The Options Workbook: Fundamental Spread Concepts and Strategies for Investors and Traders - Softcover

Saliba, Anthony J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0793153883 ISBN 13: 9780793153886

Publisher: Dearborn Trade Pub, 2002

Synopsis

Investigate Your Options: Smart Strategies for Investors from the World's Leading Options Expert.

The volume of options trading on the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) has skyrocketed in recent years as investor sophistication has increased. But even the most sophisticated investors need instruction. And that's where options trading expert Anthony J. Saliba comes in, with his convenient book, The Options Workbook.

The second edition of his book The Options Workbook has been updated and reformatted, creating a larger, more convenient, and user friendly workbook style. The inclusion of interactive exercises, articles, and lessons which complement the curriculum on the ITI website also provide great value to investors who are just beginning to incorporate options into their investment strategies.

For more than 11 years, the International Trading Institute (ITI), founded by Anthony J. Saliba has trained professional options traders around the globe. ITI offers intensive hands on options workshops developed and taught by pit traders. As founder and chairman of ITI, Saliba is recognized as a pioneer in the derivatives market. He is a featured speaker at professional futures and options conferences and is often tapped for expert commentary by the financial media. Most recently, Saliba joint ventured with the Charles Schwab Corporation to form a screen based proprietary trading operation for trading options upstairs.

About this title

From the Publisher:

"ITI is the reason for our success. We would never let anybody trade for us without the ITI education."

—Patrick Enblad Executive Director, Head of Trading Hagstromer & Gviberg Fondkommission AB Stockhold, Sweden

As serious and savvy investors know, options are a viable, and increasingly popular way to enhance their portfolios. Written by the founder and staff of one of the world’s most prestigious options training firms, The Options Workbook is designed to show you how to incorporate the use of options to enhance your investment returns and diversify your portfolio. This practical, hands-on workbook will also teach you how to view the market from a different perspective and capitalize on opportunities presented to you.

Some of the topics covered in The Options Workbook include:

* An introduction to the basic building blocks of options * How to construct popular options strategies, including verticals, straddles, strangles, ratio spreads, back spreads, butterflies, condor, iron butterflies, and more * Risk management techniques * An exploration of synthetic relationships * A look at trading software used by the pros: an introduction to state-of-the-art risk and position management tools available today

Based on ITI’s popular course, Options for the Professional, this book will be your personal tutor on the basics of options trading, specific trading tactics, and hands-on tools that you can implement to profit in the emerging electronic marketplace. In addition to using the tools provided in the workbook, you can log onto ITI’s Web site [online], where you’ll find more exercises, including further reading, drills, simulations, and links to other options sites to increase your options expertise even more. And to test your comprehension of the strategies presented, you’ll have the opportunity to complete a final examination, which you can submit to the experts at ITI for grading and a profile of your options knowledge.

About the Author:

For more than 11 years, the International Trading Institute (ITI), founded by Anthony J. Saliba has trained professional options traders around the globe. ITI offers intensive hands on options workshops developed and taught by pit traders. As founder and chairman of ITI, Saliba is recognized as a pioneer in the derivatives market. He is a featured speaker at professional futures and options conferences and is often tapped for expert commentary by the financial media. Most recently, Saliba joint ventured with the Charles Schwab Corporation to form a screen based proprietary trading operation for trading options upstairs.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dearborn Trade Pub
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0793153883
• ISBN 13: 9780793153886
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 224