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Options Trading for Rookies: Complete Guide to Stock Options (Udemy.com)

Learn basic and advanced option trading strategies in one course, including covered calls, naked puts & iron condors

Created by: Kal Zurn

Last updated August 2026

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What you will learn

  • Comprehensive course on Stock Options
  • Soup to nuts of Trading Options
  • Finally understand Options

How it compares

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

  • Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 30% of them
  • Reviews1,285#70 of 279 by number of reviews
  • Length3.2 hoursshorter than 62% of them
  • Last updatedAugust 2026more recently than 63% of them

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Course Description

*****Join our family of over 17,000 happy Udemy students who have enrolled in this course*****


Investing Strategies and Option Trading:

  • Do you want to Learn how to Trade Options effectively?

  • How to Trade in the stock market without losing your shirt... or blouse?

  • How to Increase your Profits while Limiting your Risk?


Verticals, Iron Condors, Naked Options etc. can all be very profitable option trading strategies when done correctly.  

In this course I show you every thing you need to know to trade them correctly, things to avoid and the risks associated with trading various option strategies.  

This Udemy option course will give you the roadmap to trade options efficiently, effectively and profitably.

In this Udemy option course, you will learn:

  • Calls & Puts

  • 5 Characteristics of Options

  • Buying Options vs Selling Options

  • The Covered Call Option Strategy

  • Breakeven Price, Cost Basis, Probability of Profit

  • Defined Risk Strategies like Verticals and Iron Condors

  • Naked Option Strategies

  • Risks and rewards of selling naked options

  • How to reduce the risks of selling options while increasing your profits

  • How to pick your win percentage on every trade you make

  • Risk of assignment (and stocks to avoid when selling naked options)

  • How to use duration (or expiration) and direction (uptrend, downtrend, sideways)

  • and so much more!


Options trading is made easy.  

This course is packed with practical, insightful and educational option material.  These lessons are truly priceless.

It's easy to play with paper money or track certain trades and see how they perform, but nothing prepares you for trading real money except real trading.  Watching your profits and losses move up and down on a daily basis is enough to put anyone on an emotional rollercoaster.  

The only way to prepare yourself to handle the ups and down of trading is to have a solid plan going into it.  This course will give you that!  Learning how to trade options has never been easier.  

This course will give you the step-by-step instruction:

  • Using Live Trading Platform examples

  • The Rules behind all types of strategies that increase your success rate 

You will see exactly how to set up trades in reality, not just a slide of it.

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.

Our goal here is to give you the confidence you need to trade successfully, and the way to do that is thru knowledge and knowing how to do the right thing.  

As long as you learn to trade options following the rules we lay out for you in our option courses, over time YOU WILL BE a successful trader.  

We are going to teach you the "right way" to trade, so you can be a successful trader for the rest of your life.  

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 the market 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

4.4

1,285 ratings on Udemy

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By Marcello Mazzilli on 8/24/2026

Not satisfied. This is not for rookies as he says that is better to have watched his course on options. Also the course is quite "messy" jumping back a forward from things that are not Covered Calls to CC and back again. Every unit starts with ads on his "copy y trade" services... not what I was looking for. I am sure he know a lot about CC but this is not a rookie course and it is not on CCs... at least not only. I asked for a refund but Udemy says I have watched too much... I don't know.. probably I had watched 40 min or so. So.. not happy

By Robert McGregor on 6/22/2021

The experience was a good match for me. As an absolute beginner to trading, there are things that flew over my head at first. Thankfully, Kal goes back into greater detail with most of those topics. In short though, I feel that I have a framework to expand on after taking this course, and the presentation was good enough that I will continue with his other 'Rookies' courses.

By Marius Dubovikas on 11/22/2020

Very informative and clear course. Thank you.

By Joe Warren on 11/15/2020

Excellent Course

By Max Benjamin on 10/27/2020

I like the course

By Mark Berriola on 10/26/2020

TD ameritrade Lessons

By Eric Parker on 10/11/2020

This class was a really great overview of options. I definitely want to take more courses and really understand this information but I feel once I understand this is will be cake. Thanks Kal!

By Ryan Chastain on 10/9/2020

Easy to uderstand . Good examples

By Rigobertro Cardoso on 10/4/2020

It's a good course.

By Rahul Singh on 9/27/2020

very simple, nothing much to learn.

By Hina Bakshi on 9/24/2020

Extremely well explained in a slow and steady pace

By Alfredo Sandoval on 9/22/2020

Easy to follow and would recommend this course for anyone who wants to learn option trading.

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Overall Score : 88 / 100