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Designed and written for active traders who are interested in practical information that can improve their results, Trading Index Options offers tried-and-true techniques without a lot of theory and math. Bittman provides traders with the know-how to evaluate practical situations and manage positions. Among the key features: the basics of index options, including various spreads; how to match strategies with forecasts; alternatives for losing positions; the importance of price behavior and volatility. A windows-based software program that provides multiple option pricing and graphing is included in the package.
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title
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Trading Index Options
author
:
Bittman, James B.
publisher
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McGraw-Hill Professional
isbn10 | asin
:
0786312300
print isbn13
:
9780786312306
ebook isbn13
:
9780071367424
language
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English
subject
Stock index futures, Options (Finance) , Investment analysis--Software.
publication date
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1998
lcc
:
HG6043.B58 1998eb
ddc
:
332.63/228
subject
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Stock index futures, Options (Finance) , Investment analysis--Software.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bittman, James B. Trading index options / by James B. Bittman p. cm. ISBN 0-7863-1230-0 1. Stock index futures. 2. Options (Finance) I. Title. HG6043.B58 1998 332.63228dc2197-39222
Copyright 1998 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means or stored in a data base or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
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The sponsoring editor for this book was Stephen Isaacs, the editing supervisor was John M. Morriss, and the production supervisor was Suzanne W. B. Rapcavage. It was set in Garamond by Electronic Publishing Services, Inc.
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This book is printed on recycled, acid-free paper containing a minimum of 50% recycled de-inked fiber.
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Dedicated to Harrison Roth 19311997 and James W. Yates 19401996
Men who loved options almost as much as they loved their families and friends and almost as much as they were loved
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
viii
Disclosures
xi
Introduction
xiii
Section 1 Basic Concepts and Strategies
1
Chapter 1 The Basics of Index Options
3
Chapter 2 Diagrams of Basic to Advanced Strategies
21
Chapter 3 Option Values and How They Change
47
Section 2 Option Price Behavior and Volatility
59
Chapter 4 Pricing and Graphing Strategies with OP-EVAL3TM
61
Chapter 5 "The Greeks"
79
Chapter 6 Volatility
103
Chapter 7 The Importance of Futures Prices
123
Section 3 Trading Strategies
133
Chapter 8 Buying Options
135
Chapter 9 Selling Options
157
Chapter 10 Vertical Spreads
175
Chapter 11 Straddles and Strangles
195
Chapter 12 Ratio Spreads
211
Chapter 13 Time Spreads
225
Chapter 14 Case Studies
237
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Section 4 Managing Positions
253
Chapter 15 Alternatives for Managing a Profitable Position
255
Chapter 16 Alternatives for Managing an Unprofitable Position
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