How to Start Trading Options

Download or read book How to Start Trading Options written by Kevin Kraus and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2005-10-12 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A popular options authority offers you a hands-on guide to get you up and trading—even if you’re a novice Options are extremely popular with traders looking to gain leverage and reduce risk, but books on the subject often get bogged down in complex mathematical formulas and other detailed discussions, which aren’t helpful a new trader. Start Trading Options delivers clear, concise, and ready-to-use explanations to guide you from the fundamentals of options through more advanced and powerful trading strategies. Plain-English descriptions explain uses of calls and puts, strategies for buying and selling, techniques for combining futures and options to create synthetic positions, and types of spreads from strangles and straddles to vertical, ratio, and delta.