Trading Options For Dummies. Duarte MD Joe

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СКАЧАТЬ the answers to your trading needs but you also know that it was written in a careful and thoughtful way, including technical reviews and careful editing. You also know that as a second edition, the editing team has taken previous material and scrupulously revised it in order to both update and improve the content as needed.

      ✔ You hold longer-term investments. Regardless of whether or not you choose to actively trade options, we assume you hold longer-term investments such as stocks and mutual funds. For that reason, core strategies aimed at managing risk associated with longer-term holdings are included. The small amount of time needed to implement them may be well worth it.

      ✔ You’ve already decided how to allocate your investment and trading dollars. Although we distinguish investment assets from trading assets, we don’t address how to allocate those dollars because everyone’s financial situation is different. We do assume this is something you’ve already completed, because plans should strike a balance between the two (long term and short term) to grow assets.

      ✔ You have computer and Internet access. We can’t imagine trading or investing without a computer and reliable access to the Internet.. so we assume you have both.

      ✔ You use a broker. We assume you contact a broker to further manage your risk when needed, and we assume you also have a comfort level with your broker’s web platform. It may serve as a resource for some of the ideas covered in this book.

Icons Used in This Book

      To supplement the topics discussed in Trading Options For Dummies, 2nd Edition, we’ve also added icons to highlight different core ideas and give you some hard-earned trading insight. We use the following icons to point out these insights:

      

When encountering this icon, you’ll find slightly more detail-oriented tools and considerations for the topic at hand, but the information included with icons isn’t necessary to your understanding of the topic at hand.

      

This icon is used to give you experienced insight to the current discussion. Consider these to be asides that any trader might mention to you along the way.

      

Some topics previously discussed or assumed to be part of your base knowledge are identified by the Remember icon. If you hesitate for a moment when reading the core content, check for one of these to keep you progressing smoothly.

      

Concepts that reiterate ways to manage potential risks appear with this icon. It highlights important things to watch out for if you want avoid trouble.

Beyond the Book

      In addition to the material in the print or e-book you’re reading right now, this product also comes with some access-anywhere goodies on the Web. Check out the free Cheat Sheet at www.dummies.com/cheatsheet/tradingoptions for helpful summaries of trading order types, charts for tracking investments, how financial indexes are constructed, and ways in which changing stock affects indexes.

      This book also includes some free articles – which are kind of “extra” mini-chapters. Go to www.dummies.com/extras/tradingoptions if you want to check these out.

Where to Go from Here

      Whether you’re seeking to improve longer-term investing or shorter-term trading results, you will find strategies aimed at both goals in this book. By using the techniques in the book and viewing yourself as a risk manager, your losses should decrease allowing you to move forward to increased profits.

      You may decide to pick up this reference while evaluating your investments on a quarterly basis or keep it handy at your desk for weekly trading assessments. During your regular review routine, you may also find that current market conditions that once kept you on the sidelines are now ideal for strategies you reviewed here.

      Ready to go? You have lots of options ahead. (Get it?)

      If you’ve recently been perplexed with action in the markets, you may want to start with Chapter 5. It identifies different things happening in the options markets that may clarify stock market activity.

      Those new to trading options or who feel you can benefit from a refresher, should consider perusing Part I. Because the markets are ever-evolving, Chapter 3 gets you up to speed on current conditions.

      If you have a basic handle on option contracts and want to quickly access unique ways to capitalize on different stock movement, consider jumping to Part IV. This part includes a variety of approaches you just can’t match with stocks.

      Chapter 18 provides my thoughts on what it takes to be a successful option trader. Because trading options comes with many of the same challenges encountered when trading any security, you may want to make it the first thing you read to help you succeed with your current trading.

      Part I

      Getting Started

      

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       In this part…

      ✔ An overview of options contracts

      ✔ Rights and obligations of buyers and sellers

      ✔ Trading securities on the exchanges

      ✔ Risks and rewards of contracts

      Chapter 1

      Options Trading and the Individual Investor

       In This Chapter

      

Getting to appreciate options

      

Analyzing options with any market in mind

      

Making the markets work for you

      Whatever your level of experience, your general tendency to trade or hold positions for a long time, and your risk profile, as an individual investor you can add options on individual stocks, indexes, and exchange traded mutual funds (ETFs) to your investment war chest. You should do so with two goals in mind: risk management and growing your assets. And because there are so many ways to use options, just about anyone can use them – as long as you take the time to learn the associated risks and rewards and become familiar with the particular strategies that suit your purposes.

      There is a difference between trading and investing, especially in terms of time frames. Investing is all about using the power of time and the benefits of compounding to build wealth over long periods. The traditional buy and hold strategy for stocks is a perfect example, as is the owning of rental properties for long periods to generate income.

      Trading is by design a shorter-term proposition, where you may hold a position for minutes, СКАЧАТЬ