Options Handbook
Your plain-English reference for every options term, no jargon, no fluff.
Fundamentals
The Greeks
Pricing & Valuation
- Binomial Model
- Black-Scholes Model
- Dividend Dates
- Dividend Risk
- Early Exercise
- Earnings Season
- Ex-Dividend Date
- Expiration Cycle
- Fair Value
- IV Percentile
- IV Rank
- Moneyness
- Monthly Options
- Option Pricing Factors
- Option Settlement
- Pin Risk
- Quarterly Options
- Term Structure
- Time Decay
- Time Value
- Volatility Surface
- Weekly Options
Spreads
- Assignment
- Backspread
- Bear Call Spread
- Bear Put Spread
- Box Spread
- Bull Call Spread
- Bull Put Spread
- Butterfly Spread
- Calendar Spread
- Closing a Position
- Condor Spread
- Diagonal Spread
- Exercise
- Iron Butterfly
- Iron Condor
- Opening a Position
- Poor Man's Covered Call
- Ratio Spread
- Reverse Calendar Spread
- Rolling an Option
- Spread (General)
- Vertical Spread
Income & Directional
- Bracket Order
- Cash-Secured Put
- Covered Call
- Covered Strangle
- Day Order
- Exercise & Assignment
- GTC Order
- LEAPS
- LEAPS Calls
- LEAPS Puts
- Long Call
- Long Call Spread
- Long Put
- Long Put Spread
- Monthly Income
- Naked Call
- Naked Put
- Risk Reversal (Bearish)
- Risk Reversal (Bullish)
- Selling Premium
- Short Call
- Short Put
- Synthetic Long
- Synthetic Short
- The Wheel Strategy
Volatility & Hedging
- Collar
- Dynamic Hedging
- Earnings Volatility
- Fill or Kill
- Hedging Costs
- Index Put Hedge
- IV Crush
- Long Straddle
- Long Strangle
- Married Put
- Portfolio Hedge
- Protective Put
- Put Spread Hedge
- Short Straddle
- Short Strangle
- Straddle
- Strangle
- Tail Risk Hedge
- VIX Calls
- VIX Options
- VIX Puts
- Volatility Crush
- Volatility Expansion
- Zero Cost Collar
Risk & Psychology
- Breakeven Point
- Confirmation Bias
- Discipline
- Edge
- Expectancy
- Fear & Greed
- FOMO
- Loss Aversion
- Maintenance Margin
- Margin Call
- Margin Requirements
- Maximum Loss
- Maximum Profit
- Overtrading
- Portfolio Margin
- Position Bias
- Position Sizing
- Profit Target
- Revenge Trading
- Risk Reward Ratio
- Risk Tolerance
- Stop Loss
- Trade Journal
- Trading Plan
- Value at Risk (VaR)
Technical & Economics
- Bear Market
- Bollinger Bands
- Bull Market
- Candlestick Patterns
- Chart Patterns
- Dividend
- Dividend Yield
- Earnings
- Earnings Per Share (EPS)
- Federal Funds Rate
- Fibonacci Retracement
- Ichimoku
- Inflation
- Interest Rates
- MACD
- Market Correction
- Market Crash
- Moving Average
- Pivot Points
- Price to Earnings (P/E)
- Recession
- RSI
- Stochastic
- Support & Resistance
- Trend