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When you intend to start and learn Trading Options or any new job, you are required to know some basics before starting your new job ,and Trading Options is not apart from this story.

We have seen various opinions about Trading Options prerequisites. Some people believe that traders should know financial markets, prior to starting Options Trading and others believe that a trader should know Mathematics.

I Think The Most Important Prerequisite For Options Trading Is Learning English Language.

When you know English, you can read a lot of articles ,and this helps you to know more and more about your desired subject, like Trading Options, Forex trading etc. Many investors who have ventured into Trading Options think that they ought to have financial or banking knowledge backgrounds. Knowing English is not essential; however, it is very useful ,and it can help you to read and enhance your knowledge about the financial markets. You will trade better than beginners.

A Financial  Background Gives Traders Better View When They Read Events.

This will enable traders to predict the performance of a certain Trading Options pair. For instance, news about Japan interest rates affects on the currencies paired to the Japanese Yen. The USD/JPY and GBP/JPY are some pairs which witness abrupt movement when traders detect the economic effect on currencies. It will give them more confidence to open their orders.

Another Important Prerequisite For Options trading Is To Know How To Work With Your  PC.

What is more important than knowing how to surf the web and search on the internet!
How do you want to start your digital job without knowing the mentioned skills? Unfortunately, I witnessed some traders who lack adequate knowledge to install or uninstall a simple software on their computers ,and they don’t know how to surf the web, open an email, etc. and they failed to learn Forex trading or trading Options.

Know Mathematics Rules and Programming

In case you know mathematics formula and programming, you can use your knowledge to learn technical analysis as well.  You can write your own automatic programs to trade in future. Nevertheless, this is not prerequisite for Options Trading even if you don’t know math or programming, you can continue learning technical rules or fundamental factors and earn profit.

To sum up,  having some information and some basic knowledge is beneficial. However, they are not necessary ;while, some of them are necessary to start Trading Options. I recommend that  you know English well (when you read this, it means you know it well!) and if you can work with your PC easily then start Options Trading by demo account. Opening a demo account and getting some hands on training is highly recommended for those who have been thinking about venturing into Trading Options.