Spreading Risk in a Bull Market: The Bull Call Spread
Discover the best time to buy a vertical call spread (bull call spread) and find out how to hedge high implied volatility risk to boost your profit potential.

  Long Call vs. Bull Call Spread: When to Use What
When is it best to use a long call over a long call spread? Which one will give you a bigger bang for your buck? How can you use the Greeks to help decide between the two? Discover the answers to these and other questions as you become proficient in the use of these bullish strategies.

  Your Trading Plan, Part One: Developing Your Plan
Focus on one of the most overlooked yet important aspects of trading is a well-defined trading plan. Develop your own trading plan and determine your personal risk tolerance level, so that you can trade comfortably and sleep well at night.

  Your Trading Plan, Part Two: Executing Your Plan
Overcome your fear and push the "send" button. Gain the confidence to step up to the trading plate and execute your plan with confidence.

  Credit Spreads on Bearish Volume Spikes: Kick 'Em While They're Down
How much did that stock drop? You can learn how to capitalize on stocks in trouble, and become skilled at using credit spreads to make money when others are losing it.

  Avoiding Expensive Puts in a Bear Market: The Bear Put Spread
Learn how to integrate bear put spreads into your trading repertoire and never buy expensive puts again. Master implied volatility risk, and make friends with the bears.

  Profit from Ranges and Breakouts with Long and Short Condors
Combine bullish and bearish vertical spreads in a variety of ways to take advantage of the market's movers and sleepers – and discover the advanced strategy of condors.

  Index Iron Condors: Finding the Zone of Profitability
Why do many "Iron Condor" traders stick to the indices? When are the best times to get in and out? Where should you place your breakevens as you weigh profitability versus probability? Discover the answers to these questions and learn why this strategy is hard to beat when the broader markets run sideways.

  Target Practice with OTM Calendars
Discover a unique directional spin on one of the most popular strategies among Optionetics traders. Learn how to identify and extract profits from bullish or bearish calendar spreads, and how to spot the best candidates with the help of a simple yet powerful checklist.

  Steady Sideways Trading with Calendar Spreads
Delve into another popular strategy among Optionetics traders. Learn how a handy checklist can help you identify candidates and capture profits from sideways-trending stocks.

  Quick and Easy Diversification with ETFs
Explore the popularity behind ETFs and find out why some traders say they'll never go back to trading options on single stocks again. Examine three of the top strategies best suited for this trading vehicle.

  Synthetically Speaking: Long and Short Calls
Never look at risk the same way again after going through this session. Discover a critical way to evaluate long and short calls, and you'll never view risk in the same light again.

  Synthetics Unraveled: Long and Short Puts
Expand your understanding of long and short call synthetics, by beefing up your knowledge of long/short synthetic puts.

  Making Money with Straddles BEFORE Earnings
Discover the secrets of trading straddles for profit before an earnings announcement is even made. Find out how to put a straddle on and take it off every week, for potentially huge returns.

  Smaller Debits for Larger Profits: Strangles
Is a strangle better than a straddle? It depends! Become a pro at using chart indicators and options analysis to profit with strangles while laying down less capital to enter each trade.

  Gamma Scalping Unveiled
You've heard about it, and perhaps have even read about it. Now it's time to do what the heavy hitters do: gamma scalping. Walk through the exciting steps involved in trading this incredible strategy with poise and confidence.

  Directional Butterflies in a Moving Market
Discover the beauty of butterflies and the high implied volatility in a directional market. Understand the tips and tricks in creating directional wide-mouth butterflies, and watch your profit potential fly.

  The Butterfly vs. The Iron Butterfly
Find out how these two cousins differ from each other and which one will serve your trading purposes better in accordance with your market outlook.

  Spread the Long Call, or Leave It Alone?
Examine the reasons why a long call position should be transformed into a bull call spread (long call spread) and when the optimal time has arrived to take action. Dissect the "Greeks" to see which ones are working for or against you.

  Right on Direction, Wrong on Profit: Common Mistakes with Long Puts
If you've ever been right on direction and wrong on profits, here's your chance to avoid common mistakes associated with high implied volatility in a bear market.

  The Three Bullets You Need Before Pulling the Elliott Wave Trigger
Setup. Signal. Trigger. Imprint these three important words on your brain as you refine your technical analysis and learn to exercise patience before entering any Elliott Wave trade too early.

  Adjusting Your Debit/Credit Spreads into Butterflies
Take your uncooperative long or short calls and put spreads and turn them into butterflies. Get to know this basic adjustment and learn how easily the world of adjustments can control your downside.

