The Only Options Trading Book You'll Ever Need: Options Trading Workbook for Beginners to Hedge Your Stock Market Portfolio and Generate Income
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Do you want to learn options but worried that it's too complicated? If yes, then keep reading!
This trading guide is intended for beginners. It's ideal for those who are investors and want to get started in options trading. The guide simplifies all the options trading concepts and illustrates them with workbook style examples. At the end of each chapter, there are 5-10 questions with charts that aim to further enhance your understanding of the topic.
To trade options successfully, it would help if you began with a solid understanding of investment terminology, risk management, dollar-cost averaging, and a few other things that will help guide you on your journey into investing.
This book will give you exact steps on how to start investing without overcomplicating it. All you need is some common sense and some knowledge of the bases of investing.
The present guide covers:
What is Options Trading?
The Positives and Negatives of Options Trading
Options Trading Terms and Symbols
The Options Strategy to use in a Bull Market
The Options Strategy to use as protection
The Options Strategy to use for consistent income
How to use Volatility to Time Your Options Trades
Final Options Worksheet
Even if you've never heard of Options before, you will gain a lot from this book. This book walks you through the entire process step-by-step, free from technical jargon.
Selling a covered call on a stock you own is an instant way to make income from options trading. The premium from doing one covered call will cover the cost of this book and 10x more...
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The Only Options Trading Book You'll Ever Need - Kendrick Fernandez
Options Trading For Beginners
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents
The Basics of Options Trading
Options at the Core
But are they the Same as Stocks?
More Examples
How and Where to Open an Options Account in the USA
The difference between Level 0, 1, 2, and 3 Accounts
Definitions of Options Terms
The Call
The Put
Buying
Selling
Underlying Stock
Expiration Date
Strike Price
Premium
Time Value
Exercise
Some basic Options Quotes and examples
Advanced Options Quote: The Options Chain
The Covered Calls
What is a Covered Call?
Examples of Buying and Selling
The Benefits of This
How to Find the Best Assets for Covered Calls
How to Find the right Strike Price for A Covered Call
A Step-By-Step Way to Sell Covered calls
Step One: Beginning with Choosing the Underlying Security
Step Two: Calculating Before Writing
Step Three: Heading to the Brokerage to Fill Out the Sheet
Step Four: Watching the Market
Writing Tips
All About Buying Covered Calls
What is Buying a Covered Call
The benefits of Buying Covered Calls
All About Open Interest
The Risks of Covered Calls
Finding the Right Stock and Strike Price for a Covered Call
How to Buy a Successful Covered Call
What About Naked Calls?
Buying and Selling Puts
What is Buying and Selling Puts?
Selling Puts in this Market
An Example of Buying a Put
The risks of it
The Advantages of Buying Puts
The Advantages of Selling Puts
How to find the right Put for Yourself
The Rookie Mistake
Why Puts are the Solution for Option Prices Plunging
Naked Puts
Advanced Strategies
Buying Straddles
Buying Strangle
The Call Ratio Backspread
The Put Ratio backspread
The Butterfly Spread-Long Put Butterfly
Trading Options with ETFs
Knowing your Markets
The Bear Market
Bull markets
Trading in Bear Markets
Trading in Bull Markets
How to Spot these Markets
Conclusion
The Risks of Options Trading
How to be Careful
Successful Options Traders
Resources for Options Traders
The Basics of Options Trading
For many people, the first thing to touch on is what exactly options are. Here, we’ll go into detail on what options trading is, along with some critical examples that can help you.
Options at the Core
Let’s go to the very basics of options trading. Options are essentially contracts that give the investor a chance to buy or sell securities, such as an index or commodity, at a fixed price within a fixed period of time. So, the investor can buy or sell the security at that price irrespective of the actual trading price. He can also do so any time within the fixed period.
Buying and selling options are done within a market, and from there, these trades are done on contracts for various securities. If you buy an option, it allows you to buy shares later on, and they are called calls
. If you sell these shares later, it’s called put
options.
