Trading Options For Dummies
Thinking of trading options, but not sure where to start? Trading Options For Dummies starts you from the beginning with clear, step-by-step advice on how to use top option strategies to reduce your risk while boosting your income and enlarging your retirement portfolio with index, equity, and ETF options.This plain-English guide explains the common types of options and helps you choose the right ones for your investing needs. You find out how to weigh option costs and benefits, combine options
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May be your first book on Options,
This book assumes that the reader already have familiarity with stocks, and would like to move further, to options. The author doesn’t take into account the fundamental analysis of the underlying security, however, there is a chapter about the technical analysis. In my point of view, it is a drawback: a reader already familiar with the stock market may be aware of the technical analysis, so either both technical and fundamental need to be covered or none.
The book covers three types of options: stock options, index options, and ETF options. There is a separate chapter devoted to ETFs, but a reader already familiar with a stock market will get no benefit from this chapter.
The book is printed with quite a large font have quite much space around the text, so it is quick to read. This may be a good introductory book to options. It is pretty basic and easy to understand, however, it fails to address an important technique of selling puts as a way of buying the underlying security. Warren Buffett obtains most of his stock holdings through selling puts. He got most of his Coca-Cola Holdings this way, and, recently, Burlington Northern Santa Fe.
If you need a much deeper book on options, I would recommend “The Options Course” by the same author. It doesn’t have the drawbacks above mentioned, very friendly and easy to understand, although it is a much lengthier read.
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|Good for wrapping up loose ends,
What this book lacks in detail, it makes in subject completeness.
There are dozens and dozens of great websites out there describing options and trading strategies in far better depth and completeness than this book. So, if you’re looking for complex spreads or techniques, this book will not satisfy you.
However, online searches are so saturated in trading strategies that it’s actually difficult to become aware of real world transactional details (like, “who are the market makers? how does assignment work?”). this book nicely wraps up those “loose ends” that are hardly ever mentioned on your favorite search engine.
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|This Book is Too Complex for Dummies,
I wanted a book which would explain buying and selling options in a thorough way for someone who knew very little about options. This is not the book.
The author seems to have the intent to throw in as many complex terms without every explaining the simple things. Never once in this book is a walk through through on how to buy a call, how to sell the option, or on how to exercise the underlying contract. The same goes for simple puts.
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