The Market Taker's Edge: Insider Strategies from the Options Trading Floor

by Passarelli, Dan

• ISBN13: 9780071754927
• ISBN10: 007175492X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-08-17
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

A veteran CBOT floor trader offers an expert's vantage point of the options trading universe.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Disclaimer and Disclosure	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
My First Year In The Options Business: What I Learned and How I Learned It	p. 1
The Difference Between Me and You	p. 15
Spreading Risk	p. 35
An Option By Any Other Name	p. 47
The Zen of Trading And Hoping To Never Get A Real Job	p. 59
Know Your Enemy: Market Makers and the Market	p. 67
Using What You Know About Market Makers To Your Advantage: Part 1	p. 83
Using What You Know About Market Makers To Your Advantage: Part 2	p. 99
Using What You Know About Market Makers To Your Advantage: Part 3	p. 113
The Shift of Power: How Decimalization, Multiple Listing, and Technology Changed the Rules of the Game	p. 127
Synthetics And The Professional Traders' Indifference Between Puts and Calls	p. 137
Expiration Trading: Cranking Up the Gain	p. 149
Living On The Edge: Volatility on Every Trade	p. 159
Volatility and Straddles: The Market-Maker Trade	p. 173
Arbitrage and Niche Trading: How Small Profits Add Up to Big Money	p. 185
Monitoring Options Portfolio Risk	p. 193
The Symbiotic Relationship Between The Makers and The Takers	p. 207
Playing The Numbers: Interpreting Options Data	p. 213
Stories, Sayings, and Adventures From The Epicenter Of The Options Universe	p. 221
Index	p. 227
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