Gamma Options Trading Mastery Course

Learn to trade options with me, a veteran of professional options portfolio management, with almost $1 Billion in options strategies managed and $750 million in option income generated.

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If you want to trade like a pro, you need to think like a pro. The Gamma Options Trading Mastery Course is going to teach you to approach options trading from an option market maker’s perspective, and that means learning things the right way. You’ll be learning the art and science of options trading the way I did, step by important step. You’ll benefit from my over quarter century of experience in this amazing area of trading and investing. Why me? Because I've done this professionally for decades. Almost $1 billion managed, trading the very things I'm going to teach you.

This course is for both beginner and advanced traders. Why? Because it first teaches you to trade options from the very beginning... but once you have the fundamentals down I go on to teach you things you won't learn anywhere else.

Hans has been seen on

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Course curriculum

1. Meet the Instructor - A little about me and the journey we are embarking on together
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2. MUST READ for all students before continuing - Disclaimer
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1. 1.1 Options for edge
2. 1.2 Collars Part 2
1. 2.0 Many Uses for Options
2. 2.1 The Option Ecosystem and Counterparty Risk
3. 2.2 The Option Quote and Pricing Model
4. 2.3 Long Calls and Puts and Impact to Profit and Loss
5. 2.4 Moneyness and How Options React to Moves in the Stock
6. Congrats and... Take a Deep Breath
7. 2.5 The Mechanics of Option Exercise
8. 2.6 The Mechanics of Option Assignment
9. 2.7 Order Management and Option Cycles
1. 3.1 Long Stock versus Long Call and Short Put
2. 3.2 Short Stock versus Short Call and Long Put
1. 4.1 Synthetics and Put Call Parity - Creating Positions from Other Positions
2. 4.2 Synthetics continued and Market Maker Arbitrage
3. Synthetic Option Cheat Sheet
4. 4.3 Trading Against Options Positions in the After-Hours, and Avoiding this CRITICAL Mistake
5. 4.4 Trading Against Option Positions in the After-Hours Part 2: LYFT Example
1. 5.1 Margin
2. 5.2 - Cost of Carry and Dividend Effects on Options
3. 5.3 Hard to Borrow Mayhem.. and How to See it in Options
4. 5.4 When to Exercise an in the Money Option
1. 6.1 Intro to Volatility
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2. 6.2 Volatility Continued
1. 7.1 Call Spreads Intro
2. 7.2 Put Spreads Intro
3. 7.3 Risk Reversals
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1. Intermission
1. 8.1 Volatility - How Should We Think of It?
2. 8.2 Historical Volatility and Intro to Skew
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3. 8.3 Final Skew and Term Structure
1. 9.1 Delta
2. 9.2 Delta complete
3. 9.3 Gamma
4. 9.4 Gamma Behavior Through Straddles
5. 9.5 Gamma and Short Volatility Blowups!
6. 9.6 Theta and the Free Lunch?
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7. 9.7 Theta Complete
8. 9.8 Let There be Rho
9. 9.9 Vega... my favorite Greek
10. 9.10 Vega and Risk Awareness
1. 10.1 Skew Movement and Term Structure
2. Volatility Cheat Sheet
3. 10.2 Under the Skew Hood
4. 10.3 Historical versus Implied Volatility
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5. 10.4 Implied Versus Historical Volatility FREE Charting Software iVolatility.com
6. 10.5 Volatility, Final Musings
1. 11.1 Long and Short Calls in Depth
2. 11.2 Long and Short Puts in Depth
3. 11.3 The Think or Swim Option Trading Platform
4. 11.4 Appropriate Position Sizing with Deltas
5. 11.5 Risk Graph: Real Time versus Expiry and How They Move Through Time
6. 11.6 How to Create Upside Exposure for "No Cost", and Adding as much EDGE as you can to your trade idea!
7. 11.7 Example of Put Sale with Amazon
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8. 11.8 Put Selling and Margin Thoughts
9. An Article I Wrote for the Globe and Mail Newspaper on the VIX
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10. 11.9 Weekend Effect... No Free Theta Lunch!
11. 11.10 VIX Futures Curve and Searching for Sentiment... Also VXX
12. 11.11 VIX Rule of 16 and VIX Seasonality
13. 11.12 Creating Yield Where There Was None Before! Gold Example
1. 12.1 Covered Calls Part 1: Position of Strength
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2. 12.2 Covered Calls Part 2: How Does it Work
3. 12.3 Covered Calls Part 3: Performance in Different Markets
4. 12.4 Covered Calls Part 4: Selling Away the Abnormal Movement
5. 12.5 Covered Calls Part 5: Evolving Volatility, Strikes, and Premiums
6. 12.6 The Wheel Strategy: Combining Put and Call Writing
7. 12.7 The Wheel Part 2: Wheeling and Dealing with an Actual Example
8. 12.8 Rules-Based Covered Call Management Process
9. 12.9 Rules-Based Covered Call Management and VIX Regimes
1. 13.1 Iron Condors Intro
2. 13.2 Iron Condors Management
3. 13.3 Iron Condor Easy Repair
4. 13.4 Final Iron Condor Rules
1. 14.1 VIX Part 1 - Buying house insurance BEFORE the roof is burning
2. 14.2 VIX Part 2 - VIX as a Trading Signal? Be Careful!
1. Interview: Prominent Options Site interviews Hans to talk about protecting portfolios and making Vega your friend
2. 15.1 Protecting Our Precious Assets Intro
3. 15.2 Is VIX Really a Hedge for Your Portfolio?
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4. 15.3 When Should I Start to Worry
5. 15.4 Gamma Put Protect Framework
6. 15.5 The Anatomy of a Selloff
7. 15.6 Putting it All Together
8. 15.7 Put Protect Thoughts, Extra Puts for Black Swans, and Beta Weight
1. 16.1 Ratio Put Spread: I'm bearish, but I'd like to own TSLA lower. How do I do that?
2. 16.2 Building the Ratio and Different Ways to Win
3. 16.3 I Love it When a Plan Doesn't Come Together... Right Away
1. 17.1 Cash Secured Put Selling: Part 1, The Approach
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2. 17.2 Cash Secured Put Selling: Part 2, Pros and Cons
3. 17.3 Cash Secured Put Selling: Part 3, AMZN example
4. 17.4 Cash Secured Puts Part 4: Picking Names and Layering Edge
5. 17.5 Cash Covered Puts Part 5: GOOG Example, Looking for Edge
6. 17.6 Selling Cash Covered Puts Part 6: COST Example
7. 17.7 Gamma Cash Secured Put Management System
8. 17.8 Gamma Cash Secured Put Management System AMZN Example
9. 17.9 Cash Secured Put Management and Putting it all Together: DIS Example
1. Hans's eBook: Let's Talk About Volatility - It's all about VIX, volatility, and how VIX ETN products work!
2. Bonus Video: Gamma Squeezes in the spotlight
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3. Beta Weighting a Hedge