So let’s take an example where you have a house that is worth $1 million, and you then are given the option to buy the house at 800K over the next 3 months. So you pay a 2% fee of this to the seller for the option itself. 2% of the house is 20000 dollars of course, and you simply pay that for the option. So you have the house essentially as an option to buy within the next 3 months.
Now, let’s say that three months have passed, and now you can choose whether or not you want to buy the house, or sell the house. In this, you’re the buyer of the option, so you’re the one who chooses whether or not you want to buy the house, and the one who is selling the house is, of course, the seller. Of course, you have to pay the 2% options fee regardless. So, if you after a few months want to buy the house and from there, if it increases, you can buy it at a much smaller margin than what it may be.
So, let’s say the home value increases to 110000. You buy it at 80000 as per the contract. From there, it can be sold again in order to net a 280K profit (300K price increase – 20K fee). This is something that you should definitely act upon. It’s used in real estate investing too.
But, let’s say that you end up seeing the house depreciate over time, and now, unfortunately, after 3 months it’s $700,000, which is 100K less than what you were prompted to pay for it. You should at this point choose not to buy the house, and while you do lose the options fee, it’s not much. Because after all, losing 20 grand is much better than losing 100 grand, right?
Options are essentially the option to buy something, and you can choose whether or not you want to invest in this or not (after a certain period of time).
But are they the Same as Stocks?
Nope. That’s the short answer. But the long answer is because they aren’t representing the part of the company that you have owned. Instead they’re basically contracts of different investments, and for many people, they are better because you can walk away at any point.
With stocks, if you invest in it, unfortunately, you're stuck in it until you cash out, or you sell it to someone else. That means that there is more risk there.
However, when you buy and sell options, the trader or the investor does not have to invest in the stock at the end of the options period if he does not want to. Options are usually considered derivative securities, which entails that the price is derived from another value in the assets, or other underlying instruments. They are less risky than stocks, as long as you use these correctly.
With options trading, you will have to pay an options fee. So even if you do not end up investing in the stock, it’ll need to be paid.
Investors use these because they are bets on whether something will go up, down, or hedge, and we’ll go into deeper details on what all of that means later.
More Examples
Let’s take a look at a couple more examples of different types of options. Let’s talk about stock options because this is one of the areas where beginner investors look at.
So, let’s say you have stock XYZ that’s at a certain number. Let’s say you can buy that stock for 50 grand, and that’s the option. So you could get that stock for 50 grand and let’s say that option expires at the end of 3 months. You agree to buy this stock, and then a 2% fee, which is a grand. You then put down 1000 dollars on that, and you watch it.
Now let’s say that after 3 months, this company does something super awesome, and from there, you notice their profits markedly increase. It ends up increasing to 150K in the stock share, and you’re like of course I’ll take that share
and you decide to do that. That’s an example of the stock actually increasing, and you totally buy that option from another. That means you’re netting a 99K (100K profit – 1 K fee) profit, which is pretty killer, and you can from there sell the shares of that stock to others to net even more money. That is a contract that you can utilize.
But, let’s now look at a second scenario. Let’s say that you see the company tank. Which sucks, but that does happen when bad decisions are made, and everyone makes poor choices. It happens, but that means that the stock is going down, and it falls down the tubes. It only has a value of 10 grand now, which means it’s a 40K decrease if you choose to buy it. Now if you have faith in this stock somehow that it can magically recover, you might take the risk. But for beginner traders, you know better than that than to stick around with a sinking ship, so you refuse to buy. You lose about a grand, but of course, that’s not much compared to how much you could’ve lost if you actually bought the stock.
That’s an example of how it is used in stocks, which is another type of contractual obligation that you can utilize in order to get the full results from this.
Next, let’s take more examples of company investments. Let’s say you’ve got this company that you have a chance to buy. Let’s say that the going rate for this company