Options Trading: Simplified – Beginner’s Guide to Make Money Trading Options in 7 Days or Less! – Learn the Fundamentals and Profitable Strategies of Options Trading
By Mark Lowe
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About this ebook
Do you want to start making money trading options, but not sure where to start?
Have you tried to learn but found it all too difficult and confusing? Do you want to learn using simplified teaching methods in an easy step-by-step format? If so, this is the book for you!
This book addresses the key concepts and principles beneath option trading and leads you from being a raw beginner to becoming an educated options trader. This book requires no previous knowledge or experience in options or financial trading.
Inside, you'll find:
- What are Options? Why we trade in them and how to profit from them.
- The basic theory behind option trading and how it works
- How to make money trading options in markets moving up, down or sideways
- How to trade like a professional
- A five point strategy for making consistent income in the most difficult markets
- And much more…
If your previous attempts to learn using books, blogs and online videos have left you confused don't despair, for this book can help you.
Using the simplified trading best practices and profound tips and advice from the professionals, this book will help you understand how to trade profitably and safely using low risk but high profit strategies. Reading this book will provide you with a strategic philosophy that is geared to providing consistent income over a long, productive trading career.
Featuring all sorts of theoretical and practical gems - Options Trading Simplified: Beginner's Guide to Make Money Trading Options in 7 Days or Less! - explains why it is important to have a risk limiting strategy that protects your capital while optimizing your profit potential. This safety first, step by step approach is ideal for beginners and intermediary level traders who want to make money in options trading without losing their nest egg!
So scroll up and click "Buy Now" and get started on your 7-day journey to making money trading options!
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Options Trading - Mark Lowe
Options Trading Simplified
Beginner’s Guide to Make Money Trading Options in 7 Days or Less!
Learn the Fundamentals and Profitable Strategies of Options Trading
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Table of contents
Chapter 1 – Getting Started in Trading Options
Introducing Options
What Are Options?
Options in Common Law
Why Options Exist
Options as Insurance
Trading Options Basics
What is Options Trading?
Comparing Options to other Securities
Trading in Options
Trading Options for Profit
Chapter 2 - Understanding Options
An Option’s Components
Know the underlying asset
Risk Management
Option Contract Essentials
Understanding the Risk Components
Placing a Value on Call Options
Placing a Value on Put Options
Understanding Time and Time Decay
Paper Trading
The Advantages of Option Trading
Chapter 3 – Putting Options to Work
Options Put to good use
Hedging your Bets
Trading in a Bear Market
Using Options in Challenging Markets
Making Money in Flat Markets
Applying options to sector investing
A Deeper Dive into Options
Understanding Option Contracts
Setting your Strategy
Option Pricing
Contract Types: the Calls and Puts
Understanding Leverage
Options for Speculation
Marking to Market and Margin
Chapter 4–Getting to grips with the Jargon
Option Contract Variables
Listed Options
Long and Short Puts and Calls
Going long or going short
Trading Long on a Call
Trading short on a Call
Trading long on a Put
Trading short on a Put
Basic Put and Call Matrix
Writers & Buyers
Setting the Strike Price
Expiration Date
American and European Options
Chapter 5 - Understanding and Placing Orders
Reading the Quotes
Contract Naming Conventions
Basics of Orders
Option Transactions
Opening and Closing a Position
Selling an option you don’t own
Understanding option orders
Knowing basic option order rules
Basic Order Types
Market orders
Limit orders
Stop orders
Stop-limit orders
Specialist Types of Order
Advanced Order Types
Contingent orders
Trailing stop orders
One cancels other (OCO) orders
One triggers other (OTO) orders
Chapter 6 – Being in the Money
The concept of moneyness
The Moneyness of an Option
Open Interest
Expiration and Exercise
Exercising your Rights
Delivery and Settlement
Extrinsic and Intrinsic Value
Weighing Option Costs and Benefits
Risk of Leverage
Understand the role of Volatility
Using Greeks
for Options Trading
The Greeks in Brief
Chapter 7 – Trading like a Pro
Treating Option Trading as a Business
Controlling your emotions
Managing Your Costs
Optimizing Order Execution
Trading rules you should know
Finding a Broker and a Platform
Understanding Transaction Fees and Slippage
Develop a Small Account Trading Strategy
Deploying Risk-Defined Techniques
Credit Spread Strategy
Iron Condor
Covered Calls
Married Put Strategy
Protective Collar Strategy
Long Straddle Strategy
Long Strangle Strategy
Putting it all together
Thank you
Chapter 1 – Getting Started in Trading Options
An old Chinese proverb says that every journey starts with a single step. And here you are starting out on day 1 of your quest to learn all about trading options and making money in 7 days or less! Options are complex there is no getting around that and there is a lot to learn in such a short time and it's difficult to know where to start. But as this book is aimed at the beginner – someone new to options and financial trading then starting with the basics is as good a place as any. So today on day 1, we will introduce you to the basic concepts and theory of Options, what they are, how they work for us and why we trade them.
