Options are the most powerful — and most misunderstood — instruments in the Indian market. This course takes you from confusion about Greeks to confidently running weekly Nifty strategies, reading the option chain like a professional, and managing risk like a fund manager.
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📅 10 Weeks
🎥 72 Video Lessons
⏱ 32+ Hours Content
📡 Weekly Live Expiry Sessions
🌐 Tamil & English
♾️ Lifetime Access
📡 Live Expiry Sessions
🧮 Greeks Calculator Tool
📊 OI Dashboard Access
📓 Strategy Playbook PDF
💬 Advanced Community
🏆 Certificate
🔄 Free Updates
Last updated: June 2025 · Created by Priya Krishnan
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Prerequisites: Price Action Mastery (Strongly Recommended)
This is our most advanced course. You must understand market structure, candlestick reading, and key levels before working with options. Without that foundation, options will feel like gambling. Complete Price Action Mastery first — then this course will make complete sense.
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The Foundation
The Options Greeks — Demystified
Most options traders lose money because they don't understand what they're buying. Every option contract has five dimensions of risk and opportunity. This course gives you complete fluency in all of them.
Δ
Delta
How much the option price moves for every ₹1 move in the underlying. An ATM option has a Delta of ~0.50 — it captures 50% of the underlying's move.
🎯 Trade Rule: Buy high-delta options for directional plays. Use delta-neutral strategies for range-bound markets.
Γ
Gamma
The rate of change of Delta. High Gamma means your Delta can shift rapidly — especially dangerous near expiry. It's the acceleration of your position.
⚡ Trade Rule: Gamma spikes near expiry. Buyers benefit from Gamma; sellers are exposed to it. Always know your Gamma on Thursdays.
Θ
Theta
Time decay — the amount an option loses in value every passing day. Options buyers fight Theta; sellers harvest it. Theta accelerates as expiry approaches.
⏳ Trade Rule: Never hold long options over weekends. Sell premium when IV is high to collect Theta efficiently.
ν
Vega
How much the option price changes for every 1% change in Implied Volatility. High Vega means the option is very sensitive to IV expansion or crush.
📊 Trade Rule: Buy options before events (high IV expansion potential). Sell before IV crush (post-earnings, post-budget).
ρ
Rho
Sensitivity of the option price to changes in interest rates. The least impactful Greek for short-term Indian traders, but important for long-dated LEAPS positions.
🏦 Trade Rule: Rho matters for long-expiry options. For weekly Nifty trades, focus on the other four Greeks first.
IV
Implied Volatility
The market's expectation of future price movement embedded in option premiums. High IV = expensive options. Low IV = cheap options. The single most important concept for option sellers.
🌡️ Trade Rule: Compare IV to HV (Historical Volatility). Sell when IV > HV. Buy when IV < HV. This one rule changes everything.
Reading the Market's Order Book
The Option Chain — Live Reading
The option chain is the most data-rich view of where institutional money is positioned. This course teaches you to read it fluently — spotting max pain, support walls, and directional bias in minutes.
NIFTY 50 — Weekly Expiry Option Chain
Spot: 24,189CALLSPUTS
OI (Calls)
Chng OI
LTP (Call)
IV %
STRIKE
IV %
LTP (Put)
Chng OI
OI (Puts)
12,45,600
+2.1%
842.50
14.2
23,800
15.8
42.30
−1.4%
3,21,450
18,92,300
+3.8%
602.10
15.1
23,900
16.4
68.90
−2.1%
5,84,200
24,10,500
+5.2%
398.70
16.3
24,000
17.1
108.40
−3.2%
9,24,100
31,48,900
+8.6%
218.20
17.4
24,100
18.2
168.50
+1.8%
14,62,300
42,84,100
+12.4%
124.80
18.6
24,200 ATM
18.9
118.40
+4.2%
38,42,600
28,64,200
−2.3%
62.40
19.2
24,300
19.8
198.60
+6.8%
22,18,400
16,42,800
−4.1%
28.90
20.1
24,400
20.8
302.10
+9.4%
18,94,200
8,21,400
−5.8%
11.20
21.4
24,500
22.1
428.40
+11.2%
12,64,800
High OI = Strong support/resistance wall
ATM Strike = Current spot price zone
Rising Put OI below spot = Unwinding of support
Max Pain = Strike with highest combined OI
📌 This is illustrative data for educational purposes. You'll learn to read live NSE option chains like this in Module 4.
