Beginner’s Guide to The Greeks

Recognize risks and opportunities using the Greeks

Understand how Greeks would affect your trade with changes in time, price, and volatility. Recognize your risk in trades through the Greeks and become more confident in trading!

Strategies: Greeks

What Will You Learn?

If you are serious about trading options, understanding the Greeks is necessary. Understanding the Greeks can save you from tremendous risk in trading. In this course, you will discover the real-world way to use Greeks from Bruce who has traded both on the retail and institutional level for more than 26 years. In addition, you will gain full exposure to the Greeks from a practical standpoint and recognize risk in your trades and overall portfolio.

In this beginners’ guide to trading options Greeks, Bruce will teach you what each Greek (Delta, Gamma, Theta, Vega) means and how they affect your trades with changes in time, price, and volatility. By understanding the Greeks, Bruce will show you how to predict the reaction of your trade before you enter the order. You will learn many trade setups and detailed examples of how the Greeks react on various types of trades.

Course Breakdown

Strategy Session: 5 hours and 50 minutes
Live Trading Session: 4 hours and 30 minutes

About the Content Providers:

About Bruce: Bruce is our Income Trading Specialist and devoted mentor. After spending many years on Wall Street managing institutional and retail accounts, we are lucky to have him trading in our Gold room most days. Bruce’s style is very versatile. Great for beginners, because he makes sure to give detailed explanations and also for experienced traders who are looking for new ideas. If you have a full-time job and can’t sit in front of the computer and watch markets all day, this is a great trading style for you.

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