Seminars

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.

Options for Portfolio Management & Institutional Investors Course

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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Investment Portfolio Strategy Series - Sponsored by MoneyBlock

Join Marty Kearney, Director of The Options Institute at CBOE, Tim Biggam, MoneyBlock's Chief Market Strategist, Brian Stutland, Managing Member of Stutland Volatility Group, and Mike Cavanaugh of RCM Wealth Advisors, as they discuss how advisors are using various options strategies to manage client portfolios...

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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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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

BEYOND THE BASICS - Option Strategies & Risk Management Techniques JUNE 20 - 21, 2013 ONLINE ONLY! Ready to move beyond the fundamentals of buying and selling calls or puts? In this 2-day live, online only seminar you'll be able to do just that! Gain perspective on both directional and non-directional approaches to option trading and explore more advanced strategies including time spreads, diagonal spreads and iron-butterflies...

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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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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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Just a Tour

Take a 45 minute Tour of the CBOE.

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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.