The options course that doesn't let you leave until you've got it.

Master options trading.
Until every Greek, every strategy, every trap is second nature.

Each lesson teaches one concept, then proves you can use it.
Concept → live lab → quiz that hits your P&L.
10 topics, 87 lessons, zero hand-waving.

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From your first call option to running a real options book.

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How one lesson works

One concept per lesson.
Taught until you've proved you can use it.

Open any lesson and you get the same shape: concept, lab, quiz. Here are two real lessons — Module 1 and Module 4.

Lesson · Basics · Module 1

What Is an Option?

An option is a contract: you pay a small premium for the right (not obligation) to buy or sell a stock at a fixed price later. If the trade doesn't make sense at expiry, you simply walk away.

  • Call: right to BUY — you want the price to go up
  • Put: right to SELL — like insurance, it pays out when the stock drops
Golden rule: As a buyer your worst-case loss is the premium you paid. Loss is capped, upside is not.

→ The panel on the right is a call buyer's P&L at expiry. Drag the spot price slider — the dollar number, the green dot on the curve, and the verdict text all update live.

Same shape · Deeper topic
Lesson · Greeks · Module 4

Delta: Price Sensitivity

Delta measures how much an option price changes when the stock moves $1.

  • Call Delta: 0 to 1.0 (0 = OTM, 0.5 = ATM, 1.0 = deep ITM)
  • Put Delta: −1.0 to 0 (negative because puts gain when stock falls)
Example: A 0.50 Delta call gains $0.50 when stock rises $1.

Bonus intuition: Delta is also a rough probability proxy for expiring ITM — not exact, but useful.

→ The panel on the right shows live Call and Put Delta. Drag the spot or strike slider — the Greeks recompute via Black-Scholes on every tick.

Why this works

Students in active learning courses outperform passive ones by 1.5×.

Freeman et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2014). Meta-analysis of 225 STEM studies — failure rates 1.5× lower under active learning, exam scores 6% higher.

The rest of what's in a lesson

Beyond the lesson + lab pair: analogies, inline checks, challenges, and a recap. Every step keeps you doing instead of watching.

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What you'll be able to do

10 topics. 3 levels of mastery.

Every level ends with concrete things you can actually do.

Level 1 · Basics

Calls, puts, first strategies

  • Read an options chain — strike, expiry, premium relationships
  • Tell a call from a put and know what each one promises you
  • Place a covered call or cash-secured put with max loss capped before you click
Level 2 · Greeks & Volatility

The mechanics

  • See Delta, Gamma, Theta, Vega change live as the market moves
  • Explain why your P&L moved when the stock didn't
  • Spot IV crush before earnings instead of after
Level 3 · Strategies & Risk

Multi-leg trades and discipline

  • Build and manage iron condors, calendar spreads, credit spreads
  • Roll, close, or hedge a losing position without panicking
  • Read portfolio-level Greeks and size your risk accordingly
Complementary material

Complete your understanding.

Every lab inside a lesson is also open standalone. Use them to push on a concept on your own — angle the slider you didn't try in the quiz, run a scenario the lesson didn't cover.

Built by Dr. Arda Züber

A practicing options trader who couldn't find a course he'd recommend —
so he built one.

Twenty years trading US equity options — ~20% CAGR with a Wheel-style strategy. Taught operations and information management at the University of Connecticut. Author of Live to Sell Another Day (a former Amazon bestseller). Every lesson reflects how options actually behave in real markets — the trap of cheap OTM options, gamma risk near expiration, IV crush after earnings.

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