Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Options Playbook Video Series

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Beginning: Options Trading
Part 1 of The Options Playbook Series
Hosted by Brian Overby, for Rookies
Learn important vocabulary and discover how the options marketplace evolved.

Buying Options: The Basics
Part 2 of The Options Playbook Series
Hosted by Brian Overby, for Rookies
Join Brian as he covers this popular subject. Topics include the differences between buying options for investing as opposed to pure speculation.

Exercise and Assignment: The Ins and Outs
Part 3 of The Options Playbook Series
Hosted by Brian Overby, for Rookies
Brian explains the different exercise styles for American and European options. He also discusses what happens when options get exercised and the resulting assignment that occurs.

Covered Call Writing Only
Part 4 of The Options Playbook Series
Hosted by Brian Overby, for Rookies
Covered call writing is a great way to start trading options. Brian walks through the strategy step-by-step.

Put Options: Their Many Uses
Part 5 of The Options Playbook Series
Hosted by Brian Overby, for Rookies
Brian discusses how to sell puts as a way to buy stocks you would like to own long-term. He also addresses how to lock in gains from a stock that you already own by buying protective puts.

Collars
Part 6 of The Options Playbook Series
Hosted by Brian Overby, for Rookies
The collar strategy is when you sell a call and buy a put on a security you own. This strategy limits the downside risk in exchange for capping the upside potential on the stock for little to no cost.

Volatility and Probability Webcast
Part 7 of the Options Playbook Series
Hosted by Brian Overby, for Rookies
Brian discusses all of the factors that affect an option's price. He also illustrates how to determine the potential price range of the underlying security using implied volatility. Understanding these concepts is a must for every option trader.

The Greeks!
Part 8 of The Options Playbook Series
Hosted by Brian Overby, for Veterans
Understand the Greeks before implementing your option strategy. Brian not only defines them in layman's terms, but he shows which Greek is the driving factor for many different options strategies. This presentation is a must-see before proceeding to advanced option strategies.

Spreads: Long Call and Long Put Spreads
Part 9 of The Options Playbook Series
Hosted by Brian Overby, for Veterans
Join Brian as he discusses how to enter a spread position as one trade for a net debit to your account. Many items to be covered including time premium and the trade-offs of spread trading versus the outright purchase of an option.

Spreads: Short Call Spreads
Part 10 of The Options Playbook Series
Hosted by Brian Overby, for Seasoned Veterans
Learn the various ways to manage this strategy while the trade is in play. Additional topics include the differences between short and long spreads and variables that can affect spread pricing. Brian also discusses volatility skew and how it affects short call and short put spreads differently.

Straddles and Strangles (Long)
Part 11 of The Options Playbook Series
Hosted by Brian Overby, for Seasoned Veterans
Brian discusses the critical items of these similar strategies. Topics include when and when not to buy them, selecting the underlying to use, choosing the expiration month, the Greeks, and stop-loss points.

Calendar Spreads (Long)
Part 12 of The Options Playbook Series
Hosted by Brian Overby, for Seasoned Veterans
Join Brian as he introduces long calendar spreads. Areas of interest encompass the intricacies of setting up the trade, choosing an underlying, the Greeks, and how to roll the position.

Diagonal Spreads
Part 13 of The Options Playbook Series
Hosted by Brian Overby, for Seasoned Veterans
Become knowledgeable of two different ways to use diagonal spreads after watching this video. Topics include directional trades, time decay strategies, rolling and more. Brian brings everything together with a comparison to calendar and vertical spreads.

Butterfly Spreads (Long)
Part 14 of The Options Playbook Series
Hosted by Brian Overby, for Seasoned Veterans
Learn the set-up of the basic butterfly and how its price changes as expiration approaches. This is the first of several sessions on the many different types and uses of butterfly trades.

Butterfly Spreads: Exotic Plays (Long)
Part 15 of The Options Playbook Series
Hosted by Brian Overby, for Seasoned Veterans
Ramp up your butterfly trading by learning some creative variations. Join Brian as he covers modified, skip-strike, and Christmas tree butterflies and more. A comparison of the different varieties follows.

Butterfly Spreads: Combining Plays
Part 16 of The Options Playbook Series
Hosted by Brian Overby, for Seasoned Veterans
All of your butterfly trading techniques come together in this session. Join Brian as he combines different trades to produce unique risk-reward scenarios. Please be sure to review Parts 14 and 15 beforehand.

Synthetic Positions
Part 17 of The Options Playbook Series
Hosted by Brian Overby, for All-Stars
Join Brian as he demystifies this interesting strategy. A synthetic position is one that is created by combining different financial instruments to simulate another. Use puts and calls to create synthetic long stock, short stock and even T-bills. Watch to learn how!


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