on 4/13/2026

Felt like it was a good follow-up to Basic Option Strategies. Did feel like a couple of the videos came from a different course How to become an options trader. Also, this course has the same volume issues as the Basic Option Strategies course. Figured that would be fixed

By J Jones on 3/27/2026

I was able to follow along with all of the lessons and understand everything. It was never too much information at one time or too overwhelming. I liked that I was able to complete the course in less than a day, it was very encouraging. Althought it was not instant, the gratification was always within sight. One criticism is that after completing part 1 and part 2, I'm currently not sure what my ability level is--Am I ready to start trading? Is there more to learn? What more do I need to learn before I can let my self loose on a trading platform and can expect consistent income?

By A Lomax on 2/18/2026

I took this course while also learning free online and this course is definitely worth learning the basics. I have brokerage accounts at other institutions so I'd prefer not having just one Tasty Trades option in order to make trades, but at least I know it's there; you'd have to do your own research into the different platforms and how much they charge, and which one works best for you. But overall I enjoyed the course and believe that there's a lot to come back to while I move into paper trading :) Onward and Upward. Cheers.

By Jeremy Terrell Ingram on 2/17/2026

The course is good so far. Kal explain things very will to where anyone could learn this.

By Becky Blevens on 12/30/2025

I learned quite a bit with this course. Will probably still go back and review different areas within the course, just to be sure I am understanding correctly. Excited about actually using verticals and not just buying long calls anymore.

By Anthony Davis on 11/7/2025

Yes, it is a very good match for me. Honestly, I just started this course and I am already extremely impressed at the speedy and prompt response of the instructor of this course. If I could just get setup and started on trading I'm sure this will change my life tremendously.

By Nell S on 6/28/2022

The course is the best I've taken on option strategies. It goes into all of the details and explanations as to why and how rules should work. Very detailed and clear lectures, great illustrations and annotations. I absolutely recommend this course to ANY beginner in options trading.

By Santhosh Nebalan on 11/22/2020

I am an active Trader who uses Technical and Fundamental analysis. So when I got into this course, I wanted to learn more analysis and I got what I looked for. But the reason that I gave only 2 star rating is because of the following reasons.
1. There are too many Dough recommendations and Marketing for the Trainers other courses. I noticed the trainer recommends this Dough in Quora as well, which I assume the trainer is getting paid (1 point Less)
2. The Trainer mentioned XME is a bad trade in Chapter 35. Which is a very bad call as XME went down and Shorting the Call Vertical would have been profitable. (1 Point Less)
3. Options trading should be majorly done with Technical Analysis along with these small tricks, but those are also missing. (1 Point Less)

By Bryan muir on 11/15/2020

Kal is a wicked teacher, very clear and great at explaining everything and why you would use options as a strategy

By Kim Dehmlow on 11/15/2020

Good course for learning option Verticals & Iron Condor

By Juan Guardado on 10/26/2020

Top notch instructor

By Tahirunnisa Tadpatri on 10/23/2020

course was quite informative however few slides were blurry and couldn't see the data clearly(software used to explain the trade)

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Overall Score : 94 / 100