Event Overview
Join a group of industry experts as they discuss favorite option strategies they employ in bullish, bearish, and neutral markets. Ideas for choosing strike prices and time when initiating positions will be included as well as time for your questions.
Some of the top names in trading will familiarize you with options—what they are, how they work, and what opportunities they present. You’ll take home practical knowledge about when it is appropriate to buy/sell puts or calls, covered call writing strategies, and advice on when to use each of these strategies.
Featured Options Speakers
For more than 30 years, OIC has been a trusted source for options education. In this opening session of the MoneyShow “All-Stars of Options” program, OIC instructors Mark Benzaquen and Mat Cashman profile the free OIC educational resources available to investors, including online courses, podcasts and webinars, and a variety of online tools. And to create a foundation for a day of options education, Mark and Mat will lay the groundwork of options fundamentals including the basics of calls and puts, an overview of options pricing, and a bird’s eye view of the exercise and assignment process.
All options involve risk and selling options incurs the obligation to deliver or potentially take delivery of the underlying asset. This might be why some investors turn to credit spreads to potentially limit the embedded risk of a short options position. Join OIC instructors Mark Benzaquen and Mat Cashman as they discuss and dissect credit spreads as well as the Iron Condor and Iron Butterfly in this lively and engaging session geared towards the options seller.
Join Public's director of product to learn about the world of options trading, a versatile tool in the financial markets. This session is for both new and advanced investors to understand all things options trading, including pricing, intrinsic value, and the Greeks—Delta, Gamma, Theta, and Vega. We’ll also cover essential strategies for beginners, such as covered calls and protective puts, to help you manage risk and potentially enhance your portfolio.
Have you ever had trouble understanding the concept of option Greeks because of the math involved? If so, let’s try learning about them in a slightly different way. In this final “All-Stars of Options” session, OIC instructors Mark Benzaquen and Mat Cashman look at the Greeks through a different lens using metaphor to better understand the option Greeks as the building blocks of optionality. This is one session you won’t want to miss!
Our buy-and-hold portfolios in non-sheltered accounts are generating 8%-10% per year. Can we potentially increase these yields by selling stock options while, at the same time, dramatically decreasing the probability of our shares being sold to avoid potential tax implications? The answer is a resounding “yes”.
Portfolio overwriting is a strategy that can benefit millions of investors seeking to enhance portfolio returns using a low-risk covered call writing-like strategy.
Traditional covered call writing will also be discussed to demonstrate comparisons between the two strategy approaches.