During the past ten years there has been an explosion in the variety of option products and their applications – and the reason is simple -- options provide unparalleled versatility.  Stock options allow investors to build strategies tailored to their own needs. 

For example, a conservative investor worried about possible market weakness may build hedge strategies to provide loss insurance or a more aggressive investor may choose to build an speculative strategy to take a position in a stock for just a fraction of the cost of buying that security outright.

This course begins with the basic question, "what is an option" and progresses to the advanced strategies and techniques used by professional traders to take advantage of the modern capital markets.  We'll toss-in real world examples here and there and we promise to try really hard not to make this any more complicated than necessary.