The Options Playbook was created to demystify option trading and teach investors different option plays for all market conditions. No confusing jargon. No unnecessary mumbo-jumbo. Just clear, easy-to-understand explanations of more than 40 of the most popular option strategies broken down into a play-by-play format including:Play Name: Long Call, Short Call Spread, Iron Condor, etc.The Setup: The goals and reasons to run each playWho Should Run It: Rookies, Veterans or All-Stars, based on degree of difficultyWhen To Run It: Describes each play as bullish, bearish or neutralThe Strategy: A detailed overview of each strategy, their risks and the specific costs associated with multi-leg strategies. descriptionFor the first-time option trader The Options Playbook features a "Rookie's Corner," addressing the basic definitions and concepts you need to understand this market, tips to avoid common beginner's mistakes, and suggested strategies to "get your feet wet".For more experienced option traders, an expanded section on implied volatility explains how this handy variable can be used to find the potential range of the stock over the options life. A detailed section on pricing variables (Greeks) helps you understand how an option's price is affected by changes in market conditions. You will also learn how time decay and a change in implied volatility can affect your trade after it's in place and how to recover if things don't go according to plan.The Options Playbook features "Options Guy Tips" from Brian Overby the author and founder of Options Playbook, Inc. Like any good coach, Overby's handy insights help you put theory into successful real-world trading.This expanded 2nd edition includes 10 new plays and 56 new pages of handy content describing a brief history of options, five common mistakes options traders make and how to avoid them, an expanded glossary, how to manage option positions by rolling to a different month and strike, to explaining the difference between index and stock options, managing early exercise and assignment and how to calculate position delta and use it to manage overall position risk of a multi-leg option strategy.

Presents today's most effective strategies for trading options :how and why they work, when they're appropriate, when they're inappropriate, and how to use each one responsibly and with confidence. This book will help you identify and implement the optimal strategy for every opportunity, trading environment, and goal.

In order to survive and thrive in today's financial markets, you must seriously consider the use of options in your investment endeavors. Options allow you to reap the same benefits as an outright stock or commodity trade, but with less risk and less money on the line. The truth is, you can achieve everything with options that you would with stocks or commodities?at less cost?while gaining a much higher percentage return on your invested dollars. After numerous years as a market maker in the trenches of the New York Mercantile Exchange, few analysts know how to make money trading options like author Lee Lowell. In this well-rounded resource, Lowell shows both stock and commodity option traders exactly what works and what doesn't. Filled with in-depth insight and expert advice, Get Rich with Options provides you with the knowledge and strategies needed to achieve optimal results within the options market. The book quickly covers the basics?how options are priced, strike price selection, the use of Delta, and using volatility to one's advantage?before moving on to the four options trading strategies that have helped Lowell profit in this arena time and again: buying deep-in-the-money call options, selling naked puts, selling option credit spreads, and selling covered calls. Using these strategoes decisively, he says, is the fastest route to riches in the options trading game. Get Rich with Options is packed with real-life examples of actual trades and detailed discussions of how options can be used as a hedging, speculating, or income-producing tool. You'll learn how to set up a home business with the best options trading software, tools, and Web sites. And you'll begin to see options in a whole new light and discover how to become part of a small group of investors who consistently win.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Options trading is a way for savvy investors to leverage assets and control some of the risks associated with playing the market. Options can be complicated and risky, however, and not all strategies may expose you to theoretically unlimited losses. #2 For rookies, I've created a brief overview of how options work and outlined some strategies to get you started. These techniques will help you get used to the option market without leaving your rear end exposed to risk. #3 The Option Playbook is a resource for more experienced option traders. It contains the construction and risk profiles for many different strategies, so you can stay focused on forecasting or analyzing The Greeks instead of having to remember how to calculate your break-even points.

If you look in the forums on Reddit you'll see many people have realized that trading options is the way to make serious returns. The rich know this and now the secret is out. Unfortunately, it is also filled with horror stories of people losing everything. It is actually simple to explain why they are failing and how to turn them into winners. There are some simple rules to follow to make sure you don't strike out in the options game. One of the most important is managing and respecting your portfolio risk. It is time to stop bleeding money and start getting returns that handedly beat the market. Pigs Get Slaughtered is the playbook to your financial future. Read it, learn it, study and practice. You could make more money than you ever thought possible.