Options Trading Course

About Us

The London Academy of Trading is an award-winning, dual-accredited provider of financial
trading education and was the first academy in the UK to offer accredited and regulated
qualifications in trading. We pride ourselves on providing practical and vocational training
courses developed to help individuals invest or trade in financial markets or for those looking
to enhance their employment opportunities within financial markets.

Since 2010, we have stayed committed to our four pillars of knowledge—fundamental
analysis, technical analysis, trading psychology, and risk management—which keep us on
track to show our students how to make the most out of their trading journey. We help our
learners apply their knowledge in a real-world, real-time environment so they understand the
fundamental and practical aspects of trading.

About the course:

This course provides an extremely practical introduction to options trading. Our specialist
tutor, Steve Fellows, has decades of options trading experience, which will enable students
to gain the maximum benefit from the academic and practical sessions.
The course provides students with an understanding of the derivatives markets (futures and
options) and how they are traded. It also explains the construction and applications of payoff
diagrams and introduces a number of options trading strategies.

Course Delivery: Study online over the course of two weeks via four 90-minute interactive
online sessions. Students will have access to an options trading platform to support their
learning and will actively participate in trading sessions to gain an understanding of how
what they have learnt is applicable in real-life scenarios.

Week 1: Introduction to the basics of options (puts, calls, spreads, straddles, and strangles),
using practical examples to illustrate academic concepts.

Week 2: Practical trading sessions will enable delegates to apply what they have learnt to
create options trading strategies, with help and guidance from the tutor. Week 1 academic
themes will also be developed further, introducing the Greeks and further options trading
strategies.

By the end of the course, delegates will be able to:

• Understand the concepts of options trading
• Recognise different option payoff profiles
• Develop options trading strategies in real-time markets

Flexible Study Options

To keep our programmes flexible and accessible, we have developed online delivery
methods for an uninterrupted flow of learning for all our students. This means you can
extract maximum benefits from whichever course you choose, pause and restart your course
at any time, and upgrade from one course to another just by paying the difference in course
fees.

Our Expert Tutors

Our teaching faculty is comprised of experienced traders and analysts from major financial
institutions, including HSBC, Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse, and Bloomberg, who are eager to
support our students through this exciting path they’ve chosen to take. All students have
direct access to our team of trading mentors for ten hours every day, where they have the
chance to develop robust and structured trading strategies on a 1:1 basis. We also host
three daily webinars where our experts analyse the markets, answer questions, and
stimulate discussions to enhance the learning process.