The purpose of this book is to teach traders how to do three things: 1. Construct trades that incorporate spot, futures, and options together; 2. Choose one out of 15 strategies presented to help traders diminish their risk and maximize their potential profit; and 3. Determine the risk/reward profile of keeping a trade on or if a trade can be salvaged using any one of the 15 key trades to rescue the position. The book will comprise of nine basic strategies and six advanced strategies. Each strategy will be broken down into three components: why you should use it, when you should use it, and what market environments are most conductive to using it. Included among the strategies are: using options as a stop or as a risk management tool; creating synthetic options to minimize transaction costs; using straddles and strangles to trade news events; using collars to create limited loss/defined profit scenario; and using spreads to take advantage of seasonal tendencies. The book will provide traders with abetter sense of the tools they have available to attack the market in a manner that both matches their risk/reward comfort level and matches their market outlook.
- ISBN: 978-0-470-28735-4
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 274
- Fecha Publicación: 09/04/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés