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    The Only Options Trading Book You'll Ever Need: Options Trading Workbook for Beginners to Hedge Your Stock Market Portfolio and Generate Income
    The Only Options Trading Book You'll Ever Need: Options Trading Workbook for Beginners to Hedge Your Stock Market Portfolio and Generate Income
    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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    The Only Options Trading Book You'll Ever Need: Options Trading Workbook for Beginners to Hedge Your Stock Market Portfolio and Generate Income

    By Kendrick Fernandez

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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...

     

    So, what are you waiting for? Click "BUY NOW" and give it a try!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbiprod Pty Ltd
    Release dateMar 19, 2022
    ISBN9798201844073
    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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      The Only Options Trading Book You'll Ever Need - Kendrick Fernandez

      Options Trading For Beginners

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      No part of this eBook can be transmitted or reproduced in any form including print, electronic, photocopying, scanning, mechanical, or recording without prior written permission from the author.

      While the author has taken the utmost effort to ensure the accuracy of the written content, all readers are advised to follow information mentioned herein at their own risk. The author cannot be held responsible for any personal or commercial damage caused by information. All readers are encouraged to seek professional advice when needed.

      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

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