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ODDS Online Coaching

8 Modules 34 Chapters 313 Lessons We Make Options Easy

About this course

Our vision has always been to make options easy. To make a tool that lets any investor find a trade with almost no effort. But also with scientific intelligence that elevates trading to a new level of precision and accuracy. With ODDS Online, our vision is now your reality.

The most successful people in every field have had coaches or mentors who act as a springboard to greater success. And we think you deserve the same kind of support now. So we launched an all-new group coaching program devoted to helping ODDS Online customers for a fraction of what most coaching programs cost. (Live Coaching is valued at $416 per month, included FREE with your subscription.)

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Course Structure

3 Chapters

Getting Started

Learn to Navigate the Features of ODDS Online 6 Lessons

Basic Navigation & Strategy Wizard

Charts

Option Chain

Scanning the Market

Getting Raw Data

Saving Trades & Creating Watchlists

Five Quick Paths to a Trade 5 Lessons

How to find trade when I Know the Stock & I Know the Strategy

How to find trade when I Know the Strategy, But I Don't Know the Stock

How to find trade when I Know the Stock, But I Don't Know the Strategy

How to find trade when I Don't Know the Stock or the Strategy

How to find trade when I Know Exactly What I Want

Helpful Videos 3 Lessons

Best Practices

How does the MDM graph help me find the best price? Part 1

How does the MDM graph help me find the best price? Part 2 FOV

2 Chapters

Join the Live Coaching Session at 2 pm ET When the Market is Open

Join the Live Coaching Session 1 Lesson

Held At 2pm ET Daily When The Market Is Open

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Need Help Joining the Live Session? 4 Lessons

Webex Help & Tutorial

Video Instruction For Entering Webex Meeting Using Windows

Video Instruction For Entering Webex Meeting Using Mac

Video Instruction For Entering Webex Meeting Using IOS Devices

3 Chapters

2021 Recorded Coaching Sessions

January 19 Lessons

1/4/21 First New Trade of the Year Evaluation

1/5/21 Review of 2020 trades.

1/6/21 The Process I Use to Find High Probability Credit Spreads.

1/7/21 Comparing Short Put and Credit Spreads as Income Strategies

1/8/21 Evaluating a call trade

1/11/21 My process for finding straddle trades

1/12/21 New trade evaluations

1/13/21 New Credit Spread and Review open trades

1/14/21 Searching Highest Probability Trades in ODDS Online

1/15/21 Evaluating NIO for a Straddle Trade

1/19/21 When do you exit? (multiple strategies)

1/20/21 When you see something unusual "Ask Why? Before You Try!" to exploit it.

1/21/21 Index Credit Spread Evaluation

1/22/21 Credit Spread Exit

1/25/21 New Credit Spread & Why might we exit early this week?

1/26/21 Why exit credit spreads and not straddles before FOMC meeting?

1/27/21 Evaluating Credit Spreads

1/28/21 What is the MOST important thing?

1/29/21 Timing Volatility for Credit Spreads

February 18 Lessons

2/1/21 What is implied borrow rate?

2/2/21 Evaluating Call & Put trades

2/3/21 How do you exit trades gracefully on expiration?

2/4/21 Quick rule for credit spread entry price

2/5/20 What do you do when prices move overnight?

2/8/21 How do you find Straddle trades?

2/9/21 Implied Volatility & Credit Spreads

2/10/21 How do you analyze Iron Condors?

2/11/21 Evaluating an Index Credit Spread

2/12/21 When should you use in-the-money debit spreads?

2/16/21 How can you find stocks that are being heavily shorted in ODDS online?

2/17/21 Evaluating a Credit Spread

2/18/21 How do Risk Free Trades Work?

2/19/21 Straddle rules, Old and New

2/22/21 Why would I take a low probability trade?

2/23/21 How to adjust a credit spread when it moves overnight?

2/24/21 How do you use the Strategy Wizard to find trades based on your future expectations?

2/26/21 How to you handle credit spreads when the stock moves against your position?

March 1 Lesson

3/1/21 How do you analyze a call trade?

5 Lessons

Downloads

ODDS Coaching Trade Journal

Combining Hedge Fund Straddles & Ask/Value Decile 1 Scans

Combining Ask/Value Decile 10 & Volatility Percentile Scans

Trade Plan Template

What Are Options Free Probability Calculator

1 Lesson

Links

Anticipating Uncertainty: Straddles Around Earnings Announcements

12 Chapters

2020 Recorded Coaching Sessions (Archives)

January 4 Lessons

1/7/20 Selecting Credit Spread Expiration dates and when is the best time to enter

1/14/20 What if prices change from last night to the open? Straddle homework

1/21/20 Parity & Risk Free Trades, Stocks to Avoid

1/28/20 Credit Spreads & Selling Strategies, Don Comments On Market Fragility

February 4 Lessons

2/4/20 Finding good trades is more important than finding a trade

2/11/20 Why TSLA was so expensive but you couldn't find a selling strategy to use.

2-18-20 Process for Buying Calls and discussion about when Covered Calls work

2/25/20 Process for Iron Condors/Butterfly's and Discussion about moving from technical analysis on stock to options trading

March (Started Daily Coaching Sessions to Help During The Pandemic) 12 Lessons

3/3/20 Why not Puts right now? Debit Spread Process

3/10/20 Why are deciles small in wild market? What do I need to know about exit?

3/16/20 Introduction

3/17/20 Stress testing Credit spreads & a visit from Don

3/18/20 Comparing Strategies in ODDS Online, Call Credit Spread & Buy Put

3/19/20 Put Credit Spreads vs Call Credit Spreads

3/20/20 Exiting your Options Trades Which Way Is Best

3/24/20 Finding Credit Spreads and stress testing them

3/25/20 Finding credit spreads and Introducing new beta feature Volatility Maps

3/27/20 Discussed Liquidity, Adjusting Credit Spreads, & Leveraged Directional Trades

3/30/20 covered leaps, and questions for you

3/31/20 Strategy Wizard for Credit Spreads

April 21 Lessons

4/1/20 Exiting trades that move against you, and Finding new Credit Spread Trades

4/2/20 Abnormal Probability Where Does it Come From? & Credit Spreads Vince's Way

4/3/20 Credit Spreads and Stress Testing

4/6/20 Credit Spreads and using the Profit/Loss Graph, Thank you for the help Pat!

4/7/20 Why Put Credit Spreads not Calls?

4/8/20 Credit Spreads & Expected Return

4/9/20 When to Buy Options When to Sell them

4/13/20 Using the Class Trade Journal & Assignment Risk Selling Credit Spreads

4/14/20 Term Structure & Expiration Dates

4/15/20 Let Implied Volatility Tell You What to Trade & When

4/16/20 Thinking for Non-Directional Options Strategies, Why Sell Puts Not Calls

4/17/20 Using the Strategy Wizard for Credit Spreads

4/20/20 How to manage exercise risk in a credit spread

4/21/20 How do you decide to adjust a credit spread when the market moves

4/22/20 How to select the right strike in a credit spread & How to submit homework

4/23/20 How to handle overlapping credit spreads & Option Pain Graph

4/24/20 Volatility Cones & Term Structure graphs, Diagonal Credit Spreads

4/27/20 Term Structure Change in SPY & the reason why straddles are not the right strategy for high volatility markets

4/28/20 How does the historical profit/loss graph & HRH work?

4/29/20 Open Interest in the filters & Negative FOV

4/30/20 Expected Return

May 20 Lessons

5/1/20 Credit Spread Exit & Defending a Trade That Moves Against You

5/4/20 Which implied volatility do you use for probability and what target price?https://vimeo.com/415254824

5/5/20 Reading the mind of the market to select the right strategy at the right time

5/6/20 Another High Volatility Strategy Debit Spreads

5/7/20 Using & Understanding FOV and FOViv

5/8/20 Weekend Effect and Market's Reaction to News

5/11/20 What happens after the options expire?

