Olmstead, W. Edward.

Options for the beginner and beyond : unlock the opportunities and minimize the risks / W. Edward Olmstead. - Upper Saddle River, N. J. : Financial Times/Prentice Hall, 2006. - xxiv, 230 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

Basic concepts -- Introduction -- Option selection -- Entering and exiting option trades -- The Greeks -- Risk graphs -- Leaps -- Assignment anxiety -- Broker selection -- Miscellaneous tips -- Trading strategies -- Vertical spreads -- Event producing credit spreads -- Calendar spreads -- Advanced calendar spreads -- Covered calls -- Straddles and strangles -- Stock repair and stock enhancement -- Married puts -- Collars -- Advanced collars -- Naked option writing -- Stock substitutes -- Backspreads -- Butterfly spreads -- Iron condors and double diagonals -- An end-of-year tax strategy -- Special topics -- Day trading an index with options -- Delta-neutral trading -- Theory of maximum pain -- Implied volatility and the black-scholes formula -- Put-call parity relationship.

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Options (Finance)
Investment analysis.

HG6024.A3 / .O46 2006

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