George Jabbour, Philip Budwick – The Option Trader Handbook. Strategies and Trade Adjustments

George Jabbour, Philip Budwick – The Option Trader Handbook. Strategies and Trade Adjustments

Strategies, instruments, and options for minimizing danger and volatility in choice buying and selling

An intermediate degree buying and selling ebook, The Option Trader Handbook, Second Edition gives severe merchants with methods for managing and adjusting their market positions. This Second Edition options new materials on implied volatility; Delta and Theta, and how these measures can be utilized to make higher buying and selling selections. The ebook presents the artwork of creating commerce changes in a logical sequence, beginning with lengthy and brief inventory positions; transferring on to fundamental put and name positions; and lastly discussing choice spreads and mixtures.

• Covers several types of underlying positions and discusses all of the doable changes that may be made to that place
• Offers essential insights into extra complicated choice spreads and mixtures
• A well timed ebook for as we speak’s unstable markets

Intended for each inventory and choice merchants, this ebook will provide help to enhance your total buying and selling abilities and efficiency.

Table of Contents

Preface to the First Edition.

Preface to the Second Edition.

CHAPTER 1 Trade and Risk Management.

Introduction.

The Philosophy of Risk.

Truth About Reward.

Risk Management.

Trade Management.

Trading as a Business.

SCORE—The Formula for Trading Success.

CHAPTER 2 Tools of the Trader.

Introduction.

Option Value.

Option Pricing.

Option Greeks and Risk Management.

Time Decay.

Delta/Gamma.

Implied Volatility.

Synthetic Positions.

Basic Strategies.

Basic Spreads and Combinations.

Advanced Spreads.

The Greeks and Spread Trades.

Valuable Derivative Traders Program.

Introduction to Trade Adjustments.

CHAPTER 3 Long Stock.

Introduction.

Protective Put.

Call Replacement.

Sell Covered Calls.

Collars.

Ratio Write.

Short Straddle/Short Strangle.

Call Ratio Spread.

Call Calendar Spread.

CHAPTER 4 Short Stock.

Introduction.

Protective Call—Insurance.

Put Replacement.

Covered Puts.

Short Collars.

Put Ratio Write.

Put Ratio Spread.

CHAPTER 5 Calls and Puts.

Introduction.

Long Call.

Short Call.

Long Put.

Short Put.

CHAPTER 6 Spreads.

Introduction.

Bull Call Spreads/Bear Put Spreads.

Bear Call Spreads/Bull Put Spreads.

Calendar Spreads.

CHAPTER 7 Combinations.

Introduction.

Long Straddle.

Long Strangle.

Short Straddle/Short Strangle.

Index.

Author Information

George M. Jabbour, PhD, is the Director of the Master of Science in Finance program at The George Washington University, in addition to a professor of derivatives, monetary engineering, and investments. Dr. Jabbour has printed numerous articles in skilled monetary journals and frequently speaks at conferences within the United States and overseas concerning choice pricing fashions, monetary administration, and danger administration. He can also be a managing director of Global Asset Investments, LLC, an asset administration and derivatives consulting agency, and CEO of Global Finance Associates Inc., a monetary coaching, consulting, and analysis firm. Dr. Jabbour frequently conducts seminars in choice buying and selling and valuation, and is a really energetic equities and derivatives dealer.

Philip H. Budwick, MsF, is the Director of the Capital Markets Trading Room at The George Washington University School of Business and continuously writes articles on choice buying and selling methods and investments. Mr. Budwick is a Managing Director of Global Asset Investments, LLC, an asset administration and derivatives consulting agency, and is an energetic choice and inventory dealer. He has a regulation diploma and a grasp of science in finance and teaches lessons in portfolio administration