Answers to the most common questions about the course, our real-trade alerts, billing, and your account. Most questions are answered in a minute or less — just pick a topic below.
Our help center is organized into a few simple topics. Pick the one that matches your question, or scroll down to browse everything.
New to Options Cafe? Start here for the big picture.
What's inside the Options Trading Mastery course and how access works.
How our real-trade email alerts work and how to manage them.
Plain-English explanations of the strategies we teach and trade.
Pricing, payments, receipts, and our 30-day money-back guarantee.
Logging in and managing your email and password.
New to Options Cafe? Start here for the big picture.
A quick overview of Options Cafe — the options trading course and the real-trade email alerts that come with it.
Read answer →Whether Options Cafe works if you're brand new to options, and the best way for a beginner to get started.
Read answer →How to watch the free preview lectures before you purchase the Options Cafe course.
Read answer →Whether you need to connect a broker to use Options Cafe (you don't) and what you actually need to get started.
Read answer →What's inside the Options Trading Mastery course and how access works.
A breakdown of everything you get with the Options Trading Mastery course.
Read answer →Whether course access expires (it doesn't) and what lifetime access includes.
Read answer →The full curriculum, from stock basics and the Greeks to credit spreads and monthly-income strategies.
Read answer →How to download the PDF slides that accompany the course lectures.
Read answer →Whether Options Cafe has a mobile app, and how to watch lessons on your phone or tablet.
Read answer →How our real-trade email alerts work and how to manage them.
What the email trade alerts are, and how they let you follow real trades as they happen.
Read answer →The three strategies that have live email trade alerts, and how to pick which ones to follow.
Read answer →How and when trade alerts arrive, and how to set a dedicated alert email address.
Read answer →Why trade alerts are informational only and not financial advice or a recommendation to trade.
Read answer →How to enable, disable, and configure trade alerts for each strategy from your account.
Read answer →Two ways to stop receiving trade alert emails, and how long it takes to take effect.
Read answer →Plain-English explanations of the strategies we teach and trade.
A plain-English explanation of the Wheel Strategy and how Options Cafe trades it.
Read answer →What a SPY put credit spread is, how it profits, and how Options Cafe trades it for income.
Read answer →An introduction to the 0-DTE SPX iron butterfly strategy and how Options Cafe trades it.
Read answer →Why I sell my option contracts to close for profit instead of exercising them — and how that captures both intrinsic and time value.
Read answer →The hard rule and the short checklist we use to choose stocks for the Wheel.
Read answer →Why we target a moderate IV Rank — and why higher isn't better.
Read answer →Your starting capital is set by share price — here's the math.
Read answer →Pricing, payments, receipts, and our 30-day money-back guarantee.
How Options Cafe pricing works — a one-time payment for lifetime access, with no recurring fees.
Read answer →Why Options Cafe is a one-time purchase rather than a recurring subscription.
Read answer →Our 30-day money-back guarantee and exactly how to request a refund.
Read answer →How to get a receipt or a detailed invoice for your Options Cafe purchase.
Read answer →Accepted payment methods and how secure checkout works through Stripe.
Read answer →Why there's no subscription to cancel, and what to do if you have a billing question.
Read answer →Logging in and managing your email and password.
Where to log in to your Options Cafe account, and what to do if you can't get in.
Read answer →How to reset your Options Cafe password if you've forgotten it.
Read answer →How to update your account email address or change your password from Settings.
Read answer →Can't find the answer you're looking for? Send us a note and a real person will get back to you.
Email help@options.cafe