
- Fees: $300
- CPD: 3 Hours
- Subject: Investment
- Language: English
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Platform: Zoom / E-Learning
Course description
This course will equip students with the knowledge, confidence, and strategies necessary to evaluate potential investment opportunities and manage options investments.
What you'll learn
- Discuss the basic nature of options in general and puts and calls in particular and understand how these investments work.
- Describe the options market and note key options provisions, including strike prices and expiration dates.
- Explain how put and call options are valued and the forces that drive option prices in the marketplace.
- Describe the potential profit or loss associated with buying put or call options and discuss some put or call investment strategies.
- Explain the potential profit or loss associated with writing put or call options and discuss how writing options can be used as a strategy for enhancing investment returns.
- Describe market index options, puts and calls on foreign currencies, and LEAPS and discuss how these securities can be used by investors.