Options - Hardcover

The Options Institute

 
9780786302727: Options

Synopsis

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.

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Book Description

This is the third edition of the authoritative guide to option concepts and trading strategies. Options: Essential Concepts and Trading Strategies offers unique insight into market players (institutional investors, speculators, individual investors, and market makers) and market ineractions. New to this edition is an entire chapter on index options, including Dow Jones, OEX, and SPX; also new is a chpter listing key resources, with commentary, for investors and traders, including software books, periodicals, and news services. Many other chapters will be completely updated and rewritten by new contributors. Options: Essential Concepts and Trading Strategies offers an easy to understand, fundamental explanation of the goals and objectives of each player involved in the options trade. Knowing why and how other players invest will lead to more tactical and informed investing. The book takes a practical, hands-on approach to trading options.

From the Back Cover

Everything from time-honored options concepts to strategies for individual and institutional investors and traders. Written by today's leading options practitioners--and edited by The Options Institute, the globally renowned Educational Division of the Chicago Board Options Exchange--Options: Essential Concpets and Trading Strategies, Third Edition, leaves no stone unturned in delivering the most complete, authoritative, and easy-to-understand blueprint available for navigating the profitable twists and turns of today's options marketplace. No-nonsense, packed with useful information, and valuable as either an introductory textbook or a comprehensive fingertip reference resource, this thoroughly revised and updated edition details: what options are, how they are priced, and how they are traded; basic option trading strategies such as covered writing and protected puts; advanced strategies involved LEAPS and the stock repair strategy; options from three points of view; private investor, institutional investor, and market maker; how to use the power of the Internet for trading and detailed information gathering. Options can be used to reduce the risk of trading stocks, and Options, Third Edition, reduces the risk of trading options. So get your questions together and use this step-by-step guidebook to develop option strategies that meet your investment objectives: hedging your stock market risk, increasing your portfolio income, or improving your trading results.

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