If you've been wanting to learn more about managing your financial future and about which instruments to use, you've come to the right place. While you might be familiar with products such as shares, bonds, ETFs, futures, crypto and even over-the-counter products like CFDs, this guide will introduce the basics of European equity options. The guide includes a step-by-step review of several options strategies that you could use in your own trading. Download this essential starter guide now to discover more about trading equity options:

• CEDX is Cboe's pan-European derivatives exchange, offering trading in index derivatives and equity options.
• We're part of Cboe Global Markets which runs some of the largest options markets in the US - we founded the listed US options.
• We're bringing our options expertise to Europe, with a particular focus on deep and liquid on-screen markets.
• We have a diverse and growing range of participants helping to deliver the best prices to you.
• Unlike other exchanges, we trade products from across Europe on a single platform, helping to deliver our services at a lower cost.

Disclaimer:

*Brokerage fees may still apply

There are financial risks associated with transacting in any of the Cboe Europe B.V. (Cboe Europe) products discussed here. Options involve risk and may not be suitable for all market participants.

Before engaging in any transactions in those products, it is important for market participants to carefully review the disclosures and disclaimers contained at: https://www.cboe.com/us_disclaimers/.

Cboe Europe including their subsidiaries and parent companies (“Cboe”) do not undertake to provide you with trading advice or any advice, recommendation, or representation regarding the suitability, profitability or appropriateness for you of any investment, financial product, investment strategy, third-party product or service, or expertise regarding trading in a financial product. You should undertake your own due diligence regarding a financial product and/or investment practice.

Cboe does not act as a financial broker or adviser with regards to the selection of any investment in any financial product.

The financial products discussed here may involve the risk of loss, which can be substantial and, depending on the type of product, can exceed the amount of money deposited in establishing a position.

Market participants should put at risk only funds that they can afford to lose without affecting their lifestyle.

This information is not being provided as part of an offer or sale of any options products to any persons located in the United States or to a jurisdiction where the provision of this information is prohibited.

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