Overview

The Financial Times Guide to Options, will introduce you to the instruments and markets of options, giving you the confidence to trade successfully. Options are explained in real-life terminology, using every-day examples and accessible language. Introducing three key options markets – stocks, bonds and commodities, the book explains options contracts from straight vanilla options to strangles and butterflies and covers the fundamentals of options pricing and trading   

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Author:   Lenny Jordan
Publisher:   Pearson Education Limited
Imprint:   FT Publishing International
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.507kg
ISBN:  

9780273736868

ISBN 10:   0273736868
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   17 December 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents

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

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