How to use options to dramatically reduce the market risk that represents your #1 concern as a trader. Market risk is the trader’s single biggest concern when buying stock. If you put money into shares, you risk losing much of it when the market goes down. You cannot completely eliminate market risk. However, you can use options to create synthetic positions that vastly reduce it. You can create a position that will virtually duplicate a stock’s behavior, for a fraction of the cost....

Options: a key component of today’s most powerful swing trading strategies. Options, those high-risk, short-lived, and speculative instruments, can be used as a valuable alternative in swing trading strategies designed to move in and out of stock positions based on very short-term price movement. Options’ flexibility allows you to use either calls or puts, to go long or short, vary the number of contracts, or combine different approaches based on market conditions.

How options can help you recover losses in stock investments you still want to keep. In volatile markets, inevitable paper losses tie up capital and prevent you from moving ahead. So what do you do? Do you just wait and hope the market price rebounds? Do you cut your losses and move your cash to more promising stocks? Or are there other choices? If you still consider the company a worthwhile investment, you can use options as part of a recovery strategy.

The world's fastest growing trading markets are options markets. Options offer a world of opportunities that are simply unavailable to the stock trader. Trading stocks is like owning a "hammer," but trading options is like owning the whole toolbox. Why, then, do so many investors lose money in options? They lose because they trade options the way they've always traded stocks. To succeed, you must understand options the way professional options traders do. This book will help you do precisely that. When stock traders look at price, they see information. Options traders see probability, time, volatility -- and perhaps even a lack of information. Stock trading is about having more information than the other guy. Options trading can be about exploiting the lack of information. Stock trades have a 50% chance of success: stocks go up or they don't. Options trades can be structured for 90% probability of success. The very nature of trading is transformed by these radically different dynamics. Michael Hanania Benklifa reveals those dynamics and shows exactly how to take full advantage of them. Benklifa manages millions of dollars in options trades through his own firm. Here, he reveals how he approaches these trades, offering practical, concise and actionable insights based on actual scenarios. If you've struggled to profit from options... if you're intrigued by options, but hesitant... if you're succeeding with options but want to do better... this is the book you've been searching for.

A powerful new technique for evaluating the profit potential of complex option combinations with nonlinear payoffs. Why is an additional analytic tool needed? Generally, evaluation of investment decisions is based on comparing realized profits (variability, drawdown, and other risk measures) with their corresponding expected values. While such an approach is appropriate for financial instruments possessing linear payoff functions, it has numerous drawbacks when applied to evaluating complex option combinations with nonlinear payoffs....

This is the eBook version of the printed book. 7 breakthrough options trading strategies – with everything you need to know to apply them! Seven options strategies every savvy trader needs to master — each presented concisely, with real-world guidance from a world-class expert! Discover powerful swing trading alternatives… strategies utilizing low risk-spreads… better ways to pick covered calls… how to compare investments through ranking analysis… how to use short puts and synthetic stock… even how to recover from losses! From world-renowned leaders and experts, including Michael Thomsett and Sergey Izraylevich

The essential resource for the successful option trader High Performance Options Trading offers a fresh perspective on trading options from a seasoned options trader programmer/engineer, Leonard Yates. Drawing on twenty-five years of experience as an options trader and software programmer, Yates has written this straightforward guide. First he provides readers with a solid foundation to trading options, including an introduction to basic options terminology, a thorough explanation on how options are traded, and specific trading strategies. Accompanied by the OptionVue Educational website, this hands-on guide to the options market is a thorough and essential resource for any trader looking to increase his or her practical knowledge of options.