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The Options Institute offers seminars according to your level of options knowledge. We offer 1, 2, and 3 Day Basic to Advanced seminars for individual investors, institutional investors, financial advisors and other select audiences. Find a seminar offering that meets your current options trading needs.

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Options Institute Plus - Level 1 Beginner

This 2-day classroom experience plus 10 hours of distance coaching will introduce you to the basics of options and the basics of market timing, stock selection and risk management...

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Options Institute Plus - Level 2 Intermediate

This 2-day classroom experience plus 10 hours of distance coaching will explore strategy analysis and selection, option price behavior, the "Greeks", and several spread strategies...

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The Options Initiative

It is time to know what your options are. Don't let a lack of knowledge keep you from participating in one of the most dynamic securities markets. Now is the time to learn the fundamentals of listed options...

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The Options Intensive

Designed for sophisticated options investors, CBOE's Options Intensive seminar is presented in a "group-live" format where you will explore advanced option concepts including spread trading strategies and implied volatility...

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Investor Training Camp

Heavy hitting names in investing -- Investor's Business Daily® and the Chicago Board Options Exchange® -- are bringing together their "power play" investment tools and "scoring" knowledge of the options market to offer you this doubleheader Investor Training Camp...

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Volatility Modeling and Trading

Volatility trading strategies offer opportunities for many investor types. This seminar is designed to help investment professionals gain knowledge and experience that will aid them in analyzing and developing volatility-related strategies and products...

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Investing and Trading for College Students

Get an up-close look at the financial industry in Chicago and gain insights into how to invest your own money (when the time comes). This 3½-day experience combines presentations from industry professionals, tours of Chicago's major exchanges, visits to trading firms and classroom education that reviews portfolio theory and investing and trading with options and futures both professionally and personally...

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NEW Seminar Series 2012 - Be a Successful Retail Options Trader!

Join us for a NEW seminar series with Dan Sheridan, Sheridan Options Mentoring, and an Instructor from The Options Institute at CBOE to discover the tips and strategies of veteran options traders...

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Options for Portfolio Management & Institutional Investors

This 2-day seminar is designed to increase your understanding of options and how they can be used to achieve portfolio investment objectives such as limiting risk and increasing income...

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The Options Course for Advisors and Planners

This course will provide advisors with an understanding of options, paying particular attention to the concepts, mechanics and intricacies that accompany these powerful tools...

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Trading Options and Managing Positions

This free seminar is designed for all levels of traders who want to improve their ability to select option strategies. The program leads off with a 30-minute discussion of basic options strategies which include covered calls and protecting a portfolio...

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Just a Tour

Join us for a tour of the Chicago Board Options Exchange and get an up close view of the world's largest options trading floor. Experience first hand the fast-paced, frenzied environment of the options marketplace...

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The Options Institute's goal is to expand the knowledge and thereby increase the comfort level of options users. The Institute provides training on how to manage risk in an increasingly complex marketplace through the use of effective options strategies. Classes and seminars for individual investors, retail brokers, institutional investors and Federal and State securities regulators are offered on a regular basis.

The Options Institute (division of The Chicago Board Options Exchange) is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses. Complaints regarding sponsors may be addressed to NASBA, 150 Fourth Avenue North, Suite 700, Nashville, TN 37219-2417, (615) 880-4200.




Options involve risk and are not suitable for all investors. Prior to buying or selling an option, a person must receive a copy of Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options (ODD). Copies of the ODD are available from your broker, by calling 1-888-OPTIONS, or from The Options Clearing Corporation, One North Wacker Drive, Suite 500, Chicago, Illinois 60606. The information on this website is provided solely for general education and information purposes and therefore should not be considered complete, precise, or current. Many of the matters discussed are subject to detailed rules, regulations, and statutory provisions which should be referred to for additional detail and are subject to changes that may not be reflected in the website information. No statement within the website should be construed as a recommendation to buy or sell a security or to provide investment advice. The inclusion of non-CBOE advertisements on the website should not be construed as an endorsement or an indication of the value of any product, service, or website. The Terms and Conditions govern use of this website and use of this website will be deemed acceptance of those Terms and Conditions.