Advanced Strategies for Option Trading Success

Bittman, James B.

ISBN 10: 1592801544 ISBN 13: 9781592801541

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2005

Synopsis

Run time: 90 min. If you're ready to move beyond option trading basics, you're ready for this detailed workshop from the CBOE's top options trainer. James Bittman has written books, taught courses-and now he comes directly to you-with powerful advanced strategies for taking your options trading to higher levels of success. Discover winning methods for ...

• Perfecting the 3-part forecast-a basic requirement of every options trade
• Fine tuning the art of profit analysis: Is this trade worth doing?
• Using straddles, time spreads, diagonal spreads, ratio trades, and other intricate strategies
• Understanding the Greeks-Delta, Gamma, Vega and how they affect option pricing
• Determining proper trading units
• Adjusting psychologically to the concept of loss

You'll learn the importance of implied volatility in pricing puts and calls, why seemingly good option strategies often go awry - even when the underlying asset moves as expected. You'll benefit from Bittman's methods for selecting the right strategy for a given market-and the right option for each strategy.

Even if you've read Bittman's bestseller Trading Index Options, this powerful video brings the best of Bittman right to you-in a one-on-one course that's sure to improve your trading acumen, and ultimately, your trading profits.

About this title

About the Author

James B. Bittman is a staff instructor at The Options Institute, the education division of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), where he teaches seminars on options to investors in the United States and Europe. He is also on the faculty at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and holds a commodity options membership at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). A successful options trader for more than 20 years, Bittman also wrote the best-selling Options for the Stock Investor.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1592801544
• ISBN 13: 9781592801541
• Binding: DVD
• Language: English