Stock Index Futures & Options: The Ins and Outs of Trading Any Index, Anywhere - Hardcover

Gidel, Susan Abbott

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471295396 ISBN 13: 9780471295396

Publisher: Wiley, 1999

Synopsis

Praise for Stock Index Futures & Options "Everything you wanted to know about global stock indexes in one place." -Tom Basso CEO, Trendstat Capital Management "With twenty years of professional experience behind her, Susan Abbott Gidel is the perfect person to present this intricate overview of today's futures and options markets. Included is everything a beginner needs to know to understand the world of derivatives." -Robert R. Prechter Jr. President, Elliott Wave International

About this title

From the Inside Flap

Like so many other areas of the market, stock indexes-the compilations of many stocks such as the Standard & Poor's 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average-have traditionally been out of reach for the individual investor and small trader. But thanks to the recent creation of E-mini S&P 500 and Dow futures and options contracts, private investors and professional traders can now join the major players actively trading the most popular broad markets. Financial writer Susan Abbott Gidel provides a comprehensive overview of everything traders and investors need to know about the different types of stock indexes and how they are traded. Included here are all the essentials, with complete details on using stock index futures and options-including pricing, technical analysis, market indicators, circuit breakers, index expirations, and more. You'll learn how to formulate sound strategies that are tailored to individual trading philosophies, from minimizing risk by spreading one contract against another and diversifying stock holdings to capitalizing on the "January Effect" to make gains on rising small-cap stocks. You'll also see which individual stocks are the most influential in each index. Susan Gidel explains how the index you are trading is designed, calculated, and targeted for a particular type of investor. She focuses on broad-based stock indexes, including the NYSE Composite and Standard & Poor's 500 in the United States as well as a host of pan-European indexes and those representing stock markets in eleven North American, Asian, and European countries. Other U.S. markets she focuses on include large-, mid-, and small-cap indexes such as the DJIA and Russell 2000; and style and sector indexes, including the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500 Growth and Value indexes, and the Internet Stock Index. She highlights more than forty accessible indexes available today on twenty U.S. and foreign exchanges, including the Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange, Eurex, and the Singapore International Monetary Exchange. Stock Index Futures & Options provides you with the professional know-how and critical overview both individual investors and professional traders need to break into trading stock indexes on every major stock market in the world.

About the Author

SUSAN ABBOTT GIDEL is a financial writer who has devoted her career to examining and writing about all aspects of the financial markets, with an emphasis on exchange-traded futures and options. Formerly an editor of Futures magazine, she is President of CGA Communications Group, Inc., whose clients have included the Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Futures Industry magazine, Hull Equity Management, the London Metal Exchange, MAR, Prudential Securities, and the Philadelphia Stock Exchange. She lives in Chicago and can be reached at sgidel@educatedinvestor.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0471295396
• ISBN 13: 9780471295396
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272