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High Performance Options Trading: Option Volatility and Pricing Strategies w/website(A Marketplace Book)


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The essential resource for the successful option trader High Performance Options Trading offers a fresh perspective on trading options from a seasoned options trader programmer/engineer, Leonard Yates. Drawing on twenty-five years of experience as an options trader and software programmer, Yates has written this straightforward guide. First he provides readers with a solid foundation to trading options, including an introduction to basic options terminology, a thorough explanation on how options are traded, and specific trading strategies. Accompanied by the OptionVue Educational website, this hands-on guide to the options market is a thorough and essential resource for any trader looking to increase his or her practical knowledge of options.

Table of Contents:
A Note from the Author. Introduction. CHAPTER 1: The Language of Options. The Basics. Listed Options. Nomenclature. Longs and Shorts. A Bit More Terminology. Offsetting Option Trades. Expiration, Exercise, and Assignment. American versus European. Quotations. The Special Properties of Options. Time. Volatility. How Options Respond to Changing Conditions. The Greeks. The Role of the Market Maker. Volume and Open Interest. CHAPTER 2: Option Strategies. Long Call. Short Covered Call. Short Naked Call. Long Call with Short Stock. Long Put. Short Covered Put. Short Naked Put. Long Put with Long Stock. Equivalent Strategies. Combinational Strategies. CHAPTER 3: Volatility. Volatility Trading—Buying and Selling Volatility. Tools of the V-Trade. Selling High Volatility. Buying Low Volatility. Delta-Neutral Trading—In a Nutshell. Seasonal Patterns in the Grains. Other Commodities. Volatility Skew—What Is It and How Can I Use It? Some Words of Warning about Naked Writing. The Relationship between Volatility and Price. CHAPTER 4: The Option Trader’s Arsenal. Buying Nearby Options—The Swing Trader’s Perfect Tool. Debit Spreads—The Calm Approach. Strategies for Trending Markets. The Horizontal Spread—A Good Strategy in a Sideways Market. Credit Spreads—Say “Don’t Go There”. Condors—Two-Winged Creatures. The Backspread—A Directional Strategy that Costs Nothing If You Are Wrong. Covered Writing—Enhancing Your Returns. LEAPS—An Alternative to Stock. The Synthetic—Another Alternative to Stock. The Butterfly Spread—When You Have a Narrow Target Range. Using the Right Option Strategy. CHAPTER 5: Special Situations. Playing Takeovers. Letting the Options Market Tip You Off on Takeovers. Covered Writing with Convertible Securities. Investing in a Rough Market. CHAPTER 6: Theoretical and Practical Matters. Options Pricing Models. Coming Up with the Right Volatility. Volatility Skew. What Causes Volatility Skew? Balancing Factors. Put/Call Parity. The Greeks Revisited. True Delta and Gamma. Understanding the Limitations of Your Model. Dealing with Anomalies and Pricing Difficulties. CHAPTER 7: Tips for Beginners. The Psychological Battle. Trading Mistakes and What I Learned. Some Thoughts on How Trading Fits In with Real Life. CHAPTER 8: Encore. Directional Trading Using Pattern Recognition. Timing the Market Using the VIX. Why a VIX Spike Stops a Market Sell-Off. Starting the Business (on a Shoestring). Business Philosophy. Glossary. Index.

About the Author :
Leonard (Len) Yates is a professional programmer with over twenty-five years of experience in software development. He is the President and founder of OptionVue Systems International, Inc., which specializes in options trading software and services. Prior to founding OptionVue Systems International, Len was a software engineer at Tandem Computers, and a hardware and software engineer at IBM Corp. An active options trader with a comprehensive knowledge of corporate finance and financial models, Len has made important contributions in the field of options pricing models since the founding of his company–the most notable being the "Yates adjustment" to the popular Black-Scholes model as applied to American-style puts. Len holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780471323655
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Height: 238 mm
  • No of Pages: 240
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Weight: 493 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0471323659
  • Publisher Date: 15 Aug 2003
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Series Title: A Marketplace Book
  • Sub Title: Option Volatility and Pricing Strategies w/website
  • Width: 162 mm


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