The Volatility Course
Step-by-Step Exercises to Help You Master The Volatility Course
Published on 11. February 2003
192 pages
978-0-471-42022-4 (ISBN)
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It takes a special set of trading skills to thrive in today's intensely volatile markets, where point swings of plus or minus 200 points can occur on a weekly, sometimes daily, basis. The Volatility Course arms stock and options traders with those skills. George Fontanills and Tom Gentile provide readers with a deeper understanding of market volatility and the forces that drive it. They develop a comprehensive road map detailing how to identify its ups and downs. And they describe proven strategies and tools for quantifying volatility and confidently developing plans tailored to virtually any given market condition. The companion workbook provides step-by-step exercises to help you master the strategies outlined in The Volatility Course before putting them into action in the markets.
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GEORGE A. FONTANILLS heads Pinnacle Investments of America, Inc., ahedge fund and money management company (www.piafunds.com).Pinnacle has recorded amazing returns for its investors withhigh-profit, low-risk trading strategies. For many years,Fontanills has been teaching the Optionetics Seminars-one of thebest-attended courses in the world of finance-and spearheading thepublication and dissemination of his strategies on Optionetics.com,a free Web site. Prior to Pinnacle, he was a principal at theAmerican Stock Exchange. Fontanills has been featured in The WallStreet Journal, Barron's, Red Herring, and appears on Bloomberg,CNNfn, and CNBC. His bestselling books include Trade OptionsOnline, The Options Course, and The Stock Market Course, allpublished by Wiley.
TOM GENTILE is Chief Options Strategist for Optionetics and isfeatured in numerous publications including Fortune, Barron's, andThe Wall Street Journal. As George Fontanills' trading partner andco-instructor at Optionetics Seminars, Gentile's passion formanaged risk trading and straightforward style have added to hiscritical acclaim as one of the best trading instructors in thecountry.
Content
QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES.
1. Crisis and Chaos in Financial Markets.
2. Volatility in the Stock Market.
3. Historical Volatility.
4. Trading Historical Volatility.
5. The World of Stock Options.
6. Implied Volatility.
7. VIX and Other Sentiment Indicators.
8. Exploiting Low Volatility.
9. Exploiting High Volatility.
10. Volatility Skews.
SOLUTIONS AND DISCUSSIONS.
1. Crisis and Chaos in Financial Markets.
2. Volatility in the Stock Market.
3. Historical Volatility.
4. Trading Historical Volatility.
5. The World of Stock Options.
6. Implied Volatility.
7. VIX and Other Sentiment Indicators.
8. Exploiting Low Volatility.
9. Exploiting High Volatility.
10. Volatility Skews.
APPENDIX: Paper Trading Templates.
