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Introduction to Options

⚠ ADDITIONAL RISK WARNING — Leveraged Products Options are leveraged contracts. A buyer can lose 100% of the premium paid, and a seller can lose several multiples of the premium received; a naked short call carries theoretically unlimited loss. SEBI’s studies of individual traders in the equity derivatives segment have repeatedly found that a large majority incur net losses. This course teaches mechanics and risk control only; it never recommends a trade. This is the course to take before you to

35
Lessons
7
Quizzes
7
Sections

Course curriculum

01 · How Indian Markets Work: The Ground You Stand On (5 lessons · 1 quiz)
  • What the Stock Market Actually Does: Shares, Exchanges and Why Prices Move9 minute
  • NSE, BSE, SEBI and Your Broker: Who Does What With Your Money10 minute
  • What NIFTY 50 Is and Why Almost Every Option Is Written On It9 minute
  • Your Demat and Trading Account: What Happens After You Tap Buy9 minute
  • Cash, Intraday and Derivatives: Three Different Games on One Screen10 minute
  • How Indian Markets Work — Check Your Understandingquiz
02 · What a Derivative Is, and Why Options Exist At All (5 lessons · 1 quiz)
  • A Derivative in Plain Language: Value Borrowed From Something Else9 minute
  • Futures Versus Options: The One Difference That Changes Everything8 minute
  • Why Options Were Invented: Insurance, Not Gambling9 minute
  • The Two Honest Reasons to Use Options — and the Dishonest One9 minute
  • Rights and Obligations: The Most Important Idea in This Course9 minute
  • Derivatives and Why Options Exist — Check Your Understandingquiz
03 · Meet the Call and the Put: The Only Two Options That Exist (5 lessons · 1 quiz)
  • The Call Option: Paying for the Right to Buy8 minute
  • The Put Option: Paying for the Right to Sell9 minute
  • Who Sells Options, and Why Anyone Takes That Risk9 minute
  • Reading Your First Payoff Picture9 minute
  • Four Positions, One Picture: The Complete Set9 minute
  • Calls and Puts — Check Your Understandingquiz
04 · The Language: Strike, Premium, Expiry and Lot Size (5 lessons · 1 quiz)
  • Strike Price: The Level Your Contract Is Built Around9 minute
  • Premium: What You Pay and What It Is Actually Made Of9 minute
  • Moneyness: In, At and Out of the Money9 minute
  • Expiry: The Date Your Contract Stops Existing8 minute
  • Lot Size and Contract Value: Why One Option Is Bigger Than It Looks9 minute
  • Strike, Premium, Expiry and Lot Size — Check Your Understandingquiz
05 · Reading the Screen: The Option Chain and Your First Order (5 lessons · 1 quiz)
  • Anatomy of the NSE Option Chain9 minute
  • Bid, Ask and the Spread: The Cost Nobody Mentions8 minute
  • Order Types: Market, Limit, and Which One a Beginner Should Use8 minute
  • Placing a Trade Step by Step — and Squaring Off8 minute
  • What Your Contract Note Actually Says10 minute
  • The Option Chain and Your First Order — Check Your Understandingquiz
06 · What It Really Costs and What Actually Goes Wrong (5 lessons · 1 quiz)
  • Costing a Single Trade: Every Charge, Line by Line9 minute
  • Time Decay in Plain English: Why Waiting Costs You11 minute
  • How Beginners Actually Lose Money: Five Recurring Patterns9 minute
  • The 91% Number: What SEBI's Data Actually Says9 minute
  • Tax on Options in India: What a First-Timer Must Know9 minute
  • Costs, Decay and Risk — Check Your Understandingquiz
07 · Mindset, Risk and Your First Ninety Days (5 lessons · 1 quiz)
  • Risk Capital: The Money You Can Genuinely Afford to Lose9 minute
  • Position Sizing: The Arithmetic That Keeps You in the Game8 minute
  • The Four Psychological Traps, and How Each One Feels8 minute
  • Your Trading Plan and Journal: One Page and Six Fields9 minute
  • Your Next Ninety Days: From Here to the Options Playbook9 minute
  • Risk, Mindset and Your First Steps — Check Your Understandingquiz
⚠ IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER — Please Read Before Enrolling This course is designed strictly for educational and informational purposes . It does not constitute investment advice, portfolio management services, or a solicitation to buy or sell any securities. GWCINDIA WealthED is not providing personalised financial or tax advice. All examples, calculations, and case studies are illustrative only and based on historical data — past performance is not indicative of future results. Investing in securities markets is subject to market risks; please read all related scheme information documents carefully before investing. Always consult a SEBI-registered Investment Adviser or Chartered Accountant for personalised advice. Legal/compliance reviewed: this disclaimer must be retained in its entirety.