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Options for the Beginner and Beyond: Unlock the Opportunities and Minimize the Risks
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Olmstead, W. Edward, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Options (Finance).
- Investment analysis.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st edition
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] Financial Times/Prentice Hall 2006
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Brief, carefully paced lessons on options and trading strategies using verbal definitions and many trading examples for clarification. Each lesson builds on the one preceding it and explains options in plain English, from start to finish. Step-by-step coverage of controlling risk, protecting your investments -- even advanced strategies other introductory books ignore! Authored by Dr. W. Edward Olmstead, contributing editor to The Spear Report and editor of The Options Professor newsletter.
- Contents:
- Basic concepts
- Introduction
- Option selection
- Entering and exiting option trades
- The Greeks
- Risk graphs
- Leaps
- Assignment anxiety
- Broker selection
- Miscellaneous tips
- Trading strategies
- Vertical spreads
- Event producing credit spreads
- Calendar spreads
- Advanced calendar spreads
- Covered calls
- Straddles and strangles
- Stock repair and stock enhancement
- Married puts
- Collars
- Advanced collars
- Naked option writing
- Stock substitutes
- Backspreads
- Butterfly spreads
- Iron condors and double diagonals
- An end-of-year tax strategy
- Special topics
- Day trading an index with options
- Delta-neutral trading
- Theory of maximum pain
- Implied volatility and the black-scholes formula
- Put-call parity relationship.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786611068264
- 9781281068262
- 1281068268
- 9780132054911
- 0132054914
- OCLC:
- 1027170342
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