🍸 Behind the Bar with Nicola
Trading Style in 3 Words:
Strategic. Rebellious. Committed.
Favorite Book:
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
(with The Medici Effect by Frans Johansson trailing close behind)
Favorite Travel Memory:
Conquered Table Mountain — loved it, not repeating it.
Most Used Phrase at Work:
“What’s the logic?”
Secret Skill:
Invents games no one else agreed to play.
Nicola Mattis - CEO, The Options Bar
Nicola Mattis is an analytical thinker with a creative edge, known for blending data-driven insights with bold, strategic vision. Informed by a career spanning marketing, tech, and data strategy, she approaches trading with the same analytical discipline and creative precision that guided her work in business.
Before launching The Options Bar, Nicola led brand strategy and marketing initiatives for companies like Travelocity, Udacity, Ecolab, and TiVo, and founded Brand Engineer Studios to help STEM professionals turn complex stories into powerful brands.
Today, she partners with a seasoned team of trading analysts, including a lead strategist with over 15 years of experience, all united by a shared mission: to teach real strategy, not signals — and build real, sustainable wealth. Under her leadership, The Options Bar has grown into a thriving community where members support and challenge each other to trade smarter, grow faster, and build lasting wealth.
Nicola Mattis - CEO, The Options Bar
Nicola Mattis is an analytical thinker with a creative edge, known for blending data-driven insights with bold, strategic vision. Informed by a career spanning marketing, tech, and data strategy, she approaches trading with the same analytical discipline and creative precision that guided her work in business.
Before launching The Options Bar, Nicola led brand strategy and marketing initiatives for companies like Travelocity, Udacity, Ecolab, and TiVo, and founded Brand Engineer Studios to help STEM professionals turn complex stories into powerful brands.
Today, she partners with a seasoned team of trading analysts, including a lead strategist with over 15 years of experience, all united by a shared mission: to teach real strategy, not signals — and build real, sustainable wealth. Under her leadership, The Options Bar has grown into a thriving community where members support and challenge each other to trade smarter, grow faster, and build lasting wealth.
🍸 Behind the Bar with Nicola
Trading Style in 3 Words:
Strategic. Rebellious. Committed.
Favorite Book:
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
(with The Medici Effect by Frans Johansson trailing close behind)
Favorite Travel Memory:
Conquered Table Mountain — loved it, not repeating it.
Most Used Phrase at Work:
“What’s the logic?”
Secret Skill:
Invents games no one else agreed to play.
Who are we?
Disciplined. Strategic. Effective.
We are the Options Bar, a transformative options trading training and coaching platform, designed to teach new and seasoned traders the fundamentals, intermediate, and advanced strategies of options trading. We train students to be nimble and effective and how to 2X or more their investment in 30 days with our unique program. Our curriculum transforms the skillset of our members and more importantly, their confidence, enabling them to be dynamic and adapt to any market condition. The transformation opens the door to members building wealth at their leisure, creating a lifestyle that they desire with minimal investment.
We have designed a dynamic learning environment, where members are taught during live trading sessions by seasoned analysts, providing play-by-play trade explanations on the market conditions, the strategy employed and the decision-making process. We thrive because we have created a rich and vibrant community, where members are comfortable asking questions and sharing their wins and losses.
What do we do for members:
- Create a program, where we develop trading confidence and independence.
- With our dynamic program, we teach a curated. curriculum and market-dictated strategies via live trading sessions.
- Host a vibrant VIP community, where members interact and support each other.
- Reward members for learning with challenges, polls, contests, and more.
What do members get:
- Strategies on how to 2X or more their investments.
- A life-long skill, which can build wealth now and for generations to come.
- Ability to generate significant returns with minimal investments. (Minimum account investment balance is $500 although we recommend $1,000 for more flexibility to learn.)
- Learn how to maximize profits and minimize risk. We advise members to risk only what they can comfortably afford to lose.
Why are members successful:
- We have built an interactive and low-risk environment, where members are taught to learn via virtual paper-trading. They can take the trades and test their knowledge without any risk of loss when they paper trade.
- Time matters. We teach 1-hour training sessions daily(weekdays) to fit a busy lifestyle.
What are we hearing from members:
- They are making profits in the first two weeks of learning how to trade options.
- They can explain the “why” behind trades and confidently take trades within the first couple of weeks.
- Some see how they can make their salary with just one ticker instead of many.
- They are comfortable asking what they need to know in class and outside of class.