Options Mastery Curriculum

Learn Options Trading Online, From Fundamentals to Advanced Strategies

A structured options trading curriculum that grows with your understanding of the market.

Options trading involves more than choosing calls and puts. Understanding time decay, implied volatility, the Greeks, risk graphs and strategy adjustments can help you understand how options behave under different market conditions.

The OptionTiger curriculum takes you through these concepts in stages, from the fundamentals to spreads, advanced strategies and specialised MAX systems.

Whether you’re beginning your options education or looking to study more complex strategies, explore the curriculum that matches your current level.

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The Curriculum

One Curriculum. Four Stages of Learning.

Build your understanding progressively, from the mechanics of options to more advanced strategy structures.

Options Beginner Curriculum

Understand the fundamentals before moving to complex strategies.

The Beginner Curriculum introduces the concepts that explain how options work, how their value changes and how traders evaluate potential risk and reward.

What you'll study

The history of options and their mathematical foundations
Call options and put options
Time decay, implied volatility and the Greeks
Risk graphs and options moneyness
In-the-money and out-of-the-money options
Live trade examples and demonstrations

$29715 courses

Ideal for learners who want to understand the mechanics of options before exploring more complex strategies.

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Options Intermediate Curriculum

Move from individual options to spreads.

Once you understand the fundamentals, the next step is learning how multiple options can be combined into a strategy. This curriculum explores spread structures, the market views they can represent and how positions may need to be adjusted as conditions change.

What you'll study

Bull Call and Bear Call spreads
Bull Put and Bear Put spreads
Spread structures and their potential applications
Spread adjustments and options simulations
Technical analysis and volume analysis
The VIX Index and its relevance to options
Live examples and spread-adjustment demonstrations

$29714 courses

Designed for learners ready to explore spread strategies and understand how different positions behave under changing market conditions.

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Options Advanced Curriculum

Explore multi-leg strategies and complex market scenarios.

The Advanced Curriculum builds on the Beginner and Intermediate modules, introducing strategies that involve more moving parts and require a deeper understanding of risk.

What you'll study

Iron Condors and Butterflies
Backspreads and other advanced structures
Futures and options on futures
Hedging concepts
Straddles and Strangles
Volatility-related strategy considerations
Live trade examples and demonstrations

$29714 courses

Suitable for learners who already understand basic options and spreads and want to study more advanced structures.

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Explore nine specialised MAX systems for advanced options strategies.

The Options Mastery Curriculum takes your learning into specialised strategy frameworks, covering calendars and diagonals, Iron Condors, weekly options, trade adjustments, earnings-related volatility, ETFs, swing trading, intraday trading, and income-oriented spreads and straddles.

Each MAX system includes several hours of educational content, with live trades and adjustments featured in the course material. Each system focuses on a distinct approach to options trading.

$197per system · 9 MAX systems

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Options Mastery

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Nine specialised systems, each focused on a distinct strategy area or trading approach.

CalendarMAXCalendar and Diagonal Strategies

Study calendar and diagonal spreads and how their characteristics can be used when planning shorter-term options strategies.

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CondorMAXIron Condor Strategies

Explore the Iron Condor strategy, common challenges associated with managing Iron Condor positions, and approaches to trade adjustments.

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WeeklyMAXWeekly Options Strategies

Learn about weekly options strategies and how traders approach shorter-duration opportunities through strategy selection and trade management.

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AdjustMAXTrade Adjustments

Study the philosophy and techniques behind adjusting options positions, including how adjustments can become part of managing a trade as market conditions change.

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EarningsMAXEarnings and Volatility

Explore options strategies around earnings announcements, focusing on volatility expansion and volatility contraction and how these events may influence strategy selection.

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ETFMAXOptions on Exchange-Traded Funds

Learn about ETFs and how their characteristics differ from individual stocks. Explore considerations that may influence options strategy selection when trading ETF-related products.

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SwingTradeMAXSwing Trading System

Explore a chart-based trading system focused on swing trades that typically span one to three weeks. Study how this timeframe differs from intraday trading.

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DayTradeMAXIntraday Trading System

Study an intraday trading system built around trades that may last from a few minutes to several hours, with some positions potentially carried over.

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IncomeMAXSpreads & Straddles

Explore debit spreads for directional exposure and credit spreads for probability-based trade structures, alongside options strategies involving straddles.

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Find Your Level

Which Options Trading Course Is Right for You?

You don't need to start with the most advanced material. Choose the stage that aligns with what you already understand.

Your current level	Recommended curriculum	What you'll study
New to options	Beginner	Calls, puts, Greeks, volatility and risk graphs
Understand the basics	Intermediate	Spreads, adjustments and strategy structures
Comfortable with spreads	Advanced	Multi-leg strategies, volatility and hedging concepts
Ready for specialised techniques	Mastery	Nine MAX systems covering specialised strategy approaches

If you're unsure where to begin, start with the Beginner Curriculum. A strong understanding of the underlying concepts makes the later modules easier to follow.