About this course

$797.00
100 lessons
16 hours of video content

Who is your professor?

• Hans holds an Ivy League MBA from Cornell University.
• Has generated $750 million in options cash flow for investors
• 25-year options and volatility fund manager veteran, 12-year professional options market maker for a large bank.
• Almost $1 Billion career under management in managing option strategies.
• Former manager of 10 covered call funds: Nasdaq 100, US large cap, Canadian large cap, gold miner, bank basket, ASX20, gold, silver, oil and natural gas covered call funds.
• Former manager of 2 Black-Swan option funds, US and Canadian: SPX downside protective puts/spreads, covered calls, put sales, butterflies, VIX spreads
• Grew several of his funds 5-fold, one of his covered call funds winning a Lipper Award along the way.
• Hans has been a regular in the media, on BNN Business television, TD Ameritrade’s Market Show with Oliver Renick, Nasdaq’s TradeTalks Show with Jill Malandrino, Bloomberg TV, the Rob Snow Business radio segment and many others.
• He is an MX All-Star of Options Trading (featured speaker), has been asked to speak on numerous expert derivatives panels over the years, and was a headliner speaker at the MoneyShow.
• Hans has been quoted in almost 100 different articles for magazines and publications like the Globe & Mail, Nasdaq, Advisor.ca, Bloomberg and Wealth Professional. Has written articles for the Globe & Mail, Financial Post, Montreal Options Exchange, and Investment Executive.
• He has guest lectured on markets and options trading at McGill and Cornell Universities and has been a headline speaker on volatility trading for the CFA Society.

What you will learn...

Everything you need, from the ground up, to understand and excel at trading options.

Learn the popular Cash Secured Put and Coved Call Income Strategies from someone who has ACTUALLY managed large funds that focus on them
Learn the all-important "Option Greeks" - critical to helping you understand risk, reward and opportunity
Learn to build edge into your trades so you can trade with confidence
Learn to make money in uptrends, downtrends and sideways markets
Learn to trade options using important technical analysis
Learn the Gamma system for adjusting trades that aren't working perfectly
Learn how to use and interpret the VIX - most people use it incorrectly
Learn how to trade against your options positions in the after-hours. I've seen too many people make critical mistakes when doing this
Learn from the best - leverage my years of experience and pedigree to help you become a complete option trader

What you'll get:

Almost 16 hours of options training from a professional options trader with decades of experience doing exactly what he teaches!
Membership in the Gamma Army Options Community, where students can chat and ask me questions.
My Ebook “Let’s Talk About Volatility”, which goes over volatility, VIX and how VIX ETNs work. Easy to understand real world examples that help you to understand the critical importance of volatility.
My special tutorial on "Gamma Squeezes" and How They Work. Why do stocks like Gamestop get squeezed due to options flow? I’ll explain it, and importantly you’ll be able to understand it because you’ve taken the best course on options trading available (mine!)
Lifetime access - the course price will rise over time as I continue to add lessons, but you are locked in!

Testimonials from Hans' Students

“Hans is definitely the most qualified person I could talk to about options. If you’ll be managing a hedge fund or personal finances he’s got extensive and specific ideas you can implement. Your situation and what works for you will become clear as all your questions get answered in a way that suitably guides you to understanding the path to your goals. I’ve taken what I understand about markets and now have fuller picture of what’s possible thru the leverage of options. My session improved my confidence. I would definitely recommend getting your notepad and signing up. He’s generous with his knowledge and time. Good luck and happy trading ! - A.L.”

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