Book description
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.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Series
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: Market Basics and Market Mechanics
- Chapter 2: Data That Moves the Markets
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Chapter 3: Fundamental and Technical Stock Analysis and Tools
- INTRODUCTION TO FUNDAMENTAL ANALYSIS
- DIGESTING THE NEWS
- CHEAP VERSUS VALUE
- MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS FOR THE EVERYDAY OPTIONS TRADER
- THE WISDOM (OR LACK THEREOF) OF CROWDS
- TRADING TACTICS AND TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
- PLANS OF ATTACK
- NEW TRADER TIPS
- TOP 10 THINGS PROFESSIONALS DO THAT THE AVERAGE RETAIL TRADER DOESN’T
- FINAL THOUGHTS
- Chapter 4: Options Basics
- Chapter 5: The Greeks
- Chapter 6: Strategy: The Basic Options Trades
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Chapter 7: Strategy: The Basic Spread Trades
- VERTICAL SPREADS IN DEPTH
- THE FOUR BASIC VERTICAL SPREADS—BASIC CHARACTERISTICS AND BEHAVIOR
- CREDIT SPREADS VERSUS DEBIT SPREADS
- CREDIT VERTICAL SPREADS
- DEBIT VERTICAL SPREADS
- BUYING A PUT SPREAD (BEAR PUT SPREAD)
- BUYING A CALL SPREAD (BULL CALL SPREAD)
- MARKET DIRECTION NEUTRAL SPREAD STRATEGIES
- FINAL THOUGHTS
- Chapter 8: Strategy: The Advanced Option Spreads
- Chapter 9: Advanced Concepts
- Chapter 10: A Revolutionary Approach to the Mind Games of the Markets
- Chapter 11: Turning Your Trading into a Business
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Notes
- CHAPTER 1 MARKET BASICS AND MARKET MECHANICS
- CHAPTER 2 DATA THAT MOVES THE MARKETS
- CHAPTER 3 FUNDAMENTAL AND TECHNICAL STOCK ANALYSIS AND TOOLS
- CHAPTER 4 OPTIONS BASICS
- CHAPTER 6 STRATEGY—THE BASIC OPTION TRADES
- CHAPTER 7 STRATEGY—THE BASIC SPREAD TRADES
- CHAPTER 8 STRATEGY—THE ADVANCED OPTION SPREADS
- CHAPTER 10 A REVOLUTIONARY APPROACH TO THE MIND GAMES OF THE MARKETS
- CHAPTER 11 TURNING YOUR TRADING INTO A BUSINESS
- About the Author
- Index
Product information
- Title: Your Options Handbook: The Practical Reference and Strategy Guide to Trading Options
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2011
- Publisher(s): Wiley
- ISBN: 9780470603628
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