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Optionetics Platinum Help Manual
The Optionetics Platinum Help manual defines terms, walks through examples and describes capabilities. Below are all the links to all the help pages. Revisions and stock symbol updates are always ongoing. Optionetics Platinum Help pages may not always exactly match the web site output.
The fastest way to learn the Optionetics Platinum web site is to follow the example in Chapter 4: Quick Start. Reading all of Chapter 2 is highly recommended to understand our terms. Quick Start shows how to search, analyze and save trades. A few step-by-step examples are in Chapter 5 including Bull Call Spread which shows how to input and save an option trade.
If you are just beginning to use options, Chapter 1, is provided to get you started. Use the web browser Back and Forward buttons to move between Help pages, or right mouse click help page links and open them in new browser windows.
  Chapter 1: Overview

Introduction
What is the Optionetics Platinum
Stock Options Explained
How do I use Stock Options
Legal Restrictions to using this Web Site
 
  Chapter 2: Definitions

Butterflys
Buying a Call
Buying a Put
Calls and Puts
Covered Calls
Expected Profit
Expiration Dates
Implied Volatility (IV)
IV Equations
Odds
Option Pricing
Option Greeks
Delta   Gamma   Theta   Vega
Price Projections
Probability of Profit
Selling a Call
Selling a Put
Statistical Volatility (SV)
Volatility
Volume & OI
 
  Chapter 3: Free Stock Options

About the Free Data
 
  Chapter 4: Optionetics Platinum

Getting Started Quick Start
Welcome Page
Quick Search
My Personal Data
Create An Option Trade
Create A Rank List
Create A Search
Create An Option Table
View/Edit My Option Trade
View/Edit My Rank List
View/Edit My Searches
View/Edit Option Table
 
  Chapter 5: Optionetics Platinum Examples

How to enter an option trade: Bull Call Spread
Using Quick Search to find Buy Straddles
How to find and enter a Limit Order Option trade: Buy Call
Using Create A Search to find Covered Calls
Using Create An Option Trade to analyze Butterflies
How to find Calendar Spread trades
Risk Graphics Explained using a Synthetic Straddle
Backtest experiments using Quick Search

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