Trading Options for Edge Advanced Methods for Building and Managing an Entire Book of Trades

by Sebastian, Mark

ISBN13:
9780134129235
ISBN10:
0134129237
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 2016-05-01
Publisher: FT Press
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Summary

Many professionals (ria, hedge funds, money managers, professional retail traders) have knowledge of trading strategies, but have no idea how to pull it together. In Trading Options for Edge the author talks about how to structure a trading business. Sebastian teaches trade evaluation, how to build a portfolio, how to manage risk and how to avoid blowing out your count. The approach will help traders build their own personal Goldman Sachs or Merrill Lynch.

Author Biography

Mark Sebastian is a former member of both the Chicago Board Options Exchange and the American Stock Exchange. The Author of the popular trading manual "The Option Traders Hedge fund." He is a frequent guest on CNBC, Fox Business News, Bloomberg, and First Business News. Mark has done consulting work for billion dollar hedge funds and invest advisors as well has multiple money managers. Sebastian has been published nationally on Yahoo Finance, quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and Bloomberg and is an ‘all-star contributor’ for TheStreet.com’s Option Profits Team. Mark has spoken for the CBOE, the ISE, CME, and VOLX and is a co-host on the popular Option Block Podcast and Volatility Views podcast. Mark has a Bachelor’s in Science from Villanova University.

Introduciton

Chapter 1. A framework
Chapter 2: Basics of risk management
Chapter 3. How do market makers manage risk on a position by position basis when trading

Trading for Direction
Chapter 4: The Wheel trade and leveraged trading
Chapter 5: Basics of buy and sell decisions

Non Directional Trading
Chapter 6: How to evaluate edge in short premium trades
Chapter 7: Capturing edge and basic spreads
Chapter 8: Trading front spreads and broken wing butterflies for edge
Chapter 9: Trading long options for edge, how to buy straddles strangles and short butterflies against a portfolio of trades
Chapter 10: Calendar Spreads: when to buy, when to sell, when to trade something else
Chapter 11: How market makers manage book risk, how they take hold a whole portfolio
Chapter 12: Book management, Net portfolio weighting, how to hold rate trades against a total portfolio
Summary
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