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Options: The Tastytrade Mechanical Approach

What an option is

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Options: The Tastytrade Mechanical Approach

Course Overview

The contract

1What an option is

4Buyers, sellers, and premium

5Intrinsic and extrinsic

7Exercise and assignment

8American and European

The price

9Implied volatility and realized volatility

10IV rank and IV percentile

11The expiration calendar, and 0DTE as a different product

12The multiplier and the quote

Greeks

17Rho, and the Greeks this course will not use

18Netting Greeks on a spread

Undefined risk

19Long call and long put

20Covered call and cash-secured put

21Naked short call and naked short put

22The short strangle

23The short straddle

Defined risk

24Credit verticals

25Debit verticals

26The iron condor

28Calendars, and diagonals as a sourced gap

29Condor credit, width, and breakevens, worked

The mechanical book

30Occurrences, not a forecast

32One-third of the width

33Close at 50% of max profit

34The untested side

35The 16-delta and 21 DTE quarantine

What breaks

36Expiration can become stock

37Events, skew, and earnings

39The paper ticket

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