Options Trading: Strategy, Risk, and Practical Execution

This course introduces Options Trading as a practical branch of Finance, helping you understand how contracts work, how trades are built, and how risk is managed with discipline. Through a structured course with Professor Victoria Okafor on understanding options, building trades, and managing risk with discipline, you will gain a clear framework for making more informed decisions in real market conditions.

Build A Practical Options Trading Framework

• Learn the core mechanics behind calls, puts, strike prices, expiration, and contract value
• Understand how volatility, implied volatility, and the Greeks shape trade outcomes
• Compare directional, income, and defined-risk strategies for different market views
• Develop a disciplined process for selecting, managing, and adjusting trades

Options Trading for Finance students who want structure, clarity, and practical execution.

Across the course, you will start with the reasons options exist in the market and progress into the essential building blocks of contracts, pricing, and valuation. You will learn how intrinsic value and time value interact, why volatility matters, and how the Greeks can help you interpret changes in price, time decay, and sensitivity. Each lesson is designed to strengthen your understanding of how options behave before you ever place a trade.

The course then moves into strategy development, showing you how to evaluate long calls, long puts, covered calls, cash-secured puts, vertical spreads, debit spreads, credit spreads, straddles, and strangles. You will also learn how to read the options chain, choose strike prices and expiration dates, and structure trades with a clearer purpose. This gives you a more systematic way to approach Options Trading rather than relying on guesswork.

Risk management is a central focus throughout the program. You will study position sizing, capital allocation, exits, rolling, trade adjustments, assignment, exercise, and settlement so that you can handle trades with greater discipline. By the end of the course, you will have a practical routine for avoiding common mistakes, managing uncertainty, and making better choices in Finance. You will finish with a stronger trading process, sharper judgment, and the confidence to approach options with method and control.