Idiot’s Guides: Options Trading

Even for the experienced trader, options trading can be a risky and intimidating investment strategy. However, with the right strategies and approach, it can be an exciting investment option that can pay serious dividends. Through logical, step-by-step guidance Idiot’s Guides: Options Trading gives you the tools you need to reduce risk, while boosting the odds for success with these volatile and unpredictable investments. You will learn about all of the common types of options including index, ETF, and equity options, and then move into newer strategies including binary options and the new 20-minute options. Idiot’s Guides: Options Trading will help you decide how to choose the approach that fits your investment strategies, how to weigh option costs and benefits, understand options contracts, use technical analysis to evaluate opportunities, and how to minimize risk while building a strategy that maximizes gains while protecting against market fluctuations.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Introduction to Options Trading
Chapter 1 All About Options
Chapter 2 How Options Work
Chapter 3 Exchanges, Brokers, and Other Market Institutions
Chapter 4 The Greeks

Part 2: Options Valuation and Trading Strategies
Chapter 5 The Basics of Options Valuation
Chapter 6 The VIX and Other Market Indicators
Chapter 7 Beginning Options Trading
Chapter 8 Call Strategies
Chapter 9 Put Strategies
Chapter 10 Combination Strategies

Part 3: Advanced and Synthetic Strategies
Chapter 11 Futures, Forwards, and Related Derivatives
Chapter 12 Synthetic Securities
Chapter 13 Arbitrage
Chapter 14 Technical Analysis
Chapter 15 Fundamental Analysis
Chapter 16 Research Services

Part 4: The Business of Trading
Chapter 17 Trade Planning
Chapter 18 Taxes
Chapter 19 Evaluating Performance
Chapter 20 Training Your Brain