Learning Outcomes
What You'll Learn
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Fully understand all 5 Greeks and use them to select the right options trade for any market condition
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Read the NSE option chain fluently — OI, PCR, Max Pain, and change in OI signals
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Trade Nifty & Bank Nifty weekly expiry profitably with a structured, rules-based approach
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Execute 20 proven options strategies: from simple calls/puts to spreads, straddles, and condors
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Combine price action analysis with options for high-conviction, defined-risk trades
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Use Implied Volatility to decide when to buy premium and when to sell it
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Build and manage multi-leg strategies: Bull Call Spread, Bear Put Spread, Iron Condor, Strangle
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Hedge an equity portfolio using index puts to protect during market corrections
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Understand the impact of budget, RBI policy, and FII flows on options pricing
▶F&O Taxation in India — Business Income, Not Capital Gains28 min
▶ITR-3 Filing for F&O Traders — What to Declare30 min
▶Setting Up a Trading Account Structure for Tax Efficiency24 min
▶STT on Options — The Seller's Hidden Cost18 min
▶Building a Trading Plan — Capital, Targets, Drawdown Limits28 min
▶Final Live Session: Full Trading Day + Review + GraduationLIVE REC72 min
📄Your Complete Options Trading Plan TemplatePDF
The Playbook
20 Strategies You'll Master
From the simplest directional buy to multi-leg income strategies — organised by market outlook.
📈 Bullish Strategies
Long Call & Bull Call Spread
Buy a call when you're bullish. Add a short call above to create a spread — reducing cost and capping risk.
Defined RiskDirectionalLimited Capital
Max Profit: Spread width − Debit paidMax Loss: Premium paid
📉 Bearish Strategies
Long Put & Bear Put Spread
Buy a put to profit from a market decline. Add a short put below to reduce cost with a defined maximum profit.
Defined RiskDirectionalDownside Hedge
Max Profit: Spread width − Debit paidMax Loss: Premium paid
↔️ Neutral — Sell Volatility
Iron Condor
Sell an OTM call spread and an OTM put spread simultaneously. Profit if Nifty stays between your two short strikes through expiry.
4-Leg StrategyRange-BoundPremium Income
Max Profit: Net credit receivedMax Loss: Spread width − Credit
🛡️ Hedging Strategy
Protective Put (Portfolio Hedge)
Buy Nifty puts against a long equity portfolio. Acts like insurance — pays off when the market falls, protecting your unrealised gains.
Portfolio ProtectionLong-TermDefined Cost
Protection: Below put strikeCost: Put premium paid
+ 16 more strategies covered in the full course including Straddle, Strangle, Calendar Spread, Diagonal Spread, Ratio Spread, Iron Butterfly, Covered Call, Cash-Secured Put, Collar, and more.
Indian Market Specific
Weekly Expiry System
India's weekly options expiry is unique globally. We dedicate an entire module to the specific rhythms, patterns, and strategies that work in the Indian F&O market.
Weekly Expiry
Nifty 50 — Every Thursday
The most actively traded options market in the world by contract count. Theta decay is aggressive, making this ideal for premium sellers.
Monday: Establish weekly bias using option chain + price action
Tuesday–Wednesday: Monitor positions, look for directional setups
Thursday morning: High-volatility open — expiry-day specific setups
Thursday 3:00–3:30 PM: Final settlement, last-hour momentum trades
Max Pain magnetic pull in the last 2 hours of expiry day
Avoid naked selling unless you have strong OI wall confirmation
Spreads recommended over naked positions due to sudden gap moves
Best strategy: Iron Condors with wider strikes than Nifty
Market Intelligence
Open Interest Analysis
OI data reveals where big money is positioned. Module 3 teaches you to use these signals as a real-time edge — not just academic theory.
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PCR Ratio
Put-Call Ratio above 1.2 signals excessive bearishness — contrarian bullish. Below 0.7 signals excessive optimism — contrarian bearish. The crowd is usually wrong at extremes.
PCR > 1.2 → Bullish Contrarian Signal
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OI Wall
The strike with the highest call OI acts as resistance. The strike with highest put OI acts as support. When both are strong, the index is likely to stay between them through expiry.
Max Call OI Strike = Resistance ceiling
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Change in OI
Positive change in OI with rising price = fresh long positions. Negative change in OI with rising price = short covering. Learning to distinguish these is the real edge.
Rising price + Rising OI = Trend continuation
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Max Pain
The strike at which the maximum number of options expire worthless — causing maximum loss to option buyers. Price gravitates toward Max Pain in the last 90 minutes before expiry.
Max Pain = Market magnet near expiry
Important — Read This
The Real Risk of F&O
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Options Can Wipe Out Capital Faster Than Anything Else
SEBI data shows that over 90% of individual F&O traders lose money. This is not a scare tactic — it's the reality of the market. We tell you this clearly because this course is built around avoiding the mistakes that cause those losses. But you must enter this market with eyes wide open.
The course teaches you strict rules before you ever deploy real capital:
Never risk more than 2% of your total capital on a single options trade
Never sell naked options without a hedge unless you have advanced experience
Define your maximum loss before entering — not after the loss happens
Start with paper trading for a minimum of 4–6 weeks before real money
Never trade on event days (RBI, Budget, Results) without a defined spread in place
Options are not a shortcut to quick money — treat them as a professional skill
Practical Skills
Tools You'll Master
Every tool taught is free or already included with your broker platform.
