The Option Trader Handbook: Strategies and Trade Adjustments

✍ Scribed by George Jabbour, Phillip Budwick

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 355
• Series: Wiley Trading
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Most of the time when I buy books in the hopes of learning a thing or two about trading options, they are written at a cursory level and don't really add much new to the general pool of information. This book has me pleasantly surprised.
I have been trading options for a few years, mostly just buying or selling options or verticals. It was time to learn more. I also wanted very much to learn how to save a trade that moved against me when I wasn't paying enough attention. This was the one book I found that seemed to offer such information.
It's not easy reading, mostly because it is so in depth. But it's not mind boggling, just deserving of a little extra time and patience, and perhaps a re-read where the info won't soak through the first time. I think it has given me greater understanding of why my good trades go well and my bad trades don't. And it has made me feel ready to perhaps try some new strategies that I had a cursory uderstanding of, but now seem to make sense in the framework of the characteristics of the options being traded.
I think this is a must read for anyone beyond the beginner stage of options trading. It might be a bit much for anyone who hasn't got a little experience.