Tham khảo tài liệu 'how i trade options_9', tài chính - ngân hàng, tài chính doanh nghiệp phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | getting the right tools 187 sophisticated an investor you are or intend to be. One place to start is the options exchanges themselves which have outreach programs for retail investors. The CBOE for example has educational information on its Web site and also offers periodic seminars on options. In fact the CBOE s programs are the crème de la crème which is not just my hometown bias. Ask anybody who has gone to an options seminar and they ll tell you that the CBOE has some of the best offerings. Although they are free they cram a ton of useful information into their two-and-a-half-hour programs. In addition many brokerage houses host seminars for their customers. So if you have a large account at Schwab Smith Barney or Fidelity you might inquire about upcoming options programs. Our firm PTI holds several seminars a year in conjunction with the CBOE. Those free introductory option seminars are a great place to start. Then you enter the realm of the paid seminars which may cost several thousand dollars in tuition. One word of advice you should be very serious about trading options before you plunk down thousands of dollars for a course. Among the various course offerings are seminars through or . At our seminars one of the most frequent comments heard is If I knew this six months ago I d be a lot richer today Or I d be a lot less poor if I knew this six months ago. The first step on the education trail does not have to be a 3 000 seminar. You can certainly begin with a book like this one and a free seminar to serve as an introduction. But the more you invest in your education the more you will learn. And the better prepared you are going into that 3 000 seminar the more you will absorb. Consider too that the 3 000 you ll pay for a two-day seminar will yield far more useable material at a far less cost than say going back to school for a specialized graduate degree in derivatives and trading. Many courses also include videos .