Charles Cottle – Vertical Spreads. Strategy Intensive

Charles Cottle – Vertical Spreads. Strategy Intensive

Charles Cottle is the founder of Risk Doctor, a trading program designed for professionals. He is a former CBOE and CBOT options trader and was director of Instruction at the International Trading Institute. Since 1999 Cottle has offered a variety of options training programs such as thinkorswim and is credited with inventing DARTS (Dynamic Adjustable Risk Transactions)

Background

Cottle began trading on the CBOE and CBOT in 1981 before merging into becoming a director of the International Trading Institute where he worked with market makers, brokers and early electronic programmers. In 1995, he published the book, “Options: Perception and Deception” as a base for his future training courses. In 1999, he co-founded his first program, Thinkorswim a brokerage and education company and eventually created DARTS in 2004. In 2005, he created the graphically illustrated webinar, Riskllustrated.

Education

Cottle Received a B.S. from the University of Colorado at Boulder – Leeds School of Business in 1979.