Free ebookOptions Trading for Beginners: Calls, Puts, and Safer Starter Strategies

Course Description

Options Trading for Beginners: Calls, Puts, and Safer Starter Strategies is a practical ebook course in business administration and investments designed to help you understand options trading without hype or confusion. You will learn how options contracts work, what you are actually buying or selling, and how to think in probabilities and risk so you can make more disciplined decisions in real market conditions.

As you progress, the course explains call and put payoffs in plain language, including break-even points and the misunderstandings that often lead beginners to overpay for premium or take on hidden exposure. You will connect pricing basics such as intrinsic value, extrinsic value, and time decay to everyday trading outcomes, so you can recognize why an option can lose value even when the stock moves in the direction you expected. You will also learn how volatility and implied volatility affect premiums and why options can suddenly become more expensive or cheaper, especially around earnings, news, and shifting market sentiment.

To build practical intuition, you will get a high-level, usable understanding of the options Greeks including delta, theta, vega, and gamma and how they influence position behavior across time and price changes. The course also covers order mechanics that matter for real execution, such as position sizing, slippage, and when limit orders can protect you from poor fills.

For safer starter strategies, you will explore covered calls as a stock-plus-income approach and cash-secured puts as a way to pursue entry at a target price while managing cash discipline. You will learn what assignment and exercise mean in practice, what can happen at expiration and before it, and how to plan for those outcomes. Throughout, risk management stays central, including situations where options may be inappropriate and why protecting capital matters more than chasing returns.

Start this free ebook course today and build a clear foundation in options trading, from calls and puts to conservative strategies that fit a long-term investing mindset.