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The author asserts that options trading can yield high rewards for little risk. In this guide to options trading he explains how to carry out such procedures and has designed the book to be of interest to both newcomers and seasoned traders.'
This authoritative guide offers an easy-to-understand, fundamental explanation of the goals and objectives of each player involved in the options trade. Along with this tactical information, traders will gain insight into trading strategies and options concepts. Includes coverage of EAPs, CAPs, and industry indexes.
Investors are increasingly turning to LEAPS (Long-Term Equity AnticiPation Securities) to combine the advantages of options trading with the benefits and security of a longer time frame. Here, Marty Kearney of the Options Institute at the Chicago Board Options Exchange examines the wide range of practical and effective strategies for managing LEAPS, and shows you how to match these strategies to your own risk profile. Learn how to tailor your options program using LEAPS and devise key strategies to improve profitability, protect paper profits, and avoid losses in long stock positions. Use LEAPS to produce monthly income Identify key elements in determining LEAPS prices Master LEAPS symbols and expiration cycles Insure your portfolio against market pullbacks Manage year-end tax consequences Establish security positions with little risk Kearney walks you through the inner workings of LEAPS and shows you compelling strategies for incorporating them into your overall approach to market. With instant access to the online video, you'll have everything you need to begin profiting with LEAPS.
Innovative trading strategies, which combine the use of technical analysis, market indicators, and options In the new world of investing, money managers must deal with a variety of dynamics, products, analyses, and risk controls. They are also expected to achieve above-benchmark performance and profits, also known as alpha, as well as protect capital in the process. This can be difficult to achieve in today's turbulent market environment, but with Increasing Alpha with Options, author Scott Fullman, the Director of Derivative Investment Strategy for WJB Capital Group, offers some solid solutions. Written in a straightforward and accessible style, this reliable resource outlines various trading strategies using a combination of technical analysis, market indicators, and options. Along the way, it skillfully details how these analytical techniques can help you capture profits while also protecting positions from adverse market conditions. Details the varying elements of technical analysis, from chart type and analysis period to time itself Highlights how to build strategies around reversal and continuation patterns, oscillators, and exchange-traded funds Reveals how you can exploit small inefficiencies in the options marketplace Filled with in-depth insights and expert advice, Increasing Alpha with Options will quickly familiarize you with everything from the various elements of technical analysis to leveraging the power of options, and show you how applying these tools and techniques to your trading or investing endeavors can improve overall performance.
Presents today's most effective strategies for trading options :how and why they work, when they're appropriate, when they're inappropriate, and how to use each one responsibly and with confidence. This book will help you identify and implement the optimal strategy for every opportunity, trading environment, and goal.
The key concepts and essential strategies behind the successful use of options Written by Simon Vine, a seasoned trader who has over ten years of experience on Wall Street under his belt, Options is the definitive book on options for traders, investors, and risk professionals. Options provides a step-by-step approach to trading, hedging, and investing using options, and shares the key concepts essential to successful options use. Options also explores how to use a wide variety of options strategies and shows readers how to select the strategy that best fits their own psychological risk profile. Filled with real-world examples and proven strategies, this invaluable resource will be of interest to all professionals-and newcomers-who'd like to exploit options for strategic advantage, risk management, or profit. Simon Vine (Moscow, Russia) is deputy head of the investment banking division at Alfa Bank, the largest private financial institution in Russia. He holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA from the Institute for Finance and Economics in Moscow.
A comprehensive yet simplified guide to the complex world of options investing and risk management Before trading derivatives, one needs to understand the secrets and mechanics behind the options market. Your Options Handbook: The Practical Reference and Strategy Guide to Trading Options offers a straightforward, practical explanation of the options marketplace, including its origins, the mechanics of the market, and how to profit from trading options. Walks you through the stock and option markets from a professional's perspective, but uses plain language and simple analogies Discusses different trading strategies based upon whether one's opinion of the market is bullish, bearish, or neutral Details market players, useful tips, and trading psychology, and explains how options are priced Options are a versatile trading instrument that typically cost less and can have lower risk than stocks. They also offer investors a unique edge and lucrative opportunities that are not available to stock only traders. Your Options Handbook helps investors fully understand the options market, allowing them to enter the sector with greater ease.
