Greeks and Volatility
Understanding the Greeks can increase your understanding of options and their inherent risks.
Introducing the Greeks: Your Options Dashboard
Learn how Delta, Gamma, Theta and Vega each map to a component of a car's dashboard — speed, acceleration, fuel and weather — and why tracking all four is essential to understanding what drives an option's price.
0:00 Introduction: Visual Learning with Greeks
1:22 Your Car's Dashboard as Greeks
1:36 Delta: The Speedometer
1:52 Gamma: The Accelerator
1:59 Theta: The Fuel Gauge
2:16 Vega: Driving Conditions
2:28 Weather as Volatility
3:40 Understanding Delta Percentage
Register to view the complete Greeks Overview: A Fast-Track Guide to the Fundamentals webinar: https://bit.ly/3Q38gBV.
Netting the Greeks
"When we turn a short option into a spread, we are reducing our profits, but we're also reducing our losses." Learn the significance of the Greeks in this hypothetical scenario.
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The Effects of the Greeks
Explore how changes in Theta and Vega affect this options strategy.
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The Full Greeks Dashboard: Putting It All Together
See how Delta, Gamma, Theta and Vega work together in a single trade, and test your knowledge with two audience scenarios — including why relying on delta alone is like driving while ignoring your fuel gauge, accelerator and the weather.
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The Greeks as a Function of Time
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Selling the Greeks
Learn how investors might use the Greeks to understand theoretical changes in option's prices.
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Option Greeks as a Dashboard
In this video, Mat will use metaphor to summarize the Greeks as the building blocks of optionality.
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Special Event II: Mathless Greeks
During this rebroadcasted webinar, OIC instructor Mat Cashman looks at the Greeks through a different lens using metaphor to better understand the option Greeks as the building blocks of optionality.
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5 Options Greeks for Next-Level Traders
When you understand the value of options Greeks – and the benefit they can bring investors and traders – you’ll be taking the next steps towards a better understanding of how options can work for you.
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Demystifying the Greeks
No matter where an investor is on their options journey, having a firm grasp of the Greeks is fundamental.
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The Greeks I: Delta, Gamma and Theta
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The Greeks II: Vega, Rho and Second-Order Greeks
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The Greeks: Theta, Vega and Rho
This rebroadcast from the OIC webinar program will explain in detail the Greeks: Theta, Vega and Rho, and how each of them influence option prices.
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Understanding the Option Greeks
Tune in for an overview of Delta, Gamma, Theta, Vega and Rho.
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