How to Start Trading Options
A Self-Teaching Guide for Trading Options Profitably
1st Edition
Published on 16. October 2005
218 pages
978-0-07-176993-8 (ISBN)
Description
A popular options authority offers you a hands-on guide to get you up and trading-even if you're a noviceOptions are extremely popular with traders looking to gain leverage and reduce risk, but books on the subject often get bogged down in complex mathematical formulas and other detailed discussions, which aren't helpful a new trader. Start Trading Options delivers clear, concise, and ready-to-use explanations to guide you from the fundamentals of options through more advanced and powerful trading strategies.Plain-English descriptions explain uses of calls and puts, strategies for buying and selling, techniques for combining futures and options to create synthetic positions, and types of spreads from strangles and straddles to vertical, ratio, and delta.
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Content
- Cover Page
- Start Trading Options
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- CHAPTER 1 Market Basics
- What Are Commodities?
- Derivative Contracts
- Who's Who in Futures
- The Exchanges
- The Trading
- Commodity Pricing
- Key Terms
- Chapter Test
- Answers to Tests
- CHAPTER 2 Option Basics
- What Are Options?
- Calls and Puts
- Market Quotes and Option Premium
- "The Money"
- Option Value-Intrinsic versus Time
- Time Value and Time Decay
- Implied Volatility
- Option Delta
- Key Terms
- Chapter Test
- Answers to Tests
- CHAPTER 3 Buying and Selling Options
- Buying Options
- Buying Calls
- Buying Puts
- Breakeven on Purchased Options
- Liquidating Options
- Using Proper Order Terminology
- Selling Options
- Selling Call Options
- Selling Put Options
- Calculating Breakeven for Short Options
- Offsetting Prior to Expiration
- Offsetting to Control Risk
- Key Terms
- Chapter Test
- Answers to Tests
- CHAPTER 4 Option Spreads Strategies
- Vertical Spreads
- Risk Reversal Spreads
- Aggressive Delta
- Sell, Buy, Sell Vertical Spreads
- Ratio Call Spreads
- The Delta Effect
- Multiple Option Ratio Spreads
- Butterfly Spreads
- Back Spreads
- Long Strangles
- Short Strangles
- Long Straddles
- Short Straddles
- Credit Spreads
- Condor Spreads
- Key Spread Strategies and Terms
- Chapter Test
- Answers to Tests
- CHAPTER 5 Advanced Strategies
- Multiple Option Strategy
- Calendar Spreads
- Volatility Analysis-Market Weight
- Option Forecasting
- Forecasting with Time Value Decay
- Combinations of Futures and Options
- Covered Options
- Futures Covered Risk Reversal
- Synthetic Futures
- Chapter Test
- Answers to Tests
- CHAPTER 6 Risk Management
- Time Value Management
- Risk-Management Strategies
- Stop Orders
- Market Price Monitoring
- Premium Levels
- Monitoring Risk Points
- Taking Profits
- Hedging Basics
- Option Hedging Techniques
- Option Trading Tips
- Final Exam
- Answers to Exam
- Index
