Advanced Options Strategies

About Us - Who Created This Course?

The Options Cyber Course was developed by experienced traders at CyberTrading University.  CyberTrading University has been teaching options traders around the world with our Web Meeting virtual classroom software.  CyberTrading University is the leading training and education provider for OPTIONS trading as well as NASDAQ trading.  CyberTrading University was established in 1995 and has taught thousands of traders and investors around the world.

With many years of combined experience in the options, foreign exchange, futures, and equities markets, the CyberTrading University staff is one of the most experienced groups of trading professionals in the market today. The Options Cyber Course is a product of this experience and gives traders an insight into successful options trading that only a market maker can. 

CyberTrading University has devoted significant resources to the education of our clients, and is the leading online portal for options education  powered by CyberTrading University's affiliates.

There are two ways to use options – Speculating and Hedging

Trading is a game of probability and risk management whether you are trading stocks, options, forex or futures.

Hedging strategies (Spreads) can greatly increase your probability of success, but as in all trading – strict risk management applies.  Still - increasing your odds of success from 33.3% (directional trading) to over 75% (hedged trading) gives you a large trading edge.
Hedging strategies (Spreads) can be utilized as an outstanding risk managed approach to the markets.  Spreads can be used as a stand-alone strategy or a compliment to directional trading.

Speculating

Speculating with options is essentially making an educated bet on the direction of the underlying instrument. While this form of speculation can offer tremendous leverage and potential returns, it can also work in just the opposite direction and quickly reduce the equity of a speculators portfolio. Not only do options speculators have to be right about the direction of the underlying, but they also have to right about the magnitude and timing of the move. That can be asking a lot from an unpredictable market.

Hedging

This is where the magic and versatility of options come into play. This where investors change from speculators (guess and stress) to strategists. Hedging with options can allow investors to profit without predicting the direction of the market, generate substantial income month after month, create no risk positions and eventually buy an underlying instrument at a substantial discount to its current market price. Hedging is essentially insurance against adverse movements in an underlying instrument. Investors can use hedging strategies to lock in the value of a profitable portfolio or to collect insurance (option premium) money to have the market pay for downside protection of an underlying.

33.3% Chance of a Positive outcome or 75% Chance of a Positive Outcome - Which do you prefer?

When directional traders put on a trade, they have a 33.3% (1/3rd) chance of making money. Once a trade is put on, only one of three outcomes can be present when the trader wants to close the position. Either the underlying is up, flat or down. If the trader was long the underlying (wanting it to rise) he will not make any money if the underlying is flat or down. The only way to profit is if the underlying went up.
Hedgers however win on THREE out of FOR outcomes.  Right out of the gate, the odds are much more in favor of a trader having a profitable trade. A very quick example; A trader puts on a neutral to bearish spread play and collects a credit of  $700.00 That’s real money deposited to your brokerage account the next day. The options expire in 31 day. As long as the market stays flat, rises a little or falls (3 out of 4 outcomes) over the next 31 day, the spread will be  profitable. The market could even rise a little and the trader could still make money – although not the 100%. This is just scratching the surface at what can be done with hedging strategies.

Low Stress Trading With Very Consistent Returns

The Options Cyber Course is for those investors that want to add a very consistent and profitable dimension to their trading program. The course will initially cover the basics of options and then quickly move into very profitable and consistent hedging strategies you can put to practical use right away. We are not going to bury you in a lot of complex math and formulas, but teach you the concepts and all you need to know to begin your road to consistent, low stress profits. You will quickly learn all the necessary ingredients to run your own successful hedging program. Greater returns, less time and less stress.

Save Time and Money – Put These Strategies To Use Right Away

If you are an experienced trader or investor, you have probably paid “tuition” along the way in bad trades and missed opportunity. That is real hard earned money out of your pocket. CyberTrading University designed the Options Cyber Course to save you this “tuition” by teaching you to avoid common mistakes that so many options traders make.  You can leverage off of our years of experience  and only use what has proven to work. Theory is great, but as a trader you want to see the “rubber hit the road.” After all, that’s why we are all here. You won’t need a year of complex study and texts. We will show you right out of the gate, real market examples in action. Seeing is believing.

Education, Confidence and Discipline

We developed the Options Cyber Course to give you the information we have learned from countless hours of the same trading experience that you would find in those books, yet condensed into one powerful resource. This not only gives you strategies for consistently profitable trading, but also the confidence and discipline to adhere to those strategies. 

Course Content -  What is covered in the course?

Learn to Trade in an Online Classroom

All of our Options Courses take place in an online classroom -- an interactive website where students can participate in a classroom environment to learn how to trade hedged options strategies. Through the online classroom, students will have the ability to participate in a course that offers the following:

At the end of the 5 day class, students should be ready and confident to take advantage of opportunities available for profitable hedged trading.

The One on One Course

The first step towards profitable trading is an understanding of the basics. If you are new to the options market, the Options Cyber Course provides an introductory section in order for you to familiarize yourself with the basics of the Options markets including common terminology and hedging concepts.  Learn everything that the online group course teaches, but experience the personal interaction with a  one on one mentor.

• The options basics. From the ground up

• How to speculate using options – Up / Down / or Sideways markets.

• Options pricing. The importance of price, time and volatility.

• How to use time and volatility to give you an unfair advantage.

• Combining options and technical analysis for risk managed, leveraged returns.

• Introduction to simple spreads. 

• A need for a new way of thinking. Eliminating, “Guess and Stress” investing.

• What is hedging.

• Positive Outcomes; One-out-of-Three vs. Three-out-of-Four.

• Easy understanding of option greeks and their inter- relationships.

• Lets build a basic spread.

• How to properly apply spreads.

• How to profit on changes in volatility vs. price using spreads.

• How and when to use time spreads.

• Combing spreads and technical analysis.

• A complete system for using debit and credit spreads month after month for risk managed cash-flow.

• Risk management – How to adjust when the market threatens a position.

DOUBLE DIAGONAL SPREADS GOING INTO EARNINGS

Capturing three profit centers: Price movement, time decay and changes in volatility.

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