Options and Options Trading : A Simplified Course That Takes You from Coin Tosses to Black-Scholes

✍ Scribed by Robert Ward

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 405
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This is a must have for all serious traders. Robert Ward does a masterful job of explaining probability and statistics, the foundation for option pricing and delves deep into market psychology, hedging, and numerous advanced topics.

To truly get the most of this book read it slowly and learn all it has to offer. This is, by far, the best book I have ever purchased on Options trading. It is full of wisdom, explanations, examples, diagrams, and quizes (with answers at the back of the book) to assure you truly master the language, mathematics and psychology of options trading.

Congratulations to Robert Ward on writing a great, great book!

✦ Table of Contents

over.pdf......Page 1
CONTENTS.pdf......Page 4
FOREWORD.pdf......Page 8
1.Whata Derivative Is and What It Isn’t.pdf......Page 13
2.Binomials and Coin Tosses.pdf......Page 41
3.Pascal’sTriangleandtheBinomialTheorem.pdf......Page 57
4.DistributionsAretheKey—WhatAreDistributions.pdf......Page 69
5.Probabilities,Odds,andPayoffs.pdf......Page 83
6.WritingOurFirstOption.pdf......Page 95
7.Sectors,StrikePrices,andSummationSigns.pdf......Page 107
8.TheFairPriceofanOption.pdf......Page 119
9.TheFairPriceofanOption.pdf......Page 129
10.StatisticsThe15-MinuteCramCourse.pdf......Page 145
11.DowJonesversusCoinTosses.pdf......Page 155
12.TurningSpotPricesintoForwardPrices.pdf......Page 169
13.SkeletonforanOptionFormula.pdf......Page 191
14.GettingComfortablewiththeBlack-ScholesFormula.pdf......Page 205
15.IntroducingVolatilityandSKIT-V.pdf......Page 213
16.ProsandConsoftheBlack-ScholesFormula.pdf......Page 219
17.PrimeronRiskandHedging.pdf......Page 233
18.OptionRiskFindingItandHedgingIt.pdf......Page 237
19.HowTradersMakeMoney(Customers).pdf......Page 263
20.HowtoConvertPutsandCallsCPL.PCS.pdf......Page 279
21.TheBestOptionStrategies.pdf......Page 287
22.MarketInsightsandEdges.pdf......Page 311
ANSWERKEY.pdf......Page 329
INDEX.pdf......Page 395