Options for the Beginner and Beyond: Unlock the Opportunities and Minimize the Risks

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Author: Ed Olmstead

ISBN-10: 0131721283

ISBN-13: 9780131721289

Category: Derivatives

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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.

Sect. IBasic concepts11Introduction32Option selection173Entering and exiting option trades274The Greeks335Risk graphs416Leaps477Assignment anxiety538Broker selection599Miscellaneous tips63Sect. IITrading strategies6910Vertical spreads7111Event-producing credit spreads7912Calendar spreads8713Advanced calendar spreads9514Covered calls10715Straddles and strangles11516Stock repair and stock enhancement12317Married puts13118Collars13719Advanced collars14520Naked option writing15321Stock substitutes16122Backspreads16923Butterfly spreads17724Iron condors and double diagonals18525An end-of-year tax strategy191Sect. IIISpecial topics19926Day trading an index with options20127Delta-neutral trading20528Theory of maximum pain21129Implied volatility and the Black-Scholes formula21530The put-call parity relationship221