Weekend intensive
Volatility Surface Reading Workshop
Two full days connecting implied volatility changes to the price charts you already watch. Learn to spot skew shifts, term-structure kinks, and how they should — and should not — alter your strike selection.
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Prerequisites
Completion of Options Chart Reading Fundamentals or equivalent experience marking support and resistance on weekly charts. You should already read an options chain comfortably.
Day one: Skew on the chart
Morning session maps put-call skew to horizontal levels. Afternoon lab overlays IV rank changes on printed SPX weeklies from the past twelve months. You identify three historical instances where skew warned of level failure before price confirmed.
Day two: Term structure and timing
Compare front-month and back-month IV curves. Practice deciding when calendar spreads are chart-supported versus when the structure is fighting the level you marked. Final exercise: given a Monday morning chart and chain, write a one-page plan with strikes, expiry, and invalidation.