Publications

Options Math for Traders

Type
Link
Cost
Paid
Published
2012
Full Name
Options Math for Traders: How To Pick the Best Option Strategies for Your Market Outlook

Options Math for Traders is a practical guide to the math behind options and how that knowledge can improve your trading performance. It aims to help retail option traders understand some of the basic tenants and enduring relationships of options, and option math, that professional and institutional traders rely on every day. This book skillfully highlights those strategies that are inherently superior from an option math point of view and explains what drives that superiority while also examining why some strategies are inherently inferior.

"Just as he does every week on CNBC's Options Action, Scott helps everyone from a basic to advanced trader understand Options in a clear, straightforward manner. Scott has the ability to transfer his immense knowledge of Options in a way that is inviting rather than intimidating and can help traders select an Options strategy to best reflect their thoughts on the market."

JJ Kinahan, Chief Derivatives Strategist, TD Ameritrade


"Options trading for individual investors has come a long way from just simply 'going long' a call or a put. Understanding the basic mathematical principles behind options pricing, as well as basic strategies, will help build a solid foundation for the aspiring trader. Scott Nations combines those principles with real-world experience to create a winning combination."

Kris Monaco, Head of New Product Development, International Securities Exchange LLC


"For anyone who finds options or the concepts of volatility challenging, Scott helps simplify them. Scott helps options traders of all backgrounds better understand these markets and traders more profitably."

Michael Khouw, Managing Director, Head of Equity Derivatives, CRT Capital Group, LLC; CNBC contributor


"Options Math for Traders + Website: How to Pick the Best option Strategies for Your Market Outlook by Scott Nations is an excellent educational tool for the investor wishing to utilize Options in their investment strategies. Options Math for Traders guides you and helps you understand the thought process when evaluating and analyzing risk and reward on an Options Traders".

Dax Rodriguez, President, Livevol, Inc.