Ratio Call Spreads Leverage Profits from Long Stock Positions

by Kearney, Marty

• ISBN13: 9781592803866
• ISBN10: 1592803865
• Edition: 1st
• Format: DVD
• Copyright: 2010-01-12
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

A comprehensive course in understanding and reaping the rewards of one of the most powerful options trading strategies

You need options strategies that are as versatile as they are profitable. Often mischaracterized as a highly risky strategy, the ratio call spread can be one of the most versatile and powerful weapons in your trading arsenal—that is, if you know how to use it properly to add the most profit potential to your positions. Presented by Marty Kearney, an instructor at The Options Institute of the CBOE, this course walks you through the inner workings of the ratio spread, showing you how to bring in option premium and capture gains from upward moves by finding just the right balance of options bought and sold on every trade.

•  A DVD/Online Manual course on everything you need to know to harness the power of ratio spreads—an indispensable “tool of the trade” for today's options traders
• From stock repair strategies or as an alternative to covered calls, Kearney thoroughly acquaints you with the unique risk profiles and alternatives ratio spreads offer stock investors
• Features numerous real-world price examples and application examples and variations involving out-of-the-money, in-the-money, and at-the-money options

Author Biography

Marty Kearney is a Senior Staff Instructor at The Options Institute at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE). Kearney is the author of LEAPS Trading Strategies: Powerful Techniques for Options Trading Success, co-author of Understanding LEAPS, and a contributing author of Options: Essential Concepts and Strategies, third edition. He is a regular contributor to many new services, including Reuters, Group W, The CBS Radio Network, Derivatives Week, Barron's, Fortune, Ticker Magazine, SFO Magazine, CNBC, NPR, Bloomberg, and others.