Bible of Options Strategies, The: The Definitive Guide for Practical Trading Strategies, 1st edition
Title overview
For undergraduate and graduate level Investments courses, Options courses, and Professional Financial Planning courses.
For the first time, Guy Cohen compiles the 60 best options trading strategies in one easy-to-read guide. It includes a step-by-step explanation of why each strategy works, when it's appropriate, and how to use it. This is practical and informative, making options strategies easy.
For the first time, Guy Cohen compiles the 60 best options trading strategies in one easy-to-read guide. It includes a step-by-step explanation of why each strategy works, when it's appropriate, and how to use it. This is practical and informative, making options strategies easy.
Q: "What areas of options strategies are most important?"
Top five- Cohen systematically covers all five key areas of options strategy: income strategies, volatility strategies, sideways market strategies, leveraged strategies, and synthetic strategies. Each of the 60 strategies outlined in this text fall into one of these important categories, and Cohen explains how and why they are important.
Q: "What would make options strategies easier for your students to understand?"
Practical- It's practical from start to finish: modular, easy to navigate, and thoroughly cross-referenced. Cohen writes in plain English, and allows for users to search strategies easily. Descriptions are practical and clear.
Q: "How do you demonstrate implementation of these strategies?"
Implementation- The only comprehensive reference of its kind, this book helps identify and shows how to implement the optimal strategy for every opportunity, trading environment, and goal. These 60 strategies can be applied to almost all options decisions, but is focused on specific and useful strategies for trading options. Plus, Cohen's unsurpassed experience in trading options provides examples and helpful hints.
Q: "What can provide your students with valuable information for jobs in options strategy?" - Even the most complex techniques are explained with unsurpassed clarity -- making them accessible to any trader with even modest options experience. This text presents a helpful tool for beginner traders, especially as they work through common trading practices.
Table of contents
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
About the Author.
1. The Four Basic Options Strategies.
Long Call.
Short (Naked) Call.
Long Put.
Short (Naked) Put.
2. Income Strategies.
Covered Call.
Short (Naked) Put–Refer to Chapter 1 (1.4).
Bull Put Spread.
Bear Call Spread.
Long Iron Butterfly.
Long Iron Condor.
Covered Short Straddle.
Covered Short Strangle.
Calendar Call.
Diagonal Call.
Calendar Put.
Diagonal Put.
Covered Put (Also Known as a Married Put).
3. Vertical Spreads.
Bull Call Spread.
Bear Put Spread.
Bull Put Spread–Refer to Chapter 2 (2.3).
Bear Call Spread–Refer to Chapter 2 (2.4).
Bull Call Ladder.
Bull Put Ladder.
Bear Call Ladder.
Bear Put Ladder.
4. Volatility Strategies.
Straddle.
Strangle.
Strip.
Strap.
Guts.
Short Call Butterfly.
Short Put Butterfly.
Short Call Condor.
Short Put Condor.
Short Iron Butterfly.
Short Iron Condor.
5. Sideways Strategies.
Short Straddle.
Short Strangle.
Short Guts.
Long Call Butterfly.
Long Put Butterfly.
Long Call Condor.
Long Put Condor.
Modified Call Butterfly.
Modified Put Butterfly.
Long Iron Butterfly–Refer to Chapter 2 (2.5).
Long Iron Condor–Refer to Chapter 2 (2.6).
6. Leveraged Strategies.
Call Ratio Backspread.
Put Ratio Backspread.
Ratio Call Spread.
Ratio Put Spread.
7. Synthetic Strategies.
Collar.
Synthetic Call.
Synthetic Put.
Long Call Synthetic Straddle.
Long Put Synthetic Straddle.
Short Call Synthetic Straddle.
Short Put Synthetic Straddle.
Long Synthetic Future.
Short Synthetic Future.
Long Combo.
Short Combo.
Long Box.
8. Taxation for Stock and Options Traders.
Tax on Stocks.
Tax on Options.
Appendix A: Strategy Table.
Appendix B: Glossary.
Index.
Author bios
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