- Hardcover: 426 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 3 edition (1 July 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0071341692
- ISBN-13: 978-0071341691
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.5 x 4.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,394,378 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Whether you use options to better leverage your existing assets—or increase your ability to hedge positions and protect against ever-present and unpredictable risk factors—The Options Institute's classic OPTIONS: ESSENTIAL CONCEPTS AND TRADING STRATEGIES, THIRD EDITION, should be the anchor book in your investment library. Edited by the premier options education organization in the world—and written by the industry's leading options authorities—it provides comprehensive answers to a wide range of options questions, as well as insights into the latest options trading strategies.
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This is the third edition of the authoritative guide to option concepts and trading strategies. Options: Essential Concepts and Trading Strategies offers unique insight into market players (institutional investors, speculators, individual investors, and market makers) and market ineractions. New to this edition is an entire chapter on index options, including Dow Jones, OEX, and SPX; also new is a chpter listing key resources, with commentary, for investors and traders, including software books, periodicals, and news services. Many other chapters will be completely updated and rewritten by new contributors. Options: Essential Concepts and Trading Strategies offers an easy to understand, fundamental explanation of the goals and objectives of each player involved in the options trade. Knowing why and how other players invest will lead to more tactical and informed investing. The book takes a practical, hands-on approach to trading options.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book was written by members (brokers and market-makers) and staff of the Chicago Board Options Exchange. It is excellently written, easy to understand and provides many insights into the detail oriented side of options. It discusses the various aspects of options pricing and trading strategies. I would recommend the book to beginners as well as advanced option traders.
Format:Hardcover
Great book.
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35 of 36 people found the following review helpful
An Excellent Overview of Options
3 July 2000
Format:Hardcover
This book presents a highly readable overview of the subject of options and I would recommend it to anyone. I have not been able to find one book on options which is as wide ranging in its scope (i.e., history, pricing, strategy, individual and institutional investors' approaches, how the trading floor operates, how market makers trade, etc.). The authors have struck a good balance between depth of the subject matter and readability. There are more detailed texts available in the area of strategy (McMillan's _Options as a Strategic Investment_) or pricing (Natenberg's _Option Volatility and Pricing_), but I would especially recommend this book to individual investors interested in options. After reading this book they will have a much stronger footing from which to approach the forementioned other books (which are also excellent, by the way).
The previous reviewer's comments should be disregarded as I cannot conceive of anyone writing about this subject matter any more clearly (yes, I have read both of Fontanills' books) -- the authors appear to have put much effort into this book judging by its clarity, and one nitwit's daffy comments should not dissuade you!
28 of 28 people found the following review helpful
Written by professionals and very easy to understand.
21 Mar 1997
Format:Hardcover
This book was written by members (brokers and market-makers) and staff of the Chicago Board Options Exchange. It is excellently written, easy to understand and provides many insights into the detail oriented side of options. It discusses the various aspects of options pricing and trading strategies. I would recommend the book to beginners as well as advanced option traders
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
The Requisite Desk Reference
13 Sep 1999
Format:Hardcover
This book is readable by anyone and useful all the time! It gives you the entire gamut of the options market, and the details of how options and option trading or investing strategies are used by individuals, institutionals, market makers, brokers and the exchange itself! Invaluable!!
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