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Option Pricing: Black-Scholes Made Easy (Wiley Trading) [Kindle Edition]

Jerry Marlow
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"I have tried Jerry Marlow′s B–S Made Easy and plan to make it a requirement for my investments classes. Its animations provide intuitively clear visual explanations of the fundamental nature of stock market risk. It is an ideal complement to textbooks such as my own (Bodie, Kane, and Marcus, Investments). I have been using my own Excel simulations to illustrate this material in the past, but Marlow′s animations blow mine away. Simply wonderful stuff!!" (Zvi Bodie, Professor of Finance Boston University School of Management)

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A intuitive and powerful approach to mastering one of the most important options trading tools
In 1997, the Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded for the work that led to Black-Scholes Options-Pricing Theory. Black-Scholes has become the dominant way of understanding the relationships among options prices, stock forecasts, and expected stock-market volatility. Option Pricing: Black-Scholes Made Easy, a book and interactive, animated tutorial, makes this sophisticated way of thinking accessible to everyday traders. Animations and simulations present the material in a simple, visual and interactive manner. They allow readers to understand easily and intuitively the concepts and outcomes of Black-Scholes and probability distributions. Black-Scholes Options-Pricing Theory revealed that investing in options is a probability game. Option Pricing: Black-Scholes Made Easy shows you your odds.
Jerry Marlow (New York, NY) is a freelance financial writer and marketing consultant. For investment firms, he creates marketing and educational presentation that bridge the gap between how sophisticated financial mangers think about investing and how the firms' clients think about investing.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 9816 KB
  • Print Length: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (29 Oct 2001)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B005CT80J2
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #207,002 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Any student or trainee having to study this topic really should buy this tutorial.

Having a degree in Mathematics and a professional accountancy qualification did not prepare me for the explanations of Black Scholes to be found in most text books.

They may have got a Nobel prize for their option pricing model but Black and Scholes were never going to get an award for clarity of explanation.

Having grappled with this area for a few months, I decided I needed a little more innovative help; hence my purchase of Jerry Marlow's interactive tutorial.

Two days later and I feel I could go for the next Nobel prize myself!

So many things click into place so quickly, it's marvellous.

Jerry gives his email address which I had to resort to for one query. He answered most helpfully within a couple of hours.

I suspect that it helps to have had an overview appreciation of the area before starting the tutorial but this shouldn't deter first timers from starting with this.

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powerful 4 Oct 2007
By Craig
Format:Paperback
The book looks awfull, like a collection of powerpoint slides. What you are really paying for is the accompanying software. The book acts like a workbook so you can play with the software. It is very usefull, and tries to explain a really complicated subject in a simple way. The main problem is you have to follow instructions like 'Click on X twice, then press Y' without always understanding why.

I would give it 3.5 stars
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Can't praise this interactive book highly enough 10 May 2002
By I.P. Knightley - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
Any student or trainee having to study this topic really should buy this tutorial.

Having a degree in Mathematics and a professional accountancy qualification did not prepare me for the explanations of Black Scholes to be found in most text books.

They may have got a Nobel prize for their option pricing model but Black and Scholes were never going to get an award for clarity of explanation.

Having grappled with this area for a few months, I decided I needed a little more innovative help; hence my purchase of Jerry Marlow's interactive tutorial.

Two days later and I feel I could go for the next Nobel prize myself!

So many things click into place so quickly, it's marvellous.

Jerry gives his email address which I had to resort to for one query. He answered most helpfully within a couple of hours.

I suspect that it helps to have had an overview appreciation of the area before starting the tutorial but this shouldn't deter first timers from starting with this.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Informative book read... 14 Aug 2002
By Vijay Maniar - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
I was skeptical to buy it since there were more than 100 different books available on options... but I am glad I choose this book. Its easy and the software developed beats anything I have seen yet... All the free softwares available are excel based but do not offer such insight on the subject as this book.
I would strongly recommend it to anyone. Only hitch is that the software is bit slow to run but it performs...
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
UNDERSTAND OPTION-PRICING TODAY! 22 Nov 2001
By Michael Buchanan - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
From the beginning pages, the explanations are flowing and account for all levels of competency in options, the stock market and the computer skills needed to follow the animations. When you finish the very readable book, you will no longer need to depend on others for advice; you become your own advisor. The animations are excellent while the mathematical concepts are carefully explained. I now have confidence in my knowledge and my decisions. Hats off to Mr. Marlow!
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