Rajandran R – Option Hydra – June 2020 Edition – Basics

Option Hydra is an online mentorship program for option traders (Beginner level & Intermediate) who you want to explore the world of options with deeper insights and gaining knowledge on properly applying the option strategies properly.

What You’ll Learn In Option Hydra?

Session 1 – Understanding Option & Basic Option Terminologies

• Option Buyer Vs Option Sellers
• Option Terminologies (Strike Price, Open Interest, Lot Size, Option Chain)
• Different Types of Option Contracts
• Understanding How Institution Hedge their Positions
• Debit Strategies Vs Credit Strategies
• Understanding ATM, ITM & OTM Option
• Intrinsic Value Vs Extrinsic Value (Time Value)
• Which Strike Price One should Select – Trading Scenarios

Session 2 – Understanding Payoff Graph, Margin Requirement for Various Trading Strategies

• Introduction to Option Pricing
• Introduction to F&O Margin Components
• How to use the Margin Calculator and Importance of use the Margin Calculator
• New Margin Calculation as per SEBI regulations
• Cash Secured Put Strategy for Investors
• Exercising Options (European Options Vs American Options)
• Cash Delivery Vs Compulsory Physical Delivery
• How to Interpret the Open interest Charts
• How to take a view using Open Interest and Price Structure
• Understanding Theta Decay
• Weekly Options Vs Monthly Options
• Understanding the Payoff Graph of Long Call Options and Long Put Options
• Understanding the Payoff Graph of Short Call Options and Short Put Options

Session 3 – Understanding Top down Approach, Volatility, Implied Volatility

• How to Apply Top down approach to take a objective view in the Market
• How to Understand the Market Structure?
• How to get a Trading Perspective?
• Importance of Measuring the Volatility
• Understanding Implied Volatility
• Realized Volatility Vs Unrealized Volatility
• Introduction to Volatility Skew
• How to retrieve historical option data open interest from NSE india portal
• Importance of reading India VIX

Session 4 – Event Trading, Volatility Skew , IV Percentile and IV Rank

• IV percentile & IV Rank
• Classification of Strategies with IV percentile
• Event Trading and the Options Premium Behavior during Events
• Implied Volatility Crush during Event
• How to trade Options during event
• Simple Price Action Pattern in Trading Events
• How to Trade Post Market Event and How to Trade Ongoing Event
• How to Design your options Strategy and efficiently manage your Margin Requirements
• Different Market Participants and How to read Open Interest data of various Market Players

Session 5 – Option Greeks and Hedging

• Understanding the Option Greeks
• Importance of Option Greeks and Option Premium Behavior (Useful for Option Buyers & Option Sellers)
• Option Price Behavior Vs Underlying Price Behavior
• Impact of Gamma on Options Impact
• Lottery tickets on Expiry and Emotional Trading Sentiment on Expiry Day
• Understanding Nifty IV and IV Percentile Graph
• Call Side Volatility Skew Vs Put Side Volatility Skew
• Speculations of Stock Options and How to benefit from the behavior

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