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The Forex Options Course: A Self-Study Guide to Trading Currency Options(Wiley Trading)


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The Forex Options Course is a practical, hands-on guide to understanding and trading forex options. Designed to build a trader's knowledge base in a step-by-step manner, this reliable resource moves from the straightforward to the more sophisticated with discussions of everything from basic plain vanilla calls and puts to intriguing first-generation exotic binary options. Written in a straightforward and accessible style, The Forex Options Course will help you develop the skills and strategies needed to succeed in today's dynamic forex market.

Table of Contents:
Preface ix Acknowledgments xi About the Author xiii PART ONE Key Option Elements 1 CHAPTER 1 The Elements of an Option Trade 3 Plain Vanilla Options 3 Purchasing an Option 3 Writing an Option—Beginners Don’t 8 Elements of an Option Trade or Ticket 10 The Greeks 15 Summary 23 CHAPTER 2 What Affects Forex Option Prices? 25 Time 25 Volatility 27 Summary 50 PART TWO Forex Market Drivers 51 CHAPTER 3 Finding Direction for Your Forex Option Trade 53 The Importance of Interest Rate Expectations 53 How to Anticipate the Direction of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) 54 How to Use Housing Sector Data for Developing Forex Option Trade Direction 62 Evaluating Real Estate Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) 71 Summary 77 CHAPTER 4 Tracking Fundamental Directions 79 Using Currency Targeted Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) to Determine If the Market Is Dollar Bearish or Bullish 79 Diagnosing Global Economic Conditions 83 Group Currencies by Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) (Big Mac Index) 84 Tracking the Currency–Commodity Connection 94 The Currency Outlook Checklist 97 Summary 98 PART THREE Timing the Trade with Technical Analysis 99 CHAPTER 5 Chart Patterns and Trade Entry 101 Chart Patterns and How to Use Them 101 Scanning for Volatility 110 Summary 114 CHAPTER 6 Using Experts to Shape Trading Decisions 115 Forecasting Accuracy? 116 Professional Sources of Expert Forex Opinion 117 Follow the Housing Prices 122 Follow the Think Tanks 124 Follow the Bank Forecasts 125 Summary 128 PART FOUR Forex Options Strategies 129 CHAPTER 7 Vanilla, Spreads, and Volatility Strategies 131 Plain Vanilla Strategies 131 Currency Pair Spreads: Playing the Correlations and Divergencies 133 Commodity–Currency Spread Strategies 139 Carry Trade Option Strategies 144 Trading Delta Call/Put Ratios 147 Trading Vega or Volatility 150 Gamma Spread Trading 154 Key Forex Option Combinations and Components 156 Summary 163 CHAPTER 8 Binary Option Strategies 165 What Is a Binary Option? 166 Using Exotics to Derive Market Sentiment 170 Combining Binary Options with Plain Vanilla and Spot Trading 173 Summary 177 CHAPTER 9 Option Strategies for Extreme Outcomes and Scenarios 179 Recession in China or Continued Boom 179 Option Trading to Play Carry Trades with Hedge—Putting on Collars 181 $ 1000 + Gold and $200 + Crude Oil 182 Trading $Oil Shock ($200) in Forex Options 183 Play a U.S. Stagflation and Inflation 184 Preemptive Attack on Iran 184 Recovery of Housing 185 Summary 185 CONCLUSION Putting It All Together 187 Achieving Optimal Forex Option Trading Fitness 187 Forward Testing Your Forex Option Trading Fitness 188 Where to Trade Forex Options 189 APPENDIX Selected Futures Columns 191 Index 213

About the Author :
ABE COFNAS has been the forex trading columnist for Futures magazine since 2001. He also formed Learn4x.com—one of the first Web-based interactive training sites devoted to forex trading—in 2001, and currently manages a global forex trading team and call room at www.fxdimensions.com. He is founder of www.currencygames.com, a global forex currency game company that combines challenges and training. Cofnas is head forex coach at www.secretsofforextraders.com and the author of The Forex Trading Course (Wiley).


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780470243749
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Height: 254 mm
  • No of Pages: 240
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 16 mm
  • Weight: 462 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0470243740
  • Publisher Date: 16 Dec 2008
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Series Title: Wiley Trading
  • Sub Title: A Self-Study Guide to Trading Currency Options
  • Width: 178 mm


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