Show Me Your Options! the Guide to Complete Confidence for Every Stock and Options Trader Seeking Consistent, Predictable Returns

Options talk can be very technical but "Show Me Your Options" is broken down into bite-size chapters and useful options analogies that will help anybody muddle through options trading and come out on the other side with a couple of strategies they can use right now. The measure of a great trading book is whether I can take what I read last week and inject that into my trading on the next. Mission accomplished guys. Jeff Pierce @zentrader zentrader.ca Contents IntroductionChapter 1 Options are not assets, they are bets.Chapter 2 Every option contract has a buyer and a seller; one is long, one is short, but which one has the best odds of winning?Chapter 3 Strong trends are the friend of an option buyer and the enemy of an option seller.Chapter 4 Time is an option seller's friend, but the option buyer's enemy. (theta)Chapter 5 volatility is the option buyer's friend but the option seller's enemy. (vega)Chapter 6 How much of the move do you get for the money? (delta)Chapter 7 Stocks for rent: covered callsChapter 8 Selling lottery tickets: naked optionsChapter 9 Buying lottery tickets: deep out-of-the-money optionsChapter 10 Trends determine who wins: strangles and straddlesChapter 11 The twins: every position has a synthetic relativeChapter 12 Spreads: ratio, calendar, diagonalChapter 13 The wind beneath the pro's wings: butterflies and condorsChapter 14 Dealing with the behavioral problems of immature optionsChapter 15 A trader's choices: insurance, stop losses, or ruinChapter 16 Your method, your rules, your edge Appendix A: Relative time value of options based on the time to expiration of the contractAppendix B: Odds and expected payout of selected option strategiesAppendix C: The relationship between option premiums, deltas, standard deviations, and profit probabilitiesAppendix D: Time progression payout potentialAppendix E: Expanded table of synthetic positions