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| Trading Options For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance)) | 
 enlarge | Author: George A. Fontanills
Publisher: For Dummies
Category: Book
List Price: $24.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (3 reviews)
Sales Rank: 10529
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.3 x 1
ISBN: 0470241764
Dewey Decimal Number: 332
EAN: 9780470241769
ASIN: 0470241764
Publication Date: March 31, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Thinking of trading options, but not sure where to start? Trading Options For Dummies starts you from the beginning with clear, step-by-step advice on how to use top option strategies to reduce your risk while boosting your income and enlarging your retirement portfolio with index, equity, and ETF options. This plain-English guide explains the common types of options and helps you choose the right ones for your investing needs. You find out how to weigh option costs and benefits, combine options to reduce risk, and build a strategy that allows you to gain no matter what the market may bring. You?ll learn the basics of market and sector analysis and what to look for when trying out a new option strategy. You?ll also find what you need to know about options contract specifications and mechanics. Discover how to: - Understand option contracts and orders
- Determine and manage your risk
- Guard your assets using options
- Trade options on securities exchanges
- Protect your rights and satisfy your contract obligations
- Target sectors using technical analysis
- Minimize potential losses and optimize rewards
- Map out your plan of attack
- Limit your downside when trading the trend
- Combine options to limit your position risk
- Benefit from exchange traded funds
- Key in on volatility for trading opportunities
- Capitalize on sideways movements
Trading options is serious business. Trading Options For Dummies gives you the expert help you need to succeed.
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| Customer Reviews:
 This Book is Too Complex for Dummies August 28, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I wanted a book which would explain buying and selling options in a thorough way for someone who knew very little about options. This is not the book.
The author seems to have the intent to throw in as many complex terms without every explaining the simple things. Never once in this book is a walk through through on how to buy a call, how to sell the option, or on how to exercise the underlying contract. The same goes for simple puts.
ADHD writing style August 18, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I wanted something that took me from 0 to 60 in a couple of hours, to explain options in plain english. This book goes from 20 to 120 then back to 40 and up to 80 then back to 10, very poorly constructed and organized.
(My review for Dummies: This book is difficult to follow, jumps around a lot, and rarely satisfies the curiousity at hand)
 Good for wrapping up loose ends July 18, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
What this book lacks in detail, it makes in subject completeness.
There are dozens and dozens of great websites out there describing options and trading strategies in far better depth and completeness than this book. So, if you're looking for complex spreads or techniques, this book will not satisfy you.
However, online searches are so saturated in trading strategies that it's actually difficult to become aware of real world transactional details (like, "who are the market makers? how does assignment work?"). this book nicely wraps up those "loose ends" that are hardly ever mentioned on your favorite search engine.
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