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  • Hardcover: 1001 pages
  • Publisher: NYIF; 4 edition (5 Feb 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0735201978
  • ISBN-13: 978-0735201972
  • Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 18.8 x 5.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
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Options as a Strategic Investment provides a solid foundation in the basic properties and advantages of options, listed and non-equity, and goes on to detail scores of proven techniques and tactics for a wide array of market scenarios.It reflects today's market realities and the new innovative options products available. With in-depth analysis, buy and sell strategies, detailed guidance for investing and coverage of the lasest developments in futures and futures options, this is a comprehensive guide.

About the Author
Lawrence G McMillan is the editor of The Option Strategist Newsletter and the author of numerous articles on options and investment trading. Formerly senior vice president of the Equity Arbitrage Department at Thomson McKinnon Securities, he currently publishes newsletters and gives seminars on options, manages money for private clients and trades his own account.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Recommendation:, 5 May 1999
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This review is from: Options as a Strategic Investment (Hardcover)
This book is very good for standard derivatives strategies. However it does have some weak sides in that it cover the mathematics only briefly, does not include spreadsheet programming or option models, and it focuses mostly on more common strategies instead of customising derivatives. It describes each strategy in detail with follow-up actions, but I'd like to see more clearly if the described strategy is a Delta, Theta or Vega play as soon as I see the pay-out profile, not after digging into the text. It is still by far the best book I have read on the subject, and I'd recommend it to everyone that think they are interested in derivatives.

The book assumes some knowledge of financial markets in general and does not explain why a market goes up or down. It is only concerned with the derivatives strategies and how these are supposed to work.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good academic discussion of Option theory, 26 Mar 1999
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This review is from: Options as a Strategic Investment (Hardcover)
Actually, this book deserves 3.5 stars, but I'm feeling generous today...

Understanding theory is not as important for MAKING MONEY in options trading as it is for analyzing results. However, this is a good reference book for investors, since a successful investor needs to be able to do dispassionate analysis.

This book's major flaws are:

1) Poor Editing. Some of the terminology is incorrect (e.g. "striking price") and the organization of the presentation could be improved a great deal.

2) Dry academic prose. No wonder successful business people love to bash academic types.

Personally, I'm more inclined to recommend reading books by William Eng, William O'Neill, and James P. O'Shaugnessey.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Overall, it's a good book, 28 Mar 1999
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It's a good book but contains too many useless examples to illustrate some very simple concepts. Sometime I feel the author just wants to fill the volume to meet some kind of volume requirement. Overall it's good introductory-to-intermediate book. I think Bernie Schaeffer's "The Option Advisor" is a better choice.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Dry and boring as heck, but required reading
This book reminds me of most of my old engineering textbooks. Really easy to fall asleep to. BUT... there is truly a wealth of information in here. Read more
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1.0 out of 5 stars Out dated material
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1.0 out of 5 stars All theory and no application - give it a miss
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