  Directional to Non-Directional: Long Calls and Iron Condors
Learn how to turn a long call that's gone awry into an iron condor to dramatically cut losses or even turn a profit. Find out how to checkmate the market and gain control of your trades.

  Collars: "Insurance" for Your Stocks
Trade options around your current stock portfolio with a powerful strategy favored by many successful traders. Find out how patience, combined with simple hedging adjustment techniques, can make collars one of today's hottest strategies.

  The Two Cardinal Rules of the Broken Wing Butterfly
Two areas of this incredible strategy are covered: proper placement and putting them on for a credit instead of a debit. Also, learn which indices are the best for this exciting strategy.

  Money-Making Strategies in Volatile Markets
Never be afraid of volatility fluctuations again after listening to this power-packed session. Sit back and learn specific strategies to profit in volatile markets as we welcome you into the exciting world of trading volatility.

  Technical Analysis Strategies in Bearish Markets
Bearish signals and indicators can be your best friends in a bearish market. Increase your profits when others think "the sky is falling" as this session teaches you how to recognize opportunities in falling markets.

  Technical Analysis Strategies in Volatile Markets
Signals and indicators can be your best friends in a volatile market. Increase your profits when volatility is high as this session teaches you how to recognize opportunities and choose the right strategies for a variety of situations.

  Successful Strategies for Bearish Elliot Wave Patterns
Wave Four Sell and Wave Five Sell patterns are dissected in this lesson. Clear out all the noise and focus on specific signals and triggers as you learn to profit with three different strategies for bearish Elliot Wave patterns.

  Hedging Yourself in Bearish Markets
You'll be calm and even smiling in bearish markets after listening to this session. Discover how to limit potential losses on bullish positions and sometimes even come out ahead in the end as you learn to adjust your trades when things go bearish instead of bullish.

  Boost Your Returns with Inter-Market Analysis
Stocks, bonds, oil, gold, commodities. Which ones go up when the others go down? Does strength in one mean strength in another? And how can this knowledge help me in my trading? Unearth the intricacies of Inter-Market Analysis and find out how to make money in ways you may never have thought of.

  When to Adjust a Collar
Stop micromanaging your collars and learn some powerful guidelines that can make the adjustment process of these positions much simpler and more lucrative. Know exactly how much of a move you really need and when might it be appropriate to let the stock go, close the position and move on.

  Speeding Up Profits with Short-Term Calendar Spreads
Back-to-Back Calendars can be an incredibly successful and consistent strategy in any short-term traders arsenal. Used in up, down, and sideways markets as well as a hedging tool, this session will get you up and going with this compelling strategy.

  Double Calendars and the Four Deadly Calendar Sins
Ever have a calendar trade go against you? In this session you'll learn an effective longer-term strategy combining double calendars to greatly increase your probability of success. We'll also unveil the four deadly calendar sins that can kill your trades and how avoiding them can greatly increase your potential profits.

  The Ratio Wing Butterfly versus the Broken Wing Butterfly
Which one should I use? Is one better than the other? Does one get better fills? These questions as well as others are answered in this power-packed class. Once you've listened to this session you can relax and feel comfortable making money with these advanced options strategies.

  Batten Down the Hatches and Keep the Profits Coming: Working with High Implied Volatility
Be prepared and ready to cash in when the market goes crazy. High option premium during highly volatile markets is there for the taking. Learn which strategies are best to profit in this type of market environment.

  Winning When the Market's Losing: Volatility Skew Strategies That Work
Give yourself an edge with this critical component of implied volatility and use it to your advantage. Learn to use Platinum's powerful Skew Finder feature to identify which strategies work best for options with high volatility skews.

  Profitably Trading Option on Futures
Learn to expand your horizons beyond simple stock options and tap into the profit potential available in the futures markets. The global marketplace for commodities is growing every day, and options on futures afford you the opportunity to participate in these major macro trends with limited risk.

  My Spookiest Trades …and How to Avoid Them
Like a bad dream or a bad date, there are some things we hope to never see or go through again. In this session, Jeff Birk shares with you some of his worst trades ever as a beginning options trader. Emotion, fear and greed will run rampant as you tune in to this fun and compelling session and learn how to avoid making the same mistakes he did.

  Piloting the Markets I: Your Checklist to Reach Profits
As with any good pilot, a good trader has his or her checklist which must be completed when looking for, analyzing and finally selecting a trade. This session will take you through the first critical steps in trade selection and money management.

  Piloting the Markets II: Landing Your Trade Successfully
Anyone can put on a trade. Bringing it in for a profitable landing can be a different story. Learn some tips and tricks to taking trades off for a profit as well as milking more profits from current winners before taking them off outright.