Options & Derivatives

By: Jon Najarian 2000 ed. From achieving speedy victory to coping with some enormous losses to building his own business, Najarian reveals here how he successfully trades the market with options traders, showing investors how to trade like the pros by: honing self-discipline; handling volatility successfully; grasping puts, calls, and spreads; and seizing opportunities and adapting strategies to changing times.

By: Lawrence McMillian 2002 ed. This blockbuster bestseller--more than 100,000 copies sold--is considered to be the bible of options trading. Now completely revised and updated to encompass all the latest options trading vehicles, it supplies traders and serious investors with an abundance of new, strategic opportunities for managing their investments. Examples make clear the power of each strategy in carefully defined market condition.

By: James Bittman 2005 ed. "Options for the Stock Investor is updated and expanded to detail the many ways in which options can help you improve your investing performance over both the short- and long-term. Featuring a number of new strategies you can use to enhance your investment performance, whatever your investment style." Options are the most versatile and valuable of those tools. Options for the Stock Investor shows you how to master the mechanics of options, develop realistic expectations of options behavior in virtually every type of market, and incorporate the protection and profit potential of options into your overall trading and investing program.

By: James Bittman 1998 ed. Leverage Strategies to Make High-Volatility Markets Work For You! Today's volatile markets are ideal for profitable index option trading. Trading Index Options was written for active traders-spectators who need to see every trade from every angle-and contains market-tested strategies from one of today's leading options educators and traders. With ready-to-use, battle-tested information on virtually every page, this amazing book: Explains how toption prices behave, letting you stay focused on market activity.Provides proven techniques to understand risk and limit your exposure.

By: Thomas McCafferty 1998 ed. All About Options is the trading world's clearest no-nonsense explanation of the pros, cons, risks, and rewards of using options. It shows you how to view the market clearly and without bias. Immediately, you'll spot profit opportunities and improve your chances of capturing those opportunities - one step ahead of the crowd. This new edition of the options trader's bible is packed with in-depth coverage of the basics of options and options trading, including the latest changes in the marketplace and trading technology.

By: John Hull 2005 ed. Designed to bridge the gap between theory and practice, this successful book is regarded as "the bible" in trading rooms throughout the world. The books covers both derivatives markets and risk management, including credit risk and credit derivatives; forward, futures, and swaps; insurance, weather, and energy derivatives; and more. For options traders, options analysts, risk managers, swaps traders, financial engineers, and corporate treasurers.

By: Lawrence McMillian 2004 ed. "When it comes to options trading education, no one is more respected than Larry McMillan. With all the new innovations in the options arena over the past decade, this revised edition of his classic work is a must-have for ardent options traders and novices alike."

By: Richard Bookstaber 2007 ed. It's Wall Street's most painful paradox. Investors are more sophisticated than ever, are enabled by unprecedented technology, and protected by more government oversight and regulation than at any other time in history. Yet Wall Street is becoming a riskier and riskier place. Crashes and catastrophic losses seem commonplace. Hedge funds wreck on the financial shoals with a disturbingly familiar pattern. Worse, today's financial crises do not arise from economic instability or acts of nature, but from the very design of the financial markets themselves.