MASTER CURRICULUM

From first principles
to a written trading system.

21 levels. Students move sequentially and demonstrate mastery before progressing.

00

Think Like a Risk Manager

Understand Travida’s philosophy: options are a risk-transfer tool and an income sleeve must be governed by survival, sizing, diversification, and process.

5 lessons
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01

Options From Zero

Understand contracts, calls, puts, strikes, expiration, premium, moneyness, assignment, and basic order-entry terminology.

7 lessons
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02

Option Pricing, Greeks & Volatility

Understand why options move, how time and volatility affect price, and why the Greeks are risk measures rather than predictions.

10 lessons
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03

Probability & Expected Value

Learn to evaluate options as distributions of outcomes rather than binary bets.

5 lessons
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04

The Strategy Toolkit

Understand the major option structures and know which risks each creates.

8 lessons
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05

The Business of Selling Premium

Understand what systematic premium selling is trying to harvest and the risks it warehouses.

4 lessons
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06

Selecting Underlyings

Build a high-quality trade universe and avoid products whose risks are hard to underwrite.

6 lessons
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07

Choosing DTE, Delta & Strike

Translate a market view and risk budget into a contract selection.

6 lessons
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08

Entering Trades

Create a repeatable pre-trade process and execute with discipline.

4 lessons
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09

Managing Winners

Learn when to remove risk after the trade works.

4 lessons
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10

Managing Losers

Build rules for adverse moves before they happen.

5 lessons
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11

Assignment & Covered Calls

Handle stock assignment deliberately and transition into covered-call management.

5 lessons
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12

The Wheel

Understand the full wheel cycle and its hidden exposures.

4 lessons
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13

Buying Power, Margin & Leverage

Understand Reg-T, portfolio margin, buying-power reduction, and why leverage is the main path from ordinary loss to catastrophic loss.

5 lessons
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14

Position Sizing & Portfolio Construction

Control how much any one trade, sector, or market event can hurt.

5 lessons
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15

Diversification & Correlation

Build a portfolio that can survive common-factor shocks.

4 lessons
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16

Market & Volatility Regimes

Change deployment according to the environment rather than using one risk setting forever.

6 lessons
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17

Building the 10% Options-Income Sleeve

Translate all prior material into a portfolio role with explicit objectives and limits.

6 lessons
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18

The Travida System

Integrate the course into one repeatable house methodology while clearly labeling heuristics and educational assumptions.

9 lessons
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19

Trading Simulations & Case Studies

Practice decisions under realistic conditions before using capital.

5 lessons
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20

Build Your Trading Plan & Graduate

Turn knowledge into a written operating manual and demonstrate mastery.

6 lessons
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