Options Trading Course in Lucknow

An option is a contract that gives the buyer the right, but not the obligation, to buy (call) or sell (put) an asset at a fixed strike price before expiry. When you buy shares you own part of a company; with options you trade price movement for a premium, so you can profit, hedge or lose money faster than with shares.

Yes. The course starts with derivatives and option basics such as calls, puts, strike price, premium and expiry, then moves step by step to strategies, adjustments and arbitrage. Basic stock market knowledge helps, and beginners can pair it with our Technical Analysis Course.

The Options Trading course costs ₹20,000 one-time, or ₹25,000 in instalments. It includes 30+ hours of practical training, a free demat account, LMS access, a mobile app, 4 PDF books, 4 PPTs, live case studies and one-year fee validity.

Yes. Learners from Lucknow, including Gomti Nagar, Hazratganj, Aliganj, join our live online batches with the same trainers, live market sessions and doubt-clearing as the classroom batch. Every session is recorded on our LMS.

ISFM’s classroom centre is at Sector-38, Medicity Road, Gurugram (Delhi NCR). For Lucknow, the course runs as live online classes, so you get the full syllabus, live market practice and mentor support without travelling.

Buying options needs only the premium, while selling options needs exchange margin, which is much higher. Since SEBI raised the minimum contract size for index derivatives in November 2024, lot values are larger. We recommend practising on paper or with very small positions first; the course does not tell you how much to invest.

An option buyer pays a premium, has limited risk and needs a strong, quick move to profit, as time decay works against them. An option seller collects premium and benefits from time decay, but carries larger risk and needs margin, so selling is always taught with hedges and defined risk.

The option chain shows premiums, volume and Open Interest for every strike. Rising OI with price signals long build-up, rising OI with falling price signals short build-up, and strikes with the highest call and put OI often act as resistance and support. You will practise reading these on live market data.

Greeks measure how an option price reacts to change: Delta to price, Gamma to change in Delta, Theta to time decay, Vega to volatility and Rho to interest rates. They help you pick strikes, size positions and understand why a premium moves the way it does.

Bullish strategies include long call, bull call spread and bull put spread. Bearish strategies include long put, bear put spread and bear call spread. You will also learn neutral and volatility strategies such as iron condor, iron butterfly, straddle, strangle and calendar spreads.

You start with a market view (bullish, bearish or range-bound), check implied volatility and days to expiry, then choose a strategy that fits. Next you fix strikes, position size, stop-loss and target, and study the payoff chart before entering. The course walks through this process on live examples.

Common adjustments include rolling strikes up, down or to a later expiry, converting a naked position into a spread, adding a hedge leg, or turning a strangle into an iron condor. The course also teaches when not to adjust and simply exit to protect capital.

Arbitrage tries to capture small price differences between related instruments, for example the spot and futures price of a stock, or between calls, puts and futures through put–call parity (conversion and reversal). The returns are small, and brokerage, taxes, margin and slippage can remove them, which the course covers in detail.

You learn position sizing, risk per trade, stop-loss planning, protective puts, spreads that cap risk, and drawdown management, along with a written trading plan and journal. Risk management is part of every strategy module, not a separate afterthought.

The course is led by Sushil Alewa, SEBI Registered Research Analyst (INH100009433), MBA and CFP, with Anil Mor and NISM-certified faculty Yash Anand. It covers much of the NISM Series VIII Equity Derivatives syllabus, and we guide students on exam preparation; the NISM exam fee is paid separately.

No. ISFM is an education provider. We do not give tips, assured returns or investment advice through this course. Options trading carries high risk: a SEBI study (September 2024) found that 93% of individual F&O traders made losses between FY22 and FY24, which is why risk management is central to the syllabus.