Course length
Foundations
Foundations publishes a 16-part options syllabus.
Each card summarizes a topic from contract mechanics through funded-readiness concepts. Mayospell does not currently provide full lesson media, progress tracking, assessments, or course certification.
Audience
Beginner to combine
Format
Published syllabus
Goal
Think like a trader
Mayospell snapshot
Mayospell makes foundational options education a real public surface.
A visible beginner path lowers fear, sharpens expectations, and makes the combine ladder much easier to understand before anyone pays.
Mayospell foundations snapshot: July 6, 2026. A 16-part Mayospell options course map covering contract mechanics, greeks, structures, event risk, combine behavior, payout quality, and live-readiness review.
A real course beats scattered tips
Mayospell gives newer traders a full 16-part foundations course instead of asking them to assemble options education from random clips and marketing pages.
Training Camp and Foundations do different jobs
Training Camp lowers fear inside the platform. Foundations builds a longer arc of concepts, habits, and language the trader can reuse later.
A public beginner path builds trust
A firm looks more serious when it teaches new traders how the game actually works before asking them to buy the evaluation.
Options needs its own foundational grammar
Contracts, greeks, spread width, assignment, and event risk all need a first-principles course instead of being tucked into side notes.
Course map
The public syllabus explains what each learning phase covers.
It organizes self-study without certifying that a trader is combine-ready.
Phase
Why this phase exists
Mayospell
Outcome
Phase 1: Market and contract basics
Mayospell starts by teaching core market concepts so traders can read the screen and understand what price is doing.
Start with option contract anatomy, strike and expiration logic, underlying movement, premium behavior, and the basic language of calls, puts, and defined risk.
The trader stops treating the option chain like a foreign object.
Phase 2: Risk and execution
Mayospell uses foundations to teach risk, psychology, and disciplined execution rather than treating them as advanced extras.
Teach liquidity checks, spread width, position sizing, daily loss discipline, exits, and the difference between a clever trade idea and an executable one.
The trader learns what Mayospell will later reward or reject.
Phase 3: Strategy families
Mayospell connects the basics to tactical setups and repeatable options structures.
Move into long premium, debit spreads, catalyst-week posture, and the structure families the desk actually wants in early-stage behavior.
The trader gains a usable playbook instead of abstract vocabulary.
Phase 4: Product and progression
The public learning path supports the route from beginner to funded simulation, not just standalone theory.
Finish with combine rules, funded-seat expectations, payout lanes, review habits, and what live-readiness really means for options.
The commercial ladder feels like the next step of the course, not a separate surprise.
16 parts
Sixteen module summaries define the intended learning sequence.
The summaries are published reading, not full lessons or a tracked course experience.
Part 01
How options contracts work
Calls, puts, strikes, expirations, premium, and why contracts behave differently from the stock.
Part 02
What actually moves option prices
Underlying movement, time decay, volatility, and why the option can lose even when you guessed the direction.
Part 03
Greeks without the mystique
Delta, theta, gamma, and vega as practical trader tools instead of textbook decoration.
Part 04
Reading the chain
Strike selection, expiration choice, open interest, volume, and avoiding fake-liquidity contracts.
Part 05
Risk before entry
Max loss, defined risk, position sizing, and how to plan the trade before the fill exists.
Part 06
Execution and spread width
Bid-ask reality, slippage, limit orders, and why bad execution can ruin good analysis.
Part 07
Long premium discipline
When long calls and puts make sense, when they do not, and how to avoid panic-chasing.
Part 08
Debit spreads and controlled risk
Why spread structures can produce cleaner combine behavior and more disciplined exits.
Part 09
Event-week posture
Earnings, CPI, Fed, and expiry clusters as separate policy environments with different risk expectations.
Part 10
Assignment and expiration risk
Early assignment, dividend risk, expiration handling, and why the desk cannot treat all structures the same.
Part 11
Premarket routine and plan quality
Levels, catalysts, structure selection, and how to walk into the session with an actual options plan.
Part 12
Journal and review habits
Screenshots, notes, trade tags, and the habits that make later funded review feel earned.
Part 13
Combine rules in plain language
Trailing max loss, size limits, two-day pass floor, and the exact mistakes that can kill the account.
Part 14
Funded-seat behavior
Standard vs consistency lanes, winning-day logic, payout-quality trust, and how the desk reads your behavior later.
Part 15
Practice to combine handoff
How to know whether a trader should stay in the sandbox, start the combine, or return to lessons.
Part 16
Live-readiness mindset
Why real live options access is discretionary, what the desk actually reviews, and why the ladder narrows at the top.
Member rails
Foundations should connect directly into the rest of the product.
A public course is strongest when it clearly routes into practice, Training Camp, and the combine ladder.
Training Camp
Open the static Training Camp module outline. Guided lesson playback and completion tracking are not available.
Practice desk
The practice route describes the sandbox model. Foundations does not currently assign exercises or verify practice completion.
Learning hub
The Learning route links this syllabus to Desk TV and review concepts. Mayospell does not publish live shows or lesson-linked review clips today.
Combine builder
The builder can explain package choices, but this syllabus does not certify readiness and paid combine enrollment is not available end to end.
Beliefs
The best beginner course lowers confusion and raises discipline.
That is the point of making the Mayospell rulebook teachable before a trader enters a scored account.
A beginner course should lower confusion before it tries to raise conviction.
Options foundations should teach execution reality, not only market theory.
The best public learning surfaces make the later rulebook feel more fair, not more complicated.
A course becomes commercially useful when it makes the right traders feel ready and the wrong traders feel unhurried.
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