How to price and trade options : identify, analyze, and execute the best trade probabilities

How to price and trade options : identify, analyze, and execute the best trade probabilities / Al Sherbin.

Select and execute the best trades-and reduce risk Rather than teaching options from a financial perspective, How to Price and Trade Options: Identify, Analyze, and Execute the Best Trade Probabilities goes back to the Nobel Prize-winning Black-Scholes model. Written by well-known options expert Al...

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Main Author: Sherbin, Al, 1956-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley-Bloomberg Press, [2015]
Series:Bloomberg financial series.
Subjects:
Options (Finance)
Investments.
portfolios (financial records)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Finance.
Investments
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • HOW TO PRICE AND TRADE OPTIONS; Contents; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Why Trade Options?; Strategic without Being Directional; A Word about Leverage; Options Are a Decaying Asset; Insurer or Insured?; Probability of Making Money; Market Efficiency; Tired, Worn-Out Metaphors; CHAPTER 2 What to Look for in a Broker; Brokerages versus Banks; Depth of a Broker's Pockets; Trading Risk Management; Learning from Recent Events; Account Types; Cash Accounts; Reg-T Margin Accounts; Portfolio Margin Accounts; Commissions; Interest Rates; Stock Borrow and Loan; Shorting Stock; Easy to Borrow; Hard to Borrow.
  • Impossible to BorrowBuy-Ins; Short Interest; Where Your Broker Matters; Trading Platforms; Easy to Use; Historical Data; Mobile Platform; Trade Probabilities; Conclusion; CHAPTER 3 Building the Foundation; Option Pricing Models; Option Pricing Model Inputs; Historical Data as Input into the Implied Volatility of an Underlying; Implied Volatility as a Predictor of Stock Movement and Probabilities; The Distribution Curve; Breakout Stocks; Actual versus Historical Distribution Curves; CHAPTER 4 Trade Probabilities: What to Look For; The Results; How to Calculate Option Probabilities.
  • CHAPTER 5 Choosing Your TradesChoosing Your Underlying; Making an Assumption; CHAPTER 6 Choosing a Strategy; Defined Risk Trades; Credit Spreads; Debit Spreads; Butterfly; Iron Condor; Calendar Spreads; Undefined Risk Trades; The Straddle; The Strangle; Short Naked Puts; Ratio Spreads and Back Spreads; What Time to Expiration Should My Trades Have?; Trading Earnings Announcements; CHAPTER 7 Exiting Trades; The Variables; The Kelly Criterion; Morning Routine; To Log Your Trades or Not to Log Your Trades; CHAPTER 8 Executing Your Trades; Order Types; CHAPTER 9 Portfolio Management.
  • Two Types of RiskThe Goal: Diversification-Minimizing Unique Risk; The Methods: Correlation and Number of Positions; Identifying and Mitigating Systematic Risk; Trade Sizing; Early Exercise; Conclusion; About the Website; About the Author; Index; EULA.

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