Book Overview
We've all heard bits and pieces of investor "wisdom" about writing options here and there: "80 -90% of all options expire worthless" or "selling options is a ‘risky’ strategy", or better yet, "individual investors can't do that." But how true are these old trading axioms?
Option selling has long been a key strategy available to professional investors that can give them an edge over the individual part-time trader. This is mainly because it has been difficult to obtain good information on what option selling is and how one can put it to use in a portfolio. There has never been a definitive guide written exclusively about selling options that spells it out in a very clear, down-to-earth manner for the individual investor, UNTIL NOW.
Long considered profitable for professional traders but too sophisticated for most investors, Option Selling has been surging in popularity amongst the personal investment community. Professional investors have relied on the proven performance and stability of option selling for decades. They know that, while no investment strategy can be both lucrative and risk-free, option selling provides a risk/reward ratio that is difficult if not impossible to come by in any other investment.
In this book, you will learn the crucial lessons and hard facts of trading options, including why the odds of trading options almost always favor the seller. More importantly, the book outlines how everyday investors can start putting option selling to work for their portfolios immediately.
Subjects covered include:
- Why selling options on futures is markedly similar to selling options on equities, with far better profit potential
- How to select the right market, strike price, and month to improve the likelihood that options you write will expire worthless
- Strategies for controlling risk by selling far out of the money options, with low deltas, diversified across different markets
- All about SPAN margin--the key to consistently high returns
- Fundamentals of select futures markets, from soybeans and corn to cattle, energies, precious metals, and others
- How to utilize reliable seasonal tendencies, along with examples of the most consistently tradable patterns
- Six mistakes new option sellers commonly make, and how to learn from and preempt them in your own account
- Methods for trading profitably without spending hours each week studying the markets
- What really happens behind the scenes in the trading industry and how individual investors can “level the playing field” with the pros
If you’re tired of feeling like an outsider in the investment game or you get the feeling that you’re “missing something” in your trading of stocks or futures, this book will change the way you look at investing forever.
Pick up your copy of The Complete Guide to Option Selling at your local bookstore or order online today.
