Course Overview

The Deep Dive Calendars & Diagonals Strategy Class is SJG Trades’ focused course on time spreads — one of the more nuanced areas of options trading, and one that rewards traders who take the time to understand the mechanics properly. The course covers calendar spreads and diagonal spreads in genuine depth, moving from foundational concepts through to advanced multi-leg structures and earnings-specific applications.

This isn’t a survey course that touches on twenty different strategies. It goes deep on one category of trade — which is the right approach for anyone who wants to actually develop proficiency rather than accumulate surface-level familiarity with a long list of setups.

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What the Course Covers

The Power of Time Spreads

The course opens by establishing a clear conceptual foundation for how time spreads work — specifically how calendar and diagonal spreads are designed to profit from the differential decay rates between two options at different expiration dates. Understanding this mechanism properly from the start is what separates traders who can manage these positions intelligently from those who enter them without fully understanding what they own.

Long vs. Short Calendars

A dedicated section on the practical differences between long and short calendar structures — when each makes sense, how they behave across different market environments, and what active management looks like for both. These are not mirror images of each other in terms of risk profile, and the course treats them accordingly rather than collapsing the distinction.

Put vs. Call Calendars

Covers the nuances of selecting put calendars versus call calendars depending on your directional outlook, skew conditions, and volatility environment. The choice between the two is not arbitrary — it has real implications for how the position behaves and where your risk sits.

Trading Calendars Around Earnings

Earnings announcements create specific volatility dynamics that calendar spreads are particularly well-suited to exploit. This section covers how implied volatility behaves around earnings events, how to structure a calendar position to take advantage of that behaviour, and how to manage the position through the announcement itself — including what to do when the move is larger or smaller than anticipated.

Backtesting and Historical Context

A practical section on using historical data to inform current trade decisions — not as a guarantee of future results, but as a way of developing a more calibrated sense of how these structures perform across different market conditions. The emphasis is on building realistic expectations rather than over-optimising around past scenarios.

Double and Triple Calendar Strategies

The course’s most advanced section covers multi-leg calendar structures — setups that involve placing calendars at multiple strikes simultaneously to create a wider profit zone or a more complex risk profile. These positions require more active management and a deeper understanding of how each leg interacts with the others, and the course covers entry timing, adjustment triggers, and exit planning in the kind of detail these trades demand.

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The SJG Trades Deep Dive Calendars & Diagonals Strategy Class is well suited to options traders who already understand the basics of puts and calls and want to develop a specific, repeatable edge in time spreads. The course’s narrow focus is its strength — if calendars and diagonals are part of your trading approach or a strategy you’ve been looking to add, this is the kind of thorough, single-topic treatment that actually builds the understanding needed to trade them consistently.

What You Get :-

Module	Size
0. Trading Calendars & Diagonals – Course Introduction	466.4 MB
1. Time Spreads, Calendar Spreads & Horizontal Spreads – Theory	260.0 MB
2. The Application of Some Common Time Spreads	1.65 GB
3. Up and Down Adjustments for Calendars and Diagonals	850.5 MB
Thanks you for purchasing the course.pdf	78 KB

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