An Introduction to Options Trading (Securities Institute)
An Introduction to Options Trading (Securities Institute)
Explaining the theory and practice of options from scratch, this book focuses on the practical side of options trading, and deals with hedging of options and how options traders earn money by doing so. Common terms in option theory are explained and readers are shown how they relate to profit. The book gives the necessary tools to deal with options in practice and it includes mathematical formulae to lift explanations from a superficial level. Throughout the book real-life examples will il
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Jul 31, 2010 3:03 pm |
Review by Dennis Murphree for An Introduction to Options Trading (Securities Institute)
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This book is a truly excellent options introduction. I have used it as a complement to both Hull’s text and Wilmott’s text, and it has really solidified my understanding. de Weert ties together and writes in a more easily digestible form the take home points from the other more technical books. I highly, highly recommend this book.
Jul 31, 2010 3:56 pm |
Review by a reader for An Introduction to Options Trading (Securities Institute)
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This book is the most powerful book on options as it makes the dynamics of options intuitive by focussing on its economics while at the same time providing the mathematics behind it. All this is achieved by using real life investment strategies as examples. The culmination of this book is that it shows the relation between all the Greeks and the profit of a delta hedged option. The book can easily be used as a manual for traders as it gives guidelines as to when to early exercise options and the correlation exposure of composite or quanto option to name just two examples. Any trader or sales man in investment banking should use this as a manual.
Jul 31, 2010 4:30 pm |
Review by S. Barton for An Introduction to Options Trading (Securities Institute)
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As a professional equity options trader I recommend this book to all those wanting to make a start in the world of options trading but realise the importance of a good theoretical grounding before risking their hard earned money. I recommend this book to all the junior traders I have trained and worked with.
Mr. deWeert has lead the field with this book, cutting though the mathematical jargon and explaining simply the concepts which are so often over complicated. Bravo Mr. de Weert!
Jul 31, 2010 5:00 pm |
Review by Steven G for An Introduction to Options Trading (Securities Institute)
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To me, the title of the book is misleading. Book should be titled something like, “An Introduction to the Theoretical/Mathematical Concepts Behind Options.” If you’re looking for trading strategies, this book does not offer anything that the intro page of an options website does. Save yourself some money, unless you’re a math geek (not that there’s anything wrong with that!)
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