Beginner's Guide to Planning and Placing Your First Call Option Trade | Getting Started with Options

Getting Started with Options | Cameron May | 11-25-25
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In this video, Schwab Education Senior Manager Cameron May will walk through important considerations for a first-time call buyer as they plan their first trade, including choosing a stock, identifying chart conditions that may favor a bullish setup, evaluating expiration dates, and selecting a strike price. Cameron will also discuss how a long call can behave as a directional trade, what influences its price, and how a trader might weigh potential rewards against the risks and the cost of the option.

Cameron will then break down the theoretical maximum potential gain and loss for the trade, walk through the scenarios that may lead to these outcomes, and outline example approaches to timing both entry and exit. Finally, he’ll plan and place an example long call trade live on the thinkorswim desktop paperMoney platform, showing how a trader might analyze the option chain and submit the order. As always, the discussion highlights both the advantages and drawbacks of the strategy to help viewers build a balanced, informed foundation before considering their very first long call trade.

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Each of these weekly webcasts is carefully structured to help new option traders along the leverage learning curve. Your education coach will introduce you to options terminology, clarify the common opportunities and risks, and explain the associated rights and obligations to help you become more confident with your understanding of options trading.

Options carry a high level of risk and are not suitable for all investors. Certain requirements must be met to trade options through Schwab. Please read the Options Disclosure Document titled "Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options" before considering any option transaction.

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