Options Made Easy Your Guide to Profitable Trading

by Cohen, Guy

• ISBN13: 9780133087895
• ISBN10: 0133087891
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-04-23
• Publisher: FT Press

Summary

Master option trading, visually, hands-on -- and discover the powerful, easy-to-use OVI indicator that leads the market, revealing what the world's savviest option traders are doing right now! Learn option trading from the newest edition of Guy Cohen's international best-seller Options Made Easy, which has earned a worldwide reputation for its simplicity, clarity and hands-on practicality. With outstanding graphics for step-by-step learning, this easy tutorial packed with real trades is designed to reinforce every new trader's learning experience. Using plain English and clear illustrations to explain each key trading strategy, Cohen avoids complex math while effortlessly delivering the practical knowledge traders need. Now, in this eagerly-anticipated Third Edition, Cohen updates all examples and data, utilizing the market's new option symbols throughout, and presenting a more streamlined, focused, and up-to-date review of relevant chart patterns and technical analyses. Most important, he thoroughly introduces his breakthrough OVI indicator, revealing how it captures the implications of actual option transaction data, and presents signals even beginners can use to earn consistent profits. Step by step, Cohen walks traders through: Filtering for stocks and selecting the right strategy for each situation Implementing proven strategies for income, including covered calls and bull put spreads Trading volatility through straddles and strangles Using butterflies and condors to trade rangebound markets Understanding trading psychology and its impact on option trades And much more

Author Biography

GUY COHEN, MRICS, MBA (London, UK) developed Optionseasy, the world's most comprehensive and user-friendly online options trading and training application. A leading innovator in financial trading, he also created the uniquely powerful OVI indicator for option trading. A successful private trader, he has developed a global reputation for teaching trading psychology, technical analysis, and options strategies. Cohen's best-selling books include The Bible of Options Strategies: The Definitive Guide to Practical Trading Strategies; Volatile Markets Made Easy; The Insider Edge; and all editions of Options Made Easy. He holds an MBA in Finance from City University Business School, London, UK.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Options

2. Into the Marketplace

3. The Basics of Fundamental Analysis

4. The Basics of Technical Analysis

5. Two Popular Strategies and How to Improve Them

6. An Introduction to the Greeks

7. Bull Call Spreads and Bull Put Spreads

8. Two Basic Volatility Strategies

9. Two Basic Sideways Strategies

10. Trading and Investing Psychology

11. Putting It All Together: a Call to Action

12. OVI

Appendix I: Strategy Table

Appendix II: Glossary References and Recommended Reading

The easiest, most visual way to master option trading: a worldwide best-seller, now thoroughly updated, with new coverage of Guy Cohen's breakthrough OVI indicator!