How to Price and Trade Options : Identify, Analyze, and Execute the Best Trade Probabilities, + Website

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 Sherbin, it looks at the basis for probability theory in option trading and explains how to put the odds in your favor when trading options. Inside, you'll discover how anyone can ""operate their own casino"" if they know how through proper option strategies. Plus, a supplemental website includes

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Year of publication:	2015
Authors:	Sherbin, Al
Publisher:	Hoboken : Wiley
Subject:	Electronic Commerce \| E-commerce \| Optionspreistheorie \| Option pricing theory
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]

Extent:	Online-Ressource (225 p)
Series:	Bloomberg Financial Bloomberg Financial Ser.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record 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
ISBN:	978-1-118-87114-0 ; 978-1-118-87103-4 ; 978-1-118-87114-0
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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