Discover the professional trader''s insider option strategies that make a consistent profit. Naked option buying or naked option selling is a losing game most retailers play, some get lucky and most will not, this is why more than 90% of the traders lose money in options trading, let''s learn how we can be in the top 10% of successful traders who consistently beat market returns. If you''ve bought this book already, you''ve taken a big step forward to equip yourself in options trading, hopefully, you bought it before losing a significant amount of money in the market. If you are someone who is thinking this book is expensive, please don''t think about options trading or any kind of trading for that matter on a live account yet, don''t be offended just hear me out. You''re probably having a small capital and can''t afford to shell out a couple of dollars to learn things, this means when you make any losses in options trading it may affect you psychologically, having this fear by itself prevents you from making any profits. Options trading requires fair capital to make money consistently and make adjustments to trades when things go wrong. This is a skill that can completely change your life and requires investing your time, money, and efforts to learn things before you start trading and make a fortune out of it, is it possible for a common man? Absolutely. Think about becoming a doctor, engineer, or any kind of professional, we pay tuition fees, spend a lot of time reading books, spend years practicing before actually starting to work, or make any money. But sadly no one treats options trading that way and blows up multiple trading accounts. Options trading is a high-risk high-reward game, despite its potential to make you a fortune over time most traders fail to even be profitable. This calls for a need to learn options trading strategies, different dynamics of options trading, by doing so we''ll be able to manage risk, maximize profitability, make a consistent return, handle emotions, grow your trading account over time. This is not a get rich quick scheme kind of book, so if you''re someone who is in looking to become a millionaire overnight this is not a place for you, and best of luck. If you''re someone who is trying to make consistent income from the market, stick around and we''ll learn ways to do that. After completing this book you will be able to: Understand basics of options and how they work practically Understand different jargon used in the options trading Understand the different types of option greeks like Delta, Theta, Vega, Gamma, and Rho. Understand how option greeks impact different option strategies Understand what options strategies are and why they are important Understand different types of option spreads like credit spreads, debit spreads, vertical spreads, ratio spreads, calendar spreads, diagonal spreads, etc. Understand different types of options strategies like an iron condor, straddle, strangle, covered call, butterflies, jade or big lizard, ladder, collar, batman, etc. Understand the advantages and disadvantages of an option buyer and an option seller Understand how advantages can be amplified and disadvantages can be minimized using option strategies Understand how to define risk, reward, probability of a trade. Understand the basics of option synthetics Understand the basics of risk management techniques Understand the basics of option adjustment techniques Apply all the understandings into options trading Don''t skip any chapters before progressing to the next unless you''re an expert, chapters are structured in such a way that earlier topics are used in later parts of the book. This is the first book in this options trading series so follow the publisher for the continuation and more life-changing content.
A detailed guide to successfully trading stock and commodity options After numerous years as an options market-maker in the trenches of the New York Mercantile Exchange, few analysts know how to make money trading options like author Lee Lowell. Now, in the Second Edition of Get Rich with Options, Lowell returns to show you exactly what works and what doesn't. Filled with in-depth insight and expert advice, this reliable resource provides you with the knowledge and strategies needed to achieve optimal results within the options market. It quickly covers the basics before moving on to the four options trading strategies that have helped Lowell profit in this arena time and again: buying deep-in-the-money call options, selling naked put options, selling option credit spreads, and selling covered calls. Breaks down four of the best options trading strategies currently available Explains how to set up a home-based business with the best options trading software, tools, and Web sites Contains detailed discussions of how options can be used as a hedging or speculating instrument With this book as your guide, you'll quickly see options in a whole new light and learn how to become part of a small group of investors who consistently win.
In Trading Stock Options, experienced option trader Brian Burns, explains the basics of stock options and shows you how to trade the most successful option strategies. As you begin your journey on the option path, you'll have the luxury of real-life trade examples to show you the way. The diagrams and charts help turn the complex world of options into easy to visualize and simple to understand strategies that even the most novice of traders can utilize. Trading Stock Options will show you how you can use options to: * Get paid to buy and sell your favorite stock * Purchase stocks for less than their current price * Buy insurance on stocks in your portfolio * Profit when stocks lose value * Perform short-term trades with less money than trading the stock From the Introduction "Through my experiences with option trading, I have tried almost every strategy I could find. In this book, I will be discussing the strategies that I use the most and feel are the best available. I will take you through a number of actual trades as they occurred and show you what I did right and what I did wrong. I will also show you plenty of theoretical examples of how the strategies work and what factors will influence which strategy is the best for whatever situation the market throws in front of you. In 2007 I was the first place finisher in the Zacks.com 4th Quarter 2007 options trading contest with a return of 212%. It hasn't always been pretty but I have used both my gains and my losses to learn, both of which I'll be discussing with you." From the Back Cover "Many traders and investors dismiss stock options as either too complex or too risky. But did you know that options can be easily understood and the risk easily managed? This book will show you the basics of stock options in easy to understand terminology. You will be able to read option quotes with ease, get an option enabled trading account, and trade basic option strategies in no time."
