Options Made Easy has earned a worldwide reputation for its simplicity, clarity and hands-on practicality. With outstanding graphics for step-by-step learning, it's packed with real trades designed to reinforce every new trader's learning experience. Using plain English and clear illustrations to explain key trading strategies, Cohen avoids complex math while effortlessly delivering the practical knowledge traders need.
Now, in this eagerly-anticipated Third Edition, Cohen updates all examples and data, utilizing the market's new option symbols throughout, and presenting a more streamlined, focused, and up-to-date review of relevant chart patterns and technical analyses. Most important, Cohen thoroughly introduces his breakthrough OVI indicator, derived from actual option transaction data. OVI leads the market, tracking what the world's smartest and savviest options traders are doing right now, and offering signals even beginning option traders can use to earn consistent profits.
Step by step, he walks traders through:
- Filtering for stocks and selecting the right strategy for each situation.
- Implementing strategies for income, including covered calls and bull put spreads.
- Trading volatility through straddles and strangles.
- Using butterflies and condors to trade rangebound markets.
- Understanding trading psychology and how it impacts option traders.
Key Features
- Guy Cohen's best-selling VISUAL guide to option trading -- now fully updated with brand-new data, option symbols, and examples!
- A huge worldwide best-seller based on its exceptional reputation for simplicity, clarity, and hands-on practicality.
- Now adds coverage of Guy Cohen's exclusive OVI market indicator, which reveals what the world's smartest, savviest option traders are doing right now.
- Reflects updated option symbols that every trader must understand and use.
- Includes extensive new coverage of chart patterns and technical analysis.
Contents
- Chapter 1: Introduction to Options
- Chapter 2: Into the Marketplace
- Chapter 3: The Basics of Fundamental Analysis
- Chapter 4: The Basics of Technical Analysis
- Chapter 5: Two Popular Strategies and How to Improve Them
- Chapter 6: An Introduction to the Greeks
- Chapter 7: Bull Call Spreads and Bull Put Spreads
- Chapter 8: Two Basic Volatility Strategies
- Chapter 9: Two Basic Sideways Strategies
- Chapter 10: Trading and Investing Psychology
- Chapter 11: Putting It All Together--A Call to Action
- Chapter 12: Trading with the OVI
- Appendix I: Strategy Table
- Appendix II: Glossary
- References and Recommended Reading
- Index
About the Authors
- An innovator in financial trading, Guy Cohen is the creator and originator of the unique OVI Indicator, FlagTrader, and OptionEasy. He is the author of bestselling trading books Options Made Easy, The Bible of Options Strategies, and Volatile Markets Made Easy (FT Prentice Hall). Guy’s new book, The Insider Edge (Wiley), was released in September 2012 and is focused on his OVI Indicator. His published work is complemented by pioneering breakthroughs in the areas of trading and technical indicators, specifically the OVI.
Book Details
- Hardcover: 368 pages
- Publisher: FT Press; 3 edition (c2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0133087891
- ISBN-13: 978-0133087895
- Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 1.1 x 9.4 inches
- List Price: $39.99