Successful stock options trading requires extensive practice. Most options books offer theory and strategies, but don't offer the practice needed to prepare for real-world trades, where the wrong split-second decisions can cost you dearly. In The Option Trader's Workbook: A Problem-Solving Approach, expert trader Jeff Augen covers every key scenario you'll encounter in modern options trading, guides you through successful trade executions, and shows how to overcome key pitfalls that trip up most traders. You'll walk through trades designed to profit from changing prices and volatility, time decay, rapid price spikes, and many other factors. This second edition introduces powerful new techniques, and reflects the long-term impacts of the 2009 crash. New problems include: - New CBOE Weekly Options Expiration options, and their unique pricing dynamics. - Using collars, covered calls, and covered puts to structure income-generating trades with well-defined risk profiles. - Using ratio trading, VIX options, volatility ETFs, and variance trading to generate profits from shifts in volatility. Each section contains information for beginners, intermediate, and advanced traders, helping you build your skills one trade at a time, no matter how much experience you have--or how little. You'll find several hundred questions, all designed to mirror real life, and supported with clearly explained solutions.

“Unlike most books that oversimplify trading situations, Augen’s approach forces you to learn by solving real-world problems where stock prices spike up and down and volatility changes constantly. Learning by doing is a distinct advantage for both novice and expert.” --Sean Sztern, Alternative Strategies Group, Desjardins Securities “This workbook represents a unique and effective learning tool. It will broaden your understanding of options and raise your trading skills to a higher level.” --Dr. W. Edward Olmstead, Northwestern University, author of Options for the Beginner and Beyond “Serious options trading requires skills that can only be learned through practice. Augen’s progressively more challenging problems definitely provide that real-world practice. There are lessons here for everyone, from beginner to sophisticated professional.” --James Marcus, Partner, CMG Holdings, LLC Most options books offer theory and strategies but don’t give you what you really need: hands-on practice that prepares you for real-world trading, where subtle decisions make the difference between winning and losing. Now, there’s a solution: The Option Trader’s Workbook. Using a question and answer format, this innovative workbook covers key scenarios you’ll encounter as an option trader. Expert trader Jeff Augen explains the challenges they present, reveals the potential pitfalls, and walks you through each example to help you understand how to maximize your success. You’ll master trades designed to profit from rising or falling stock prices, rising or falling volatility, time decay, rapid price spikes, and many other market dynamics. Each section helps you build your skills one trade at a time---whether you’re new to options or you’ve been trading for years. Learn by doing--not by reading or memorizing Practice real decision-making in real trading situations Gain a detailed, intuitive understanding of pricing Understand exactly what must happen for your trade to be profitable Learn to identify efficient trade structures Avoid errors that cause losses even when you’ve correctly predicted a stock’s direction Learn how to manage risk effectively Optimize profits by choosing the right option strategy for a particular situation Use complex trading strategies with confidence Master highly profitable techniques used by professionals

A complete options trading tutorial-reference with brokerage selection, trading platform setup and backup, price chart analysis, popular chart studies and formations, trading rules, hands-on learning activities, trading options on futures, trading options on small accounts, an options terminology glossary, and a descriptive 78-strategy reference.

A top options trader shows investors how they can use certain strategies, teaches why day trading options are more practical than ever, and helps them understand trends in the options market that have leveled the playing field between large institutions and private traders.

Annotation Dynamic and growing, the volume of options trades on CBOE (Chicago Board Options Exchange) is exploding with the increase in computerized trading by both seasoned traders as well as sophisticated investors. The Options Workbook is for all online investors and traders looking to sharpen their trading skills and increase their profits, Tony Saliba, the world's leading options trainer, shares the secrets he has used for more 20 years, first to train his own traders, then to train the traders. He explains not only the basics of options trading, but offers specific trading tactics and hands-on tools within the book and online.

Breakthrough option strategies from Jeff Augen: Three books packed with new tools and strategies for earning higher, more consistent profits and systematically controlling risk! In three remarkable books, Jeff Augen teaches you dozens of up-to-the-minute option trading strategies and techniques for earning powerful, consistent profits! The Option Trader’s Workbook, Second Edition offers start-to-finish hands-on practice with every leading strategy, including the newest trading techniques. Through hundreds of realistic problems (each with fully explained solutions), you’ll walk through trades designed to profit from changing prices, volatility, and time decay…plus new ways to use CBOE Weekly Options Expiration options, collars, covered calls, covered puts, ratio and variance trading, VIX options, volatility ETFs, and more…all without risking a dime! In Trading Options at Expiration: Strategies and Models for Winning the Endgame, Augen reveals new ways to structure positions that profit from predictable end-of-contract price distortions with remarkably low risk. Packed with brand-new statistical models, minute-by-minute pricing analyses, and optimized strategies, this book teaches you how to create trades that regularly deliver returns of 40%—300% with just two days of market exposure per month, or even less. Finally, in The Volatility Edge in Options Trading: New Technical Strategies for Investing in Unstable Markets, Augen introduces breakthrough strategies for identifying and profiting from subtle price distortions that arise from changes in market volatility. Drawing on more than a decade of never-before-published research, Augen shows option traders how to study historical price changes, mitigate risk, limit market exposure, and structure mathematically sound high-return positions. You’ll even discover how to build your own customized, low-cost analytical toolset to transform these state-of-the-art strategies into practical buy/sell signals!

A comprehensive study companion to The Options Course, Second Edition In The Options Course Workbook, Second Edition, George Fontanills offers a wealth of practical exercises that will help further the readers' understanding of options, as well as test and apply what they've learned before they take their first step into the real markets-where time and money are luxuries they cannot afford to lose. This hands-on companion to The Options Course, Second Edition includes a complete answer key and covers a wide range of options issues. George A. Fontanills (Miami, FL) is the President Emeritus of Optionetics, the world leader in Options Education, with offices around the world specializing in teaching high-profit, low-risk, low-stress option trading strategies (www.optionetics.com.) George also runs a hedge fund and money management company. He has written many books, including Trade Options Online (0-471-35938-6), The Volatility Course (0-471-39816-0), The Volatility Course Workbook (0-471-39817-9), and The Stock Market Course (0-471-39315-0)