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OIC presents Interactive Online Webcasts
We now offer over a dozen interactive webcasts covered topics such as:
- Options Fundmentals
- Options Myths
- The Psychology of Trading
- Equity Collars
- Many more (see full listing below)
To view our webcasts you must create a (free) OIC Education account. Your free OIC Education account gives you immediate access to select OIC content such as premium webcasts and podcasts. If you have questions, please email options@theocc.com or contact our options specialists at (888) OPTIONS.
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| Video Webcasts |
(Duration: 46 min)
In this informative webcast, Repair & Exit Strategies, OIC Instructor Marty Kearney explains how to use stock repair strategies such as doubling up and buying more to help fix an option position. You’ll hear about the risks and rewards in implementing these strategies into your trading plan. You’ll learn the differences between long and short options and what to consider when exiting a long call or put position at or near expiration. Login to OIC Education and Watch Now |
(Duration: 41 min)
Join Dan Sheridan of Sheridan Options Mentoring and Alan Grigoletto of the Boston Options Exchange as they discuss this exercising for the dividend. Listen to Dan and Alan explain the dividend process and provide practical guidelines on when investors should exercise their call options in order to capture dividends. They explain why professionals have a distinct advantage in capturing dividends and why the retail client needs to examine both the costs and risks associated with options exercise. Dan and Alan share practical examples and personal experiences to bring light to this often misunderstood topic. Login to OIC Education and Watch Now |
(Duration: 30 min)
This webcast, featuring Dan Sheridan of Sheridan Options Mentoring, will take a look at third quarter 2008, a period of
uncertainty characterized by extraordinarily high volatility. Dan will discuss real-life examples of increased implied volatility levels investors have had to contend with, as well as how this volatility impacts the risk vs. reward profiles of certain specific option strategies. Login to OIC Education and Watch Now |
(Duration: 30 min)
This webcast, featuring Dan Sheridan of Sheridan Options Mentoring, will examine bear markets and focus on the kinds of trading opportunities you might find when the broad market is trending on the downside. Dan presents real-life examples including one on how to protect profits from an energy stock that has outperformed the recent down market. He also discusses selling puts on a depressed stock from the financial sector and provides an interesting variation of a time spread on a stock that’s been trading in a narrow range. You'll learn how to look for similar opportunities in your investment portfolio. Login to OIC Education and Watch Now |
(Duration: 31 min)
Join Dan Sheridan of Sheridan Options Mentoring as he focuses on implied volatility and how this can directly affect the profit and loss of your option positions. He will consider the dramatic increase in volatility as seen during the first quarter 2008, and its subsequent decline shortly afterwards. With an emphasis on Vega, you’ll learn how to account for changing implied volatility even before you buy or sell a call or put. Login to OIC Education and Watch Now
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(Duration: 43 min)
In this latest offering from The Options Industry Council, Dan Sheridan of Sheridan Options Mentoring discusses two ways to protect unrealized stock profits from a declining market, using real-life, historical examples. You will also hear Dan's ideas on adjusting a time spread that has taken a turn for the worse in a down market. Login to OIC Education and Watch Now |
(Duration: 15 min)
In this brand new offering from The Options Industry Council, Peter Lusk of the Chicago Board Options Exchange discusses time spreads, also known as a calendar or a horizontal spread. If you're neutral on an underlying stock, learn how you might use this hedged position to profit from decay in an option's time value, but with a limited, maximum loss amount that you know up-front. Peter will also address management of this spread in the event of unfavorable moves in the underlying stock's price. Login to OIC Education and Watch Now |
(Duration: 34 min)
The Options Industry Council (OIC) is conducting a pilot webcast utilizing new technology and interactive elements.  This webcast covers Options Basics and is presented by Bill Ryan, a member of our OIC Help Desk (1-888-OPTIONS). This high resolution, Flash-based webcast brings you the fundamentals of options with vivid examples, diagrams, and interactive participation. From the history of options to the basics of puts and calls, Bill Ryan engages you in a webcast unlike anything we've offered before. Login to OIC Education and Watch Now |
(Duration: 52 min)
In this webcast, OIC instructor Al Brinkman of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange teaches you the importance of choosing an appropriate options strategy as it relates to your investment expectations. You'll also learn about exercise and assignment, the risk of long and short positions, and the importance of an exit strategy. Login to OIC Education and Watch Now |
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| Flash Webcasts |
(Duration: 40 min)
You've probably heard that options trading is risky and only for the seasoned trader. Or that options traders lose money because most options contracts expire worthless. Now hear the real truth as OIC instructor Todd Wilemon dispels the myths that often deter investors from trading options. Investing in options is often less risky than investing in stocks and this webcast will explain why - along with other facts about options that may be shrouded in myths. Login to OIC Education and Watch Now |
(Duration: 65 min)
OIC Instructor Alex Jacobson of the International Securities Exchange discusses volatility, and why it's important to the option trader. Jacobson discusses what strategies to consider in markets where volatility is changing, and how volatility impacts option premiums. This webcast via Interactive Brokers. Login to OIC Education and Watch Now |
(Duration: 26 min)
OIC Instructor Jim Bittman of the Chicago Board Options Exchange discusses 1-to-1 vertical debit spreads, including bull call spreads and bear put spreads. Learn how these strategies work, and the profit and risk potential. Bittman also discusses why these strategies are appropriate for particular market forecasts, as well as how to enter a limit-price spread order. This webcast via Interactive Brokers. Login to OIC Education and Watch Now |
(Duration: 55 min)
Presented by OIC Instructor Al Brinkman. This webcast via Interactive Brokers. Login to OIC Education and Watch Now |
(Duration: 24 min)
OIC Instructor Steve Meizinger delves into the topic of covered call writing and discusses some of the motivations behind using this strategy in trading options. You’ll learn about calculating static and if-called returns as well as some common misconceptions about covered writing. Steve will also share some points to consider when putting together your own personalized plan for using this neutral to slightly bullish strategy. Login to OIC Education and Watch Now |
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