5/12/20 What should I know about after hours trading

5/13/20 Defending a long call trade

5/14/20 Evaluating Credit Spreads on Stocks

5/15/20 Find a way to let the probability play out. This is why

5/18/20 Using FOViv to evaluate your trades

5/19/20 Evaluating Covered Calls & Short Puts

5/20/20 Finding Debit Spreads and Understanding Implied Borrow Rate

5/21/20 Term Structure & Academic Scan For Term Structure Slope

5/22/20 Custom Term Structure Scanning

5/26/20 Debit Spreads

5/27/20 Scanning for Cheap Options on Flat Stocks and Scanning for High Volatility Stocks with Expensive Options

5/28/20 continued... Scanning High Volatility Stocks

5/29/20 Your Credit Spreads

June 22 Lessons

6/1/20 What do flags mean and where to I get the list of symbols for sectors in the strategy wizard

6/2/20 Evaluating Covered Calls, Unusual Trades and Dispersion Trading

6/3/20 Evaluating Straddle Trades

6/4/20 How you might use ODDS Online to find a Diagonal Trade

6/5/20 Strategy Wizard Forecaster

6/8/20 Using the Profit Loss Graph To Adjust Prices Before Market Opens

6/9/20 Back testing ability of ODDS Online

6/10/20 Volatility as Indicator & Defending a Credit Spread

6/11/20 Why is Volatility Up Today? Adjusting Trades When The Market Makes Big Moves Overnight

6/12/20 Finding Debit Spreads

6/15/20 Collars vs Call Debit Spreads

6/16/20 How would you find a Back Spread trade in ODDS Online?

6/17/20 Using Dispersion Trading to Win in All Markets

6/18/20 Evaluating News for Profits

6/19/20 Does Quadruple Witching Day Really Cause Increased Volatility?

6/22/20 How Does Information Influence Stock and Options Prices?

6/23/20 How do I start my daily process for finding a trade?

6/24/20 New investors are trading options. Why? Because of the Huge Benefits!

6/25/20 Challenge News Headlines to find the truth before you make investing decisions.

6/26/20 Exiting Credit Spreads in a Volatile Market

6/29/20 What is a Black Swan?

6/30/20 Building a Trade Plan and Defining a Good Trade for You.

July 21 Lessons

7/1/20 Evaluating Trades from Other Sources.

7/2/20 What Makes ODDS Online So Valuable?

7/6/20 What is Option Delta & How Can I Make Money With It?

7/7/20 If you hate to lose, watch this video. Learn how to recover when a high probability index put credit spread loses.

7/8/20 You're not just beating average professionals. You're beating the elite pros during a crisis.

7/10/20 Stocks have Personality and Moods. Learning to read the mood can make you money.

7/13/20 Why is Options Information Better than Stock Information?

7/14/20 What does a good trade look like?

7/15/20 Avoiding Outcome Bias

7/16/20 What is the best way to get filled on class trades?

7/17/20 Exiting American Style Delivery Settled vs. European Style Cash Settled options

7/20/20 Earnings Reports and their effect on our favorite options strategies.

7/21/20 Finding ATM options in strategy wizard.

7/22/20 Do Bid/Ask Spread Spreads Concern You?

7/23/20 Straddles vs directional trades.

7/24/20 My Criteria for Straddles and Call Debit Spreads.

7/27/20 What are options? What are their benefits?

7/28/20 What are Call Options? When should I consider them? How do I use ODDS Online to Find Potential Covered Leaps?

7/29/20 What is a Straddle?

7/30/20 What is a Put?

7/31/20 What are Debit Spreads?

August 18 Lessons

8/3/20 What are Vertical Credit Spreads?

8/4/20 What is a Covered Call?

8/5/20 How do you exit an option trade?

8/6/20 Why trade using neutral strategies?

8/10/20 Implied Volatility is Nearing the 4-Year Average

8/12/20 Straddle Questions

8/13/20 Why Should You Understand Volatility?

8/14/20 What should ODDS Online Be Used For?

