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Financial Times Guide to Options ebook (eBook, PDF)

The Plain and Simple Guide to Successful Strategies

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Financial Times Guide to Options, will introduce you to the instruments and markets of options, giving you the confidence to trade successfully. Options are explained in real-life terminology, using every-day examples and accessible language. Introducing three key options markets - stocks, bonds and commodities, the book explains options contracts from straight vanilla options to strangles and butterflies and covers the fundamentals of options pricing and trading

Originally published as Options Plain and Simple , this new edition includes:

• How the options industry operates and how basic strategies have evolved
  
  
• Risk management and how to trade safely
  
  
• Inclusion of new products such as exchange traded funds
  
  
• A glossary of key words and further reading
  
  
• Addition of market scenarios and examples

Like all investment strategies, options offer potential return while incurring potential risk. The advantage of options trading is that risk can be managed to a greater degree than with outright buying or selling.

The Financial Times Guide to Options is a straightforward and practical introduction to the fundamentals of options. It includes only what is essential to basic understanding and presents options theory in conventional terms, with a minimum of jargon. This thorough guide will give you a basis from which to trade most of the options listed on most of the major exchanges. The Financial Times Guide to Options includes:

• Options in everyday life
• The basics of calls
• The basics of puts
• Pricing and behaviour
• Volatility and pricing models
• The Greeks and risk assessment: delta
• Gamma and theta
• Vega
• Call spreads and put spreads, or one by one directional spreads
• One by two directional spreads
• Combos and hybrid spreads for market direction
• Volatility spreads
• Combining straddles and strangles for reduced risk
• Combining call spreads and put spreads
• The covered write, the calendar spread and the diagonal spread
• The interaction of the Greeks
• Options performance based on cost
• Trouble shooting and common problems
• Volatility skews
• Futures, synthetics and put-call parity
• Conversions, reversals, boxes and options arbitrage

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pearson HigherEducation
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780273736875
• Artikelnr.: 39248350

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
About the author
About this book
Introduction
Part 1 – Options fundamentals
1  Options in Everyday life
2  The basics of calls
3  The basics of puts
4  Pricing and behaviour
5  Volatility and pricing models
6  The Greeks and risk assessment: delta
7  Gamma and theta
8  Vega
Part 2  - Options spreads
9  Call spreads and put spreads
10  One by two directional spreads
11  Combos and hybrid spreads for market direction
12  Volatility spreads
13  Iron butterflies and iron condors
14  Butterflies and condors
15   The covered write, the calendar spread and the diagonal spread
Part 3 – Thinking about options
16  The interaction of the Greeks
17  Options performance based on cost
18  Options talk 1
19  Options talk 2: trouble shooting and common problems
20  Volatility skews
Part 4 – Basic non-essentials
21  Futures, synthetics and put-call parity
22  Conversions, reversals, boxes and options arbitrage
23  Conclusion
Glossary
Suggestions for further reading
Index of underlying contracts