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Get Rich With Options: Four Winning Strategies Straight from the Exchange Floor (Agora Series)
Lee Lowell Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0470046619 |
Book Description
In order to survive and thrive in today's financial markets, you must seriously consider the use of options in your investment endeavors. Options allow you to reap the same benefits as an outright stock or commodity trade, but with less risk and less money on the line. The truth is, you can achieve everything with options that you would with stocks or commoditiesat less costwhile gaining a much higher percentage return on your invested dollars.After numerous years as a market maker in the trenches of the New York Mercantile Exchange, few analysts know how to make money trading options like author Lee Lowell. In this well-rounded resource, Lowell shows both stock and commodity option traders exactly what works and what doesn't.
Filled with in-depth insight and expert advice, Get Rich with Options provides you with the knowledge and strategies needed to achieve optimal results within the options market. The book quickly covers the basicshow options are priced, strike price selection, the use of Delta, and using volatility to one's advantagebefore moving on to the four options trading strategies that have helped Lowell profit in this arena time and again: buying deep-in-the-money call options, selling naked puts, selling option credit spreads, and selling covered calls. Using these strategoes decisively, he says, is the fastest route to riches in the options trading game.
Get Rich with Options is packed with real-life examples of actual trades and detailed discussions of how options can be used as a hedging, speculating, or income-producing tool. You'll learn how to set up a home business with the best options trading software, tools, and Web sites. And you'll begin to see options in a whole new light and discover how to become part of a small group of investors who consistently win.
Customer Reviews:
A little hype-y, but a very good introduction on how to use options..........2007-08-29
easy to understand.......2007-08-23
great for more conservative investors interested in options.......2007-08-12
I loved this book!.......2007-07-27
Worth reading but lacks specifics.......2007-07-12
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Trading and Hedging with Agricultural Futures and Options
James B. Bittman Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Companies ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0071365028 |
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This clear, concise, and practical guide explains how to use agricultural options as a safe, effective component of any trading portfolio. Outlining different strategiesbased on whether traders are seeking to reduce risk, increase income, or control costsit provides nuts-and-bolts examples and techniques for effective use of these versatile tools. It also covers option basics, special software, the differences between hedging and trading strategies, understanding price behavior and the importance of volatility, and more.Customer Reviews:
OK but too basic on ags ..........2004-06-23
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Audioseminar on CD "Becoming a Disciplined Trader: Techniques for achieving peak trading performance" (Audio) with Ari Kiev
Manufacturer: Trade Secrets ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000GFUZP4 |
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The world's leading hedge funds turn to Ari Kiev when they need to fine-tune their trading performance. Now, you can, too, with this powerful new video presentation. This interactive workshop outlines all the methods he trains professionals to adopt, including exercises to help keep emotions in check, stay on a disciplined track - and make trading decisions guided by strategy rather than by an elevated stress level. Let the popular Trading to Win author show you how to remain a cool, strategic Every trader has, at some point, let emotions guide their trading - usually resulting in costly results. The most successful traders will even tell you that the discipline they were forced to embrace as a result, was the key to their future trading success. Now, Trading to Win author Dr. Ari Kiev brings his personal coaching workshop into your own home, so you can develop the skills it takes to be a cool, collected, and consistently successful trader. This interactive course will help you remove the emotional component involved in making buy/sell decisions. He'll coach you on the best ways to deal with the stress, anxiety, and adrenaline rush that's a by-product of daily market activity. And you'll learn the same methods he's trained thousands of professional traders to employ as they triumph over the psychological problems learn to: · Trade less emotionally, and more strategically. · Identify the major stress triggers in trading. · Recognize - and overcome - the psychological habits that keep you from achieving maximum performance. · Be honest with yourself - rather than masking your trading anxieties. · Reduce the influence of greed by setting targets - and learning to stick to them. You'll find winning methods for resolving problems when working with a trading partner, and learn to challenge yourself without also elevating your level of stress. Leading hedge funds turn to Kiev when they need to master emotions on the path to consistent trading successBook Description
"Covered Call Writing With Qs And Diamonds: Double-Digit Returns on Ready-Made Portfolios" is not just another new book about covered call writing. It is a highly focused and readily understandable educational tool with a unique easy-to-follow implementation program. It is designed for investors who either do not have the time or the desire to research individual stocks and administer such a portfolio, yet who seek an opportunity to achieve double-digit investment returns by using covered call writing.Ownership of the ready-made portfolios available to you with the Qs (ticker symbol QQQ: the 100 largest companies on the Nasdaq) and Diamonds (ticker symbol DIA: the stocks composing the Dow Jones Industrial Average) eliminate the need for stock research. And, the call writing choices you have available to you with them are far broader than any individual stocks, making them the perfect equity investment to use in conjunction with covered call writing. The book delves deeply into the subject of how to obtain double-digit returns from both out-of-the-money calls and in-the-money calls. It also provides short-term technical analysis tools to assist in guiding market forecasts and making appropriate call writing decisions.
On May 3, 2003 after the annual meeting of his company, Warren Buffett (Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway) said to Maria Bartiromo of CNBC: "If you own equities, over the next twenty or thirty years you'll get a reasonable return...maybe its 6%, maybe its 7%. People who expect 15% a year are doomed to disappointment." If you believe that "The Oracle of Omaha" is right about a slow-growth market for decades to come, then everything that you need as an investor is here for you in this book to develop and implement a covered call writing program using two of the world's most liquid, highly diversified equity portfolios.
THE BOOK PROVIDES:
* The case for using the Nasdaq-100 Index Tracking Stock (tracks the top 100 Nasdaq stocks in market capitalization), also known as the "Qs" or "Cubes," and the Diamonds Trust Series 1 (tracks the Dow Jones Industrial Average), known simply as Diamonds, for total or substantial portfolio composition. This allows investors to achieve significantly more equity ownership diversification than from shares in individual stocks. * Details on the unique features of these two highly liquid and popular Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) that make them ideally suitable for no hassle, easy decision covered call writing to assist in reaching consistent double-digit investment returns in a more conservative way than a buy-and-hold equity strategy.
* A detailed turnkey implementation program for call writing with the QQQ and DIA, including "out-of-the-money" calls and "in-the-money" calls, both of which can yield solid double-digit returns, when and how to effectively use them.
* Discussion on call expiration date selection to fit your needs, including the advantages of shorter-term and longer-term expirations.
* A presentation of technical analysis tools to assist investors in making short-term decisions on when to write calls, and which type of call to write.
* Use of Microsoft® Excel spreadsheets to assist in reviewing covered call writing selection alternatives and tracking your results so that the best decisions for you are reached to achieve your investment return goal.
* Use of margin, if appropriate for you, to potentially almost double the returns from covered call writing on these ready-made portfolios.
* Details about brokerage accounts, with special emphasis on the use of online discount brokerages for quick, very low cost execution of trades. Web sites for brokerages, charting sources and other technical information are provided.
* Presentation of the tax information you need to understand and administer the income tax aspects of covered call writing. This includes deferring taxation of income until a later tax year while enjoying the use of the income now.
With interest rates so low and a scarcity of acceptable investment alternatives available to investors, covered call writing on diversified portfolios such as the Qs and Diamonds may offer one of the best possible opportunities to achieve double-digit investment returns in the slow-growth market we seem sure to encounter ahead.
Customer Reviews:
The 12% Problem.......2007-02-13
Loving it........2007-01-11
Covered Call Writing with Qs and Diamonds.......2006-11-10
VERY USEFUL & PROFITABLE BOOK.......2004-01-05
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Current Practices in Stock Option Plan Design: Results and analysis from the latest NCEO survey of companies with broad-based stock option plans
Ryan Weeden Manufacturer: National Center for Employee Ownership ProductGroup: Book Binding: Spiral-bound Similar Items:
ASIN: 0926902717 |
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Who gets stock options? How many? How often? And when? Many companies and professional advisors are familiar with how employee stock option plans work, but they lack detailed information on how companies are actually designing and using their plans. This 498-page book describes and analyzes the results of a pathbreaking survey of 247 U.S. companies conducted by the leading research and information organization in the field. The book is the most comprehensive resource available to the public on how companies design stock option plans. It mainly focuses on broad-based stock option plans (i.e., those covering most employees), but also addresses executive-only plans and employee stock purchase plans.The results presented here allow readers to make comparisons on allocation, vesting, and eligibility issues, as well as on corporate-level issues of dilution, the percentage of total option awards going to certain kinds of employees, the basis on which options are awarded, and other issues. The book provides extensive breakdowns of data by company size, industry, and region. These breakdowns provide overall plan data and also present information for various classes of employees. The results for executive plans and employee stock purchase plans (ESPPs) are presented separately in these breakdowns. Other chapters discuss the data on private vs. public companies, technology companies, companies offering one-time grants, ESPPs at companies with broad-based option plans, and how companies communicate their plans and get employees involved. Finally, the closing chapter summarizes other research in the field.
