The Option Strategy Desk Reference: An Essential Reference for Option Traders

This book contains 78 option trading strategies, which provides readers with an option toolbox that fits every market condition, i.e., bullish, neutral, or bearish.

Options are the fastest growing trading venue offered today. Option trading volume grew 22% in 2018 alone-faster than any other trading venue. Why? Because traders are learning how options are statistically predictable and orderly. And they provide extensive financial leverage and strategic flexibility. When compared to buying and selling stock, futures, or foreign exchange currency pairs, it's not even a contest!

For just a few hundred dollars, an option trader can control tens of thousands of dollars' worth of stock, ETF shares, a financial index, or futures contracts. And options offer dozens of trading strategies designed to exploit current market conditions. This book contains 78 option trading strategies, which provides readers with an option toolbox that fits every market condition, i.e., bullish, neutral, or bearish. No other financial instrument offers this flexibility and no other trading venue can provide the same steady financial return week in and week out.

Russell Stultz leverages his background as a market trader, writer, instructional designer, and lecturer in this, his 59th published book. Many of his management and technical books exist in 18 languages. After 18 years at Texas Instruments and attending the Universities of Texas at Arlington and Austin, Russell founded Wordware Publishing, Inc. and served as chairman and CEO for 27 years. After taking advanced courses in chart analysis, equities, options, and futures, he formed the 400 member North Texas Investment Strategies Club. The group meets monthly for lectures on a variety of trading venues. Experienced traders, including Russell, lecture on a variety of investment strategies. Russell is an avid golfer, fisherman, target and trap shooter, and an occasional hunter. He also enjoys annual fly-in fishing trips to Canada where he, friends, and his wife Dianne of 61 years, spend time catching and releasing hundreds of walleye and northern pike.