The Volatility Course
Master market volatility to supercharge your stock and options trading!
This course provides all you need to master volatility in the financial markets. From the basic definition of the different types of volatility to vol skew and how to trade volatility, The Volatility Course trains students in what they need to know to put the odds in their favor when trading stocks and options. You will learn:
- The different types of volatility, realized and implied, and exactly what they mean
- How volatility behaves--what's predictable about stock prices and what's not
- What volatility skew is and how to use it to your advantage
- How to take advantage of "vol crush" instead of having it rob you blind
- What the option greeks "Vega" and "Vomma" are and how to use them trading options
- How to find the "expected move" of a stock as it comes up to earnings or other announcement
- How to use volatility to set predictable, intelligent stop-loss levels
- What the term "trading volatility" means and multiple ways of doing it (in any type of portfolio)
Bonus content: a ThinkOrSwim study of implied volatility and IV historical statistics to help guide trading strategy selection or use in scans to find winning trades!
Your Instructor
A stock and options trader for over 20 years—for six years trading options full-time—Dave has a master's degree in computer science, and has had a long professional career in software engineering. Dave combines his education, training, and experience in the options markets with a singular knack for making complex topics simple and approachable.