Show Me Your Options! The Guide to Complete Confidence for Every Stock and Options Trader Seeking Consistent, Predictable Returns

Options talk can be very technical but "Show Me Your Options" is broken down into bite-size chapters and useful options analogies that will help anybody muddle through options trading and come out on the other side with a couple of strategies they can use right now. The measure of a great trading book is whether I can take what I read last week and inject that into my trading on the next. Mission accomplished guys.






Jeff Pierce


@zentrader


zentrader.ca








Contents



Introduction
Chapter 1 Options are not assets, they are bets.

Chapter 2 Every option contract has a buyer and a seller; one is long, one is short, but which one has the best odds of winning?
Chapter 3 Strong trends are the friend of an option buyer and the enemy of an option seller.
Chapter 4 Time is an option seller's friend, but the option buyer's enemy. (theta)
Chapter 5 volatility is the option buyer's friend but the option seller's enemy. (vega)

Chapter 6 How much of the move do you get for the money? (delta)
Chapter 7 Stocks for rent: covered calls
Chapter 8 Selling lottery tickets: naked options
Chapter 9 Buying lottery tickets: deep out-of-the-money options

Chapter 10 Trends determine who wins: strangles and straddles
Chapter 11 The twins: every position has a synthetic relative
Chapter 12 Spreads: ratio, calendar, diagonal
Chapter 13 The wind beneath the pro's wings: butterflies and condors
Chapter 14 Dealing with the behavioral problems of immature options
Chapter 15 A trader's choices: insurance, stop losses, or ruin
Chapter 16 Your method, your rules, your edge





Appendix A: Relative time value of options based on the time to expiration of the contract
Appendix B: Odds and expected payout of selected option strategies
Appendix C: The relationship between option premiums, deltas, standard deviations, and profit probabilities
Appendix D: Time progression payout potential
Appendix E: Expanded table of synthetic positions