Essential Option Strategies: Understanding the Market and Avoiding Common Pitfalls

By J. J. Kinahan (Author)

Edition: 1st | Language: English | Publication Date: September 19, 2016 | Print Length: 336 pages | ISBN-10: 1119263336 | ISBN-13: 978-1119263333

Learn the ins-and-outs of options trading with clear, practical guidance. Essential Option Strategies is an introductory guide designed to help new options traders better understand the market and the potential opportunities that exist.

This book brings you up to speed with current practices and helps you implement your own option trading strategies. It covers creating a plan, tracking indicators, understanding underlying instruments, and applying central investing knowledge directly to the options market.

The discussion on pricing determinants and probabilities uses an intuitive approach to complex calculations, providing clear examples without requiring advanced math. Extensive explanation of spreads, butterflies, and condors brings advanced strategies down to earth. Easy-reference appendices clarify Greek terms and technical analysis charts, while focused discussions and expert insight throughout provide a highly informative crash course on options trading.

Options trading has undergone rapid evolution beyond stocks and commodities into asset classes including fixed-income, precious metals, energy, and more. This book helps you build a solid foundation in the fundamentals, giving you a knowledge base that applies no matter how the instruments change.

This book is designed to help you: