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Free Options Trading Education from Interactive Brokers

Expert-led Video Courses, Webinars, Podcasts, and the Latest Options Market Insights

Learn about stock options, futures options, and other financial derivatives-related trading and investing education at the IBKR Campus.

Our site provides you with a wealth of financial education resources that will complement your learning style. We have instructor-led video courses, live webinars, engaging podcasts, and the latest insights about futures and securities options market-related, financial news analyses from a wide array of financial services experts from across the globe.

Interactive Brokers is well known for its innovative options tools and resources, and we offer a rich and extensive financial derivatives educational program, whether you are new to the financial options markets or advanced in the field.

Acquire basic futures and securities options trading skills, deeper analytical capabilities, and keener options-trading strategy knowhow, at your own pace, by taking advantage of financial topics across the IBKR Campus. Some of the options topics include:

  • Calls
  • Puts
  • Greeks
  • Option Valuation

We also offer content on how to use IBKR’s suite of options tools, including the IBKR Probability Lab, the Options Wizard, the Option Strategy Lab, Volatility Lab, and Option Market Scanners, among many others.

The IBKR Campus is dedicated to helping you make more informed decisions about futures and securities options.

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Options Video Courses

All Lessons In Traders' Academy
Level Intermediate

TWS Option Tools

This series of lessons will help deepen your understanding of options and discuss the many available TWS tools investors can use to analyze the market before making a trade. Each lesson focuses on a single tool or approach to a valuable concept about the options market.

Level Intermediate

Basic Option Strategies

Understand a few of the popular option strategies, plus how to define long calls and puts, covered calls and puts, and short puts. For each of the popular option strategies discussed, determine the: Market Outlook, Volatility View, Profit Potential and Loss Potential. Examine how to practically construct these basic option strategies using an online trading platform.

Level Intermediate

Neutral Option Market Strategies

Learn how to define short straddles and short strangles; learn how to construct these option strategies and under what conditions they may pose positive or adverse effects on profits and losses and understand how to calculate breakevens, as well as learn about the roles of implied volatility and time value.

Disclosure: Options Trading

Options involve risk and are not suitable for all investors. Multiple leg strategies, including spreads, will incur multiple commission charges. For more information read the "Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options" also known as the options disclosure document (ODD) or visit ibkr.com/occ

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