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October 2023

OIC 2023 Educational Series: Volatility, Ratio Spreads, and Index Trading

During the fourth quarter, The Options Industry CouncilSM (OIC) will conclude its 2023 webinar program with a series of new instructor led presentations covering three separate options investing topics: implied volatility, ratio spreads, and index trading. 

Two sessions are scheduled each month. In October, OIC will review volatility related topics. The first webinar will focus on pricing and implied volatility and the second webinar of the month will navigate options skew. For November, ratio spreads will be the theme with an overview of the stock repair strategy in webinar one and a review of front and back spreads later in the month. Finally, the December series will feature index trading. The first session of the December series will compare equity options with index options while the second session will discuss volatility indices. 

Every OIC webinar is open to all current and future investors to attend at no cost. As always, each session is led by an OIC instructor with industry experience who will discuss both the potential benefits and the risks of investing with options. 

Registration is required to attend all OIC presentations and signing up is quick. Plus, registration includes access to the entire library of past webinars on demand. Once registered, it is convenient for investors to learn about all the option investing topics that were covered previously by OIC instructors.  

Visit the OIC events page on the OptionsEducation.org website to register for a webinar. 

To help investors prepare in advance for the fourth quarter webinar topics, explore OptionsEducation.org. The OIC website offers options related courses, detailed strategy pages, videos, podcasts and much more. The following links are especially useful for the fourth quarter webinar series: 

OCC Learning (Option Courses)
Options Volatility - Forecasting the Unknown 

Volatility & the Greeks (Concept Review) 

Stock Repair - Covered Ratio Spread (Strategy Highlight) 

Equity vs. Index Options (Concept Review)