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These are the slides from the presentation, The Evolution of the Iron Condor, delivered at the Money Show in Las Vegas on May 23th, 2024. Dr. Given discussed the wide variety of iron condor trading strategies from long term OTM condors to the latest Zero DTE iron condors. In particular, he emphasized the trade management principles essential for success with these trades.

This presentation, The Versatile Diagonal Call Spread, was delivered at the Virtual Expo MoneyShow for accredited investors November 14-16, 2023. Dr. Given discussed the diagonal call spread and its superiority to the common vertical spread. But high win/loss ratios only accrue to particular trade set-ups. Diagonal call spreads may also be used as a play on a stock's earnings announcement but these are speculative trades that are usually not amenable to ongoing adjustments after the announcement.

This is the slide set for the presentation, Throw Away Your Crystal Ball, delivered by Dr. Given at the MoneyShow conference in Orlando, FL on 11/30/2022. If you have any questions while working through the slides, feel free to send me a note via the Contact Us link on this web site, or email me directly at DrDukeOptions@Gmail.com.

This is the slide set I used for the presentation, Probabilities, Risk and Returns, delivered at the MoneyShow Virtual Expo on August 10th, 2021. If you have any questions while working through the slides, feel free to send me a note via the Contact Us link on this web site, or email me directly to DrDukeOptions@Gmail.com.

These are the slides used for Dr. Duke's presentation, Options Trading in a Retirement Account, delivered on March 4th, 2016 at the Money Show in Orlando, FL.

This is the slide set used in Dr. Duke's presentation, The Power and Versatility of the Diagonal Call Spread, at the virtual Las Vegas MoneyShow on August 18th, 2020.

Dr. Duke was invited to speak at the TradersEXPO in New York on March 11th, 2019. The slides for his presentation, Playing the Earnings Announcement, are achived here.

This is the presentation from the Dallas MoneyShow, How Conservative Investors Use Options, delivered October 14th, 2019.

This is the presentation, Option Trading Myths, delivered by Dr. Duke at the San Francisco MoneyShow on August 16th, 2019.

This is the slide set Dr. Duke used for his presentation at the Chicago TradersEXPO on July 23rd, 2019.

This presentation, How Conservative Investors Use Options, was presented at the TradersEXPO in Chicago on July 22nd 2018. Dr. Duke discussed how conservative investors, like Warren Buffett, use options to grow his portfolio and protect against corrections. Many academic studies have shown that selling calls and selling puts actually outperform the classic buy and hold strategy. Hear how Dr. Duke’s clients sailed through the February correction and continue to build income conservatively.

These are the slides from the presentation, Generate More Income From Your Investments, delivered at the virtual online conference, All Stars of Options Trading, on October 5th, 2016.

These are the slides for the presentation delivered at the Money Show in Las Vegas on May 9th, 2016. Options For The Conservative Investor addresses conservative uses of option trading strategies, e.g., selling calls against a stock position, and selling equity puts for income, or to build a stock position.

These are the slides used in the presentation on 2/23/16 at the International Traders Expo in New York City. Dr. Duke spoke on the topic, Options for the Conservative Investor.

This presentation, Options Don't Have To Be Risky, was delivered by Dr. Duke at the MoneyShow in San Francisco on August 23rd, 2018. The discussion centers on how conservative investors may use options in their blue chip stock portfolios.

The complete slide set from the talk delivered by Dr. Duke at the Traders Expo in New York City on 2/21/12:

Earn Double Digit Returns (Without Predicting the Market's Direction)

This presentation was delivered for Avant-Garde Trading on February 11th, 2015. Many beginning options traders have been misled by the marketing hype surrounding options trading and often have very unrealistic expectations as a result. The recording of the presentation may be downloaded at http://www.avantgardetrading.com/ in the Webinar Archives section.

These are the slides for Selling Premium, the presentation delivered by Dr. Duke at the International Traders Expo in Las Vegas in October 2015.

These are the slides for the presentation, Trading the Earnings Announcement, delivered by Dr. Duke at the International Traders Expo in New York City on February 18, 2014.

These are the slides Dr. Duke covered in his recent webinar for Fidelity Investments, The Art Of Options Trading. The science of options trading includes probability distributions, the Black Scholes equation, implied volatility and the option Greeks. The art of option trading consists of the things traders learn in the real world, i.e., the school of hard knocks, that they didn't find in the text books.