The Option Trader's Hedge Fund: A Business Framework for Trading Equity and Index Options

In this book, a hedge fund manager and an option trading coach show you how to earn steady, reliable income selling options by managing your option trades and running your option portfolio as a real business with consistent, steady returns. Packed with real-world examples, the authors show you how to manage your own “one man” hedge fund and make consistent profits from selling options by applying the basic framework and fundamental business model and principles of an “insurance company”. This framework helps you to apply your option trading strategy to a solid, predictable, business model with consistent returns. For someone who has some knowledge of trading options and wants to become a consistent income earner. The authors provide a complete “operations manual” for setting up your business. Gain pearls of wisdom from both a professional options trader and coach, and from a hedge fund manager focused on managing an options based portfolio.

DENNIS A. CHEN (Miami), Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer of Smart Income Partners, Ltd., a hedge fund specializing in option income strategies.  He has been investing and trading equities and options for many years and previously served as a management consultant focused on financial services at Bain & Company. He has experience in the banking, insurance, real estate, computer technology, Internet, publishing, advertising, construction, commodities, quick service restaurant, and automotive industries. Chen holds an MBA from The Wharton School of Business, an M.S. in Computer Science from Arizona State University, and a B.A. inComputer Science from the University of Texas.

MARK SEBASTIAN (Chicago), COO and Director of Education at Option Pit Mentoring and Consulting, is a former member of both the Chicago Board Options Exchange and the American Stock Exchange. Sebastian makes frequent appearances on CNBC, Bloomberg TV, and Fox Business channel as an expert on options, market volatility, and the S&P 500. He has been published nationally on Yahoo! Finance and quoted by The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and Bloomberg. An All-Star Contributor for TheStreet.com's Option Profits Team, he is also Managing Editor for Expiring Monthly: The Options Traders Journal.