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Curriculum · education only

Options learn

Beginner → Intermediate → Advanced. Start with call vs put.

Start here

Short path list for /options/learn/. Practice: /mock/options/ (fake premiums). Live schematic: /options/live/. Streams: /options/streams/.

Beginner

  1. What is a call vs a put — distinguish contracts with a fictional ticker
  2. Premium: what you pay or receive
  3. Intrinsic vs extrinsic (time) value
  4. Moneyness: ITM / ATM / OTM
  5. Expiration and the calendar
  6. Exercise vs assignment
  7. Why people study options (hedge / speculate / income) — study reasons, not advice
  8. Buyer risk in one page

Intermediate

  1. Covered call & protective put (concepts only)
  2. Vertical spreads: debit vs credit
  3. Iron condor & butterfly (vocabulary, not recipes)
  4. Greeks overview (delta, gamma, theta, vega, rho)
  5. Implied volatility & IV crush
  6. Liquidity: volume, open interest, spreads
  7. Reading a chain educationally (delayed / schematic only)

Advanced

  1. Early exercise risk
  2. Assignment footguns
  3. Pin risk
  4. Naked shorts & undefined risk (max-loss thinking)
  5. Leverage of options
  6. Max-loss thinking checklist
  7. Journal an options idea without placing it (Paper)

Practice & related

Out of scope: signals · broker connect · s. ← Options hub