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Trade Options

Options carry a different risk profile from spot or perps. This path builds the vocabulary and mechanics you need before your first premium ever changes hands.

13 steps ~1.1 hr Beginner → Ready to trade

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  1. 1

    Foundations

    Direction, orders and charts, before adding options on top.

    1. Long vs Short: How Directional Trading Works

      5 min read

      The full mechanics of betting on a price rise versus a fall, and why shorting carries different risk.

    2. How to Read a Candlestick Chart

      5 min read

      What open, high, low and close actually mean, and how to read basic patterns without overreading them.

    3. Order Types Explained

      5 min read

      Market, limit and stop orders, and a practical framework for which one to use when.

    4. Chapter check: Foundations

      3 questions

      The basics that carry over into options.

  2. 2

    Core skills

    Calls, puts, Greeks and volatility.

    1. What Are Crypto Options?

      6 min read

      Calls and puts explained from zero, and why the risk profile is fundamentally different from perps.

    2. Spot vs Perps vs Options

      6 min read

      A practical comparison to help you decide which one actually fits what you're trying to do.

    3. Options Greeks for Beginners

      6 min read

      Delta, Gamma, Theta and Vega, and why you can be "right" on direction and still lose money.

    4. Implied Volatility Explained

      6 min read

      Why you can be right on direction and still lose.

    5. Chapter check: Core skills

      3 questions

      Greeks and volatility — the part that trips most beginners up.

  3. 3

    Advanced

    Structuring trades with defined risk.

    1. Basic Options Strategies: Covered Calls & Spreads

      7 min read

      The payoff logic behind covered calls, cash-secured puts and vertical spreads, and when each one actually fits your view.

    2. Risk Management and Position Sizing

      5 min read

      How to size trades using a risk-per-trade framework, why it matters more than being right, and how it changes with leverage.

    3. Technical Analysis Basics: Support and Resistance

      5 min read

      What technical analysis actually is, how support and resistance form, why broken levels flip roles, and a grounded look at trend lines and volume.

    4. Chapter check: Advanced

      3 questions

      Strategies and risk before you're ready to trade options.

You're ready

Finish every step above and you'll have the full path behind you, from the basics to the point where ready to trade actually means something.

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