If you are considering trading options, this podcast will help you understand some important steps for your first trade and what every investor needs to know to get started. OIC Instructor Peter Lusk from CBOE joins host Joe Burgoyne for the first of this two-part series.

Phil Gocke, Managing Director for OIC and Joe Harwood from OCC's Investor Services speak with host Joe Burgoyne about the collar strategy. This podcast will discuss what the collar strategy entails, how it can be used, as well as the risks and rewards.

Host Joe Burgoyne will cover some important options terminology that every investor should know and then share how an investor would go about finding equity option position limits.

Darren Tait of the OIC Investor Services Help Desk and OIC Instructor Alan Grigoletto cover strategies an investor may want to consider when the market is neutral. They will discuss the ins and outs of various strategies such as the covered call, neutral calendar spread and short straddles and strangles.

OIC Instructor Bo Nobel and Jeff Huddleston from the OIC Investor Services Help Desk discuss naked long and short options. They will discuss what it means to be naked in options trading, the risk-reward profile and how an investor may want to proceed when trading naked options.

Host Joe Burgoyne will discuss the intricacies of options trading in penny increments and whether or not options can be traded on any listed stock.

Darren Tait of the OIC's Investor Services Help Desk and Alan Grigoletto, an OIC Instructor join host Joe Burgoyne in discussing various strategies an investor may want to consider during a bear market. This podcast will cover the risk and rewards of buying calls, selling puts and spread strategies such as vertical bear and ratio spreads.

Host Joe Burgoyne responds to an investor who wants to know how open interest impacts their order and then he will discuss whether an investor can be long and short the exact same option at the same time.

Host Joe Burgoyne and OIC Instructor Peter Lusk discuss two important concepts that every investor should be familiar with – theta risk and volatility. Joe and Peter will cover what these two topics mean and how they interrelate with one another.

OIC Instructor Alan Grigoletto and Darren Tait of OIC's Investor Services Help Desk share their insight on what investors should consider when deciding if options is right for their portfolio. They'll discuss options as a risk management tool, ways it can be used to generate income as well as the risks and rewards of options trading.