Financial Times Guide to Options, The: The Plain and Simple Guide To Successful Strategies, 2nd edition

Published by FT Publishing International (August 27, 2013) © 2014

  • Lenny Jordan
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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.

  • 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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