Get Rich with Options (eBook)

Four Winning Strategies Straight from the Exchange Floor

Lee Lowell (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF | EPUB

2009 | 2. Auflage
272 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-470-53085-6 (ISBN)

Infos

A detailed guide to successfully trading stock and commodity
options

After numerous years as an options market-maker in the trenches
of the New York Mercantile Exchange, few analysts know how to make
money trading options like author Lee Lowell. Now, in the Second
Edition of Get Rich with Options, Lowell returns to show
you exactly what works and what doesn't.

Filled with in-depth insight and expert advice, this reliable
resource provides you with the knowledge and strategies needed to
achieve optimal results within the options market. It quickly
covers the basics before moving on to the four options trading
strategies that have helped Lowell profit in this arena time and
again: buying deep-in-the-money call options, selling naked put
options, selling option credit spreads, and selling covered
calls.

* Breaks down four of the best options trading strategies
currently available

* Explains how to set up a home-based business with the best
options trading software, tools, and Web sites

* Contains detailed discussions of how options can be used as a
hedging or speculating instrument

With this book as your guide, you'll quickly see options in a
whole new light and learn how to become part of a small group of
investors who consistently win.

Autor

Lee Lowell is one of America's leading options professionals and is the coeditor of Mt. Vernon Research's Xcelerated Profits Report and Editor of Instant Money Trader and Triple-Zone Profit Trader. He has been an options trading professional for seventeen years and spent six years in the options trenches as a market-maker on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX). After leaving the floor in 1998, Lowell started, and currently runs, his own home-based trading business--actively trading commodity options and futures, stocks, stock options, ETFs, and e-mini futures. He's had numerous articles published in leading financial magazines, including Futures and Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities, as well as articles posted on options-related Web sites such as www.optioninvestor.com and www.esignal.com. Lowell is also the author of the first edition of Get Rich with Options (Wiley).

Inhalt

Preface to the Second Edition ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Part One: The option basics 1

CHAPTER 1: It's All about the Calls and Puts 3

CHAPTER 2: How Options are Priced 15

CHAPTER 3: Option Volatility 27

CHAPTER 4: Stocks versus Options 47

CHAPTER 5: Option Selling Is Your Key to Success 57

Part Two: The strategies 69

CHAPTER 6: Buy All the Stock You Want for Half the Price 71

CHAPTER 7: Getting Paid to Buy Your Favorite Stock 93

CHAPTER 8: Option Credit Spreads: The All-Star Strategy 121

CHAPTER 9: A Day in the Life of the Market Maker 173

CHAPTER 10: Put Your Stocks to Work--Sell Covered Calls 185

CHAPTER 11: A Bonus Strategy: Ratio Option Spreads 205

Part Three: Getting Ready to Trade 227

CHAPTER 12: Tools of the Trade 229

CHAPTER 13: Brokers and Commissions 235

Conclusion 243

Index 247

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.9.2009
• Reihe/Serie: Agora Series
• Reihe/Serie: Agora Series
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Finanzierung
• Schlagworte: Finance & Investments • Finanz- u. Anlagewesen • Investments & Securities • Kapitalanlage • Kapitalanlagen u. Wertpapiere
• ISBN-10: 0-470-53085-5 / 0470530855
• ISBN-13: 978-0-470-53085-6 / 9780470530856