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How the Gears Turn

Learn about market assumptions, directional risk, and pricing dynamics

  1. Getting Directional: Bulls, Bears, Long, & Short

    Learn about market assumptions

  2. Buying and Selling Stock

    How long and short shares work

  3. Buying and Selling Options

    How long and short options work

  4. Ticker Tape 101

    Pricing basics for buyers and sellers

  5. Pricing Options: Big Picture Stuff

    The basics behind how options get their prices

  6. Pricing Options: Intrinsic & Extrinsic Value

    The Yin and Yang of option prices

  7. Pricing Options: Probabilities

    Introducing Delta and how probabilities affect option prices

  8. Pricing Options: Implied Volatility

    How anticipated price ranges affect option values

  9. Pricing Options: Time

    How the passage of time affects option prices

  10. How The Gears Turn: Final Review

    Recap concepts related to option pricing and estimating risk

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