Publications

Options Trading the Hard Way

Type
Link
Cost
Paid
Published
2018
Full Name
Options Trading the Hard Way: A Trader’s Guide to Tactics & Strategies for Successful Option Trading

Options Trading the Hard Way is a comprehensive guide that explains option trading as it is experienced in real life. This book seeks to impart to readers the knowledge usually only gained after years of active option trading in the trenches. It also presents a comprehensive, beginning-to-end option trading process including identifying set-ups, selecting and pricing structures, and planning trades from both a risk and profit management perspective. Options Trading the Hard Way also covers trading into positions without getting ripped off, managing open positions, evaluating potential tactical and strategic adjustments, exiting positions, and properly managing expiration issues such as assignments and exercises.

Options Trading the Hard Way covers:

  • Understanding liquidity

  • Reality-based risk/reward

  • Estimating price targets

  • Closed and open structures

  • Setting profit and loss targets

  • Developing P&L plans

  • Using delta to gauge probability

  • Time stops

  • Gap moves

  • Importance of discipline and much more


Also included in this book:

  • Comprehensive overview of option fundamentals from a trader's perspective

  • Over 25 core option trading strategies

  • Over 20 tactical and strategic adjustment techniques

  • Three comprehensive trade examples