Fifty Ways to Profit from Trading Futures and Options

In Fifty Ways to Profit, Paul Cretien brings together powerful and innovative trading techniques covering the entire spectrum of futures, options, and options on equities. Building on solid theory, a decade of published work in Futures Magazine (now called Modern Trader), and his sophisticated LLP model, Cretien presents each approach in non-theoretical language, showing formula results without requiring you to "do the math" yourself. Cretien offers methods that traders can use every day, and backs them with downloadable Excel-based software for options pricing, volatility analysis, and calculating T-note and eurodollar rates, yields, and prices. Each chapter contains basic pricing methods and definitions for readers with less experience, as well as carefully explained trading techniques that will be valuable to more experienced traders. Coverage includes:Delta neutral spreads and how to improve themShadow pricing with currencies, metals, cattle, and hogsTrades between London and New York copper futuresEurodollar, swap futures, and Eurodollar calendar spreadsCattle, hog, and soybean crush trades for hedging or speculationIndex ETFs and summed differencesBuying out-of-the-money puts and calls to benefit from large price changesForex calendar spreadsGrain and cattle spreadsUsing variability in volatility to generate profitable low-risk tradesTrading soft futures and options such as orange juice, coffee, cocoa, sugar, lumber, and cottonAnalyzing construction resource futures/options via lumber, copper, and steel ETFsAnd much more