By taking this journey one step at a time we will build your knowledge, chapter by chapter, with each subsequent chapter building on the concepts learned previously. By approaching the journey one step at a time you will learn and become comfortable with some of the complex theory, concepts and principles of options trading but importantly also learn the practical skills you will need to thrive in the Options market.
In This Chapter
You will learn:
About why people are trading Options
What are options?
How did options come about?
Comparing Options to other Financial Instruments
Learn some of the key definitions
Learn how options operate in theory and in practice
How options are ultimately valued
Introducing Options
In financial trading, an option is a contract between two parties that gives one party – the prospective buyer - the choice between committing to a trade on a specific asset at an agreed price and at an agreed date and alternatively backing out of the trade. Therefore we can consider an Option to be a financial instrument that allows you the buyer to speculate on the market with low or at least identified risk. For example, as a beginner you may wish to test the water and so buy a stock option – this is a contract based on the underlying shares of a company - with a view to buying the underlying stock at a set price at a later predetermined date. The beauty of the Option is that should your assessment of the market be correct you can exercise your right to buy the shares or take your profit.
However, should your assessment be wrong and you have misjudged the market trend then you can simply walk away with no obligation to buy the stock. For example, a call option would let you select an Option today that is set at a fixed price which will be available to you at a future date. This means that you can assess the current price of the stock and then choose an option with an attractive future price, which you feel will maximize your profits. But, importantly, you are under no future obligation to buy the underlying stock – you can walk away for any reason.
Options are certainly not just tools for learning trading as institutional traders will use them regularly for what is known as Hedging where they buy options – importantly not the underlying stock - as insurance against a turn in their market position. This gives Options several unique characteristics which makes them valuable tools for insurance against risk.
Moreover, trading in Options is not just about hedging and insuring against risk it is also a very powerful way to make money if you know what you are doing. Unfortunately many rush in without fully grasping the technical details of Options and subsequently make large losses. This is simply because options are at first complex to grasp and even though they may well be based upon stocks and shares the mechanics of trading is very different.
This common perception of complexity and higher risk makes a lot of beginners and intermediary traders avoid trading in options. But it doesn’t have to be that way because trading options is actually a good place for beginners and intermediary traders to start out because if done correctly it can limit losses and risk while at the same time increasing the potential for profits. However, we must not underestimate the difference in the levels of knowledge and skills that are required to successfully trade in options.
What Are Options?
An option is defined as a contract between two parties, which gives the holder (buyer) the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell the underlying asset at an agreed fixed price at an agreed time in the future – or in some cases at any time before the contract’s expiry date.
Options as we saw earlier were designed to allow institutional investors to mitigate risk and act as tools for ensuring against market unpredictability. Thus the Options contract was originally used to buy insurance against potentially catastrophic price movements that would have led to huge losses. But their inherent characteristics soon made Options attractive to traders as speculation tools in their own right. To see how Option became fashionable with traders we