Options on futures can provide additional opportunities to manage risk and diversify your portfolio. While many traders are interested in trading futures, they may also want the flexibility that comes with trading options.

An advantage of options on futures is the ability to reduce risk in your portfolio in different ways. Whether you are looking to trade in an uncorrelated market to diversify risk, hedge existing positions to limit risk, or directly trade more volatile markets at a reduced cost from the futures contact alone, options on futures can be a way to do this.

Trading options on futures provides many trade set ups with varying risks and rewards depending on the strategies chosen to trade and provides many different markets to choose from. This course will look at a few examples of how risks might be managed in your portfolio by using options on futures.