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Reprinted with permission from National Futures Association. Copyright 2002.

Course Introduction

Options on futures contracts have added a new dimension to futures trading. Like futures, options provide price protection against adverse price moves. Present-day options trading on the floor of an exchange began in April 1973 when the Chicago Board of Trade created the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) for the sole purpose of trading options on a limited number of New York Stock Exchange-listed equities. Options on futures contracts were introduced at the CBOT in October 1982 when the exchange began trading Options on U.S. Treasury Bond futures.

Following is the outline of what this course covers:

Chapter 1: The Vocabulary of Options Trading

Chapter 2: The Arithmetic of Option Premiums

Chapter 3: The Mechanics of Buying and Writing Options

Chapter 4: A Pre-Investment Checklist

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