With its clear summary and analysis of overall results; its detailed breakdowns by industry, company size, and region; and its comparisons of public and private companies, this book is an essential tool for any company or consultant involved with employee stock options or related plans. It is spiral-bound for ease of use.
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How to Make Money with Stock Options: A Basic Guide for the Conservative Investor, Second Edition
Mervyn L. Hecht Manufacturer: Vantage Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0966248104 |
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How to Make Money with Stock Options is an introduction for the conservation, non-professional investor to the strategies used by professional investors to increase yield on investment through the use of stock options. Beginning with the basic elements of the differences between stocks and options, Mr. Hecht gradually moves the reader to the advanced stages of options strategies, including buying and selling puts and calls, spreads, and buy-writes. Throughout the book the emphasis is on conservative strategies, and an understanding of what makes particular strategies risky or conservation (and what those terms mean). The author includes practical sections on mitigation of losses and hedging, and helpful diagnose of common psychological pitfalls that sometimes influence our decision making in the market. Finally, there are sections giving practical advice specifically to stock brokers and layers handling option-related cases. How to Make Money with Stock Options makes this complex subject manageable for the average investor who wants to increase his or her investment return while maintaining a conservative posture.Customer Reviews:
John's Review.......2007-04-11
Go with a pro.......2006-08-13
It's not speculating.......2006-04-14
Traders' Delight.......2006-03-08
A valuable and easy-to-understand primer.......2001-03-21
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Investing With Stock Options (No Nonsense Financial Guide)
Marie-Jeanne Abadie Manufacturer: Longmeadow Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0681418893 |
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A very good book.......2003-12-29
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Winning With Options: The Smart Way to Manage Portfolio Risk and Maximize Profit
Michael C. Thomsett Manufacturer: AMACOM/American Management Association ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0814400337 |
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Options are an integral part of any financial portfolio, but they can be intimidating to the average investor. While often viewed as risky, the truth is that, if used properly, options can be one of the best tools for balancing a portfolio. In fact, they can help investors protect themselves from downside risk and leverage capital to make bigger plays than would otherwise be possible. In Winning with Options, Michael C. Thomsett offers nontechnical, easy-to-follow advice for readers who need guidance on important techniques related to portfolio management, such as diversification and risk management. Readers will discover how to:* choose the right brokerage firm * use online resources * pick the right stocks * track options * set portfolio and risk goals * understand the complicated world of options lingo * make the most of day trading and swing trading
Straightforward and practical, this is the one book that will help the novice option trader navigate the sometimes daunting, but often rewarding, world of trading and investing in options.
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Outsmarting Goliath plus recieve Candlestick Charting Basics audio CD as a bonus (Investment book & free audio CD)
Debra Koontz Traverso Manufacturer: Bloomberg Press & Marketplace ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000KDQKVA |
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Debra Koontz Traverso is a freelance writer and business consultant. She advises businesses on crisis management and over the years has worked with such companies as United Airlines, Dow Chemical, Coopers & Lybrand, London Fog, Nike, NASA, and UPS. She is also an adjunct professor at Harvard University where she lectures on communications and crisis management. Previously, she worked as a reporter, editor, and public relations specialist. Don Taylor, co-author of Up Against the Wal-Marts This book has it all. Common sense ideas you can use right now, technology tips for the future, and an easy-to-read, motivating style. Outsmarting Goliath is a must-read for every small business owner who doesn't want to stay small. comments: I have played a lot of sports going through school and each of my coaches at all levels have always stressed fundamentals and then gone on to teach advanced theories and plays . In reading Outsmarting Goliath I am struck with the degree to which the author has gone to stress the fundamentals of a healthy small business, and then moved on to add tremendously helpful, simple and yet sophistocated ideas. Bartering! What a great idea I would have never thought of. I bartered to get a new phone system with voice mail and it cost me less than 1/3 of the purchase price, and there was no tax! Her down to earth and sometimes funny anecdotal accounts of small business owners who have tripped or succeeded have provided me with a treasure trove of wonderful tips and ideas, some of which I have already implemented. I will add more over time. list price $19.95 Learn candlestick charting from a trading master! Steve will take you through the basics of candlestick charting and spotting early reversal signs in this informative audio tape. A great supplement to his best-selling title 'Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques' and his video workshop 'Strategies for Profiting with Japanese Candlesticks'. list price $19.95Books:
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