Fundamentals of The Options Market

Find Out How Any Investor Can Use Options to Lock in Fast Trading Profits - and Decrease Portfolio RiskOptions are today's most complex, versatile investment tool. Ignored by investors who see them as an aggressive, no-limits trading gambit, which they definitely can be, options can, in addition, provide conservative investors with risk-hedging qualities available nowhere else. One thing is certain: all investors who trade options, regardless of their goals and strategies, quickly learn that the leverage provided by options opens the door to a world of innovative, profitable trading possibilities.Fundamentals of the Options Market is a step-by-step guidebook for gaining increased trading profits - while protecting against market downturns by using listed stock options, index options, and LEAPS. Plain-English analyses and explanations combine with quizzes, checklists, charts, graphs, and more to reveal:

• How to open an options account, map out your strategy, and place your first trade
• Trading tools - from synthetics to Greeks - for protecting positions and exploiting any market
  
• Tips of the Trade - How to remain focuses, keep control of risks, and manage your options position

• Fundamentals of the Stock Market by O'Neill Wyss
  
• Fundamentals of the Futures Market by Donna Kline
  
• Fundamentals of the Bond Market by Esme Faerber
  

• Chapter 1: Introduction to Options.
  
• Chapter 2: Characteristics of Stock Options.
  
• Chapter 3: Building Blocks.
  
• Chapter 4: Pricing Options.
  
• Chapter 5: Option Volatility.
  
• Chapter 6: Introduction to Synthetics.
  
• Chapter 7: The Greeks.
  
• Chapter 8: Position Trading.
  
• Chapter 9: Option Strategies.
  
• Chapter 10: Market Making.
  
• Chapter 11: The Marketplace.
  
• Chapter 12: Getting Started.