📊 NSE Option Chain
🔬 Sensibull (Greeks & Payoff)
📈 TradingView
⚡ Zerodha Kite + Basket Orders
🌐 Opstra Definedge
🧮 Excel Greeks Calculator
📉 India VIX Chart
🏦 NSE FII/DII Data
📋 Zerodha Margin Calculator
🗺️ Chartink OI Screener
Your Instructor
Learn from Priya Krishnan
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Priya Krishnan
Options & Derivatives Expert · Learn Stockz
8 YearsF&O Trading
4,100+Students Taught
4.8 / 5Avg. Rating
Ex-Prop DeskDerivatives Trader
Priya spent 5 years running derivatives positions at a proprietary trading firm in Chennai before transitioning to full-time education and personal trading. She specialises in volatility trading, weekly expiry strategies, and the kind of rigorous risk management that separates professional traders from retail gamblers.
Her approach to teaching options is refreshingly direct: she refuses to make it sound easier than it is, and she refuses to hide the risks. Every strategy in this course is taught with its failure mode — when it works, when it doesn't, and exactly how to manage it when the market moves against you. She has designed the entire curriculum around one goal: helping students avoid the 90% club and join the minority of profitable Indian retail options traders.
Student Reviews
What Options Traders Say
★★★★★
"I had been trading options for 2 years and losing consistently. I thought I understood Greeks — I didn't. After Module 2, everything clicked. The Theta and IV section alone is worth 10x the course fee."
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Rajesh Venkataraman
Chennai · CA
📊 Moved from losing to consistent monthly income
★★★★★
"The option chain reading module changed how I see the market every morning. I used to look at the chart. Now I look at the option chain first, determine the range, then confirm with price action. So much more clarity."
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Lakshmi Nair
Bangalore · Finance Manager
🎯 Iron Condor strategy running profitably for 4 months
★★★★★
"Priya is incredibly honest about the risks. She showed us case studies of trades that went wrong and how she managed them. That kind of real-world teaching is what separates this from every other options course I've seen."
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Anand Suresh
Trichy · Engineer
📈 Risk-adjusted returns improved dramatically
★★★★★
"The live expiry sessions on Thursdays are incredible. Watching Priya manage a live Iron Condor position with Nifty moving against one side — adjusting in real time — you learn more in 60 minutes than in months of solo trading."
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Sudha Krishnamurthy
Coimbatore · Homemaker
📡 Attends every live session — highest value module
★★★★☆
"Brilliant content on weekly expiry strategies and OI analysis. The Max Pain module was eye-opening — I now watch the option chain in the last 90 minutes of expiry day and the price magnet effect is very real."
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Balachandran P.
Madurai · Retired
⏳ Profitable on Nifty expiry day trades
★★★★★
"I took this after Price Action Mastery and the combination is powerful. Price action tells me direction. Options give me the tool to express that view with defined risk. Buying a Bull Call Spread at a demand zone is a completely different experience now."
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Deepan M.
Salem · Software Developer
🔗 Price Action + Options = Complete system
Common Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this course only for people who want to trade options full-time? ▾
No. We have three types of students in this course: active traders who want to use options as their primary trading vehicle, investors who want to hedge their existing equity portfolios, and part-time traders who trade weekly expiry strategies alongside a regular job. The strategies are taught for all three use cases.
How much capital do I need to start trading options after this course? ▾
For buying options (calls or puts), you can start with as little as ₹10,000–₹25,000. For selling strategies (spreads, Iron Condors), you need ₹1,50,000–₹3,00,000 due to margin requirements. For hedging a portfolio, you need whatever your equity portfolio is worth. The course covers capital planning for all three scenarios explicitly.
I've been trading options for 1 year and losing money. Will this help? ▾
Almost certainly yes — and this is actually one of our most common student profiles. Most self-taught options traders have significant gaps in their understanding of Greeks, IV, and position management. The course will fill those gaps systematically and, more importantly, give you a rule-based system to replace the ad-hoc approach that's been costing you money.
Do I need to know Price Action before joining this course? ▾
It's strongly recommended. Options without directional conviction based on chart analysis is gambling. The course does cover how to combine price action with options entries, but it assumes you already know how to identify key levels, market structure, and trade setups. Complete Price Action Mastery first for the best outcome.
How are the live expiry sessions different from the recorded lessons? ▾
The live sessions happen on real expiry days — Nifty Thursdays and Bank Nifty Wednesdays. Priya trades or manages live positions during these sessions with full commentary. The market doesn't cooperate with a script — you see real adjustments, real hesitation, real decision-making under pressure. That reality is what makes them irreplaceable. All sessions are recorded and available permanently.
Is F&O income taxable in India? How does it work? ▾
Yes — F&O income is treated as business income (not capital gains) in India, regardless of whether you trade occasionally or daily. This means it's taxed at your income tax slab rate, you need to file ITR-3, and you can claim business expenses like brokerage, subscription tools, and this course fee as deductions. Module 10 covers the entire F&O tax structure with a CA review of the filing process.
Can I learn this on mobile or do I need a desktop? ▾
All video lessons are fully accessible on mobile. However, for the option chain analysis, live sessions, and the Excel tools, we strongly recommend using a laptop or desktop — there's a lot of data to read simultaneously and a larger screen makes a significant difference, especially on expiry day sessions.
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