Options Essentials | Udemy Coupons 2025

This course will cover practical usage of options and discuss important option related topics including open interest, using options as a hedge or for speculation, exercise and assignment, and more.

Options are a financial derivative instrument; all rights belong to the buyer and all obligations with the seller. Call options give the buyer or holder the right but not the obligation to buy the asset they are derived from at a fixed price by a set date. Put options give the buyer or holder the right but not the obligation to sell the asset they are derived from at a fixed price by a set date.

The course will also cover important option related topics:

• open interest and what it signifies for an option strike,
• exercise and assignments, what they are and why options are sometimes exercised prior to expiration, and
• the clearing house’s role in ensuring all U.S. option trading obligations are fulfilled in a safe and efficient manner.
• 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).