8/18/20 Using VIX & Finding Straddles

8/19/20 The #1 Challenge for New Options Traders

8/20/20 Finding Call Trades

8/21/20 News Article: "Fear Fading" Makes Credit Spreads More Difficult to Find

8/24/20 Introduction for new students & explanation of Stocks to Avoid

8/25/20 Submitting Trades for Review Using the Trade Journal

8/26/20 How do I work up a straddle trade on SPCE.

8/27/20 Why do we prefer Put Credit Spreads?

8/28/20 Exiting Credit Spreads & other Options

8/31/20 How do you know if a straddle is cheap enough?

September 21 Lessons

9/1/20 Are high probability trades "Pie in the Sky?"

9/2/20 Understanding Gamma (& Delta)

9/3/20 Using Probability Cones to Roll

9/4/20 Understanding Skew, & Naked Puts vs Credit Spreads

9/8/20 How to work with Strategy Wizard when nothing shows up.

9/9/20 Use ODDS Online to evaluate trades from other sources.

9/10/20 Learn to Read the Mind of the Market

9/11/20 Credit Spread Efficiency & Evaluating Strategies With Similar Risk, & Probability

9/14/20 Adjusting Credit Spreads that have changed in price and probability.

9/15/20 How to compare strategies while balancing risk, probability with reward potential.

9/16/20 Using the Ask/Value Scan to find stocks with Cheap or Expensive Options

9/17/20 How do you find a straddle trade?

9/18/20 Steps for Finding a Credit Spread

9/21/20 Process for finding Short Puts.

9/22/20 Diversifying Credit Spreads and Rolling Options to Take Profits

9/23/20 Using Probability Cones & Butterfly Spreads

9/24/20 How do I use the Hedge Fund, Ask/Value lists from the community.

9/25/20 Scanning Option Volume, and Risk/Margin on Short Puts.

9/28/20 Volatility Expectations

9/29/20 Straddle Exit & Hedge Fund Straddle Criteria

9/30/20 How do you choose a trade when you have more than one good option?

October 19 Lessons

10/1/20 Stocks to Avoid & What can I do with a negative expected return?

10/2/20 Dealing with changes in data from the time of research to the time of execution.

10/5/20 Is AAPL a good straddle candidate? How do you use FOViv?

10/6/20 Buying Straddles

10/7/20 Option Valuation

10/8/20 More on Valuation

10/9/20 What's wrong with a TNDM straddle?

10/12/20 Buying Stock vs Synthetic Position

10/13/20 Iron Condors & Debit Spreads

10/14/20 Straddle review on JPM

10/16/20 Iron Condors and Trade Exits

10/19/20 SPY Term Structure

10/20/20 Event Risk

10/21/20 Event Risk Continued

10/22/20 Straddle Case Study: Example of a compelling reason to take a trade

10/23/20 How much do I need to trade for a living?

10/26/20 Straddles vs Strangles

10/28/20 How do you find the right price for a credit spread?

10/29/20 Election Volatility

November 15 Lessons

11/2/20 How do you determine volatility extremes?

11/3/20 Straddle questions

11/4/20 Finding a Call or Put trade using Ask/Value Scan

11/5/20 How do you deal with price gaps on end of day data?

11/9/20 Evaluating Credit Spreads

11/11/20 How do I find options that are cheap in my watch list?

11/12/20 How do you evaluate a call trade using ODDS Online?

11/13/20 How to adjust for credit spreads when market moves overnight.

11/16/20 Evaluating a Straddle on AAP

11/17/20 Evaluating Submitted Credit Spread Trades.

11/19/20 Calculating Probability

11/20/20 Finding calls and puts

11/23/20 Calculating Expected Return

11/24/20 What happens to a credit spread when the stock splits?

11/30/20 Trading Credit Spreads Opportunistically Part 1

December 17 Lessons

12/1/20 Trading Credit Spreads Opportunistically Part 2

12/2/20 How do you stress test credit spreads?

12/3/20 Evaluating a Straddle Trade

12/4/20 Why to we need a big credit when we have a 90% probability?

12/7/20 Understanding ODDS Online Data

12/8/20 Strategy Checklists

12/10/20 How is Borrow Rate Determined & What does Rolling Up mean?

