Options Math for Traders, + Website How To Pick the Best Option Strategies for Your Market Outlook

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Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2012-10-30
Publisher(s): Wiley
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Summary

Options Math for Traders will explain in relatively simple language the mathematical properties of options so that traders can better select the right options strategy for their market outlook. Those phenomena include the volatility premium because, over time, options will cost more than they are ultimately worth; skew, wherein far out of the money put options may seem cheap from an absolute term but, like a lottery ticket, they're very expensive in relative terms; and the acceleration in option price erosion as expiration nears, which - for trading purposes -- tends to favor longer-dated options for long positions and shorter-dated options for short positions. The material will be explained without complex equations or technical jargon. The goal is to give retail traders a sufficient conceptual foundation of options behavior so that will make much more informed decisions in deciding on a strategy to fit their market outlook. The book will include a companion website, OptionMath.com, which will provide basic calculators for option price, implied volatility, etc. but will also scan the U.S. option market for the best trades in those strategies discussed in the book. Every day a site subscriber will be able to find the best put spread to buy or covered call to sell or the calendar spread with the greatest difference in rates of erosion in addition to the other trades discussed in the book. Purchasers of the book would provide a temporary subscription to the pay wall side of the site.

Author Biography

SCOTT NATIONS is President and CIO of NationsShares, a division of Fortress Trading, Inc. Previously, he was head trader for Sovereign Capital, a proprietary trading firm, and a floor trader at both the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Nations is also a financial engineer, creating, testing, patenting, and licensing a number of sophisticated option-based and option-enhanced products including the Nations Enhanced Covered Call Index; the Nations Enhanced Collar Index; the Nations Option Levered Index; and the Nations VolDex. He appears on CNBC several times each week and serves as one of the regular panelists on CNBC's weekly Options Action show.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xvii

PART ONE The Basics

CHAPTER 1 The Basics 3

CHAPTER 2 Direction, Magnitude, and Time 17

CHAPTER 3 Volatility 25

CHAPTER 4 Option Pricing Models and Implied Volatility 37

PART TWO The Phenomena

CHAPTER 5 The Volatility Risk Premium 51

CHAPTER 6 Implied Volatility and Skew 63

CHAPTER 7 Time Value and Decay 77

CHAPTER 8 The Bid/Ask Spread 87

CHAPTER 9 Volatility Slope 105

PART THREE The Trades

CHAPTER 10 Covered Calls 115

CHAPTER 11 Selling Puts 151

CHAPTER 12 Calendar Spreads 171

CHAPTER 13 Risk Reversal 197

CHAPTER 14 Vertical Spreads 217

Appendix 235

Index 243

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