Practical Learning

What Makes the Curriculum Useful Beyond Theory?

Reading about a strategy and understanding how it behaves in a market scenario are two different things. OptionTiger's curriculum combines explanations of key concepts with live trade examples and demonstrations across its modules.

Understand the mechanics

Learn how options pricing, time decay, implied volatility and the Greeks relate to the behaviour of a position.

Compare strategy structures

Study how calls, puts, spreads and multi-leg strategies differ in their construction and risk characteristics.

Examine trade adjustments

Explore how a strategy may need to be reviewed when the underlying price, volatility or time remaining changes.

Build your technical understanding

Study technical analysis, volume analysis, the VIX Index and chart-based concepts covered in the relevant modules.

Options Risk GraphIron Condor · Expiration P/L

The goal is to help you understand the reasoning behind a strategy—not simply memorise its name or construction.

Who It's For

Options Trading Education for U.S. and Canadian Learners

OptionTiger's educational material covers options concepts and strategies relevant to learners studying the U.S. options market.

For learners in the United States

The curriculum provides a structured way to study options fundamentals, spreads, advanced strategies and specialised techniques.

For Canadian learners

Canadian learners interested in U.S. options can also explore online options education. Before applying a strategy, consider the rules, tax implications, brokerage requirements and product availability relevant to your location.

Whether you're looking for an online options trading course to build your foundation or advanced stock options strategies to study in greater depth, start with the curriculum level that matches your experience.

Course access does not establish brokerage eligibility or suitability for a particular financial product.

Hari Swaminathan

Founder, OptionTiger

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Founder

Meet Hari Swaminathan, Founder of OptionTiger

A focus on making complex options concepts easier to understand

Hari Swaminathan is the founder of OptionTiger and an educator in options and financial markets. His work includes options education, proprietary trading methodologies and analytical tools designed to help traders study market behaviour.

His academic background includes an engineering degree from the College of Engineering, Pune, and MBA qualifications from Columbia University and London Business School.

Through the OptionTiger curriculum, Hari teaches options concepts ranging from foundational mechanics to complex strategies and specialised trade-management approaches.

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Flexible Learning

Learn at Your Own Pace

Options concepts can take more than one viewing to understand. Revisiting a lesson can help you work through a risk graph, compare strategy structures or review a demonstration at your own pace.

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Lifetime access

Purchased courses remain available to revisit, so you can return to a lesson whenever a concept needs another look.

Email support

Reach out with questions and clarifications as you work through the material.

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Member privileges

Members may have access to eligible OptionTiger product offers, newsletters and market analysis, subject to the applicable membership terms.

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Bonus webinars and education

Additional webinars and educational sessions that go deeper into markets, strategies and trading frameworks.

Subscription Plans

Explore the Silver and Gold Plans

If you want access to multiple learning modules, OptionTiger also offers subscription plans that combine educational content with other products and services.

Most Advanced

Gold Plan

$299 / month

Everything in the Silver Plan, plus elite custom indicators on the global TradingView platform.

Multi Time Frame Indicator (Value $2497)
CustomRSI (Value $997)
Day Trading Watchlist Indicator (Value $497)
Swing and Long Term Watchlist indicator (Value $497)
All indicators on Global TradingView platform
Works in all major country markets

• Monthly: $299/mo

• 6 Months: $1297 ($216/mo)

• Annual: $1997 ($166/mo)

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Silver Plan

$199 / month

Everything in the Basic Plan, plus core curriculum modules and signal subscriptions.

Options Beginners Bundle (Value $297)
Options Intermediate Bundle (Value $297)
Options Advanced Bundle (Value $297)
Options Mastery Bundle (9 MAX Systems) (Value $1700)
Swing Trading Signals subscription (Value $199/mo)
Day Trading Signals subscription (Value $199/mo)

• Monthly: $199/mo

• 6 Months: $997 ($166/mo)

• Annual: $1697 ($141/mo)

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Risk Disclaimer

Futures and options carry risk and may not be suitable for everyone. OptionTiger is an educational platform and is not a financial adviser, investment adviser, or broker.

All stocks, ETFs, commodities, indices, options, and other securities mentioned in OptionTiger courses, alerts, articles, videos, and educational materials are provided for educational and illustrative purposes only.

Past performance does not guarantee future results. Any examples involving returns, margins, profits, losses, or trading strategies are illustrative and should not be interpreted as a promise or prediction of future performance.

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Learn Options Trading Online, From Fundamentals to Advanced Strategies

One Curriculum. Four Stages of Learning.

Options Beginner Curriculum

Options Intermediate Curriculum

Options Advanced Curriculum