Financial Times Guide to Options, The
FT Publishing International (Verlag)
978-0-273-73686-8 (ISBN)
Originally published as Options Plain and Simple , this new edition includes:
How the options industry operates and how basic strategies have evolved
Risk management and how to trade safely
Inclusion of new products such as exchange traded funds
A glossary of key words and further reading
Addition of market scenarios and examples
Like all investment strategies, options offer potential return while incurring potential risk. The advantage of options trading is that risk can be managed to a greater degree than with outright buying or selling.
The Financial Times Guide to Options is a straightforward and practical introduction to the fundamentals of options. It includes only what is essential to basic understanding and presents options theory in conventional terms, with a minimum of jargon. This thorough guide will give you a basis from which to trade most of the options listed on most of the major exchanges. The Financial Times Guide to Options includes:
Options in everyday life
The basics of calls
The basics of puts
Pricing and behaviour
Volatility and pricing models
The Greeks and risk assessment: delta
Gamma and theta
Vega
Call spreads and put spreads, or one by one directional spreads
One by two directional spreads
Combos and hybrid spreads for market direction
Volatility spreads
Combining straddles and strangles for reduced risk
Combining call spreads and put spreads
The covered write, the calendar spread and the diagonal spread
The interaction of the Greeks
Options performance based on cost
Trouble shooting and common problems
Volatility skews
Futures, synthetics and put-call parity
Conversions, reversals, boxes and options arbitrage
Preface
About the author
About this book
Introduction
Part 1 – Options fundamentals
1 Options in Everyday life
2 The basics of calls
3 The basics of puts
4 Pricing and behaviour
5 Volatility and pricing models
6 The Greeks and risk assessment: delta
7 Gamma and theta
8 Vega
Part 2 - Options spreads
9 Call spreads and put spreads
10 One by two directional spreads
11 Combos and hybrid spreads for market direction
12 Volatility spreads
13 Iron butterflies and iron condors
14 Butterflies and condors
15 The covered write, the calendar spread and the diagonal spread
Part 3 – Thinking about options
16 The interaction of the Greeks
17 Options performance based on cost
18 Options talk 1
19 Options talk 2: trouble shooting and common problems
20 Volatility skews
Part 4 – Basic non-essentials
21 Futures, synthetics and put-call parity
22 Conversions, reversals, boxes and options arbitrage
23 Conclusion
Glossary
Suggestions for further reading
Index of underlying contracts
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 17.12.2010 |
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Reihe/Serie | The FT Guides |
Verlagsort | Harlow |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 507 g |
Themenwelt | Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Finanzierung |
ISBN-10 | 0-273-73686-8 / 0273736868 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-273-73686-8 / 9780273736868 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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