Education & books

Free courses and classic books on options pricing and volatility. 7 tools, sorted A to Z. Prices from each vendor's own page, checked Oct 18, 2026.

Tool	From	Free tier	Trial	Data
Cboe Options Institute	Free	Yes	Not applicable	n/a
Dynamic Hedging (Taleb)	See site	No	Not applicable	n/a
Option Volatility and Pricing (Natenberg)	See site	No	Not applicable	n/a
Options Industry Council	Free	Yes	Not applicable	n/a
Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives (Hull)	See site	No	Not applicable	n/a
Positional Option Trading (Sinclair)	See site	No	Not applicable	n/a
Volatility Trading (Sinclair)	See site	No	Not applicable	n/a

Cboe's free options education: courses, a learning portal and webinars.

Nassim Taleb's practitioner book on hedging vanilla and exotic options.

Sheldon Natenberg's classic book on option pricing models and volatility.

Free options education from the Options Industry Council: courses, webinars and strategy guides.

John Hull's standard textbook on options, futures and derivatives pricing.

Euan Sinclair's guide to option positions based on volatility and risk.

Euan Sinclair's book on measuring, forecasting and trading volatility.

What changed in options software this week.