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The Option Trader's Guide to Probability, Volatility and Timing By: Jay Kaeppel Normal price: 46.95 Our price: 35.21 + postage Bargain: save £11.74 ! Product code: 16269 ISBN: 047122619X 271 pages Format: Hb Published by: Marketplace Books, 2002, 1st edition There are no reviews available for this book Description of The Option Trader's Guide to Probability, Volatility and Timing A comprehensive guide that lets you play the options game with confidence. Due to the uncontrollable elements associated with options, many traders find themselves without practical strategies for specific situations. The Option Trader's Guide to Probability, Volatility, and Timing offers traders a variety of strategies to trade options intelligently and confidently in any given situation. With detail and objectivity, this book sets forth risk assessment guidelines, explains risk curve analysis, discusses exit methods, and uncovers some of the biggest mistakes options traders make. The Option Trader's Guide provides readers with strategies for trading options as well as expert advice on when to implement those strategies. The Option Trader's Guide to Probability, Volatility and Timing - Chapter headings Introduction 1. The Basics of Options 2. Reasons to Trade Options 3. Option Pricing 4. Time Decay 5. Volatility 6. Probability 7. Market Timing 8. Trading Realities 9. Important Concepts to Remember 10. Overview of Trading Strategy Guides 11. Buy a Naked Option 12. Buy a Backspread 13. Buy a Calendar Spread 14. Buy a Straddle 15. Sell a Vertical Spread 16. Sell a Naked Put 17. Write a Covered Call 18. Enter a Butterfly Spread 19. Placing Trades Epilogue: Some Random Thoughts for Option Traders Appendix A: PROVEST Option Trading Method Criteria Appendix B: Option Exchanges, Option Brokers, Option Symbols, and Option Volume Index Authobiography of Jay Kaeppel JAY KAEPPEL is Director of Research at Essex Trading Company, Ltd., a leading developer of trading software for options and futures traders. He is also an active CTA (commodity trading advisor). With over twenty years’ experience, Jay’s expertise as a system developer has been noted by Technical Analysis of Stock & Commodities magazine and Formula Research, a renowned trading system advisory newsletter. His articles and interviews have appeared in leading industry publications, and his previous books include The Four Biggest Mistakes in Options Trading and The Four Biggest Mistakes in Futures Trading.