
Get Rich with Options
Four Winning Strategies Straight from the Exchange Floor
Lee Lowell(Author)
Wiley (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 23. October 2009
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-0-470-44589-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
More details
Series
Edition
2. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Charts: 0 B&W, 0 Color; Tables: 1 B&W, 0 Color
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
455 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-470-44589-1 (9780470445891)
Schweitzer Classification
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E-Book
09/2009
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Wiley
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E-Book
09/2009
2nd Edition
Wiley
€34.99
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Book
01/2007
Wiley
€35.89
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Person
Lee Lowell is one of America's leading options professionals and is the coeditor of Mt. Vernon Research's Xcelerated Profits Report and Editor of Instant Money Trader and Triple-Zone Profit Trader. He has been an options trading professional for seventeen years and spent six years in the options trenches as a market-maker on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX). After leaving the floor in 1998, Lowell started, and currently runs, his own home-based trading business--actively trading commodity options and futures, stocks, stock options, ETFs, and e-mini futures. He's had numerous articles published in leading financial magazines, including Futures and Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities, as well as articles posted on options-related Web sites such as www.optioninvestor.com and www.esignal.com. Lowell is also the author of the first edition of Get Rich with Options (Wiley).
Content
Preface to the Second Edition.
Acknowledgments.
PART ONE: THE OPTION BASICS.
CHAPTER 1: It's All about the Calls and Puts.
CHAPTER 2: How Options are Priced.
CHAPTER 3: Options Volatility.
CHAPTER 4: Stock versus Options.
CHAPTER 5: Option Selling Is your Key to Success.
PART TWO: THE STRATEGIES.
CHAPTER 6: Buy All the Stock You Want for Half the Price.
CHAPTER 7: Getting Paid to Buy Your Favorite Stock.
CHAPTER 8: Option Credit Spreads: The All-Star Strategy.
CHAPTER 9: A Day in the Life of the Market Maker.
CHAPTER 10: Put Your Stocks to Work--Sell Covered Calls.
CHAPTER 11: A Bonus Strategy: Ratio Option Spreads.
PART THREE: GETTING READY TO TRADE.
CHAPTER 12: Tools of the Trade.
CHAPTER 13: Brokers and Commissions.
Conclusion.
Index.