The Complete Guide to Option Strategies: Advanced and Basic Strategies on Stocks, Etfs, Indexes, and Stock Index Futures Hardback - 2009 - 1st Edition

The Complete Guide to Option Strategies is written in clear and straightforward language and is filled with examples, tables, and graphs. This guide provides step-by-step analyses so traders can understand even the most complex strategies.

Divided into five comprehensive parts, this reliable resource touches upon many topics:

Part One: Learning the Fundamentals covers getting ready to trade, option fundamentals, what determines an option's price, buying versus selling, understanding spread terminology, and the "Greeks"

Part Two: The Four Basic Option Strategies covers the core fundamental strategies of a long call, long put, short call, and short put

Part Three: Spread Strategies covers the vertical spread, iron condor, unbalanced spread, straddle and strangle, butterfly, condor, calendar, diagonal, covered call, combination, collar, and covered combination

Part Four: Comparing Underlying Instruments compares and contrasts trading options on stocks, ETFs, indexes, and stock index futures

Part Five: Advanced Topics covers volatility, exercise and assignment, risk management, margin, placing an order, and tax rules

Three Appendices illustrate many of the strategies covered throughout this book and present them according to whether the strategies are primarily bullish, bearish, profit inside a trading range or profit outside a trading range. A Glossary with approximately 200 definitions is included as a reference tool.

While you can read this book from cover to cover, you can also use it as a reference for specific strategies and solutions. And if you are already familiar with some of the basic concepts covered, you can simply skip chapters and go directly to the information you need. For every level of trader, The Complete Guide to Option Strategies will serve as an invaluable educational tool and an enduring reference to the options markets.