Options mechanics, taught at trading speed.
Options Boot Camp is a hands-on education show for traders learning how options actually behave. Mark Longo and Dan Passarelli move from listener mail to worked examples, turning terms like delta, theta, iron condors, and double calendars into practical trade mechanics.
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Options Boot Camp is a long-running options education show with a classroom feel and a brisk tempo. Mark Longo and Dan Passarelli take complicated strategy names and slow them down just enough to show what the trade is trying to do. Then the pace picks back up. A typical segment might begin with listener mail, a joking aside, or a challenge from the live audience before turning into a structured walk-through of an options setup. Episodes spend time on double calendars, ratio spreads, 0DTE iron condors, oil-related trades, chooser options, and the persistent temptation to treat calls and puts like simple stock replacements. The show is especially interested in the parts newer traders miss. Direction matters, but volatility, time, gamma, theta, range selection, and capital at risk often matter more. That lesson comes up again and again. The drill instructors use plain examples such as a fictional stock at a clean price, then layer in the practical issues that change the trade in real life. Credit spreads become iron condors. Iron condors become a question about return on capital. Calendars become a discussion about timing, cost, and how a spread is removed. The tone is loose, sometimes teasing, and full of repeated phrases that keep the lesson moving. It is not polished in a corporate way. That is part of the appeal. The show sounds like experienced options people talking through the trade while the audience is still in the room. Listener questions are not decoration; they often drive the episode. The result is useful for traders who want to move beyond guessing direction and start thinking in terms of risk shape, time decay, premium, and volatility behavior. It can get technical. It still tries to keep the door open for newer options traders.
Made for: For self-directed traders who want to understand options strategies beyond basic calls and puts. It fits learners who can handle market terminology but still want examples, caveats, and risk tradeoffs explained plainly.
What sets it apart: The show combines listener-driven questions with worked trade examples, so abstract strategy names quickly become concrete setups. Its edge is the mix of lively banter and serious attention to risk, reward, volatility, and time.
Options Boot Camp is designed to help get you into peak options trading shape by teaching you options trading inside and out, basic to complex. Listeners can even submit their own options questions to be answered on the show.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Mark Longo and Dan Passarelli make options mechanics legible through concrete trade examples, competing interpretations, and detailed listener questions.
Options Boot Camp turns options strategy into a working conversation between Mark Longo and Dan Passarelli, with listener questions supplying much of the agenda.
Trading-pit elbows meet 0DTE iron-condor math, if that's your idea of a fun double feature.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A listener question becomes a practical look at Friday-Monday double calendars and their role in some earnings trades.
Options Boot Camp takes a listener's question about double calendars and turns it into a clear, practical walk-through of how one version of the spread can work.
A listener-led options session where premium selling, new strategies, and running jokes all stay in the room.
Options Bootcamp turns a listener mail call into a practical, loose-limbed conversation about how people actually learn options. It moves from selling premium without getting steamrolled to a running joke about Dan Passarelli's middle name, using that lighter moment as a doorway…
A cautious return to ratio spreads, grounded in a clear bullish XYZ example.
Mark Longo and John return to ratio spreads with more caution than conviction. John says the strategy makes him cringe and that most of his students do not want to learn it, while Mark admits he may be warming to the idea.
A brisk, clear lesson on why options traders need to think beyond direction.
Options Boot Camp lands on a practical divide in options education: newer traders often focus on direction and delta, while more experienced traders start watching volatility, time, gamma, and theta.
A practical iron condor walkthrough focused on risk, return, and range selection.
Options Boot Camp lays out the mechanics of an iron condor in a clear, classroom-style way. Mark Longo and Dan Passarelli walk through a trade with $3.50 of risk and $1.50 of potential return, then show how the same position can be understood as two strangles or as two credit…
A sharp pit-floor story about territory, persistence, and the physical side of old options trading.
Options Boot Camp 294 treats the old options floor as a proving ground, following Dan Passarelli from the Ford Motor Company pit to his fight for space in the SPX pit.
Options strategies judged by traders' goals, with a useful rethink of assignment as an objective from the start.
Mark Longo and Dan Passarelli consider long puts, butterflies, straddles and cash-secured puts by asking what a trader wants each position to accomplish.
Patient conversations on finance, climate, and purpose.
Mark Longo and Dan Passarelli host 'Options Boot Camp 294: Tales from the Trading Floor Part 2,' sharing personal stories from their early days as traders on the CBOE floor.
Options Boot Camp episode introducing chooser options, an exotic options strategy.
Options Boot Camp episode teaching options trading strategies including 24-7 trading, PLTR analysis, and premium buying.
Options Boot Camp episode teaching about vertical spreads and options trading strategies.
Options Boot Camp episode 373 opens the new year with listener mail, including a question about the most misused options strategies.
Double calendars take the mic here.
Options Bootcamp focuses on double calendar spreads, with Mark Longo pressing John Kamisik to define the trade and explain why it became workable.
Options Boot Camp 384, 'Options Fool's Day,' uses April 1 to turn a ratio-spread lesson into a joke about free premium.
Options Boot Camp episode discussing weekend risk and trading strategies with hosts Mark Longo and Dan Passarelli.
An educational options trading program discussing strategies for trading oil market volatility.
In the second half of a double-header, Options Boot Camp hosts Mark Longo and Dan Passarelli answer a run of listener mail.
Hosts Mark Longo and Dan Passarelli of Options Boot Camp answer a listener question from 'Tragic Tim' asking whether the iron condor is the ultimate zero-day options strategy.
Mark Longo and Dan Passarelli introduce and explain chooser options, an exotic options strategy, in this educational podcast episode.
Mark Longo introduces a rare Education Tuesday episode of Options Boot Camp, discussing contra-exercise orders and their role in options trading.