Trading Weekly Options: Pricing Characteristics and Short-Term Trading Strategies (Wiley Trading) - Hardcover

Rhoads, Russell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 111861612X ISBN 13: 9781118616123

Publisher: Wiley, 2014

Synopsis

A comprehensive resource for understanding and trading weekly options Weekly options are traded on all major indices, as well as high volume stocks and ETFs. They continue to surge in popularity, accounting for as much as twenty percent of daily options volume. And while existing options strategy can be used with weeklys, they are particularly conducive to premium selling strategies and short-term trades based on a news item or technical pattern. With this timely guide, and its companion video, you'll learn exactly how to use weeklys to make more money from option selling strategies and how to make less expensive bets on short-term market moves. Written by Russell Rhoads, a top instructor at the CBOE's Options Institute, Trading Weekly Options + Video skillfully explains the unique pricing and behavioral characteristics of weekly options and shows how to take advantage of those unique features using traditional option strategies. * The first book and video combination product focused solely on weekly options * Outlines the most effective trading strategies associated with weekly options, including taking advantage of the accelerating time-decay curve when an option approaches expiration * Filled with the practical, real-world insights of author Russell Rhoads, an expert in this field Created with both the experienced and beginning option traders in mind, this book and video package will help you make the most of your time trading weekly options.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Your complete guide to understanding and taking utmost advantage of one of today's fastest growing trading instruments

Launched by the CBOE in 2005, weekly options are now traded on all major indices, as well as high-volume stocks and ETFs. Offering fifty-two trading opportunities annually--versus the twelve afforded by monthly option contracts--their popularity has grown by leaps and bound, and they now account for as much as twenty percent of daily options volume.

While traditional options strategies work equally well with weeklys as they do with monthly contracts, weeklys are particularly well positioned to take advantage of premium selling strategies and short-term trades based on both current events and technical patterns.

Written by Russell Rhoads, an instructor at the CBOE's Options Institute, this book/video package fills you in on everything you need to know to use short-term options contracts to make more money from standard option selling strategies and to make less expensive bets on short-term market moves.

The first comprehensive guide to getting started in weeklys and capitalizing on the many exciting opportunities in that booming finance sector, Trading Weekly Options

• Clearly explains the unique pricing and behavioral characteristics of weekly options
• Shows you how to take utmost advantage of those unique features using a range of strategies
• Uses numerous real-world examples to inculcate you in the most effective trading strategies associated with weekly options
• Highlights techniques for exploiting the accelerating time-decay curve when an option approaches expiration

Featuring priceless insights, advice and guidance from one of the industry's foremost short-term options experts, Trading Weekly Options is a must-have resource for experienced and beginning options traders alike.

About the Author

RUSSELL RHOADS, CFA, is an instructor for the Options Institute at the Chicago Board Options Exchange. He teaches about 90 classes a year and conducts webinars on behalf of the CBOE and a variety of brokerage firms. Rhoads s twenty-year trading career has included positions at a variety of trading firms and hedge funds. His background includes trading and analysis, and he is the author of the Wiley titles Trading VIX Derivatives, Candlestick Charting for Dummies, and Option Spread Trading. Rhoads graduated with an MS in finance from the University of Memphis and a master s certificate in financial engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 111861612X
• ISBN 13: 9781118616123
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272