Option Greeks, Strategies & Backtesting in Python: Your first step towards systematic trading, 2nd Edition
- Length: 265 pages
- Edition: 2
- Language: English
- Publication Date: 2020-05-31
- ISBN-10: B089GQM3QD
- Sales Rank: #983241 (See Top 100 Books)
This book is meant for investors and traders of NSE India.
The book is divided into three parts –
1. First part cover option Greeks – Delta, Gamma, Theta, Vega, Delta hedging & Gamma Scalping, implied volatility with the example of past closing prices of Nifty/USDINR/Stocks (Basics of Future and options explain).
2. Second part covers option trading strategies with examples of Nifty/USDINR options and computation of returns of a strategy on past data. (You will get an idea how professional traders think)
3. Third part covers Python for traders. After reading this book a novice trader will also be able to use python from installation of Anaconda on his laptop & extracting past data to back-testing and development of his own strategies. Python is explained from very basic so that anyone who does not have in-depth understanding of programming can understand and develop codes. Many program codes and their results also explained for back-testing of strategies likes ratios, butterfly etc.
Book is written by author having more than 10 years of experience. Co-author of the book has worked with BSE Limited (formally known as Bombay Stock Exchange) for 6 years from 2011 to 2017. Earlier to BSE he worked with Broking houses like Edelweiss. Today he is a Option trader and Arbitrager. He is also having more than 15 years of experience in Indian Capital Market.
(Options explained from very basic in plain English so that a novice investor can also understand. Option Greeks, Option Strategies explained in detail with example of past data of NSE for better understanding. Back-testing in Pyhton explained from basic. So it’s a comprehensive guide as we tried to cover every aspect of trading options in Indian Markets.
This book is useful for every segment – useful for investor who do not understand options, useful for investors who trade options but do not understand Greeks, also useful for traders who understand Greeks and strategies but do not know how to back test strategies on past data before implementation in live market.)
