
Options Math for Traders, + Website How To Pick the Best Option Strategies for Your Market Outlook
by Nations, Scott-
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Summary
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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