12/11/20 Finding Bryan's Credit Spread Trade

12/14/20 Does Volatility Tell Us About Direction?

12/15/20 How do you set the filters in the strategy wizard?

12/16/20 Evaluating a credit spread trade

12/17/20 What is OPI and how to evaluate stock data for straddles?

12/18/15 Straddle Exit

12/28/20 Trades Update & allocation question.

12/29/20 Credit Spread Evaluation.

12/30/20 What are fundamental reasons to not do a straddle trade? How do you find them?

12/31/20 Review of 2020 Class Trade Journal

12 Chapters

2019 Recorded Coaching Sessions (Archives)

January 4 Lessons

1/8/19 Finding Weeklys and Lots of Questions

1/15/19 Questions about FOV

1/22/19 How I find Straddles & Questions

1/29/19 Probability on Puts and Calls, Questions

February 4 Lessons

2/5/19 Straddles, Volatility and Questions

2/12/19 Alternative Strategies, New Time for Classes, Forum Announcement

2/19/19 Early Exercise Questions & New Forum

2/26/19 VVIX, Straddles, & Questions

March 4 Lessons

3/5/19 Straddle Finding & Market Psychology

3/12/19 Straddle Finding by Ask/Value Scan

3/19/19 Finding Straddles

3/26/19 Exiting a Trade

April 5 Lessons

4/2/19 Implied Borrow Rate & Questions

4/9/19 Using Term Structure Charts to Select Expirations

4/16/19 Time Value, Exit Strategy, & FOV IV

4/23/19 Credit Spreads in a Low Volatility Market

4/30/19 Don's Visit to Class to Introduce FOV IV

May 4 Lessons

5/7/19 Credit Spreads and Volatility

5/14/19 Straddle Exit and Credit Spread Entry

5/21/19 Probability & Debit Spreads

5/28/19 Straddle Exit

June 4 Lessons

6/4/19 Credit Spreads & MDM Charts

6/11/19 Credit Spreads & Straddles

6/18/19 Credit Spreads

6/25/19 Straddle Breakeven Points & Determining The Best Way to Exit

July 5 Lessons

7/2/19 Implied Volatility, IV Percentile & IV Rank

7/9/19 Using Options for Earnings Play

7/16/19 Selecting Straddle Expirations

7/23/19 Using ODDS Online to figure out the answer to the question, Why?

7/30/19 Finding a Straddle Process Start to Finish

August 3 Lessons

8/6/19 Finding a Credit Spread Trade

8/20/19 Balancing Risk, Reward & Probability, Find Out Everything You Can About an Asset Before You Trade It

8/27/19 Covered Calls and Alternatives

September 4 Lessons

9/3/19 Risk Free Trades

9/10/19 Implied Borrow Rate & using Strategy Wizard

9/17/19 When to use Iron Condor credit spreads

9/24/19 Straddle Exit & Taming Emotions

October 4 Lessons

10/1/19 Having Reasonable Expectations & Using Tools Wisely

10/8/19 Credit Spreads and What to look for on MDM chart for a credit spread

10/22/19 Covered Calls and Strategy Wizard Results

10/29/19 Questions for you and a straddle trade.

November 4 Lessons

11/5/19 Why add Probability Analysis to Your Investing

11/12/19 How to achieve your investing goals

11/19/19 Defending Credit Spreads When They Move Against You

11/26/19 Follow up questions from last week & Finding Straddles

December 4 Lessons

12/3/19 Finding Credit Spread Trades

12/10/19 Finding Straddles and how to decide about going past earnings

12/17/19 Developing a Process for finding trades. (Straddles)

12/31/19 Last class of the year

2 Chapters

2018 Recorded Coaching Sessions (Archives)

November 4 Lessons

11/6/18 Covered Calls and Naked Puts

11/13/18 Straddles & Record Keeping

11/20/18 Strategy Section & Profit/Loss Graphs

11/27/18 Time Value & Time Decay

December 3 Lessons

12/4/18 Questions and First Homework Done

12/11/18 Updates & Balancing Risk, Reward & Probability

12/18/18 Finding the Sweet Spot with MDM Charts

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